skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's quite funny we are so used to this kind of capitalist view that thinks money solves all our issue.

This is silly. No one thinks that. You're just not telling the difference between "necessary" and "sufficient".
And more efficient manufacturing for the conservative stuff. And better reliability, because really why not?
>It's not a given that Millions of people have something useful to do.

It pretty much is guaranteed because that is how we structured our economic system. Why do think we have inflation? Inflation reduces the value of our assets and forces us to work just to stay where we are. It forces rich people to productively invest their assets. It forces poor people to spend their money as quickly as possible. This accelerates the economy an creates new jobs. Low un(der)employment is a policy goal of many governments and controlled inflation is a tool used to achieve that goal.
The Tikka T3 is quite possibly the best value for money bolt action rifle on the market.

In general, I've almost always found outdoor equipment from European companies to be superior to American (regardless of where it's actually manufactured). I've always got the impression from their marketing material that the Europeans are selling a product, whereas the Americans are always selling a lifestyle.
“The company might have to release the source for everything!” isn't a downside for some people. The FSF's philosphy is that all source code should be opened. What you're describing as a bug (for a company), is (I think) a feature for the FSF.
Partial remote communication: Some members are remote, some are in office. The remote workers are often left out of the loop, and often out of friendships, and communication is not done on tools where they can listen in on. This is usually less productive than fully remote.

Mushroom management: Managers keep the developers in the dark like mushrooms. Often consulting companies afraid of being undercut by their developers. It adds communication overhead and "telephone game" communication between the managers and developers, and very often devs don't understand why something is to be done a certain way and are less motivated or cut the corners.

2nd System syndrome: The first system someone designs is underengineered. The second one is often overengineered, which is worse than underengineering. Worst case is making such a person team lead. This isn't just engineering, but also management, sales, etc, as well.

Bikeshedding: If an objective seems simple enough, nobody can agree to it, because it's within the Dunning-Kruger zone of people who want input.

Duck decoy: Middle management feels like they have to give input and criticize to be useful. An engineer can set up a "duck" feature (search for Battle Chess) which is easy to criticize and easy to remove, to appease such managers.

Friendly fire: For some reason, not enough resources are allocated to a project. Often time/tight deadlines. Team A blames Team B for not fulfilling their role. Team B blames Team A later. Blaming often freezes progress as they have to make meetings to explain the situation and possible solutions and negotiate adjustments to the schedule/budget. This can lead to a deadlock. A common option is to bring in a consultant then blame the consultant. That way only two teams are frozen in place, while the third team makes progress unhindered. The consultant will also blame the in-house teams, but their role is to keep it minimum and buy more time.

Budgeting as needed: A budget increases and decreases according to its needs. This often results in departments requesting extra computers, resources, printer cartridges, etc to finish a budget so that their budget isn't reduced next year.
apt install nginx will set the users for you and it also starts automatically on start, ssh default config is perfectly fine, keys are set up automatically when you start the instance - any cloud provider/VPS service/even kvm with 'uvtools' does this for your (and even if not, it's one ssh-copy-id command).

But yes you need to run, for example, a certbot as well to setup certificates.

so it's:
apt install nginx
apt install certbot
certbot certonly -d your.domain -d www.your.domain
# again, when you apt install certbot it installs the cron/timer automatically for automatic certificates renewly and nginx reload

Still less work than going the CDN route I would say.

It really seems to me you don't trust default linux settings and need to take care of everything and fine tune everything but you trust CDN providers thus making the CDN route less work for you. If you trust default settings of a linux distro, it's less time consuming setting it up yourself on linux. Yes that's how user-friendly it really is today.
You had to learn 0,1,2,3, etc. at some point. The thing with notation is that it takes time to learn, but it proves profoundly useful over time. The benefit of notation integrated over your career outweighs the adoption costs.

Arabic numbers are like this (no child immediately ‘groks’ Arabic numbers), and Haskell notation is making the same case. Haskell abbreviates abstract structures so that they become fluid.

If focusing on notation is a problem, then we should all have grown up to use our fingers for counting, not Arabic numerals.
> The U.S. thesis for outsourcing is that the manufacturing countries are filled with braindead automatons

So Wall Street was serving here as a template too?

