skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coding the example programs on the manual delivered with my Timex 2068, at the age of 10.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2001275/Book/TimexSinc...

Drawing spirals and a falling bomb sound making use of the sound chip were two of the samples I remember.
I have a buddy that is adamant about not flushing transmissions if you dont have a issue because he think its guaranteed to have an issue after, from his experience. lol
Is Bigbuttson an actual name? That is funny to an English speaker.
With all due respect, have you ever developed an application for iOS? Because it doesn't sound like it, as this is not how it works.

Apps are sandboxed. In order to access certain features, they need to request permission from the operating system. e.g. there is a GPS chip in your iPhone. Apps, through the design of the OS (not the App Store), are unable to access the raw data coming from this unit themselves. Instead, they tell the OS "hey, I want access to location data", at which point the OS throws up a notification to the user asking if they want to allow the app access to that data. The user says yes, and the OS starts to provide the app with location data. At any point, the user can tell the OS "hey, stop giving this app access" and the OS will oblige. The App Store does not enforce this functionality at all, it is enforced at the OS level. Allowing 3rd party app stores would not change this. If Apple's App Store vetting process disappeared tomorrow, Spotify would not be able to get location data without the user's permission.

As a side note, I keep saying "at the OS level", but this is a simplification on my part. In more than a few places, Apple has gone further and done things like have the Secure Enclave which has complex interactions with the OS / kernel to make certain actions difficult even if you break out of the OS-level sandbox.
Who ever, ever thought "<friend> commented on public post" is a good idea? What the hell is that?
The founders went into a political discussion with someone on the other side of the political spectrum and got tired of it - then instituted a no-politics-and-society-discussion policy when the whole success of Basecamp is taking a societal , opionated view on software and what work should be.
There's no details about this, however I believe it wasn't a "buyout incentive" it was a "don't talk shit about us" payment given that all the ex employees have only said things like: "After X years I've decided to leave basecamp."

In which case, not sure not offering the package would have gone well.
> what precedent are we setting by legally mandating what a corporation can do on a platform they solely built? And are we pulling up the ladder after the incumbents have climbed it?

We are setting no new precedent. In the US, internet provider are regulated as utilities and are stripped of any power on the content they serve, and the platform thrived as a result. What would Internet look like today if AOL had applied Apple's policies?

If we go by that precedent, destroying the closed gardens around platforms is the best thing that could happen.

If we choose to ignore it, then shouldn't we welcome that network carriers demand their 30% share of Apple's profits?
Apollo removing subscriptions? I don't understand, aren't those a core feature of GraphQL?
That sorting largely already exists. The "politics discouraged" environments just don't typically need to evangelize their lack of politics; nobody's walking into their job at Oracle expecting to pressure Safra Catz into supporting their favorite causes.
>some parts

Maybe things changed a bit but you could not buy screens or use refurbished ones. But all parts should be available for phones and laptops, including screens,batteries, chips, ports. Also there should be a way where parts from broken phones could be reused (I know the argument about stolen phones but competent Apple people can find a way to make it possible so we can reuse components from borken devices and not send them some far away to be "recycled" instead of reuse.
Of fundamental importance is that they run a platform. A platform creates a new economy and letting one party (which is not the government) regulate a market is a bad idea.

Also, there is the network effect and there is vendor lock-in. In the past other companies could not use Bell's telephone network, so the government stepped in. The same could happen with OSes.
It looks like there is a lot of conflation between the right to repair and repairability of products. They're related but distinct issues.

A lot of dissent seems to be around forced repairability.
Ancient Ruins on the Moon
Movie in URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJuJHnXcj4w.

This is surely fake, but is it based on any movie or something like the one on https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-wikileaks-releases-unused-footage-of-moon-landing-capricorn-one-movie-scenes.10751/

?
Thank you! And don't worry I'm Czech :)
The article talks about how it influenced many artists from later generations, especially with impressionists. Impressionism was popular enough that researchers understood this through line pretty well. This image continues to influence artists today. Check out the cover of this Debussy composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_mer_(Debussy). There aren't such homages on this scale to others like Yoshitoshi or Sharaku.

There were also a lot of prints of this thing, which means many museums can have a print and display it, so it reaches a larger audience that way, too. Visitors to LA, NY, Chicago, London, Brussels, and more have always been able to see a print.

From there, the image of the Great Wave exists in merchandising, which the article also mentions. Uniqlo made a shirt with the image printed all over it.
I used to read ThousandEyes's annual free reports on networking capabilities and measurements across the Big 3 cloud providers, which were quite comprehensive in terms of covering various scenarios [0]. I don't think they publish those anymore.

