skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big question of this is if it's creating "culture debt" that carries interest or not. Specifically, when the time comes to introduce varying comp, will there be blowback and possibly worse dynamics than if it had been that way from the beginning? Will anyone ever make less than $175k?

I think unless you are certain you want to maintain this forever (and it doesn't sound like Oxide does, they see this as probably changing eventually) then you may be playing with fire for when that day actually comes.

I'm really interested to see how that transition goes. The current state of things is just half of the story needed to draw any conclusions about it since the full consequences won't be understood until the company either commits to this being a permanent state of affairs, or successfully introduces variable salaries.
Hey it's not so bad here. I can get edge when I climb to the tree in the backyard...
I absolutely agree with this. We should go through the many cultures' lists of traditional medicines with the lens of modern chemistry and determine what compounds lead them to be effective pharamacologically.
An old grad school connection of mine wrote a formal semantics for ES5 and couldn't explain what "with" did in words.
You can, it's called Delphi.
Yes, a small number of apps have very addictive properties. But those addictive properties occur almost entirely by luck.

This idea of app makers as dealers of crack is incredibly self-aggrandizing. It's like someone saying every time they move to new city, they have to register their hands as deadly weapons. Let's take it down a notch, buddy, you're not that powerful.

99% of the time, makers of one addictive app find themselves completely unable to make a new one (exhibit a: Facebook) and just use their profits to buy up that tiny 1% apps that happened to get lucky and strike oil.

Apps can be addictive. Everyone is trying to make addictive apps. But let's also be clear that nearly everyone who tries, fails.
KeePass is great but there are some differences

* PassPilot is simpler (if that is what you are looking for)

* You can store and access your encrypted vault online after logging in to access it anywhere.

* PassPilot if used offline from local file (like KeePass) is much lighter (only one file about 250KB) and you can move it easily, send it in email copy to cloud, it is HTML file not EXE so it is more transparent.

* everything in PassPilot is straightforward, your records are kept in JSON format then they are encrypted with AES, you have full freedom about what you want to do with either, you can even manipulate that JSON manually encrypt that and save it to file and it will work, full flexibility, you can copy the encrypted text and save it elsewhere then paste it back and decrypt in PassPilot.

It really depends on what you are looking for. I actually created this password manager for myself as I didn't like any other :), I like the save to file feature as it gives me confidence that if all internet goes dark I have my backup copies stored in several places, but for everyday use I like to login and use it online, if you like such model I recommend PassPilot ;)
Shout-Out from Rapper MC Hammer on New AI Solving Partial Differential Equations
"... researchers at Caltech have introduced a new deep-learning technique for solving PDEs that is dramatically more accurate than deep-learning methods developed previously. It’s also much more generalizable, capable of solving entire families of PDEs—such as the Navier-Stokes equation for any type of fluid—without needing retraining. Finally, it is 1,000 times faster than traditional mathematical formulas, which would ease our reliance on supercomputers and increase our computational capacity to model even bigger problems. That’s right. Bring it on.

[...]

The paper has gotten a lot of buzz on Twitter, and even a shout-out from rapper MC Hammer. Yes, really."

See also ...

- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/30/1011435/ai-fouri...
> If you’re really that into high pressure job and grinding the ladder why would you be so attracted to raising a family as a sahm ? You can’t do everything at once. No one is stopping you from raising children but yourself. Many don’t go for the business route and that’s a respectable choice but of course you can’t have it all. If in the end your fertility is more important than your career then have kids without making a fuss about it. Especially if you know that for some ecologically unreasonable reason you want numerous kids then start early.

The problem with this viewpoint is that, at scale, having kids isn't just an individual "life choice." It's a basic requirement for a sustainable human society. People have to have 2.1 kids on average in order for society to keep existing. We're well below that in almost the entire developed world. That means the most liberal societies in the world, where women can choose to pursue careers and business, are also not sustainable and can't continue to exist without importing people from societies with traditional gender roles. In other words, they currently exist only due to a sort of arbitrage and aren't viable in the steady state the way they're structured now.

If you think liberal societies are a good thing, then we really need to figure out a way to allow women to have careers and also children. It's not "having it all." It's about pursuing two pillars of life that for most people are both necessary: work, and family. We should be thinking about it in the same way as we design buildings to have sufficient bathrooms for everyone--as a biological fact of life that we must accommodate.
It always annoys me to lazily type the short “ddg.gg” in and wait for it redirect first to duckduckgo.com, then to https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/, but once it’s bookmarked it’s easier to use than SearX.
Artificial intelligence = I have no idea how this works

Big Data = an Excel spreadsheet

Decentralised = not our problem

Open-source = we didn't build it

No-code = I didn't want to pay a programmer
Airtable (https://airtable.com/) and Coda (https://coda.io/) are two products which might fit the bill.
One of my pet meta-theories about Hacker News is that the frustration expressed over several apparently different stories really has a single source: Hacker News likes the internet of 10-20 years ago a lot more than the average person.