But jest aside, if success isn't measured by long time goals we should have expected these results.
If I supply you with isolated Robert Plant vocals and transcripts, would you consider training a model? That could be some 'interesting' output results with the dynamics and range of his singing.
You might be interested in this paper: "The Majority Illusion in Social Networks", https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03022

Abstract:

Social behaviors are often contagious, spreading through a population as individuals imitate the decisions and choices of others. A variety of global phenomena, from innovation adoption to the emergence of social norms and political movements, arise as a result of people following a simple local rule, such as copy what others are doing. However, individuals often lack global knowledge of the behaviors of others and must estimate them from the observations of their friends' behaviors. In some cases, the structure of the underlying social network can dramatically skew an individual's local observations, making a behavior appear far more common locally than it is globally. We trace the origins of this phenomenon, which we call "the majority illusion," to the friendship paradox in social networks. As a result of this paradox, a behavior that is globally rare may be systematically overrepresented in the local neighborhoods of many people, i.e., among their friends. Thus, the "majority illusion" may facilitate the spread of social contagions in networks and also explain why systematic biases in social perceptions, for example, of risky behavior, arise. Using synthetic and real-world networks, we explore how the "majority illusion" depends on network structure and develop a statistical model to calculate its magnitude in a network.
Maybe, but my main point is this sort of misuse of the court procedures for the side effect of manipulating the crowd using deceptive claims, is what makes FB disgusting.
Thanks to duopixel! Found the answer in the thesis pdf. Jump to figure 19. They found a good enough relation between finger muscle relaxation (EMG electrodes) and EEG sleep signals.

This is really cool because you bypass all the other issues/disconfort with other headband devices. I would be much more willing to have something on my fingers during sleep than strapped to my head.

Edit:typo
Julia Butterfly Hill
How is it possible to run an Open Source company?
I like & support the concept of Open Source software, but how are companies which provide OSS like Rudderstack or PostHog (both were introduced on Show HN) operated? How do they make money for their operations? I know it might come from VC or Seed Investors, but what is the business model behind it?
Right! I have still not finished it, but it's truly enchanting and exactly as you mentioned.
"Insecurity" in that quote is describing a perception on the part of workers which, the quote discusses, doesn't seem to be validated by actual job market data. In particular, Greenspan is offering it as a reason why there isn't as much wage inflation given the relative tightness of the labor market. He says workers aren't changing jobs to capture increases because they'd rather stay put.

It's worth asking why workers felt insecurity when the statistics suggested there shouldn't be any. A related, worthy question is why increasingly lower unemployment rates in the 90s (and even the 2010s) didn't show up in the Phillips Curve predicted increase in wages. My read of this quote is Greenspan speculating at an answer. I don't know if it's correct. I don't even know if economists today agree on an answer. In any case, he certainly doesn't seem to be cheering for precarity.
In what way is it "barely accountable"? It's appointed by Member States directly through the European Council (the heads of each Member State who meet quarterly to discuss the EU), who propose nominations, and then confirmed by the MEPs from each Member State directly elected by their voters.

So, from two directly accountable bodies: the heads of state of each country, and then directly elected MEPs. If EU voters don't like their Commission, they can always vote in new MEPs and new governments to represent them on the Council.

There are many arguable democratic deficits within the EU, but isn't one of them in my opinion.
When the british navy waived the rules, they mostly sailed. For the US navy to rule the waves requires oil.
Very cool. I immediately recognized this procedural city as Berlin. Guess it's working pretty well.
Interesting, thanks.

> depending on salary

I never understood why they make it scale. Apparently Australia has parental leave too but at the minimum wage.
If being data driven is wrong, I don't want to be right.
The problem with automated air transport is that the failure mode is going down through gravity and probably not being able to land on a suitable surface. I doubt we have automated pilots developed so far that any failure (and those are a lot!!) can be handled, and even then you might want to manually control.

The failure mode of automated driving is less severe. You're already on a road, gravity holds you down and unless the brakes don't work (although in an electric car or bus, when not accelerating you're braking) the likelihood of accidents is smaller.
Even the concept of gunsmiths making serial production guns is weird to me. Gunsmiths should do repair, factories with robots and CNC machines should make high precision gear.
Prepping a Windows Machine for Development
This is made worse by those insufferable over-zealous team members with a i-can-wag-my-tail-harder-than-you attitude. They send emails from holiday expressing their concern over a change, which frankly no one gives a damn about, and moan their semi-brags on how they are dying under work because how random senior managers (who don't give a crap about them and are just playing them to get more work done) have "insisted on my involvement". These are the kind of rotten apples who don't have a life and drag those that do have/want one to the bottomless pit of overwork. /rant
How far? As I understand it, the conspiracy here is that Twitter uses these moderation tools to silence people with a certain political perspective. I think — assuming that is indeed the case — this does lean more on the conspiratorial side, and is not akin to moderators banning bots trying to shift cialis pills.

The reason why I liken this to Snowden is because at least anecdotally, the typically dialogue I have seen is

Conspiracy Theorist: "Twitter are shadow-banning people!"

