skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And fresh geysers on Enceladus: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/saturns-moon-enceladus-shows-f...
Of course email isn’t new and neither are phones. Things like 2FA are new, as are other things assuming you still have the phone and email you signed up with. The problem isn’t the thing, it’s the services that rely on the assumption that you still have the thing.
They took him 250km away to where the hotel is and imprisoned him there. Does that sound like he was arrested for immigration troubles or this specific defamation suit?

Thai police can't speak English, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to ask the immigration police (which, by definition, deals with foreigners) to do it.
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
Uber Wins Back License to Operate in London After Yearslong Battle
Aren't all subjects at school like that? Isn't this expected with general education before allowing students to specialize? I wouldn't think it's possible to teach every subject in a way that every student enjoys it.
I do remember some 4 of them. Those are the ones that I use reasonable frequently. A page like this is nice because you can look in that and see some new operator that would be very useful, but you didn't know of it.

I use those operators instead of setting a new search provider because switching providers is a mouse action, while adding the operator is just some few more key presses.
> as an employee my goals align better with investors than with bootstrap founders.

If you are a gambler, VC equity is best. If you want to maximise your expected returns, equity in a bootstrapped company is better IMHO.

VCs have their risks spread across multiple investments, where you will only be able to work for a limited number of companies before burnout or ageism hits you (if you don’t win a D10 die roll). Also VCs get liquidation preferences. Finally, when younger we undervalue money in our wallet and the value of our own time: $200k at 20 (if invested) is often worth a lot more to you than $x at middle age; and as you get older you tend to start valuing your vacation time very highly!

Work through the numbers for your time investment (time is your pot because we all only have x years) using the Kelly Criterion[1] and you will be surprised to see what drops out as the optimal strategy. I would be interested to see a Monte Carlo simulation of outcomes where we can choose different strategies.

Edit: many people seem to be chasing money and joining the cult of startup to achieve high status. If you care about status, there are far more optimal paths than chasing a big equity payout. One thing I notice as I get older is that money is a very poor proxy for status, and that you tend to find your peer group earns about the same regardless of earnings, so chasing $ for status is loser’s race. Disclaimer: I just want to not work if I don’t have to and to be able to spend my time on my own goals. That requires enough $ for a nice house, some fun, and a comfortable retirement - and it appears I have got that via being a cofounder of a bootstrapped company.

Edit 2: The IRS would have the stats on actual returns for startup employees over the whole sample population. That would be fascinating to know!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
I'd like to remind people the writing of the article.

It's quite a convincing and vivid depiction that I see most engineers lacking. Quite comprehensible, and yet still full of concrete details that plagues a lot of non-technical writing.

Knowledge might be power, but the writing is the tool to project that power!
By popular demand, I've added Atom feeds for blog posts and projects:

https://stuffmatic.com/feed.xml
https://stuffmatic.com/feed/projects.xml
I've seen this writing tactic become more and more common over the years. It shows disrespect for your audience, and tends to play well only when "preaching to the choir".

Whenever I see this writing style, such that I cannot find a thesis in the first two paragraphs, I almost universally discard the writing as a waste of time.
The basic idea is correct. The input file is a CSV with as many columns as you like, and the program will try to find the simplest y = f(x1, x2, x3, ...), where y is one of the columns. It does not generate a single solution, but a set of solutions of increasing complexity to choose from. The relationships that it finds are strongly nonlinear.
SWEs making 300k+ are not the little people
A few years ago there was a scam in the Philippines where airport security staff would drop bullets into foreign traveller luggage so that when it was discovered by their colleagues they could shake down tourists by extortion in exchange for getting off the hook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninoy_Aquino_International_Air...

As for Thailand and other Asian countries, what you must understand about Asian culture in general as a westerner is the tremendous weight of saving face there. Something that you might think of as relatively innocuous and the cost of doing business, like raising your voice, a bad hotel review, or a negative restaurant write-up (after all, nobody anywhere gets 100% five star reviews) is something that creates dishonor and triggers immediate defense mechanisms that escalate according to the severity of how much face has been lost. Embarrassing Asians in public can cause them to feel that they are losing social standing, reputation, influence, dignity, and honour, and you should consider whether it's worth the hassle over something trivial to put them on the defensive.
This exact scenario is parodied in the show Silicon Valley[0]

It's probably fairly commonplace.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ7m7mV864A
I'm apparently not making myself very clear: A proposed way of shifting power demand is giving the power company some measure of control over the temperature in your house, or your hot water boiler, your freezer, the steam in your district heating's pipes, or your aluminium smelter. You define an acceptable band of temperature and the power company can choose to turn heating or cooling on or off, as long as the temperature doesn't fall out of the acceptable range. This allows them to heat up your home when the wind is blowing a little more, and heat your home a little less when the wind is not blowing.