One place this shows up is a frequently-expressed sentiment that the internet is a less magical, less weird, and more corporate place than it was 10-20 years ago. Part of this may be because SEO has diluted the voices of individual creators. But part of it is also because way more average, everyday, tech-unsavvy people are on the internet now.

Another example is the periodic highlighting of somewhat garish HTML-based websites. I like these too! My own personal website falls in this category! But as far as I know, the generic internet user likes the generic slick-graphics-and-whitespace style, and so go the websites that want to attract them.

More relevant to the topic at hand, many comments in this thread argue that targeted ads are unnecessary for a functional internet, since the internet of 20 years ago seemed to work just fine without targeted ads. But, again, it's less clear to me that general internet users -- that is, mostly people who never experienced the internet of 20 years ago -- have the same preference.

It's funny, because I'm to a large extent on HN's side on this one. But my enthusiasm is tempered by my sneaking suspicion that the other side is a lot bigger, and my side is actually powered by more elitism and nostalgia than I thought.
I think it's ok to remind that this problem probably had no place in non-native english speakers minds.

Using "master/slave" didn't create any connections to crimes 'n' similar - those were completely neutral terms until this show started.
I think one of the test pilots was brought up on charges for lying to the FAA. There may be others. I haven't followed that aspect that closely.

All who owned stock in the company had that cut in half. Lots more lost their bonuses. The CEO lost his job.
Another good thing of text based UIs is that they can be way faster without the need for a mouse.
I have 3 girls and I am going to encourage them to have their kids when they are young so my wife and I are young enough to help her raise them while they pursues their studies/careers.
It's good to see more write-ups like this. In my experience see-sawing between different ways of managing social media use, all of the suggestions out there are really just mitigation (turn on iOS Screen Time), or full blown abstinence (get off the apps).

These suggestions are targeted at social media as it currently is, with never ending feeds and attention sucking notifications. It's time to start talking about, and building, social media as it should be.

At the end of last year I spent most of my time thinking about what social media would look like if it was designed to be used less, and in a way that would add value to people.

For me, that meant intentional written reflections, shared with a small circle of close friends and family. To keep me from scrolling, there would be no feed. To keep me from checking my phone, content would rarely be surfaced.

This ended up becoming Sundayy, a mindful social network that you can only check once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app

Each day you're prompted to slow down and reflect, but there is no feed of reflections. They're all kept secret, for now. At the end of the week, on Sunday, reflections are revealed. It's a more intimate insight into how people close to you lived their week - day by day and in their own words.

We should definitely bring more awareness to monitoring screen time and curating feeds, but we should also question whether we should have to do any of that at all.
https://archive.is/ZxcpU
Chile has 6 paid months of leave for the mother (it's a law, not subject to the employer).
See also the main discussion about git's banned.h: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347867
That site is horrendously dated. Here's a modern version of the same content: https://www.agilesoftwaremanifesto.com/
You know why you use a Danish port? Do they need their icebreakers the least or something? Or is it some historical reason?
Legislation will not solve the technical problem that the guy you're replying to brought up. Are they gonna write distributed communication protocols into law now?
I have fond memories of Turntable. I opened a Turntable tab on our reception computer, which let me control the music playing in the office from my desk. Was a huge distraction at work, but super fun!

At the time, Turntable was special because it let you listen to any music, approximately on-demand, for free. Now that YouTube, Apple, and Spotify all have popular alternatives, I wonder how Turntable will adapt. Would be awesome if you could bring-your-own streaming account, and using Turntable for playlists and social.
It wouldn't be under that specific clause, but GDPR gets attached to many situations because people don't have a clear understanding of what it is and the limitations. If you work for a global company you'll find GDPR attached all kinds of customer requests to get extra traction.
A problem is that correlating a Eurasian outbreak around that time with a Mongol attack should be really easy because they conquered everywhere.

But yeah Mongolians still like to eat marmot and they still get plague occasionally. Perhaps that was the inspiration for the hypothesis as well?

