skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're interpreting ChuckMcM's phrase to mean "wasn't about money [at all]" but that's the wrong place to insert the quantifier. The stronger plausible interpretation (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) is "wasn't [all] about money". Chuck is contrasting PG and Jessica to people who only want to get rich "because for them, it is all about the money". That's also what Sam is saying and also what you are saying ("wanting to make money and help people"). Problem solved.

Of course nearly everybody will say "I want to make money and to help people". The question is what they do when those two wishes come into conflict. Which is the high-order bit? There were many cases when PG and Jessica chose the interests of founders over optimizing their own money outcome—in fact this happened so often that it became proverbial, and many experienced people in the investment business were puzzled by it, as if there had to be some other explanation.

There's another characteristic that PG and Jessica had/have, which doesn't get mentioned as often: they simply wouldn't spend time on things that they didn't enjoy and didn't feel were essential. That's also true of Trevor, and probably of Robert too (I don't know him as well), so it was something all four of them shared.

That quality was for sure more important than optimizing for money, and may even be the high-order bit. Things that were supposed to be the 'proper' way but which weren't satisfying and didn't have an obvious justification, they simply wouldn't bother with. Complex negotiations, for example, or paperwork that wasn't absolutely necessary—even if nontrivial amounts of money got forfeited as a result. This approach turned out to be incredibly efficient and in retrospect looks like a superpower but I think a lot of it was just refusing to do dumb or boring things. Which actually is a superpower, but not one that most people would see that way.
There are so many possible graphical environments on Linux. Gnome for all its faults isn't really windows lite. KDE has a LOT more functionality built in than windows is liable to just with kwin. With KDE + compiz + plugins the amount of functionality explodes, if you enable the close animation where all windows break into pieces and fly off screen literally.

In 2009ish I had a ui where you could zoom out to a giant wall and rearrange all the windows on your virtual desktops and use a macish expose to bound to a mouse key to pick from the windows on the current desktop. The visual metaphor was better than macs and windows and to boot there were so many knobs you could tweak virtually anything.

Tiling window managers like i3wm and 17 more are both minimal and powerful. Notably i3 has MUCH more powerful keybindings and treats individual monitors as virtual desktops.

With xmonad your window manager is a haskell program with awesome a lua one.

If you want to go all in on emacs you can make it your window manager too.

Honestly its only windows lite if you want it to be so and really everyone is basically xerox lite to some degree or another because we are basically using the same basic metaphors described therein.
Ring Announces End-to-End Encryption, Privacy, Security and User Control Updates
I disagree completely. I'm trying to understand where you're coming from, but I just don't. I think we have irreconcilable viewpoints here, and there's no further discussion possible.
The main purpose of collecting the data on noise is to find was to identify where and how to reduce it. For example aircraft operators who violate regulations get fined, and highways are targeted for specific modifications to make them more quiet.

This is not a zero sum initiative.

Given that the data is already being collected, making it available to the public requires relatively little additional effort. The primary value in doing so is to document what measures have been taken, how effective they are, and to motivate public policy decisions about what further measures to take.

The same information is useful for private transactions. This is how most people will use the data, but is not the main public policy reason for having collected it.
I don't understand are you purposely deflecting or are did you not understand his point. Maybe it's easier if we used schooling as an example. Do you believe, today, that the government decides which children go to school? I think any reasonable argument would be no, the government, tries to ensure every child goes to school.

Would you rather replace this with a system where children had to beg on gofundme for middle school tuition, where funding is implicitly decided by who has the best sob story and appeases the FB algorthim for that day.

Replace school with health care and his point is clear.
My point is that political party A criticizes tax cuts at the Federal level at the hands of political party B, but nothing is stopping California from raising its taxes to make up for those cuts, especially because it is largely governed by political party A.
The vast majority of apps in the store are free, which leaves Apple footing the enormous bill for providing the apps.

The original idea, which worked for a few years, was that 30% of the for-fee apps helped cover the costs of the free apps. For the first few years, Apple operated their App Store at a loss, and aimed for break-even.

I think subscriptions is ultimately what broke that model.
Zillow moving towards becoming a Broker
The 1st amendment doesn’t specify citizenship? Also it restricts the government, so only really applies to wherever the US has jurisdiction?

