skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please consider me :) I'm looking for my first engineering role. I'm extremely hard working and I love product focused development.
I have recently completed a full-stack Ruby on Rails bootcamp and since then I have designed and built my first webapp: https://taaalk.co. A platform for people to have online conversations, e.g: https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things. The greatest engineering challenges were solved for the Taaalk participants, so if you want to get a sense of what it can do, it would be best to start your own Taaalk.

It's: * Ruby on Rails (running on the Edge branch) * Javascript * AJAX * SCSS * Running on a Hetzner machine (Ubuntu) with an AWS S3 bucket

During my bootcamp my team and I really pushed the boundaries of the final project by building a Rails application that dynamically builds other complex Rails applications:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=4031&v=lUUJoE...

The people who ran the course said "DAMNNNNNN". This is the comment from the course founder who is also a systems engineer:

"Joshua built at Le Wagon an amazing product. The first time that he brought to me the idea of creating a wep app that could create other web apps automatically I thought "This is going to be interesting but really hard to implement". But after two weeks, it was done and working smoothly, that product was one of the best from that batch. Adding to that, Joshua has a really good capacity to learn new topics, he is focused
and a nice guy to be around.”

Everyone else from my team has been hired - so you should snap me up!

Location: London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Exaggerated sense of self: Yes

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, AJAX, SCSS, AWS

Résumé/CV: Prior to this I have founded a startup (https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/shufflehub-is-for-when-you...), been a VC at DN Capital and run growth for a suite of bootstrapped startups (50k-1M ARR).

Email: eichler [dot] summers [at] gmail [dot] com

Really? An exaggerated sense of self? No
Privacy aside, even if they "ban" it, people cannot just stop using it the next day. Almost every company has encrypted information, like passwords etc. This is what I LOVE about technology. They cannot stop it unless they want to bring entire systems down - some of which run govt business (like aws). So how are they really going to stop / enforce it?

It has been used encryptions and ciphers have been used for a long time, you cannot stop people from using a math function. It's like DO NOT USE multiplication from now on.
> can you give examples? of acceptable borrowing without consent, or in direct opposition to consent.

Well since we're talking about intellectual property, quoting is an obvious example. Often in debates (esp. Political) people will "borrow" their opposition's words against their will with the intention of making them look stupid.

Most science involves working off other's ideas, without the ideas originator's consent (but attribution is required).

> What are the general responsibilities of society?

That's a heavy philosophical question, and answers will vary. Usually involves ensuring the administration of justice and having a monoply on violence. Sometimes providing basic neccesesities is included. People often do include enforcing physical property rights here (i have never heard of people including intellectual prop rights, although there probably are people who feel that way). In some communist states, the right for every person to have a job is assumed, which i suppose could be taken to mean a responsibility to make people money. In capitalistic socities there is no garuntee of business success; the fundamental principle being either you should make money on your own merit or go out of business. At most there is a responsibility to create a fair marketplace, but what that means varries a lot.
That’s only air combat (plane vs plane). These planes regularly engage in plane to ground combat. Dropping bombs, firing missiles.

Also, not every engagement is a combat engagement. Example: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22807/oregon-f-15s-scr...
For those who aren't convinced by this argument, you can take it a little further by introducing a hypothetical situation in which their political opponents obtain power and criminalise criticism of government or other powerful "common-good" entities. Now your recorded conversations could become evidence of sedition, and even if it wasn't criminal at the time it could certainly be used to show evidence of previous behaviour.
major cities, not California
Drawback, they are big. Frankly since I don't have a family I'd rather have the truck with the generator and set up my hammock or tent rather than the RV. I can still use the truck as a utility vehicle to do all my hobby projects and use it like I would an RV. With a RV I need another vehicle. (I'm also sure I could rig a solar panel "roof" to the truck for extended trips).
Hey man, some of us draw the line somewhere! ;)
The $700M is a loan. Misleading headline...
You just reminded me of https://poolside.fm/
Back in the day, vendors like Lenovo used to make the DC port easily swappable (separate daughterboard with modular cable to motherboard) because it was perhaps the most common simple wear part to fail. As a warranty tech I was doing this multiple times a day and it could be done in under ten minutes fairly easily. While the repair was of course free for warranty and service plan customers it was very inexpensive (relatively) for non-warranty customers, less than $50 if I recall correctly and that was due to a labor minimum, the part was only a few dollars as billed. Unfortunately even Lenovo has dropped this practice in the course of reducing case sizes and later switching to USB-C.

Of course this was also back when we made such a deal of turnaround time we used to call a taxi courier to deliver warranty units back to corporate customers with the higher end service plans. I'm not sure that you can get this kind of service any more with any vendor without using some small local VAR. I remember vehemently apologizing to electrical utility linemen that we didn't have a part in stock and so they wouldn't get their T50 back until we got the replacement in the next morning.

