skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect HN offers me is the wide variety of content. If using a website like reddit, for example, you may not see this kind of article if you're not subscribed to a relevant subreddit. This can be good as you mostly see things you want to see. But, this design doesn't always show you things you wouldn't already see and HN does that for me. I'm familiar with the general concept of RF waves but still learned a lot from this article. I wouldn't have learned this information otherwise as I haven't told my various personalized websites that I want to see this kind of content, yet I'm happy I saw this. It's my opinion that the breath of topics on HN is very good and is a major reason I use it -- to see things people like me are interested in that I may not yet know about
So to be fair - I'm vegetarian.

But my foods mostly consist of cooked vegetables that we had in the middle east (peppers, tomatoes, onions, leaks, etc) and not things that are here now such as sweet potato. Chickpeas (hummous), Sesame seeds (tahina), and various combinations of all these things with the nuts we had (walnuts) means.. well I feel amazing.

I've never had a fast food burger in my life.
Toptal, abeit controversial.
The creator here, happy to answer any questions, or comments you may have :D
> Returns are the absolute worst - every experience I've had is at least a 10+ minute wait.

> The shopping (and return) experience at Amazon is so far superior

I don't get it.

An Amazon return process will also take me 5-10 minutes to complete online, and then it requires me to have a printer and packaging on-hand to ship the item back to Amazon. Then to get a replacement I need to wait multiple days for both the return to process, and the replacement to ship.

I live in a suburban area, so for a physical store I drive 15-20 minutes, wait 10 minutes for the return to process, and then get in my car with the replacement and drive back home. I can get the entire thing done in less than an hour. I don't need to print anything, I don't need to box anything up. I can go from noticing a part is defective to having a replacement in my hand in an hour.

You seem to be optimizing for different metrics than me, or you live way farther from most physical stores than I do.

It's annoying to type in a pin, I guess, but I'm happy to take that ~15 second loss if it means I can save 2 days of waiting for a package to arrive.
Not surprised. I think we have to get out of GCS as soon as possible.
Amazon has a decent return policy -- but are you familiar with eBay's buyer protection?

eBay has very little reservations about giving you your money back -- they just pull the money out of the sellers account anyway, they're not themselves taking a financial hit.

And they have way fewer exceptions than Amazon does.
U.S. finalizing rules to limit sensitive tech exports to China, others
“The heartland” is hostile to natively-born Americans, too. Regardless of their political leanings, I could never ask a female employee to live in a state where she could be denied an abortion, or where a trans employee might get hassled over using the bathroom.

Blue America lets conservatives live however they want; Red America asks the rest of us to live their way, and then wants to know why we won’t take the jobs there, why we "fly over," reassure us that Houston is “more cosmopolitan thank you think.”

Anyway: I feel terrible about your experience there, I am sorry that this nation let you down.
GT Dave Kombucha, doing half $billion in sales with a high margin.
As is the press. Outside of libel laws, the press is constitutionally exempt from any type of regulation. As impotent as the press is today, I wouldn't want any political party to be able to decide what it can and can't say.
This is certainly an issue in the USA, I can't speak to how it compares. Someone I knew was trying to raise an issue about a caretaker skimming money. She was taking out the maximum amount of money every day and spending excessively on a credit card. They basically told him to get lost, and it was a civil matter

It's also the case with more serious financial crimes, eg. Ponzi Schemes. The crazy thing is some of these things are completely illegal operations, yet publicized, with brick and mortar locations. This can go on for years. Sometimes there are complaints. Sometimes it's one determined victim or would-be victim that blows the lid on the whole thing. Even then it can take time; months to years. It's an area where people have been able to get away with it, often for a good chunk of their adult lives.
Well, I have an opposite experience. I have used IntelliJ for about 7 years. I still sometimes receive notifications for tickets that I have either submitted or upvoted. Some of them are started in 2014.

I switched to Emacs and that gave me enormous freedom to change things to my liking instead of just learning how to live with the way how IntelliJ people envisioned it. So one can say: switching to Emacs saved me years of waiting for the features I wanted in IntelliJ.

Sometimes brewing your own beer gives you much better satisfaction that you can't buy with any kind of money. And you can say it's 100% free beer, but it is not, when you factor your time.
I see there's still a lot of confusion regarding what Floatplane actually is; It's not a video platform in the traditional sense, instead it's a platform for supporting your favorite video creators, while getting access cool perks (no ads, higher video quality, exclusive content ...etc)
there's no algorithm, recommended videos, or trending page.

In that sense -as others have mentioned-, it's functionality much closer to a 'Video Patreon' than it is to say, a youtube alternative (AAMOF they've explicitly mentioned that several times)

When seen through that lens, it becomes apparent that "looking good" isn't really all that relevant, I mean, would the way patreon looks prevent you from supporting your favorite creator? probably not.

