skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's also silly to think that the "average" rightness is right in the middle between the two sides (even if you grant the use of a linear model).

Thank you for this. He has that post where he talks about "What you can't say" [1]. His basic premise is that it's naive to think that you'd believe the same things you do now by default if you lived in a different time period.

The posted article above seems pretty contradictory to me. Its notion of what is "moderate" is essentially anchored to the environment where a person lives. Would moderation be a virtue in an authoritarian country?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Music is way more competitive than CS. You have to be a truly elite musician to make a good living in music, but you can be an average programmer and still make a good living in CS.
We are an e-waste collector, we have to pay to recycle most electronics we receive, and the only reason we still exist as a business is because we do the environmentally friendly thing of ensuring as many devices as possible is refurbished and resold.
The best workers will up and leave. People don't want to invest in a skill set that isn't portable. Imagine switching software development tools on the fly.
Excel gives you the power of being a programmer without having to admit that you're programming. There are people who do absurdly impressive things with it, the CA-GREET model for estimating CO2 outputs is an excel workbook that took me a while to figure out how to even use.

But the barrier to someone using it is much less because it is gentler than, say, giving someone python code to do the estimate and expecting them to do it correctly. I think the interface familiarity is key.

Unfortunately, while LibreOffice is usually pretty good at all this, it's always just one or two peculiar difference in function calls that breaks it. It's pretty close, but just not interoperable for anything advanced.
> This is exactly what Cisco has done in the small/medium sized business market with their acquisition of Meraki. Pay forever or your router and wifi stops working. It's abhorrent.

That crazy ass low price you paid on the hardware? Yeah it was a loss-leader with the expectation that you must be a SaaS customer for life if you desire to use it.

It isn't difficult to understand, you just are religiously against it.
> The kicker is that different people/industries tend to use a “different 20%” of the features, making the barrier to really compete very high.

The thing is that different job functions that are exposed to overlapping user bases in the same industry (and even office) use a different 20%. If it was just per-industry variation, it would be easy for industry-specific competitors to succeed, but the parts of Excel used actively by Andrew, who makes a tool that is also consumed by Bob and Carol are different than those used actively by Bob and Carol (which also differ from each other, and which each have their own users who rely on the tool and the features it relies on, even though they don't actively use the features.)
The word you're looking for is "entertainment center", but yeah, weird there aren't more products available for that niche! There are lots of home AV receivers that might fit the bill but they tend to be pretty large units.
You should return them to the middleman, accompanied with a small note about the false advertising and claim a full refund. Make sure to order something from the same vendor that does work.
The kernel version supported by zfs is available on the release page.

0.8.2 is Compatible with 2.6.32 - 5.4 Linux kernels

You have to combine out of date zfs with bleeding edge kernels to have a difficulty.

Basically you just check the zfs release page before upgrading x.y to x.y+1

This could be trivially avoided with packaging
There was the whole era of “the whisper number” where analysts would publish one estimate and then feed journalists and certain customers another number. I specifically remember an analyst on CNBC literally say that he expected earnings on a company to come in ahead of his own estimate. Honestly, why is that number not your estimate then?
For larger-than-RAM data I would recommend diskframe.com

It uses dplyr and data.table syntax to manipulate data on disk
Thanks for the book recommendation.

Not any specific domain but I was mainly looking for ideas/perspectives on how people think about and approach problems in general. This would be useful for me when I am on to something new (at least for me) and test out different approaches when I hit the wall or feel stuck.
Used cars don't get thrown out when they're traded in. And it's not "spiritually bad," it's actively destructive to the environment. Manufacturing things requires a great deal of energy.
"30% of the money goes to the county and 70% goes to Intellitech" (collections agent)

"The cost of running it is almost equal to what they bring in, he says."

"Our goal is to reduce recidivism. If we can use that money to turn around and not see them again it's well worth it"
If there's a demand, someone industrious will likely figure out a hack --- I hope. Server-side blacklisting (unlike whitelisting) doesn't stop someone from simply changing whatever unique ID they have to a different one. I can even see repair shops doing this service for those who accidentally bricked their devices.