This does not solve the problem of windstill, dark winter weeks, where you will want proper energy storage solutions, for example hydrogen or methane that you made during summer. But it does help substantially with reducing peak demand by smearing it out over a longer time frame and thus reduces storage needs. It is in fact such a good idea that it makes sense even with conventional power generation, because even with fossil fuels demand spikes are expensive.
Apparently one of first requests was an appeal for western style saddles as the afgan ones where painful to ride on.

There is also case of an actual cavalry charge being performed by the northern alliance
Show HN: Video Stories on Your Website
The rationale for template literal types is discussed in the recent blog post about the TS 4.1 Beta.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
I think ScummVM runs on about every device I've owned in the past decade or so...

Playing Quest for Glory on the Oculus Quest is pretty fun, but I think the PS Vita might have been my favorite ScummVM device.
Counterpoint: I've seen enough tools written in C/Python/Java that are just issuing hard-coded SQL statements on the backend, so, at least with the Bash script I can at least inspect what it's doing before running it.
CRNA is a very specialized/advanced nurse, and OP used one of the highest cost of living areas in their example. CRNA nurses are called "medical nurse anesthetist" in England, and make around £100K/yr.
For ages I've wanted DuckDuckGo to add a "!copy" bang, which acts like the "!" operator (automatically navigates to the first search result) but instead of going to the page, it copies the link to my clipboard.

There are plenty of projects I'm familiar with but don't know the canonical URL off the top of my head - when I link someone else to them I have to look up their homepage. This would make this process much faster.
True, but AOT compilation at install time like on watchOS or mainframe language environments is.
I hate that I have to create an account to read this. What has Medium become???
I feel it gets harder at higher levels where companies prefer to promote internally and/or want previous experience at that level (ie: lead a cross-functional project with 20+ engineers, etc.).
I believe this is intended to be opposed to "when we make a profit we can start donating to a bunch of causes that we think matter which some people occasionally say.
The majority of the plays were written by William Shakespeare solo, and this includes the most well known like "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "King Lear" and so on.

But a number of plays were written in collaboration with other playwrights - for example the play "Two Noble Kinsmen" mentioned in the article, which was written in collaboration with John Fletcher. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_collab... for other collaborations.

Quantitative textual analysis have indeed been used to try to discern which scenes were written by who. The method is still pretty controversial though, and subject to the pitfalls of machine learning - selection of training sets, overfitting and so on. For example new edition from Oxford press attributes Henry VI parts 1-3 to Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, but this is highly controversial. The attribution are based on similarities to Marlowe's style, but critics have pointed out it could just be Shakespeare emulating Marlowe.

However the theories that all of Shakespeare's plays were written by a committee or by someone not called Shakespeare, are just fringe theories without any serious support.
子 IIRC.
yeah, but what you link to isn't a real hit counter? It makes something that looks like a hit counter without any of the backend stuff you need for a real hit counter.

As far as how simple it was back in the day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618580 already said.
Hello, everyone!

I’m Eduard, one of the founders of Holofy.

We just launched Holofy Product- our foundational e-commerce software suite ( Web widget, dashboard & app both IOS & Android ).

Our goal is to enable consumers make a decision at their highest purchase intent by giving them rich, authentic video in context, while also helping brands bridge the gap between expectations and reality reducing returns, exchanges & bad reviews.

We know the model works, we have proven it already by digitally selling the most expensive product there is: the home ( with zero complaints), and enabled our pilot partner to rent 80% of their portfolio sight unseen, doubling their business and making August their all -time record breaking month in only 8 weeks of use, you can read more here.

To show how strongly we believe in this vision we decided to play our part by giving away the foundation of Holofy free - forever.

Join us now in the quest of digitising the physical world and help everyone win-win.

I’m excited to share this with you. AMA!
How to get motivated? ala Rocky Balboa on the steps style
I think you're absolutely right in terms of senior engineers' responsibilities. My take is the following:

- It's hard to evaluate the skills you mentioned. They're important, but generally "softer".

- It's easy to validate if someone solved a cut and dry algorithms questions. As far as I can tell, it's basically a proxy for an IQ test.

