skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ISPs have their problems but Google wasn't in it to build a long-term, quality infrastructure. They were trying to make a splash on the cheap, but the costs would be bound to go up anywhere they couldn't employ cheap hacks.

There is a disingenuous take. ISPs were provided $100Bs of taxpayer money to build out infrastructure in the last few decades. It is not theirs to control or monopolize. Everywhere Google Fiber was introduced, the incumbents' prices dropped and speeds increased. If they're able to operate at the reduced prices, why are they siphoning off additional profits after they were paid the aforementioned infrastructure money to provide these services? Google Fiber disrupting ISPs was exactly what people are clamoring to happen to other giants like Amazon and yet here you are bashing the initiative.

For the record, Google Fiber is still well loved everywhere it has been rolled out. I had Comcast and Verizon for decades and hated every moment of it -- constant battle for reliability, price increases, and hidden fees. Ever since I got WebPass (owned by Google Fiber), it has been nothing but bliss for a fraction of the price and 0% of the bullshit. You should be deeply upset by the fact that Google Fiber is no longer expanding. It is a hit against progress and we are all worse off for it.
Even if that's the argument being made, nothing changes. Co-opting furry artwork without actually being part of the community will be uncovered soon enough as being fake.

I won't assert that the furry subculture is always better than any intelligence agency at this game, but it has a lot of things going for it that certainly make this kind of deceptive, divisive activity harder than it would ordinarily be.
Firebase, seriously???
In general for SaaS, does it make sense to let customers choose between two (or more) pricing models, depending on their needs? Does this cause too much complication for the business? Curious why I haven't noticed schemes like this, other than at "enterprise" tiers where the customer is paying a lot for something closer to a custom solution and prices are negotiated.
> Even if technically feasible, I don't know if we have the economic/political feasibility that's also required to make that work

It’s a good point, though outside the US there are also entrepreneurs. Politics/regulations might work differently. There could also be incentives to do things like this.
The problem with natural expansion is that it degenerates into feature creep. Is it natural to add a cryptocoin wallet later like Keybase did?
The server was never open source and that will be a pretty big obstacle to the product living on beyond the company. That and maybe the Amazon S3 bill.
Canadian team first in world to treat Covid-19 with specialized dialysis
> Now you've given every PM and sales guy carte blanche to throw whatever flavor-of-the-moment idea comes in their head.

YES! My current project has this issue. There is no deadline for my project beyond "urgent" (but so is everything else) and as a result, any request from a client gets approved. Client wants a button shifted slightly to the right? Approved. Comms wants the semi-colons gone? Approved.

For a supposedly urgent project, we are making no real progress week after week on functionality simply because urgent has no tangible meaning.
It is not a matter of discipline. Avoiding this gotcha requires you to manually inspect your entire parent component hierarchy looking for uses of that hook - sometimes that is a plain grep away, but it is a very much invisible error. You also have to be familiar with the inner workings of the hook itself, and any other nested hooks, to verify if they use any local state or not. If it does, and you need to share that state, well, that's a big rewrite which kind of defeats the initial argument.

Maybe extra tooling could be built to avoid this, if we weren't already drowning in linter plugins...
Coronavirus Survivors 'Permanently Disqualified' from Joining U.S. Military
Depends how low your costs are and long you can go without needing to make any money from it. If your expenses are manageable and profitability isn't an issue, it might make sense to improve your product (nicer UI, more features, etc) while growing your user base and getting more information about them (location, demographic, age, etc). This will improve your pitch to advertisers when decide to cash in by, perhaps, selling premium placement for ads by keyword (iOS, Python, Devops, etc).

One issue you might have is that your user's are "shortlived", I would imagine a typical user is going to use it for a couple of months every 2-3 years, hence why I'm stressing quick growth.
It sounds like you're asking for contract work; you're welcome to email me at aphyr@jepsen.io.
So, demand and supply has increased dramatically in almost every single city in the world, and in almost no cities has supply outpaced demand? The world is not an economics 101 textbook.

