skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Outside of Spotify, what do I use on a daily basis as an American that's a valued EU-based company?

ARM Holdings (to be fair they did spend 99% of their life up to this point in the EU) and SAP are two reasonable examples derived from the EU that have products that are used by Americans regularly. ARM was co-founded by two American companies and is now owned by a Japanese company, so that's not exactly a shining independent example for the EU (past or present).
>Geopolitics isn't determined by comments on Internet forums

Politics is increasingly being influenced by Internet movements and culture. Millions of Indians being repeatedly exposed to what reddit and YouTube has to say about them will change their opinion about the West for the worse. The Indians who browse reddit and YouTube are more likely to be young and politically savvy.

I'm not calling for censorship. One possible solution is that American Internet platforms create India-focused silos of their platforms. Indian Internet users (who wish to do so) should still be able to go out of their way to find out what Cletus from Texas has to say.
But it gave us Clippy!!
Thats like saying you'd never drive with someone who uses a seatbelt because wearing one means they don't "believe" in their ability to drive safely.
I love the ambitious goal-setting.

One thing to notice:
> they’ve helped us make our products more energy efficient and bring new sources of clean energy online around the world.

This is a play in the sustainable-tech market space. Inasmuch as _other companies_ care about sustainability, Apple is trying to publicly stay ahead so it can credibly claim expertise when other companies start paying attention.
Test-Driven Security with StackHawk, Travis CI, and Docker Compose
Did you follow-on on all of your investments when they got hit by coronavirus?
>You’re right that devrel is like a pre-sales role somewhat

In my experience, at least in the open source world, developer relations folks are pretty different from pre-sales and are usually not in the sales organization. Even if they don't carry a quota, pre-sales tends to be pretty focused on supporting specific customer sales opportunities. Not saying a developer relations person would never do that, but they tend to work much earlier in the pipeline. (Obviously at small companies, roles can blur more. And at pretty much all companies, lots of people get brought in to support sales in various ways.)
Wonderful idea. These exchanges are very common in other markets. In my experience, a proclivity for equity sharing tends to have an adverse selection problem with early stage founders. The best founders are irrational, and this seems like a highly rational idea :)

But I’d imagine investors and employees would be very interested. Also worth noting tax treatment around this issue is evolving:

> In particular, a senior campaign official said a Biden administration would take aim at so-called like-kind exchanges, which allow investors to defer paying taxes on the sale of real estate if the capital gains are reinvested in another property.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/biden-pro...
Yes we're updating this model, you're right its pretty bad...
Your racist characterization of the far right detracts from your point.
Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
By force, but the US government can come out with guidelines and Facebook can choose to block posts that goes against those guidelines, essentially outsourcing their content moderation to the US government while facing only a small amount of the flack (Facebook does not have an opinion on the wearing of masks, we do not allow posts that go against the scientifically backed recommendations of AGENCY).
Pennies as State Failure
> I am sure they're at par if not better than their Googleplex counterparts

I have heard it's not.

PS. Amazon's work-life balance is is non-existent in most teams.
The red star, specifically?

Eastern Europe?
This. We need to organize protests outside of Apple HQ, press needs to get on it. Big banner news papers.

A $1 trillion dollar company is exploiting labor from concentration camps is totally unacceptable.

Even if it wasn’t, still need to put pressure on Apple to bring back manufacturing.
> Allowing people to "choose" to subscribe to certain things has the ability to get them and others killed.

I shouldn't be allowed to choose what I think?
> Don't be excessive and greedy.

Easier said than done if you have a monopoly. Blah, Blah, competition, Something, Something.
I was eager to buy this and even had the kickstarter on my calendar and checked it first thing this morning after waking up (PST). Unfortunately $129 was really the limit of what I was willing to pay and they're out of that tier of pricing. I cannot imagine this retailing at $200 and doing well. I guess I'll pickup a used one in a year when someone gets bored with it.

I have the first one and it's great for the gym or running. However removing the rear backing and battery to swap my phone's sim card into is a pain (so that I don't have to pay for two phone plans when I only use this one a few hours a week), as is the micro USB charging and the lack of fingerprint reader and the smaller battery.
Yup that's a great point! So cool to see the model begin to break with crowd testing
The Consistency Curse
> And recharging is still relatively slow.

I know not all EVs are Tesla, but it's interesting to see where charging is going (others will follow suit).

Supercharging v3 gives you 1,000 miles of range per hour of charge (approx. if you're in the 20-80% SOC range I think). If you take a 6 min bathroom (or other) break every 100 miles (roughly every couple of hours), you can replenish those 100 miles during that break.

Personally, I find superchargers "too quick", as I tend to stop for lunch with my family when I supercharge, and I find myself having to rush to finish lunch so I can get the car out of the charger for someone else to be able to use it. I wish there was an option to say "charge slower and give that juice to the other guy" (many/most current supercharger "pods" have to share the current flow with another car).