PS: Of course I get that good UI/UX is a must these days, my point is that they probably have much higher priority (not to mention mission-critical) tasks on their to-do list right now.
I been a mattermost user for two years, can't say enough good things about it. Love that it's written in go. We run ours with very little resources and it still chugs along.
> One of the most interesting things about Gödel's Incompleteness theorem must surely be how _little_ effect it has had on the day to day practice of mathematical research.

This seems like post-hoc reasoning. Imagine the state of mathematics if his theorems had not been true and ZFC (or some extension) had been proven complete and consistent. Mathematics could have been the first entire field of knowledge to automate itself out of a job!
A business without happy customers doesn't scale either; I guess that's why they're planning to shut down their cloud business in 2023.

Edit to add: if the customers have a choice. Telecoms do just fine because there's not really an option that will make you happy.
Sounds a bit high but could be right considering that median is usually a fair bit lower since the extremes being up the average quite a bit. However checking this years tax tables put our monthly $3500 pre-tax salary at $2600 take home (but this varies a bit from city to city).
Having scaled up the tech in a company from $0 to $10+MM ARR, from zero customers to over 300 million records a day, I think you are simply incorrect and uninformed about the trade-offs that make sense in a startup.
Actually, conservation of energy has enormous effect on the day-to-day practice of physics.....
The Far Side is officially online for the first time, with new comics to come
All symbolic metro maps work ignore physical locations in order to make labels and lines readable and clearly visible.
Doesn't mean the founders still had a bunch of it, is there any listing of the captable, how much of it was still owned by outsiders and how much by early investors/founders?
This is definitely a problem. We're going on almost four years of FT8 and the forums are still dripping with contempt for most digital modes and FT8 specifically.
Millions of Birds Are Migrating Earlier Because of Warming
We changed the title as part of changing the URL to Reuters. Submitted title was "Bloomberg fined $5.6M for publishing fake press release".

Actually the originally submitted title was "Bloomberg was taught a $5.6M lesson on factchecking", but the submitter edited it a few minutes later, which was good because that one broke the site guidelines badly.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just like problem of induction didn't stop scientists from doing science?
That's one of the things Costco does. They should've already capitalized on it with online ordering. Another really cool company that does "best of" and unique items is Hammacher Schlemmer:

https://www.hammacher.com/home
FIRE is still a thing even today; for example Mr. Money Mustache talks about this all the time:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com

Your point about wages stands, but even in the 50s there was no way the lower strata would have been able to retire early -- let alone retire at all -- or accumulate great wealth.

> To the cost of living? To the cost of homes?

COL and housing prices are not uniform. FIRE is going to be hard in San Fran even as a full-time Dev, but if you're making $85k in Des Moines it might be well within reason.
Can you give an example of this garbage?
JetBrains's ReSharper and their Rider IDE are both excellent products and do a ton more than just "vim with syntax highlighting".

ReSharper alone would easily save me that much per year in productivity gains.

I moved over to Ubuntu from Windows, so picking up Rider as my replacement for Visual Studio was well worth it - and at about 1/3 of the price of Visual Studio alone (and having the ReSharper features built in) it was a bargain.
A Public, Private War: How Government and Tech Can Better Prepare for Conflict
This was 15 years ago. We had just rolled out Deep Freeze to a handful of labs across our district, but not to the teachers (who had local documents) and the 4 student PCs in the classrooms - yes each class had 5 PCs total.

Our problem with Deep Freeze was getting it to work nice with our locally installed software mixed our custom Novell stack that pushed software dynamically based on logged in users. So we relegated it to computer labs that had no local software.
At any event insisting on a moderate solution now can still be smart because it moves the Overton window making more complete solutions politically feasible in the future.
Because if it's an insider threat then you should have protections in place to identify bad actors so that they know they will be caught if they even try. If you don't then what are you even doing?
I don’t know anything about OCaml so please forgive me if this question seems silly.

two sets of arithmetic operators for integers and floats

What if I want to create more numeric types? Say vectors in R^n, for example. Do I need to create more operators for vector addition and scalar multiplication? How do I make sure the user can’t add vectors of incompatible dimension?
not exclusive to azure as aws lambda requires API gateway now, but if i wanted to create a cloud function, azure auto generates like 2-3 other separate requires services for storage, http endpoint, etc
Yep, for years when everyone was talking about NSL's and other corporate strong-arming by the gov, I started saying I suspect most major CA's are compromised. At least you know your threat model though, because only the nation states are going to have that.

