skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but $5 gets you quite a lot of traffic. If your site becomes popular, you can usually upgrade to a $20/mo plan that will be enough for most sites. If your site is a runaway hit, of course, then the economics are entirely different.
"You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them" is not the same as "you can turn off windows telemetry" like the guy i was replying to.

I agree about the security updates. However, the point i was trying to make is that accepting windows' bullshit "you WILL have an update, you WILL give us telemetry, you WILL reboot your computer" is bullshit. Having those defaults, albeit i don't agree with them, but with an easy way to disable them so that even moderate power users can completely block out anything they don't want to in any edition of windows is much more preferable to the "it's fine" attitude i was replying to originally. It's not fine. It sucks. Forced updates are not the same as auto updates, and they're sure as hell not a good thing IMO.
It's somewhere between a headache and physical discomfort. Hard to describe because I've only ever experienced it with active noise cancelling (over the ear) headphones and I gave those up 5+ years ago.
Deploying Nanos Node.js Unikernels to AWS
You're misusing big O notation
I didn't mean "lifestyle business" to be a negative term and don't use it that way... ever. The opposite, actually - I think actually-sustainable small businesses are far better in general than bullshit startups. However, you specifically said you have been trying repeatedly to get VC money and have been getting turned away. VCs don't invest in lifestyle businesses because that's not how their funds work.

The entire VC business model only works if they invest in companies with high risk/high growth prospects and the potential to be unicorns. To answer your question, the answer is statistics - VCs have a large history to draw from and have seen that viral companies and flash in the pan businesses either grow to massive exits or fail completely in a short time far more often than businesses like yours. On average, businesses like yours will continue a slow growth trajectory and have mediocre exits, if any exit happens at all, after the expected fund payout period has already passed. Basically, it's a drag on the fund portfolio and time/resources of the VC, so they won't invest - it's better that a company fail quickly while trying for unicorn status than it is that it chug along in sustainable small business mode for a decade.

On the flip side, there is an entire industry of funding available to you that isn't available to startups with awful financials - banks love to loan money to small, sustainable businesses with decent profitability. If you need growth cash, get a small business loan.
FWIW I’m playing on Switch. It’s a great format for a little game like this.
Seems like a bias-variance tradeoff. It's not obvious to me that what they did was bad.
funny: I read my own spec after 6 months and it struck me as the worse technical writing I had ever seen. Maybe you can take a swing at it. http://go-here.nl/ess-and-nno
I was so excited, until I realized the list hadn't been updated in 8 years... :|
Actually, the error was caught before publication. They sent it to ArXiv, the standard pre-publication space, so that other physicists could read and comment on it. It was there that the error was quickly caught.
Did you read what the issue is even about? It's about setting the string "terraform" in a config file. It's not some personal data or evil tracking token.
A Researcher Is Sheathing Smart Devices in ‘Skin’
You're derailing a very reasonable discussion to make a political point. Instead of hiding your complaints with loaded language, be honest so we can actually discuss it on it's merits. Furthermore, it would benefit from some real-world examples. I'm frankly sick of these "The SJWs have gone too far and only care about internet cred" comments without any real analysis. It's on track to becoming much more annoying than the original problem, and stifles discussion just as much.

As it stands, all your comment is doing is contributing to the ideological echo-chamber on HN and derailing an otherwise non-political discussion.
Student loans didn't have those kinds of interest rates back when they could be discharged in bankruptcy 20+yr ago. Why would they now?
That article had an interesting reference to a 2019 book addressing this from tech POV:

"Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski are releasing a book in 2019 that argues that multinational corporations like Walmart and Amazon already operate centrally planned economies larger than the Soviet Union, proving that the economic calculation problem is surmountable."

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-people-s-republic-of-w...

The book page has blurbs from Cory Doctorow and Ken MacLeod among others.
Also, the Michael Crichton movie Looker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
> Underneath all the GUI layers, every operating system and application has (or has the potential of) a fully text-based interface.

Why do you say this? There is nothing fundamental about text. Is there something fundamental about text in Smalltalk? Or AmigaOS?

> There's just no standard or integration, and tools that allow that (like a system-wide middleware)

COM on Windows. Scripting interface to apps on MacOS. They're there.
C++ and Python3 in the automated driving industry
Feels sort of like a User Agent string to me.
Physical CPU Emulation Video
Perhaps not, but the part of our brain responsible for optimizing contentment would ideally prefer deleting traumatic memories
>I got to see these flying rage machines up close

Probably one of the more harrowing things I've ever done was egg addling for goose population control in a lake nearby. Nothing like balancing on a canoe fighting off geese with a paddle while the other person sneaks up behind to the nest and does the job.