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-v3-supercharging
I just looked to price one on their website, and it starts with some absurdly low specs including a 128GB SSD and a horrible 1366x768 TN screen for $1140. This is not acceptable in 2020.
Perhaps such a chart could be made for them on their behalf? Actually curious now if someone is already charting this.
The battery in my 2014 MacBook Pro is going bad for the second time. Replacing the battery last time was expensive and a major ordeal. It's more difficult than replacing the battery in my car.

Replacing the battery in my 2006 MacBook Pro took all of 15 seconds.

If the lifetime of a battery powered device is expected to be much longer than the lifetime of the battery, then the battery needs to be easily user replaceable. Otherwise, the manufacturer has zero credibility on the environment.

Don't even get me started on vendor OS lockdown and its effect on the environment. They're intentionally making devices disposable.
I have no affiliation with CloudFlare at all, but my interactions with them have all been kind, professional, and courteous.

I might recommend reaching out to the CEO, Matthew Prince, with a succinct explanation of your problem and I would be surprised if that by itself does not kick off some serious positive action!
A 5-part series on bootstrapping trust
If their marketing had a bit of creativity, they would get the people laid off into new jobs. Potential customers might notice.
> From a very simplistic perspective, it can be compared to gold.

It is indeed very simplistic to compare it to gold and this is sadly part of the Bitcoin narrative. Gold has a recognition as an store of value based on its network effects while Bitcoin network effect is pretty low in comparison. We can imagine than if a Bitcoin2 is created with similar economic properties and gain more traction it will automatically replace the Bitcoin1 as a store of value. Obviously, this can happen to gold either but with much less probability thinking on all the financial network gold is part of.
> 5 pt scale: 1 is strongly against, 5 is strongly in favor

Is one dimension all that's needed? What about adding: how certain do you feel that your opinion is right

Like, severity + probability maybe?
I asked straightforward questions. I wasn't aggressive in what I said. I did call him out on his self-professed disappointment with the state of affairs which seems to be blaming the tech talent out of India for not working on solving fundamental issues. This sort of punting of responsibility for building India is common among Indian youth. The thought being - someone else is supposed to sacrifice their career and life to create a better India to solve my disappointment.

And no my work doesn't, but I'm not the one professing disappointment with Indian entrepreneurs.
Thank you.

One more risk founders and entrepreneurs need to brace for : Regime uncertainty. Political uncertainty added to market risk, macro, pandemics, on and on...
The metric that tends to matter in this is ROIC, but since software/internet companies tend to be pretty "capital light", they generally already have a very high ROIC. Unless the company can deploy that money in new growth projects that they aren't already going after, or in accretive acquisitions (hard to do when tech valuations are so high), it probably makes sense to do what they are doing.
It's only a tiny step above searching Github and copy-pasting.

Searching and copy-pasting isn't the hard part of software development. Guaranteeing validity, safety and performance is the hard part.

This doesn't get us any closer to the goal. (In fact it's the opposite, a big step back.)
After lots and lots of discussions I now belive pepole are fundamentally irrational.

75% of the world population believes that there is a god, despite not having a single tangible reason to belive that.

Somehow they have a need for simple, rigid explanation for the world. One that is always right. All these medical scams perfectly fit that paradigm. They are right, not like these pepole who have a "theory".

Ultimately I think they are happier.
Because languages that compile to a platform binary must obey rules of a system linker and a corresponding stdlib. Javascript is an active host for an entire js program, but C compiler is not. C source files turn into object files (.o/.obj and then .so/.dll for libraries) that have a particular format and may be linked with object files and libraries from other languages. A system linker then decides where the entry point is by looking in every object file for a _start symbol, which is usually implemented by clib, and it basically does:

void _start(void) {
extern int main(...);
init_clib();
exit(main(...));
}

The exact procedure heavily depends on a build target. Also, C compiler cli tool (e.g. gcc) is usually a frontend for a compiler and a linker, among other tools, which may add to the confusion.

Object files are collections of symbols, either external, or defined in that file. Every non-extern symbol is a region (addr, len) with either data or code. There is no unnamed/main symbols by design. In theory, C could abstract that and allow code at column zero, but there is no rationale for that.
A small form of competition to YouTube? Sounds good to me. YouTube really needs to get its ego checked.
I am aware Singapore is not a perfect democratic example but this derails the debate and is beside the point, which is that if Singapore had mirrored the oppressive nature of Saudi Arabia, it would never have succeeded.
> it's because of LACK of regulation. Had the US government enforced a 1-wire policy from the get-go (municipalities run single-mode fiber for the last mile and let ISPs compete at an aggregation point)

The fact that this did not happen was not because of lack of regulation; it was because of too much regulation and regulatory capture by large ISPs. Plenty of municipalities wanted to do exactly what you describe, since the benefits to their residents are obvious. What stopped them was regulators, plus lawsuits by large ISPs on the grounds (though they didn't put it this way) that any such action by municipalities would violate the sweetheart monopoly deals they had with the Federal and state governments.
People died alone and couldn’t have funerals because epidemiologists said it was too dangerous. A week later, those same epidemiologists were cheering on mass demonstrations.