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/page/things-you-need - see item 3.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about the 1st amendment, but nwallin’s claims just sound weird.
Every time I cook and look up a recipe for the ingredients I have on hand my whole family has to listen to me rant and rave about this phenomenon. I clicked through the link above, scrolled and scrolled, figured out I had been duped, and gave up to come back here for the comments to commiserate.
Damn, I'm at a startup making ~$160k with 6 years experience. Maybe it's time to move on...
>But there is a hell of a lot more anti-china groups.

I didn't encountered many, to be honest. There are anti-CCP groups, which is something different. Also, being anti-ccp and criticise their human rights violations doesnt make you a "propagandist".
Guide to the Fediverse
I'm still stunned we're able to achieve all this in a web browser today (not the processing power but how accessible this is to people). Great job, Emily!
From Wireshark to Sysdig: leveraging open source to raise $200M [video]
> My belief is that forcing somebody to do anything against their will is inherently immoral

What about enforcing traffic laws, or forcing children to attend school?
Nice, I just watched this earlier when on a different thread someone mentioned this. There is not enough time in the day to keep up with all these videos on youtube
Physicists develop a method to improve gravitational wave detector sensitivity
There seems to be a fundamental difference between "REPL"s and "REPL but more like a shell" that we continue to run into when discussing REPLs. If you take a look at the blogpost (or the video adamkl posted in this thread), you'll see that the REPL discussed works in a fundamentally different way than what Ruby and Elixir does.

There is some more discussion around this whole REPL vs shell thing here too: https://twitter.com/VictorBjelkholm/status/12660699623613726...

Edit: Funnily I just discovered your blogpost is titled "interactive shell" but your comment talks about REPL ;)
COVID infections by by age in Boulder County:

Age Number of Individuals in Boulder County *

0-9 66

10-19 1,261

20-29 1,364

30-39 340

40-49 335

50-59 318

60-69 189

70-79 144

80+ 111

Source:

https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/disease/covid-19/covi...
I agree that it would be best if everyone could receive a high standard of care without begging, but I would personally prefer this to be paid for with minimal government intervention. I believe that charity is good for both the donor and the recipient, as it creates a feeling of social connection, through more 'personal' institutions, and develops a sense of empathy in the participants, which is lacking in government programs.
In a word, precision.

PC laptops are catching up lately for sure though. Almost there. (I havent even tried some of the latest stuff, I heard Razer has really good "Precision" trackpads?)
I'd like to learn more: how would one go about ensuring the implementation was an accurate implementation of the specification? Is there a process for doing this?
The "Two-way string-matching algorithm" gets a brief mention. I'm familiar with KMP and BM, and have implemented various others over the years, but I've never heard of this one. Anyone know what kind of situations you might choose two-way string matching over Boyer-Moore, for example?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455793
Experimenting with Project Loom EAP and Spring WebMVC
> I think the majority of people aren't very good at flying drones. Even outside, it can take a lot of practice.

I crashed and broke my VTOL airplane twice last weekend. Sighs dramatically. Pilot error.

More seriously, there's a couple main issues: piloting, and recharging.

You'd want the drone to not crash into anything, and remote controlling the drone with Internet-induced lag would be especially challenging. There's a reason why FPV setups for race drones use analog video still.

Also, just as with making a household wheeled security robot, you can do that right now, but the automatic return to the charging base is not widely available as a commercial product.
"By performing this measurement on a mirror visible to the naked eye—at room temperature and at frequencies audible to the human ear—we bring the subtle effects of quantum mechanics closer to the realm of human experience"
> Why doesn't that base station have a solid state drive to store all the video/images

Everything is cheaper per pound in a data center. And they can force updates if the client is dumber.

And the customers won't complain when the SSD eventually dies.

> and allow the user to view them on their smart phone by connecting to the base station through the wifi?

Because people will want to do it across WAN. LAN-only is one piece of code, WAN-only is another. Going up to WAN for everything is redundant but costs less dev time.

Yes, it's frustrating for us who care about privacy. The motive is never to build a good product that respects people and does what they want. The motive is always to make money. Every corner must be cut.
>This seems like the first large-scale data conclusively showing that increasing income at the bottom of the payscale will stimulate the economy more than on the top of the payscale.

