skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ideally there’d be a way to sign .local domains with browsers handling it while letting people know to verify the identity of their local devices/services and that the identity isn’t verified by https like most sites.

For these types of sites we run a local CA, and sign regular certificates for these domains and then distribute the CA certificate to our windows clients through a GPO. When put into the correct store, all our "locally-signed" certificates show as valid.

In other instances, where I haven't been able to do that, like for disparate VPN clients and such I will generally assign a RFC1918 address to it. Like service.vpn.ourdomain.com resolves to 10.92.83.200. As long as I can respond to a DNS challenge, I can still get a letsencrypt certificate for that domain.
GDScript is very "python like", never feels like a hurdle.
Yes I second that, please keep it running I want to make this my HN client.
Do brands as well-known as Starbucks and Coca-Cola really need to advertise on social media at all? I've ever met a person who isn't familiar with these brands.

Let them save money, they don't need to be on these platforms.

Worst case, a few "social media managers" are out of work. The world will get by.
Unleash anti-trust on the credit card processors and break them up.
This article gave me a queasy feeling like we’ve reached a terrible form of late stage capitalism.

The steps seem to go like this:

1. You work your ass off in a growth company only to be told that you, the person who partially made the success possible in the first place, can now be replaced with someone better, even though you have already done a great job.

2. This is normal and expected and not just the sign of a company with abusive policies.

3. This is spun as a good thing for the employee, somehow.

This sort of capitalist bullshit is why even high-paid specialist roles like professional athletes have workers unions.

Because if the company had their way they’d throw you in the trash the moment they could find someone better than you, despite your contributions making the company’s success possible in the first place.

Now you’re kicked to the curb with no/bad equity, and if you don’t like it you can screw off to the next abusive venture-backed employer, who operate the same way.
Taking Magnesium supplements can relieve jaw tension.
I have code running in a product first put together in 2001 that is still in operation today. It was rewritten in a different language shortly thereafter, then refactored again sometime after that. I wrote it, and you know what? It's still bad! So, I'm not that great of a programmer.

:-)

I had to sell a portion of the code a while back. Embarrassed for anyone to see it, I tried to focus on just one thing: make it easy to read and follow. Especially since the client was buying the source code.

It was really freeing. I didn’t need to care about all the industry "standards". By presenting it as "easy to read" I could unburden myself of intellectual contests. They do have merit and I appreciate those smarter than myself. But for this situation, the client was at liberty to turn the code into anything they wanted. My code must be the standard for readability and it was fast enough. They added "const" to everything and that was probably proper.

These manifestos are really just guide rails which without could otherwise send you over cliffs. Guides are not laws and rules to be adhered to literally. They are to make you think about why you have twenty levels of inheritance, ten function parameters, and abstractions that don't apply to the domain you are modeling.

If I was to instruct a young programmer today, I would steer them more towards being "simple" and less towards "impressive". Being impressive and clever has its place. Too much, however, and no one will know what you were doing.
Here's Google's latest diversity report: https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/25badfc6b6d1b33f...

Whites are underrepresented at similar rates as blacks. Asians are overrepresented by 900%.
I’m working on a project/product now with no established value or customer, yet. Imagine if I told sr. Mgmt “no, we still haven’t provided value. But we have ensured the design is robust and will last” lol. I’d be fired so quickly.
Sure, and this is why the syntaxists has a point about xml. As usual, it comes down to “things are hard to type” or “thinks are hard to read” when the abstractions leak.
> Black people make up 13% of the US population, we are naturally in the minority. But in the tech workforce, we are missing. Among the top eight largest tech companies in the land, black people account for only 3.1% of the workforce.

I think the right metric to look at is the "percentage of black people who have the necessary degrees or equivalent qualifications". You can't blame companies for the problem if the disproportionality is introduced in the education funnel. In that case, the question that needs to be asked is "why are black people less likely to go into STEM"?
Using fMRI to study brain functions is akin to studying US road transportation with only CO2 emission map.
It’s not just dumb people. All systems need good defaults to prevent security errors. The world’a most skilled c++ programmers collapse as soon as a fuzzer is thrown at them.
Split Indians into two categories or maybe three based on - family background (wealth), h1b1 visa and immigrant generation.

I think you might have your answer.
It indeed is not much for such a project because CERN doesn't need grants. Universities pay for staff positions instead.
That's true actually. pg had been interested in social news sites for years (Slashdot because people would post his essays there, but especially Delicious). He gave the Reddit founders the idea for Reddit, and for a while was their number one user. But once Reddit started taking off it turned in a direction that he wasn't as interested in and they stopped implementing his feature requests, so he built his own. That was one of the motivations for HN. The others, that I'm aware of, were helping to grow the nascent YC community, and writing a significant application in Arc.
I was simplifying, what really could have helped was coming up with better syntax for XML that was easier to read and write. I don’t care personally, but there are a lot of people who can’t get past syntax regardless of how nice or powerful the underlying semantics or abstractions are.
You're underappreciating how much more we are doing with neural networks now. Image recognition, general purpose contextual searching, NLP, accelerated 3D modeling, abstract problem solving (applied derivatives of alphago and other RL), and we're on the cusp of image synthesis, music synthesis, news summarization, not to mention translation...

