skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, the industry expectation of delayed payment was my largest headache as an independent contractor.

When I was first starting out, and still struggling to get a good stable of clients, delayed payment was often something I let slide in negotiations. Better to secure a 100k contract w/ payment 3-6(!) months out than risk losing out to another shop.

Even though I was bringing in a lot of income, cash flow was a constant struggle. It took a long time to build up enough billable work to smooth out income curve over time.

The worst of it was when I was just transitioning from a single man shop to bringing on additional help. Conversion from independent 1099 to having your own subs, or worse, trying to carry people on overhead is hard. As the owner, you've bought into the idea of lean times, and variable income, but staff expect to be paid every week. Gogo credit cards as short term emergency bridge loans.

Ahh, the fun of being a small business owner.
Ask HN: What is going with certbot / Let's Encrypt today?
Some of my projects stopped giving valid certificates on certain browsers. What has been going on? These are different servers as well. Is it just me?
Spotify is targeting the millions of customers that already use their app who aren't regular podcast listeners. These people will now get exposed to the podcast ecosystem through Spotify and that'll help boost subscriber retention.
I think cars are reason. Spotify wants in cars. Daniel Ek has said this thing like many times now. If Spotify can corner podcast market then car companies has to do deals with Spotify and they cannot just use custom build apps or some other competitors.
I think the big thing that will determine if this is brilliant or dystopian is whether it gets repeated. As a one-off stunt to show off the ability to do it, it's awesome.

If it now means the sky will be an advertising billboard every night, then it's very much dystopian.
Well, maybe. Didn't know that back then. I also used the default shell I was provided with (tcsh), if it helps understanding how lost I was.

In retrospect, I'm probably a happier coder now because of that.
Shameless plug for my minimal web browser: https://rhapsode.adrian.geek.nz/

A voice UX was surprisingly easy to implement (given a good platform to build on), newer standards just get in the way of the experience!

I'll tackle a visual one soonish...
I love the nostalgia, it is truly immersive, especially when you encounter blue screen in the most unexpected manner.
Given the submitted title said "like wandering a bookstore", the actual site didn't meet my expectations at all :(

What you are describing sounds pretty cool though. I'd only add 2 things:

First, for non-fiction books, an inside preview is a must for me (e.g. for recipe books).

Second, I want the same kind of quantity of books you'd find in a book shop - one of the things that makes it hard to find books on the likes of Amazon is just how many there are. A curated library of books would be preferable.
I loved your policy and appreciated how principled it was. People here are too harsh and most of them don't write code in Rust where regular updates are much more the norm than other communities.
I've been using iCatcher on ios for years now. It has all the things you mention but also a nice set of sorting logic to choose from as well as other per-podcast options like prioritization and number of episodes to download/display etc.
This is so realistic!
I'm honestly appalled that a comment that unironically says "fuck you, I got mine" is so upvoted.

You have a responsibility to society (the same society that put you in the position you are in, able to move/work remotely and pay you these exorbitant sums) to not ruin your community. If you moving to a place would cause the community in that place to suffer, it is your responsibility to not move there.

The fact that SV/tech has forgotten any sense of personal responsibility and apparently thinks it is perfectly okay to trample on the lives of others is exactly why non-tech people have such disdain for FAANG workers.
Nice! Glad to hear that's finally been fixed
If a couple people could lift it into the back of a normal $20 U-Haul van (maybe partially disassembled, if the legs come off), without injuring themselves, then the daytrip radius might cover a lot of geography of people who might want it.

(Otherwise, you've got professional crating, freight, lifts or docks, pallet jacks, insurance, etc.)

When I arranged for my university to donate an HP-PA box to the Linux kernel effort, one person made the trek to pick it up (and I vaguely recall they might've been relaying it to someone else). If a DECwriter needs a van rather than a trunk, it seems not that much different. Nostalgic vintage systems might be even more motivation for some enthusiasts to collaborate.

Tangentially related: I was thinking yesterday (when tempted to get a real VAX or Alpha VMS box, but not know what to do with it other than explore a while and then maybe put it up on the 'net for free accounts that would probably get abused)... What I'd really like to see happen is a very active in-person hands-on museum/clubhouse/afterschoolprogram/hackerspace for these systems. One half of your warehouse floorspace is a working setup of various of these systems, set up so that people can sit down and use them, terminal-server into them, etc. And the other half is where you hold classes/mentoring/workshop space for kids and adults who are already enthusiasts, as well as to introduce disadvantaged kids to the opportunity and catch them up on mentoring support in techie stuff that many kids have and we'd like everyone to have. I know there have been some places like that, and maybe there should be more, and refine the idea, and people will be happy to chip in to acquire pieces for the hands-on collection, like a DECwriter.
They make small fiberglass sections that are threaded. You can assemble them together (even in tiny spaces) and push them through wall cavities until you get to your destination. Then you use the rod to pull the new wire (or a piece of string) backwards. I've done this to pull through walls with insulation quite often. I've even used them to fish through all sort of crazy places. It's fast and easy once you get the hang of it.
We recently purchased in a large US metro area all-in for ~6% out of pocket. It didn't make sense for us to pay > 5% down on a conventional loan with interest rates below 3%. Depending on who you go with PMI rates can be as low as 0.25% of the loan value/year (~$20/month per 100k) if you have good credit.
This is also why bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics. You can’t develop resistance against something that is 99.999% effective through design
Yeah, the common old "cottage" Up North is yielding to 2nd luxury homes which than have to be VRBOed in order to cover the mortgage. Happened to my in-laws lake. Simple cabins displaced and the crowd being far more transient.

