skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you (or anyone else) have any other suggestions for good low cost database/data layer services to work with these options?

These free services are fantastic but the limitation is that they seem to be only for static sites (static in the sense that there is no data persistence).
Making a lot of expensive bricks just like that.
I saw this, and it seemed interesting but I had a few problems with it:

A) doesn't embrace the same idea of building your own digital garden that holds nt only your notes but also automatically syncs with different services like hn, pocket etc to save your digital presence locally.

B) Flexibility of search. Archivy uses elastic search with a neat nlp pipeline to process data and allow it to be searched with accuracy. This is all configured in elastic-search.json and the user can configure it to his needs as he pleases.

C) Ease of use and minimal interface. Archivy has a simple direct UI and its goal is NOT to become a note taking app nor does it pretend to.

You can directly search at the top and then you have a tree view of your data organised in folders.
Can you say "propaganda"?
People often become conveniently naive when offered a lot of money.
You're probably getting downvoted because you're making confident-sounding but wrong claims. I posted a top level comment that should resolve all your confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24202814
Citizens United very much has not "always been the law". Before Citizens United, there was precedent going back about a century. The first amendment does not mean and never has meant that free speech wins in all cases when balanced against other interests. The government can (and still does!) regulate campaign speech. McCain-Feingold was not out of line with that. But the conservative majority flipped the table on that precedent because they wanted to. Citizens United didn't even ask them to overturn the law. They briefed the case on narrower grounds, and then the court asked them to come back and argue to overturn the law.

The facts of the case were this: Citizens United wanted to run ads for its documentary . But it was within the window of time set for increased restrictions on political ads. Citizens United crucially was not a political action committee, but just a non-profit corporation. As such, it could only run the ads by either making a PAC or using money from a segregated fund (you've seen this if you've ever signed up for a union) collected specifically for political activity. Note that the lawsuit was over the ads, not the documentary itself.

Before the ruling, Citizens United was allowed to spend money on political activity. They were allowed to spend money on political activity close to an election. They were allowed to spend money, close to an election, to broadcast issue-based political advertisement (e.g., for or against a ballot initiative) on TV. They were allowed to spend money distributing their documentary in any way other than broadcasting it on TV. They could show it in theaters. They could put it on the internet. They could print DVDs and mail them out. They could distribute it to PACs and campaigns for them to spend their own money distributing it, including broadcasting by on TV. They could pay money, close to an election, from a segregated fund, to broadcast their documentary on TV. All they weren't allowed to do was spend money, close to an election, on broadcasting something expressing views for or against a political candidate, on television or radio, to an audience of at least 50,000.

The courts argument hinged on the unacceptability of "identity-based" restrictions on speech. But there are such restrictions elsewhere. See you, for example, prisoners, or executive branch employees.they just invented a first amendment principle out of thin air and selectively applied it to corporations.

To reach their decision, The court rejected numerous opportunities to rule on narrower grounds. They did no factfinding to determine whether or to what extent the restrictions chilled free speech, substituting congress's research for their own opinions. They gave no opportunity for the government to do their own fact-finding. And they would have if Citizens United hadn't dropped their attempt to overturn the law (until Scotus revived it) while the case was still at the District court. Scotus could have kicked it back down to do that fact-finding, but they had already made up their minds.
The real way to get rich by working at a startup is to advance your career while there - Gain experience and title increases at a startup, where such experience and title increases are easy to get because of the relative lack of competition. Iff you startup makes it big, ask for commensurate raises. Otherwise, leverage that experience into working for a larger company that will pay more.
He hasn't managed to give all his money away to a wallet inspector yet. That's about the level of naivete needed to believe in a promise FB of all people tells you to get you to sell your company to them.
Facebook made that promise by approving it on an ongoing basis. They just changed their mind.
3% is a pretty good rule of thumb for perpetual withdrawal rate. If it's say $1M after taxes, that means $30k/yr. This is enough to retire on but only if you're willing to make lifestyle changes. Probably not that hard to do if you're 30 and single and renting, but married with kids and a mortgage it's a tough sell.

(Obviously as your raise the definition of "low 7 figures" this can change dramatically)
The question is where the food chain starts.
That's fair. To be clear, I wasn't denying the claim, just asking for your thoughts around it.

I tip 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar every time, unless I'm really disappointed with the service which is quite rare.
You can't attack a fellow user like that on HN, and you particularly can't post insinuations of shillage or astroturfing. The damage comments like this cause is greater than the damage they're purporting to combat. I can tell you from long experience with actual data that most of these accusations are based on pure imagination. That's why the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to post like this. If you think you're seeing abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.

pron has been a fine HN member for many years and has been commenting substantively on these topics for a long long time. You owe him an apology.