The one thing the game seemed to fail to capture is the horror as a goose comes up hisses in your face. Geese do this. You know that when some animal comes up and hisses at you it means business.
Show HN: California Wildfires Mapped with QlikSense
FYI, you can only have 5 accounts per IP, so don't lose them (or just use a proxy to make a new account)
That little book is a gem.
You could have a cc_binary for your main foo_main.cc file that depends on cc_library targets separately specified for each bar_lib.h/bar_lib.cc.

That makes the graph more granular, e.g. if you just update the foo_main.cc you don't need to recompile the libraries. Or you can reuse bar_lib in a different binary.
It solves the problem of the poor living in poverty. It will, of course, cause some other problems.

But, the middle-class problem doesn't hold in practice. Raising minimum wage has the effect of bumping other salaries up as employers have to compete with the new minimum.
I admit I don’t closely follow Hachicorp commits, blogs, changelogs, etc.. Is it possible that there was another commit providing a rationale for the change? Maybe a changelog entry explaining what the UUID represents and how it benefits Hachicorp, Microsoft/Azure, and end users?
Whoa, they are buying purses and vacations on these loans? Can you characterize the loans for me -- how much, what interest rate, what % of defaults do you see? I'd be very interested in a detailed analysis, that sounds very important.
> Live in the city and want to go hiking 20 miles away?

No reason trains can't solve this. When I lived in NYC there was plenty of hiking off the NJ transit. Popular hiking destinations here in the PNW have huge problems with traffic that would be helped greatly by building rail lines to them.
Not one of the inventors of the internet. Whether it's money now or money down the road though perverse buying habits, you're still paying for it. It's not free.
Indian here who travels abroad (but within Asia) for work, and we need to submit a lot of documents along with a visa application (invitation letter from a colleague in the host country; NOC from the employer; tax returns etc.) for a business/work visa. The applications are the same, the data is (almost) the same, apart from the dates. So my friend built a small tool to automate the entire process. All we do now is

1. select the country that we are visiting from a dropdown
2. enter the dates that we will be arriving on and departing at
3. provide an itinerary is possible and click a button that says "magic"

And automatically all the necessary documents are emailed to the respective stakeholders (read HR and travel desk) in a snap. Otherwise, it is usually a 2-3 day process. Ask the travel desk for documents, email overseas colleague, email HR, collect all, print, write, scan, email, get them reviewed, edit/correct/modify/facepalm and finally submit.

We are now making a web app of it and putting it online.

P.S.: I realize that I might be a bit of an oddball here because it is possible that a USA passport doesn't require such mundane stuff.
This lot call it a "bird saver":

https://www.birdsavers.com/buildyourown.html
The real problem with science is the same as in politics.

We, the other scientists (just like the voters) incentivize certain behaviors and with that favor a certain type of scientists (and politician) to prosper.

There are all kinds of scientists (and politicians) competing for your trust (and votes). There are good and bad among them. As long as we reward the bullshitters more, they are the ones that will outcompete the others.

All these rules and regulations that people propose are ineffectual, as long as a certain level of self-criticism is not being applied:

- Stop believing and propagating the bullshit even if it seems to support your preconceived notions (or even the truth). This is very hard to do in practice.

As sad as it sounds: the greatest enemy of good science are the other scientists.

feels like some sort of prisoners's dilemma, it only works if all do it, otherwise, it is best to just not admit anything
Oh, are Saas companies physically preventing you from running your own software now? Pray tell, what else are the evil saas monsters preventing you from doing?
What do you think is a problem? If you're using Azure Marketplace then you're already dealing with vendors so of course they'll receive your information for billing and support. Otherwise it's anonymized.

Nothing in the deployment itself is sent to them (and no cloud would ever risk that kind of exposure). It's simple usage analytics.
I remember using Actionscript to build some UI widgets for embedded devices and ... not hating it.

The devices used proprietary level 7 protocol sitting on top of regular TCP/IP (could easily debug using netcat).

Actionscript made it easy to work with this proprietary protocol.

How would one do this with Javascript these days?

You probably couldn't do it with WebSockets since WebSockets are at the same level 7 as the proprietary protocol, so you'd need to run some server to translate.

Maybe, this https://www.w3.org/TR/raw-sockets/ ?
Tend to agree.

My previous employer did most of the ATE, quality, and production control in Python; and hardware drivers mostly in C. It worked reliably for about 15 years. During late 2017, the new 'code boss' mandated Python 3 for new stuff, and to convert as required for existing stuff.