Of course they pocketed a seven figure profit, because of the lakefront property, and the 100 year old wood cabin was bulldozed.
What a shame. I'll check some classifieds then i guess. Thanks
The issue is ruby's `system` method which interprets args in the shell.

They should have used `popen` instead.

This is similar to python's subprocess with `shell=True`

Edit: I'm wrong!

> ls-remote has a parameter --upload-pack which can be used to execute a new shell
By making that home unavailable for people who actually need a place to live, you're reducing the supply, thus increasing prices, and contributing to unaffordable housing.

I say that as a Software Engineer who is 39 and has never been remotely close to affording even a first home.
"How do you make sure everyone has a voice"
(edit: I would like to add, Shenanigans)
Using HATEOAS with REST APIs
Is Bitcoin Mining destroying the world?
My comment on this on ProductHunt, and the developer's response:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wormhole-2#comment-1312733
I'm not sure what you mean by "alternative viewpoints," but there's no shortage of videos from multiple points of view on YouTube.
That is certainly not the only way.

- Immediately end all lockdowns, mask mandates and capacity restrictions. All those aged 70 and above will have the option to stay in quarantine.

- Pass legislation to make Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin available over the counter like they are in many foreign countries.

- Have the WHO, CDC, NIH and relevant health bodies endorse Zinc and Vitamin D while pledging to fund studies to further prove its efficacy.

But no, we get ignore all the proof and hide in your homes until everyone can be vaccinated. Absolute lunacy.
Every person that values freedom, individuality, and prosperity should reject any policy or law that is based on a "greater good" narrative

So pretty much all laws and policies? Anarchy doesn't seem that sustainable.
https://archive.is/imRsd
I've heard Joe Rogan jokingly refered to as "Oprah for middle aged white dudes".
Back them up on a old gameshark or something. I lost all my gamesaves and wish I still could revisit them.
Even driving or taking a train across the middle of the US is a bit of a slog. I can't imagine trying to get up for one's thirteenth consecutive day of corn, followed by corn, followed by more corn, then a small farming town you can cycle past in about a minute, then... corn... more corn.... and you check the map and you've still got several days left to go. You'd better love cycling for the sake of cycling itself.
Why do you think that? Does this stem from recent events involving $GME?
This is the correct identification of cause that people don't want to accept.
Does the new methodology include a negative hedonic adjustment for substitution of inferior goods? Anecdotally that sort of thing seems to have been on the rise for a decade and by my reckoning this scenario should definitely count as inflation:

Wage stays constant
Price of health care goes up
Make do with worse health insurance
Price of housing goes up
Move in with parents / more roommates
Apple Card Family
my kid sent me this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysh9ILpvBpg "The War on Bird Scooters" thought it did a pretty good job showing both sides.
I think Fidelity does zero commission options trading.
That isn't useful when you have a reported bug and need to investigate and debug. Which is the scenario I am assuming this "quickly and easily copy prod to ephemeral test environment at the press of a button" setup is designed to make easy.
No, I want security updates without surveillance, without lock-in and without a monthly fee.

Sounds like too much to ask?

This is what Linux distributions has been providing for decades. And my 486 PC was less powerful than some thermostat.
> The back of the book jacket costs about $1,000 to $2,000 a month to license, so I can't do that yet.

Wow, what?! If true, that is absolute madness... I mean, it's basically advertising material - as an author, why on earth wouldn't I want it to be as available as possible?

Plus, surely online book shops are not selling $2,000+ of each single book before they break even?
Apple Podcasts Subscriptions
> believe the primary reason Windows has so many 'issues' in general is the sheer amount of hardware and ancient software that is supported

The hardware part in the old days maybe - they have solved that problem. I am not sure beyond people's opinions there are any real issues directly attributable to backwards s/w compatibility.
If you believe that then you don’t know how the Singaporean government works
But those don't easily scale to different dpi and layout sizes. There are non-standard ways but nothing has taken over. So flat icons and solid colors it is.