Normal Person A: "That's a dumb conspiracy theory."

Twitter: "We are not shadow-banning people."

Normal Person B: "Here is proof that Twitter shadow-bans people."

Normal Person A: "Well yeah, obviously. It would be pretty naïve to think they weren't always doing this."

---

You can quite accurately substitute Twitter with the US government, shadow-banning with spying, and Normal Person B with Edward Snowden.
[Article] Your boss is not always right
Black Hole Demo
Democracy developed in a world of totalitarian regimes, and mostly thrived because having officials vulnerable to election cuts down on corruption and incompetence while building government legitimacy and stability.

Totalitarian states tend to have a good run, where they have a good leader and energetic administration, then they become lethargic and dysfunctional, and because there's no mechanism to correct this, they start falling apart. (However, this can take centuries).

As an aside, I don't think the West has ever been particularly keen on democracy. I think Israel is the only democracy that has ever received substantial military and economic support. For dictatorships, this kind of support is basically routine (see Egypt, for a typical example).
> I simply don’t read the same vast conspiracy in the memo that you imply.

Even if it was a conspiracy it isn't obvious it is a conspiracy against the common good. The American economic system has been a powerful force for good in the world - America is a hugely popular migration destination because of their superior economics and the alternatives at the time of the letter were places like the Soviet Union, Maoist China or Europe re-emerging from the rubble of their failures to maintain order and prosperity.

They weren't talking about "Communists" who were advocating for "like, life sucks for the poor, man" or modern "fascists" who want less immigration. The communists had just finished killing millions of people and their signature accomplishment were some of the greatest mass famines in history. Everyone knew someone who died fighting actual militant fascists. A rational person would have been very interested in protecting the American economic system as one of the few shining lights of progress in 1971.
Yeah, I see what you mean - the posted article is definitely misleading in that case. What an idiotic thing to do.
Does US or other western country ever retaliate? It seams to me that Russia and China keep attacking as and we do nothing. Was vkontakte ever taken down? What would happen if an US hacker group "independent" of NSA would attack a Russian company?
Thanks for this post. You saved me the embarrassment of writing something like "that company that ran everything in a much more humane way and benefited for it that a friend told me about years ago but I forgot the name".
Roam Research reaches $1m ARR in 6 weeks
_Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)_ by Pierce is another such book.

It is of course only an introduction to the field, but it had an immense impact on how I saw information (hence, the universe) after I read. Primarily because it showed to me the many faces of Information Theory- music, psychology, geometry, language, cybernetics, etc.
That's very similar in most government jobs in Europe, I believe. I don't know about the US, but I expect it's similar there as well.

I'm afraid that it works out great for you because others are working more. Individually, that's a good decision for you, but it's not a model you can make society run on, at least not at the same level of output we're currently providing. If everybody had the same circumstances you have, we couldn't afford everything we can afford now, unless there's some explosion in productivity, which is hard to believe for the majority of jobs where it's not about "coming up with the right idea".
> Manufacturing is what adds real value to an economy.

This is yet another misconception that only manufacturing is real.

Share of services as the value of manufactured products is also increasing. In developed countries it's usually 40-50%.

China produces low value added products. Producing what China does in the US would reduce value added in the US economy. The US would become poorer.
But fitness devices are notoriously bad at tracking stress :) I have stress measurement on both my Galaxy watch active and my phone (S8), and neither reading has any correlation with how stressed I am.

Basically when I've been working out it always thinks I'm stressed because my heartrate is still high, and when I'm all stressed in work it shows the lowest possible :S

I think it's just not possible to measure something as complex as stress using so few metrics. Same with sleep tracking. When I had a sleep study done I was wired up like a borg :D Checked the sleep tracking on my watch later with the graphs I received and it didn't match at all.

They're good at showing raw stats like footsteps, location and heartrate (and tracking them over time for laps/pace etc) but that's about it. But I don't trust their derived measurements at all. If the other trackers work like my watch, they'll think you're super relaxed if you haven't been working out.
I believe the current super computer leader uses ARM.
> How many variables do you see here?

Unless we are talking metro, where I live it is not that uncommon to have some animal wonder on the tracks, people trying to commit suicide on the track, people throwing things at the train from bridges, ...

Hell, I there was even an hot air balloon that crashed on the train track a few years back in my city, blocking trains for the whole day.
A Seattle police precinct was bombed
>I mean, this is just....wrong.