Production continued with little or no problems until an important customer did a major spec change, plus the new safety and EMC regulations and standards became effective, so we had to get some stuff re-certified and some processes accredited (again). After three months, the boss fired the three programmers and assigned the task to the quality, manufacturing and regulatory engineers. We looked at the code for a few days, then said nope and re-designed and wrote in C/C++. When I left in November, things were humming along well, but the parent company saw this as a huge future liability and commenced to shut down that part of the company that made that class of widgets. Think about - a group of less than 40 production people and a few engineers that pumped 25 million USD profit annually into the mother company was dropped because of potential future code shenanigans.

Because of these experiences, I discourage use Python professionally (unless the contract allows for some specific indemnity clauses) for quality and manufacturing, and know of other manufacturing and hardware activities abandoning Python for new stuff and 'returning' to C and C++. I continue to enjoy and use Python (mostly 3) for personal projects, where support and making money do not always matter.
This is one of the best things I have seen on HN in a long time! It really makes me want to go work for a company with a text editor product or to teach a course on implementing simple text editors.
I thought the law was hour by hour. So if you get no tips for an hour, you are owed minimum wage for that hour. Actually getting employers to pay up is a whole other battle, but in that case what is needed is enforcement of existing laws.
Ahh, okay. I guess we'll just let people die in the streets then.
For me, I had a business partner that screwed me over and left me with a lot of credit card debt. I took out an installment loan of $20K at 6.5% interest to pay down the cards.

It's saved me a lot of money in interest and has been of great value to me.

It also caused my credit score to shoot up over 100 points because I didn't have such high balances on my cards anymore.

I would hardly consider it predatory. I for one am glad they exist.
I have a user agent switcher add-on and many times I just have it spoof my user agent to be Google bot. the internet suddenly works as it is supposed to
Agreed. 4% is probably as equal as things can get realistically. You probably can get the same margin if you compare people who wear glasses or short vs long hair.
One intuitive framework for making better career decisions
The Tech Bubble of 2019
They could borrow stingrays from the cops. And they would be in operation when the regular towers are down.
Found this dataset on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/c/msdchallenge/data
That already exists:

https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/personal-fi...
It causes systemd to blow up, but you could try doing your microcode update from initrd. Or just get rid of systemd, run your microcode update, and make some Halloween jello shots to take to the no-systemd party (it's going to be even crazier, this year).
I almost always wind up finishing up games with a huge pile of resources left over. It's only natural; even hardened adventurers need to keep their retirement in mind while saving the world.
I would be extremely happy if I saw "1000000000 identical bootstrap" websites every day. They're (usually) simple, and they (usually) work.
This study doesn't say what you think it does. Women gain significant advantage in being identified as women, except in the case of a first request, and only then by an amount on the edge of statistical significance.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exc...
There was a studying showing that the trait behind this tendency towards saving, the ability to delay gratification, is present relatively early in childhood, and has strong predictive effect on success in life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification#The_Stan... . Perhaps this implies that no matter how rich society gets, there'll always be people who just burn though whatever they earn. This would partially explain why people in poor countries like China and India are still able to save a greater percantage of their income than people in western countries who earn an order of magnitude more.
> You need to be using a firewall.

Indeed, I never said otherwise.

What I'm saying is that I want to disallow all incoming connections to any machine that isn't in my yellow zone, and selectively forward some traffic to servers in my green zone. I can absolutely use router and firewall rules to accomplish that. But when I do, I've essentially implemented a NAT.
Did people forget about Prosumer? Pro markets are ridiculously niche and have the price to match (Mac Pro). Most of the areas people complaining about pro I don't get. Not everyone wants to have "professional grade" everything at all times. I use to be a professional photographer, but I couldn't justify 2k+ and all my dev budgets at the same time so most of these "pro" products hit my sweet spot. Not over the top where I'm now learning how to use the tool, but just more than enough to be dangerous if i want to take some quick photos to see if I kept my "eye." So far most of this angst is from professionals who don't speak on their own "pro" tools but will in an instant shit on anything mass marketed with the term. Sigh.
Aww :-(

I suppose you'll just have to make your own...
Heinsen Routing
Just give it to a kid, with no instructions. I would have eaten it up as kid, and figured it all out.

My first computer experience was on a PC with MS-DOS booted from a floppy. There was no help and no documentation, discover-ability was based on your ability to find commands and understand how they worked. It took a while but I mastered MS-DOS. Comparatively, we've come a long way and the iPad is easy to use.

I think I'm going to get my daughter an iPad Pro for her 10th birthday. She can run all the apps she likes on her iPod and do all of her school work (mostly on Google Docs). Its perfect for her and has everything she needs. She will have no trouble with discover-ability, she will use her time and intuition to figure it out.
(i'm curious why this reply is apparently downvoted?)
Reducing inequality is a completely orthogonal. Taking everything from the top 1% doesn’t fix poor money management skills.

Additionally, there are many middle class folks making well above average that still live paycheck to paycheck by living beyond their means (huge house, multiple cars, etc).

