skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we lack is ambitious law makers or sensible elite.

Beyond that it is quite easy to force car makers to create modular cars with parts that fit on any car. We create standards all of the time.

Each large nation could provide a team of experts and together they could draft a plan for a digital platform to run a government on. It might be able to run on mac, windows and linux, it might require some dedicated hardware.

If the standards are open and we can all develop add-ons for it I cant see any way for it to turn sour.
Yea, this is called a "double trigger" and is often written into founder reverse vesting agreements signed during formation. The idea is that at first, you can be fired as per usual like any employee. But, if there's a significant change in control of the company (e.x. M&A of >50% of outstanding shares), then _one_ of the triggers has been met. At that point, if you're fired without cause, that's the second trigger and remaining unvested shares immediately become fully vested.

Of course, I've since learned that pretty much _anything_ can be re-worked in an M&A agreement -- "we're not buying you without striking this clause" -- so it's no silver bullet.
For $12 a month you can have no ads on YouTube and YouTube Music.[1] That's what I do. Less than one movie ticket per month (back when that was available).

[1]https://www.youtube.com/premium
I lived at home because it was cheaper (free other than yard work, housework, and doing my own laundry), campus was 3 or 4 miles away depending on which end I needed (and roads were just dangerous enough I wasn't going to cycle, tried it, didn't like the assholes throwing shit at me). Most students lived on campus, but many (including locals like me) lived off campus.

But even those who lived on campus, the furthest dorms were where I'd have had to park on those mentioned days. I did that sometimes, but it really was a 20- to 30-minute walk depending on where I was going on campus because they decided a mile long parking lot made more sense than a parking deck (later built, after I graduated).

Also it had a bus service, but it really only covered connecting the business school, psychology school, and main campus. The massive parking lot was not covered by the bus service, which didn't make sense.
No, offering an unregistered security to the general public is illegal, even if you make them money.
Google Chrome now blocks insecure downloads from secure websites. Many court...
I’ve just become so...tired of the anti-consumer mechanisms.

The pop-ups. The floating “dickbars” (as John Gruber calls them). The delayed prompts. The login blockers after trying to do like 2 simple things. At some point I just think “do you want me to use this or not?!?” and just leave.

I encourage everyone to do the same, just leave these sites that disrespect you. Start adding up all the time you saved, when you discover half the “articles” or comments weren’t really worth your time to begin with.
Were the numbers consistent before this year (2020)? That would help indicate what the variance / increase this year was compared to the past, say, 5-10 years or so.
There is an absolutely massive marketing industry out there contending for discretionary income. It is worth pointing out options which may have high utility for the buyer, but where the sell side doesn't spend billions on pumping awareness into the culture.
Haha, the obviously absurd conclusion should tell you that something is wrong with at least one premise.
> only risk was being unable to register for a parking permit the next term if you didn't pay it off

That surprises me. I would have thought that most colleges had a rule saying that they wouldn't give you a diploma until you had settled all arrears.
It took a lot of active dislike, and almost hatred, to get enough energy going to field competitors to AT&T. You have to have a zeal and delight in seeing your bigger competitor struggle to be able to develop a healthy competitive marketplace where there was a (de facto) monopoly before.

AT&T had been around long enough (100 years) to generate that sort of deep-seated loathing. The loathing seems to be there for Facebook, but I don’t know how deep-seated it would be. If it was started, its roots would need to be somewhere outside the Pacific Coast to generate a sense of alienation from “the enemy”.
I tripped over your first paragraph a bit, but I got it, you mean the market open price ("IPO price" has a specific meaning, the price that the people participating in the offering get, that is usually set by the bank).
I keep coming back to this in my head, thinking about how superficial this counterpoint is. Sure, if your requirement is that you pass regulatory muster, then lighting is "simple" in that you can buy an off the shelf bulb, socket, and housing. But those aren't the requirements. In reality, table stakes are LED DRLs, high beams and lowbeams. Matrix LEDs or laser lights that can mask out other vehicles using onboard IR sensors are becoming more common. Additionally there are styling requirements, such as computationally driven welcome and farewell patterns for lock/unlock, and trends to follow like light bars, super thin OLED strips etc.

A phone light is just a little LED you could buy for a dollar and put on your keychain.
Awesome work!