People need to be free to discuss their work here without getting flamed. For most of us, our work is the thing we know the most about. Disincentivizing people from showing up here to talk about what they know about would be an insanely bad idea for HN, and these consequences can easily happen without being obvious, so we need to err on the opposite side.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I fail to see how this is a conflict of interest by just helping others. Maybe if it was a widnows or linux pc? Even then it's still stupid.
Paul is surely trolling, no? This isn't even close to realistic modeling. Most startups will spend many, many years worth very little. Well under the wealth cap floor. This means that if you don't own a unicorn then you'll likely pay 0 taxes. And because most wealth tax proposals scale up the percentage, the time that a startup isn't making someone a billionaire amounts to time where the tax rate is pretty low.

The net effect from these scaling wealth taxes would be a soft cap on long term net worth, likely somewhere around 1bn to 10bn. The fact that this soft cap wasn't a key output of his modeling is pretty embarrassing...
Despite his wealth, Bill's father reportedly ran the slide projector for Bill's talk in the early days of Comdex. In those pre-powerpoint days a draftsman created a paper version of the "viewgraphs" which were photographed and then displayed with a slide projector or on a overhead projector. The overhead projector used a "burned" transparency created by putting a special type of transparency film instead of paper in a xerox machine and copying the draftman's original.
> Most part of my career I used Visual Studio and when switched to Linux I was slightly shocked. Compared to MSVS, makefiles felt like bows and arrows against machine gun.

I honesty have no idea how some people come up with these absurd comparisons. I mean, who in their right mind feel is appropriate to compare a Makefile with a build system? And how clueless about things are "in the Linux world" do you need to be to claim that Makefiles are how people build software in Linux?

I mean, I've been using Linux for a couple of decades now and I can't remember the last time I saw a project that relied on Makefiles to build. At best projects use some kind of Makefile generator. The ancient ones use autotools and even those are going the way of the dodo.

> CMake allows us to handle almost all those things right except one - it doesn’t have return values

This is a red flag. If you're hoping to write functions with cmake... You're doing it wrong. Very wrong. You add targets, and you add rules to the target. If you find yourself wanting to do anything other than this then you should take a step back and read a modern cmake tutorial again, because odds are you're doing it wrong.
Cool, so your existing Oculus device is guaranteed to be an expensive brick 2 years from now if you value privacy in any way.
Depends if your goal is to teach the maximum number of people the fundamentals of logic, or to transfer as much practical knowledge as quick as possible to the students with an aptitude for programming.
Some excellent WFH tips posted by a colleague: https://www.kudos.com/resource/blog/stressed-about-working-r...
How to invest in US stocks from India?
> They have an option in software to enable encryption. You provide a key and supposedly the encryption happens at the client in your end.

For restore, though, decryption happens at the server end. You have to supply your key to their server, which decrypts the data at their end, then sends you the subset you are interested in restoring.

See [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html
They could stop blocking unionization, then these issues would never happen because there would be appeals processes that don't feel like a waste of time as well as a 3rd party that would have the majority of the blame.

Apple is 100% responsible for unresolved improper firings that become PR storms, they have a tool they could deploy to solve it, but they don't out of fear of profits.
Good move, Valve are gamers at heart while Facebook is out to get your data and make as much money possible from it.
That was my first thought. I remember working at Grumman when they had a layoff, and a guy with F-14 Vanity license plates and an F-14 tattoo was laid off. He looked devastated! It's very important not to link your identity to your job (or your computer or your operating system).
That just means there is no device for untethered VR. I think this is more likely to just limit VR adoption more than anything else.
Did you watch the launch today? The live feed from space was not an iPhone taped to the side of the rocket with FaceTime running. Everything has to be custom built. And it has to be very reliable and durable in a wide range of environments.
That would be difficult to enforce, since React is open-source. It'd take ten seconds for someone to fork it.
What are viable alternatives?
The moonlander looks awesome. The ergodox-ez looks nice as well. I wish there were some cheaper options out there for people who don't know how to solder.
I think my phrasing was wrong, it was more of a question. Edited it. Thanks.
>A desk in a corner that you always work at, and don't use for anything but work? //

Hmm, I don't have any friends wealthy enough to have enough room in their house for 2 desk spaces for themselves. Your comment seems like a 'they have no bread? why don't they eat brioche' kinda of comment; ignorant of how most people live.

My boss, who makes about 50% more than me, works on a desk in his daughters bedroom; my boss' boss (about twice my wage) works out of her utility room. I had to move the bed to fit one desk in; 'just work in a different area of the room' seems quite myopic.
I have seen homogeneity 'kill' twice in my career. The first time was unprovisioned hardware, then second time we lost half of the hard drives assigned for dev machines in the space of about 9 weeks. I had so many processes in place by that point that it was a huge inconvenience (mostly due to whole disk encryption) but zero data loss.

