skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add to that: 16.5 You will be demonized by everyone except those that participate in what you build. 17. Every dollar spent on dev didn't 40x in ETH over the last year, or 400x in some other things. 18. Centralized gatekeeping of the "decentralized" projects both in coin ranking sites and exchanges. 19. Constant and never ending copycats and straight scams impersonating your brand. 20. People duct-taping coins onto what you build and stealing your users (ala sushi vampire attack on uniswap.) 21. Advertising is banned everywhere for you (reddit, facebook, youtube, google, etc) Caveat: Founder of #14 on nomics.)
I think the situation is bad because developers are expensive, and really expert devs that know how to optimize app performance are even more expensive. You mention Notion and Slack and other Electron apps. Not to disparage the teams on these projects as they are impressive from a pure UX perspective. But building these complex apps cross-platform native is particularly difficult today. So Electron is used as a shortcut. The usage of Electron allowed Slack and Notion to grow rapidly with a smaller team than they otherwise would were they to try to replicate in Windows, Linux and Mac as well as web... not to mention mobile. And once an app is established and has tons of features, as they both do, doing a rewrite is both expensive and risky. Big rewrites almost always fail, and they divide your precious dev resources even more.
I wouldn't be surprised if Adwords is a net loss for the majority of Google's customers. The whole thing is full of dark patterns. Personally I got so fed up with the abusive nature of it that I abandoned it several years ago.
> The day rates look high, but they have to pay self-employment taxes and health insurance

Most SWEs doing 'contract work' aren't actually 1099 contractors, what it means is they work for an intermediary and then 'contracted out' to a big company with a recognizable name (Google/BofA/Verizon/IBM). These jobs are W2 so you don't pay self-employment tax, they usually have mediocre insurance options, and you lose your job as soon as the work dries up.

It's simply a way for a company to staff up quickly without going through as strict of hiring committee and having any obligation to keep said staff around if plans change.

It's often easier for a department to get a req for a senior/staff contractor (and make salary exceptions) than a FTE, so what happens is departments will offer 200, 250 an hour for temp work but only able to hire engineers for 150k a year because their 'employee' req is slotted lower.
Ah cool thx, BTW you can swap on the XRPL DEX too, however you can only swap "issued currencies" (IOUs) so you need to trust some counterpart (like gatehub or another exchange) to actually hold the asset behind it until you withdraw. The benefit is that is extremely fast and cheap even slow assets like BTC can be swapped just as fast as all others (in a few seconds).
Programming in 1969 (2019)
It seems pretty good to me:

> We agree to license the Contribution only under the terms of the license or licenses which We are using on the Submission Date for the Material
How is that not a viable business model? Who says every social network has to be for everybody?
> See for example the prison system: do want people to suffer or do we want them to return as reasonably normal members of the society?

Unfortunately, this idea has not worked out. If you look at people who have been convicted a few times, reoffending rates approach 100% for Sweden.

Then there's all the suffering for the victims who get no help what so ever from the police who pretty much just let everyone go.

For instance, breaking a restraining order might at most get that person a fine. Although in reality the risk of actually getting that fine is small because prosecutors don't generally bother prosecuting someone to just get them a fine. Basically, if someone wants to kill you, the police won't help you.
I am in such wonder why that teeth care and treatment is still not advanced enough, the main approach of treating cavities are still fillings, which I find it a brutal operation.
> In Lisps, the uniformity makes it harder to quickly distinguish "behaviour" from "data", which is kind of the point, but comes with a trade-off in readability.

Maybe in theory, but in practice it's easy to tell because in the case of hiccup, the data is data (as vectors) and behavior is behavior (as function calls), those have different syntax in Clojure.

Lisps are excellent at manipulating trees, which is exactly what HTML and the DOM is.
Right, that's the first puzzle of the game.

If you can't figure out how to score a row from only S's (it's not intuitive, because it's not what you'd do in normal Tetris if you got several S's), then it will keep giving you those.

Once you work out how to make a line with S's, it will give you something else before you complete it.
What's a stroad?
Sure. That's the point. Some of the "best people we have" may have disabilities that don't affect their ability to work in space.

Someone without legs might be more nimble in zero-G. (Hell, there's probably even a significant weight savings.)
> The issue is that you cannot have good online advertising without a little bit of the stalking.

The usual answer to this is to use the context rather than personal information and browsing history. You bring less value to the company advertising their product, but I'd argue that most people are fine with this approach.

The problem is that current incentives lead to a race to the bottom: if some advertisers are less ethical, they can arguably bring more value to their clients, and the ethical advertiser cannot compete anymore.
Replying late. I was going to just let all the downvotes be your answer, but after thinking about it for a day, I decided that this deserved more of a reply.