I wouldn't call it wrong per se, but it's about what would happen if I as accountant designed a database architecture. It would work, but any programmer looking at the dodgy code would think "omg what have you done?"
:-P

It's OK to drive drunk, as long as you put a blindfold on so you can't see that you're drunk?
I think that depends on the nature of the moderation. If a major platform were deliberately amplifying right-wing extremists for example, it would likely be a scandal.
Roameo: Custom domains, analytics and social metatags for RoamResearch
It is scary that you're getting downvoted. I guess the thumbs down crowd really wants the web browser to do everything.
In my case I've been charged for months, like the poster I have never received any monthly statements or any correspondence at all. The charge description is "Subscribe [numbers] CA" and nothing shows up in Google. I wasn't sure what this was, who the merchant was, or how to contact them.

Now that I've figured out it was this app I installed, but hadn't found a specific use for (and forgot about) I'm poking around again. In the app when I click on "Edit My Profile" it literally says "STEP 2 OF 3" and "Hmm... It seems that you have no set any personal details yet."

I can't remember the original signup flow (I'm confident it wasn't very clear), but even if it was explicit the way ongoing charges work and the value it adds is very dubious.
biggest problem is that .net/dotnet core can not be easily wasm aot compiled. currently you compile the runtime to wasm and use the dll with the wasm runtime.
this is the approach that blazor wasm uses and it is aweful.
It seems that it took him a couple of decades to understand that piracy of his products may be good for the business: when visiting a university in the US in early 90s, he got asked what Microsoft is doing with the Chinese pirating their products left and right. Bill responded with 'let them get used to it and eventually we'll figure out how to charge for it'. I used to use pirated software all the time.fast forward some years and I'm paying for Photoshop, Acrobat,a whole bunch of Microsoft products and I'll most likely host my app on Azure.
Interview Nightmares
Like lots of people at the moment I found myself back on the job market. Things have been going well, but an interview yesterday included a (virtual equivalent) whiteboard coding exercise.

Now, I’m not a huge fan of these and don’t use them in my own hiring. But as a dev of ~15y experience, still very much hands on, I should be able to handle it.

I found myself drawing an absolute blank. The exercise was nothing too complicated really, but the brain would simply not engage. Nothing was working.

As interviews go it was the worst experience I’ve ever had - I spent maybe twenty minutes in this blocked state but it felt like forever.

So I’m now feeling pretty depressed about job prospects, coding ability, my capability as a human being etc. Sharing or talking about a problem always helps to process it, so I thought 1. Why not do that with anonymous internet strangers, and 2. Why not provide a place for people to do the same. So it would be great if people felt able to share their stories too.

And for those of you also unexpectedly back in the job market: best of luck, you will get there.
Why would “you must prove you aren’t fiddling the books Just like any charity” be persecution in a non theocratic state?
In the past I used to use Criticker (https://www.criticker.com/) and found that once I'd rated some movies the recommendations were very good.

But like others have said the easiest way is to find a friend/critic who has similar taste to you and just see what they recommend.
You have to include real cost of living in this. When it comes to software engineering many people from Eastern Europe and I guess even India (Vietnam too) are relatively speaking better off compared to many of their peers in SV.

I live in Romania and I have a close friend who works locally for a big US software company that everyone on this website has heard of and he's about to purchase an apartment in one of the poshest areas of Bucharest (think one block away from Central Park, NYC), the money for doing that having been earned from that US company. No way he'd be able to do that in SV or in NYC itself were he to be employed directly in the States (unless he was a star engineer or something).

He won't probably be able to buy himself a Porsche or any other 100,000+ euros car for that matter, but those are mostly one-off gimmicks that pale when you compare them with the cost of living + healthcare (even in Romania, if you have decent money you can now get pretty decent healthcare).
As a small-time landlord, it's more complicated than that because the dynamic changes based on neighborhood and city. Filling is not a challenge for me specifically because I'm in California in one of the major cities, the reality of the locale is that there's always /somebody/ seeking (I suspect this is the case in most big cities) and while I try to help my tenants by being a little laxer than some owners I still have to pay property tax if nothing else (this is more complicated currently but it's still a presence). I'm also not some mega complex with a war chest though, I'm eight units with a revenue of 120k. Thankfully so far none of my tenants have been totally shut out from their work, there's been a few months some needed extra time but they've all managed to spring back.
It’s always possible to have a remote control station with extremely well trained emergency pilots to take over in those case. That of course requires a very reliable remote control system.
For once it was the bank that was going to be ripped off and you had to tell the truth ...
> There's something really strange about it: it fits so snugly on my wrist, so warm, yet spartan; it simply just feels good.

Totally agree. And it's great utility because of this. You can use it while playing, sports, music and it doesn't get in the way. There's no anxiety of busting and if you do it's cheap to replace.