All of this powered by dozens of exotic architectures and hundreds of discovered tweaks and optimizations - we are finally digging into the iceberg of which research before the 10s only scratch the surface. That's not to discount the visionary work of the past!

But if you plotted some general measure of progress in this field, you would see an enormous discontinuity in the derivative starting sometime in the 10s with GPUs and the open source/open science initiatives.

For all the shit I give to Google and Facebook and FAANG in general, they absolutely brought immense good to society by democratizing practical general function approximators. If there aren't any major roadblocks ML will touch every aspect of our near future lives, much like the internet. There's just too much potential - the cutting edge is just hitting the industry, our tech is already proven and it goes far deeper than classifying cats and dogs or digits. This is real science and it's huge, and it's a fact that even the money has never been remotely there for the kind of progress we are making; not to even mention the drastic difference between running ML on 1980s hardware vs a modern GPU. The kind of science we can now do from the comfort of our homes was impossible until very recently.

It's like coming out of the bronze age and starting to work with steel. We build the tools as we go along. This is part of the process and we're actually doing a great job.
In the US system, health is generally considered a state responsibility. The power of federal agencies over state governments on matters of health remains very limited, mostly to an advisory role. This trend towards laying everything at the feet of the national executive, the presidency, is a new trend. Once upon a time the president might have dismissed an outbreak as literally "not my job".
I work on the mainframes. It's straightforward to download the code to modify it locally and re-upload it. Then you can use all the tools you're comfortable with. We are moving towards using Github as a main source repository, even for mainframe code.

However, yes, knowledge of how to operate 3270 terminal is required. And it has a form of grep, actually, as well as compare tools. EBCDIC is just another encoding, not a huge problem.
Not sure if you know of this already but FYI: https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/build/step1/
> Unfortunately, I think it is rather unlikely for someone to just be able to drop in to a company in this region and begin working on this kind of neat problem.

This is basically what I specialize in, albeit mostly accidentally. It's actually not as hard as you'd think, because almost every company that gets to 2.5M ARR has already gone through at least one and sometimes two complete rewrites, that have solved some but not all of their issues. So at this point they already understand that their marginal cost of adding new features is increasing, they know what their problems are, and they understand the value of software architecture.

If you want to do this though then you can't really just apply for a job at the company, the technical co-founder has to kind of invite you to come in to work on this stuff.
It's weird to me that "postmodernism" is eternally current. It was invented like 90 years ago! It reminds me of how people have been talking about millennials so long as youth that they're about to start turning 40.
No business should be allowed to turn away a customer without a factually true reason that directly affects their revenue or profits.

That aside , why isn't btc consumer ready yet? Or what are the stumbling blocks? Most major platforms won't allow crypto tradig without ID verificatiom so for most people the blacklisting problem remains.

And make no mistake, I will still be against Visa whethet this was the new Nazi party collecting genocide funds or anarchists collecting riot funds. Legislators, judges,prosecutors and mayors are elected to implement rules that enforce how society feels about any person or group. No corporation or industry has my consent to enforce any law. They have the privilege, not right to engage in commerce. Society needs to revoke their privelege so they learn their place.
They're considered great by the people who consider them great. Personally, I think he's insufferable. He was granted exclusive access to make a documentary about the Chauvet caves, and made a film mostly about himself. What a waste.
Not to mention the worst video player
Imagine I witness you break your leg in public, in an otherwise isolated place. I have no legal obligation to help you, but if I don’t you’ll have to drag yourself for hours to get help.

I also happen to find your comment very “triggering”. My parents both survived a right wing dictatorship and brought me up in a very “edgy” manner (don’t trust police. don’t talk in public. Don’t use your real name on Internet forums. Don’t talk about what happens in the family at school). My wife and her family survived a communist dictatorship. I therefore view your train of thought to be very dangerous, and I see you as my ideological enemy. To be specific I find your stance on free speech to be befitting of a corporativist, therefore a fascist as opposed to my (classical, clearly) liberalism.

Back to the woods:

Do I walk away and let you drag yourself out? Realistically you’ll die before you get out of the woods. But you might make it and I’m under absolutely no legal requirement to help you (Most jurisdictions anyway).

Liekwise, the owner of GAB could use an unpractical payment system no one in the West used unless they want to have an FBI file. His wife could divorce him and move out to make a living and raise the kids.