Perhaps part of this is compensated for by improved longevity in newer cables, but cycle life is rarely the problem (except perhaps on the iffier miniUSB), instead it's dropped/kicked/dragged devices. In general I am pretty frustrated with the decrease in serviceability of devices but this one is especially irritating, since like most people I've had a lot of devices where the charging port failed before everything else. USB-C feels like it represents a step back in a lot of ways because it's basically put the kibosh on magnetic charging interfaces (even more so than patents).
On one hand you have comments, replies and friends who have never broken a single Lightning cable in the pass 10 years of using iPhone. On the other hand I am may be on my 8th lightning cable over the past 10+ years of iPhone. And this one is from Anker Powerline II. Powerline III is even better but three years in, this Anker Powerline II is doing extremely well.

I have heard somewhere post iPhone 8 there is a "updated" version of Lightning Cable that is suppose to be more durable. But I have no way to fact check this.
The recent spike in radioactive isotopes had me thinking of this. If someone has a modest amount of money and no regard for safety, it's actually pretty easy to assemble a reactor.

There are a lot of things we think are out of the reach of individuals or small groups of people, but the fact is someone developed many of these technologies in more primitive times without access to modern materials or the internet. We live in an age where morons can make armed drones or cruise missles, or, apparently, counterfeit helicopters.
Cynically: you don't even need a real, working robot in-hand in order to threaten minimum wages. Even cheaper.
Americans have a sense that what happens in China (or Nazi Germany, or any other place you'd care to name) can't possibly happen here—even if it is currently happening here.

Gone are the days during the Cold War where you could say, "What is this, Soviet Russia?" and have anyone squirm at the comparison.
I have this vague suspicion that OP would change their opinion immediately after FB starts banning people for "hate speech" directed at Donald Trump and the party they do not align with, which is highly prevalent on FB. Hate speech is hate speech, am I right OP? What's good for the goose is good for the gander? Zuck should try it, just to show what that'd look like.

Edit: this really ticked someone off - they went through my posts and downvoted _thirteen_ comments. How's that for "hate speech"? Keep going, bud, I don't care.
https://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/175443-110v-electrica...
The problem is that the $16/hr is an attempt to say 'not mexico!' without being discriminatory, so it doesn't say 'non-US workers at $16/hr' it says, essentially 'workers must be paid $16/hr or more', and the result is you'd have to pay US workers $16/hr to meet the same criteria, or else cars produced 100% in the US would fail to be legal.
lol. Where do you get your information from? A headscarf and the next thing you know, "radical Islam"?? Whatever. This is just xenophobia with a polite package. Many muslims wear a headscarf around the world. Other religions do to: It was, until fairly recently, common in Europe as well for many folks (not sure if it was ever common in the Americas). This isn't showing support for "radical islam" any more than being Christian is supporting radical christianity or being any religion shows support for the most radical versions of it. Most muslims simply follow Islam, and not a radical form of it. Radical is.. rare. In pretty much all things.

And no, it isn't an issue because it is a nation. There are lots of ways to have a common bond or culture. It is an issue because segments of the population have decided to be xenophobic and shun parts of this particular religion. You can have things like belief that everyone is equal as a common bond. Language is a common bond. Education can be (and is!) a common bond. Compassion can be a common bond. But this is the hill you are dying on instead.
[drool]

Don't know why, but I've always loved cabover trucks.
definitely. I just helped my parents get a Honda 2200 working at their home in Northern California in anticipation of the PG&E blackouts. We tested it out and it can power certain things together, but not an entire house. The 2200 Watt generator was able to power a fridge/freezer + some electronics, which is enough to get by for a couple days.
LOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted https://simonsarris.com because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS).

The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separate axis animations: They do a loose figure-8 path that's different each pass.

That CSS code is here: https://github.com/simonsarris/site-simonsarris/blob/master/...

I am currently trying to make my site background considerably more ridiculous by re-implementing in canvas, with lots of interaction and a night/day sequence, and custom buildings. The rebuild so far is open source here: https://simonsarris.github.io/simeville/

Click the button to build a town. Drag the sun down to see night time (and the constellations). I need to spend a lot of time working on the art, but I'm not a very good artist yet.
Curious about your use case! Do you want to setup your own warehouse for you and your own friends? Or use the existing Yoga warehouse and get your own personal Greppy on it that only a subset of people can share? Or something else?
Whose the bigger jerk? A self described leftist, or self described conservative? I say ban em both.
Hong Kong: hundreds arrested as security law comes into effect
At least for Apple, they claim the iPhone (at least devices post-checkm8) has not been compromised. iCloud is required to comply with records requests, but the data isn’t in iCloud the feds can’t get it. Even with checkm8, the Secure Enclave still has not been compromised.