Yes, I read the rest of the blog post.

I see a couple problems with your position here. First, fascists - real fascists - aren't free speech advocates. They restrict the speech of their opponents. So calling someone fascist because they advocate free speech is rather off. In fact, your position is closer to the fascist one.

Second: "fash". Part of the fascist playbook is short, dismissive, contemptuous labels for their opponents. It's part of the dehumanization process. And here you are, doing exactly that.

That's two different parts of the fascist methodology that you (and the blog poster) are exhibiting. You might think carefully about that. When opposing tyranny, be careful of the methods of tyrants, lest you become one.
Paul Graham addressed this in his previous essay "How People Get Rich Now":

The best way to envision what happened is to imagine a pond with a crust of ice on top. Initially the only way from the bottom to the surface is around the edges. But as the ice crust weakens, you start to be able to punch right through the middle.

The edges of the pond were pure tech: companies that actually described themselves as being in the electronics or software business. When you used the word "startup" in 1990, that was what you meant. But now startups are punching right through the middle of the ice crust and displacing incumbents like retailers and TV networks and car companies.
Wordpress default themes have been terrible for many years now. Design quality is sacrificed for showcasing some new WordPress feature or for the sake of a new theme because you know we have to have one each year instead of improving on the existing ones.
> Where’s the use-case where near-zero latency is vital?

I would say typing is a pretty big one. It is extraordinarily unpleasant when typing lag is anywhere above maybe 50ms,and even worse when it is variable, like it would inevitably be if going over the Internet. It's even worse with mouse movements, where occasional spikes in lag can ruin your day.
I think OP meant the general public's familiarity with using masks day to day. I think Japan has had the jump on the US for some time in that regard.
This is a sub-optimal solution.

If you want real results, just make being unemployed illegal.

No need to increase salaries... so is perfect!
If its SMS we're all fucked. Cell carriers are not hardened against attack and nobody's life savings, communication, social life, etc should be wrapped up in their incompetence.
why not invest in a commodity to hedge against fiat? You know, something real and economically useful...
From my experience that's a bit like what Cpython is
Yup I have interviewed at a lot of companies with unlimited time off, every single one of them seems to have taken less than 4 weeks off. This is what I get at my current company with no unlimited vacation. And at our company, sick time and mental health days are separate and not counted against your regular PTO.
Ttgo Esp32 module with LCD (or was that an OLED?) is my go-to solution for one-offs and quick prototypes. Previously it was stm32, but I found myself fiddling with inconsistent SDK (ST's HAL) and myriad of configuration options for peripherals a lot more than when using SDK. The screen is also useful for debugging info (what's the IP of this device? what is the current state of inputs/outputs?).

So far I've built controller for x-ray tube (turning AC on for required number of cycles), oil boiler consumption monitor, gate/garage door opener (to remotely open the gate for delivery courriers), remote power and monitoring for electrical boiler for sauna and some more.
I got several square pieces, because I was able to get to a state where any other piece would fit into the remaining 1x1 hole, and so a square piece was the only thing that would block me.
I must have got in early. Great read!

Capable people enduring in and working against hard times and painful leadership.
> The alternative of paying $9.99/month for Youtube...

I do pay for YouTube Red, and it's worth it to not see ads.

> micropayments for each search query or a "Google Search Engine yearly subscription"

I would pay for this, too.

> ... or Patreon donations for video content ...

I do it for music. It feels really good to support creators directly.

Ads are the worst, and I adblock everything.

I'd happily pay for web content if there were microtransactions. Either that, or a content marketplace that disburses based on views or some other accounting.
Following that line, it's never exactly been syntactic sugar. When initializing a const local, you can use the ternary operator on the right hand side of the assignment, but you can't get the same effect using if (short of writing a new function). Similarly, C++ lets you use the ternary operator for the left hand side of an assignment, (a ? b : c) = 42; although you could use an if for this pretty easily.
I basically only ever played 4v4 RT. So my use case was fairly niche. But after reading about the network issues and watching people play on twitch that only used a custom ladder overlay and didn't even use the updated graphics ... why bother? I was hoping for resurgence in the game and player base, but at this point it's just the original game but worse.
Not in tech. We aren't anything special and we start with ~30 days holiday + vacation on day 1, up to 49 after a decade.
> But how have we increased safety when my Team/Outlook phone app requests that I click "approve" on a different app?

By ensuring that whoever signs into the account has at least two distinct factors: the password and the trusted phone with the authenticator app. One thing you know, one thing you have. Perfect. (Depending on your phone's settings around biometric unlock, it might be even the trifecta: one thing you know, one thing you have, and one thing you are).