I would pull up out of the woods. I think I have a moral responsibility towards you. Likewise VISA has an moral obligation to provide services for legal businesses no matter how unpopular.

Imagine if VISA decided not to allow its system at abortion clinics.

Either way, I’m cancelling my VISA. I’m sick of corporate blue washing.
I really enjoy these articles and I can relate to a lot of them personally. Last time it was posted I went through a rabbit hole of reading through a bunch of it.

I am wondering why HN in general doesn’t seem to like these articles? I don’t get it.
I don't think it was flagged, except maybe as a dupe. I ran into it on the BBC site the other day and tried to post it, but someone else already had (it didn't make the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659251
Do you want equal opportunities or equal outcomes? One does not beget the other.
[ personal background: grew up in the UK, lived in the US for 31 years, lived for extended periods in Heidelberg and Berlin, and have travelled extensively in Europe over the last 40 years. Have visited the supposedly best cheese stores in France, Spain and Germany. I live on cheese :) ]

Almost anything that goes through the the Jasper Hill Cellars in Vermont is going to give you incredible cheese (they don't make them all, but they do act as an aging facility).

Hard cheese is more of long shot in the US, although amazingly the WI-based Bellavitano brand is trying hard (admittedly a lot of the time by adding flavorings, but still ...). Landaff is another hard cheese somewhat similar to some of the tangier UK hard cheeses, but quite unique.

Cheddars in the US are nothing like UK cheddar (as the article noted). New England cheddars probably have the most complex flavor profile, as long as you stay on the "sharp" end of the scale. They are as strong as a good west country cheddar, but just different.

For soft cheeses though, OMG, an embarrassment of riches. Winnimere - unctuous, stinky, incredible. Humboldt Fog - goat, with ash layer, delicious, midway between the really strong French ripened goats and mere chevre. Oma and Moses Sleeper (both ripened at Jasper Hill) are also deep and complex.

There are a couple of blues too: Russian River (out of central CA) and Bayley Hazen are particularly interesting, though also quite unlike any of the great european blue cheeses (nobody seems to be trying this, sadly).

And these are all nationally distributed varieties. If you live in the right parts of the US, there are typically local varieties (at least of soft types, less so for hard cheeses) that will be worth trying.

None of this is to say that US cheese is "better". It's just amazing how far it has come in the last 20 years, and how good the best of it is compared to european options.

Gruyere remains unmatched anywhere. But that doesn't excuse the northern european tier (Nederlands, Germany in particular) from producing "cheese" generally better suited to filling holes in walls than eating! :)
the fact that you don't inform users of shadowsbans an rate limiting without due process is pretty stifling. it's the reason i have this account, as I'm sure you know.

It's very clear that this is YOUR community. I don't think that's a bad thing, community wise. Just own it. It's OK. Being dictator-like isn't bad if you have clear goals and limited scope. It's just unfortunate that one of your goals is to squelch those who have unpopular opinions. And I'm not talking about neo-nazi white supremacy bullshit, it's clear you support that edge.
"Now you’re kicked to the curb with no/bad equity" - where did this come from? In this situation, in which you've done such a good job that the company has effectively outgrown your skillset, you almost certainly have equity (it's unlikely this all happened in <1 year) and it's almost certainly good equity. That's one of the reasons this isn't so bad, and to a degree you should be okay with it - you're a part owner of the company, and especially if you were an early exec, you probably have a meaningful amount of equity. If someone else can help grow the value of your equity significantly faster than you can, that's a good thing for you.
I don't drink USA wine because I don't trust what will be in it, due to your poor regulations.
Fair point, while the Action Pack is amazing value, it's only worth it if you're on a Microsoft stack - it wouldn't be worth it only to get a single Windows 10 Enterprise license (I think you actually get 5 licenses, as well as server edition licenses, SQL Server licenses, Visual Studio subscriptions, 5 O365 subscriptions, Azure credits and more).
Thanks for the feedback - I'll add a Privacy policy and look into the license
“ That aside , why isn't btc consumer ready yet? ”

Because ppl don’t want an FBI profile.
The key thing to understand is, primary education problems are not going to ever be fully fixed, irrespective of how much you spend. It just boils down to unequal distribution of talent. There will be a few truly excellent high schools (through a combination of chance and attracting better teachers just because they are already excellent) and a ton of crap ones that de-facto ruin people's lives today. So there should be more practical opportunities for those who want them to not fall through the cracks. All I'm arguing in favor of is that these opportunities are formalized as a gateway into higher education, rather than left for the kids themselves to figure out. I've been through such a program in early 90's, it works.