The worst thing you can do is to put all of your eggs into one basket. And bulk ordering might get you a set of drives all from the same batch. Bad batches will tend to all fail for a similar reason. Drives fail on a bell curve, right? So the first drive may fail way before any others, but in a RAID array, rebuilds are stressful. Eventually you will hit a statistical cluster. Multiple drives failing close together. If that happens during a rebuild, you will lose a RAID 5 array. If you are very lucky, your RAID 10 array loses two drives in the same mirror. If you have two failures during a long rebuild, even RAID 6 won't save you.

I just bought a Synology box for home. This is my third and probably final RAID enclosure for personal use. I was having trouble finding Backblaze-tested drive models to populate it, so I filled it with drives from a Drobo and kept looking. Initially I had populated the Drobo with 4 drives I bought at once. When one failed, I bought 2 HGST drives and replaced a pair. When the new drives arrived, I started trying to cycle them through, and one of the drobo drives failed. I'll give you two guesses which one.

There is, as far as I can tell, no prosumer multi-disk filesystem that uses consistent hashing to stripe+mirror files across an arbitrary number of disks, instead of the heavy linear algebra RAID5 relies on. It requires touching the whole disk on every rebuild, and I believe that's why Object Storage is slowly taking over from the top end. It's a simpler form of redundancy.

I hope that it's worked its way down to my price range by the time the motherboard on the Synology burns out.
I think you might be right. But isn't this just the general risk of dealing with a "stagnated language/tooling"? Either you wait for it to go out of sleep mode and catch up. This might never happen, and is thereby a risk. Or you fork off to your new system which attempts to fix the issues you observed. This might require a serious investment. And maybe it's not useful in the future, since the original tool might catch up and most of the people will stick with it.

So now you evaluate the 2 options in terms of risk and short/mid/long-term benefits as usual. And I think the Kotlin designers and all users which jumped onto the platform made a sensible choice.

I really love the idea behind loom - but it's still not generally available. Kotlin coroutines are, and imho solved sane concurrency for mainstream users. If I would have to write a massively concurrent application on the JVM about 1-2years ago, Kotlin could certainly have been my way to go. In 1-2 years it might be Java+Loom.

Last but not least I would like to point out that Kotlin is extremely well designed. Imho it's coroutine system is the best in industry right now. It's extremely configurable, and the inclusion of structured concurrency right from the start to encourage good designs makes a lot of sense! I would not be suprised if Kotlins designers already have decent plans on "what do we do if Java integrates Valhalla/Loom/etc"? And I think it's pure existence pushes the standards, and has a positive impact on the design of Java and other languages.
Apple Stores are explicitly designed not to focus on maximizing profits. One of the former managers over all Apple Stores were fired because he didn’t get that. Apple Stores have to be fun to balance making money and serve as a marketing channel for Apple.

For instance, Apple doesn’t care if customers “showroom” and buy the product somewhere else. Apple makes money either way.
Agreed. I've got a rant or three about how Tim Cook's Apple has become cold and calculating, but this guy was not fired for helping his friend. There was something between him and his manager. Maybe his manager is a dick who wanted to replace him with a buddy, but if that's the case it just means there's a few dicks in Apples' 140K employees. Maybe this guy has a long list of warnings.

We won't ever know.
An officer can give the dog a subtle cue to alert. Happens all the time.
Making a smaller product doesn't require active hostility towards people who want to repair it.
Show HN: Cabalī – Local, encrypted, ephemeral chat that doesn't use the internet
He believes passionately in everything he does and he literally puts all of his money (and then some) into his endeavors. He is rumored to be the most cash-poor of any multi-billionaire because he has leveraged it all to achieve his goals.
How high does the death rate have to be until you'd be willing to enforce stay-at-home?
lmao I agree completely
They want to launch >10k satellites for Starlink. If each satellite costs $1M (I'm making that up), that's $10B right there. I've seen numbers as high as 40k satellites, though I don't know if those are reflective of their near-term goals.
Not "Pacific Islanders" — the term Pacific Islanders refers to residents of Oceania, and does not include Indonesia or the Philippines.
a variant is to put an ice cube out of its container and tilted on the rack inside the fridge. If it thaws, it will fail through the rack and not be where you left it when you check for it.
Think about it, it will be cheaper/better for $1M of US capital to be invested in UK vs the US.

In the US both you and the founder/management team/other investors all pay tax if company is successful; in UK, only you (as US citizen) pay tax. You and the founders/management can split the difference and will be better off.