Let's imagine we implemented your suggestion of requiring the login to be on a different device than the authenticator app. What threat model does this protect against? An attacker who has your password and the unlocked phone will just sign in from a different device with the password, and then use the authenticator app from the phone. The only people you're protected against are those who do not have any access to another device than the stolen phone.
Worst possible conditions usually involve seawater, acidic conditions, and/or moisture. Even without those factors it’s rare for reinforced concrete to last more than 50 years. The more protection from the elements, the better of course.

Most concrete structures with long design lifetimes made of concrete (some dams, levees, bridges - but not all by any stretch) will use design techniques to minimize or remove the use of rebar, such as compression only designs , or ‘overbuilding’ so expected corrosion still leaves the structure strong enough over it’s design life.

Generally, concrete is a strongly base compound and protects rebar from corrosion. Over time however it can be influenced by the environment, with those base compounds reacting and leaving a less protective environment. Some environments do it faster than others.

If the covering concrete is strong enough/thick enough, the pressure caused by the rebar turning to rust inside the concrete won’t crack it - if the rebar was structurally important (pretty much always or why use it?) it still weakens the structure though, sometimes dangerously.

Attempts to mitigate the risk where weatherproofing is not an option and rebar is essential for structural reasons like concrete roadways and bridges have had their share of disasters. epoxy coated rebar for instance can lead to unpredictable and sometimes rapid failures in exactly the types of environments it was expected to help in [https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/99novdec/r...]

https://partridge.com.au/concrete-cancer-what-is-it-and-what...

Some other failure modes include the Alkali-Silica reaction (sometimes confusingly named concrete cancer too, though fundamentally different) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali–silica_reaction]

The more dependent a design is on an element that can corrode, and the tighter it’s design tolerances, the more fragile it is. The more overbuilt it is, and more conservative the design, the more expensive it is.

Taking a low margin design and then not maintaining it is a recipe for this kind of disaster [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...] and lots of dead people.
This actually sounds extremely plausible.
Coal causes more radioactive contamination of the environment than nuclear, in addition to increasing CO2 and acid rain. The fact that it encourages damaging changes like the one in the article is another reason why Bitcoin needs to be banned.
Tried to the other day and discovered that I can't log into the app at all. Can log into the website no problem, but the app gives me a weird error and there doesn't seem to be a way of getting help if you aren't using the app.
Yeah I mean I’m with you - I like local control and I think Urbit is cool because of this.

That said, the potential for mighty is real and dismissing it for these reasons is dumb. The same logic would have also dismissed nearly all modern wildly successful tech companies.
quadrapassel (open source GNOME Tetris) also has this option called "Choose difficult pieces".
It is unclear what your point has to do with this FL Gov law that compels speech.
Am I the only one who doesn’t want a future without passwords? There are problems with them, of course, but all the alternatives also have serious usability/security issues. And just when we’re starting to get wider 2FA adoption, companies want to get rid of one of the factors. So we’re back to one factor that’s ultimately secured by a device password/passcode anyway. Plus if/when you’re not able to access the device, it’s much more painful to deal with. Not sure we’re really making that much progress.
My spouse had a pain point So I built her SaaS to solve it
If I want to learn a new technology, that's been out a while, I make sure to look for jobs for it first. Just a gut check on how many opportunities are out there for it.

This doesn't work for something brand new of course, but I still do a cursory look through job sites to see what I can see.

Like for instance on Dice.com right now there are 60 jobs available. If I were interested in Clojure today and saw that, I probably wouldn't bother because I know Clojure is mature but there's not a market for it apparently.

Again, this isn't meticulous or scientific at all, just a gut check with a few searches.

Then again, Rust only has 13 jobs listed soooooo.....
> I genuinely would like to rent a fast virtual computer for the occasional video editing task and think Mighty is a step in that direction.

Can't you already do that pretty easily on AWS or Azure?
That's a very important point. My company has always had unlimited time. We just had an announcement from our HR head that managers are going to start making sure you take at least 2 weeks a year, ideally in a big block. I've never had trouble taking my vacation, but I'm really pleased that we're going to be enforcing a minimum, to help folks who are more hesitant to take theirs.
Unfortunately the defense production act is still active. Curevac for example reports production issues:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
The positive side of bitcoin? Our limited renewable production capacity spent dumping cycles into the trash can still wouldn't be a positive thing.
I will admit that I missed that but its barely enough. The whole piece is basically a paraphrase of Kuhn.
They still get valuable experience that pays off in the future through networking, experience, etc. It starts the snowball of success.
You are aware this is his website, right?

A large proportion of people are here specifically because of PG and his endeavours, of course he's going to get lots of upvotes. Even if you don't agree with him, he's worth listening to, particularly if you have any aspirations to join YC.
It's not justified; it's just something they want. If somebody offered me a 0% interest no-strings-attached loan for a couple months I'd probably take it too.

