skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a business is not short-term sustainable, but IS long-term, and investor capital gets you over that hump.

Unfortunately, investor capital changes the dynamics such that what would be long-term sustainable without investment, may very well not be long-term sustainable with investment.
This is part of my point, founders don’t have to accept our deal even though we put it in writing ahead of time. It’s not the founders responsibility to make our business model work, it is their responsibility to build a great company. If we agree on an entry point for us to go along for the ride, great!
#wozdomday2, #11daysofwozdom , and #inspiringchildren

https://twitter.com/mmphosis/status/1293612051177148416
Node.js Adoption in Enterprises
Is Node.js adoption in established enterprises is not as high as Java & .NET adoption for developing web applications?
I'm not a CTO (yet?) but I've begin to grok some of the stuff involved in managing teams of engineers. 'The Manager's Path' by Camille Fournier was really helpful. Lots of very practical advice for all sorts of technical leaders: senior ICs, front-line managers, managers-of-managers, CTOs.
It absolutely is still relevant and important. This is a huge blow to ongoing radio astronomy.
You failed to explain how or why its a false equivalency. Meddling is meddling.
Satellite internet, ham radio, exfiltration from Belarus
Could the effort be bootstrapped by using a C to Rust translator, like https://github.com/immunant/c2rust, preserving the existing semantics prior to updating the code to remove the "unsafe" tags.
Wow, I didn't know I needed a phone with two screens to be able to listen to music while doing something else!
Providing tech support by responding to customers is a different beast entirely to content moderation, however. It may be the case that human oversight of algorithmic moderation is also unreasonable, but I find this fairly unlikely. I wouldn't expect it would require quite so many man hours. But again, could be wrong.
The argument here seems to be "It can replace an iPad and a phone", but I'm not so sure it can replace either one.

Setting aside the fact that Android tablet software is still a bit of a mess, are people going to want to watch movies and play games on a tablet with a big crack in the middle? Even surfing the web, you can't really view a page well in landscape. Likewise spreadsheets, word processing, etc

Apps like email which do well with multiple panes would be great, but only if they can mind the gap.

So much of what I use the iPad for is full screen, I'm a bit skeptical about how well those things translate to 2 half screens.
Yeah, or I just use Lyft in the meantime.
> There's usually a clause in both contracts that prevents them from cutting out the middle-man.

Usually that has a fixed expiration date, e.g. placement-to-hire is a 6-month contract. Otherwise you're just a professional services company with contractors, and that usually carries a 3-6 month non-compete or something along those lines.
No, and I'm not sure it would be. It's a very small subset of Storybook, and offloads all dependency management and build aspects to the build system of the monorepo (like Bazel).

The story format is a combination of a small container for story templates and knob definitions, then a custom element that can render stories. Maybe we could release that on an as-is basis.
Hey, no worries!

Personally I think this playlist provides a nice set of real-world examples implemented in ATS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsILVOqYCU0&list=PL6BIXG1a4e...

And this series of blogposts is a pure gold:

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/

And here's the official language introductory resources:

Language Tutorial - http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...

Language Features Overview - http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/ATS2TUTORIAL/HTML/A...
Store and Sync Passwords with Dropbox Passwords
I'm aware, and the wiki goes into the complications as well. I'm suggesting that, along the lines of what the parent comment did, putin might find this an opportunity to strengthen the union agreement, perhaps make good on some of those promises to increase unity to increase influence
I think there's also "death by VC": raising too much money, losing control of the company, and then the company heads in an infeasible moonshot direction. One example might be Google's buy-and-kill strategy. But PG's essay is really about the early months of a startup, whereas this is later in the game.
I disagree. It would be an exaggeration to say it is ubiquitous, but it is more common than you think: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/telec.... Certainly not VERY unusual.
the British cracked Enigma in 1941, and from then they were able to completely destroy the 300-400 German u-boats, because they were intercepting and decrypting u-boat radio traffic, so they always knew where the u-boats were going. The only reason the Allies allowed the u-boats to continue winning small victories was to preserve the illusion that Enigma was still secure to prevent the Germans from switching to another cipher system. So when you see depictions of exciting historical battles against u-boats, keep in mind that it was not a level playing field due to the strategic advantage of superior SIGINT by the Allies.
There have been several waves of attacks where somebody posted malicious ads via Adsense that would use JS to redirect visitors to a different page. In the cases I was involved with, they were only targeting mobile traffic and redirected to a scam-site that asked users to download an app to fix a virus etc.

