skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the reply - its nice to hear some perspective. yes I have a much better appreciation for full time childcare and the associated stresses now. i absolutely want to be the best parent i can; for now i guess that manifests itself in direct time and attention. its just hard to come to terms with not being able to enjoy intellectual pursuits, projects, etc., not being able to feel like I'm contributing much to our situation and just not knowing when things will change. my wife has been great dealing with her side of things at the same time (and I probably don't say that enough tbh).
Can’t we do long terms (10-15 years) then? Instead of life, which could be as much as 40 years in some cases
It's an easy qualitative decision to consider a variety of species with pleasant calls and plants which coexist in their own niches better than swarms of one single species of bird and an aggressively invasive plant species which chokes out all other growth. Knotweed in particular is an absolute pox on the landscape in North America.
> with VRBO predating Airbnb by a lot, except for a more slick execution.

And "the more slick execution" was key. VRBO was until quite recently basically just classified ads - all transactions were done off platform, which was a major PITA and left a huge vector for fraud. I remember back in the late 00s I rented a place in Europe, and the only form of payment the owner would take was cash, so I showed up and paid 1200 euros in cash like I was buying half a kilo of heroin.

AirBnB solved the transaction issue right from the get go, with all payments going through their system and the owner not getting paid until like a day or two after the guest checked in. In addition, AirBnB worked off a commission model, which makes much more sense from a business perspective and which VRBO finally switched to a couple years ago.
Mega free-trade deal a lifeline for Australia-China relations
Trade secrets, patents & IP, and national security are usually the reasons cited by politicians and manufacturers of voting machines.
In my country (UK) the results are known pretty much for certain the second the polls close. The results for certain are known within a few hours. We use paper and hand counting. Why do you want to use scanning? What problems do you think it solves that we haven't solved with paper and hand counting?
Agree with this sentiment. When you're in the moment, it may feel as if you're loosing time. But failing should be the best school you ever have. You might had to do research on X or train some aspects of your development skills etc. You always take that with you. The experience itself, is never lost.
So instead of getting swatted, one gets lit.
Indeed.

Even the list of emails and their preview (master-detail layout) took long time to implement and it was in "Laboratory" settings or something like that
From another article written by the same author, it looks like the author mainly tried to create two-sided businesses (e.g., markeplaces/social networks):

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-failed-6-side-projec...

This is one of the most difficult kinds of business to start. You need to attract both content creators (sellers) and content consumers (buyers). Attracting just one group is hard enough. Attracting both is just about impossible. It's even harder when you're kind of shy and sensitive to criticism.

Hats off to the author for trying the almost impossible anyway. I imagine there are some really good lessons in that experience.
In terms of pay/work ratio, it might always hold true that it trends lower for embedded work. For individuals, though, I think the variation is a lot higher.

In my personal experience, there's a huge demand for experienced embedded software engineers in the bay area, and companies are willing to pay competitively. The team at my current company has grown from just me to a dozen embedded engineers, and we have several open positions for more. When I worked at Google, I'm pretty sure the embedded software folk had above average total compensation compared to general software engineers.

I think a big part of it, though, is that embedded engineers in silicon valley tend to get pulled into longer term high capital expense projects. The compensation packages tend to be more equity than salary, and so the salary component is below average. You need to be willing to take the risk to get the upside.

From what I hear from friends in the midwest, the compensation is significantly lower than the difference in cost of living, which is unfortunate. Salaries may be above average, but without much if any equity.

Another part of it, I think, is the sheer amount of interdisciplinary and domain specific knowledge required to be a truly strong embedded software engineer. The demand curve is very heavily biased toward senior level engineers. The companies with the money to spend want the best, and with such high capital expenditure projects, they can't really afford not to.
That is more supercapacitor territory than batteries, especially if you do not require long-term energy storage (can accept relatively high self-discharge). The energy recovery systems in Formula 1 racing (KERS) are examples.
More than amount, I'm impressed by the strategy, focus, and long term commitment. They've played 4D chess while my Democrats are amnesiacs still trying to grasp checkers.
Because open source software doesn't make electronic voting 100% foolproof either.
It's hard to prove the software running on the systems is the same as the source code you've read.