It’s pretty clear that these “experts” are abusing their status as supposedly objective scientists to advance a political movement. Why should anyone trust anything they say?
My Tesla Model 3 weighs over 4000 lbs and still cranks out 3.2 second 0-60 and turns out competitive laps on the track in its class (BMW M3, etc) For reference my giant ford raptor only weighs like 1000 more lbs. it’s not as nimble in turns, but it makes up for it with on demand torque coming out of corners. Also, Mustangs have never been true sports/track cars in their mass consumer versions. They do make more trackable mustang variants, but I can still see a market for a stupidly powerful pony car.
My wife's macbook ssd died the other day. 'Repairable' in this case meant replacing the entire motherboard for a cost of almost a new machine.

Repairable should mean just repairing what's broken not everything.
Understanding the Technology Ecosystem in South Africa
After using a bunch of other programming languages professionally (for over fifteen years), I can confirm - Clojure is a cult. I am so stuck in it and have no desire to leave. Rich Hickey is a voodoo shaman or something. Don't you ever watch his talks and do not try Clojure! I have warned you!
In Common Lisp: How to really use the debugger. I knew how to read the error messages and clean up my code, but it took me way too long to learn how to restart from that point instead of starting the whole thing over again.

In C (embedded): How to use gdb over JTAG. No one else had set it up, and the errors were too hard to diagnose just by gathering traces.

In concurrent/distributed code: General problem, not language specific, how to use tools like TLA+ or Alloy to model the system and identify errors that were hard to replicate live.
Seems like bitcoin experienced a whole lot of unexpected inflation in early March this year. And fall of last year. And November 2018. And January 2018. And... well, you get the picture.

Bitcoin guarantees the supply remains fixed. But inflation is also a function of demand, and that is well outside its control.
Huh. As the page loads for me, the headline is also the entirety of the content.

Though it is longer than presented here. The rest is "...and funnel tech workers into government work".

The news is summarizing itself now!
> maybe Holbein let himself be thrown in a common grave

No one gets to choose where they are buried. You may put your desires in a will or even purchase a grave site, but the choice is ultimately not yours.
I don't think it's possible. (Unless my understanding of the term "carbon negative" is mistaken.)

Let's suppose you could manufacture your devices with 0 carbon emissions. No solar, no wind, no gas, no nothing. Some other energy source with no carbon inputs needed. For the sticklers, let's suppose none of the human employees breath or anything during the manufacture of the products. So no carbon there either.

You still have to deliver it right?

Let's suppose you make it in Chicago, or Miami, or San Fran, wherever. How are you going to get that product to Lincoln Nebraska with no carbon emissions? How will you get it to Lyon France? Or Aguadilla PR? or Ningbo? Or Mwanza? (And in this case it would have to be more than "no" carbon emissions, it would have to be "negative" carbon emissions.)

I'm not certain any company can deliver a physical product with negative carbon emissions. It seems almost impossible without using funny math.
The article is specifically talking about internet-based companies, aka "tech". It seems to me you're confirming an absence of them, which to me invalidates your comment of 'who said unicorns are good?', because the absence suggests that the current model isn't working.

It's true the world isn't the US -- can you point to successful internet-based EU companies that are big in both EU and some other part of the world? If so, it would seem a shame that they're not able to compete well in the US given the size of the market and the compatibility in culture/law/trade.
The community versions of ELK, Zabbix, InfluxDB and grafana.

Zabbix is the weak link here for sure, but the monitoring is quite comprehensive.
They already do give far more consideration to the end of the product life cycle than any competitor and they continue to improve.
> Almost every time a PDE is solved on a computer, it is a variational problem.

Not true. In computational fluid dynamics, variational methods are only one category out of many, and they aren't dominant.
GCP with Docker Swarm, scheduled on the same node (n2-standard-4). Let me know if any other questions
Emily Oster's books and recently her newsletter. They're not for everyone but they are definitely for the type of person who asks for parenting advice on Hacker News :P

She's a professor of economics and her main shtick is that she evaluates the academic literature behind a lot of the big decisions facing new parents during pregnancy and early childhood. Personally the parts I found most useful are areas where people have extremely strong opinions about what parents should do while in reality the data is too weak to justify any strong views.

Her first book, Expecting Better, is mostly about pregnancy. Her second book, Cribsheet, is about early childhood (through pre-K).

