skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not also pay them less. It turns out that for the average person sometimes this four year grants when fully vested are enough to retire or to switch to a job that pays less but has better WLB.

They are paying people less because they want to keep them in the "golden handcuffs" for longer. The way it's painted by this particular VC is particularly gross.

Also executives usually keep the upside potential. So as an engineer if because of your work the company skyrockets and becomes 8x more valuable over the year you share 0% of that upside, while executives cash in. On the downside, as an engineer you can just leave because the market is very fluid, truth is you don't need job security from your employer if you are a good software engineer. If/when that changes probably compensation will go down enough so that this mega-grants are not going to be a problem anymore. They are just counting pennies.
"The only limit -- is yourself!" -- after all these years, I still love that site. Still good for a laugh.
Came here to post the same comment. Exactly right. There are lots of projects that use the term "dataflow".

To add to this, the name of this product is confusing given the context and usecase shown. I assume "dataflow" to the author means the ability to watch data being rendered on a page?

To "big data" folks (like myself), the term "dataflow" tends to represent the routing and processing of data streams along an information pipeline. Not anything to do with a visual representation of a dynamic notebook.
Discussed at the time:

Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270886 - Feb 2019 (22 comments)
Better to master our behaviour on our own planet first before we go and trash another.
I ran this in Chrome and then in Edge and got different identifiers.
I've no idea whether it works, but they misidentified many apps I don't have installed (Postman, Express VPN, Notion, Figma, Hotspot Shield)

It does do the popup for VSCode asking if I want to open links there, which I do have installed.
Iterable vs. Iterator in Java
Iterable and Iterator are both interfaces in Java that sound alike and are often confusing to Java developers. Let’s start by defining the word “iteration”...
The 2020 election is proof that currently what is written in the constitution does not matter
The hinges are end user replaceable in case they ever wear out!
You might want to take a look at AthensResearch (free, self-hosted RoamResearch clone).
Tried Chrome, Brave and Firefox, got 3 different IDs.

On one of the browsers it also didn't detect slack and vscode being installed.
This is a pretty terrible argument, mostly because it seems to support Musk’s and Zubrin’s position that if we stop progressing we risk falling into stagnation, decay, and ultimately extinction and yet you’re somehow using it to say we SHOULDN’T try expanding to other planets or star systems. It doesn’t seem logically consistent!

My view is that learning to master inhabitation of Mars and other places in space will enable us to revert Earth from a bunch of agricultural land and farms and suburban sprawl back into a garden (dotted with dense, luxurious cities) which we camp out in during the weekend.

Space development shows how to thrive WITHOUT fossil fuels. It’s so strange to me that folks seem to have this backwards.
Wait this is huge for privacy rights. I can't wait to try this out, if this works I am sharing with all my fellow privacy nerds. How does it work?
The Pentagon has already been letting AI control weapons for decades. The Mk 60 naval mine entered service in 1979. It used automatic pattern matching to detect a target and then launched a guided torpedo. Modern AI algorithms are more complex but nothing has fundamentally changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR
Musk blaming excessive energy use for withdrawing from BTC sounds like a ruse, considering that he of all people absolutely knew that going in.

I smell Teslacoin in the works. A ostensibly green cryptocurrency, with his face on it.
Common Lisp is the best calculator because it handles rational and complex numbers, and transcendental functions over them, correctly.
Some people would not login then, and a vocal minority will complain loudly.
Yeah, there are likely 3 categories of people currently waiting on the vaccine.

1. People who watched how chaotic it was to get a vaccine at first, and tuned out. They might not know how easy it is to get one now in most of the US, so some campaigning might be able to reach them.

2. People who want to "wait and see", who have concerns that there are longer term effects from the vaccines and want to wait to see if it's fine for other people they know. This might not necessarily just be people who are paranoid. Lots of folks with conditions that suppress their immune system are leery of the vaccine too, seeing how it's laid out some people with no immune system issues for days.

3. People who believe a wild conspiracy theory about getting microchipped, 5g, plannedemics, etc.

A lottery might get some of group #1 to check back in, but so would just better engagement. How much door to door canvassing would $5 million get?