But maybe it's true. Who knows. The fearsome marmot eating plague bearing all conquering horde...
I like to research meaningless things, so looked at the first commit in each repository:

- https://github.com/apache/incubator-age/commit/bef50e5d86d45... (Mar 19, 2019)

- https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/commit/06cbe4f91ea9843069... (Oct 6, 2019)

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.
Literally anything except violence. Ice cream, drugs, videogames, books, prostitutes, getting in shape. This seems like joking but really almost anything is better than dying when you don't need to.

The darkest times I've had what helped me was procrastinating anything that couldn't be undone, it's always an option later, and just knowing that I didn't have to make that choice today actually really helped.

But in your case if it's home life that's the problem and money that keeps you there, then step 1 is find a better paying job or adding a side hustle. Step 2 is to find a cheap place to live, probably a place that has like 8 roommates in a single house. Then once there pursue a skill-set that will let you significantly upgrade your economics, probably programming. Pursue fitness this whole time, because even if everything else in your life feels out of control you can at least control that one hour a day of working toward something, it will help.

But before any of that, find help, anyone, call someone, call a hot-line, see a shrink, reach out to an old friend or friendly relative.

I've been there before, keep going, it's worth it to keep going.
If you need someone to speak we are here, if you prefer it also in pvt as well
The quote, is the comment ...
Or an “adversarial browser extension” clicking its way through the internet.

https://adnauseam.io/

I tried this, but after some time your IP just gets flagged for click fraud.

It's interesting because you won't see ads anymore, but you also won't be able to pollute more datasets.

Overall it’s been a “meh”
We also have thousands of movies available blatantly depicting heinous acts of crime and degeneracy, but I guess we'll squint our eyes real hard and try to find some extremely vague reference to racism in some children's books, only because we want to see it.
I left out the last line, which I probably shouldn't have:

"That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."

Agile doesn't mean no documentation and no tools - it just means they should not be the focus.
I'm stubborn with IntelliJ so no real comment regarding VS Code. I just wanted to express how reading all of the different announcements for more Apple compatibility has only made me more hyped for the next iteration of Macbook Pros, specifically the 16inch as I prefer the larger screen size.

I've been holding out on my Mid 2014 Macbook Pro, and lost some faith during the keyboard struggles. I was in the doubters section when the M1 was announced, and I haven't been more excited to be wrong. I definitely have the next version of Macbook Pros as a Day 1 purchase for me.
I believe it primarily has to do with cost of living than anything else.
If becoming a billionaire or not was simply a matter of choice for you I’m surprised you couldn’t figure out a way to do it without running through wives.
This, a million times.

People hate ads, but the alternative is so much worse.
> I wish we had more focus in allowing people to transition back from taking a few years off to raise young kids, and it wasn't automatically assumed that you would be a worse founder or professor or software engineer just because you have 2-4 years you didn't commercially work.

I don't know about you but I'm pretty certain I'd be a worse SWE after 4 years break. Worse than I was before the break and much worse than I'd have been if I didn't take the break (and not just because I would have become better with practice but also because being a good SWE means keeping up with new stuff happening all the time). I personally see it as dropping a level on the company engineering ladder, it's not the end of the world but it's definitely a regression, regardless of the reason for the break.
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Private company pulls their own books. How is this news? I still want my original version of Star Wars or ET.
https://youtu.be/Uiw8-4R0KaY
Instead of standup I think we should do more interteam meetings.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. This topic is flammable enough as it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. They include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
But the caller to strnlen() has already provided both the (pointer to the) array and the length! Note that C99 does permit declaring a VLA in the body of the function:

char *strndup(size_t n; const char *s[n], size_t n) {
char buf[n]; /* alloc a temporary VLA */
assert(sizeof(buf) == n); /* yep! */
assert(sizeof(s) == n); /* nope, sizeof(s) == 1 */
}

So there's absolutely no reason (other than being in violation of the C99 specification) for the compiler to refuse to let you make the assertion that sizeof(s) == n.

And given the prototype for this VLA-enhanced strndup(), a smart C compiler could catch errors like this:

char * bugged_func() {
char buf[20];
/* do stuff with buf, e.g. snprintf() into it */
return strndup(buf, 30); /* error: 30 > sizeof(buf) */
}

Since of course within a function the C type system is already tracking the size of an array -- so no additional type information is required, and certainly not dependent types!
What if that code is refactored, moved around and changed so many times that it's nearly impossible to find the "documentation" for the line you're interested in. I mean sure you could spend a few hours going though commit messages, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple comment next to the code that gives the info right away?

Also commits shouldn't be changed so if you want to improve the doc and provide more details, well you can't.
... except for libc, which apparently which is hardly ever questioned.
To be fair, it is not the senators themselves who come up with policy proposals. Their staff do most of the leg work, and the staff I have personally met were all pretty young and seemed pretty comfortable with technology (in fairness, I was meeting them specifically to talk about a technology-related bill and they were probably chosen for their expertise).