We've reported it, never heard back from Google. It went away after a few days each time, and hasn't happened in two or three years, at least not to any site I'm involved with.
The only saving grace is that they only use it as a last resort since sending out that kind of noise would let everyone in that hemisphere know exactly where you are.
There’s no reason for civil war in Belarus. The country is too tired of the ex-president and the only reason he’s still in power is a clique of generals of security services, who will be held accountable for their crimes if opposition wins. You not knowing that apparently do not care much too.
Citation needed. Comcast for one is _vehemently_ anti-union. I see only right-wing media claiming unions drive up internet costs.
"Coerce" in the sense that poor people would notice a way to make money and go after it?
Consider someone doing tech support for zero to 60 hours per week, at their own discretion, and getting paid for ticked solved.
Oh awesome! Thanks for adding that, I will definitely be making use.
And local government can hire (or borrow from national government) the expertise to be able to make this decision.
So if I scrape Google search page and remove the ads and show it on my page, that's ok now?
If a local government is managing the build-out, you'll end up with $3200 companies (owned by a councilor's sibling).
I attended UCSC on and off over a period of 10 years. The level of blatant corruption in the administration, both at the school and among the broader UC system and regents, is something you would have to experience to believe. For years the administration has been squeezing the life out of UCSC’s academic programs (both grad students and instructors) while simultaneously awarding administrative staff with new positions, titles, huge raises and lavish lifestyles.

This is an incremental win for a very hard-working and talented group of staffers, but hardly even a chip in the armor of the bloat and waste that is the UC administrative complex. I’m actually low key ashamed to have a degree from them.
Are there examples of municipalities where the government made the "how" demand? Or is this a hypothetical?

Honest question, I don't know the answer.
> Who can get Dropbox Passwords?

> Passwords is currently available to Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Professional users.

Dropbox could’ve done better by offering this to the users on the free tier too. Segment the features but let everyone have access to a password manager with auto fill options to gain a larger user base and market share in password management.
I would rather be charged for what I'm using instead of an amount that's fudged to amortize unexpected incidental costs over all users. Maybe some kind of additional insurance against extra costs might be a feature that some users would use, but I prefer to self-insure than help others defray costs.
> in my privacy browser

Why are you reinventing the Tor browser?
Scalability Bounds of P2P Pub/Sub RFP
Gigabit Pro is symmetrical, normal Gigabit is not. Gigabit Pro is FTTH (whereas all of Comcast's other plans go over copper/DOCSIS3), and is symmetrical 2Gbps. For $300 per month with a mandatory $2k install, I might add.

You have to call them to get a quote, but here's a good blog post with the important info: https://binaryimpulse.com/2019/11/comcast-gigabit-pro-instal...
Safety features that would make vehicles far less lethal to pedestrians exist
The open-source library is licenced under Apache 2.0 and has not any restrictions mentioned under the terms listed on dstack.ai.
However, the terms on dstack.ai which you quote also sound odd to me. Truth to be told, the current terms were generated by one of the common templates provided for startups. After we put them than, we didn't have a chance to review again. Now that you brought it up, it's certainly time to revisit them.
We certainly don't want to claim rights over any of user content. The exception is probably using the published content by the website itself to show it to the users according to the user's sharing settings. Gonna review the terms and come back with an update.
It's not 35mbps, it's 1gbps down and 35mbps up, internet "must be symmetrical" isn't true. 1gbps down and 35mbps up is a lot better than 35/35.

For clarity, the gigabit pro (2gbps) is both up and down.
The problem is not finding Elixir developers, it's finding Elixir jobs.
> It has the best tech industry in Europe

The UK sold ARM to Softbank, Imagination Technologies to a private equity firm in China, SwiftKey to Microsoft, DeepMind to Google, Deliveroo to Amazon, Dyson has gone to Singapore and most of these startups will not exist in 20, 30 or 40 years time.

The UK's homegrown tech companies are selling out and you think it is still best in Europe? Thanks to Brexit there is no hope.

> but London is booming.

OK, but compared to the UK as a whole, disaster. I expected jobs to flow all through the UK, not be crammed into London where people from other areas have to travel there by train or suffer rent hikes, thankfully this pandemic has put an end to this.
USSR did. My dad lived in Belarus during the time (I was born there as well but we moved to the US when I was a kid) and said it was a bit of cat and mouse game re exact wavelength to catch the American radio. Ofc my memory is post soviet and there was no blocking but we still listened to it in the 90s.
Like the State of California, I reject your premise that Uber drivers are not employees.

But what would you call it, and how does that change the argument about why they're doing this?
There obviously needs to be a new class of workers. I've seen the phrase "Dependent Contractor" tossed around here on HN and I think it'd do quite well.

If you work for an employer who sets your hours, pay, etc., you'd still be designated as an employee.

If you sell your labor to multiple entities, and/or you set your own pay rate, you're an independent contractor.