It will have the exact opposite effect on groups 2 and 3, making them even more paranoid. If this is so great and doesn't have real drawbacks, why offer millions of dollars to get it?
Sometimes I would like to see comments divided in two sections: 1. discussion strictly about the contents of the submission and 2. all the rest, which I would call meta. Meta would be hidden by default and often would be a catch-all for many types of negative comments in type of ("the page is unreadable", "I hate marketing", "I don't know what this is"). I know that many of my comments, like this one, would go to the meta section, but sometimes when I think about it like that I decide not to write a comment. Interesting thing would be to divide karma and weigh content comments by content karma and meta comments by meta karma. The problem would be that a reply to a content comment could be meta, so maybe every thread would have its own section?
One related thread:

The Lisperati1000 Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022797 - Feb 2021 (25 comments)
Yep, there were some big movements on the blockchain and the exchanges prior to the public tweet.
I don't think any of this is close to fair. "C is simple" and "it takes some work to do stuff in C sometimes" aren't mutually exclusive, in fact the former necessarily implies the latter. C is simple, which means it doesn't have a pre-written obscure built-in or convoluted syntax to handle every possible thing you might want to do in the language. You're going to have to write some of the code in your project yourself. That doesn't mean C isn't simple. I don't think I have to get into why writing a string-parsing function isn't quite the same thing as writing your own programming language.

And C has libraries too, to be fair. So if you prefer the "choose between 25 competing libraries that all provide the desired functionality but half of them are deprecated or don't work" workflow a lot of people are used to from C++ or whatever you can do that. Lots of people use libraries in C. In fact, as you might be aware, your OS's package manager doubles as the C language's third-party package manager. There has been plenty of "already-written C code," because it's a language that has been ubiquitous in computing for fifty years.

I'm not sure where these same tired critiques bubble up from but I see them constantly and they don't make sense. There are a number of entirely valid and damning critiques to be made of the C ecosystem but "there aren't any libraries written in C" and "oh, so you say C is simple, huh? Have you tried using it?!" aren't among them.

You're not going to be a 20 year veteran C developer and then suddenly just today learn about some obscure built-in, and that's what is meant by "simple" here, and that's a good thing.
I'm sure some low level people at Amtrak have thought about it. Upper management has generally not, and thus not allowed the limited funding they could have to be put to good use over the years. A new plan after all is all yours, if you take the old plan your predecessor gets credit (this is also why new CEOs bring in major re-orgs soon after starting - they can't let any credit for success go to their predecessor).
Just because you have an opportunity to do something, and it's not explicitly forbidden by any laws or 'terms of service' or whatever, doesn't make it okay.

Imagine that I went to a store, identified every booster pack with a rare card in it via weight, and then bought all of them. Then let's imagine someone else walks in. This buyer is a reasonable person, but not savvy enough to know that booster packs with rare cards are easily identified. He buys the packs thinking that his chances of getting a rare card are 5% when they are really 0%.

Do you feel that that was wrong of me to do? Or was it the other buyer's fault for not being smart enough to already know that someone like me would have come along and done what I did?
We've found the display resolution and scaling to work well in Ubuntu 20.04 and Fedora.
A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free
This fees will support next 1000's attacks , if someone gets attacked next i think should sue colonial pipeline
Bitcoin is deliberately inefficient to a horrifying degree but it is not "all cryptocurrencies". Most modern designs are thousands or millions of times more efficient.
> It seems silly tho that we need to pass a law to uphold what's already written into the constitution.

The constitution only grants or limits power of various branches of government, it doesn't prescribe punishments for breaking the rules. That's a job of Congress (or courts, for civil cases).
Aurora. Website's analytics made easy Privacy out of the Box. Built in NextJS
I would love to make an arm board. Would be cool if you could publish some sort of reference design EDA files with just the board outline and IO connectors populated.
Of course. I'm just saying medical problems exist that exercise cannot cure.
john von neumann had it his whole life
A bribe implies that what you're wanting someone to do is illegal or bad. Their logic is that if the vaccine is so necessary or safe, you wouldn't need to bribe people to take it.

I see it more as an incentive, like being able to write off private donations at tax time.
>I'm not sure this is even useful as a rule of thumb, let alone generally true.

Because free is a limited word. Which is why we have free as in beer / free as in freedom / libre vs free, the list goes on and on.

"If its free, you're the product" is a perfectly fine statement to help average folks navigate the modern tech consumer world outside of opensource efforts.

>Everywhere I'm aware of in the world, COVID-19 vaccines are free, are you "the product" when immunised against a deadly disease? How so?

For this you do actually provide data back to the providers of the vaccine (depending on country and agreements signed of course). Most of the free vaccine sites near me (USA) have a lot of obvious data collection along with the provided vaccine which I'm fine with.
“note-taking” vs. “note-making”
A neuroscientist who lost her mind says it can happen to anyone – Quartz
Oh I have. Problem is Notion is most popular with the least technical people on our team. Migrating would be a hard sell.
If you don't understand the terminology, any paper is gibberish :) but I agree, I can detect fake ones fairly reliably in biology, but not in e.g. astronomy.
If you want to dismiss 100,000 Tokyo citizens burning to death in two nights because it doesn't fit the narrative of "nuclear is the worst," then that's your decision.