As for data caps, those are basically unnecessary in a 5g world and were never necessary for wireline service. The necessary of caps prior to 5g is debatable. Data caps were always just an excuse for ISPs to charge more.
25mbps down is "ok" for most tasks, but 3mbps up isn't sufficient for WFH. For interactive collaboration you want lowest latency possible and enough upload bandwidth to deliver crisp 720p footage, for eg. presentations, whiteboarding, webcam.

I have 50/20 in Australia on VDSL2, and it is just barely good enough for this. You're right about it not being consistent/maintained though. Some days I could collab remotely no worries, other days it was simply impossible.
Elon himself has stated that Starlink is not intended to and should not be seen as a competitor to traditional terrestrial ISPs. It’s meant to supplement people in rural and possibly exurban areas, but it will not be breaking the monopolies that ATT, Comcast, etc hold over urban areas.

> So will Starlink be a good option for anyone in the United States? Not necessarily. Musk said there will be plenty of bandwidth in areas with low population densities and that there will be some customers in big cities. But he cautioned against expecting that everyone in a big city would be able to use Starlink.

...

> "I want to be clear, it's not like Starlink is some huge threat to telcos. I want to be super clear it is not," Musk said. "In fact, it will be helpful to telcos because Starlink will serve the hardest-to-serve customers that telcos otherwise have trouble doing with landlines or even with... cell towers."

> Starlink will likely serve the "3 or 4 percent hardest-to-reach customers for telcos" and "people who simply have no connectivity right now, or the connectivity is really bad," Musk said. "So I think it will be actually helpful and take a significant load off the traditional telcos."

From https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/musk-...
While I generally think the AZ is free and clear of contract violations, but think this reading is incorrect.

The "competing agreements" discussed in this section of the contract refers to conflict between the EU-AZ agreements and agreements between the EU and other vaccine manufacturers.

That is to say, if the EU is asking two manufacturers for vaccines who are in turn competing for the same processing plant, they are not in breach. They do however have the responsibility to let the EU know about it.

The contract is actually silent on competition/priority between the EU and other customers.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26324347
You’re worried about the Doomsday Clock? You realize it’s just made up right?
Thank you for clarifying this. I'm an investor in SQ also, and bought more yesterday. I saw this and now I'm kinda shaking my head wondering if they're spreading themselves too thin.

But having a "stake" in eventbrite, may not really be enough to justify paying this price for an also ran in the music streaming business. What makes Tidal worth anywhere near $300m?
I also enjoyed the Rust Book. Thanks so much for the effort you and your co-author put into the book. And thank you for your contributions to the Rust language and tooling. I learned Rust over the difficult last year. It brings me some joy and satisfaction.
> In more recent research, people noticed that sensible labels can be given by seeing what sort of inputs activated it. For example, if that neuron lights up with any picture with a lot of right-angles, and nothing else, a researcher may call it “the right-angle neuron”.

Isn’t this also how neuroscientists identified brain regions?

I guess it makes sense this would happen but it’s curious that we’ve been able to build a blackbox algorithm/technique that’s as difficult to reverse engineer as real brains.
It doesn't have to be. I'm on a PON, I've got symmetrical upload speeds.
I would say that the average HN user isn't so much opposed to targetted ads as they are opposed to organizations that are unaccountable to them storing their personal information in an insecure way. And Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. all provided information to the NSA so it could illegally spy on almost every American with access to the internet.
http://LALAUNCHPAD.ORG had a rather smaller budget
It can be, but the two biggest PON operators in the US (AT&T and Verizon) offer symmetric speeds.
It's hard to take advantage even if things are frothy to be honest. The market can kick the can down the road for years longer than you expect, and melt up in the process - you could lose your shirt by shorting. The only concrete advice I'd have is to avoid the most speculative sections (e.g. meme stocks) and own businesses that can thrive even without constantly raising cash.
Which is ... fine, I guess?

(It is the silence - as the article says - when pressed for further, perhaps useful, instructive, thoughts, experiences, best-practices ...

... that I find horrifying ...)

It is as if the mere invocation of "blockchain" on anything supresses any further thought ...
There have been personalised sales channels for much longer than 400 years. But they were human sales people, and now that process is automated.
Audius sounds like it's using blockchain for coins, which is exactly what GP said: it only works for coins.

Please provide one other example of a functioning app or service that uses blockchain to do something it can't do just as well without blockchain.