And you still have other issues like radio waves being emitted based on the computers' calculations, which (in theory) makes it possible to determine what you've voted. Researchers in The Netherlands proved that it was possible with the machines there, which is why we went back to pencil and paper.
Yeah, running a financial endeavor like a software business requires you to be 50% tireless robot and 50% narcissist cheerleader. Most people can't do that.
Richard Dawkins did do very well with the way he expressed the concept. It is quite intuitive for something of such great significance. Easy to forget, I suppose for me, how intuitive it is.
We already have voting machines in use! That's the software that needs to be open-sourced.
They cluster them in at least 3's. If the three by my house are completely blocked (the cable is almost as long as the car), in use, or broken (one was kicked in recently, now fixed) and I desperately need a charge (which has only happened once) there are at 10-15 more within 5 or so minutes walk.

Ubitricity has shown a concept where they have smaller extender posts off the lamp posts, which I guess they'll be able to install if an area gets really busy.
thanks for sharing so many details about the process.

1. quality controls for medical devices are necessary since they can be fatal as you said. that said, are there ways of accelerating the certification/control process without sacrificing quality?

2. it sounds like you had access to great local talent. how could we improve the collaboration process so other people could contribute to the design process?

3. if you were the head of the EU, what's the first change you would make to improve the innovation cycle for medical devices?
The voting machines are already here and were in widespread use before the most recent election in the US.

I agree that paper ballots are ideal, but the machines are already in use.
> Travellers could also be considered gypsies

Yes I heard people use that label for all nomadic minorities. I wonder if it's improper use of the word.
Investor Amnesia: Silver Linings
But why? What problem do they solve? Get rid of them. Don't convert them to open-source. This is the wrong argument to be making.
> If you can uplift species and you choose not to, you have killed their cognition.

By that logic you killed all the kids you could have made when you weren't having sex.
I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro. This update bricked it. I have a tendency to install most Apple releases when they are first available, even though there are often problems that are usually fixed with a few updates.

I'm sometimes able to boot into Internet Recovery mode (Command-Option-G). Unfortunately, it seems like the only option is to reinstall Big Sur, which doesn't fix the problem.

Hopefully once Apple fixes this issue, I will be able to install the updated version and get it working again. If not, this machine is 7 years old and more or less on its last legs, but I'm still somewhat disappointed.
Canonical brings Juju charms to Kubernetes Operators
We went from abacus to digital circuit painstakingly over thousands of years and you're using a compute-er with a screen to post this comment. There's nothing wrong with paper except its extreme inefficiency in the human realm. We could have audit-able ballots and public/private keys to check that our ballots have been counted and tabulated correctly. Is it the case, perhaps, that ballots are supposed to be "private" and therefore we have "private" software count them?
It kills trees.
I still use it for everything. Memory at that scale just isn't an issue anymore. Your grammar would have to be huge and your data structures highly unoptimized for it to matter all that much.
Speed, I presume. With software, you can announce the results of an election the second after polling closes. The actual paper ballot count/verification might take a week, but that's one week of uncertainty you don't have to deal with.
That's incredibly optimistic of you to call the PC dead. I really, really, hope (and am pretty sure) that you are wrong
Can you comment on individual lines of a changeset in an email and reply to such comments separately, and then see such conversations in the context of the diff? And then mark them as resolved when that happens?

Can you read those discussions later in a "flat" presentation without scrolling through emails one-by-one?

These are some of the killer features of the PR/MR Github/Gitlab workflows.

To clarify, I'm talking about steps 4-7 here: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/colla...

As well as the "Resolving conversations" section.
Bikes are perfect for the city,expect when it is raining and when you have kids , yeah giving up cars and kids is the way to save the planet.
Technically, the courts interpreted the legislation that was already passed as allowing gay marriage.

If there was a political, legislative will, "the people" could pass an amendment to the law specifying that gay marriage is not allowed or protected.
Yeah but in this case it is the ant-eating beast
> There's nothing wrong with paper except its extreme inefficiency in the human realm.

They aren't inefficient. In the UK (paper ballots) an accurate estimate is available when the polls close, and a certain result is available within a few hours before next morning. This is much faster than US voting machines.
> The cat's out of the bag with this research so to speak now. Someone's bound to do this again

If they do it again and again and again, the progress will be substantial, and society stands to benefit enormously.

With exponential increases in the parts of the brain responsible for intelligence, morality and justice, imagine a future president of the United States elected from this cohort.
Coming up with good ideas is hard. Executing on them is hard. Marketing and selling the end product is hard. The same person being able to do all three is damn near impossible. That's why you need a co-founder.
That's the point: naturalism can justify anything, and that makes it a poor guiding principle. As do many other things.