With cloudping.co, it isn't clear from the website, but it seems like the inter-region latency they measure is over the public Internet. The Big 3 run their own backbone across all their DCs around the globe, and so I reckon, those numbers would look vastly different if traffic was instead relayed through those uncongested backbones.

With AWS, the cheapest way I know (in terms of development time and cost) to accomplish inter-region over their backbone is via Global Load Accelerator. The clients connect to GLA at the nearest anycast IP location advertised across 150+ AWS PoPs. You can then play with endpoint-groups, connection-affinities, source/port tuples to control routing traffic to different backends in various regions.

We used this technique to prototype a VPN with exit nodes in multiple countries but entry nodes closest to clients at every AWS PoP. It worked quite nicely for a toy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21071593

[0] https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/top-takeaways-cloud-perfor... (2019)
by this logic like 99% of people would be priced out of purchasing houses in most of california...
I don't think the public blog posts written by the leaders was the "original communication". There was a lot of internal drama[1] that led up to it (and IMO, some poor decisions made). Perhaps that's what you were referring to as appealing to a lot of people, if so, then yowsers...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708
Well said. To me it is a red flag. The places that I have worked that had great cultures, never spent much time promoting it. The ones that have claimed they have a great culture, best place to work ect, were toxic in some way.
That would only work if I never wanted to change or update my system.

In practice, especially on Linux, binaries only work for specific distributions of specific major versions. It can be very difficult to get a binary to work a few years down the line.

Of course solutions like Appimage help quite a bit as software comes with most dependencies packaged inside but even then its not perfect. It will slow down the bit rot but not stop it.
You mean a modal on HN??
That has to be a bug in browser. Maybe even security bug?
I followed the entire conversation and “a founder on a rage bender” is an extreme exaggeration.

They asked the political conversions be kept out of work channels, but continued to encourage people to be active politically, active on social media and even active at work using other platforms.

Framing the entire thing as some extremist plot to silence dissent is absurd.

If someone wanted to come into work channels and constantly tell people about their religion, why they should convert and why other religions were wrong would you think it’s okay to for the business to ask to keep those conversations outside of the main work channels?
I suppose a fork might happen if a large portion of the community decides to reject DHH. I think that'd be a mistake, but it could result in a schism in the community.

I think what might happen is one of the other big players in the Rails ecosystem, like GitHub, might begin taking a larger role in the development and leadership of Rails.
A big part of me wonders if this was the point of this whole exercise. A certain subset of employees are getting too uppity, so you just tell them to fuck off and then show them the door. Theoretically you could fire them, but that might risk lawsuits or even more turmoil. If you have the cash to do this, why not. Basecamp may be getting exactly what they wanted.
The purpose of the second-chance pool is certainly not to have endlessly repeated conversations—just the opposite! Repetition is the enemy of curiosity, as you indicate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

The point of combing through obscure submissions is to find things that haven't been repeated much, and to prevent HN's front page from collapsing into the same handful of hottest and/or most sensational topics.

Btw, to digress a bit: this is really a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. The few hottest topics get upvotes because individuals optimize for what momentarily attracts their attention. Left to its own devices, that mechanism reaches a state which is less interesting, and would probably burn out the system. Local optimization produces a global sub-optimum. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If the same individuals were giving HN their full, sustained attention, thinking about the site as a whole, then a different result would be possible—but why should they? Users have better things to do, and it's HN's job to interest them. The solution is to have a small number of humans a.k.a. moderators whose job it is to give HN their full attention, thinking about the global optimum and trying to steer things in that direction, and jigging the machine when it gets stuck in one of its failure modes. That's the function of moderation.

Maybe this is too shop-talk to be of interest to many readers, but I find it interesting because I think this business of full vs. partial attention is the solution to the puzzle of why upvotes alone, i.e. community plus software alone, doesn't produce the most interesting community. Previous thoughts about this, if anyone cares:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25652161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391088

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22863209

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I wonder if the courts care though. The B&O tax applies at different rates for different business types. The class of property taxed should be gross business receipts, but it seemed the courts are ok with the rates varying by business type.
What have you been up to these last 10 years?
The problem is real and the parent commenter addresses it: learn interactive rebasing to craft a beautiful commit history.
I was obliged to open an Ink account for some text compositions a few weeks ago, and yes, the only way by which I was able to do so was through a Facebook or Google login. There was no other option.
I thought once you replaced the crappy OEM bearings you were all set on these engines. I guess it is not the case?
What about rpm? And then signing it? What's the benefit here?
> Network effects are so large...

Then are these network effects worth paying 30% for or not? If yes, you've just conceded the price is fair. If no, then Purism's Librem exists (and will not be bought by Apple).

> We need strong regulation to counter this, and to give small businesses a chance.