Crucially, I'm not arguing in favor of lowering the bar. If anything, making the mouth of the funnel much wider could _raise_ the bar instead as more talented kids will make their way through it. I'm arguing in favor of providing more structure and more targeted training to people who would currently fail to overcome the bar essentially due to random chance of having a shit math teacher in high school.

They _could_ in theory do self-directed learning, but without structure and a goal this gets old rather quickly and people give up.
Thanks for the feedback - I'll add asap
If it is not RSUs - and just options, and you have 3 months to decide if to exercise your options with a bunch of $$, when co is years away from IPO... for most, it means walking away from the equity.
You're not wrong, gdscript is pretty awful. It's only python-like for someone who's never used python. No list comprehensions, no tuples (which means no destructuring in assignment or function parameters), no first class functions, etc. It's like Python 1.x circa 1999, only worse.
You have to run the local Python server by following the next instructions.
I think you are arguing a point that the author doesn’t make. It’s not that kudzu isn’t invasive, nor that it doesn’t smother the landscape. The main point of the article is that it doesn’t expand quickly beyond the disturbed places where it was originally planted, like road cuts.

When I was a kid, we were told stories of kudzu growing feet per day, and of people going away for a trip and coming home finding their house engulfed. Southerners legitimately thought it would grow to engulf everything. However, as the author points out, the giant fields of it that were there when I was a kid, are still there today, and they aren’t much bigger than they were then.
You've got to be part of a very insular and exclusive group to know what "tech twitter" is. Let alone these "exclusive social apps" they allude to.
Advertising on TV and in Newspapers is 50% wasted because there is no a way to have targeted advertising, but with Facebook and Google advertisers have an option to target their audience and efficiency of an advertising campaign is drastically improved.
Given the pandemic situation, Starbucks needs that $100m more than Facebook does. Their actions won't change or address anything. So let them save it.
While I don't necessarily agree with parent comment, I don't think this is a refutation. I can tell you right now that the majority of poor families in the US provide less STEM encouragement compared to well-off families. While your anecdote is warming, I don't think it is very representative.
I personally haven't witnessed a single racist act in the 20+ years that I've lived in Toronto, a very diverse, multi-cultural city.

Which leads me to believe that my definition of a racist act, is different from yours.

Please provide your definition.
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Yup, CDNs and object stores are a dime a dozen these days. If one's too expensive or unreliable just move on to the next one. I believe this free tier doesn't run out after 12 months either.
Here's a brief and somewhat interesting explanation for why it exists, from Arno, the tech lead at the time (2006):
https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
Denying the existence of POC and their oppressed status in America is more than just "not supporting BLM," it's a denial of the foundation of their reason for existing.
From my understanding most Universities are currently planning on 2, but with going online after Thanksgiving.
Elderly Christians across China are deprived of government subsidies
Also generations of students stuck in this hole because the supervisors that have paid positions stick to string theory deadend -- a feedback loop.
I like this idea, as we already add a device serial ID to the ap hosted mode, partly for this reason. Chromecast’s show a random code and users seem to be able to handle this fine.
Git is not really that complex, it is conceptually really simple. Most of the issues at the beginning have to do with an incorrect mental model of how it works.

It's almost impossible to lose something you committed in git by screwing up (due to reflogs).

I would recommend studying "Git from the bottom up" which for me was the way to finally grasp it: http://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
If you are not a founder, you have <5% options (likely <1%) which are not preferred and if you are no longer with the company, they will be diluted with every funding round and restructuring. You will have no control over this. This is "no/bad equity".
A lot of the biodiversity of the Southeast is in the wetlands. Another hotspot is in the temperate rainforests of the southern Appalachians. You wouldn't see either of those places by accident. Piedmont is kind of boring by contrast. Eg.

https://imagineourflorida.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ima...

https://natureconservancy-h.assetsadobe.com/is/image/content...

https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/cong/crop16_...

https://ashevilletrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sams-...

With that said, as a Floridian I was happy to see palm trees again when I moved to the Bay Area. It's nice there.

It's my understanding that California has more spiky plants than broadleafs due to the dry-summer climate. Most of the Southeast is broadleaf because it's very wet year-round. Plants with small leaves reveal more about their structure from a distance while broadleaf forests form a green blanket. So the biodiversity in California might be a little more visible. Southwest Florida has a semi-xeric climate as well but with dry and warm winters, similar to southern Mexico, and various species of cacti can be found.
What would be the benefits of not having them included? It’s not like they get in the way of the non dev, I’m guessing most people will have no idea they are even there.
It's a reminder that "Oh yeah, I enjoy Brand X, I should get some of their product". You may enjoy Coca Cola, but if nobody around you drinks a can, and you don't ever see an ad, you're less likely to remain a consumer of the brand.

It's also why you might continue getting ads for subscriptions you pay for. They want to remind you of the value continually provided-- it's for retention purposes.