For a long time, designers/artists might have produced several versions of the "same" icon at different sizes for use in different contexts. Sometimes you'd have a large area to work with, maybe 128x128 or 256x256 pixels. You could have a lot of detail at those sizes, in whatever visual style you liked. At smaller sizes, you didn't just scale down the large icon mechanically. Instead, you'd redraw it to preserve the essence but remove finer details and simplify the overall design as you had fewer pixels to work with.

A similar idea existed in type design. A comprehensive font family might include different "optical sizes". A caption font designed for use at small sizes might have lower stroke contrast, while a display font intended for use with large headlines might feature finely detailed serifs that wouldn't work well at small sizes. If you took the caption font at 8pt and the display font at 48pt and scaled them mechanically to be the same size, they'd look quite different.

In both cases, the advent of mechanically scalable image formats like SVGs and most digital font formats marked a change in common practice. Now you only needed one file to work at any size you wanted, but the subtlety I was talking about above is lost if you're no longer creatively adapting the same basic design for different contexts but instead you have to draw a kind of lowest common denominator that works tolerably at all sizes.

As others have observed, this shift certainly makes things cheaper, but potentially at the expense of quality of design. We only need to look at the bland, homogenous nature of sites built with flat design and its derivatives, not to mention all the obvious usability problems, to see that the popular approach right now isn't actually very good.
It's more fun to not shave once in a while.

(in reference to suspension of disbelief)
P2P is a form of decentralization. Your resource doesn't back up your claim.

E.g. it states: "A collection of decentralized computers systems are components of a larger computer network, held together by local stations of equal importance and capability. These systems are capable of running independently of each other."
This is true for Matrix with Homeservers being the decentralized computers and the network of the same being the larger computer network.
I get a Dell BIOS after the BSOD, and I'm running a Dell. Coincidence, or does it detect the vendor?
> And even if you “win”, the result is a more livable city that attracts even more people, leading to price increases nonetheless.

Your statement boils down to "supply can never outstrip demand" which is trivially falsifiable in its own right. No matter how livable a city becomes, at some point, you can have built more than the housing demanded by people. There are a finite number of humans and the proportion of them who both CAN and WANT to live in these cities is almost certainly manageable.

But don't take my word for it, look at the actuality of Tokyo (which for multiple reasons has a far more difficult challenge than Bozeman or any of these other mountain towns): https://marketurbanismreport.com/blog/tokyos-affordable-hous...
And furthermore, when are we getting open source Presto? I know Opera stopped developing it around 2013, but there's still probably plenty a FOSS browser could salvage.

(I hear the source is floating around somewhere, but without a free license it's (unfortunately) likely to attract problems.)
I typically agree but there are some places where this topic is a bit more nuanced and controversial - Hawaii for instance. We love visiting the islands but learned a while back that large parts of the indigenous population see the US as an occupying entity and not their country. While heavily relying on the tourist income, this creates a challenging relationship between the locals and visitors (not to mention the disrespect some tourists show to the local land and culture). This issue was made very apparent during a Pearl Harbor tour when the bus driver described how many Hawaiians actually identified more closely with Japan than America during WW2 (and still do to this day).
Yeah, but Emacs isn't what you call "most text editors"
The harsh reckoning will be for the urban areas who subsidize that stupidity, when variants will emerge from among these unvaccinated populations, and we are going to go through this song and dance all over again.

It's also why I'm incensed that vaccine production is ramping up both too slowly, and will top out at too low a number. It can't take six months to vaccinate the first world, and eighteen to vaccinate the developing world against a variant.
It looks that the need for coworking spaces will be growing as many people want to work mostly remotely after COVID:

https://fortune.com/2020/07/13/wework-profitable-softbank-ma...

“We have companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon who have told their employees that they can work from wherever they are,” according to Claure. “We have a lot of those employees who basically now come to a WeWork facility to use it one day a week, two days a week, three days a week.”
In what sense does Go do this right?
One of my neighbors has a 5 GHz access point that comes into my house stronger than the one in my own home. My only theory is they have a high powered AP with a directional antenna pointed in my direction. They also run 3 other APs on other channels as far as I can tell with identical. Basically they use almost all the available spectrum in the 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz range.
If what they have done to the Joe Rogan Experience is any indication, they will fail at this endeavor. How they have handled it is so bad that it can only be explained by incompetence.

Over six months after switching to Spotify, when I venture back in to try to listen to an episode, it'll randomly stop playing for no apparent reason. It'll jump to another episode for no apparent reason. It'll pause playing and then resume anywhere from 5-30 seconds later. And why they insist on displaying total playing time as "mm:ss" instead of "hh:mm:ss" is beyond me.
> Any other business model is just a network-exclusive TV or radio show, not a podcast.

