skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commute about 45 mins on the subway in NYC and I don’t really feel comfortable taking my laptop out. Which sucks because it’s a lot of time and I’ve got stuff I could work on.

What I’m experimenting with now is taking Uber Pool most mornings. It’s usually about $20 but you can pay for it with tax free commuter benefits, and I’m saving $2.75 in subway fare, so it’s like ~$10 for almost an hour of time to catch up on administrative junk for my side biz. Seems worth it so far, although still a little frustrating.
Thank you, this provides a lot of detail I was not aware of.

The NOx contribution argues for use of onboard LOX, which would then enable a much higher flight deck, increasing efficiency further on long-haul routes.

I wonder what mechanism transports water vapor out of the upper atmosphere.

Availability of aerogels radically alters the equations that have dictated tank shape for liquified gases.
This hasn’t been approved by Apple.
The story is a bit more complicated (but not by much), however, there is absolutely nothing I can do here. What am I gonna do, show up to some address in South Atlanta demanding whoever lives there to stop using my eBay account without authorization? And that's with the strong assumption that the person whose name and address was used is the same person who actually accessed my account (for all I know, the person living at that address could be totally unaware). EBay has all the info on the perp, but they decided to do nothing, and I am not going to start a civil lawsuit because of $1.2k that got refunded to me pretty much instantly.

Just for the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I looked further (back when it all happened) into the person who hacked into my account and found some interesting stuff. The perp took some measures to cover their steps, but it was done very poorly:

1. The name and address used for the purchase belonged to a woman who lived at the address used for delivery in South Atlanta (verified that). I decided to check her social media, and saw that she held a job as a nurse or something like that, with nothing suspicious pointing at her actually being the perp. Her account looked pretty "professional" and normal.

2. Suspiciously enough, she didn't even have a Hyundai Genesis car, which is what the parts were ordered for. But then I noticed something interesting.

3. There was a guy appearing in a lot of her pics that looked like he was her bf. He didn't seem to have a job listed anywhere on any of his social media. He did, however, happened to own a 2012 Hyundai Genesis coupe. Also, most of his FB profile pics were either selfies or of his car or of him brandishing guns (mostly in his bedroom, all while displaying poor trigger discipline), which is not really damning on its own, but in the context, it definitely doesn't play in his favor.

Which leads me to a reasonable hypothesis that the guy who got access to my account used the name and address of his gf to ship the car parts he fraudulently bought, so that she takes the fall in case the authorities decide to investigate.
> I think the short version is that the price of air travel is going to have to double to both dramatically reduce demand for it and to fund carbon-offset measures for what remains. Of course you can never tell upper middle class people this, they lose their shit at the thought of not being entitled to vacation and be tourists anywhere they want as much as they want.

In Europe at least, I think the working and aspiring middle classes would be harder hit. The low end of air travel has become ridiculously cheap really, with pan-continental flights with Ryanair or whatever costing less than a train across England.

Slap a flat-fee carbon tariff or even just higher duty on it and it'll be a different market.
Yeah it could probably do without it, but initially made this for a hackathon so it’s by no means perfect
I doubt the average lifetime bureaucrat can find such employment. Regardless, I don’t think the union will let the state ever put them in the position to need to try.
There are various proposed schemes for doing so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

In principle this could be more efficient than a heat engine, although the Wikipedia page seems to say that an "economically feasible" version would have around 60% efficiency, which is the same as a combined-cycle power plant.
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It took about a minute to boot Alpine Linux on a debug build. It's currently about half an hour into booting elementary and it's just started the display server.
> The extension is small enough that you can inspect it yourself. Also, AMO addons are code-inspected by reviewers, unlike the chrome store.

I've never been involved with performing code reviews for Chrome or FF extensions but I'm not sure this type of attack would be detected by a reviewer.

Because if all they do is take the HTML response and send it over to some web back-end with an ajax request, that looks innocent enough to any reviewer. For example, under what grounds would a reviewer flag that ajax request as malicious and prevent the extension from being published? It's not possible for them to know what purpose that data has for the extension unless they are really doing a deep dive on each review and take the extension's purpose into account based on their opinion of what it "should" do based on its description.

I'd love to hear back from anyone who happens to review extensions for either browser.
An unpersuasive essay is never useful.

While I don’t think PG’s logical mindset would dispute this fact, I do wish his essay explored more pointedly the tension between persuasiveness and usefulness. His essay has a hint of despair: that it is impossible to persuade most people, and that the minority of humanity that are open to being persuaded (i.e., to learning something novel) are precisely the kind of people who are too intellectually rigorous to be influenced by rhetoric. Thus, persuasive writing is a waste of time?

Not a week goes by where I am persuaded of something that is true, that I had not previously accepted as true because... well... because I had not yet been persuaded.

