skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Substack (YC W18) Is Hiring Senior Full-Stack Engineers in SF
Absolutely -- most landlords either have to be handy or they have to access to cheap contractors (they "know a guy who knows a guy") to make any money at all on rentals. Otherwise repairs will eat up most of the margin.
> I dare you to go to an average bar or club and try to talk about code with most young women.

I dare you to go to an average bar or club and try to talk about code to literally any person.
Hey, author here. You are absolutely right - Go would have a hard time outperforming finely tuned C. Rather, the article was more focused on exploring concurrency mechanisms in Go. The (admittedly clickbait) title was more of a reference to the articles before it than anything else.

That said, I think you'll find this SIMD-enhanced wc interesting:
https://github.com/expr-fi/fastlwc/
They are probably losing money on the services provided by Apple Care, but making money on regular repairs.
> I see. So Apple watches, iPads, and iPhones & other devices owning at least half the US market

They don't. Not in the US, not in phones[1] or watches[2]. They may have the majority market share in US tablets.

> isn't a monopoly whatsoever?

No, not even if that was true. Monopoly doesn't mean "any company I don't like." You're acting like "Apple isn't a monopoly" means "there's no problems with Apple at all."

Monopoly has a specific meaning. Look it up.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/15/us-smartwatch-shipm...
So we finally got a goddamn proper standard and we're already cheering for the next API to throw in front of it to make it "cleaner"?
Personal Finance concepts. There are several books you can read the most essentials chapters in an hour
Math, mostly.
1 million certificates each day - it's amazing to see how much of a cornerstone of the internet Let's Encrypt has become.
Wow! That was awesome (also frustrating and poignant.) Should be on the front page of HN, IMO.

I can't write a coherent reply right now, but I wanted to mention some things:

I dream of a world where people can step out of their kitchens and pick their produce from their own gardens, but I know that, realistically, you're right about automation. Most people don't want to tend a garden. But I'm an amateur roboticist and gardener and I'm not confident that automation will be at all easy. Even with the recent advances in ML, et. al., it's going to be hard to displace humans (after all, we are adapted to gathering food from plants.) The easy-to-automate farming might turn out to be microbes ( https://massivesci.com/articles/iwi-algae-protein-nannochlor... & http://boostbiomes.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20687797 ), and/or marine farming ( https://www.greenwave.org/ ).

I'm hoping that it might be possible to make dense "food forests" near to population centers and people can come and glean for themselves. I had an idea for a kind of member-supported farm with a restaurant on-premises. Folks drive out (by appointment) for a fancy meal sourced (mostly) from the farm/garden around them, membership would include a certain number of meals. There's a lot of little details (members can purchase surplus produce online and pick it up after their meals, etc.)

- - - -

What about some sort of small online distributed Farmer's Market, like Etsy for Veggies, that allows people to pledge to buy produce before it's harvested, or even before it's planted? You would have to allow for e.g. bad weather or bugs/diseases ruining a given crop/area, but it would give small rural farms a stable market, maybe?

I know there are a lot of people who are willing to pay more for healthier, ecologically grown food. Just look at any Whole Foods store, for example. It's a matter of connecting the kitchens and the farms. "Merely" a logistics problem, eh?
In New York owning a car is a huge luxury, the city is giving away free real estate to the richest of the rich New Yorkers. Getting rid of free street parking is a great idea.
There's a number of reasons that I'm not mentioning it. The biggest one, is that it's not relevant to 90% of the folks around, but there are other reasons.

The reason that I mention it, is because I have experience (that's the thing you get with age, and mistakes), that bears out the basic premise of the post.

We're known for not playing well with others, but there's always hope, with discipline and work.

Have a great holiday season (if you have one coming up)!
Will a binary installer be published (or does anyone have one) for the new version?
And I'm not even a little surprised:

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/introducin....

Folks, when you hire enough devs, they feel empowered to rewrite the world. I have lived all sides of this phenomenon and rarely is it pretty.

Scaling is a concern that goes in both directions. Shopify has 1000 developers today. How screwed would they be if they suddenly had to drop to 600? Or even if there's a hiring freeze? What happens when the people who wrote these tools go work somewhere else?

When I do tool smithing work these days, it's always with an effort to provide the thinnest of shims around open source or commercial tools with healthy user communities, so that at the end of the day they have a larger pool of resources than what is in house. People move on. Money dries up. Mandates change.

"Being important" in a company is about how much you support new work, not how locked in people are to your old work. If you can't give your old work away then you're shackling yourself, both to your current responsibilities and to the company. I can't believe that I'm the only one who has ever stayed at a company out of guilt for how screwed they'd be if I left. But that quickly turns into resentment which is worse.

