skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many of the respondents rent vs own. It seems to be that mostly owners are happy with how things are going and renters are not (for obvious reasons). However, since owners have all the power, they prevent any decent solution from getting approved.

When I go to meetings with my fellow homeowners, I'm literally the only one advocating for additional housing. All the other owners "want to keep things like they've been", which is code for only large single family homes for rich people.

I'm fine with my property value dropping as more housing is built. None of my neighbors agree with me.
I don't see why not. Point Thunderbird at it or something and then just transfer the mails over to somewhere else if you want that - but this is not about mail. Rather it's about Yahoo Groups, whose archives are about to go away.
I actually use emacs git-gutter to have a more visual way of seeing what's going into a commit or not. Having the inline annotations in the files I am working on it is great for doing the staging parts of a hunk.
DSLRs have exceptional lenses with exceptional but large sensors, which means the zooms are modest (up to around ~600mm)

So the really interesting long focal lenght cameras are the all-in-one superzoom cameras like the canon sx70hs and nikon p1000.

They accomplish the high magnification by using a sort-of-good lens with a sort-of-good small sensor, achieving up to 3000mm "equivalent" zoom.

Unfortunately, the "pro-sumer" design gives you an electronic viewfinder and slower less accurate focus and all kinds of other non-dslr mediocrity.

sigh.
I assume no matter if you rent or own you don’t enjoy stepping on feces and syringes.
You need not worry about infinity in the black-hole case. Known physics ends at the black hole's event horizon, for an external observer. Black holes of a given mass can only have so much angular momentum.

As a rule of thumb, that angular momentum corresponds to that at which the equator of the black hole is moving at the speed of light.

This has important consequences for the mergers of two high-spin black holes that have aligned spins. The merger is actually delayed for a little while, just before merger, as the binary dumps angular momentum through gravitational radiation.
Salaries in programmer are really high compared to practically any other field that requires as little experience as programming does. If you want to verify this, put an ad in the paper for a junior position and say that you only require bootcamp experience, a related degree, or demonstrated experience with open source software. Offer the median salary for a software developer in your area. I bet you won't have enough time to interview even 1/10th of those people. And with the complete lack of credentials you are asking for, you will have practically nothing to help you narrow down the candidates. You might as well interview random selections.

We frequently say that there is a lack of talent out there. Anyone who has ever interviewed knows that this does not mean that there are a lack of applicants. It's just that you really, actually only want to hire one in 100 or one in 1000 of the people who apply. The vast majority of people applying for programming jobs want an easy job with a high salary, not a programming job.

If I'm hiring a junior, it really honestly doesn't matter if they are a new grad, just out of boot camp, a hobby programmer or have 2-3 years of experience. However, if they have 2-3 years of experience, you at least have some way of evaluating them. How do I evaluate new grads? Grades? How do I compare them against boot campers? I suppose with hobby programmers I can at least read their code!

Of course we ask for experience. Same thing goes at every level. People with a couple of years of experience are an absolute mixed bag. You'll get some who are awesome and you will get many who are horrible. At 5-10 years out at least they have opinions that they can talk about without resorting to "Well, I heard that X was crap and so I don't do that".

And this is broken record territory for me, but I'm old. I have something like 30 years of professional experience. Why are you talking about 5-10 years of experience like it's a ridiculous requirement? Why wouldn't you want at least 20 years of experience for a senior developer??? Even that is only half way through your career? Why are we hiring all these young, inexperienced, naive people into mission critical positions?

Are you sure people want "a new senior employee for the price of a junior one". To be very provocative: you've only even talked about experience levels that would be super junior in virtually every other professional career.

Hmm... Maybe I should conclude with "Get off my lawn" ;-) The above is really tongue in cheek, but I hope it provides a different perspective. I agree that we do not hire and train juniors properly, but I think that's mainly because we also do not hire seniors properly.
Large scale cuts of tech ppl at Morgan Stanley
Some of those jobs are important(1), but most replacable - many people can do that job.

And I'm not saying thry don't carry done value , just that raising your kids well, in my view, is much more important.

(1)are all cooks and restaurant that necessary ?
Bay Area life is terrible. I earn a good living but between high taxes, high rents, and abysmal commutes it’s just not worth it.
I second this. Code without people expertly familiar with it is a liability and a risk, with unbounded/unknown associated long-term cost of training, further development if possible, or a rewrite (in which case starting from scratch anyway), and maintenance.

..Then perhaps it can be recommended for the OP to "sell" the code together with the expertise/team/himself as a package?

If I were in a situation where my company needed a solution that he describes, I might be interested in such a package: fully functioning software with a domain expert (who has proven able to put together and lead a team).
It simply turns out that, in order to be a stable excitation of the vacuum, an electron must have all the properties of an electron.