I'm not justifying this, but that's my guess for why companies do this.
I long for the future where power company decides whether I'm hot or cold. That truly would be a sign of progress.
... What? Trump decided to enact some protectionist uranium policies and this makes the nuclear industry the baddies..? Did you throw out all your cutlery in disgust when he jacked up steel import tariffs? This is cretinous.
Agree, any of the companies I mentioned I would never work at. Bytedance does 996, 9am to 9pm 6 days a week. Netflix has a keep looking over your back attitude which to me seems super toxic(have had 3 friends work there, and all three would not recommend it). Lastly hedge funds require work in places I would never live at: NYC, CHI, etc and have a cut throat culture that to me is not worth the positives(salary).
225k for a nurse? Nurses in the US must be way more qualified than here to command that kind of salary.
How would that work? You go to a grocery store because you have to, and there's someone spewing out aerosols, potentially infected, while your mask protects them? Are you all for freeloading like say, making taxes optional?

What happens if people infect their elders? Who pays for the hospital costs if not the public? What if ICU capacity is taken up by anti-maskers and people who were taking precautions got unlucky and then have to die?
With 8 billion people in the world, what we hope to see is that founders come from all age brackets.

Over correction is a real thing, and when young tech founders hit it big it defied the idea of the super senior decision makers in large companies who were the paragons of leadership.

We shifted to the idolization of the young entrepreneur. This is just as bad. Been doing a little Theranos reading lately, and the adoption of the woman founder paradigm was set to take off with Elizabeth Holmes (and she was peddling the full package stereotype of the Ivy League dropout). New narratives help break strangleholds, but damn do they also have a way of unjustly defining stereotypes.
I've mentored a great deal at the HS/college level and I can share the same sentiments.

I hate to sound so crass but you're either cut out for it or you're not... People get shoved into STEM/tech/whatever because it has good career prospects without ever considering the nuance of what makes children/people successful in this.

Frankly, most people won't even wrap their head around simple conditional logic/algebra. I say "won't" because in my experience they're fully capable, they just put in minimal effort to get past the exercises. I end up having to pace my entire instruction to those kids when I find them in my groups. It's worth noting that I'm in the US where this is sorta an unspoken social contract for getting through school: keep your head down and show minimal effort + don't make waves and you'll be passed right along without a problem (usually with good grades). Thankfully, I'm doing after-school program stuff and the kids want to be there; but, you'd be surprised at how many kids are there because their parents are forcibly bolstering college apps with extra-curriculars (gross).

Sorry to wander a bit there... My main point is that regardless of whatever ideals we would like to hold not everyone is cut out for highly technical work, especially coding. Hopefully I don't come off as too much of a curmudgeon!
And where would the products that Amazon sells as a traditional retailer go? And Alexa and Fire products?

Until Amazon Basic gives Amazon virtual “slotting fees” to have the best placements...
Filecoin Confirms Long-Awaited Mainnet Launch for Next Month
>I wonder if part of the problem of integrating coding classes into schools is that anyone who has the ability to teach coding could probably get a much higher paying job outside of the school. So the quality of instruction in middle/high school isn't very good.

I'm sure some of this is real, but the "programming teacher" in the local town is a former industry developer who moved to teaching after having children so that the work schedule worked for raising children.
Original title: Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

,,vast majority of these new businesses are likely small businesses with no intentions to grow large''

It seems that these businesses that the article content about are the opposite of startups.
The Art of doing Science and Engineering (Richard Hamming) is a nice book that goes into some topics like error correction codes in low detail. Its main focus is on preparing your attitude and mind to see what other are missing.
I've always been in the "I don't get it" boat with DDG bang operators. When I last tried switching it to my default search engine, I felt like any time I needed to search DDG for "!{bang} {query}" I could have just searched Google for "{query}" and gotten the result I was looking for. In many cases, Google will give even better results for siteX than siteX's own search, because Google is likely to correct for things like common spelling errors or word substitutions.

Granted, I haven't given DDG an earnest try in a couple of years, so the DDG non-bang search results may have gotten better, but the fact that their bangs are still heavily touted as a killer feature doesn't give me much faith.
Yeah I should've explained that I think it would need a slightly larger screen.
I knew we should have added a <blink> tag
> What I was trying to say in my first post was that it's not the current enforcement. It's just an example of the government becoming too large and the robot police force of the future will use these dead laws to enforce. This will lead to disenfranchisement....

> ...This isn't about silly laws, it's about how unenforced laws have become. The size of government wants to grow, but right now the resources of the law enforcement dictate the size. In the near future the resources of law enforcement will quickly allow growth of government again.

> Another example is grass. In many cities it's illegal to have long grass. However, enforcement is non-existent or at least requires someone snitching on you. In the future there will be robot cops who will go around and inspection the entire city on a regular basis providing fines.

I think you're making a false assumption that the government is totally unresponsive to its citizens and will engage in infinite make-work enforcement to allow itself to grow maximally even if that means everyone else bears an unbearable burden. IMHO, the existence of these "dumb" laws is actually a disproof of that.