That's where the money is. Spotify isn't a tech company, it's a radio station that exists to sell subscriptions plus ads.
From a layman's perspective:

1. The EverCrypt primitives are formally proven, whereas ring has no such formal proofs. Also it seems that all the EverCrypt primitives have portable (non-assembly) fallbacks, while ring has several primitives that are assembly only and have no portable fallback.

2. MiTLS is written in F#, which is harder to integrate with other languages than Rust.
Margin Notes: Automatic documentation with recorded examples from runtime (2018)
I would guess they gained more users than they lost.

The outrage was real and obviously some users left, but at the end of the day most people will still use whatever platform is easiest and cheapest for them.
Spotify also made podcast ads as terrible as TV/radio.

I was never bothered by podcast ads since it was coming straight from the podcaster. E.g. Tim Ferriss - for the most part I trusted he actually supported the products. Comedians, the ad reads are often pretty funny

Spotify instead interrupts the podcast whenever they want with "HEY! <radio ad voice selling a product>"
Which link are you referring to?
Put a camera on the crowd, and motion-track the bouncing of heads. That'll give you two banger metrics: one, how far they're all bouncing/jumping/nodding, and two, how consistently they are.

That would be enough to construct a robot DJ that could track the variations it was making, and rate them for 'better/worse'. Then you just make a cool-looking puppet to store the camera in, that can move around and possibly wave an actuator like a proper DJ, and the rest is machine learning.
The western united states maintained its wilderness areas through a culture of conservationism that isn't remotely respected by the new arrivals. I've spent the last two decades watching paradise be paved for a parking lot.
To clarify, I have a notebook full of hundreds of ideas and compelling reasons. What I meant in my OP is that I'm not attached to a specific one of those reasons yet.
You have a moral obligation to do what you can to minimize negative impact to others. You don't have to live somewhere that's "already expensive", but you should at least consider trying to live somewhere that won't suffer negative consequences by you living there.
Microsoft is reportedly building a new Windows 10 store
This doesn't seem surprising. Curious to see how this works out; hosts moderate their own Talk so I'm anticipating a lot of problems to arise out of that.
Interesting. Growing up I was always told that the reason we never went back to the moon was because there's no reason to, that there's nothing there but a barren wasteland. Glad to see we still have reasons to explore.
I am not well versed in the financial services industry but this article seemed to offer at least a plausible explanation for why Robinhood (and other capital limited brokers) stopped buys on GME specifically:

https://stu2b50.dev/posts/why-robinhood-d3580b

I want to be upfront in that I can't verify the accuracy of this article, and I still look askance at Robinhood personally; however, it did pique my interest in keeping an eye out for further analyses of the incident as more details emerge. And it seems like there is plausibility to Robinhood's claims that they had to halt buys.

And...on the face of it, I am all for regulation that places risk management requirements on financial firms.
I searched for my favorite podcasts on Spotify.
No result found.

So as a first approach, for me, this is a fail.
We built a service that tells you the exact cost/performance differences between different object storage systems [backblaze, storj, wasabi, s3, etc].

All you need is an AWS cost and usage report and we can tell you the tradeoffs including egress fees and everything.

Would be more than happy to help you out with this.

https://taloflow.ai
Why does the plight of Brazil have to be a magnet for all manner of denialism to show up in the comments? Ivermectin doesn't work, just like Hydroxichloroquine doesn't. Seriously, if these things actually worked wouldn't it be expected that rich countries would purchase the entire supply, as they've been doing with the vaccines? Part of that tragedy we're going through is precisely because our government instead of working to acquire life-saving vaccines, is pushing the lie that there's an "early treatment" for COVID with these medications.
It does right this not, this right. It's accessible to every go program: https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/
Wow. The whole point of paying someone like Auth0 is to _not_ have this happen. This is basically their whole point, is it not? Really looking forward to the post-mortem, but I won't ever forget just how down this thing is right now.
One of the first things I do at any job is replace the 90th percentile with the maximum in all plots.

Really? I find percentiles to be more informative. Looking at the maximum is like looking at an error log, it is basically throwing out all performance data except data from a tiny slice of time. A bad maximum shows you that a service failed at least once, but you oftenalready knew or expected that. A bad 90th percentile tells you that a lot of users are experiencing poor performance.
Couple reasons for me:

Mainly, when I'm looking for something to listen to, I go to my podcast app. There's a list of latest episodes. I browse and pick one. JRE never appears on that list, so out of sight, out of mind.

But also, his show has taken a nosedive in quality in the last 6 months. Feels like discussions are always (a) COVID mask rules are dumb (or maybe they're not?, depends on the guest), (b) The Comedy Cellar was hella tight back in the day, (c) Texas is awesome, California is basically a dystopian hellhole.

None of those points bother me that much. Whatever. But when they're recycled ad nauseam on every episode, it's just boring.

So now I just don't bother. I have the Spotify app. But it's not something I think about for podcasting.