I've not yet encountered an experimentally-testable explanation that goes deeper than that.
When is it time to ask some fundamental questions about the end state of the political philosophy that produces such aggregate outcomes?
Decade of Cybersecurity Report
Known as ‘FinalBlacklist’, the paper collates 51.6 million mal-activity reports dating back to 2007, aggregating 662,000 unique IP addresses worldwide, which were categorised using machine learning techniques into six classes of mal-activity: Malware, Phishing, Fraudulent Services, Potentially Unwanted Programs, Exploits and Spamming: http://bit.ly/2RDwEKe
I recently switched to Brave Browser and been keeping everything on Lockdown.

Added this.

Brave has made my experience so much better in general - looking forward to seeing how this works for me.
California has been exporting "poor" people for years. The Good Life that well paid folks in the state expect basically requires a servant class that can't actually afford to live there.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article136478098.html
Self-hosted one-command deployments using Docker
Funny thing was a guy went to Texas for this super famous BBQ from NY... When he got there, he told them "I came all the way from NY just for this"

The BBQ place looked at him and said "uh... we ship directly to NY, you know" hehehe
How did you get good?
Tig is the only other tool I’ve used which comes close to the speed and capability provided by Magit. I’ve recommended it to many people who don’t want to learn Emacs for one reason or another.
Is this hyperbole?
Yes, I know; I use it myself. It's not the same thing as a kernel C implementation.
A Bitcoin Wallet Is Orbiting the Earth at 5 Miles per Second
I think it's considerably better when it's not based on altruism, because it's easier to predict how stable or sustainable an alignment of interests might be.
Next "big innovation" must be auto-scrolling - and, we're back at yapping.
Maybe it's not intended for people in aviation.
GPUs use SIMT or similar, where there are several parallel threads with a shared program counter.
What's wrong with taking an 8 year loan for an asset that you will possess and use every day of those 8 years? As long as the interest rate is good (less than 4%, say) it sounds like a prudent decision that frees up cash flow.
It ends with tech geographically diversifying.

Last time I was in SF, an odd thought just randomly popped into my head as I was walking around downtown: "San Francisco is someone else's house."

I've never been able to put my finger on that deep vibe the place has until then.

You have various groups that come and go -- hippies, hackers, techbros, whatever -- but beneath the surface there is this old property owner base that owns the city completely and does not want to see it change much. They are willing to let various groups of transients pass through and perhaps a few stay but most leave in the end, and they don't want that to change either.

SF is superficially liberal but deeply conservative in an odd and very specifically SF way. Reminds me quite a lot of Boston but with a West Coast and Bohemian veneer.

I don't know if my random insight is spot on or not, but that's what came to mind.
This is a a circular argument and somewhat disingenuous. You presuppose that liberal values emerge from a "denser network", which at surface level seems fine. Except definitionally I argue that pluralism itself doesn't work without defined in groups and out groups (denoting the plurality of the group). This is inherently "anti-liberal" in the sense that it requires continued in group and out group hostility to maintain the segmentation.

Looking into history at say, early Iberia, the plurality was maintained by intense violence between muslim and christian populations living in proximity to each other. In order to maintain this plurality the in group had to drastically enforce conformity while in combat with the out group to maintain topological cohesion.

To diagnose the social problems rising in the country as "network damage" is almost calling people who disagree with what I imagine is your stance as mentally ill. That is a dangerous road to move down and I would advise you to reconsider or at least allow for the nuance that potentially this isn't just about identifying characteristics of a population feeling threatened by another group.

But rather this could a manifestation of a very real feeling of insecurity that is not caused by lets just say it, racial tensions, and perhaps more of an economic anxiety bent. If Maslow isn't getting his due, then the real conversation is how can people move to middle ground feel more unified by shared prosperity.

Othering people based on a diagnosis of "not enough different people they talked to" adds to the problem instead of addresses it.

Be very skeptical due to my lack of citing sources, but I share the above in earnest with this comment left in haste <3

EDIT: Clarity
Oh, wow, you took that in a direction I didn’t expect. I meant that you might benefit from a system to manage scope on the projects you mentioned struggling with scope creep on.

But applying that to the development of habits themselves too is a really interesting idea. I’d never thought of that before and am not sure how you’d approach it.
It’s a beautiful cringe-worthy big enterprise marketing piece preying on the technical ineptitude of certain companies’ leadership.

