skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we societal debt > equity, for ownership is like a debt that can never be paid back.

I'm convinced this is a sensitivity to initial conditions phenomenon where if we hadn't transitioned to capitalism from feudalism, equity/ownership-like contracts would be laughed out of the room. "Perpetuity? C'mon!"
There was a great PBS series made based on that book: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/

(That site is 23 years old!)
> How are you going to sell customers tickets remotely without an internet presence?

With this wacky invention known as a telephone. Merely three years ago I used a telephone to order tickets on the Alaska Marine Highway (a ferry service operated by Alaska) while driving through BC. No websites needed; it was utterly painless.
The other way around. You can't comment without a bit of reputation.
You can always ask and answer questions.
I also frequently run into the situation where I Google something, there is a perfect match on a SO question, but then the answer is "Actually, you don't want to do that thing you asked about, here is a different solution for your specific scenario". But often that alternative solution is not relevant in the general case, and there really are good reasons to want to do the thing as originally asked in the question.

Basically there are all kinds of situations where the specific question/answer format is actually at odds with generating good long-term documentation.

But that makes me all the more impressed with the success Stack Overflow has had. In my opinion their key insight is that it can be good enough. If I had come up with the idea for the product I probably would have been discouraged and given up way too early based on the fact that it is and will always be messy and imperfect.
I think people don't realize that SPAC creators make money in very different ways than the SPAC share/warrant chasers.

Its the same with crypto, ICOs, and basically every financial service.

The SPAC creators get a large percentage of the shares in almost every deal, just for showing up and getting an agreement with a target company. Depending on the contract they also get a percentage of the capital used to fund the SPAC. So even with Chamath's deals being "down" with the share prices tanking, he's made a ton of money for himself and his fund. Share prices tank probably because he is selling into liquidity.

I do not find this controversial. I find the gap in knowledge to be peculiar.
Not sure TomTom had as dominant a brand for navigation as Stackoverflow has for Q&A. Stackoverflow is pretty much alone in this space still which is pretty amazing when you think about it.
Sure, the paragraph stands alone as a single data point. GP's point stands.
It's a mitigation to the "bury brigade" problem digg used to have. I think a relatively low hurdle is a good balance.
Not at my office. Their contracts with their landlord mean you are required to have union laborer to plug in a computer or a monitor.
Top 0.5% SO'er here, but the funniest thing that I have had happen to me - and it has happened more than once - is I google for an answer to a programming problem I am having, get brought to stack overflow, and find the accepted answer to the question is one i myself wrote years before.
Whoa. Major commitment of $1B for two Venus missions. Incredible, considering proposed lifetime of the probe comes to 17 minutes on the planet surface ;)

DAVINCI: Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170002022/downloads/20...
Sure, if you happen to know the global minimum value, then you know a lot. For aliens though, we don't have anything resembling that, so the conclusions we can draw are much less interesting.
I've been working in and supporting low-code environments off and on since the 90s (Lotus Notes -> Sharepoint -> Salesforce, if it matters) I've been the guy who does those re-writes when needed. I can confirm that the biggest and worst of them need re-writes, but most just need a little cleanup. Most are like you said, a non-programmer does something unwise. I spent much of my time giving people a "Dev 101" course to help them do it better, and they'd build heaps of apps that never needed re-writes.

Even when they did need taken over by IT because they scaled to a level of being business-critical, they rarely needed a full re-write, they most often just needed enhanced. Adding in validation, data integrity, backups, UX, testing, and simply streamlining the app with features that needed "real" code. And once a decade we'd re-platform them all as the underlying platforms become outdated and were eclipsed by something new.

It was amazing how well the non-programmers could do if given a weekly opportunity to just come in and show their work, ask questions, and get advice. Some of the people I coached even went on to learn how to code and have become successful software engineers in their own right.

If you ever end up supporting such environments again, I'd recommend considering yourself a mentor to new developers more so than someone who is going to clean up someone else's mess. People might surprise you with how much they are capable of.
As far as salmonella getting into the crops ... it can’t survive more than a few hours outside of a host.