These things may sound small but play out significantly at scale (like interest rates etc)
Hey sorry for the mixup, you're right, I should have said from Southeast Asia. I didn't realize that Indonesia and the Philippines were part of it.

I was trying to make the point that the influx of refugees from Pacific island nations will destabilize regions like Korea and Vietnam which have already seen such terrible conflict. India's going to be underwater, so there's going to be a northward migration of something like 500 million people from there and elsewhere.

The endgame is that those countries will likely be communist and a mix of non-christian religions. So the US seems to be positioning itself as pro-Russia and anti-China in a divide-and-conquer strategy. I think that's shortsighted, because the 21st century won't have 20th century politics. I'd rather see our attention turn towards not screwing over the developing countries that provide our goods and services. We could like, trade with them rather than bomb them. Admittedly, I'm probably misreading this, and also don't want to detract from environmental discussion.
Citizens United was decided on extremely broad constitutional grounds. Any strong campaign finance laws are likely to be struck down.
Please stop this 501(c)(6) vs 501(c)(3) nonsense, it's just a tax status, the Trump Foundation as a 501(c)(3) and was dissolved, the tax status doesn't imply much outside of it being a non profit...

The most important thing is ensuring that the community has representation on the board and other governance structures. There are some organizations like the Apache Software Foundation that do an OK job at this, there are others that don't even offer projects/maintainers seats on the board.

There are also organizations like the Linux Foundation and Eclipse Foundation which essentially act as "Foundation as a Service" and host multiple foundations in one with different governance structures.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/building-a-succ...
To be fair, I typed this quickly on a phone.
> How do you think the wrongly arrested people confessed to the murders in the first place?

As in that example with Kravchenko, the same way false confessions occur in every country, pressure in some form from the police who want to convict their prime suspect / clear up a case.

It's indefensible but it's nothing unique to the Soviet Union and it's not uncommon.

https://theconversation.com/suspects-confess-to-crimes-they-...
There's a cool related video of Greg Mankiw [0]. He talked about two "redistribution" schemes:

1. $1000 per month to those with zero income, phased out at 20c / dollar extra income, financed by 20% tax on all income above $60k
2. Transfer of $1000 per month to everyone, financed by 20% flat tax on income

Apparently a group of Harvard students he asked were strongly in favor of the former, without realizing that the two plans are equivalent. It's all about framing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cL8kM0fXQc
A very brief history of Facebook's involvement with Oculus and how this has shaped up, just from quickly searching HN previous posts:

- (2014) Facebook acquires Oculus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7469115, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7469237

- (2016) Oculus's privacy policy sparks concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410809

Oculus responds to privacy concerns about user tracking (https://uploadvr.com/facebook-oculus-privacy/) saying

> Facebook owns Oculus and helps run some Oculus services, such as elements of our infrastructure, but we’re not sharing information with Facebook at this time. We don’t have advertising yet and Facebook is not using Oculus data for advertising – though these are things we may consider in the future.

- (2019) If logged into Facebook, Oculus data may be used for ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21770752

From their official statement:

> If you choose not to log into Facebook on Oculus, we won’t share data with Facebook to allow third parties to target advertisements to you based on your use of the Oculus Platform.

- (2020): Facebook accounts are now required.

None of this is particularly surprising, lots of people (even in the press) were calling out how this was going to evolve. But it's still interesting to look back 6 years and see what the initial reactions were and what people were most concerned about.

The takeaways:

- data silos are always temporary

- companies think on a larger timeline than just 2 years in advance

- this kind of thing nearly always gets executed as a slow boil. Facebook didn't buy Oculus and immediately require an account and start advertising to users. But I don't believe for one second that Mark wasn't thinking it at the time.
100% works too. Making people wait builds up expectations.
> untethered

Tethered to Zuckerberg.
I used social engineering to convince my ex girlfriend that I won the lottery
MiniTorch is pure Python re-implementation of the Torch API, as a teaching tool
It seems he will not if this article from 2018 is to be believed. But he is also a Gamer and a reasonable guy, so he might have a change heart.

Link: https://uploadvr.com/john-carmack-i-intend-to-stay-at-facebo...
My body my choice.
Cant MS just provide a button somewhere that downloads and installs the browser? A computer doesn't need a browser to download something from the internet (such as a browser).
Both Fathom and plausible generate a unique salt every day. By getting rid of the old salts, they've anonymized any data older than a day. From [0]:

> We do not attempt to generate a device-persistent identifier because they are considered personal data under GDPR.

> Instead, we generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a hash function with a rotating salt.

[0] https://plausible.io/data-policy