PG isn’t really arguing that persuasion is unimportant. He is trying to persuade us that persuasion, as a rhetorical art, is a fools errand. And to give him credit, he uses the very method of persuasion in his essay that he promotes: unvarnished condensed truth.

“People believe whatever they want to believe, so you might as well tell them the truth bluntly, accurately, and simply. Even though they won’t listen to you, you’ll be better off for it. And who knows, if you reach 10 other people it will have been worth it. See the single starfish thrown back into the ocean? It mattered to her.”

Having said all that, I’m inclined to agree with PG, because almost no one will change a belief they already hold because of an essay. There’s a good book called “Changing Minds” that explores why people change their beliefs, and very low on a long list is intellectual insight. High on the list is what your peers believe and what beliefs serve your self-interest. It takes a heart of a hero to believe something no one else believes, especially when such a belief requires you to act against your own welfare.

The most useful essays are those that change lives. The sweet spot is to attack those areas of life that people tend to not have a formed opinion about. And this is where PG’s genius lives: at the edge of technology, where few live, let alone believe. That’s where he is at his best. I for one would devour and re-devour an essay about privacy, or AGI, or VR, or even about Twitter. Here’s hoping that this is PG’s opening salvo in more essays that are as powerful as this one, but as relevant to startups as his earlier writings. As he wrote: there is still much left unwritten and undiscovered!
Is Clojure ever going to treat Windows as a first-class platform?

https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/wiki/clj-on-Wind...

"Currently, clj on Windows is in an alpha state."
This reminds me of the "fresh startup ideas" nugget offers:

https://nugget.one/ideas
My friends hired a consultant to reconcile pregnancy related bills coming from all angles from a half dozen entities. The consultant corrected things from over $17,000 to “only” four figures of copays and balance billing.

That is nuts. The fact that a consultant with expertise in this “skill” exists and is required is also a sign of a supremely broken system.
Is there any way to confirm that the IRS received my 83(b) and processed it correctly?
A more accurate term for it would be threaded interpretation.
I once traded an iPhone for a what I thought was a Galaxy S4 on Craigslist, but it turned out to instead be a very convincing (and functional) knock off. The guy even talked me into tossing an additional $20 his way when we met, which I think is part of what sold me.
No, the person who called me specifically said they were freaking out trying to get ahold of me because the social threat had caused the email I sent to be bounced around internally. She called me to talk me down from doing it and make reassurances, even though I had forgotten about it by that point.

Because they only had my email address and building location, Amazon repeatedly called the property agency, who (stupidly) gave them my phone number and details.
It is simpler than that. You can exchange equally valued wallets with someone from another jurisdiction and then just say truthfully that it wasn't you. A good program will make a couple of thousand small feeless transactions that miners may possibly include over many many blocks and poof. Money becomes too spread out to trace effectively.
Everyone’s morals are different, but I wouldn’t do it. I did it once for a page I got a small traffic and I got one “sale” that I refunded and the whole thing made me not feel good at all. There are better ways!
Antoni Patek
Wells Fargo agrees to pay $3B to settle consumer abuse charges
Well done.

It might be interesting to "weigh" certain websites negatively (e.g. Forbes), especially when they continuously use click-baits and other dishonest techniques to deceive their audience.
In general, if you can do it with Prolog, you can do it with SQL... but should probably do it with Prolog.
This looks great, even though it is new it looks polished. I am not a web developer but would like to be able to create web interfaces for APIs and other small projects I've built. This seems like it would be a great tool for things like that. Keep up the good work!
That's one of the main ideas, certainly. The thesis is that there are a ton of people who would take one look at the ML syntax and go back to their Java/C#/JavaScript, not realizing there's more to it. But with Reason syntax (which btw was designed by the creator of Merlin), they would take another deeper look.

For people like you and me, we like the ML syntax and don't have too much need for a new one. But for many others, this may be the only way they will ever even decide to look at an ML. And hey–if after that they decide that they actually like the ML syntax better–well that's one of the 'secret' goals of Reason.
If there's going to be a new product category, I imagine it would be an iPad Pro that runs iPadOS but can also run unmodified ARM-compiled Mac apps when attached to a keyboard and trackpad. (And the "files" app would look more like Finder.)
Tbis is very good advice. When I applied to some startups a few years ago and saw the kinds of equity games they were playing, I decided I would never accept a substantial equity offer without first having it vetted by a lawyer.