Poor money management != poor and more money does not fix it.
Yeah have you tried authoring and animating SVG in 2008? Full of (browser support) holes and extremely poor performance, even on the "powerful" iPad in 2011. Flash by comparison would have been a breeze even on mobile.
That's the problem with randomness... you can never be sure!

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
Something to always consider - all of that unused cash at the end is something you didn't do during the game (your life) that you probably could have benefited from.
If there is any company that I would give the benefit of the doubt, it's Hashicorp.
Flash could be used for responsive layouts. They were actually far easier to design in Flash than in HTML/CSS. No floating, flexing, grids, nesting HTML elements. You just set the objects x and y axis in Flash to the bottom center or wherever you wanted the object to remain, and you were done.
Whatever the bias of the publisher, the article from the NY Post contradicts this research backed by data on a couple of fronts:

* "massive layoffs in the restaurant industry are unlikely," but the survey indicated that a large number of restaurants have eliminated jobs or cut hours

* "...because owners need a certain number of staff to operate a full-service kitchen," but at least in the anecdotes from the interview in the NYPost article, restaurant owners are moving to smaller venues that require less staff or moving to "common space" layouts.
The problem with fully declarative systems is that, if you need something that is beyond the scope of the declarative semantics, you are screwed.

Build systems have the annoying property that they are ultimately highly declarative, but they need some pretty extreme scope to handle edge cases. Any C/C++ project is going to boil down to "compile these N source files, and link them into a library/executable", but the necessary build flags is going to come from several locations, there are multiple variations of build flags and compilers that need to be used at the same time, and there is going to be project-custom code to generate source files that involves potentially building the tools to generate the files as part of the build system. And mixed-language projects add more layers of pain.
How is this different to a web app that uses a Google Maps api key (for example)?
Everybody, everywhere is moving to self-checkouts. It's about entirely eliminating staff, not that staff is now a few percentages more expensive in some places.
Just yesterday while driving to the gym, I witnessed the person behind me at a red light, violently gas it and swerve out into oncoming traffic lanes, drive past all the cars waiting for the light, and blow straight through the red light.

He went on to blow another red light before turning off onto a side street.

This kind of shit would never happen with a self driving car. The bar for self driving cars is incredibly low.
2019/04/11 Mount Washington Fatal Avalanche Report
It's there because of the kind of partner agreement ISVs have with the cloud provider. There are two things at play:

1) How does the cloud provider know what the ISV is selling, in order to credit them for it (discounts, incentives, program membership, etc)?

2) How do the sales reps get paid on related deals? This goes both ways: the ISV's reps get paid regardless but they need a way to tag the cloud-based deal in their own CRM, and the cloud sales reps need to be able to get paid base on the ISV partner's cloud deals, and that's really hard unless there is a concrete way to relate the ISV's sales deal to cloud consumption associated with the end customer.

One of the ways to do this is on the front end via deployment tracking (like this Terraform ID). Another way is to do it on the back end through billing account linkages. In any case, the end customer shouldn't really care one way or another -- these are just mechanisms to ensure the partner relationship between ISV and hyperscaler is well understood.
The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles
Is there any kind of effort to create a non crappy plugin that would support the huge archive of flash content out there?

I understand the reasons behind this but it seems like over 15 years of flash content is about to be rendered unaccessible.
World unprepared for impact of climate change on mountain water supplies
People don’t think in APR for small dollar loans they think in nominal terms.

Also - loan origination/servicing costs have a nominal floor - it costs the same to originate/service a $50 loan as a $500 or $5000 one, necessitating what would appear to be a abnormally large interest rates.
Also have similar spending patterns as the two of you, and played video games when I was younger. Yes, I had similar spending patterns in RPGs and particularly RTS games. I'd hoard resources to make sure I always had some when I needed them.

The thing is - in both video games and life, this is not always a good thing. In Starcraft, if you've banked over 1K minerals you are doing something seriously wrong; if you look at pro games, they rarely have more than a couple hundred minerals stored up, because they have a strategy that they're continuously executing and it involves burning minerals to convert into more minerals. Similarly, if I'd been willing to run with zero cash cushion, spending everything I made and locking myself into the corporate treadmill, I'd be a homeowner and have a net worth about 50% higher than I currently do. Optionality & security have a price; you trade efficiency for it, and it comes out of the standard of living you can maintain.

I think people just have a certain set point for the amount of risk they're willing to run, and it's probably partially genetic and partially from watching how your parents react to risk and internalizing that.
No, you are showing your ignorance. The World Wide Web is one of many things that can run on the Internet. The World Wide Web is not the Internet, just one aspect. What you are saying would be like claiming that TV was not TV until MTV appeared.