This is wrong, velocity of money has been understood for a long time
Mass surveillance is inevitable unless there is a push back against this stuff. Covid will accomplish what Patriot Act, social media, and smartphones weren't able to.
You may feel this, but I find these articles to be a high-light of HN. Optimization adventures are stuff I learn from and actually use. That it's in Rust makes sense as it does offer new ways to do things (in this particular article, the Rust aspect wasn't particular important, but it's a follow up to one where it was).
Taxation is just the price of the basket of services a government offers to its citizens. We don't deduct prices of other goods & services (food, clothing, rent, transportation) from our salaries before paying taxes on them, do we? It's no more double taxation to pay all of the different governments for their different basket of services as it is "double payment" to pay different service providers the price of their goods & services independent of one another.
That makes me so happy to hear! Since this thread is getting less active, feel free to email me at kevin@segfault.fun if you need anything else.
A Peg Parser for CPython
Not sure the need to mention git in the title
Cool. How's this thing get from your family room to your garage?
> you effectively have more power in the government than many other citizens

Why would my charitable giving give me power in the government?

> the more say you have in appropriating what could be government money.

Everything could be government money, my house could be a government house, my wife could be a government woman, etc.

Just because the government has the power to seize it doesn't mean they should or that it's theirs
The 2018 sci-fi/horror movie Tau showed the endgame of in-home security drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(film)
Swift System Is Now Open Source
I never thought to look at the man page for bash to learn bash. Turns out it's 78 pages and looks excellent based on a quick scan. Thanks for the recommendation!
Does the fact that this camera is non-fixed have some sort of obscure legal implications. Yeah, sounds silly. But as the article points out, the product itself feels silly.

So why is that? Often, under such circumstances, legal plays into it.
> It also doesn't throw up random dialogs (or whatever a physical equivalent would be) that stop the product from working until I interact with it.

I see you never had a (EU) Ford.
Would you care to elaborate? I don't mean to be pigheaded, I'm not understanding the connection between philosophy and the science of information.
Yes, I think this could actually be a good product, or at least something similar to it for anyone who suffers from OCD. I think a lot of smart devices can help people.

Maybe there is a better product though.
If you feel strongly about clipping, I would also accept a patch that allows a user to select an option in the GUI to prevent it.
Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've seen this model and looks to accomplish a lot, so will definitely have a play around with it!
Yeah, Apple is the opposite of a company that would bother with focus groups and surveys. The butterfly keyboard was a good example of that. The "You don't know what you want" model. It worked out really well for them for a while, but I think these days when it doesn't work out, they sit in denial a bit too long.

With the macbook pro's flimsy hinge ribbon cable and delicate butterfly keyboard that both broke way too quickly, they seemed to be trying to pull the "well, people won't use it for more than x years before they ewaste it!" method, and failed pretty spectacularly.
It looks like you could add object pooling to this as well?

I'm no game dev, but GC must be the bain of their existence.
Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky , etc have more senior citizens?

Even many of the military bases are just unneeded make-work facilities for civilians. The military leadership has constantly been blocked from closing bases that it said it didn’t need by Congress. There are many military bases that are really just poorly disguised subsidies.

And just so I can’t be accused of quoting sources from the “liberal media”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/08...

Social security and Medicare are also just another form of government subsidizing people.

No, what they paid in doesn’t come close to paying for what they received.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/feb/01/medicare-and-...
Anecdotes are data. Quite literally. Each is one data point. A data point is not a conclusion. To draw valid conclusions you need a large body of data. But each anecdote is, quite literally, a single data point.
Most of the size difference is assets anyway, right? Games today use off the shelf engines. It should be alot easier to make rubust games when most of the techincally hard parts are allready done.
Middle-class people tend to buy the maximum amount of house they can afford. That sucks up the bulk of discretionary income. It also is one reason why home equity one of the bigger sources of savings for the middle class (that owns homes) and big source of nimbyish (since networth is tied to home value).
You can do very similar things on macOS. `Option+E, A` generates á, `Option-U, U` yields ü, and so forth. There are tons of alternate characters available like this using the Option keys, generally covering the most used glyphs I've needed. Beyond that, the Rocket app is fantastic for finding and inserting emojis and more complicated emoticons by human-friendly name.
Yes. Forcing a company to use in-app purchases, rather than their own subscription model (for example), just so the app store can get a cut is wrong.
Welp you're right: Maslow's.

Re breaking rules: I think it is more of a spectrum. As you become richer, you become more able to follow the 'nicer' rules. Poor people generally don't go around murdering for example, but I did see a lot of relatively smaller rules broken.

I am sure there is a very human mix of laziness, mob mentality, corruption that feed into it - but his meta point is still true: Some rules are meant for privileged people.