In Canada for example, the only province with functional and affordable housing is the one that enacted serious rent control and public housing, and they didn't have to build a lot. Seems to me that supply and demand isn't the whole thing if your goal is to have affordable housing.
This research pertains only to the question of how we propel an object in a way that enables interstellar travel with a duration of fewer than ~100 years.

There's a whole other question, which must be answered separately, about how to keep that object from being destroyed during its travels.

The effectively 2D graphene material might be the right material from a propulsion perspective, but it may be totally unsuitable in terms of making sure the object gets to another star system in one piece.
You are correct. The variety of replies makes that pretty clear if it was in doubt.
I see no merit to this argument, since you can always go to college later. When you're 25, the actuarially acdepted age when you are considered an adult, perhaps you can re-evaluate then?
https://www.sideprojectors.com

Happy to help and and answer any questions! :)
Happiness is a freshly organized codebase
> If I could run a company better/extract more value from it, say, by decreasing expense, increasing revenue, and therefore profits, I'd write myself a big check quarterly and continue running the company.

If you can. If you can't and your cash flow either stays flat or declines, you now have more debt to service. The more debt you have, the less leeway you have to execute on your plan. That's assuming you don't screw anything up in the business without considering any macroeconomic factors.
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Took me some years to fully internalize this, but I endorse it.
I would tend to think there is both long term damage and chance of increased immediate death due to things like asthma and heart attack triggered by polluted air.
This is completely not true.

CSS min() and max() do exactly what is intuitive. The author's confusion is not understanding how to apply the results.

to be clear:

max(10px, 12px) === 12px

min(10px, 12px) === 10px

exactly as one would expect.
I already did.. one for the ND-100, and one for the ND-500(0). But they are not done yet, and not release ready. The ND-100 emulator can't run the operating system, it only executes ND-100 executables under *nix. And it can't run multi-segment programs like Notis WP. The ND-500 emulator doesn't have to worry about operating systems, but my emulator isn't complete because there are still a couple of undocumented corners I haven't figured out yet. But I can run compilers and tools on both of them. My Nokia N900 phone has been running the ND-100 emulator for a very long time.. PED editor, Fortran-77 compiler..

But not release ready still. I'm busy working on the FUSE filesystem implementation at the moment.

There's another very good ND-100 emulator out there (runs executables like mine), it's on Github.
HN has an honor code - it may not be as strong as the "SJW!" trope you have in your mind, but it certainly exists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ALl of their guidelines have the same shape as all honor codes: they ask you not to do something that you are, in a strict legalist / absolutist sense, allowed to do.

And then they shame those who violate the rules, and the group codifies that shame in the name of "common" "decency", and those activities no longer happen here in great numbers, despite being "allowed" in the larger sense (they even preface most of the guidelines with "Please" to emphasize the voluntary nature of your choice to submit to the guidelines.)
Welp, this is the best argument for regulating the title of “Engineer” I’ve ever seen.
Revoke all your keys.
Give back any money you made of it.
Relax.
Enjoy your fucking life a little better as it should have been without keybase, bro.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're here for curious conversation, not to smite enemies, snark, score rhetorical points, and whatnot.

Also, if you ratchet rhetoric up to this level of indignation, you detract from your own credibility, so it's not in your interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> in almost no cities has supply outpaced demand?

Detroit. Rural communities.

In real estate, it takes a while (years) for supply to catch up with demand. What you're seeing is simply city populations are rising quickly.
Let me outline this for you:

1. Pontificates a bit on the “Don’t go to college, start an online business instead” meme, arguing it as good advice.

2. Claims writing is an important skill for starting an online business.

3. Provides call-to-action selling online course about writing: https://writeofpassage.school/

We were all just making fun of the dropshipping cargo cult a few days ago and here we are upvoting this.
In general, this advice can make sense in some cases. However, I want to share some advice that I've found while both investing in hundreds of businesses and running a few myself:

1. Don't start something you're not actually passionate about. The easiest way to work your a off and never procrastinate is to love what you do.

