skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, no.

> a person can think trump is a self-serving, sociopathic idiot, and still defend his humanness against inflammatory, repressive impulses like this.

You can do this, it just equates to a significant basic moral failing.
> But they don't even need to do that - they just approach an existing adtech company with a FISA warrant and get their data.

Depending on who they approach, they won't even need a FISA warrant because in the US information voluntarily given to third parties has "no reasonable expectation of privacy" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Stallman is right again
Does that mean it might get more performant? On my mobile the time it takes seems to scale with the number of posts on the page, not the number of posts it actually collapses
> Docker was estimated to be valued at over $1 billion, making it what is called a "unicorn company", after a $95 million fundraising round in April 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker,_Inc.
Developers are not our primary target audience, but there's still a large "Developers" link in the resources section of the main navigation - as well as a GitHub badge in the footer on every single page.

I think if we were "trying very hard to hide it" we would probably do a much better job of it than that.
No one is choosing Photoshop over competitiors because of load time
Google did and didn't stop existing as a company
What a terrible article.

Look at what the last paragraph says despite the title:

The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”
Bottomless (YC W19) Is Hiring
I have worked with Java EE (Enterprise Edition) for a few years. Java in the backend is probably the most common one when doing enterprise software.

Lets define it differently: Everything what is not an SAP System and is backend and is not Cobolt, is Java at least for automotive and banking. Automotive -> managing cars, service contracts, financing offers, accessories and for banking -> money management, insurance, contract management etc. You go to a shop and you wanna finance something? Might be a Java backend or Cobolt :D)

Spring/Spring Boot as a Framework got a lot of traction because Java specification process was just way slower and more boilerplate

And yes Oracle got fed up of doing Java for free for too long and if you wanna use an older version of java and still need patches, you will need to pay.

Luckily there is were java actually shows it strength which i have not seen in other languages: You define a specification, you get a reference implementation from someone and then everyone around it starts to build on those specifications.

This allows for different jpa (database access with java) implementations, different application server etc. It also allows for different companies to do their own JVM implementation/maintenance track/version.

From an ecosystem pserpective, the JVM itself (without java) also did a great job and shows how versatile it is. Close to what .net is doing but in a more free version. And you could throw .net/c# into the same similiar category as Java. Language feels similiar and if you are a MS company, you just use C# perhaps. But switching between c# and java is much easier than to other languages.

From all languages i know and worked with, i do like JVM based languages the most. golang is interesting but nothing i would wanna use for a big code base at all. C/C++ i would use if i need to because of tooling features, how you write it and how hard it is to write it good;

Java is fast, java has great tools for a long long time: Great Debugging features, great memory and performance analysis and tools, lots and lots of frameworks and architecture catalog.

PHP is written and used in business context like java but without the benefits of running on the JVM. I don't recommend it. Its not bad, its less boiler plate but its just not a nice well defined well designed language. Most shocking to me was the performance optimizations which were done a few years ago which shows how little interest in that language exists that you can just optimize it that much. What facebook did with PHP was just shitty and weird.
It's way more nuanced, not wrong. And yes, I agree with innocent until proven guilty.

A lot immigrants from Marocco and Turkey own real estate in their country of origin. Their IRS doesn't readily share information with ours.

See: https://www.uwv.nl/zakelijk/images/handreiking-inkomen-en-ve...
Cool product, but way above my bootstrapped SaaS budget.
People in Iowa complain about their tax rates. If you don't live in Iowa, you don't hear about it. Iowa's population is too small to make the news for the most part (except at caucus time, but state taxes are not an issue in the national elections).
Half the data Chrome collects is harmless

Until it's not. Meaning, we don't know if there's a way yet to harm users, or we don't know if anyone is actually using it to harm users.

If it's harmless, don't collect it.
> Well, one of the points of the book is that you really can't summarize complex information. And that television is a medium of summary or reductionism – it reduces everything to slogans. And that's one criticism of it, that it requires everything to be packaged and reduced and announced in a slogan-type form.

Tweets anyone?

> My own feeling is that that is true – that it's very important to improve the program content – but that television has effects, very important effects, aside from the content, and they may be more important. They organize society in a certain way.

