skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet parrot definitly laughs. It sounds like a staccato clucking sound. He usually does it when he's lying on my belly playing with me. He lays on his back, both feet grabbing my finger (or fingers) and play-biting my finger with his beak. I've gotten to where I can do a pretty good imitation which I do when he's clearly playing. (he does sometimes get too agressive in his play, and I usually stop clucking when he pushes too far, but I doubt that registers with him.)

EDIT: Just for completeness, he's a Mitered Conure. Conure's are probably the most gregarious parrots I've encountered.
Yeah, but AFAIK there isn't huge overlap between the VC funds and the landowners, unless there's some hidden corporate structure of which I am unaware.

It would be quite silly (and clever) for VC LPs to start buying up residential properties, knowing that their funding rounds go right into payroll and then right into SFBA rents and back into their pockets. :D
It would make for a hellofa janitor survival simulator game. Maybe as a story pack to SimTower.
I'll agree with you on these points. The failure modes for an authorized user of an electronic lock are worse than for a mechanical lock.
>In one instance we have society’s collective desire to reduce waste by allowing people access to fix their goods.

So you'd oppose right-to-repair if manufacturers are willing to carry out the repairs themselves, presumably negating the environmental/waste benefits?

>And completely off topic.

That's the beauty of comment trees. If it becomes too off topic for you, you can collapse it.
A better link for T&C in English:

"We strive to keep our networks operating at the highest possible level, so all of our clients benefit from it.

Therefore the following actions are prohibited:

* Operating applications that are used to mine crypto currencies"

https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/root-server/
A couple of past threads:

IRC v3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12671063 - Oct 2016 (217 comments)

IRCv3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005999 - Jan 2016 (77 comments)
Sigstore
As long as the ultra wealthy continue to make the laws, nothing will change.
Businesses shifting to partially or fully remote (the key metric surveyed in this article) isn't necessarily an exodus from SF. It just means a decline in the need for office space in SF.

Additionally, other sources indicate that most SF residents who left moved to nearby areas [1]. (Those areas themselves may see their residents moving elsewhere)

[1]: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/exodus-study-reveals-dra...
This is about more than just password fields, although that is a big one.

I can give you a legitimate, actual use case where I had to develop a workaround: a page where an admin can change the password for a user. Under no circumstances would an autofill be desirable on that page, yet Chrome thinks it knows best.
SF is on a different level of exodus then the rest of the Bay Area, and I guess also the state. The leadership of the city forgot there are also nearby cities that aren't trying out crazy new laws and mandates that obviously make everything much worse. One of the richest, most advanced places on Earth, making civic problems worse for decades now.
Ha! Was this the "Goverment Blockchain Association" that was meeting in the DC Metro area? I may be have hornswoggled into one of their meetings at the time, and despite my vague enthusiasm for the technology, I felt like I was being sold a timeshare.
I’m not an expert in money laundering but I’ve been waiting for a cryptocurrency version of the restaurant laundering scam.

Essentially criminal A buys a restaurant. Some sales are legit and other sales are just criminal A filling the register and making sales. Police are relatively good at investigating this because ratios between income and expenses are always dramatically off.

What if instead of pizza you just mint and buy tokens?
It's likely that self-help books do help some people, but only some. The disconnect people have is probably a result of different self-help books being suitable for different people in a way that we have a hard time defining. Eg imagine a self-help book catered towards introverts. Extroverts might not find it all that helpful, but be unable to realize why, yet their (introvert) friend swears that it was enormously helpful. Some (small) group of people feel that the book was helpful to them. They got that kick from it that started their engine. Another group might get it from another book.

Combine this with people liking new things and I think it explains a significant part of the self-help book industry. And why do people write them? Money, but also the same reason we write comments here. It somehow feels good to share your opinion, regardless whether you say you're an authority or are just sharing an opinion you're not completely sure of.
I'm so excited for the possibility of rental prices coming down enough to support the artists and quirky businesses that used to be around.

The city's consolidation into tech forced out a lot of the vibrancy that made San Francisco unique. Those people are still residents. It's just they've been unable to afford the space to enact some of the things they used to.
I took the pie chart next to the 63% one to be about the long term. So about half fully remote or substantially remote.
> you can't buy your way out of the mindset, or snap your fingers / empty the cache / cycle the power the way the average HN commenter seems to think you can.

Reading the list, most of them are pretty harmless if not annoying. But one struck me as something completely different:

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was afraid to seek mentorship from anyone above me, convinced that even asking would seem like bothersome begging. I watched the people around me network effortlessly, assured of favors and good words put in. I could only think in terms of what I could offer and how I could survive; they were thinking on the next level where they never had to wonder if they were good enough. They were to the business-class manner born, at least.