This reminds me of a related situation I've seen with electric toothbrushes --- they have instructions on how to remove the battery "for recycling", which is deliberately designed to make the unit self-destruct in the process (by e.g. making the plastic thin and fragile, and the wires brittle and easily broken), but others have figured out how to use those same instructions to open it up and replace the cells at a fraction of the cost of a new unit. The fact that nothing needs to be broken to replace them, and that it could be trivially designed to make that job much easier, clearly demonstrates planned obolescence.
he drove it today on live broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Cu4dPNLok
You see the same in in M&A, often times the bank that wins the deal is the one where the managing director knows the people taking the company public. Its about relationships. Same thing with private equity. The equity markets are also miniscule compared to the bond market, where this kind of thing is even more widespread.
Watch the True Cost, a documentary on clothing, and you might not like Uniqlo any more. It's available free here: http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost.
I see perpendicular and parallel parking on the same street, so I don't really understand the necessary claim.
If it is intended to be a reference project, I suggest focusing on writing the README sections first highlighting the main areas and then linking to code sections to ease the navigation.

You may or may not be aware, but Andy Pavlo records his courses and puts them on YouTube. His latest playlist covers the main database topics with the last five or so lectures covering distributed databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...

edit: ^suggesting Pavlo's work since he introduces database concepts very well, so it may be worth structuring the reference architecture in the same way.
I have found it strange that most of the people even in HN did not realise that economic achievement is largely orthogonal to the political nature of the country e.g. the autocratic, monarchy or dictatorship. I think I don't need to provide you the modern example of this scenario and most of ancient empires have achieved economic miracles despite the autocratic/monarchy/dictatorship nature of the government. Having said that, Turkey is a democratic country with many legits political parties, it is neither autrocatic, monarchy or dictator.
Lots of comments about alternative data like credit card data.

But:

1. There are many factors that influence the movement of a security. "Short-term reality" (important KPIs basically) is just one element in the vector that determines price.

2. Getting long term exclusive alternative data is very difficult. Datasets are rapidly commodified.
100% this. When I startup-ed, I looked hard for a free alternative for RF simulation. There's some FDTD solvers, but as mentioned, they require you to spec the mesh, which is laborious and black magic which Ansys HFSS simply does for you.

Only saving grace is that these companies usually have some "start-up" discount (~95% discount), which of course I anticipate feeds the lack of open source development.
I disagree in part with this. I had complete freedom to publish a report in contradiction with the firm's interest, which is also backed up by regulation. Investment banking and equity research on the sell-side is firmly divided by compliance and I could never ever speak with my colleagues in investment banking without the explicit supervision of my compliance department. That said, unless I was extremely highly convicted in an idea, it was usually better not to burn any bridges long term with the bankers or the companies.

Edit add-on: You're restricted on what you can publish while your firm is doing banking business with the covered company. The restrictions are stipulated by a mix of regulation and compliance departments. Typically during an offering you either can't publish at all, or you can only discuss points factually without changing your opinion or estimates. That however means that if you publish a report and you're buy rated, even if you're publishing a factual update on a stock you're effectively reiterating your rating. I'm not sure of Goldman's specifics, but they know what they need to do to meet research compliance requirements.
This really depends on the Google v Oracle lawsuit currently. If Oracle wins then the remains of VisCalc will have a copyright claim against everyone...
I can’t say the same about other tech, but audio just doesn’t age at the same speed.

People's ears have not changed, and the ability to reproduce sound has been nearly perfected. If you're not too picky/audiophillic, like most people, the requirements are even lower.
Ah, the late great IBM PCjr (PC Junior), with its innovative squishy chiclet keyboard.

I was writing PC software at the time, and I knew I needed to make my programs compatible with the PCjr. The Macy's store in Stanford Shopping Center was one of the few local retailers promising they would have them in stock on the release date. So I called Macy's to reserve one.

When I went there to pick mine up, they said, "oh, we're sorry, we got 10 of them and you were number 11 on the list."

Bullet dodged!
This is pretty common on the street. Not only for companies but buysides trying to manage estimates up or down.
It's more like a cut-down Z80. Some registers are missing (note the list excludes IX and IY), as are some instructions (but a few others are added) and even some of the status flags.

The official name of the CPU is unknown - there's some discussion of that here: https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18335
Not true, Sonos works in a mesh, so all Sonos devices need to talk to each other, and to the controller app on phone or PC.
For MirageOS, you have OCaml and the Complete OS Change, that is much more radical than containers, which is 99.9% still C and Linux + 0.1% of added ingredients.

I would imagine something done in plain old C or Rust would get a little more traction. But then an entire OS ecosystem change is no small thing.
Holy shit you people are daft. That is not the case for all titles containing "engineer".
As a mostly controlled IBS patient, I find having a good diet works best. Fruit, veg, whole grains. Avoid sugary soda drinks, caffeine, coffee and too much alcohol. I think all of those things promote good gut bacteria. Prebiotics fall into that category.
> Plan 9 is obviously a joke name too.