But personally, I consider them equally horrific. And as stated previously, if MAD prevents either from happening, the risk seems worth it.
Did big tech just monopolize live audio?
Clubhouse boasted 13.4M users in March, but its new user growth has rapidly decreased since. New downloads peaked in February at 9.6M, but fell to 2.7M in March and 900K in April. Now I know that downloads is not the best form of metrics because it can be a result of hyped marketing but still this seems like a steep decline. Could this be because of Twitter spaces or perhaps FB and reddit entering this market? Because on clubhouse, you have to build a following and community bottom-up but for twitter or FB, you might even have a following already.
> the highest performing teams not being made up of the highest performing individuals, but the best communicators

Not saying this may not be like, true in the ontological sense... but as an experiment it's shitty because they measure performance by how good you are at communicating what you did and what impact it had.
> I would like to see it preserved more or less as-is as a record of its own history.

But on the other side, what is really the point to this?

In a couple of million years, none of this really matters.
Apple doesn't care about developer experience. Hardware/software dev at Apple is basically that strong/weak doge meme.

The hardware dev is pushing up against the boundaries of what is possible to manufacture, and they do it with shrinking time scales each cycle.

Apple software gets shittier and harder to develop every year. Some of the stuff I understand, like the onslaught of permissions when everyone upgraded to Catalina. Others like the state of XCode baffle me.

It gets harder and more expensive to target Apple platforms every cycle, no matter how much better the hardware gets.
Is this built off the OpenAI API?
Not to mention there’s a whole lot of middle ground between writing your own auth logic and using a hosted service. Any reasonably popular web-oriented language has plenty of fully featured, high quality libraries you can often just drop in.

Hell, we use Laravel at work, which includes pretty robust auth features out of the box. It feels like such table stakes stuff for a web framework that I find the idea of paying for a third-party cloud service absolutely bananas.

It also includes pretty solid notification and payment solutions too, though these usually plug into services like SNS and Stripe and don’t really fit the “self hosted” bill.
I took a "memory course" in college and it was like a muscle based exercise. If I used it and practiced it, it worked. But after I stopped practicing/using it for a while, eventually it became atrophied and I could remember things as well as I could when I was working hard it.

Is this how it works for everyone that "develops" a good memory?
Do you have any ideas for how that could be done on HN? What about Twitter UX in particular do you think leads to that dynamic?
If it's provided by other people who are not themselves enslaved, it absolutely is. Maybe a state-subsidized one, but money is changing hands for services whether it comes out of your pocket or not.

Further, we're not talking about healthcare. We're talking about de-risking potential future financial liability by purchasing insurance.

Insurance is absolutely a business.
Haha, that was actually funny!

Looks like they got tmux installed, too! But it would have been funnier if the computer display had showed Apple II assembler code like the Terminator did.
Thank you looking! It works! Just go to the Github from the landing page. It is a locally hosted app for now as we want to ensure your privacy so that none of your PII is sent to us.
Once you go to Github follow this instructions on running it on your machine, and then it's three easy steps from there:

1. Fill in the required data fields on 1 form.
2. Data deletion requests are sent from your email.
3. Any replies/next steps are sent to your inbox.
> You're conflating humans and probes, which are vastly different.

I disagree. Robots can build infrastructure far ahead of human settlement, such that everything already exists when we are ready to travel.

We can also potentially re-engineer our own life form, or create an entirely new inorganic lifeform, to withstand various conditions, including radiation and a wider range of temperatures. That will be our successor.

We are only beginning to understand genetics in the past decade. We have a long, long way to go, and a lot to understand. Science is still at its infancy.

Also, this is something I could never say in an academic context, but deep down I don't believe in conservation of energy, partly because the big bang itself violates it. Yes, I would be ridiculed for saying this in a scientific context, but so would someone in the 1500s for saying that the Earth goes around the sun. I think at some point in the distant future we will not be reliant on stars as our energy source.
lol no. this is the dude that add ads to his `library` then tell us it was a joke/try.
> The crew being sent to save the Earth blasts off in a big ol' chemical rocket with stages. Yeah, fine. I guess rocket tech hasn't advanced all that much in this future. Then they land a ship on a planet in a gravity well so intense that it causes big relative time differences (Note: the gravity alone should have killed them). Then they blast off with the same ship and no big clunky chemical rocket stages. Why didn't this ship just blast off of Earth as is? The energy to get off Earth is nothing compared to getting out of a gravity well that deep! I guess Nolan thought an oldschool staged rocket looked cool.

For some reason I thought they mention it in the movie, but perhaps not and I simply read it elsewhere: fuel. The chemical rocket allowed them to take a large(r) payload into Earth's orbit and dock with the primary ship all while conserving the fuel that the landers had up there. Resources that were not easy to come by.
Look at it from the perspective of a line cook. The government ends your ability to make a living by enacting unscientific and capricious restrictions around indoor dining. You're now out of work.