Seaweed Snack vs Cheetos is a class thing, and maybe cultural (I could see people of East-Asians origins reaching for the seaweed more than the Cheetos).

But not being able to get help or mentoring and to network is an enormous barrier to career progression.
To their credit, they've found new ways of using resources in the most inefficient way possible.

"San Francisco is paying $16.1 million to shelter homeless people in 262 tents placed in empty lots around the city where they also get services and food — a steep price tag that amounts to more than $61,000 per tent per year."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-pays-61-000-a-...
Autofill many times fill data in wrong fields, and it break UI style too.
The Coldness of Karen
> I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24/7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.

Since this is Germany, we had similar discussions in the early 00 years with the term "flatrate" for internet access as well as downloads. In the beginning many internet access providers advertised using the term "flatrate" but what they meant was "fair use". Reminds me of that.
The linked issue mentions one -- data entry at a medical clinic where new users are being signed up.
Sure, but it's not like it's trivial to build games of the quality he has: if you have any doubts about that just look at the quantity of really terrible games available for 8-bit platforms.

Nobody said that what he's trying to do with the X16 is easy: however, I do trust him to deliver.

(My own personal wishlist here would be something like an Amiga 1200 but with two Paulas, controllable panning, and two SID chips, along with sprite rotation and scaling hardware. Ain't gonna happen, of course.)
The eponymous RSA conference is run by RSA Security LLC, the same people who backdoored their products for the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security

κρυπτός means hidden or concealed, and I intend to die on this hill.
Still trivial to bypass.
I'm sorry, what?! xDSL does not have splitters, except the only one in your household that splits the POTS frequencies for the phone and the rest is passed off to the modem. And of course your physical twisted pair wire goes from your modem to the port on the DSLAM in the central office. This is not like cable or xPON, the last mile twisted pair is yours alone.
It's a shame that ecoins with proof-of-steak can't be ecofriendly. Maybe that's for the best, since you could accidentally eat your steaks and lose your money.
I'm really curious what client requirements drove that decision.

'In development'. Does this mean v1 hasn't even shipped yet?
Yeah, it has been used but the way the argument goes it's impossible to form an argument against a welfare program without being painted a racist.

What I mean is that a line of reasoning so often used these days: "this affects race X more therefore it's racist/racially motivated" is just incorrect thinking.
> >“Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,”

> What they didn't say that people add of their own volition seems to be "and we're not evil", "and we're not criminals", "and we're the good guys". They didn't say those things. Their goal is to make money. That doesn't mean they think they're doing good in the world or innocent.

What's funny about their statement is that it's such an obvious lie. They make money by creating problems for society; that's what they demand ransom for, removing the problem they created.

Bit funny how people read all kinds of stuff into their statement, but nobody so far has pointed out this discrepancy in what it actually says.
OP here: more like, if people's resources are NOT equal (and people's abilities are not really fungible: you can have someone who's not that great but has a novel POV, or a helpful trait) then this tilts things harshly against them.

You wind up with people who are not the brightest and greatest, burdened by massive cognitive overhead, hindered rather than groomed for success, and then as a society we turn around and look at the ones who were a bit better at stuff and point to their opulence and go 'look how MUCH better this person is!'

People don't have to be equal for this to be a concern. It's a matter of whether you think society's best served by finding the most exceptional person and then having them rule everything. Even if you were able to do that, even if the person IS quite superior, they will never measure up to the bar society sets for them. They're good, but they're not nearly as good as their wealth would make it appear.

And you look at poor people or people who are flat out failing at life. They're not good, but they're not NEARLY as not-good as their poverty would make it appear. You're seeing them at their worst, and it's a wasted resource on a colossal scale.

So this is basically the argument for 'create UBI under capitalism and dominate the world through the proliferation of cool GDP you create out of all your small business people'. Basically, 'one Elon Musk is useless compared to ten thousand folks a tenth as good as him'. :)
"At the first quarter of 2021, the overall citywide
asking rent was $73.76 per square foot (psf) down 12.0% from the peak of $83.82 psf with the Class A citywide figure at $77.66 psf, down 10.0% from $86.31 psf,. Direct space continues to be marketed at near record levels for the time being with the citywide Class A direct asking rent at $84.47 psf and the CBD Class A direct asking rent at $85.71 psf" — Cushman and Wakefield

"Totally false" — Internet rando
Building Customized FreeBSD Images
There was a time when I was really good in fixing bugs in IE6. This made me go to school because I realized no matter what happens, IE will eventually die and my skills will be useless. So, final goodbye, although I haven't thought about you much in the last years.
As an adolescent in the late 90’s, my friend group played the Star Wars version of this, Star Wars CCG. At the time I had cards worth $40-50 and thought if I held onto them for decades they’d be worth thousands. Looked them up recently and they’re going for... $20-30. Oh well.