Bell Labs replacing the Outer Space in Plan 9 From Outer Space, a schlocky 1959 sci-fi horror film. The subtitle is UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS FROM OUTER SPACE PARALYZE THE LIVING AND RESURRECT THE DEAD.
>at the end of the British Leyland body assembly line men with large hammers would whack the doors from below to make them close properly.

Not that your point about inherent complexity doesn't stand but having to whack body panels to make them fit just means the dies are at the end of their lives. They certainly would have fit without mechanical persuasion when the dies were new. The hood of any late 90s International S-series is a good example of this.
> I’d be perfectly happy to experiment with policies that are way outside the Overton window

I am curious, what are some examples?
If you're so confident in your experts, maybe respond to my comment where I point out a major bug? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21889302
I see a couple of posts mentioning IndieHackers.

I'd say IH is a great resource for "Side Hustles"

But I think of "Side Projects" as a different thing.

It doesn't look like the place where you post your OSS GitHub project hoping to find (non-paying) adopters and build a community.
>not cell phones which arguably the title implies.

Let's examine the title:

>GPS is going places

Nothing about cellphones.

Maybe it's in the byline?

>Here are five things you didn’t know the navigation system could do.

Nothing there either.
> Server-side blacklisting (unlike whitelisting) doesn't stop someone from simply changing whatever unique ID they have to a different one.

Dunno, if the ID works like an activation key it might not recognize ids that don’t pass some sort of cryptographic signature check. Then you would need the private key to generate new valid ids.
Probably some people are not pleased with your comment because it reminded them of genitals, and we aren't to be reminded of genitals in public anymore, apparently.
Dear lazy web, is there something like the sonos that is open source that makes the same synchronized sound field (I dont own a sonos, I assume that is what they do)? I believe I could hack something up using an ESP32, a microphone and/or a GNSS receiver, but does this already exist?
No, but I think doing environmentally bad thing for profit and marketing it as environmentally good perhaps should. Climate change is a real issue, and companies abusing what little care people have for that issue are making people care less, threatening the ability to do anything about it, and so ultimately threatening us all.

Abuses of social trust should be punished hard.
Oh please. We all know that scam. Unless you can create magical math out of thin air that produces a positive npv after negative fcff for multiple years, it is complete and utter bullshit. Take it from someone who has spent way too much time doing a goal seek to match up to market expectations.

When in 2014, we set out to evaluate tesla, no one in the industry saw 5 full years of negative cash flows. If they did, they certainly didn't show it in their models. And the stock price certainly made no sense if people with shorter time horizons were holding onto it.

So one of 2 things is true:

1) the market is all knowing and it sees out to a time horizon where tesla would have positive cash flows and discounts it absolutely perfectly. In which case, the market didn't see Bear Stearns or 2008 coming, so spare me the clairvoyancy pitch.

2) The entire thing trades on fairy dust because vast portions of the market work on self fulfilling prophecies of both big money brokers, and idiot retail i.e. in both cases, they believe the stock will go up based on false assumptions and even worse models and hold on for dear life as the fed pumps the market into the next euphoric orgasm.
Which brands?
"Disposable electronics" is a big trend too. I myself saw not so few times devices that used rechargeable batteries, and a charging circuitry, but nevertheless were single use only.

A lot of Bluetooth "beacons" are of such construction, and not so cheap at all medical devices will be coming second.
It's curious this has only been spotted on HN now, I had to investigate a RSS bug in November and found this myself.

This is apple "inviting" big magazines/newspapers into iOS or else.
It’s even more overloaded when you include client/server as a paradigm in application development. Sure, the server is still a program usually listening on a socket, dbus name or using shared memory of some sort an and responding to requests but they’re also logically part of the same program.

tmux, evolution, mutter, urvxt, tracker, emacs, neovim, etc. are all servers in the right context.

Then there are servers that don’t serve requests in the traditional sense. Entities that perform batch operations by pulling data from queues, run reports, etc. are also called servers despite not fitting the call & response model.
And if one's looking for the reason why so many people complain about the market economy, that's one reason. This is all economically sound, but beyond that, utterly fucked up.
In Multics you always mmap'ed files -- that seems crazy to me now that I write asyncio systems inspired by the old mainframe transaction processing systems such as CICS. There is nothing more synchronous, blocking, and dependent on expensive MMU operations than mmap.
Whisper numbers are still totally around, but as buy-side expectations in my experience. I'd often field calls around earnings from investors who were trying to understand what everyone else was expecting from earnings results. There would then be further debates about what numbers would be good enough, or what long-only investors were expecting vs. hedge funds.
Terraform that shit bro.
For those who need to search, that seems to roughly translate to "declaration of non-compatibility". CCC had declared that members of far-right groups are not welcome.