All you need to do to secure a paycheck is take a couple injections of a drug that is not FDA approved for general use. If anything at all happens to you there's no one to sue because the manufacturers and health care providers have legal immunity.

You've been working odd jobs, gig work, etc to try to make ends meet so you've contracted covid a time or two. You know you're immune; or at the very least, not at much risk. But you have a child support payment, and another son living with you. What's the worst thing that could happen taking the shot?

It turns out the tail risk is quite high. But like a commenter said above: it's like the reverse lottery. High tail risk, but low risk overall and an immediate reward.

Maybe "coercion" is a little hyperbolic. I'll retreat to my earlier characterization of "unethical".
Those big waves were really cool.

Every now and then I watch it mainly for that bit. Fun movie, ending sucked.
But perhaps it is doable with the new plugin system!
It's not detecting many of the supported applications on my Mac in Safari.
You can overfund but if you use it wisely, you may be ok. Just don't spend it too casually. But yea, the more funding you take, the more your investor are pushing for a high valuation and sometimes it gets crazy. I saw someone pitch a product on SharkTank with a $11 Million valuation and the product is still in research/pre-production. The argument was that they had already raised tons of money pushing the valuation to some crazy number.
There are companies that get hacked a lot and there are companies that don't. It is for sure true to say everyone is vulnerable, but it's also true to say that you can reduce your risk without reducing your revenue.
Probably due to Berlusconi and Salvini trying to escape their legal troubles by calling the judges communists.
Is Tesla into Blockchain already? Because if they are, that would be close to peak hype BS bingo.
This is the chaotic evil way of dealing with the problem
I think the disconnect here is between potential and probable. Humanity likely has the potential for interstellar travel, but our nature will prevent it in my opinion. Homo sapiens have twice come to the edge of nuclear oblivion already (being saved only by luck essentially), and I would wager we are are speeding much faster towards nuking each other than reaching the stars.
If you can fill the seats and the tanks (and be legal), I'd say someone made your tanks too small.
Sun made huge investments into HotSpot to optimize reusable object-oriented code. As I understand it, GC and interface method dispatch on heap objects are relatively slower in Go so they’re mildly discouraged.
Seems a little grandiose considering its just a comment on HN.
>This is true but also meaningless. If you want to be included in a group of Android users who use Facebook messenger, you must own an Android device.

Nope, you can use Facebook messenger from an iPhone or even a Pinephone. Apple is running the only popular chat app which demands you use only their hardware.

> If you want to be part of a group of Windows users who use signal, you must own a Windows machine.

No you don't need a windows machine for this, just something that can run signal.

>All three are true, but presumably you can see they have absolutely nothing to do with app review.

They do because anyone participating in a real time iMessage group is forced to put up with whatever software policy Apple dictates on their phone.

>There is no extreme cost.

The cost is that you have to hand your ssh keys over to closed source apps to use ssh, you can't use decent chat applications because the app author has to have a full-time ops team (distinct from the team managing the chat server even though they already have the resources) managing the F**ing notification server because those are Apple's policies. You can't run most desktop apps because of licensing restrictions. There's almost no community maintained software so almost everything on the phone either costs a ton or harvests every last bit of data it can find (which is typically beyond what Apple supposedly allows) and anything remotely useful is unprofitable to maintain.

Quite simply: the cost is that almost all the software is absolute shit.
I find it hard to believe that a guy who talks non stop about clean energy does not know how much dirty energy cryptomining uses. It is even less likely that he signed off on a $1.5b purchase of it, and that no-one involved in that process brought up its energy use.
> My favourite is thttpd [1] which is super tiny, battle-tested and actually meant for the job (and only this job). It's available as a package on most Linux distros.

Surprising not on Debian or Ubuntu AFAICT:

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=thttpd

Though it does seem to have this from the same author:

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mini-httpd

* http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/

There are times that I want to run Let's Encrypt that's not a full-time web server (SMTP, IMAP, etc), and it would be handy to spin up something ad hoc on tcp/80 to do the verification step and then stop it right after.
Yes. The Stalinist Soviet regime were innocent, peace-living victims.
I'm leaving HN and it's echo chamber all together. HN has no basis with reality. Bye!
Even a partial ecosystem collapse would make it a tremendously difficult multi-generational effort to return to modern levels of technology.

An analogy: a bunch of important files become corrupt (cataclysmic event) and the domain expert is no longer with the company (loss of knowledge and industry). It is much easier to move forward if one has a way of contacting a subject matter expert (Mars colony) to restore or rebuild what has been lost.
>Which is actually really bad for real artists and raises some ethical issues.

This is raised every time a spectacular ML demo emerges. The generic answer is that the real value in artistic work is conceptualization. Execution is secondary. This method doesn't conceptualize anything, you probably need strong AI for that. Artists will just use the new tool, simple as that.