skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"These things, they’re basically bulletproof. You can put 15,000 hours on it and if something breaks you can just replace it.”

Amen.

It is true that there is always someone saying "Things were better back then."

But that doesn't always mean that they are wrong.
I'd recommend asking on aviation.stackexchange.com
Maybe... but a regular spreadsheet doesn't map very well to a RDBMS due to its variable and flat structure. It might map to a column data store like Cassandra I guess, wonder if anyone has looked at that?

What I'm working on though is more about taking the core of existing spreadsheets and building powerful integrations on top of it. Like in the sibling comments, building a webapp, or something else. I really think this has huge potential.
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Just FYI, your comment reads like you're saying the Go developers created the concept of language servers, but they were created by MS for VS Code.
This occurred to me as well. At a minimum it would seem like a good idea for a larger Ag business to work with a competitor to bring Deere back to that line of thinking.

The farmer in the article that hooked up their own Satellite steering has got the right idea. I don't rely on my Auto manufacturer's entertainment console - I use a software company's version because it's better, and gets regular updates.

Can you imagine your entire net worth that year being determined by a single badly timed software push from a tractor company? (Granted, they may have "pivoted" to be quite good at software, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here) That would be frightening to me.
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There seem to be two types of people debating with each other in this thread.

1. Some people that have real-world experience with raising money and term sheets. They understand what the norms and expectations are in addition to understanding the legal aspects.

2. Other people that lack the real-world experience and are just speculating without understanding the norms. They are only referring to the legal aspects.
> As a final anecdote, I did know women who dated executives and VCs in the Bay. Some of these guys had mammoth egos. Curiously, that didn't prevent them from having far better dating lives than any engineer I knew.

Considering how many executives and SVPs in tech have been caught in sexual harassment (if not outright sexual assault), you might want to think quietly for awhile about what your definitions and standards are.
Do you mean passing a struct from e.g. clap 2 into clap 3? Yeah that won't work directly, nor should it in my opinion. If it is frequently required, projects can and should provide a compatibility layer which does any necessary conversions.
Mind if I ask what bootcamp you went to? I went to Dev Bootcamp back in 2013 and it was a blast and a life-changing experience for me. I've not doubt that there are very scammy bootcamps out there, but the one I went to was an example of how a bootcamp can really work for people.
Here's a profile of him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-...

>What's his motif for this?

Making a dent in the universe.
Farmers have complex interests. Right to repair is not the only issue they will be voting on.
Somebody posted about open source tractor, but deleted the post before I managed to reply, so here we go:

Growing up in communist country it was really hard to buy tractor for your personal use as private enterprise ls was prohibited and all land was confiscated except of 1000m2 for personal use.

Owning tractors even for land this large (and to share with family and friends) was still something desirable so people come with their own designs build on top of ready-made or repurposed materials.

I can still see those machines from 70s or even 50s still working as there is nothing in them to break down.

I personally own 30 years old tractor which first life was spent on rice field of Japan. Again very simple build and outside of structural damage there is almost nothing that can fail. I am sure it will live for another 40 or 50 years without much problems.
You don't believe it ever happens? My friend did it 3 months ago.

Is it as common as these bootcamps claim? Who knows. It definitely happens.

I can relate about the interviews, though. At a previous company, we interviewed about 20 or so from several different bootcamps. We were excited for this new opportunity. We needed a few juniors. And we thought it would be super easy to find them now.

I think if they hadn't all been coached to interview with overconfidence, we might have hired a couple. But we just couldn't stomach how they would be so completely wrong, not know a certain data structure or algorithm or whatever, and pretend like they do. They weren't necessarily much worse than other candidates, but we just didn't want to deal with the overconfidence.

We still interviewed bootcamp grads on occasion. We never hired any. The only thing that we screened for were bootcamp students that listed projects on their resume in a way that was misleading and made it look like they had a full-time job. We immediately passed on these candidates. That was the majority of the bootcamp candidates, though.
I’m really at a loss to understand how to judge between those who say it does and doesn’t work: but this is super helpful, don’t use CA’s crappy partial dataset, use FB’s!

But one question I wanted to ask is, which is very non-expert: was the value of the CA dataset that you can see how people are linked? I understand that you’re far more likely to believe a message if it comes from someone you know. So if CA could identify “sharers”, they could simply hit them again and again and again with information that would be forwarded. Or does FB give this functionality too?
Certainly all the greatest societal reforms have been brought about by individual purchasing decisions.
> as a user, how can I signal "I don't care; stop showing me this popup on every site?"