If you do not set your pay rate, you'd be a "dependent contractor", and entitled to at least some basic worker protections, but not necessarily things like mandatory paid 15-minute breaks. Those should continue to be required for employees whose hours are set by the company for them, but it feels silly to regulate a thing like this when an Uber driver is completely free to just turn the app off if they need a break.
I'm always shocked that anyone still trusts online ratings and reviews of anything. You've also got fake Amazon reviews, Yelp manipulating reviews based on whether the business pays them, and all kinds of other examples of online reviews being total rubbish, yet somehow people still look at them. It's like the X-files: "I want to believe!"
Two big things that help are don't fertilize it and don't water.
LOL because the MSO's own the government. One of the most powerful lobbying forces in the US. They control the FCC. Under the current administration they have finally overthrown net neutrality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#United_States
I saw your future plan in your reddit post and I just wanted to let you know that the UDM Pro is a dumpster fire from a software perspective.

Wait until they've got it stable, likely around 1.8 or 1.9.
How Facebook uses GitHub
Desperation existed before the pandemic. There is always someone willing to lower the bar, that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Edit: If the "best option" isn't a good option then there is a problem.
Crazy something like that was even allowed to continue for a few days
The Covid.. religion..?
Recently there were reports of major internet outages in Belarus, coinciding with the election.[1]

Trying to hide this sort of violence may be one reason for such outages.

[1] - https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disruption-hits-belar...
to me, a symmetric connection is more of a "nice to have" than a "need". I have something like 400/25 right now. if I had 400/400 or even 1000/1000, I might consider reconfiguring my plex server to stream outside my LAN, but aside from that I can't think of any obvious application. can you list some of these "essential peer-to-peer technologies" that a normal person would be likely to use?
The Japanese Art of Restoring Broken Pottery
It certainly lacks the hype, and judging by the comments on here, many people still have loads and loads of misconceptions of the language, negative ones, unlike say Rust's "unsafe code does not affect the rest of the program", for example, which I would call a positive misconception. And of course thus, it also lacks libraries. This is really my biggest problem with it. :/
This is a brilliant product and something that needs to be built.

Gitlab for Intercom.

One feedback though - the whole value here is the product. I would suggest not building your transport at this point and making Pusher/Pubnub/Firebase/Ably pluggable as transport.

99% of your tickets will be "my message wasn't delivered" otherwise and it will take you years to perfect this ...which is something that has been reasonably solved at very cheap cost.
> Luckily, they didn't, and instead pulled in the the `benchmark` library as a development dependency. The author of said library works on V8, and already considered all those problems and much, much, more[1].

This is the "benchmark lib" that was mentioned in the very first sentece of the comment you replied to.
We've moved it. Comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133146.

I always wonder about the specifics of how these happen!
Progressives Killed Amazon’s Deal in New York. Is Industry City Next?
Literally the last paragraph of the article is a call for help in finding these "plenty of alternatives" so instead of being snide maybe you can help out by listing some?
Thanks for sharing, this is super helpful. I'm endlessly jealous of the teams at Uber and Booking and their fancy tools
They say the "fare multiplier can range from 0.5x to 5.0x in increments of 0.1". Not fully free, but being able to set over 5x the regular price seems mostly academic.
Self justification is powerful drug. Enjoy.
This is a lot more useful than that terrible file browser app they created.

However I find Chrome's password manager to be the best, especially when using different profiles for work/personal/etc
Is your Java app, container ready?
> interesting, I was thinking I could poll billing metrics (total charges etc) to figure out account level charges.

If it were that easy, this would already exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think many people use AWS primarily for s3 and EC2 (and s3 costs are negligible for most side projects) so if you were picking a single service, EC2 would probably be the most broadly applicable (and IMO the most realistic one to actually build). On the other hand I would imagine that for many side project developers, their EC2 costs are the easiest to control - even if you do autoscaling, you can cap your max nodes.

What is most useful is tracking the total AWS spend because what really gets you is the service you weren't expecting to cost as much as it did, but that is a very very very hard problem.
You're only partially correct I as a salaried employee could technically set my own hours but If my employer pinged me at 2am and asked me to do something and I said no I wouldn't have recourse if they fired me. If I'm a contractor I can set those hours in the agreement with the company with legal backing if I then refuse to work during hours I've said I do not wish to work.

But you're debating regulation in general and I'm specifically arguing AB5 is overly restrictive.