CA's and DNS are two parts of the internet that have become way too centralized in my opinion.
You don't need to contain the cost of living, you just have to increase income faster than your costs. And therein lies the rub. There is such a vast difference in probability of potential future income between certain urban areas and the rest, that it makes it worth it for many to gamble on achieving it, especially because of "who you know, not what you know" means rubbing shoulders with the right people can really launch you. If that's what you want.
Why replace Firebase ?
The "trust this site" can be disabled, and usually is by many corporate policies. Additionally they use words like "unsafe" and "not trusted", but never use those words, nor big red screens, to warm against plain HTTP requests.
Services permit scaling development teams. In a startup where you're all in the same room, lots of separate services don't really make sense, and you probably don't know where to make the right cuts even if you tried. When you want to grow beyond the one big room, with a lot of teams, potentially in other time zones and countries, then you want to be able to carve off services so teams can own them.
> Don't let the name discourage you; the product has very little to do with the old and inefficient VNC protocol anymore.

But RealVNC's products are all built on that same VNC protocol...? At least I see many things referencing it and nothing indicating that they don't use it.
> FWIW, I also happen to harbor this suspicion. How might one actually know whether there is an element of truth to it?

It's probably good to have some baseline level of cynicism, since individual people do often act in egotistical ways.

However, what you're proposing seems to imply that either (1) there is a vast conspiracy of climate scientists, who are engaging in that conspiracy for ultimately very little gain or (2) climate scientists are incredibly stupid, and keep repeating incorrect things as fact to each other while being blind to other evidence.

I'm a working scientist myself (in a totally different field), and my own cynical view of science is quite incompatible with these possibilities: There's nothing scientists love more than attacking each other's interpretations of data, to prove that they're smarter than the next guy.
and they are opposites. consider this comment retracted.
AppEngine is priced very high and is definitely not a constant price. I'm using it right now, and it costs me $5/day to run an Elixir/Phoenix app for ~2000 active users. I'm leaving as soon as my free credit runs out.
Presumably the factory's reputation would suffer, their manufacturing dries up and folds. Any consequences from a one-off sale by a third party are borne by the official source and Amazon. Which is the confusing part for me: why does Amazon not care about their reputation hit from enabling fraudulent third parties?
$5100 for $1M borrowed (a low) 3%, excluding down payment, property taxes, and likely PMI, given how onerous saving 20% of seven figures is.
Literally anything that comes from a vendor in a package? Percona server/toolkit? Every binary package in Ubuntu? The Linux kernel as built and distributed by Red Hat?
The thing about software engineering is that it doesn't require expensive post graduate education like med school. The barrier to entry is much lower. Many status seekers will eventually realize a few things about software:

1. Wait, I really have to look at this screen most of the day?
2. The pay check is nice, but the job itself isn't high status. I'm treated like a grunt
3. I have my whole life ahead of me, plenty of income, and a degree from a top school. I can leap frog to another position in the company, or go back and get my masters.
For new ads, yes a person does review each one. Once an ad has been approved derivative ads seem to be bulk approved.
That's because it's not really a "video website", it's more like a patreon for video creators.

Floatplane has made a very conscious decision not to influence the user's decisions on consuming content; there's no algorithm, recommended videos, or trending page. you just have access to the videos of people you want to support.
Oh wow I did not know that.
The issue here is that, like YouTube, it's so simple to create a new account that you'd just be chasing an endless stream of nothingness. I mean, just look at Amazon's review system. That's a system that they actually do investigate and have a department for and yet there are hundreds of thousands of sellers that have fake reviews and paid reviews for lots of different products and brands.
> Do you personally conduct inspections?

What a dishonest argument. Pointlessly contrarian.

The whole point of having vetted suppliers is that they've been vetted, so that their output's QA is authorized by a regulatory body. Sure it's possible to sneak past that but it's very hard to do so. Dumpsters don't have QA.

Amazon is performing a negligible vetting process in a race to the bottom.
What is considered dirt cheap?

One kind of insulin can be bought for ~$25 at Walmart.

Now, this means that you have to monitor you sugar levels, have a restrictive diet, etc. All things that are very restrictive but better than dying that people did when insulin treatment was first being developed.

Now we have newer, reformulated insulin that allows for a more permissive lifestyle. That is expensive.

Should the newer stuff be cheaper? It certainly allows for a greater QOL and took time and money to research.
the sun dials they used were less sophisticated then modern ones and didn't give uniform hours throughout the year, according to Wikipedia, those types of sun dials date to the 13th century.
“For most users, it’s very hard to know where their DNS requests go and what the resolver is doing with them.” said Eric Rescorla, Firefox CTO. “Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program allows Mozilla to negotiate with providers on your behalf and require that they have strong privacy policies before handling your DNS data. We’re excited to have NextDNS partner with us in our work to put people back in control of their data and privacy online.”

It sounds more like the work is to put Mozilla and their partners in control of users' data and privacy online.