If you are important for new work, then you always get new challenges. You stay sharp and your resume looks good. If the company stops doing new work altogether, do you really want to stay there anyway? Plus you could always go back to one of your old projects.
Apple's answers repeatedly suggest that the reason they require third-party browsers to use WebKit and JavaScriptCore is for privacy and security:

> It is not our experience that competing web browsers have typically offered enhanced privacy or security that would protect users as adequately as our WebKit protections.

Google pioneered the out-of-process architecture that Safari now uses, developed the Safe Browsing program that Safari also uses, drove the adoption of HTTPS, put pressure on misbehaving certificate authorities and shepherded certificate pinning and then Certificate Transparency, and found many vulnerabilities in WebKit through security research that Apple was not itself doing.

Moreover, on the desktop, Chrome and Firefox both have automatic update channels that allow them to push out security fixes much more rapidly than Apple's heavy OS updates. (On iOS, they would be limited by Apple's App Store approval process.)

All this to say, I'm skeptical of the suggestion that a Blink-powered Chrome for iOS would not "protect users as adequately as our WebKit protections."

One thing to note: JavaScriptCore has special powers on iOS in that it can allocate new blocks of executable memory during just-in-time compilation, greatly improving its performance. A third-party JavaScript engine would be much slower without this ability, but granting the capability to third-party engines would jeopardize the security architecture of iOS.
> PageKite

Thanks for the pointer. They certainly have the most fun pricing page I've seen to date: https://pagekite.net/signup/?more=bw
Apple seems to have given non-answers, or entirely avoided, several questions on here. Is this par for the course on probes, was information redacted, or are there going to be consequences for Apple here?
We need counter capital - DHH
The article talks about XBL (the binding part of XUL?):

> There are hard to debug complications with binding lifecycles in our UI, and very few people know how it works.

> It adds enormous complexity to our platform in the frame constructor, style system, and the DOM implementation.
How to Communicate as You Scale Your Org
Been curious about people's opinions on non-16:9 displays. Assuming they share the same pixel width, would you prefer working on a 4:3 or 3:2 laptop. 4:3's will offer the most resolution, but will result in taller systems.
Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism is “up there” with Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death when it comes to why I despair about the trajectory of modern society.
Hey NSA. You still on top of those backups you were making for me? Might need some of that data back soon...duplicati has been spitting errors
How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE
For sites that make all their money from ads, this is the preferred response.
These are good tips, thank you!

For rice, the rice:water ratio I follow is 1:1.25. I add a teaspoon of olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.

For eggs, I'm going to try running the egg under warm water. One thing I've observed improvement in quality of eggs when mixing it is the material of the bowl (copper provides best results) and how much air you introduce when mixing the eggs.

Try making a meringue, it's fascinating how versatile eggs can be when put through different conditions.
Yeah I don’t agree with any of this. I find it really fascinating that, after WWII, the US finds itself in this self-imposed fatalism where we can “never” compete with the rest of the world on manufacturing because of labor costs. It’s also a little odd because in multiple threads at a near daily pace I see people advocating that we explicitly cut back on consumption spending for environmental reasons (reasons I find very compelling). China is also one of the, if not the, world’s biggest polluter.

The Apple example is a good one, but, again, I find it very hard to believe that an 80% (or hell even 90%) automated manufacturing footprint here in the US is a) infeasible and/or b) undesirable relative to the status quo.

I’m tired of the fatalism about this issue. It’s pathetic and signals that America is near collapse if we are essentially just giving up on our industrial base and willing to be reliant on cheap consumer goods from China.
GitLab Employee here, this link might help provide some more details into days you're experiencing more/fewer 500s. You can always check the status page for the current status, but I find the history page to be useful for a broader picture of operations. https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...
Except that this is not a single persons house, but a mega corporation with monetary power of states.

It's not "a person throwing you out of his house", it's "your governor forcing you to leave your state because you dared critcize him". Power makes a difference.
You could call it a hack, but it's also the standard way that lots of asian families make rice if they don't have a rice cooker and how I've done it ever since moving into an apartment and didn't want a bulky machine in limited counter space.

For a comedic take see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wHe9KdmrQ for How to Cook Perfect Rice by Jo Koy
Well unfortunately the idealism in voting 3rd party (which I understand) to make a statement can't really stand up to the realities of game theory and the American political landscape.

> this line of thinking is detrimental to our voting process and wrong to rub in peoples faces.

Our voting framework is detrimental to our voting process. The line of thinking that a 3rd party vote is a vote wasted is simply an assessment of reality.

There are only two realistic candidates for President in a given US election. And no matter the reasoning, a vote for third party is equivalent to a half vote for both major candidates.