If that's the case, then why have there been multiple recalls of produce and peanut butter for salmonella contamination?
Well at least "aren't common" is a step more reasonable than "are insane". That can be my good deed for the day.
The most beneficial model I've come up with was a cooperative one, where RPA is the wireframe / prototype of business automation requests to IT.

IT promise to business: "You can use RPA if we tell you we can't build a thing in time."

Business promise to IT: "We'll turn off RPA at such time as you deliver us a working solution."

And then be very particular that business needs to have documentation of their RPA in order to implement in production (business process / ask, notsomuch technical).

This accomplishes a few positive things: (1) takes {insert dumb / hard / bad ROI business request off IT's priority plate}, (2) forces business to think about what they actually want, (3) forces business to document what they actually want, (4) provides business the flexibility to change their automation, when the realize they don't want what they thought they wanted, & (5) burns not-developer time learning all the intricacies and quirks of {legacy software / website / data}.

In the end, when IT comes back around knocking, their business counterparts actually have gasp documentation. And furthermore, documentation that's actually been battle tested and seen prod systems & data.

(It's an admittance that most IT projects fail not for lack of technical feasibility, but for incomplete or shifting specs)
Another issue I don't see discussed much is how cryptocurrencies basically enable the business of ransomware. It's not like we're less secure than we were 20 years ago, the difference is now hackers can actually get paid.
I know I'm preaching to the choir as everyone here is aware of how terrible PayPal is, but I too have been burned by them. They shut down access to my personal account with no warning and no option for recourse.

Thankfully I didn't have any funds stored there, but it was inconvenient and ruined any trust I previously had in them.

Overall a terrible experience.
Short film: We know what you did during lockdown [video]
Far from being illegal, this type of engagement has been historically preferred by US regulators.

Perhaps someone can kindly check if this is a quiet reincarnation of Operation Choke Point?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27330557
Am I too pessimist, or it'll really ruin one of the greatest internet creations. They will have to take back their billion dollars investment. Soon a new Expert-Exchange near you.

The collective knowledge accumulated is SO is fantastic. You children that don't remember the savage world before SO.
It randomly doesn't work until I reboot though.
Perhaps, but Apple didn't even ask about airtags, they just quietly broadened the "Find My network" across all Apple hardware to support this new feature. And there's nothing stopping apple from generalizing their "Find My" network to pass the same type of data that Amazon is.
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Show HN: Identity – Universal login with the benefits of Sign in with Apple
You're confusing Joel/StackOverflow for Jeff Atwood, who posted on the forums while designing Discourse.

Atwood was lambasted for not understanding the SA forums culture before making assertions about it, and for being seen as wanting to ignore the necessary role that human moderation plays in maintaining strong communities.
The 100k exploit bounty is probably less than the yearly cost of 1 agent for many government organisations. So the target doesn't even have to be a high value ISIS terrorist to make this bounty worth it. Just save them 1 or 2 FTE somewhere and the economics already work.
I’d add fear of all the money being injected leading to high asset inflation and permanent higher prices if you don’t enter the market now.
Crypto/DeFi/Blockchain programming.
There is a lot of money to be made there without the need of a job and an annoying boss.
I enjoyed your other comments on this thread so I’m surprised by this response.
Yeah, my wording could've been better. I was referring to that I've heard some horror stories of those who do get addicted. Overuse is really hard on the body. IIRC incontinence / bladder issues specifically.
What you want to attack is the on-ramps, not the off-ramps. Make it really hard to legally acquire cryptocurrency, to the point where a company would probably have to break a law or two just to get their payment together. That, plus criminalizing ransom payments, would go a very long way to stemming this tide.
Who Pays for Growth in Collier County, Florida: Part 1
Does LAPIS allow hundreds thousands of patterns matching simultaneously in one text pass?
> This reminds me of pushback in the early days of Tesla. Sure they can build 1,000, but can they build 10,000. Now we’re at “sure they can build 500,000, but can they build 5M.”