1. Point out how the world is changing so fast now, and that computers are super extra hard (databases are 500 components now, that sounds pretty hard)

2. Mention how you can’t just get competent employees and trust them to build anything!

3. Don’t worry, big consulting/solutions company (Cisco, IBM, Oracle, etc) has a solution to your deepest fears! Just contract out inferior products and consulting services at 10x the price of doing it yourself.
On a related note, does anyone remember a recent (~30d) article describing a company which disabled their Slack (or alternative) message retention in order to encourage more permanent documentation? I'm sure I saw it on HN but cannot for the life of me find it again.
Unfortunately not. Hoping to go remote asap.
Legally he does have an obligation. All the commenters suggesting that this behavior does not pierce the corporate veil are wrong (on the internet!) and assuming incorrect legal knowledge may be dangerous for the next founder who reads this thread and thinks their liability is limited when engaging in similar behavior. Selling a product with inadequate capitalization is a common basis for piercing the corporate veil.
1 year old iphone 8 here and Wireguard was noticeable (vs no VPN). I did not try other VPNs.
>My growing belief is that most social conservativism is network damage to the social fabric.

I could make the exact same argument (also without sources, since I'm lazy tonight) but in the inverse, that most social liberalism is caused by network damage to the social fabric - and I bet I could make a much more compelling argument, given that the contemporary brand of social liberalism (i.e. social Progressivism) sees breaking down traditional social fabrics as an axiomatic good.

>Pluralistic values and greater ability to form consensus arises in spaces where we re-weave the social fabric into the sorts of topologies that cities tend to permute through on their own.

This only happens when the topologies are not organic, but artificial. And to top it all off these new topologies still require elite support to supplant the organic ones. The only reason a place like San Francisco still draws people (to the extent that it actually does; I keep seeing stories here and elsewhere about people quitting that place in droves) is because of an Elite network that is seriously incentivized to squeeze out every last benefit they can from their existing network effects before it crashes and burns.
In short the "card" advert ui rather than the text article advert ui is vastly more convertible
Ask HN: Interesting Gift Ideas for engineers/techies/designers?
Hi All,
I have never seen such a post but wanted to ask HN folks. (I understand it is not Reddit)

Does HN have any interesting gift ideas for engineers/techies/designers?
Off-topic, but just curious, are you allowed to have other, non-authorized Stripe frontends without voiding the PCI compliance, or is that not what this is?
A lot of people are saying code is not an asset, so story time:

In Ancient Days, Ampex was the king of video tape recording and magnetic storage. They created a system for recording documents onto video tape, and then later a system for recording documents into mass storage. The software engineers on this project created a database system to manage the storage. When the project was inevitably cancelled, they allowed the software engineer to keep the code from project Oracle.

Of course the value depends on the what the code accomplishes, and what new ideas you can leverage it into.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01794...
I'm not sure what you mean by "run"? I use Firefox as my browser on my iPhone.
A friend of mine made a C compiler for Transputer.

He also made a loader that could copy a program to a whole network of transputer chips in seconds, instead of hours like theirs.

They hated his C compiler, and hated him for making it, and did their best to keep anybody from knowing about it. That was easier to do, before www.
In practice, not really either. Unless "N" isn't actually variable and is basically zero.
Google Cloud infrastructure components Incident #19002
The software.

I want to turn my car on over the internet from my phone and heat it up 15 min before I leave the office two blocks away. Then I want to put it in autopilot for the mind-numbing straightforward freeway traffic on my commute.

I don't care what other car manufacturers have to offer if they can't do the above. And as long as it's under $60k I don't care what the price is either.
Sad Co-founder here, first, thanks so much for all the (still incoming) answers. This is invaluable for me to be able to fully learn and move forward from this experience. To answer some the overall questions I've seen;

* The company will be completely shut down, no more b-corp.

* I own < 50% of the company

* My co-founder will continue based on our last pivot minus my technical knowledge.

* I would love to be able to chill on this for a while, but my co-founder want to move forward and close our old business down by the end of this year so that he/she can close all tax/business stuff.

* My co-founder invested money to pay our designer / product owner, I invested my time.

* We had no real customer traction due to our (now in retrospect, bad) decision to pivot away from the app we worked hard to release, not maintaining it and work on v2 of it instead. It sucks because through my co-founder, we had serious reach through social platforms such as Instagram, but we also knew the initial business model couldn't scale so we had to pivot.

* Deep inside I knew our code would be a hard sell and I see the bigger picture now. Thank you all for zapping me out of it. I do think that cross-platform WebRTC integration has some value, but as some of you point out, my knowledge is probably more valuable than the code it self. I will reach out to all of you who have pinged me. I might be up to join as a contractor for some time, to help out with knowledge transfer / maintain the code.

* Since my co-founder will still work within the same market, I can't open-source the code without causing friction I'd say. So might not do that.

* I consider my co-founder a really close friend so it is of high importance for me to keep our friendship intact. For us to be able to do that, I need to figure out what is fair so all of your comments really helps!

I'll keep on answering questions as they come. Again, thank you all for your answers.
Maybe it will get better; I'm kinda of excited to ride the T extension in 2025.