Interestingly, unopened packs seem to fetch a fair amount, certainly more than their “expected value”, which aligns with my experience trading loot boxes on Steam.
What’s your prediction for the outcome of doing that? Parceling the office space into 2,000 square foot spaces and giving them free of charge to each homeless person in SF? Please be specific.
Forms implementing their own autocompletion logic seem like a pretty compelling case. E.g. for a search input, it makes sense to offer suggestions based on the domain (valid values, popular searches) rather than previous inputs for the same browser.
Hadrons are composite particles so that’s exactly what this is. Different quark combinations. Back in the day people didn’t know and we’re quite unhappy with such a Zoo of particles.
Sales engineering always sounded great to me as well, and the few times I got a chance to participate in the sales process as a SWE it was always very interesting: meet new people, do work that is challenging but not mentally as draining as being torn apart in a code review, hang out after work with energizing and fun sales folks, ...

Just to collect one random datapoint, do you work for an enterprise-focused tech company? And how much travel do you do outside the pandemic? What would be the “FAANGs” for a SWE turning into a sales engineer?
uh no

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/stripe.com
You aren't taxing the corporation, you are taxing an individual. We can pretend that is somehow a tax on the corporation, but it isn't. Corporations hold vast sums of cash that isn't "income" to an individual. That money can/is used to enrich the upper-levels of those corporations, outside of becoming "income" for them. "Business" dinners. "Business" travel. "Business" retreats. You could try to create complex tax laws to make people individually liable for it, but good luck enforcing that or writing them in a way that doesn't leave loopholes open for the wealthy. You had a business lunch to try and seal a new deal? Guess what, you all now need to file that as personal income and be taxed at 25%, including the people you were treating. That team celebration for a successful launch? Each team member owes 25% of whatever was spent on you (hope someone was tallying it all correctly).
My parents made a similar deal with me, when I was 18.

"Manual work" for all but 3 weeks of the summer was indoors for me, in factories -- mostly cleaning and assembling. There was a good range of jobs, from boring, tough work more-or-less alone, to a place where everyone seemed to chat while they worked slowly as the summer was usually a quiet period.

In the final job, I took a half-day off to collect my exam results. Going into work afterwards, people naturally asked what they were ­-- all A grades. It was difficult not to feel apart from many of the staff from that point. The owner's daughter was the same age and also working the summer at the factory, and her results weren't good enough to go to university.
I don't know what makes http important for reverse proxy or docker. I've reveres proxied and dockerized apps that listen on normal TCP port.
It's always the "freedom of thought" people who are trying to police other people's thoughts.
Oakland is a big place. It varies by neighborhood same as San Francisco. Most is fine, certainly no worse than the Tenderloin.
That's just a defeatist attitude. Why does the executable need to be replaced? Why can't the new executable be called firefoxNext, and when firefox starts next time, it checks for this file, and if it exists, it quickly starts that instead, which renames itself to firefox, overwriting the old version?
What would be wrong with that?

EDIT: Oh, I see. This happens when the distro package manager updates firefox. I don't have a solution, since there isn't an easy one that will satisfy all people. So nevermind. shrug

Maybe Firefox could create a temporary executable copy of itself and run from there, and run that, so when the original is replaced, it doesn't affect the running process. But, that probably comes with a host of complications that I'm unaware of.
It's useful for <input type=password ...> fields that aren't _actually_ passwords. For instance if a UI wants to hide some secret value and then have a click-to-reveal button. autocomplete=off makes sense in these cases because otherwise the browser tries to show worthless autocomplete dropdowns and if there's any form on the page then submitting it will also prompt you to save it in the autocomplete database. Which is also annoying (and worthless).
Theft, yes. There are other leaks, such as a lazy or rushed employee discarding broken merch without reporting it. Also, customer satisfaction trumps other policies. That is not just PR. If anything about the POS system annoys a customer for 2 seconds, like a barcode that won’t scan, it got circumvented. And again, the warehouse out back was so huge and chaotic, stuff just got lost, to be discovered months later.
Yeah, so weird to see so many cheer for it here. I am surprised.

For me, Chrome has countless times clobbered the context-aware autofill (address fields, countries etc.) provided by the website with their useless autofill overlays.

I would much prefer if I could all together disable Chrome's suggestions in DOM input fields. Even when it has nothing to autofill, it sometimes puts something in there to take me to autofill settings or something.
At that cost they could just pay the homeless 61k per year and they could rent their own homes
> IE + applets _were_ the best choice at the time

Depends on the constraints. Qt was around and mature for many years in 2006. Ruby on Rails had it's first release mid 2004. Django mid-2005.