For anyone interested in using The Quantum ad-list in their adguard setups, I've added this to my self-updating ad gaurd block list generator (smashblock - which is also based on hblock).

https://github.com/smashah/smashblock
While I agree with the sentiment, most of the tasks I want to offload involve PII that I would not want to give to some random person. I would love a personal assistant who is able to do things like that, but I haven't seen a good model for a trustworthy one that would be cheap enough that it would still be worth hiring out for.
Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
You may want to check the language guide. / is just the namespace separator, it's not a file finder. Could just as easily have been made :: instead.
You can also contest just fines. In the US fines are used as an undemocratic, regressive tax to raise extra revenue for the government. Everyone should contest every fine so they are unprofitable.
Could one really re-establish trust at this point? How would you know things may not head south at any future point with a big outcome at stake?
at least cats are going to shit on the sidewalk or bark at all hours of the day. I'd be happier with a total pet ban though.
If nothing else, it appears like you'll live an interesting life this way, though perhaps not a long one if you take the 'start' path on the smoking.
Okay? Still worth pointing out that most people don’t have anything resembling that kind of discretionary income.
We can expect the per-capita death rate to jump around by at most 1.2%, based on data since 1950.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...
You'll never convince the pit bull apologists. Polite society has decided that they're not going to hear about it because it goes against their intuition that no dogs are 'bad.'

I have some friends that have pit bulls. They never attacked a person, but they did attempt to kill a goat. I can't think of another type of dog that would maul livestock unprovoked with no history of aggression. They are just naturally aggressive, and anyone that says otherwise is a shill or ignorant.
What is v’s take on inheritance / traits / mixin
So what is your take on that? I am genuinely interested, because coming from a country where everybody started with more or less the same crappy housing, cheap transit, no-frills healthcare, and ok education (and where 95% of my classmates were the same ethnicity, and the other 5% were, if anything, more successful and richer), I've come to look at such people with extreme disdain. Growing up I was actually on the poorer end of my peers, and I was merely pro-meritocracy, by my mid-20ies I was (and still am) outright classist.

So, in the US, I buy the arguments about the people who have a precarious housing situation, etc.; but I would absolutely "leave behind" the people you describe, with free rent and food. What else can one do?
I've been trying to not take my M1 Air for granted and keep it fast, so I've been using dbxfs instead of the official Dropbox client. I hardly notice it running and still have access to my Dropbox files when I need it.
I doubt the marginal gains from sending followups on cold emails can make or break any business, it's rude, and it's mildly illegal.

Maybe I'm just grumpy, but... if you send me a cold email, I'll either respond or delete it. Then, if the original didn't have an "unsubscribe" link, plus you follow up on it, I'll tell gmail to block you.
Well if everyone is selling then nobody is buying and the quoted stock price remains unchanged.

See how ridiculous it is to nitpick purely hypothetical situations?
Ah yes, we should ensure the poors can’t park!
These numbers do not add up with CDC statistics, which show that about 7000 people in that age group died from COVID over the whole year.

One mistake I see is to take the average of twenty years of deaths in that age group as baseline. The number of deaths from drug overdoses has steadily risen from 20,000 per year in 2000 to over 80,000 last year - with a sharp spike at the beginning of this year.

Edit: The paper that is cited in the introduction acknowledges that an increase opiate overdoses may be the underlying factor here. They only had data from 2018 to estimate its impact.
Are fire hydrants so close together in some places they make a significant amount of parking unusable?
I wouldn't call it secret software, but private utilities that I use for myself that were never released publicly for various of reasons yes. I'm sure that many programmers have this. And if some organization have a secret software, I don't think they would reveal it here.
Definitely not gonna hand over my tax returns but other than that, I'm not generally worried about it - granted they will still know reasonable amount of detail about me, that's the price you pay I suppose. Which is why I wasn't comfortable with fancyhands and other such services- I still want ONE person to handle my stuff, and have some ability to screen them for trustworthiness.
Cool! I'm rich and I've never heard of that trick. Tell me how we do it, please.
I've honestly never seen that.

Seems to me, that is like paying for a nice steak dinner, coming in, sitting down, eating the potatoes, then leaving.

Like, why? The point of college is to learn things. Balancing course load is important, but not learning at all is just a waste of time.
Reminds me of the CIO of SolarWinds who left last October. Pretty convenient
I don't know about 2021, but at some point we'll see fewer deaths. Lots of people who would otherwise have died in that future year are dying this year.
The switches and cards might be the "easy" part, those are solvable by throwing money at them.. The tough part is the Cat6a or higher cabling. If I understand correctly, properly terminating Cat6a to a spec-conforming level is hard, even professional cable puller don't always get it right. Besides all the tools and testers (which cost more money), you also need skill to ensure your cables are actually performing up to spec. And skill isn't something that you can necessarily buy with money.
Interesting! That is really surprising to me.