I don't think the KKK are a very good analogy for this; a better example might be McCarthyists/the House Committee on Un-American Activities, since they attack people based on political affiliation, which is at least nominally chosen, rather than inborn characteristics like skin color. Also the KKK made much more use of direct physical violence, rather than social and legal violence.
Maybe just ask how big they want their mailbox to be with estimated monthly costs at each size? That will match up to the experience of buying things on the internet. Give a way to increase the size later and make clear they can do it and it should feel like a pretty safe question to ask.
I’m a manager of ~25 developers (who report through a few leads). I also come from a dev background. IMO metrics are dangerous, but can also be useful. Often I find basic code metrics useful as smell tests, but would never use them alone, wouldn’t set them as goals, and wouldn’t use them alone to rank performance in a team.

If someone has a very low number of commits relative to others on their team, I’ll investigate deeper - review a few Pull Requests, check if they’re working on something outside source control etc. sometimes I find problems, other times not.

I’m curious what people think of this approach?
That's sad, not that RSS was really viable since Google killed Reader, but nevertheless, one more sad blow to the idea of a decentralised web.
As they very well should.

If startup founders want to work extra - let them. But when they create a culture where they expect everyone to give the same extreme amount of sacrifice and work while they stand to gain only a fraction of what those who own the capital or have power in running the companies will gain - that is something that should be fought against as vigorously as possible on every level of society - culture, law etc.

So I applaud this "virtue signaling" and call it common sense.
I feel Binary Ninja (closed source) is kicking both their asses in terms of UI and API. Ghidra feels really dated to me. IDA is incredibly expensive. Another open source alternative would be radare.
ok but then from what I've observed of the world incredibly illegal would be if

1. the CEO ripped off a bunch of rich people

2. the CEO ran a cocaine smuggling operation with a handful of the board on their private jets.

3. the CEO murdered the hot intern he was dating and made up a particularly inept story about having been out sailing when it happened, even though being found with her blood all over his luxury penthouse.
Xinjiang or not it's China and most of the world are doing business with them today. Not that I'm happy with it but blacklisting products from China is not feasible today.
I think "green hat" would be the hacker who figures out how to reverse the bricking.
The Trigger Presidency
This is an argument against free college. Students will take college more seriously when they are paying for it.

If students are not paying any attention in class but still graduating, the grading standards may be too lenient.
Recycling centers aren't nonprofits. The only way recycling can work in our economy is if the recycling party can sell the output of their work for more than they spend on that work.
Have you seen volumio.org ?

You can do everything from running it on a Raspberry Pi to buying a fully put-together high-end system. Open source software.
> Some people manage more than others, and we just blame this on mental illness

I agree, but I don't accept that this has to be immutable, and it would be a very bleak world/future if it did.

Rather than a world in which a class of people just has to accept a disempowered existence with basic services and resources provided, I hope for a world where effectively everyone can have agency over their own life, and aspire to good health, good relationships, and a reasonable level of material wealth.

That hope is part of what keeps me determined to explore the possibilities in this field; to see what kinds of improvements I can attain in my own life, then think about how these approaches could benefit others, including those who are currently written off as "mentally ill" (which I have been at certain times in my life).
My understanding has always been that e-recycling centers have to pay to responsibly dispose of the junk they collect / are given, and they fund this by sorting through it for any equipment that can be refurbished or cannibalised and sold for re-use. There's nothing nefarious about this.
Unfortunately, as of 6 years ago, no one else had a competing product that saved me as much time as Meraki did. It was well worth the extra thousands.
Thanks, so far we just scaled up our vm ram but i might find a use for it.
It’s a bit interesting in that because Chinese factories rely a lot more on human labor and less on automation, quality suffers significantly. A Toyota, Audi, or Honda simply isn’t the same level of car in the mainland as it is elsewhere.
The LMGTFY link is, as usual, unnecessarily hostile.
Looks good, next step to make it mobile friendly? :)
I'm shocked it never occured to me that big countries were impeding EV growth .. interesting note.
I think you’re wrong on this. In the WPA handshake, you sniff the hashed password. You start this by first deauthing them off the network. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attac....
What really sucks is that it means iPhone Signal isn't a transparent drop-in replacement for the sms app like it is on Android, meaning I can never get iphone-having contacts to use it.
> Work for the union where safety is actually enforced and that rate plummets again.

Not that easy given how weak unions are now in much of the US .