2. If you build it, they will /not/ come. It's all about marketing, marketing, and, did I say, marketing.

That said, I agree with many of these comments here. Having a degree really will help you get a job unless you're the top in your field already.
I don’t think hiring has disappeared - I got contacted by four recruiters just yesterday alone asking me to apply to vacancies they’re trying to hire for.

I wouldn’t quit my job (and I’m not looking anyway), but there’s plenty of hiring going on.
> You just don’t like my response so instead of responding to me you chastise me and call me names. It seems a bit ironic to do such a thing by calling me “juvenile.”

> I tend not to enjoy discussions where the other party mandates what I can and cannot talk about; I would assume most people feel the same way. I don’t have to discuss the extremely narrow view you have; you cannot my force my views.

> Tell the NYC transportation workers who died that going to work isn’t a life or death situation. It would seem to me that people are being blocked from spreading a virus that kills people. I’m willing to bet that the “greatest country in the world” can figure out how to feed its population without sending them into grave danger. Again, though, these solutions do need imagination.

I did no name-calling. What I did was categorize the presented reasoning and call you out.

You still continue to insert strawman arguments and bombast.
That doesn't take away from the absurdity (after enough time has passed from infection).

There is _no chance_ that somebody who has not contracted COVID-19 is safer than somebody who has.

In the case of no immunity, they're both equally dangerous. In the case of yes immunity, those being banned are safer.

, they're equally likely to contract COVID. At worst, the person who h
> costs double, only works when you're next to it, and the spin cycle must be done in the old one. And by the time it's actually better you have to buy a new one anyway.

You just described early GPS receivers.
I didn't know about the Red Cross and its donuts. The example I've always used for this is helping a friend move.

If the friend asks "hey, will you help me move? I'm buying pizza and beer afterwards!" I will more than likely say yes, even though I can buy my own pizza and beer.

If they instead say "hey, will you help me move? I'll pay you $21.58 for your time," I'd probably bristle. Even though that might be the equivalent price of a few slices of pizza and a beer, the category has changed from showing appreciation to placing an actual value on my time, at which point working all day for $21.58 stops making sense.
Security. Security cannot realistically be automated or scaled. Because any automated system at scale can be understood and gamed. And because humans interact with secure systems, and humans can be tricked. Even when you built a system that's say, cryptographically secure, you manipulate the humans to work around it, because humans aren't good at identifying cryptographic keys, and all automated systems serve human clients or masters.

This is why the Play Store and Chrome Web Store are full of malware, and why human-curated app markets have effectively zero.
There was the "Domesday Project" in 1986, not online (per se) but on huge laserdisks (300 MB each side!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
Sure you can. You just need a broker that lets you. Interactive Brokers for example.
I can't believe they have nothing from The Office. I may grab an Absolutely Fabulous though.
The biggest issue with analytics is that it doesn't tell you what is right or wrong.

Say you just made an instagram ad - how do you improve it? Well, you need to have 3 different images, 3 different sets of copy, 3 different targets.

That's 27(!!!) different scenarios to determine the most optimal option. For. An. Instagram. Post.

Then you repeat that EVERY SINGLE TIME because nothing ever has a fixed rate of return in advertising. Plus, you have to educate all the stakeholders as to why you're doing that and why you're knowingly spending money on 26 out of 27 things that are proven to not be the best way to spend money.

Unless you've got a stupid size budget, at some point you have to call it quits on analytics and just set a benchmark for both revenue and customer acquisition-costs you feel emotionally comfortable with and only use analytics to make gains from obviously underutilized resources.
It's still arbitrary code running as a driver, it doesn't matter what form it takes, you can abuse the process to host whatever you want.
> Use your time to start an online business.

I feel like some people have been in the startup world too long and forget not everyone is trying to be an entrepreneur.