There are many natural things that are good. Clean air, unique little ecosystems like GP describes, endless variety -- and we should strive to respect and preserve those, but not because they are natural. Poor animals teeming with parasites, population "balance" maintained through periodic overpopulation and starvation (How do people think it happens? Forest fairies tell the deer how many babies to have?), predators feasting on the organs of their prey while the prey is still alive. All these things are natural but not good and we should not seek to replicate them.
I understand the sentiment, but given our track record of being OK with causing the suffering of billions of creatures capable of suffering - and in fact even being the reason those creators were born in the first place - I wouldn't be surprised if we brushed it aside relatively easily after the first few.
I know this is a naïve viewpoint, but I'm not yet totally convinced there is absolutely no way to securely enable digital elections.

Obviously I defer to the experts in the field for what is and isn't possible, but something about it scratches at the back of my mind...
> I equate startup advice to those "Teach you how to become a millionaire" books you find at grocery stores.

Without these books, finance wouldn’t have enough money to play with. Schmucks are a key ingredient of the ecosystem.

Same for startups. You need a substrate of failed founders and employees to create the raw materials that feed the successful juggernauts.
In the UK using paper a pretty certain estimate is available in zero seconds after polls close and accurate results are available within a few hours. Faster than the US using machines, which take a week.
An EV doesn't waste power when sitting in traffic. Slow traffic will be better for range than going fast.
I want to be able to make sure my ballot was counted. Give me a public/private key pair when you mail me my ballot or when I leave the polls, and encrypt it in such a way that I can confirm the authenticity myself. As a software developer, I will not be convinced that this is not possible.
>Can you comment on individual lines of a changeset in an email and reply to such comments separately, and then see such conversations in the context of the diff? And then mark them as resolved when that happens?

Yes, except for the last bit. Unlike GitHub/GitLab you can also respond to several comments at once.

>Can you read those discussions later in a "flat" presentation without scrolling through emails one-by-one?

I don't know what this means.
Thank you so much for warning me: I have the same model (2014 MBP 15"), and would very likely have tested booting an external drive with another OS, not expecting it to cause harm to my hardware.

Maybe this will help; the instructions are for Yosemite though.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-how-to-get-back-o...
Would a co-founder in that case be beneficial? Assuming you both take the risk, it's less hard on you if it fails. Obviously pros and cons with this.
I am pretty sure HN will RIP apart Koch but do read his views before picking up your sickle
This is simply unethical.
I just needed to wrap ResponseWriter yesterday (for logging purposes) and found this package to be quite helpful: https://github.com/felixge/httpsnoop
Not that this helps the author, but some of the most successful people failed many times before succeeding. In fact, those who fail before becoming successful seem to be better able to repeat success than those who win on the first try.

There is a big element of luck in success, so multiple attempts may be necessary even if funding is available.
'God fearing' as he approaches death?

Or political play after it looks like the dems will win the election?

It's almost as if, at the deepest level, we're all one.
I personally know three people who experienced side effects and had no idea that it could have been linked to the statins. One had liver damage that tooks months to recover from. Another had colitis symptoms and they went away after stopping statins. A third became very weak, to the point of having trouble getting out of bed. He stopped the statins and was back to normal about a week later. All three of these people were extremely skeptical that the statins could be the problem and were astonished at the improvement.

It's hard to say how mindset affected the symptoms and recovery. They all believed the statins would help them and were also skeptical that stopping them would help.
Guido van Rossum's series on PEG parsing
https://medium.com/@gvanrossum_83706/peg-parsing-series-de5d...

Proposal to use PEG parser in python
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/

Python PEG grammar
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Grammar/python.gr...
I don't see how Alito and Thomas show a trend here. Roberts joined after Thomas and Gorsuch joined after Alito, and both have a more independent record.

Among the Democrat appointees, Kagan has a more independent record than Sotomayor but came afterward.

I know there are counterexamples but my point is that there's not an obvious trend toward more partisan justices, or at least no evidence has been presented so far in this thread.
You're wrong about the 12 years — that's the average age at retirement, so the average car on the roads is six years old, not 12.

But I think you're right about the bigger issue — Norway's further along the road, and has been able to fix the infrastructure enough that people don't complain much, and has done so in much less than those 30 years. There are complaints, e.g. about building coops that won't let people install chargers in shared garages.
The point about voting is it needs to be transparent, paper votes locked in a box and taken to a counting station is about as transparent a voting system as is possible, the number of links in the chain where votes can be tampered with is limited and everyone can understand how it works.