That's on the website unfortunately

> that's soft encouragement to keep using the same sites so I don't need to see that tedious notification and it rewards big players over small players

I agree, I would want the same option (since I use privacy browser extensions I don't care), it's not the users fault the small sites are playing it dumb and using some generic annoying "we value your privacy" popup BS.
So you think that appealing to authority is pointing out the author has extremely limited experience in matters he's discussing. Interesting.
That would suggest that choosing a bootcamp that was around 5 years ago would be a far better choice than one started more recently.
I think there's value in both. Consider Duo. They took a common problem - authenticating servers and services with 2FA - and made it easy to add to existing infrastructure. There's not really a consumer use for this product, aside from maybe a VPN, but there's absolutely a huge demand for it in business.

I worked on many CRUD apps that had say 4 different groups of users. We made a library / system for determining what "level" a user is, based on what Active Directory roles the user is assigned. In the application, you can show or hide components based on this level. Making some sort of middle-ware that abstracts things for developers, so they don't have to think about things like AD, is a huge area of opportunity.
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> If I'm operating a company that produces bread, no, I'm not going to help you develop your skills in woodworking. Why would I? If you really want to learn professional woodworking, develop those skills on your own time and then go get a job as a woodworker.

Because the bread is stored on shelves, and you use rolling pins and workbenches that could be repaired/built better/designed better, knowledge of structures could help making new bread products, and the tools used in woodworking could have direct applications in making bread, which could save you money or make you better products.
While I strongly prefer to work in the same physical space as my teammates, I've worked remotely quite a lot over the last many years.

What I've learned, above everything else, is that in order to work well when physically disconnected from the other memebers of the team, I must have my own own office space that is physically dedicated to working and no other activity.

First, in the US anyway, this seriously simplifies taking the tax deduction for the workspace.

Second, it maintains a strong mental and physical differentiation between being "at work" and being "at home". I've found this essential for my own sanity (work-life balance stuff) and to make it very clear to others in the household when I'm working and should not be disturbed unless the house is on fire.
https://thriva.co/ - I love the layout on this one!
If I'm getting the names of the specific doctrines wrong - apologies, but the principle goes to way before they were formally defined.

And yes retroactively - "You bind on earth" is present tense, "will be bound in heaven" is future tense - unless this is a translation artifact there is a clear causal ordering specified here.
Nice that somebody is finally offering this as an service. But the service is full of deal-breakers (for me at least):

> Any given email address can only be verified a certain number of times each month.

How many times?

> If you subscribe to emauth pro for $4/month, you can make 512 verifications per month

512 verifications for $4/month is a big ask. Auth0 and Firebase have bigger free tiers, not 100% sure though.

> If you need more verifications than this (for example if you want to use emauth for a public app with many users), please contact sales at sales ...

Before you start enterprise sales, some options which are bigger than 512 would be great and I am also not sure if this type of smaller service would justify any enterprise sales. However, let us know if anyone contacted you for some enterprise-y deals.

> Also, in order to protect the email sender reputation for emauth, we aggressively blacklist ip addresses that repeatedly make requests to invalid email addresses.

Makes sense but how long are these IP blacklisted? How many requests are required to blacklist an IP? Btw, this won't help OPs email reputation, just few dozens of bounces are required to get your domain on many blacklists. How did other people solved this problem? How did Medium worked around this problem in its early days?

Biggest problem though:

Integrating something like your service is easy but building processes around creates a light lock-in and getting the stuff out again is some work. Looking at your landing page which I like because it's light and subtle, it still gives the feeling that it's hobby project and nobody knows if you are still on the market next month or next year.

Smaller problem:

No custom domain possible (or is it?), so customer might miss that your email belongs to my service.
The best way to ditch bad habits: what science can teach us
NPR's Planet Money Podcast did a fantastic 3-part series on Antitrust in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti...

Here's an excerpt that starts to answer your question:

> The 1970s was a turning point in the other direction. In the decades leading up to the '70s, the government had grown increasingly aggressive—intervening in the free market to defend competition in more and more ways over time. Then a lawyer named Robert Bork completely transformed the way courts would interpret antitrust law. The approach to enforcement reversed direction away from protecting firms and toward a consumer focus, paving the way for today's tech giants.
Mother of God...
The Infanta de Castile (Elephant & Castle) etymology is quite compelling, and could presumably be the origin of the cutler's trademark.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Cutler... has a heraldic description of the cutler's arms which has "... at the top a head of an elephant [cut clean with red?] with golden tusks" (my own interpretation of the language used), no mention of a castle.
Your comment seems insightful to me. Not sure if you’re being down voted.