> But what if my college goes out of business from a lack of tuition dollars?

Students aren't concerned about this. No one goes to college with the goal of funding their college.

Degrees still matter in many industries, and this article seems to be targeting too broad of an audience.
Top Defect Management Tools in 2020 – Tech World Times
No BBC News backgrounds :(
Show HN: Symposium – Discussion forum software made with React/Redux and Go
Yeah ok. I think you will keep scapegoating these other ‘evil’ ‘no-defence‘ people, until you yourself are on the receiving end of systemic inequity - or systemic failure - at some point and that’s when the penny will drop...
Could be, but I’m positive that I use gestures more than I mix typing/trackpad, so there’s that.
One of those four features is dereferencing pointers, and unlike references, pointers are not checked by the borrow checker. So you could bypass the borrow checker using unsafe code in a way, though most probably you should not.
Care to elaborate? Just curious...
I have a X1 Carbon that is a few years old now. About 2 years ago I dropped it (lid closed) from about 2 feet up (70cm). And it hit the tiled floor, pointy corner first. I thought "welp here go $2000". But no! A 2x3 mm part of the black surface finish chipped of and I see the bare silvery metal now. Oh and the tile cracked.
I don't know whether I am committing sampling bias, but this looks eerily familiar [1].

The perhaps incorrect deduction here is that the Nordics are ahead when it comes to core or fundamental science, but they are behind when it comes to tech business longevity and business expansion potential. Of course, many of its tech companies are rather old companies to start off with [2].

Some countries suffer from a kind of inverse of this: In South Africa, fundamental science is hard to come by. (The rest of Southern Africa is even worse.) An example of this is indeed also the tech industry: If you are a programmer in South Africa, you are quite likely to be deploying and maintaining software such as Salesforce and Oracle, AWS workflows, MS SQL databases, PostgreSQL and MySQL, and so forth; and you are unlikely to be writing the actual code for the core technology that constitutes AWS, Oracle, etc. There are people writing apps, but I don't know many examples where the apps have global traction. Most websites written for local companies are shoddy and even the ones that look nice don't have any core invention behind them. Mark Shuttleworth actually lives in the Isle of Man now (not to mention Elon Musk...) and most South Africans probably don't know what Canonical is.

By contrast, if you already have a solid business in South Africa, your expansion potential is almost limitless. There are about 60 million people and most of them are below the age of 30 [3]. The youth unemployment rate, defined as unemployment of people between the age of 18 and I think 35, is usually around 60%. You also have, depending on who rates it, 7/10 of the top 10 universities in Africa as of 2020 [4]. You don't have to pay people with degrees a lot of money for it to be considered a high salary by global—especially American—standards.

[1] Norsk Data was caught off guard by the PC revolution, which had one big across hardware OS; Nokia didn't realise the importance of smartphones with one big across brand OS, apart from the iPhone. (Though I am still waiting for Linux Phone OS.)

[2] Nokia started off as a pulp mill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#1865%E2%80%931967

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa#A...

[4] QS rates only nine universities in Africa, here is a pastebin as their website is difficult to navigate: https://pastebin.com/raw/ixLJ0Lqq. This means that the 10th university and below are not in the world top 500. It is quite likely that the University of Potchefstroom would be the 10th. Some sources claim 8/10 of the top 10, but I don't know which agency's ratings that is based on.
Your questions are valid. But you could pick holes about any party trying to bring about change, right? For example, you say "let's be real here: Google doesn't exist to make the world a better place"...my question to you is, which org does exist purely to make the world a better place? And moreover, how are those orgs doing in terms of impact and scale?
> The smartest people I know are mostly self-educated. They already know the secret: With an Internet connection and strong work ethic, you can teach yourself.

> To sum up, don’t pay $30,000 for Zoom classes. Start a business instead.