The moment you introduce any kind of electronic system into the voting or counting process nobody can understand it all anymore, there's a million lines of code and billions of transistors, nobody can validate the entire thing and even if they could, you couldn't, you'd have to trust the people can.
I always try to implement these things and then eventually just end up using Gin and some plugins and building something my self. This often leads to a smaller code footprint and a lower cognitive load when returning to the code 3-6 months later to add some feature.
It's not just one study, either. This isn't the area of political science I work in. Amongst those who do, it's an essentially universally-held belief that term limits for legislators are empirically a bad idea.

It's a shame. I like the idea of not concentrating power.
I'd suggest label-actions-OG
More toys: https://dunkadunka.com
Yup, this dependency seemed like a pretty big risk
This is the side project in question: http://nomadmail.io/
> Why doesn't the United States (and other democracies) require open source voting software for all elections?

One thing that's different about the US is that each state is responsible for carrying out its own elections. There is some federal involvement, but it's mostly up to the states to implement.

One often-cited advantage of this approach is that it makes it difficult to attack a presidential election because you'd have to work across different state voting systems.

So a national mandate would face opposition on the federalism issue.
I had to take that test at a previous employer and I think I got either a 3 or 8. I'm definitely a people pleaser, but two of the main reasons I like doing support tickets are that I'm good at it and I feel bad when other engineers really half-ass it and the person on the other end gets no answer after ~weeks of waiting. It's shocking to me how little effort people put into it.
Ok, I don't know of the specific case, it is just, that here in germany, the "invasive" species people complain about, I wittnes as a welcome variation. Brings in more color. The areas that do get dominated, will very likely balance it out with a different species, soon.

edit: had to translate it, but: we also have knotweed and people complain, but I actually like it. And I do not see it dominating, just a spot here and there, just like nettles.
Doesn't seem to support transparency so it's dead in the water for many present-era retail supply chains. Unsure from the site what it is exactly but it sounds a lot like egg cartons or cardboard, which already have their place.
MIT PhD Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals Unfortunate Truth, Page 1
> Firstly, your issue doesn't seem to be anything other than social anxiety

And your issue doesn’t seem to be anything other than inability to empathize with someone that is legitimately venting how freelancing can be a nearly impossible hurdle for some. Anxiety is not the same experience for all.
That’s a problem for facebook though
The article is too short. He didn't offer any techniques for taking criticism. He just said we should take it. But how?
As a place to work at. Presumed High caliber engineering colleagues (party due to size and growth), especially because there is a lot of hype for Stripe and its documentation and process among tech professionals.

High potential for stocks rising at IPO, like Snowflake (although there seems to a value cap) so kids are not as excited about it as Databricks.
> We could have audit-able ballots and public/private keys to check that our ballots have been counted and tabulated correctly.

With electronic voting, the bar for being able to validate vote counts is raised to requiring computer experts who understand public-key encryption.

With paper ballots, anyone who can count is able to validate votes.

Electronic voting would be prime for obfuscated attempts at influencing elections because only a handful of people would be able to verify that the machines counted votes correctly.
I find this a good reference for creating intuitive abstractions/conceptual models.

But everyone is different in which abstractions resonate for them, and these don't resonate with my cognitive profile.
Is this a serious, peer-reviewed journal? I'm not familiar with it.
Show HN: Motion track text/images in GIFs
Latest developments: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06444
As a fan of the Planet of the Apes franchise, I like this article.

Next: give apes human-like hands suitable for tools.
At least explain why you think it qualifies as satire
More likely the poor thing's going to be severely epileptic or have other debilitating brain malfunctions, if it would be viable at all. People here are reading way too much positive functional consequences into this manipulation.

In principle, of course genetic manipulation could be used as one tool to create a creature "smarter" than any human (whatever that means more specifically).

In practice, until we start having a much more coherent theory of functional brain physiology, applying the tool to that end pretty much amounts to mucking around, with likely tragic consequences.
Are you kidding?

We just had an election amid a pandemic where electronic voting could have literally saved lives.

Then we have a president who refuses to concede and states that are still counting and recounting votes in a tight election weeks after it took place, people don't expect a final tally until December.
All true but given that Apple makes all the hardware too, I'm really curious whether they keep one of every version of the hardware to test OS installs.