Unless the party line is that 'you should be willing to die for your morals': There are very few who live by this and I admire them a lot. But I like a more practical approach to life - meaning the above anecdote consoles me.
"Looked at" means we should gather some evidence, not that the accounts are true.
Are you looking for `rebase -i`? It allows you to select commits to squash, fixup, drop, etc.
Oh crap. That could blind a person. I thought microwaves had to have a hardware interlock for that reason
What other service providers throw you in jail if you don't pay?
When i find bugs or 'featues' that make me waste time i blame developers. They clearly don't care anymore. So ordinary users have resorted to quiet desperation through learned helplessness. Like all those 'redesigns' that remove features and turn what used to be a few memorized keystrokes to an agonizing series of scrollers, popups and "UX" animations.

I just think developers don't care anymore. They don't yell enough at their marketing teams when they push for obvious bullshit features. They make so much money that they have no interest for the users, in fact nobody does.

There's no way out of this, until AI replaces developers. When users can talk to their apps and customize them to 100% fit their needs, without the need for any developers, the users will have got their revenge
There are some things in software development that are obviously wrong to most people.

There are some things in software development that are obviously wrong to a few people.

And there are some things people have a hunch we are doing wrong but nobody can crystallize it.

Removing redundancy in code is great most of the time, but it's not a panacea. NASA had to contend with physical failures of memory, and catastrophic costs of failures in 'production'. They solved this problem by consensus pools of three, on physically separate hardware and in some cases using multiple manufacturers. Inability to reach consensus would invoke failsafes.

I have a vague suspicion about how we condense the very most critical bits of our software down to the fewest bits of data and instructions. This may ultimately be a policy we reject. One bad bit and you can end up taking the opposite action of the one you should have performed.
There are actually deductions for the mortgage and pre-tax benefits for transportation.
> I’m ashamed to admit that some 1000 lines long shell monster kept running in real production for years ‒ but it did run

That's kinda cute.
> The elections are happening, legislature legislates, judicial system is adjudicating, the military is following the constitution.

"Collapse of democracy" doesn't impute lawlessness. The attempt to cripple the USPS under DeJoy was legal, for example. If the US continues its slide into authoritarianism, you can bet it will happen with the pretense of legality.

But that aside, Trump has indicated that he won't honor the election result [1]. GP's link mentions that as well, and links to the article:

> “Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation,” the president said.

There are also many scenarios in which the election result leads us into Constitutionally uncharted territory. The Atlantic painted some plausible pictures recently [2], including a quote from a Trump campaign legal advisor about appointing electors that don't match a state's popular vote result:

> According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/trump-power-t...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if...
You would use a hybrid solution, where the drone is still aware of its surroundings and provides a simplified control interface.
Note that "receives as much as it contributes" does not mean "fair share". Because the federal budget deficit has ballooned under the last 3 presidents, the federal government now spends significantly more than it makes. This is reflected in the map in your article: only 8 states contribute more than they receive, and it's usually $0.98/0.99 on the dollar, while the ones that receive can get up to $2+.

The balance is made up by government debt, which will eventually be monetized by inflation, which acts as a tax on savers & retirees for the benefit of those who receive direct government payments. Not sure why more people aren't mad about this, but maybe the economic effects are a bit too indirect for people to notice.
Are you doing any hand-rolled home automation? I just finished building a house and I had power over ethernet (PoE) put throughout before I discovered that security items using this command a hefty price premium over simple wireless / battery operated. I've toyed with the idea of just buying a Raspberry Pi with a PoE module and a decent camera module and seeing if I can replicate the functionality for half the price or less (and obviously not valuing my time at anything).
There is value when you don't have the brain energy to try stuff out. Just watch and let it wash over you.
ML paper where academics think phrenology and physiognomy “just had bad data”
Oh, you need the qt5 shared libs to compile. I am planning to do a release in the next couple weeks that statically links the full thing so no one has to deal with this. Qt makes it very annoying to static link your project (you are stuck compiling Qt yourself), so been putting that off.
Lefties say "capitalism is theft" or "ownership is theft" or "property is theft". Righties say "taxes are theft".

They're both rhetorical arguments with a core truth, but if you attempt to take them out of rhetoric they're both incredibly silly.
Ask HN: What domain name registrar do you use and why is it Namecheap?
Namecheap seems to be the local darling. GoDaddy the villain. What's your favorite?
The App Store drives trillions of dollars in sales of iPhones. That's your break-even.
Reminds me of the saying, "as soon as a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measure".