Again it depends on the constrains, what you can "the best choice in 2006" is limping now. Meanwhile an app built in 2006 on Qt/RoR/Django would be on a platform that is currently still being considered for green field devt.

Without knowing all constraints I'd be willing to say that IE+applets was not the best choice in 2006, neither was: GWT, WebSphere or any of the MS GUI toolkits around in that year.

I'm still on the fence wrt Vaadin. It was not around in 2006, but soon after. Never used it, but it seems to still be actively maintained to this day.
Something something, John Lennon, crop out Ringo.
>Do we have any figures (anecdotal or otherwise) of how many students in the top rankings have had coaching?

I would say 90%. Probably even higher. That's also because pretty much anyone who is serious about taking the exam gets some coaching. However, I know at least a few people that cracked JEE without any coaching. Even a guy who got rank 1 without coaching (Piyush Srivastava).

> I am of the opinion that the JEE (and every other competitive exam: AIIMS, etc) should be much much harder, and designed with a specific eye to defeat coaching

I am not sure how making the exam harder would defeat coaching. The value of the hard problems is that it helps you distinguish better between the very top of the top students. At least at my time there were always a number of such problems thrown in for that purpose.

I also don't quite understand what you hope to achieve here. The whole "coaching centers teach you tricks to solve problems" idea is way exaggerated. (Honest to God, I have a terrible memory and I actually derived half the formulae I needed during the exam itself.) There are many other ways in which coaching centers add value. The most important of which being that you surround yourself with and compete against other talented, motivated students.
I love it! The music is very comfy.
Sure, the truly rural people aren't going to farmers markets, but the people in small towns and suburban areas do (this is in contrast to the "big city" in the original comment). Most rural people use a store for most stuff and then go to farm stores/stands/neighbors for other things.

There are still farms that produce a variety of produce. Many of them only produce them as a small percentage of their operation. For example, the dairy farm down the road plants sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, and (not food, but) manure. I know of several other farms that do similar things.
I converted from one form of cryptocurrency to another cryptocurrency (USDC is USDCoin, a Stablecoin).

I was paying on NewEgg using their BitPay method, which supports payment with only the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Wrapped Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and 5 stablecoins (GUSD, USDC, PAX, DAI, and BUSD).

I have Bitcoin and could have paid directly with that, but I wanted to keep holding it and pay with Litecoin. So I converted that to USDC (for free, but I will have to pay taxes on the gains next year since every conversion or purchase is a taxable event in crypto in the US), and then sent that to Bitpay.

So yes, I still maintain I used USDC for its intended purpose.

I did, however, do what you said and liquidated some Ethereum to fiat several years ago (right at the previous bull run's top, by happenstance, got super lucky then) to pay for the downpayment on my home. I would have paid with it directly if I could but there was just no mechanism for it, at least not back then.
Edit: I stand corrected, this approach worked for me when I was building an internal app but apparently doesn't work at other times.

Just don't give the input an "id=password" and Chrome won't throw your password into it.

It's just a label, the autofill is because it matches all the other sites where you do want Chrome to autofill your password.
>Billing by usage is a method by which shared resources are allocated.

By this logic, is every resource a shared resource? Does the concept of ownership not exist anymore? Am I committing the heinous crime of "sucking up shared resources" if I buy a $2000 gaming PC and use it to browse HN rather than to game?
I'm a software engineer. I have an Electrical Engineering degree from an ivy league school (if that matters. Personally I think it doesn't).

I am VERY interested in your comment regarding law. Thank you. Can you give me any references on some firms I can contact?
I have issue with changing the ToS and not notifying people and giving them a chance to make a decision. Not just randomly find out the service they pay for is no longer the service they thought they were paying for.
And VCs are also landowners
Yeah and welfare programs and heavy redistribution programs were tried by a society that caused several times more deaths and suffering than the one you mentioned over way longer period which we don't hear from anymore either. What kind of argument is that, seriously.
When you're trying to deploy your app to a U.S. Department of Defense environment. This includes things like the Veterans Affairs network of hospitals, too. It's a requirement that your web-app has autocomplete disabled (I don't have the DISA STIG ID# off hand...).

I was faced with this dilemma a few years ago. IIRC, the workaround was sketchy as hell. It was something like creating a password input field with the visibility set to none (and then chrome would autofill it, but it wouldn't be visible), and then the user enters their password into a regular text box, but you style the text box with CSS so that it appears as all discs. ~It was something like that, don't recall exactly.
LastPass likely ignores autocomplete=off (like almost everything else). Therefore, you would never have an issue with autocomplete=off preventing autocomplete.
Google ‘Experiments’ with Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome
I'm not pretending. I support my favourite creators via Patreon. Feels more than "nothing". :)
> currently in development program requires IE + Java applets.

Why?

Surely it's not a greenfield project.