Why? The T is an excellent case study in shittacular urban planning. The above ground T cut a vital link between BHVP and City College, fueled real estate speculation, and black flight. It doesn't go far enough (e.g. North Beach, Crissy Field) and the city has made it essentially impossible to extend. The extension is astronomically expensive and has been gimped ostensibly to save costs. What is being built are tiny platforms that can only support short trains, no express tracks, nada. There's zero room for expansion and it's basically going to be at capacity when it opens. The plan, last time I checked a loong time ago, was to gut the 30 and other surface routes to fund the underground operations so it's not like subway really represents additional capacity.

I assume you weren't around in 2007 when the T opened and shit hit the fan. Muni/SFMTA (whatever you want to call them these days) used all the new streetcars meant for T service to make up for abysmal dispatch reliability. Service along the other lines was an utter disaster. We're almost guaranteed to see similar problems in addition to whatever fresh hell beta testing the new subway infrastructure will bring.
For a lot of people their house literally is their savings. Property values dropping means no old age care, etc. That may or may not be true for your friends but its true for a lot of people.

Housing as financial instrument is for my money one of the worst things in our economic systems, but I have no idea how to back out of it without vaporizing the savings of at least one generation.
Point taken.

There's also stuff there about contacting Verizon and contacting the shareholders of Verizon. For them, I think we need volume.
The real plot twist when California finally manages to manifest its rail expansions will be that it was all just a plan to enable ultra long distance commutes from Oregon.
> Can they learn what to monitor, at what frequency?

Yes. That is part of the design of any system; observability is in everyone's mind when they are writing software. Software that fails mysteriously means less weekends and less time for drinking beer. Software that tells you exactly what it's doing means when something goes wrong, you fix it, and it never happens again. Or, it's so transparent you figure out the bug before you even check it in.

> Security... 'Principle of least privilege' is at odds with "make it work".

There is certainly value in having strong security principles, both in terms of policies and infrastructure. Infrastructure is key here; an ACL-checking proxy in front of all services, mTLS out of the box, the ability to write, deploy, and manage small services that are easy to audit... all help make security the rule instead of the exception. This is what all those "service meshes" and "policy frameworks" and "orchestration frameworks" aim to provide.

> I've seen devs assume the database server has commodity connection to the internet. They never asked if it did or didn't.

That's why the dev team should be operating that service.

> And I've seen devs go 'just spin up some more machines'. [...] You'd be surprised just how angsty the C levels are with this cloud computing and developers with near-free reign.

In my experience this has always been a utilization problem. One shared cluster for everyone is too complicated / expensive / dangerous / conflicts with empire-building, so every team has a bunch of t3.4xlarge instances that average 0% CPU load just because. Meanwhile, companies that care about their computers have seemingly-complicated orchestration frameworks so that they can extract value from every CPU core.

The good news is, a lot of what used to be manual (wrangling machines, consolidating resources, mechanical aspects of security) has some serious open-source investment. People don't need to schedule programs to physica computers anymore. People don't need to write authentication and mTLS code into their application anymore. You don't need to fill out a form and create a purchase order to get a TLS certificate anymore. Times are changing.

Your experience seems to have been shaped by supporting bad developers. We aren't all like that, though, and you'll find that there is less and less room for the incompetent these days. It's true of any field; someone builds you a house and the floor isn't level. "Don't build houses anymore," you say! No! Just don't hire the guy that did a crap job. Everything gets a lot easier when you set out to do a good job.
I don't quite understand your code, but if I'm guessing correctly that n is an integer and "for i in n" means in human terms "for all non-negative integers less than n",

that is not exponential, that is actually factorial, which is superexponential. Uh, or close to factorial, I'm not sure exactly. Testing it in python right now, incrementing a counter each time whoops is called, I'm seeing a relationship that looks like
whoops(n) == n * whoops(n-1) + 1
That is interesting.
>Dense networks of human relations tend to lead to those humans creating specific network topologies in which liberal values tend to emerge. In places where the network is sparsed (relative to elsewhere), it is here we find reduced empathy, mistrust, populism, increased social distance between any two random nodes, and also bastions of socially conservative thought.

Indeed. People in large cities hardly talk to one another outside of ordering coffee. People in Appalachia talk to each other constantly. Is it any wonder that the sparse social networks of densely populated areas result in reduced empathy, mistrust, populism, increased social distance between any two random nodes and also bastions of socially conservative thought.

SF still sounds like it did in the 70s. You'd think a place could have gotten some new ideas since Computer Lib/Dream Machines was published there.
Ding. Ding. Ding. California has always relied on a steady rotation of people from poorer outlying areas coming, getting broken by the system, then leaving back to the more rural areas that have almost zero representation in the state.

Thus, the myth of the valley persists.