Let's be honest. This is really a transfer of control from one third party, e.g., a company providing internet service (ISP), to another third party, e.g., a company/organization providing a browser (Mozilla, Google, etc.), not to mention their "TRR" partners.

Surely it is only a fortuitous coincidence, but DOH in the browser makes it easier to track users by device, which appears to be the Holy Grail of the internet ad industry.

Putting Mozilla (and their partners) in charge of user privacy is different from putting users in charge of their own privacy.

Also, the "back in control" language is interesting. It implies the author believes users were "in control" in the past.
I think one is trying to get out of ruin in general, whereas
the other potentially risks financial ruin
This would be great and if there was enough demand it would surely happen. As it is, the main reason amateur radio hand-helds are so inexpensive is that manufacturers can make one batch of boards/radios for commercial, nautical, and amateur use and target the different audiences by putting different firmware and cases on the radios (or in the case of Baofeng and the cheap Chinese radios, just one radio for any use you want -- figure it out of use Chirp to make it do what you want).

Too bad 1.25m and 33cm radios are in so much lower demand; while it's not hard to find acceptable quality 1.25m radios for inexpensive prices I haven't seen the Chinese radios show up with transceivers covering 902 - 932 MHz.
If you look at the way profits are distributed in a category, this goal makes perfect logical sense. What percentage of ad-tech profits do you think Google gets from being #1?

Unfortunately it's nearly impossible to be #1 in every business you touch.
Ask HN: Creating a Stable Cryptocurrency
To create a stable cryptocurrency that is both decentralized and non-collateralized is hard. You would need 2 requirements, measuring the exchange rate in a decentralized way, and controlling the coin supply. Both of these are difficult to make.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocurrency/

This blog by Vitalik Buterin kind of summarizes this and provides some solutions that are not perfect. Do you have any suggestions?
One of the positives of DNS-level blocking is that it's relatively rough-grained. You can block pornhub.com, but you can't block out every mention of homosexuality at the DNS level without blocking any site that may potentially mention it, which would include any news site, discussion forum, social media, etc.

We should be skeptical of aggresively-enforced DoH. In most cases, the vendor's interest in stopping ad blockers is stronger than their interest in protecting user privacy. Mozilla is slightly more removed, but as they're dependent on The Big G for revenue, we're basically just waiting for that shoe to drop.
It does auto filling of username and password but as far as I'm aware, nothing but iOS itself can fill form fields like name and address.
Well if they have a guy available with a machine gun, sometimes you have to improvise, so its nice to have the option. There are cases where a machine gun isn't in position to provide suppressing fire, or the guy with it got taken out, etc. It's besides the point, but yes I concede that its not ideal to use for that purpose.

My arguments, just mean we agree more than we disagree. We just disagree how it should be handled. Again, I argue there's nothing about a M-16 set with the switch spot welded to single fire mode that is any different from a hunting rifle when it comes to features and capability, which is what an AR-15 kind of is. So you can't make just an AR-15 illegal without doing any significant progress towards removing the actual danger posed by them, or just converting mass shooters to using pistols (as a few mass shooters have done so anyway) or another semi-automatic hunting rifle. My point is when it comes to legal policy, what are you saying can't be sold to civilians exactly? Someone will just buy a different brand, or they'll modify the patent slightly so its no longer "an AR-15".

I updated my last post to include the law I would write more or less if I did have to say, take AR-15's off the table as an option for anyone to just buy whenever they wanted. But it includes all semi-automatic rifles, not just "military rifles".

I think we agree on the facts of an AR-15, but disagree fundamentally on what to do with those facts. I think banning AR-15's would be one of those laws that buy political points but don't actually address the problem in a way that doesn't punish or hamper law abiding citizens and more importantly actually make us safer in any practical sense, so its a purely negative tradeoff. And if you're going to go through the time and effort, find away to address the biggest problems first (gun violence in general which is hand guns, and addressing the underlying causes of violence) then hyper focusing on one gun. It's like banning plastic straws, when most of the plastic waste in the ocean is being dumped overseas and plastic straws are at least recyclable where as the case with McD's who recycled their plastic straw waste their recycler wasn't equipped to recycle the paper ones. Its a law that does more to make people feel/look good then address the very serious issue in any significant way.
And even in the conservative South, you see Desis getting elected to governor.

> That’s never happened in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, or Italy, or any EU country that I’m aware of.

Ireland.
As long as it is sold as used it as wouldn’t be any different really to the potential contaminates that could be on anything second hand.
They expect that Firefox will be configured by the enterprises where this would be an issue. But if a domain simply fails to resolve via DoH it will fall back to plain DNS. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs...
Right, it's not like you could make your own path of walking, riding a train, a bus or your own car wherever you want, on your own terms by not having to commute every single day.

But hey, good thing you have a beautiful scenery on the way to the office. It's rarely the case for most commuters.