Even if you take the time to learn about ICOs by reading guides like this one, there are just too many ways to be taken advantage of.
At a time of coronavirus outbreaks in the news, I have to think that models of propagation should account for national differences like which areas have required vacation & sicktime benefits as well as universal healthcare.
Economy of California
Swift Playgrounds compiles to native code and loads it with Apple-private entitlements.
non-blog: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/apple_shorter_cert_...
Absolute bullshit, but the metrics being gathered are all askew. When you've already fucked your productivity with bad management, what difference does a high turnover rate have?
Yes lisps are meta programming. You won’t need to write a parser or code generator, just transform your dsl into code.
Hey HN. This is a small but useful library for writing tests using JSDoc.

For example you can write:

/**
* Returns the sum of 2 numbers
*
* @example sum(1, 2)
* //=> 3
*/
export const sum = (a, b) => {
return a + b
}

And then this library will assert that the @example returns the correct code.

This has been super useful for us because it is cognitively easier to write/run the tests in the context of the function itself.

It's not very well tested with classes, but we are looking for any feedback and will continue to improve.
> Not going to mention some of the apps I use that do so if nothing else because HN has dozens of Apple employees.

Believe me, the engineers at Apple are well aware of them already.
Yeah, I think long dated options plus regular internal tender offers help a lot. I need to look more into the implications of long dating options.

Allowing sales on the secondary markets can help, but the interest/liquidity on those is super heavily concentrated in the household names, so if you're working at a $X00M startup, it tends not to work so well, even if the company is nominally friendly toward it.
> could wage a good argument with evidence that I didn't use the data they claim

Let us know how that works out for you. My guess?

"We can waive this month as a courtesy, but we can't use your router as evidence".
Real Graphene
Change the build number and leave the version number alone.
You could put on a blindfold and then throw a dart at a map of the of first world countries, and if we just adopted whatever system is used where that dart lands it almost certainly would be a big improvement.

If making a better health care system was a problem that everyone else sucked at also then I'd be more inclined to worry that trying to improve ours could make it worse, but with so many good examples--using a variety of different approaches--of how to do it better I'm not worried that trying to fix ours would make it suck even more.

Even if, somehow, we actually do manage to make it suck more we can just try again. Eventually we'll have run out of new ways to suck and will have to stumble onto one of those good approaches that the other first world countries use.
The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation (2016)
Because it is fairly slow :)
Yeah, secondary market liquidity on anything but the top startups seems pretty lackluster.
What efforts have you made to be involved with the development or improvement of such systems?
Yeah, but there wasn't an alternative two years ago either.
Wait, so do we want hours clocked or productivity?

32h week is about productivity.
Regarding private companies' RSUs, anyone here has heard of a company eligible for and opted-in 83(i) elections? (Which lets the employee defer tax for up to 5 years)
That's not the complete story.

They started charging Netflix (or threatened to deprioritize or drop Netflix traffic) because Netflix traffic to Comcast customers starting making Comcast customers unprofitable.

Comcast does pay for ingress traffic. They are not a Tier 1 provider and do not peer with other Tier 1 providers - bits flowing in cost money. They either had to charge Comcast customers more per month, or get Netflix to subsidize the ingress traffic costs from their service.

This ultimately led to Netflix making the Open Connect boxes and offering them for free to ISP's as a way to mitigate the ingress costs. (this is why ISP provided video services don't have this problem - their traffic originates in-network and doesn't cost them anything additional to provide, fair or not)

Unless we're going to change how the 3 Tier provider system works and who gets to charge who for ingress traffic - I don't see this changing anytime soon. Unless you want to regulate our way into doubling your monthly Comcast bill... I sure don't.
$10 per 10GB threshold over 1 TB on a 80/10 connection that's $95 month including the now $14 modem rental fee. Sometimes $50 in fees. I refuse to monitor my data usage or change my behavior.

I am a single person but I host my personal non-business website from home and participate in as many peer to peer distributed and federated protocols as I can. I also do watch a bit of video media. My usage isn't only bursty, it's a steady 100-200 KB/s 24/7 up with bursts down on top.

I contacted Comcast Business two times over the last 2 years, the most recent just last week. If you want a business 100/10 account then it is $156/mo with a 2 year contract (do not believe their promotional lies). If you move away to an area without service you have to pay 75% of the remaining contract. If you have your own modem they charge you a fee more than twice the fee for renting their modem.

Frankly, it's insulting.
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In the yee old'en days, only the length of opcode would make much of a difference or if it were implemented in a slightly different microcode path which would change the number of micro-ops slightly. Reg aliasing/renaming I think would make transfers between registers very fast unless a data hazard existed in subsequent/branch-predicted instructions (scheduling the "liveness" in the register file across the pipeline stages so it doesn't mess anything up).

PS: Hehe.. anyone remember U/V pipe optimization? :) Michael Abrash books on assembly and 3D game programming, and assembly profiling on real hardware FTW.
> Security

This is arguable. The amount of CVEs is pretty high for a closed-source platform. Several of those CVEs were exploited in the wild for years before being fixed.
Data exemptions are absolutely an example of a net neutrality violation. Similar things, like exempting partnered streaming music services from mobile data plans, have been shot down in Canada.
>NN didn't allow slowing particular apps or particular users relative to others unless there was a major problem.