The fact that they succeeded doesn't mean there wasn't a significant chance of failure at each order of magnitude.
except they don't see it that way. they don't see at all when money is blinding and used to look the other way.
Smart contracts / blockchain programming. Deploying contracts to the BSC mainnet for fun & profit.
For what? I've already built up the internal momentum to go out of my way to fix someone being wrong about something trivial on the internet, and now you're telling me I need to invest my time on even more trivial pedantic bullshit (like editing wording on an accepted answer) just to gain the privilege to make a top level answer?

You'd think that with such strict rules, StackOverflow would have very high quality questions and very high quality answers. But it actually doesn't. One aspect of being a good developer is catching a stackoverflow answer in a mistake and being capable of rejudging the rest of the answer section as a result (ie: scrolling further down and finding the correct answer that has zero upvotes).
At this point I believe crypto whales will intentionally ruin conventional financial institutes and systems.
The last time I bothered to use Mozillas bugtracker, it was to report errors in the way Firefox was interacting with my screen reader. I had an utterly dispassionate tone, despite this matter being very important to me, because I had heard stories about Mozilla devs being very touchy and quick to take offense.

For my trouble, I was told that accessibility features on MacOS were a low priority (?!?) and nothing ever came of it.
one of the simplest forms of engineering a virus is called; serial passageing with artificial selection

this means passing the pathogen from one individual to others then selecting based on desired character to inocculate the next cohort of hosts; this will amplify the frequency of the desired character.

this process will also occur naturally, accompanied by natural selection.

this produces a genome that is devoid of the base pair level artefacts that can be observed when molecular genetic tools are used to edit and splice a genome. molecular editing produces sequence artefacts its like leaving a bit of your scissors behind when you cut a string.
this is easy to spot; a smoking gun.

artifically directed selection is not easy to spot but would be evident in the case that frequencies of characters or traits are not distributed according to the laws of transmission genetics
"Orange/red badges are typically a big deal because it is very rare for people to last at Amazon past even 2-3 years, nevermind 5 years. "

Are some career ladder jumpers actually planning to leave anyway after 2-3 years so they can leverage compensation offers between FANG?
Without bad coffee you can't appreciate the good coffee.

That being said, for almost a year now if not more, I've switched to making coffee the following way: Take a pot fill it with water, add coffee, boil until the foam disappears, wait a few minutes for the coffee to rest. Pour into a cup, if desired add milk and/or sugar, enjoy!

What I like about it, is that due to the size of my pot I can just leave the coffee on the stove and get ready and by the time I'm done, the coffee will also be done.

What's important to remember is that everyone lives their life through their eyes, ears and perspective. Or in the other words, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

You may hate the coffee that I love. And that's okay ^^
“30% of respondents reported living in a home owned or rented by themselves or a partner immediately prior to becoming homeless” is quite low. Maybe some people got bus tickets and crashed on a friend’s couch for a couple of weeks?
> since e.g. clients would want me for 40 hours per week for a multiyear commitment

I didn't have multiyear/long-term commitment offers often, as in Germany companies are very weary of doing "false self-employment", which comes with hefty fines and hiring a full time freelancer that doesn't have other clients for a year+ is basically the definition of that.

Basically every client I've had, wanted to have me for 40 hours/week, but just like with employment contracts, there is always room for negotiation.

I usually had 2 clients at the same time with optimally 16 hours (= 2 days) each, leaving me with a 4 day work week, but I sometimes budged and gave one of my clients an additional day. If you tell a potential client "I've already given a commitment of 3 days/week to my other client", they normally recognize that there isn't too much wiggle room and from what I can tell generally take it as a sign of professionality that you honor your commitments and can expect the same from you if they are also your client.