Sounds applicable today to social media, in an uncanny way ...
Except Docker had already raised $10M before launching. So they do not match your pattern.
We use a mix by me. Sand goes for most stuff. Hills and dangerous intersections get salt. I think salt costs several times what sand costs, so it is only used where deemed necessary.
I believed this, but watching the movie Parasite changed my perspective on personal recommendations more than a little bit.
Maybe for you, but I live by that principle and I'm having a lot of fun!
How to code your own NFT
Again - the fact that you can’t see both sides of the equation is why we don’t make things anymore.
Apple might soon have to pay up for the Wikipedia data it uses
I had good experiences with System76 support. I've bought 2 laptops off of eBay and had no problem getting support even though I wasn't the original owner since the original owner bought the 2 year support package. If I had a loose screw I would have removed the case and found it. They're reasonably able to diy and your warrant isn't voided just because you replaced the RAM. Apple support has gotten horrible based upon anecdotal experiences friends and family have had. The build quality isn't the greatest but having everything work well under Linux and be supported is a good thing. I gifted my Oryx Pro to my step-kid who uses it to play games etc. Linux battery/power management has never been great as this isn't the focus of most kernel developers and there is a lot of microcode optimizations that might be possible.
What is the reaon?
Pry (YC W21) – Finance for Founders
Hey HN!

I'm Andy Su and I'm here with my cofounders Hayden Jensen, Tiffany Wong, and Alex Sailer. We are the cofounders of Pry (https://pry.co).

Pry is solving Finance for Founders. Instead of using Excel, Founders and finance analysts can use Pry to manage their budget, hiring plan, and cash runway.

As a long time HN lurker, I'm excited to share this project with you. In a previous life, I cofounded a tech-enabled accounting company. We help thousands of companies keep their books (accounting) up to date. While growing, I could feel javascript improve year after year but the way our finances were done in Excel just got worse and worse.

The product I wanted was simple: something to replace the Excel files that the finance gurus use. I looked around and couldn't find anything that did what I wanted so I decided to start working on (https://budgithub.com) two years ago.

There is a lot to build. Most Excel files have these components:

- A summary view with budgets and actuals
- Separate tabs for different departments
- A hiring plan (list of employees) and a hidden pivot table to make things work
- A Revenue Model.
- A Dashboard

Today, I'm happy to announce that we have finally launched a release that covers all of these components and it's available for anyone to try for free.

We built this tool to serve the startup and small business community. Our pricing ranges from $50-$100/mo and I am determined to continue offering our full suite of functionality at an affordable price.

We have a lot to build still - integrations, currency support, etc, but if you are using Quickbook Online, Xero, or don't have accounting set up, give us a try. We connect to most US banks, and we have a few happy overseas customers using Pry + Xero.

One of our guiding design principles is the Ruby on Rails "convention over configuration". We've done a lot of things the hard way. Happy to answer any questions over the next few hours.
The media is Woke twitter, or at least a large part of it.

And if you don't believe that the media doesn't have any influence on people, particularly Biden's base, try reading Chomsky's _Manufacturing Consent_, or even Walter Lippman, if you want to read someone who thinks this influence is a positive thing.
Maybe, but it's such a balance. I'm finally getting into Kubernetes and after years of hearing how awful it was to get it going, I was shocked at how painless it was to stand up microk8s locally and sling Helm charts at it, get Jenkins generating agents on it, get metrics from it, etc. If I were deploying something to a cloud, I would absolutely do this approach with some k8s-as-a-service provider over rolling my own machine images or having to deal with remote controlling instances using something like Ansible.

Yes, it would be possible to get sucked down a rabbit hole with over-emphasizing scaling, clustering, whatever upfront, but IMO these tools are now mature enough that it's a reasonable workflow even if you're just deploying a single instance of a container with one statically-linked binary in it.
In a perfect world... You'd find that in the commit log for the code. Comments aren't the right place for things you forgot to do, or things that occur to you after the code sort of works.

The commit message, and unit tests, are where those ideas can be best captured.

I tend to point my team at this as a practice: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
today's situation favours the employee in most fields

I guess employees are choosing to let rich people take all the wealth they generate, then. How very generous of employees.

I guess what I'm basically saying is that the evidence indicates that what you just said is bullshit.
It's probably Postgres on an interim basis, until an army of finance dweebs have calculated the internal licensing cost of using Oracle :)
Meh, the onus is on the web pages not tracking all kind of shit. Don't blame the law for exposing it.

Also, gdpr consent isn't that particular about implementation. Cookies aren't something special that needs consent. It's their usage.
The consult feature is in development for the next release. You decide if you want to provide this service in your profile. The idea is to make it easy for you to turn-on/turn-off this feature. Initially, we see 30-minute and 60-minute blocks of time, where you determine the price.

So, if for example you sell accounting services and I am looking for an accountant, I will pay you $xx amount of money to have an initial consultation.

You may prices your services high or low, depending on supply demand. But, for me as a buyer, it's a transparent low-risk way for me to meet/evaluate a professional that I am considering to hire.

The platform would take a % of the consult fee paid, which would take place off-platform [Ex. Stripe].
The X1 nano is the same width and height as a X220 but half the thickness and significantly lighter. The X13 is very close to that too on the lower end. What would you change in those?