These laws remain on the books because it's basically free to leave them there. Once they start to become a burden, they'll be rewritten to be less onerous or removed completely.

I'm also 100% confident that, in our lifetimes, we won't be seeing AGI cops diligently enforcing the letter of the laws all the time.
Apparently watching a 2h video is too much to ask nowadays, or am I now supposed to link all snippets and blogs from OTOY just to win a couple Internet brownie points?
Using streams for purely functional random number generation in Scala
I have no idea how you determine that. I suspect most have no idea what AOSP Android even looks like. Almost every manufacturer has a custom UI layer. AFAIK Google's Pixel phones and the Nokia Android One phones are the only ones offering something like a "stock AOSP + Google Play" experience.
Any idea of the scale of that image? What is the diameter of the crater?
That's still lazy writing. Every blog should be written with the assumption it will be encountered by a non-specialist. Expanding abbreviations on first use and offering a brief explanation of jargon is enough to let these readers know if the article is something they are interested in.
I think people often underestimate how bad the average programmer is out there.

It’s apparently not unheard of to have C programmers who don’t know function pointers or even structs work, or who don’t know what a build system is (only ever used an IDE).

There are many people who will just plug stuff together until it works somehow, without understanding why or how it works in the end.
It's all about who is the favorite. I had a tech lead who didn't know what SCCM was even though we supported a thick-client that was installed using SCCM. He had numerous other deficiencies in things like system design and wanting/trying to avoid implementing security fixes to bring us inline with standards. But he knew how to talk to management and the business to make them like him. He was very much a 'yes man'. Unfortunately I speak my mind, so I am just intermediate.
AFAIK, N95 and disposable gear are definitely enough - I'm going for my 3rd dental checkup since Covid tomorrow, and last I asked they had no infection in the clinic. But they're properly paranoid.

Surgical masks in a closed room... I'm skeptical.
What are the "changes that could be made?"
But these are the people we need to entice to leave their jobs! The best potential hires always have jobs; they rarely go to the open market. They rarely respond to open casting calls and don't need to go through the broken song and dance routine. We know this as the most reliable metric is prior work directly with someone who you trust who vouches for them. Everything else like whiteboarding data algos is weak sauce.
NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission

As long as it stays in orbit. I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to land on Europa. Some monolith mentioned it.
Thanks! I actually use Zero myself, so it was fun to watch. Unfortunately, the situations are different, because they left all free features free. In our case, some free features will become paid only.
If you're looking for feature ideas, and if you have decent user analytics, I would seek ideas from users who have changed their engagement with your product for the worse. If you solicit suggestions from someone who's cut their time with your product, or who uses it in fits and starts, you might get some pointed suggestions.
That was before a good developer who can pass interviews and get a promotion or two could make 3x (easily) to 10x (if a few things went their way) as a teacher.

There are some people who love teaching enough to make that trade off, and it’s wonderful that they exist, but they’re going to be exceptionally rare.
We also have select-contextmenu-search on both desktop and mobile, for any word or acronym. Links are nice for disambiguation or to point to a recommended resource, but they're hardly essential, nor are in-line expansions or definitions.
I don't understand how this would solve the counterfeiting problem. What prevents the counterfeiters from getting a legitimate device, reading whatever is displayed on this temporary chip, then putting that value on their own counterfeit's temporary chips?

What prevents someone who's tampering with a device to rewrite the chip using the previously displayed value (or replace the chip) as to reset the time limit?

I don't see what kind of attack vector this mitigates.
> It's reasonable to assume that Police has procedures that are followed, or at least that are followed infinitely better than the general public

This is not supported by evidence. In other words, the world doesn't function the way we wish it would.
Ask HN: How do I pay less taxes?
Without getting too political, a current US news event has me thinking about how to lower my personal tax liability. Are there youtube channels, books, blogs, etc. that are teaching this? Do I just need to hire a good accountant?
thanks, I'll take a look
I wonder why OT is restricted to a central server. In 2016/2017 I wrote a Progressive Web App (PWA) for myself which uses an algorithm which probably fits the category of OT. It uses a WebDAV server for synchronization between devices. Yes, this is a centralized server, but when some super slow & dumb WebDAV server can serve this purpose, it should probably be possible to build it on top of S3, a blockchain or something federated.

My biggest issues at the time were around CORS as with a PWA you can't simply use every server the user enters, as the same-origin-policy keeps getting in your way.
Agree, my model isn't complete.

Unrelated to your point but I think a lot of people who write really bad code are the only choice because they are experts in another essential domain, and there aren't a whole lot of experts in both that domain and writing software. So you do what you can. There is a reason that code written by EE's is often derided as terrible.