Cash flow games can allow a growing business to take a loss on every transaction indefinitely. It's a powerful tool -- ideally to build a legitimate business that requires at least some economies of scale.
To be fair, the random piece selection is how the Tetris on the NES and GB worked, which is how many Americans were introduced to Tetris. Getting 5 Z or S pieces in a row was definitely something that happens regularly in those versions.

An interesting note about the versions that use the piece bag strategy is that the game can be solved. It's possible to play until the game speeds up to the point where you can no longer get a piece to the edge of the screen before it hits the bottom. https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever

Fun fact, Tetris is NP-Hard. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-pr...
That’s like saying it’s your personal decision to smoke cigarettes in a crowded airplane.
You would have to check each user documents like a passport to confirm they don't have EU citizenship. Even if you have one EU user (doesn't matter if you block EU IP addresses etc. they can still use VPN) you have to comply with GDPR.
If you have "significant" amount of EU users then you are also liable for the upcoming terreg regulation that requires you to set up a legal entity in the EU for the purpose of censorship. You will have 1 hour SLA to delete any content that EU deems to be undesirable.
If you have any user generated content it also means you are likely be mandated to use content filters in the EU.

Have a read if you don't believe: https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/04/the-eus-terrorist-content...
I’ve always wondered if NASAs obsession with “perfect astronauts” really had enough merit to warrant itself. My personal conspiracy theory was it was more about not losing face to the USSR then it was any practical need.
To add to this:

He lists two reasons why people want to dismiss "crazy new ideas": envy, and the desire to seem sophisticated. Using Copernicus as an example simply does not fit these claims.

Reasons to dismiss Copernicus's ideas:

1. They were worse predictions, so for all 'practical' purposes of the day (essentially, only knowing where the wandering stars would be), adopting his ideas would be poor.

2. Most crazy new ideas like this proposed by people on the fringe of a field are flat out wrong. The Copernican Model is a good example of a common mistake, really: Someone saw a complex but accurate system and tried replacing it with a simple system that is easier to understand but rejects the actual data. Turns out the world is complex and doesn't care about being intuitive. See all of quantum mechanics for an example.

3. Classical relativity was only established later by Newton. The moon, sun, and other planets were poorly understood at the time. It wasn't until Galileo's observations that evidence was gained for a rocky moon. The idea that the whole Earth could be moving and spinning without violating everyday observation, and therefor the other bodies in the sky follow the same rules as those on Earth, is simply a large and unnecessary leap in intuition. Sure, it's a correct leap, but the path of reasoning there is backwards. It is only with Newton's laws of motion that heliocentrism begins to make any sense.

4. Further, much better evidence (as discussed above) came to light far before Copernicus's ideas had any effect on non-academic matters. Other than finding things interesting, and generally liking to know how the universe works, heliocentrism has no practical affect on life even today. Sure if you work at NASA it's super important, but most people don't. Trying to force an idea before it's time, when it won't effect things anyways has little practical value.

The crux of this is that this article is not a response to people dismissing a new idea. It's people dismissing a new business. He seems to be arguing that new ideas by domain experts shouldn't be criticized because they might be right, while ignoring that people can have strong financial motivation to promote incorrect ideas. Fighting such ideas is good because:

- If the ideas prove correct, internet criticism of it really won't matter. Only a few key investors need to be convinced, and yeah they'll make a lot of money.

- If the ideas are wrong, healthy skepticism is the strongest force against snake oil salesmen.

90% of starts fail, so the criticism will usually be on the correct side, even if the exact criticisms don't point to the true cause of failure.
What do software staff have to do with laying rural fibre infrastructure? What do octogenarians have to do with software managers who these days are usually younger than the engineers, either because they went straight into management having negligible interest in tech, or because they soon found out they weren't any good at implementation?
Mine still makes a satisfying click if you're using the mechanical shutter. The electronic shutter just sounds weird, though.
Unpopular opinion: the use of "tech" or "high tech" to describe many of today's tech companies is a misnomer.

For me, a tech company is a company that leverages advances in applied sciences and mathematics (computer science included) to create new, innovative solutions.

While there are certainly companies that are innovating in fundamental technologies and making that a cornerstone of their businesses, the vast majority of tech companies are little more than conventional businesses with some digital business automation plumbing. Innovative business models are still innovation - don't get me wrong - but they're not technology innovation.

It made sense to call e-business "tech" companies when the web was fresh and new and everyone was innovating, but these days, very few are pushing the envelope on the technology side. It's pretty well accepted that any business needs electronic technologies to work now: at what point do we stop calling every company that builds an app tied to a database a "tech" company and just call them an "[insert vertical here] business"?