Having been a user of the old X lines throughout the years the current X/T and X1 lines seem like a definite improvement to me. And I also use the trackpoint exclusively.
I once spoke with a Canonical Sales guy and he asked me why i said that snaps were not good in the conversation we had prior.

Somehow nobody at canonical thinks that snap performance is an issue at all, he was genuinely surprised. Snap is just unusable, full stop. If everything takes like 10x to open i can not work with my system anymore. I'd rather work with windows or a chalkboard instead.
> and it resulted in some, but not very much, artwork in the grand scheme of things

I'm not sure I follow, my understanding is that patronage, say from the Medici family, led to a proliferation of art.
The midwest should not be salting roads at all anyway. Its terrible for the environment, your car, and everything else. Salt use has been prohibited in northern climates such as Alaska for decades because of its damaging effects.
It's like lawyers defending horrible people. They are entitled to it. The issue that I have with it is I've seen plenty of normal terminations where the unions should have done something and didn't.

Of the three unions that I have been in, largely they didn't do shit for me other than take my money. The union didn't help me when I was being sexually harassed by my manager nor did the union help me when my time clock was being manipulated to short me pay.

Also, I've worked some of the shittiest minimum wage jobs America has to offer and I think it's a crock of shit that people _need_ collective bargaining to get a fair deal. It's entirely possible to negotiate a fair employment situation as long as we teach people about boundaries, the law and how to work effectively.

Since becoming a "grown up", I've been able to negotiate my salary and terms of employment quite well. And more importantly, much better than anyone collectively bargaining would be able to for me.
10 vehicles, charged for 8 hours would draw 234Amps of current. About as much as single residential drop. Some houses even have 400Amp panels.

Given that USPS fleet would be upgraded over number of years - power delivery is really not a problem.
Tracking HCrypt: An Active Crypter as a Service
I still think racial profiling to flag suspicious cases is an example of discrimination. That's because the system more stringently checks people in one racial group for wrongdoing, which results in more of those people in the criminal justice pipeline.

As a concrete example of where this can go wrong, let's say that (hypothetically) 1% of people commit fraud, and that this prevalence is not correlated with race. But, due to past discriminatory practices, more people of one race than another are convicted of fraud. Then, this algorithm would perpetuate this discrimination, since, say, it would identify 80% of fraud in the discriminated group but only 50% of the non-discriminated group.
>Spotify owns distribution and has almost no competitors anymore

According to the statistics I have, Spotify has 34% market share while Apple Music has 21%, Amazon Music has 15% and others have 30%. That's hardly "no competitors".
Yep! Such a fantastic alternative to k8s for most cluster needs.
Then don’t put your band there. Oh wait: you’d be complaining about Bandcamp and no recognition then.

Not everything needs to be “justice”. Quit diluting words and actions.
It isn’t (GDPR regulates how consent can be obtained and shenanigans like these are an obvious example of bad faith) but the entities supposed to enforce the GDPR are absolutely incompetent and don’t care.
The Birth Of A Wooden House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7pmE4MC-I

Might be one of my all time favorite videos - the story of a man building a beautiful cabin in Latvia I think, from scratch using traditional tools.

I feel really drawn to doing the same thing even though it's an impossible dream for a huge number of insurmountable reasons.

I am so excited to sit down and watch the OPs video - food for my soul - thank you for posting.
Doesn't matter. $10M initial round to offer free product to get users aboard.

The key point is to get users addicted to free.

Uber did this by undercutting the entire taxi industry at a loss. Ever wondered why your rides were so cheap!? Jio did the same in India, offer free unlimited internet on their phone service and wipe out the competition.
Is that even legal? Cricut does not own those machines any more, the people who bought them do. So by what right can they restrict the owners access to their own property?
1. We do believe that this is a big opportunity, but it's quite a developed market (it's formally known as Digital Adoption Platforms). In order to compete in the space, there are a few more critical features that we need to develop. We would like to provide this for our customers so they can use the same guides throughout the early customer experience.

2. Yes. You can accomplish this by triggering guides to appear on pages matching certain patterns (such as url). You can also use guides to link between each other.

3. If that update results in an update to the UI, then it can be captured with DOM serialization.
Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer
OfferZen's State of the Software Developer Nation: 2021 Netherlands Report
I would suggest that peoples public persona and their intellectual work can be very different. I do not like Sowell's public commentary at all. But his scholarly work is quite good.
Historically this model made a lot of business sense... it was hard to distribute before the internet. The record company took the product and marketed and sold it to a broader audience than the artist or band would ever be able to reach on their own. The artist in turn collected the money on the live performances which, if there product was successful, would yield good returns.