If you truly find equally unappealing, then a third party vote is a (very quiet) way to voice that opinion. Otherwise, you are giving a half vote to your least preferred option.
I feel like 1) that is the key quote, 2) it's true, 3) it's also setting the bar too high for current efforts.

The first go at a post-quantum public-key crypto standard may in effect be (a public-key analog of) the DES that'll need be replaced with an AES someday. But provided we can get something that isn't a step backwards in classical security (so, well-studied problem) and doesn't fall to Shor's algorithm or any other thing we can find in a few years, that's way ahead of where we are now.

We may be feeling around in the dark because we don't know much about quantum computing, but we may also have to do that if we want reasonable security when the first big quantum computers show up.
Strangely, the article doesn't link to the actual product site or have very clear pictures of the product. Here's a link to the site:

https://origamei.com
'There was also a case where a user with over 1500 tabs open (scientifically considered a “tab hoarder”)' - by what metric?
No, it's not faster. They are comparing a Go version that does not do character decoding (which is necessary for correctly counting the number of words under the presence of non-ASCII punctuation) to a C version that does decode characters (and matches them against a larger character set with iswspace).

This can be easily shown, by counting words and lines using wc separately. Word counting decodes characters (to find non-ASCII whitespace that may separate words), whereas line counting just looks for ASCII line separators:

$ time wc -w wiki-large.txt
17794000 wiki-large.txt
wc -w wiki-large.txt 0.48s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 0.496 total
$ time wc -l wiki-large.txt
854100 wiki-large.txt
wc -l wiki-large.txt 0.02s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.034 total

So, without character decoding, looking at every byte is ~15 times faster. So, if you'd compile wc without multibyte character support (which would be a fair comparison), it would probably beat Go without any parallelization.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%C3%A9ration

> Libération (French: [li.be.ʁa.sjɔ̃]), popularly known as Libé ([li.be]), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

> For its first six or seven years it was a uniquely vibrant and pluralist publication and hugely influential. This
> was mainly due to its refusal to take paid advertising which meant there was no direct or indirect pressure from advertisers.

Seems they're now helping to push boundaries of pushing advertising since their founding.
I'd argue that the ROC transition was not peaceful at all. Thousands of civilians were killed in the February 28 massacre [1] and tens of thousands imprisoned in the ensuing White Terror [2], and martial law did not end until 30+ years later. But now I think Taiwan is by far the leading democracy in east Asia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
> Aren't they? If they make $10/hour instead of $15/hour, but the goods they buy are 40% the cost that they would have been, their $10/hour is effectively $16/hour (I think I got the math right there).

I think it's a mistake to treat it like a math equation, since (among other things) that engages in the fallacy of equating Homo economicus with Homo sapiens.

But if you do want to treat it like a math equation like that. The workers may still be worse off because they don't just buy trade goods. The owner's income didn't drop, and maybe increased, so he can use greater relative income to bid up non-trade goods like real estate, healthcare, and education, pushing those things out of reach of the workers.
Governor Gray Davis was acting to contain Enron and their ilk, so they arranged a recall, and installed Schwarzeggar. Who turned over $80B of state money to them, as apparently prearranged.
Anyone else SCUBA? I'd rather do a EAN36 for about the same price, but would last me longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrox
Of course: they are trying to set the narrative on this. They are trying to make the argument that Safari is like the other "operating system apps" that they don't allow you to change. I don't like that they're doing it, but it's less about answering the questions and more about framing it as though they aren't engaging in anti-competitive practices.
I'm in my 40s. My childhood was closer to WWII than to the present day.
It’s one of those things where you’re only going to notice it as a user when it’s broken.
How to Earn a Full Time Income Writing for Free
Even in certain parts of SF, which I'd argue is the most engineer-dense part of the US, you can go into an average bar or club and discover that most of the men aren't interested in talking about code either.
Wow, I went to Cornell and actually remember a professor Tye! It's something we all need to be reminded of — happiness isn't the destination, but rather our mind-frame along the way. It's easy to get trapped in the mundane, daily grind if we forget to keep prioritizing (and re-evaluating) our happiness, especially when it sometimes flies in the face of what's "societally important".
The International Phonetic Alphabet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alpha...
Yep - he's very generous. Many people just seek to vilify someone for having wealth.
They have seams designed for you to fold along - similar to origami. Yeah, there is also a built in pouch to fold the dress into. Some companies have tried similar but I think think the combo is unique.
They're not the only electric utility company in California - just the biggest by far. The second biggest is Southern California Edison, who by coincidence happen to have caused what was apparently the second largest wildfire in modern Californian history (Thomas fire in 2017).

Edison settled the lawsuits over the Thomas fire without admitting guilt. To me that seems like a good indication that there was a much less clear case for negligence than there is for PG&E. Guess who started the largest fire…

It sounds like their fire prevention shutoffs haven't been going so well either: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-01/southern....