The same way it gave small railroad companies a chance? Or small oil, or small pharmaceutical, or small telecom? National legislation historically has been a method of pulling up the ladder behind robber barons, not of giving the little guy a chance.
Should you have the right to repair the CPU inside your machine? Does that mean the manufacturer must design and manufacture the CPU in a way for you to be able to repair it? Where does one draw the line as things get more and more complex? Sadly, we don't live a horse and buggy world anymore where you could just get a new horse or fix a wheel if it stopped working.
and neither you nor your employer would be in the wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting no limits w.r.t. political talk in the workplace but people like myself very much prefer a workplace where I don't have to bite my tongue 24/7 simply because my political views aren't popular in the tech industry.
You can't register a domain with Cloudflare. You can migrate one to them though. Using AWS as a registrar is probably not a bad idea either.
List of Idioms of Improbability
Just as funny as something like Takeshita, which is a real Japanese surname.

If I was working with someone with that last name I definitely wouldn’t bring it up.
Recycling and repairability are not mutually exclusive, more often quite the opposite.

Also, there are many devices where i don’t care for newer models, like the dishwasher.
most recently the twitter hacker was arrested after failing to use a btc mixer

https://ciphertrace.com/twitter-hack-update-blockchain-analy...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/16/22334421/twitter-hacker-b...
Interest rate hike would probably cascade to a recession blowing up realestate in the process
Didn't realize authoritarianism is a principle we really should be rewarding.
Please do not make fun of my name.
In Brazil and probably many other places a "hotel" is a reputable place of lodging to which you might take your family, a "motel" is where you go for whatever you might consider "illicit amorous encounters." I just found a book [1] that purports to explore the nature of motels in contemporaneous Brazil.

"..., continuam situados em um espaço liminar, associado à transgressão. Como o modelo de motel norte-americano - um simples hotel de beira de estrada - transformou-se em love hotel ao chegar ao Brasil no fim dos anos 1960?" ... "[motels] ... continue occupying the fringes, associated with transgression.
How did the model of the North American motel - a simple hotel by the roadside, transform into a 'love hotel' when it arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1960s?"

Might be an interesting read, I always was curious about that as a teen.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Brasil-Antropologia-Contemporan... ... "Motel Brasil - Uma Antropologia Contemporanea"
Two thirds so far. It's been less than a week.
> Also, not beating on the engine until oil has warmed up to temp will elongate the bearing lifespan quite a bit.

I am curious if there is proof to this. I've always felt the same way. I know in the "old days" with iron pistons, if you you simply started up a cold motor and and drove it hard without a warm up period, the pistons would expand quicker than the block and would start to scour the walls and/or lock up.

But other than that, the only other "proof" I have is from people in high school that like clock work at 3:30 everyday, would smoke tires leaving the parking lot everyday. They seemed to go through motors every 6 months. I'm talking knocking bearings and lifters cracked in half. I've never gotten rough with anything I own until after a 20 minute "warm up" and all has been well (so far).
The comment was not factually correct since it asserted the land was unowned. It also asserted that the homesteading was zero cost. In factual reality, the land was already owned and the homesteading of that land was paid for by genocide.

There is a long history of invaders getting stuff for "zero cost", it still happens today in parts of the world more ruled by violence and law. Is this what you are nostalgic for?

Edit: Also, homesteading went on up to about 40 years ago.
They're meant to be dual duty. There aren't any road car engines I'm aware of that use individual throttle bodies or 12+ compression without direct injection.
You missed the part where you lose "free" money when you start working, genius.
Steel framing also has a tiny fraction of the r-value of wood. It might seem like the framing element is irrelevant but it adds up quickly. A layer of R-19 batt insulation is 63% less restive to heat transfer (effectively R-7.1) when installed in an assembly of 2x6 metal studs on 16" centers, compared with R16 in the same assembly in wood.
I have a different take on this, different than most comments here: I think that the founders/owners knew what they were doing based on reading their book and lightly following them. I have never been a customer.

I know that I am just guessing, but they might have been making the lifestyle decision that they wanted a smaller and more focused company that was more joyful to manage/run. Also, I have some sympathy for a “no politics” guideline for two reasons: no one should be allowed to say or do anything at work that makes anyone uncomfortable in a personal way; no one should really care much about other peoples’ politics. Life is about so much more than politics. I am judgmental, but I judge people on how well they treat other people and by how much effort they make improving the world (understanding that people have different natural abilities).
This attack is most effective against victims without backups who are desperate to get back their data. If you have backups, you basically shrug it off, restore your data, (re)train your users and use forensics to mitigate any obvious weaknesses. In most cases, it takes less effort for the attackers to move on to the next victim instead of trying to extract value from any data they may have exfiltrated (probably none in a lot of cases).
And on the flip side, compensation plans that encourage people to stay to arbitrary dates are probably a mistake.