I don't know if it makes nearly as much sense in a world where you can just upload your music to YouTube and do direct marketing via Twitter/FB/TikTok.
There'd be a certain irony if burning dino juice (I know, I know) killed off all of the dino-descendants' competitors.
If it helps, OSX is based on BSD. I've had great success with pfSense.

I found great tuning advice here:
https://calomel.org

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting down votes for trying to provide info. I didn't down vote anything in this thread.
HDMI is less hassle. Everything comes with a HDMI port these days, but a DP port is still more of a proper full Computer Monitor(tm) feature. My work just installed a whole bunch of projectors that have HDMI and VGA as input options. I have no idea where they found them.

Of course sometimes the HDMI fails due to DRM nonsense, so that's also an issue.
Launch HN: Pry (YC W21) – Finance for Founders
Hey HN! I'm Andy Su and I'm here with my cofounders Hayden Jensen, Tiffany Wong, and Alex Sailer. We are the cofounders of Pry (https://pry.co). Pry is solving finance for founders. Instead of using Excel, founders and finance analysts can use Pry to manage their budget, hiring plan, and cash runway.

As a long time HN lurker, I'm excited to share this project with you. In a previous life, I cofounded a tech-enabled accounting company. We help thousands of companies keep their books (accounting) up to date. While growing, I could feel Javascript improve year after year but the way our finances were done in Excel just got worse and worse.

The product I wanted was simple: something to replace the Excel files that the finance gurus use. I looked around and couldn't find anything that did what I wanted so I decided to start working on it (originally http://budgithub.com) two years ago.

There is a lot to build. Most Excel files have these components:

- A summary view with budgets and actuals

- Separate tabs for different departments

- A hiring plan (list of employees) and a hidden pivot table to make things work

- A revenue model

- A dashboard

Today, I'm happy to announce that we have finally launched a release that covers all of these components and it's available for anyone to try for free.

We built this tool to serve the startup and small business community. Our pricing ranges from $50-$100/mo and we're determined to continue offering our full suite of functionality at an affordable price.

We have a lot to build still - integrations, currency support, etc, but if you are using Quickbook Online, Xero, or don't have accounting set up, give us a try. We connect to most US banks, and we have a few happy overseas customers using Pry + Xero.

One of our guiding design principles is the Ruby on Rails "convention over configuration". We've done a lot of things the hard way. Happy to answer any questions over the next few hours.
The thing is even if people don't wanna repair themselves they might wanna change a battery. Or get something minor done cheaply by a 3rd party. But Apple goes so far out of the way to kill third party repair. They even put special screws in their machines to screw you.

Edit: The EU pushed right to repair, right? Now see what Apple did to screw France [1]. Their latest and greatest devices somehow have a repairability score of around 6.5/10. How is it possible?

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/02/26/apple-now-display...
Except it's not. The source that is provided doesn't actually build pfSense as shipped. Plus there are binaries that no source is provided for that "you don't need to worry about"
I'd take it as a compliment if my code was still in use 20 years down the line.
Local postal company started using Swiss electric tricycles, though slightly customized. I imagine they aren't cheap to buy, but maybe total cost of ownership is reasonable? Also I assume they can tolerate winters well compared to two wheeled vehicles, yet can navigate narrow spaces.

https://www.post.ch/en/about-us/responsibility/our-prioritie...
I'm in the US but have a 2 mile commute each way, and I don't drive to work every day (pre-covid). Uncommon but I'm not alone.

- For me, 5 miles a day would keep the battery topped off and I wouldn't have to visit a charger except on longer trips.

- Would also be much more palatable to limit the full-charge voltage to something a little lower, prolonging the battery's useful life, knowing it'll passively recharge daily.

- Would also enable more connected vehicle features.

- Given a choice between a car that slowly loses a bit of charge daily, or one that gains charge, everyone would pick one that gains.

- Would also lessen the fear of running out of charge a mile away from a charger and needing a tow truck, just wait a few hours if it's sunny, or at least charge enough to park somewhere safe and phone a friend to pick you up and leave it for a day.

- Could go on camping trips a bit further away and let it charge for a week, or use the AC/heater occasionally.

- If the car is covered in snow it can warm up the panels and melt some snow. Teslas can already do this but it's even more practical with PV on the roof.

As long as people understand this doesn't mean they can drive nonstop in the sun or that they'll get any significant short-term range boost, it's still extremely sensible.
The extent of the Oort cloud is basically defined by the point where Galactic tides start to overwhelm the gravitational attraction to the Sun. But objects in the outer Oort cloud are very loosely bound and can easily be expelled or exchanged by interactions from passing stars.
I see it less dramatically: like C# is Java with the benefit of hindsight, D is C++ with the benefit of hindsight. No need of compatibility with early bad decisions and undesirable features is an unexciting but important feature.
Expanding Same Day ACH