If they were in bed with the feds, the FBI/NYPD wouldn’t keep asking them for keys that Apple doesn’t have.
from : https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/panda-security/how...

"Cyberstalking is the act of using the Internet to systematically and repeatedly harass, threaten or intimidate someone. This can be done through email, social media, chat rooms, instant messaging or other online mediums."

"Cyberstalking is a federal offense and many states have cyberstalking laws. Cyberstalking falls under anti-stalking, slander and harassment laws that are already in place and are punished similarly."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstalking

"There have been a number of attempts by experts and legislators to define cyberstalking. It is generally understood to be the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, a group, or an organization. [...] Stalking is a continuous process, consisting of a series of actions, each of which may be entirely legal in itself."

"Cyberstalking is a technologically-based "attack" on one person who has been targeted specifically for that attack for reasons of anger, revenge or control. Cyberstalking can take many forms, including:

1 - harassment, embarrassment and humiliation of the victim

2 - emptying bank accounts or other economic control such as ruining the victim's credit score

3 - harassing family, friends and employers to isolate the victim

4 - scare tactics to instill fear and more"
So what you're saying is that the US is doomed until a revolution happens?
> that I didn't have to fear would mess up a family member's computer

Save for having flash enabled . Hard to believe they've validated all 128,000 games.
SerpentOS
I prefer narrow roads which leave space for pedestrians, businesses like cafés and shops, properly walkable cities, etc. And I would like fuel to be even more heavily taxed (or other more progressive schemes for taxing personal car use).
There are companies like Factory OS: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/business/economy/modular-... or Build Atoms: https://www.buildatmos.com/timetobuild that are supposed make rolling out new construction much faster and easier, though I don't know what their practical impact is right now.
Or a small lithium battery to supply the necessary current which is already a thing you can buy on Amazon for $80 and will start any vehicle short of an excavator.
An important note is that Russia owns/controls Transnistria.
What do you do with the people that don't produce $20 an hour in value. Throw them out?

Low wages are supposed to be entry level, meaning a person with no skills can get employed and start learning work skills to move up.

>pay off student loans

The average college grad starts at $25 an hour.
It's a big coast and the monitoring systems may be old and not suitable for detecting mini-subs. Much of the defense of the US was conceived for a completely different type of threat. We expected Soviet nuclear subs, not small battery powered craft that may not even be manned.

I don't suppose it will be long, if it hasn't happened already, before unmanned drones will be delivering most of the illicit cross-border shipments. You could cheaply build a fleet of them and overwhelm most coastal defenses.
Very interesting comment. That being the case, the biggest fallacy is the ability of challenging the authority, as long as the US politics are protected by US sovereignty (even if they involve and affect the rest of the world).
Indeed and thank you!! Yes - if you have any improvement suggestions, or anything which you'd like added, let me know and I'll see what I can do!

I also see that I made a few spelling mistakes, and a few kind folks here have already submitted issues to let me know, so I'll correct them soon! Thank you all for the feedback and for the help and suggestions! I really appreciate it!
Mind bogglingly stupid to shut something like this down. Legalize it instead. Government should fill out the paperwork at their own expense, and compensate the owners of this sufficiently so that they could continue this manufacturing business in "above board" ways.
> quality (?) bootleg stuff

I remember in Hong Kong I'd be offered branded fake watches: a good fake Rolex from the excellent ABC company, not the cheap XYZ ones...
> This is somewhat subjective, but I think they've got it backwards. Under approval voting, strategic voting and honest voting are basically the same: you vote for as many of the candidates as you can tolerate, and maybe if there's a candidate you really don't want to win you vote for everyone but them.

Except elections rarely work like that. There isn't a set of options I can tolerate and a set I can't. I want my preferred candidate to win more than I want any of the "fine I guess" candidates. And if I have to pick between "bad" and "horrible" I still want to vote for "bad".

With approval voting, I am forced to vote strategically, considering what point in my preference order to draw the line at in order to maximize my chance of causing the highest possible position in my preference order to win.

I realise that IRV isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than any non-ranked choice voting method as far as I can see, and honestly I think the risk of the situations where honest voting results in a sub-optimal outcome is massively overblown, though I don't have data to back that up.