I agree there’s definitely some virtue signaling by having a high-cost secondary device like this. There’s chatter upthread with a comparison to other forms of virtue signaling that some people do.
Maybe this should be changed to "the only reason performance improvement plans exist."
I'm very sympathetic to the European view, but it was pretty disappointing to see Europeans forces do very little in Yugoslavian civil wars, Libya, Ukraine.
Stuxnet was discovered by Belarusian antivirus expert Sergey Ulasen, who was working for Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. Later, he moved to Kaspersky. This is how it was discovered:

"It all started when the technical support guys informed me about a rather unusual case: a customer in Iran reported arbitrary BSODs and computer reboots. They forwarded me the help-request together with info about their preliminary scanning reports."

Read the amazing interview here: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-st...
I think voting with your wallet is the more sensible approach to getting the products you want, but we also need politicians to stop passing crazy laws that make it illegal for you to even attempt repairing your own possessions.
I always wondered about Elephant & Castle. Turns out it is named after a medieval guild of craftsmen whose crest included an elephant carrying a castle. Who would have thought.
>> the farming community has a very long culture of DIY out of pure necessity

Can confirm. And it's largely because a farmer's job is the management of dozens, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of living beings - whether those are animals or plants.

Thusly the level of unpredictability exponentially increases in this field versus a number of other fields - and yet this field is hypercritical to the sustainment of humanity itself.

With weather, disease, and all other mitigating factors taken into mind, and despite a farmer's best efforts, there may be entire large sections of crops that completely fail - or animals that get diseased and affect the rest of the herd. This can lead to significant losses that I've unfortunately experienced firsthand.

If it's Harvest season - that season only lasts a very certain, specified period of time, and if equipment fails, farmers will do whatever they have to do to hack around to make it work.

I've seen an incredible amount of DIY innovation firsthand in these kind of crises. Farmers are some of the most hardworking, dedicated, and innovative people I've ever had the pleasure to meet.

And let me tell you - when farmers are dealing with crises like this - the idea of a piece of software getting in their way, when a single day or two can make all the difference in the world - it's not something they want to be involved with, unless they know they can fix it themselves.
Not to worry, this is all discussed. Technically, the string makes it a series of doorways which together make up a wall. An actual wall would not have this issue, as having a majority of the wall up would be enough to deem any opening a doorway/gap in the wall.
I believe the term, when used in the literature, is more to mean "they don't vote in a manner consistent with how a dispassionate observer with access to global information state perceives the path to achieving their interests."

There's quite a lot of literature on the topic, and it's quite fascinating. For example, higher education has a tendency to change people's answers to a variety of survey questions (summary of this and other phenomena in the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter).
Why does this need to be a service? I wrote a Django library to do this, all you need is the ability to send email:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth
Because manufacturing isn't software.

It takes a LOT of capital to build a company capable of manufacturing something like a tractor. And nobody will buy it initially because it has an unknown reliability record.

Look at the article, the farmers all make predictions about exactly how long those John-Deere tractors will last because they have roughly 40 years of experience working with them.
Ask HN: Do you remember a C coding style guide posted here recently?
I can't for the life of me find a coding style guide that was on HN sometime in December or November last year, it was from a company writing C or C++ software I think, and it had a great section on defensive programming. Anyone remember?
What I ask people is, "Do you like solving puzzles?"

Because as a programmer you get paid to solve new problems, not old ones.
That reality is already here. Good luck getting your Tesla serviced at the local garage.
lol at 10% more. A whopping 20%.

US Federal income tax for 2020 is 24% at $85,525 for a single filer ($171,050).

The long-term capital gains tax rates are 0%, 15% and 20% under the 2018 changes.
In other markets, customers could just switch to a new business that was less shady. In this particular case, it doesn't seem like there are many alternative suppliers, so farmers have no other options. If they did, they would've gone with them. Buying decades-old tractors suggested they somewhat already have tried to find alternatives.
Keep in mind that as a fraction of emissions, air travel is actually quite small, about 2-3% [1] (and this is from a harsh article). There's some concern that as the industry grows (roughly 5% a year) and other sectors decarbonize, air travel will consume a larger fraction of remaining "carbon budget" (25-50% depending on where you look).

Clearly as the denominator shrinks, and the numerator grows even slowly, percentage increases. That said, it's probably not the main issue in in climate change or even close to it. Other sectors such as ground transport, industrial heat (cement, steel etc.), agriculture (primarily fertilizer) and other fixed sources (buildings/homes) are a bigger deal.