I would guess then that the increased traffic from people ordering online instead of in person offsets the increase in driving to work/socializing etc.
If they’re not suing to stop it, that means it’s likely legal.
Some more that are free(ish):

Pick from your spices at random when cooking and resolve to use whatever you get

Schedule working sessions with remote coworkers where you share a zoom room but just work

Shave your head and donate your hair

Volunteer to speak with elderly (maybe by phone for now) and collect their life stories

Learn who is building what in your neighbor hood (e.g. https://dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbipts/)

Picket things by yourself

Find a big mud puddle and jump in it until you look like a monster

Climb trees as an adult

Play music on street corners

Go to church and ask questions until you're asked to leave

Knock on people's doors and introduce yourself

Troll craigslist for free ceramics (plates dishes etc) and smash the heck out of them

Take apart your toaster and put it back together again, don't stop until it works again
They are able to, but being able to shave a couple of cents on it gives them a massive return while most consumers don't complain, and their competitors aren't offering anything better.
With Centuries-Old Techniques, This Farm Is Preparing for the Future
> ...urbanization (=> vastly accrued need for antibiotics)...

Historically, bacterial infections were major killers in pre-industrial, predominantly rural societies globally.
This is really good. I have been involved in this area of finance for over 2 decades and can attest that this process is broken. The bankers and traders pressure companies to benifit themselves and their clients at the expense of early investors and employees. I've seen cases where the IPO bankers made off with more than the employees themselves.

This is a step in the right direction.
It's funny. His conclusion with the "life is cheap to save" was that he could save lives. Mine was that I don't care that much about the arbitrary life.
ahh that makes more sense. Thought you were saying you were driving from one class to another.
Very cool! Maybe draw the Mandelbrot set, or a table of 10x10 prime numbers in minimal monospaced font.
You're not rich enough.
The housing appreciation is overrated: your house is worth more, but so are all the other houses you want to buy when you move. And people complaining when the housing prices fall also confuse me: so what, the house you buy when you move is cheaper too.

The trailer home I bought was built in 1984. With all the people moving out of NYC into New Jersey, similar mobile homes in my development have sold for $80k. I may end up selling for a similar amount. Though I do think you're right and it is typical to lose money when re-selling a mobile home.

As a side note: I paid 0 tax when purchasing it (it's not a house, no house tax). My "closing" expenses were $40 to get the title registered at the local DMV / MVC (Motor Vehicle Commission). It's pretty nice.
As a non web developer, writing less JS appeals to me, and I've found HTMX[1] to be simple to use. I'll add that the HTMX website/docs are much more approachable than this site.

[1]: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx
I think it depends on the content.

I gave advice to many people who cold emailed me.

But in my personal experience, most cold emails I wrote wouldn't lead to much, because my inquiries were too specific.
We stopped doing this ten years ago because it tightly coupled the front- and back-ends and made it almost impossible to insert an API for mobile apps after the fact.
> On top of that, they picked high frequencies that cell carriers don't want because they have little penetration.

This is true somewhat, but frequencies in the 2-6 GHz range are pretty common for LTE, and cell carriers have spent many billions on the licenses.
Must have missed it. Can you share a link?
I think every legitimate University makes their students take at least one philosophy course?

Philosophy 101 (and every equivalent) heavily focuses on the classical and modern teachings on morals and ethics.
Wonder how much legal abortion and removing lead caused this to decrease.
Most people don't speak English. 89.5% of Americans live above the poverty line.
Every fire hydrant is thirty feet of unparkable space. Some streets "double up" by putting them at intersections (so it's only ten additional no-parking feet), but that's enough to fit three or four cars.
Definitely noticed that, and it is certainly a privilege to be able to trade time for money; but it is also something that many people don't stop to consider. It makes sense to be thrifty when you're younger and poorer but it can become a blind spot when things change and your time starts becoming more valuable.

Especially when it gets tangled up with moral judgments or self-image: "why order something at restaurant that you can make at home?" "what kind of cyclist can't change a flat" "only a loser has to pay to get dates" etc...

None of those things are absolute right or wrong, but it should be based on a honest assessment of the tradeoffs, not emotional associations or ingrained assumptions.
Okay. Let's talk about the bigotry. Is there anything even bigoted in the original post? Would it be racist if an Indian person asked "Why do Americans love guns so much?" to the point of requiring a response chastising the questioner?

Different cultures manifest themselves in different behaviors among the individuals of the given culture. If it didn't, the concept of culture wouldn't exist. So what exactly is bigoted if one asks why culture X seems to be prone to telling a certain type of story? Is it also racist to say a lot of magical realism comes out of Colombian culture, and wonder why that is the case?
I don't know him and haven't heard much about him, but from the looks of it the CTO of the United States (yes, the CTO of the United States) is a shill for Palantir/Thiel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kratsios).

As far as I can tell he is not GitHub nor HackerNews, nor does he know how to code, which I think would make someone quite unqualified for that position.