I would note that IRV has the advantage of being actually put into practice at scale (Australia, Maine), and also comes with the nice property that it can be fairly easily adjusted to work with multiple winners (ie. STV), so you can have systems like Australia where IRV is used in single-winner races and STV in multi-winner ones without the voting public needing to learn two systems.
Why can't it be 50mb? Why shouldn't it be 200mb?
Someone’s membership of <identifiable tribe or social grouping> does not confer a specific additional moral obligation to defend a fellow member of their tribe/group more than they might deserve otherwise.

Indeed this myth is actively invoked by bigots & bullies in conjunction with a counterexample as a twisted justification for ongoing persecution.
That's assuming it lasts. When you already have a factory in Mexico and now you have to pay them $16/hour, it makes little sense to immediately move it back to the US just in order to save $0 by paying US workers $16/hour instead.

But the next thing that happens is that it becomes more cost effective to automate, so you start considering that. Then you don't employ as many people, and they become skilled workers who maintain high tech robots instead of unskilled workers turning wrenches, so you're not actually paying unskilled workers $16/hour anymore.

Meanwhile the automation requires retooling, and maybe then you evaluate whether to retool the existing factory or to build a new one in a place with more skilled workers who can maintain the robots.

In year zero you just raise wages for the existing workers. In year two or five or ten, something else happens.
The post I responded to explicitly acknowledged it wasn't a legal argument. At least using the phrase "philosophical musings" seems that way to me.

Unless you want to make the argument that a philosophical argument and a legal argument are equivalent (which I would actually be quite interested in seeing).
This is not my experience at all. I see the gap much more related to identifying and streamlining the real use cases, the things people really want out of the software, as opposed to whatever un-tethered flights of fancy originally drive the creator.
Millenials are demographically numerous and are also now bunched in the "make a family or don't" slice of time. Unless someone makes $300,000 or more a year, as almost no one does, that's very difficult in California, New York, Boston, and increasingly even places like Seattle. COVID may be accelerating preexisting trends and pressures.
Please don't call your company "UseLess".
Is there anything like this for Windows, where most ransomware thrives?
That's exactly the point: if it IS easily predictable, it's NOT a black swan.
anyone know of some good instances on the fediverse
That's a one-time rejection, and is rightfully treated like an unsubscribe request. No harm done to either party - and the merchant is actually happy since we don't want to bother you. Guess what? Angry customers don't buy your products. Seems intuitive.

You might think people don't want these emails just because you don't want these emails. That's pretty biased.

Ask any ecommerce company - these emails, both marketing and transactional, are wanted by most people shopping on the site. The statistics simply prove your argument is false.

This is a common theme among techies. You don't like something... say ads... so you assume nobody should like them and they should be done away with entirely. That's an absurdly short view of the world.
After the last farm bill and the estimate of "1 hectare of hemp to build a 135 m2 (1,450 sq ft) house", I really thought we would have seen a "rural metropolis" growth boom (aka new cities) by now, but I think the autonomous vehicle infrastructure realm is the last legislative hurdle left to build something that maintains 1st world standards for the next leg of growth.

Without the convenience of an avi, it would just be Grizzly Adams cosplay in the woods.

Good luck on the project!
You cannot raise a child on $10 an hour. One might argue then that that person should not have a child, but very often those arguing that are also advocating for a reduction in birth control and against the raising of the minimum wage.

Continuing with the French comparison, in France if you have a child you get 16 weeks of maternity leave as well as an 'allowance equal to their average income over the three months preceding the birth'. In France, 80% of childcare is generally covered, in the US its very expensive unless you have a relative that lives nearby that can watch your child.

So while you are indeed correct, it is possible to survive on $10 per hour, many states have a minimum wage under $8.00.

On the whole I very much agree with you, but it can get very complicated very quickly.
note: you don't "make a motion", you move to x.
I really want to challenge this notion. Just having a lot of information on the page is, I am arguing, not as big of a problem as we make it out to be. I already gave several counter examples of this.

I am arguing that: Making the UI understantable is orthogonal to information density.

Of course, it is possible to have a complete unorganized mess of information plopped on the screen with no rhyme or reason behind the layout, but a well designed and logically grouped UI full of information isn't going to make it difficult to use.
High deductible just means that you have to pay upfront for preventive care — like flu shots, bacterial checkups, and annual physicals. We pay out of pocket for tons of things, like food, clothing, and utilities. Insofar as this is undesirable, it's probably because the pricing system is impaired.

If you have a financially ruinous healthcare event, the ACA silver plan saves you — that's the whole point of insurance.
This isn't something that happens unless you've set up your tax withholding egregiously incorrectly.
I completely agree with you, but often that $10 per hour job is the difference between a roof and homelessness in a household, so they count. At the same time, if I lose a 60k a year job and have to take one for $10 per hour, I am very likely going to lose the house I am already in. The US though has accepted a subsistence wage as good enough though.