Edison started a fire as they started to turn electricity back on. How many did PG&E start while the power was out? The last count I'd heard was five.

San Diego Gas & Electric, only managed to cause "far fewer fires than PG&E" thanks to their own aggressive monitoring and targetted blackouts - which is to say that they're still causing fires - and they're far smaller than PG&E.

Maybe it's time to shrink PG&E down to a manageable size? I'm not suggesting the other utilities are particularly well behaved, rather PG&E is worse. Take, for instance, fire prevention efforts. Edison disables their automatic reclosers during fire season. PG&E? lol. They're thinking about it.
Oh, in all likelihood the actual system doesn't have any auth at all! But there are legitimate reasons for network traffic to toggle the "power state" of a machine (not that I think such features are useful). Some computers implement it. It's just unfortunate they didn't implement it right in the Rokus.
I mean it depends. I was tested for Python and SQL and yeah I use both all the time. Now, the specific Python questions of course not. They were just stupid riddles.
3. Just don't put your eggs in the fridge?

Who does this?
Coal Exports Getting Blocked by West Coast States and Cities
> I do believe no one has tried to silence his speech, as proven by this post about it. He broke a contract and now isn’t allowed to use their tools.

Are you really claiming that being cut off from financials due to criticism is not an attempt to punish criticism?

> No. That wasn’t what I basically support at all. Thanks for the strawman.

It's not a strawman if you don't understand why being financially punished for criticising a corporation is hugely problematic. You really want to live in the world where you're afraid of having your devices rendered useless and your company blocked from market because you dared say anything against Facebook, Google, Apple and other behemoths?
It's not really low cost, to truly do off grid solar you need to have a battery pack plus the isolator (so you don't fry the people trying to fix the system with back-fed current) and a true sine wave inverter which is pretty expensive. You have to have the battery pack because solar has a very harsh drop off in produced energy if you try to extract too much and that level moves around a lot as the light level on the cell changes. Because of this you have to have a reserve that can power the entire house by itself since a cloud can drop out 90% of the solar energy completely randomly.
I'm a simple man. I see an algorithm backed by djb, I use it.
You don't understand China.
Author here. If you read the article carefully, you'll see that the 70 lines I used to outperform wc was a single-threaded implementation. I multi-threaded it later for overkill.
100x this
Non-compete is illegal in California.
The numbers don't add up though, with around 80% in the industry being men you'd expect there to be 4 nerdy men going after every nerdy woman even if they have exactly the same ratio of people who loves talking about code.
Learning Python is never going to be something I'm looking for. Too much brainpower invested in Ruby now to switch...
What I've found is people usually want to be validated. That they exist; and they are important enough to be listened to. That's all. If they ask for more, fine. But usually, listening is the Gift they are asking you for.
This is really great!
> Once you do that, the F11 key will function as an escape key.

This photo seems to corroborate that: https://external-preview.redd.it/SiLVPTrm_c8MfLplX48AxZySG5x...
You don't understand China. What I saw in this article is completely biased and brain washed by you know who.
> monetizing internet services for the general public without advertising and tracking is a mostly-unsolved problem

I feel like that's not a real problem. Or, maybe only a problem for services that care more about having a ton of users than being profitable and sustainable.

There are quite a few services (SmugMug, Vimeo, NetFlix, etc.) that charge money, don't have advertisements, and are doing just fine.

It's weird that so many web companies decide to go the sleazy advertisement/tracking/malware route rather than just charge money for the services they provide.
> Trading with China is, for now, beneficial to EVERYONE

No, it's beneficial from an idealized economic perspective for economies.

Economics makes no guarantee that all individuals within an economy benefit economically benefit from free trade. And if you look at the actual average effect for US workers over the past few decades (period of opening trade with China), their purchasing power hasn't increased: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

How can this be? "The economy" is still growing on average because the top 1% have been getting richer and richer. Also China devalued its currency to protect its own industry (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beggarthyneighbor.asp). Not exactly "free trade"...

But coming back to this:

> every working individual should be able to learn new skills and ready to move to new industries if the current industry no longer provides enough jobs.

Yes, from an economic ideal perspective, working individuals "should" do that to maximize their own income. And in the US, people have been doing it for a while, leading to a drain of talented individuals from rural communities to urban areas and repeatedly disconnecting people from their friends and families as they chase economic opportunities around the country. Now everyone is lonely and depressed, there's a huge political divide between rural and urban areas, and, well, Trump happened.

So I don't think chasing the shiny economic ideals is necessarily going to lead where we want to go as a society.
And counties with the lowest incidence of kidney cancer are small.