Again though, maybe he's a nice person. Just to me from the outside looks like a Palantir puppet.
It's challenging to prove who is driving the car at the time of the fine (i.e., parking fine). Therefore, it would be difficult to tie fines to income.
Where do you even buy those pre-86 full autos? Asking for a friend.
I also love the animations in macOS, but fwiw each version of iOS feels like a step backwards for usability to me.
It seems like there's usually about one per block. That's at least a couple percent of street parking spaces.
Show HN: Beforelogin is a Chrome extension to help spot phishing attacks
Well, that may also have been a penalty but it wasn't one I faced. The only one I knew was the risk of being unable to register your vehicle in the next term.

But some people just never registered their vehicles, which was also an option. There was no electronic tool for the ticket givers (fellow students working for the school) to look up a vehicle. So instead of towing every violation, they just gave up. I knew a guy who had accrued a couple hundred tickets by the time he graduated, car wasn't under his name (his parents) so no penalties for him (from the school) if they'd tried to find the owner, and the school never pursued his parents for it.

It was not an effective system. The only people who actually had to pay for a parking permit were those who lived on campus because their cars would be there overnight, that's when cars would be towed if they lacked a current parking sticker. (I worked or studied on campus until 10 or 11pm most nights so I was paying for a permit.)
TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement
TerarkDB was acquired by Bytedance two years ago and is now using widely in Bytedance's database services.

I am one of the maintainers of this project you can ask any question here.
When I lived in East Palo Alto, it was the murder capital of the US. With a carjacking attempt 75' from my front door (foiled by returning with a pistol before they could restart my car) I miss that time not at all.
The unfair advantages compound, though. Kids with stable upper-middle-class parents would probably be better at things than poor kids, just because they have more resources and time, less stress, better role models. That is why equity advocates don't like standardized tests anymore...

Are you ok with unfairness that stems from higher ability that is itself the result of "winning the socioeconomic lottery"?

Like, I was born in Russia, so my theoretical CS knowledge outside of what I learned on my own is crap, because (unlike e.g. maths) the CS curriculum in my ~2nd tier college was completely useless. I am talented enough to work in a big tech co, and my maths is (or rather used to be) top-notch, so it didn't have to be like that, it's purely based on where I could go to college. If you were hiring a computer scientist straight out of college, would you hire me or a MIT grad? He merely won the socioeconomic lottery.
Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
Direct listing is the norm in many countries around the world for decades. In India for example it is called book building and is the norm since ~1998. The average underwriting fee is 1-2% and academic studies have calculated that underpricing came down substantially from fixed price IPOs.

The US is late to this shift but understandable as the US has the some of the oldest and largest markets which are resistant to change. The same process happened in the shift to electronic trading where US exchanges were the last to fully embrace electronic trading - looking at you NYSE ;) Also remember the big banks owned seats on the exchanges and the exchanges in turn and that removed any incentive for the exchanges to push for direct listings. The exchanges are now publicly traded entities so there incentives are no longer aligned.

The pearl clutching by institutional investors at this change is surprising. Perhaps they are chafing at losing preferential access to IPO allocations and having to compete with the rest of the retail investing public.
I have to ask, did you watch 3615 code Père Noël on Joe Bob Brigg’s?

I watched it on Shudder a few days ago, and have to say it had quite the enjoyable selection of late 80s tech.

I was also surprised to learn that it is allegedly the inspiration for the movie Home Alone.

And, the significance of the four digits 3615 - was a common prefix for Minitel services?

It seemed like a more mature, coordinated implementation of a network of BBSs.
Dont the bankers go through a discovery process where they find buyers pre-IPO? Its not like a blind guess
Considered acceptable in the 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24
Can you elaborate on how services aren't factored into GDP? That was not my understanding.
Modular JavaScript File Uploader
> Surgery for appearance or comfort

Be very careful about this. Surgery in the modern age is safe, but there is always a risk, whether from the surgery itself, the anesthesia, or from infection.

Be sure that you are really sure that the benefits outweigh the risks.
Wireguard is a project that will just never cease to amaze me
In this context "you're allowed to" means "this didn't necessarily occur to you as part of the solution space, but it is."

For example many programmers have it in their heads that their only two activities are writing production code and staring at/thinking about log output. Sometimes it's helpful to be reminded that you are "allowed" to write scripts to analyze log output. No one is worried that they will be punished for this. But a surprising number of programmers will stare down a programming-shaped problem and fail to put two and two together.
Also: the blogosphere, with pingbacks and RSS is a social network.
Charge it to the owner just like a regular parking fine.
Usually at auction. Even poor quality, worn out registered automatics will run in the high thousands, or low tens of thousands because of constrained supply. This creates interesting dynamics where people take cheap (relatively, still ~$5,000 on the low end) legal automatics like MAC-10s and converting them to 5.56x45mm while retaining the original lower receiver.

Example:

https://youtu.be/YjrnB2cXSqM