She also started doing a newsletter recently that I've been enjoying. https://emilyoster.substack.com/
This is great to perfect existing features of a product and avoid scope creep of new ones.
It's not an 'internet' based company, which this article is specifically talking about. German cars are heavily used by Americans, and I have many German appliances, but again that's not what the subject matter is.
What makes you think this? Reuse is fundamental to their strategy and has been for years.
The older one. Was using.

I read the 2020 SE is the same size as the 7, so meh that makes it completely uninteresting.
Yeah, I imagine day to day work isn't profoundly different wherever you go, but rather it's intangibles like culture and work environment and working mentality that make the difference.

Most of my coworkers are simply there to collect a paycheck. Not that there's anything strictly wrong with that, but there is distinctly a lack of interest in doing anything beyond the bare minimum to satisfy technical requirements. Grass is greener on the other side, but my interactions with employees of tech companies has given me the impression that they're just a lot more enthusiastic about their work than many equivalent SWEs at companies where tech is a cost center.
You mentioned expensive art, which is a pretty fascinating field because the value of individual pieces can be fairly subjective and difficult to appraise.

This has massive tax implications in the United States. Imagine donating a piece of art, which you claim is worth $1 million. But the question of who is allowed to make that claim is quite complex, and often goes unnoticed unless the IRS chooses to investigate.

A couple of articles on this:

Inflated art appraisals cost U.S. government untold millions
https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-irs2mar02-story.html

The secretive panel of art experts that tells the IRS how much art is worth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-secret...
Indeed. For that price I still choose XPS
Already done! NEDRA [0] is the north American drag racing scene that has been around over 20 years. Much of the best DC EV equipment was developed by the hobbyist market. Perhaps the most impressive example of hobbyists becoming electrical engineers is the self-taught inventor of the Zilla DC motor controller [1], which is still a force to be reckoned with in performance EV conversions. Electrathon [2] is a series that's highly accessible to high schools and individual hobbyists - the goal being to cover as much ground as possible in one hour on one kWh.

EVs are comparatively easy to get started on as a hobby. The production EVs are only making it easier by populating the secondhand parts market, and electric drivetrains are much simpler and easier to fit than ICE conversions.

[0] http://www.nedra.com/

[1] http://cafeelectric.com/zilla.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrathon
Removing like-kind exchange wouldn't just affect this. The whole M&A space would collapse.
China is as "mildly oppressive" just as much as a bullet to the head is "mildly inconvenient".
Europe couldn't even manage to implement Linux in Berlin! The capitalist pressure is what really works there in the farce of socialism. Even with GDPR, those who got penalized where small websites, IT Shops, bloggers, etc. for not knowing their intricate rules while the big fish went unscathed.
I've always wondered why mega billionaires from this era such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg etc. haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc. - all started by monopolists from the previous era. I guess Eric Schmidt would be the first one
I think you might lose for two reasons:

- Conventional RF systems can function with very low latency. The signal processing chain for radiation detection systems is comparatively large, and can require correlation (or anti-correlation) and significant noise reduction or signal separation to construct a useful signal.

- It requires an unbelievable capital investment for low bandwidth. You need a large time advantage to make your PnL on the few names this would support compared to microwaves and other conventional means.
My daily driver is this one https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_lis...

Leopold FC660M, very stable build, doesn't take up too much space and my favorite switches are the Cherry MX Red (linear, non clicky).

Though the Ducky ONE 2 SF comes close as well.

And I've tried many mice in the past years, the Glorious Model D is now my favorite and it's reasonably priced.
Takes a bit of perspective shift to realize tech is a means to end and not the end itself.
I'd like to answer your challenge that you put forward in your article. I can think of two straightforward uses for cryptos.

1. It helps evade financial censorship imposed on legal businesses and individuals. Ex: 4chan is financially censored, and can only take bitcoin and other Cryptos as payment despite having broken no law.

2. Financial Privacy (in say, monero). Ex: Support controversial causes without having to worry about losing your job in case of a leak.
I am pretty sure they are all investing because jio will come up with a one stop digital shop with them controlling it end to end. They will be launching a cloud. All these companies are investing now to get a piece of the big pie. There will be an IPO.
Kontxt (https://kontxt.io) lets you write inline highlights, comments, polls, etc, on digital content with permission based sharing. You can share full articles with your responses on it (example: https://www.kontxt.io/proxy/https://www.independent.co.uk/li...) or a summary view (example: https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/CChEtxTRf9lt3IZhuTSw1zES8Dg...). Soon we'll add a WYSIWYG editor that you can write your own content and references content from other annotated sources.

Is this the type of functionality you're looking for if it could be self-hosted? How much would you be willing to pay for such a tool?
You might be right, but source?
I haven't heard of this before. What led you to this conclusion?
And in the first paragraph they even mention that this might have applications for bike locks. If that was an intended application, surely testing against bolt cutters which are so frequently used would be something they'd have done.