That's where I'm at today. There's a lot of money resting on my staying at a company for a year. I don't feel like I've been working effectively with the culture or team, and I'm pretty sure both me and the employer would be better served by my leaving, except the financial incentive, sunk cost, and avoiding having a "I worked here for only 6 months" on my resume is enough to justify me staying an extra 6 month.

Potentially not coincidentally "percent of engineers who stay a year" is one of the key metrics of the team that sets up the compensation structure...
> Right, who's going to buy from China-occupied Taiwan?

We've been buying from China-occupied China, including Xinjiang. Color me skeptical that international trade with China will fundamentally change in response to an invasion, ahem, "reunification". Taiwan's largest trading partner right now is mainland China. That will only accelerate with annexation and can offset export losses elsewhere.

> I get you. Crimeans don't want to be a part of Ukraine either, yet the "international community" pretends they do.

The U.S. is also correct to oppose the annexation of Crimea and further destabilization of the Donbass.
> I followed the entire conversation and “a founder on a rage bender” is an extreme exaggeration.

I don't know, maybe you missed the part where he posted on Twitter about cancel culture and then started blocking everyone who disagreed with him. Rage benders don't need to be limited to the office. =)
According to the Verge, 18 employees (out of 57 total) have tweeted that they are going to leave.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...
Also, it seems that you can really enhance the functionality of the device with other peripherals by connecting up a USB-C hub: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-a-usb-c-hub-to-upgrade-your-c... .
Depends what you are using Namecheap for... If you are just registering a domain and changing the nameservers then you wouldn't miss anything. If you use Namecheap's DNS, mail, hosting, etc then obviously it is not just a direct switch.
I think if 1/3 of your company leaves there is short-term morale loss for the ones that remain. But the loss of internal IP will be devastating. Especially if you are not big on docs and have that “just be smart and ship” approach that Basecamp has. Basecamp has a real problem hand here... they probably never expected this.
What? No they don't. TSMC starting wages [1] for a Masters degree candidate is $19,500 USD per year, for a bachelor's degree is $13,000 USD per year. Their median salary is less than $60K USD (which includes US engineers who are paid much more).

They were finally shamed into a 20% above the board wage hike last November [2] but before then, they went a solid 10 years of 3 - 5% COL adjustments.

They might pay well compared to other Taiwanese semi companies but that's only an indictment over how dismal the Taiwanese employment situation is. They're not lacking money, they're just cheap because the executive team culturally does not believe in rewarding talent.

[1] https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3925769
[2] https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4052667
Their IPO was just a couple weeks ago.
The unhappy people didn’t get that way by virtue of their genetics.
"Right to repair" also means you can take it to an expert of your choosing. I don't know how to fix many problems my Honda and I could certainly take it to a Honda dealer if/when I encounter such problems, but I'm also happy to take it to someone else who has the knowledge and tools to fix it for me.
Coming into school before all the other kids to take a C++ class before regular school starts. I think we had 4 or 5 of us plus the teacher. Making stuff like hello world, a guessing game (generates a random number 1-100, then the statical tactic of only needing 7 guesses if you always pick the middle number), pointers, etc.

Oh, I forgot about middle school. I remember making some basic html websites, but they were just static displays.
> Japan's Nikon/Canon are the leaders in DUV.

Yeah, read the article. ASML market share in immersion DUV dropped from 95 to 85%.
This sounds like you've only read DHH's description of events. Read the Platformer article for more context.
I felt the same from the time the very first post from Fried dropped.
Hasura have some big clients:

https://twitter.com/commandodev/status/1387348391047335938
There are some very interesting nuggets from their IPO prospectus, which if misleading could eventually turn to 'securities fraud' [1] [2]

> Approximately 74% of Darktrace’s trial deployments in 2020 detected serious vulnerabilities that very often had evaded other defences and quickly demonstrate to prospective customers the comprehensive nature of the AI driven technology.

>The Cyber AI Platform’s average set up time is one hour and the machine learning gains visibility through software sensors that analyse raw, real-time data.

>The Enterprise Immune System and Industrial Immune System use self-learning AI technology to spot the subtle signals of sophisticated attacks and do not rely on traditional rules and signatures to help detect attacks and defend against them. The Cyber AI Analyst product augments human cyber security teams, by automatically triaging, interpreting and reporting on security incidents. The Directors believe Darktrace Antigena is the first solution to use autonomous response to interrupt detected attacks

[1] https://ir.darktrace.com
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
In the cold light of day I regret my obnoxious comment