If we end up with airlines as the last carbon source, that's probably OK if we deal with the rest. 25% or even 50% of remaining budget is fine if the rest of the (easier) problems get solved. Air travel is uniquely hard, let's get the easier stuff first.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissi...
On the point about package Theft.

This is going to be a bit ranty, so be warned...

I think people in general are kind of dumb in terms of useful vs shiny.

When I first heard about Amazon wanting to unlock your door to prevent theft, my immediate response was roughly: "It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever give control of my home access to any company".

I then went on to describe what I WOULD do, and that is purchase a box with a lock on it, chained to something. But here's the thing. There are so many low-tech ways to solve this problem.

- The aforementioned box with a child-safety lock on it and a plate on the inside lid that immediately disables the lock and springs the box open.

- An alcove in the side of your house that does essentially the same thing as the box, but looks more like a mail slot but for packages.

- The same thing as above, only in your garage door.

What these things all have in common is that they're low tech and effective, which isn't the new shiny. People are so goddamned dumb about this stuff that they would rather string up cameras everywhere, or give control of their home access to a company and allow strangers into their home. It blows my fucking mind.

And so many people haven't picked up on the fact that Amazon didn't go for the low tech solution because it doesn't lock you in. Your local chinese restaurant can just as readily use that box as Amazon can, whereas, if they haven't already started doing it, they're going to start giving other companies access to those doors and charging for it. They're going to start charging the grocery store delivery service to open that door for them, and that delivery service is going to pass that on to you. You're literally going to be paying amazon to open your goddamned door.

I feel like a sane person in a sea of crazy.
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You can tow it if its wheels do not touch the road; otherwise the owner is liable for it being on the road without registration.

The state wants its registration dollars.
This is how I see it too. Technology is inherently about dynamic navigation of unknowns.

Having your employees laser focused on things the company knows it needs leaves your company with a dearth of information about the landscape around it and how best to navigate those unknowns, while also stifling employee growth at the same time.

I would change the bread analogy from woodworking to flour-making, sandwich-making, chemistry of baking, and engineering of ovens, encouraging creative exploration of things on the edge of the business that could help to grow the business and employees at the same time by providing a better map for steering the business.
SF Zoning Department rules that Workshop Cafe is an office, forcing it to close [pdf]
Airbnb sells customer records. Unclear whether this occurs in real time or on a lag. Do they vet their data customers in this manner?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...
If 45% of your population "ought to know better" that's not just a moral failure of a handful of people, that's a systemic problem. The solution isn't "they just need to figure it out", something very fundamental needs to change.
If the machine used standard specs and protocols, you could buy replacement boards on a competitive open market.
Employer is NOT your spouse. If actually think it is, you’re in for a tough breakup because it certainly doesn’t operate in those terms.
Take more normal stuff that exists and host it in FedRAMP and DOD IL4+ environments. I work for a DOD contractor and we can only use a few SaaS solutions, most are not secure enough. We have to host most stuff in-house and it's becoming harder to find software that we can either host in-house or is of a security level approved by the gov.
nobody wants an "old school" tractor that needs someone in the cab driving it. Modern highly-integrated farm equipment is a massive boost for productivity and a massive reduction in costs.

There's a different discussion to be had as to why there hasn't arisen a company that shears the sheep a bit more gently, but generally on the whole the market doesn't want the old-school tractors. This article is not the overall shape of the market. Farmers generally want to farm, not be software/hardware engineers developing their own tractor guidance systems.

As for that topic, generally markets are not as efficient, modern businesses operate at such high scales that it's extremely difficult for competitors to enter the market. It took Elon Musk to do it for the auto industry, that's the scale of funding and production that you need to compete. It's an oligopoly, not an efficient market.

techpeople like ourselves are the last ones that should be pointing fingers, we are the ones who created the whole "as a service" model, and created the basis for closed firmware that users have no right to access. It's our business models applied to a different market, and it's just as noxious when we do it.

It’s not like I can go take a look at the firmware of the processor I’m typing this on, now is it? Why doesn’t someone just start up a new CPU company that lets me see everything?

(and yeah some people like RAPTOR are trying but that’s the shape of the problem, it’s a niche desire and there’s enormous startup costs, and established players can easily drop prices for a few years and crush you, so realistically it’s not a market that can be efficient.)

Markets aren't going to do this stuff on their own. If you don't regulate them via something like right to repair, they'll skin you as roughly as they please and crush any upstart who tries to do things "the right way". Welcome to the Free Market - a truly free market is rarely "fair" to competitors or pleasant to customers.