Author seems to be trying to be provocative, but at the risk of stating the obvious - there are lots of other in-between options too, including a formal education that doesn't cost $30k/yr (zoom or no zoom).
Meh. They did it.
Surprise.
Think about what kind of intelligence is working in the inner of z00m.
You should be afraid of them, the same as you are of whatsapp, telegram and your knik-knok to come.
Just to be clear, Zulip is not Open Core. We are 100% open source software, in contrast with Mattermost, GitLab, and many (most?) other VC-funded applications marketed as "open source".

I think this is a really important distinction; the VC-funded open core business model has a fundamental incentive structure that pushes the company to makes its open source project an intentionally crippled demo product so that they don't miss any revenue they might have had as a proprietary product.
That's true. Especially all the people who've had to pass serious background checks. I didn't expect to meet rocket scientists and defense contractors when I became a furry. Someone is going to figure it out, and furry breached containment a while ago. I see furry tweets going viral all the time now.
Wait till people start discovering video background for Zoom. I made some from youtube videos of trees blowing in the wind, and it's really nice.
We changed the URL from https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keyb... to the Keybase equivalent since more people were commenting on that one anyway.
But it's against building code for me to install a nice Chinese 900cfm exhaust fan in my American kitchen. We're capped at 400cfm.

But I did install an ERV to give my condo fresh air and lower PM2.5 and keep co2 under 700ppm

Edit: I would install an electric/induction oven/range but I can't. Then I'm violating the electrical code for the power for the square footage of my unit because I have a 60 amp EV car charging circuit.
Don't go to expensive college that isn't rated well.

Don't put yourself more than $50k in debt for avg school and a low earning major.
IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet
I agree the internet is increasingly carried over radio these days (e.g. WiFi, LTE, Satellite). Wireless still seems pretty young and crude yet. There seems to be plenty of room to grow with respect to negotiating power levels, frequency use, routing topologies and so on.

I think big fiber backhauls are still going to be a thing though.
Weirdly, those two codes behaves differently:

$ gcc hn.c -O0 -o hn

for (size_t i; i < (1ul<<46); i++) {
printf ("%zd\n",i);
acc += x;
break;
}

Without break:

$ gcc hn.c -O0 -o hn

for (size_t i; i < (1ul<<46); i++) {
printf ("%zd\n",i);
acc += x;
}
I don’t think they bought Keybase for the team or security. I think it’s one of the few good Slack competitors out there for sale.

Zoom definitely sees this as a chance to take on Slack given their new momentum.
Indeed. IIRC redux itself tried that in an earlier version but reverted to a custom update / forced render mechanism due to performance bottlenecks with Context.
Builders and buildpacks designed to run on Google Cloud's container platforms
Recently bought T490 worked with Debian stable out of the box.
It's pretty fundamental in our society that the court looks at the arguments presented before it. If the claimants make a reasonable case and you have nothing to say about it as the defendant then the court will act on that. The idea is that it stops people coming into the court prejudiced.
Recent github issue opened for this -> https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24105
With Kubernetes, the U.S. DoD Is Enabling DevSecOps on F-16s and Battleships
Probably the same prudish parents who got outraged over the ET Finger Light.

https://2warpstoneptune.com/2015/02/13/e-t-finger-light-knic...

Or the Dune Sandworm Action Figure:

https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/08/28/ljns-dune-toys-sandwo...

Sometimes a Dune Sandworm Action Figure is only a Dune Sandworm Action Figure.
No op but for me the clincher was vastly superior keyboard and the expansion capability with dual ssd/dual ram slots that made me go for X1 Extreme Gen 2. I have used Dell in the past and after using this Thinkpad, I have to admit that I find the latter to be of better quality overall.
That style is not very popular here as our honey tend to crystalize and set very quickly. This comes down to what flowers the bees have access to, and what ratio of fructose and glucose sugars those flowers produce. I guess we get more glucose here in the north, but honey from for example accacia flowers stays runny forever. This style of honey is popular with our middle east immigrants, I guess that's what they are used to from home.