I agree. But that wasn't my take on the claim above, so I asked for the source that this was happening selectively to specific sites, apps, or users. I guess I'll keep waiting.
I'm sorry, but I find this post insufferable. It just reeks of corporate buzzwording with a dash of disingenuous manipulation.

Also, unrelated: I hate those "conversational" customer service bubbles. I don't know what I expect to happen when I click them, but I know that "Jennifer H", whose picture is shown next to it, is not sitting at a keyboard eagerly awaiting my questions. Maybe I expect a chatbot, maybe I expect outsourced customer-service-farms, but I don't click buttons when I don't know what they really do, especially when I know they're avoiding being up-front about it.
> if all they do is take the HTML response and send it over to some web back-end with an ajax request

This extension does not do that. Most extensions with the "Access your data for all websites" permission also do not do that. The permission is required to scan data (in this case, links) in the websites visited by the browser, and does not mean that the data in the website would necessarily be sent to a server. Neat URL processes the links locally.

You can inspect the source code of any WebExtension you have installed by downloading the package, renaming it to the .zip extension, and unzipping it (as .xpi files are equivalent to .zip files). For Firefox add-ons, right-click the "Add to Firefox" button on the extension listing, and click "Save Link As...". The code is not minified or obfuscated.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
Disclaimer: No association with Google or the banned account. Also, strongly disagree with the banned user's take on the suit.

This ban seems unfair, and if it is rooted in an anti-astroturfing policy, then that policy appears way too aggressive - no one wants HN to be a marketing site for mega-corps, but passionately defending one's favorite company shouldn't result in a ban. Also, the moderators have all the power, and accused none. While moderating is likely arduous and maybe even moribund, being a fanboy/AstroTurf-er especially one not behaving badly, isn't worthy of silencing/banning (that's my opinion).

The consumers of HN content have a healthy skepticism towards polarizing opinions, and as with all social media, have their guard up on what can be blindly trusted. This ban assumes your average HN-er cannot tell a fanboy apart from a neutral third party - which is not the case. Let opinions be, let the fanboys talk freely (as long as they're not impolite), and trust the HN audience to use their better judgement in drawing any conclusions. I don't think anyone assumes the top comment on any topic to be an endorsement by YC/HN, or it's users.
> But the public largely still doesn't like it.

That's really sad.
Where are these fast lanes? I believe you of course, but how do I know these exist like you say?
Oh interesting, didn't realize it had been bumped like that in 2013.
Because it takes advantage of risk. OP's gamble pays off if he never has an emergency, but if he ever pays more than 20k on doctors visits he's fucked.

Granted, that doesn't often happen. But it's a risk that most people can't afford.
Counterargument: if ISPs were never going to do any of those things anyway, why did they want net neutrality repealed?
My productive habits in 2020 (as a software engineer)
It's the sort of advice you get from either a worrier or someone who has already perfected their craft.

And in an era where people talk a lot about how others achieve something and then 'close the door behind them', well, this is closing the door behind you, Paul.
Team USA defied the numbers to beat the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics
How long did it take you to make this?
This is bad advice for the vast majority of startup employees (basically anyone who is not an executive, and even most executives) because companies (rightfully so) will not accept redlined stock agreements for individual employees. In which case the employee will have paid a lawyer a bunch of money for for nothing in a way that is entirely foreseeable.

Deciding that working at a startup (with the comp structures that come with that) isn't right for you? Totally fine. Startups aren't for everyone.

But don't go waste money on a lawyer who's work will 100% for sure just get thrown in the garbage.

TBH any lawyer who even takes this work is either bad (because they don't realize the work is a waste) or a scammer (because they know and don't care).
The big obstacle is that everybody with power is afraid to lose it. A multi-party system would be much better at representing the will of the people, but to change that, the party in power will have to give up much of that power, and that's unlikely to happen. Especially in the current political climate.
I'm really curious, do you feel that your (assuming they were) bans #1-49 were unjustified? If so, could you expand on why that's the case?
In my experience, using ROS outside of Docker is a mistake. Avoids all the usual headaches of software packaging, and with nvidia-docker I can use all the GUI tools (rviz, gazebo, etc) without a hitch.
Founder here!

We are an early-stage startup that want to make your commute a bit faster. We have just opened early access for San Francisco, Palo Alto and Stockton residents.

We start with developing a network of "Skypods" that people use to board eVTOLs. We solve zoning problems, build required aircraft infrastructure and ensure passenger security.

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Unfortunately this is true for the other commonly-used mobile OS as well.