Edit: I can clarify as well, it may very well be the case they are employees but this isn't the regulation to do it because it is actively harming workers in multiple industries besides ride sharing.
Any suggestions for how to actually apply (or remember to apply) this stuff? I've read tons of lists of mental models (and have even written my own), but I just never remember to use them for any decisions, and when I do remember I can't really find one appropriate to the situation at hand.
Oil and Gas exploration in the sea routinely uses extremely loud sounds, because explosive geosensing. Its screwing up cetacean migration and mating. It travels miles and miles.
If you think there will not be a violent reaction to a coup in Belarus you are very wrong. People outside Ukraine thought that the Ukrainian coup would represent a peaceful transition once completed, due to the unpopularity of Yanukovych. It resulted in a bloody civil war and the rise of ultra-nationalism, because coups represent much more than a transition of the presidency, they represent a fundamental shift in governmental power and the interests it serves.
You’re confusing ”requires internet at home” with ”requires nothing else”. For example nurses have a very hands-on jobs, but have to login to a portal to see their shifts for the coming week
Every time Rust _isn't_ mentioned, the Rust people turn the thread into a Rust discussion.
Why would the US government be doing this? Surely local government is better suited to these decisions?

> I try to be an optimistic person, but years and decades of gridlock and getting nothing done in the US is definitely wearing on me.

That's just like, your opinion.

We do a lot of things well in this country, you just have to be willing to look. Public infrastructure like roads and power seem like they have plenty of examples of what works to get this built out.

I don't see why any other utility model needs to change significantly for last mile.
> Lets say on average customers contact Google support once a year for each product they use.

Meaning that if someone uses 4 Google products they are contacting Google support on average once a quarter? That seems really high. I would have guessed at most a tenth of that.
of course it will. belarus is more of a russian republic, not its own country. they speak russian -most people don't know the belorussian language, which is just redneck russian. it's an open border with russia. you know how you're driving in illinois and there's just a sign on the side 'welcome to indiana?' welcome to belarus.

they also have a co-mingled army, as in not just joint drills but belarus soldiers taking orders from russian generals. in fact, in case of a war, the agreement is russia commands the belarussian forces.

so, dictatorship notes aside, it would absolutely be proper and expected for putin to help the government of belarus, as per their agreements.

source: am russian, went there for work for several years as an adult, have been to belarus, have friends from belarus.
authority is vested exclusively in the people who already live somewhere

Isn't that the definition of democracy? Why should I be able to take what someone else has just because I want it?
After 10 years he has built up quite a repertoire, and it's starting to get rarer to run across a quote he hasn't covered.

The primary lesson is that almost every famous quotation has been misattributed, inevitably to someone more famous. It's surprisingly unusual to find a famous quote that the famous person actually said.
Thanks - yeah I ended up holding off because I saw the UDM Pro was unstable (also no NextDNS support yet).

I'm currently still on the USG and regular comcast gigabit.
In my experience, I have seen some Jurassic-scale disasters, because of poor dependency choices.

I think a lot of people just google for dependencies, and then add the first one that has a slick Web site, without thinking much about the code they are adding.

I am not a "never dependency" person, but I am anal about quality. Totally obsessed. I feel that quality is something that many, many programmers eschew, in favor of bling and buzzwords.

For me, I won't put my seal on something until I have tested it six ways to Sunday. In some cases, it may be unit tests, but, more often, it is a test harness, which can be a much more ambitious project than a few XCTests[0]. In fact, I am running into a lot of folks that don't know what a test harness is; which is jaw-dropping.

Since I do a lot of device control stuff, unit tests are not particularly useful. In order to create unit tests that would be effective, I'd need to design a huge mock, and that would not be worth it; likely introducing more problems than it solves.

An example is that I am currently developing a cross [Apple] platform Bluetooth LE Central abstraction driver[1]. This needs to have test harnesses in all the target systems (iOS/iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS and TVOS). I actually have it driving a released app[2] (which is really just a "productized" implementation of the iOS test harness), but I do not consider the module ready for release, as I have not completed all of the test harnesses. I am in the middle of the WatchOS harness now. I may "productize" the MacOS test harness. My test harnesses are really serious bits of code. Complete, ready-to-ship apps, for the most part. Going from a test harness to a shipping app isn't a big deal.

[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/testing-harness-vs-unit-4...

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_BlueThoth

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blue-van-clef/id1511428132
We'll make sure the rest of the world gets those great tools too!
Work only exists in a narrow space between a consumer and a service.

And to be quite frank, not all services have a right to life.

If some employer/business can't meet the bare minimum of workers right, well, sucks to be them. Hopefully a competent competitor will pop up.

It's downright toxic that we live in a world where consumers get cheap products and services, on the backs of either rampant workers rights violations, or heavily subsidized VC-money.
> Other cloud providers can only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB. So you wouldn't get native compression, continuous aggregates, downsampling, etc.

Ah yes - I was forgetting that!

> So again, the value add in Timescale Cloud are those features

Hmm, not really; those are the value-add from TimescaleDB itself, not Timescale Cloud.

I guess I'm going to remain unconvinced for now, but I really hope that, with time, the Timescale Cloud team works on adding more value vs self-hosting, as personally I don't think it brings enough value to justify the pricing as-is.