The individual gigs were usually 3-6 months and offset with their starting time, so that if one of the 2 gigs runs out, I still have the other one. Once there were 1-2 months remaining on one of the gigs, I hit up my contacts and arranged a new client as a follow-up. That way you have a semi-regular turnover which reduces the pump primed/unprimed problem to some degree. Since I arranged 90% of my jobs through those few freelance contacts I rarely ran into that problem anyway, as the general (unspoken) arrangement with them was that I'm busy by default and they would only ask me if a potential project was really interesting and if I'm looking for a project I'd ping them.

> I think I'd manage this a lot better late career, but on the whole, I found employment to work better for me, at least with a good employer.

The main reason I started freelancing was because from everything I can tell most employers are not good employers, and if they are good employers it's usually a temporary situation that rarely lasts for more than a few years. Most jobs include working on relatively boring products in relatively bad engineering process setups, which is so unfulfilling that I'd at least want to get a good pay/a lot of free time out of it, which always seemed most attainable via freelancing.

Having said that I'm not strictly against employment, and if an interesting employment opportunity with a interesting product and great team comes my way I'm open for it. In fact, I've just started employment again last month, and so far I'm pretty happy with it :)
We really need a revolution in the low code space. The amount of code we write - database, backend, api, frontend, etc.. to do the simplest CRUD task, makes me feel like compared to future programmers we're all cavemen rubbing two sticks together.
Governments can offer bounties to find exploits, it is just too public if people know which government is looking for what. It isn't a legal issue.
But if you're looking for something as specific as the documentation in Python itself for setattr, why wouldn't you do

```

> python

Python 3.7.4 (default, Aug 13 2019, 20:35:49)

[GCC 7.3.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> help(setattr)

```

Or if you want the documentation on specifically Python.org, use Google search but type

`setattr site:python.org`

?
Hey, people! I've been building this for a few weeks (mainly because I couldn't be bothered to build a separate login system for each thing I make), but someone recommended I make this available for anyone to use.

There's no bloat here - it doesn't use a single line of JavaScript and there's no ads or trackers or third party analytics.

I've worked pretty hard on this, so let me know what you think and I'd be happy to help if you want to try it out :)
Thats fair. I am all for the hybrid situation where there is an office people can use while also supporting the remote workforce. IDK if it's economical but I think the choice helps ensure everyone has the opportunity to the work environment they work best in.
I am not surprised at all by the price considering the need to manufacture something that's a totally bespoke design in very low quantities. The economy of scale factor that a giant manufacturer in east asia has access to is not available for this sort of project.
I'm actually glad MS would not also own SO. Github has been basically fine under MS ownership so far, but it seems like we're headed into a period of massive corporate consolidation, and I'd be happy if not all the developer tools are controlled by one interested party
Risking My Life to Settle a Physics Debate
This is certainly true for most homeless people in California. I wonder if it is true for the most visibly mentally ill people in the Bay Area, I am somewhat skeptical that they all grew up in SF.
Magic eye tube
How did they find out he originally posted under his real name? They must have known that was his profile, and then SO handed over the data proving it?
Any sources for your comments about Kesey and Leary? I've always found them both fairly interesting (if flawed) characters but my knowledge mainly comes via Tom Wolfe, Robert Anton Wilson and some pop-history books.
> Seems like this is priced for military & contractors.

there are already a series of south korean manufactured, Samsung DoD approved android devices for that market. And similar from General Dynamics, as I recall.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov...
what happens when air traffic control gets hacked? is that possible?
They invested in takealot.com which is the goto online site for non-food in South Africa.

Revenue in 2020 was US$238-million up by 41% the previous year no doubt due to the lockdown.
What if he had considered EV charging? Or chose to move again this month? Somebody would still be living in his current house and driving a non-EV because that's what's available.

These "choices" are largely meaningless. The choices that matter are ones which reduce emissions or waste across society, not for one individual.

Upgrading to an EV does little to prevent climate change. Do all new EV owners have their old ICE vehicles responsibly destroyed? No, they mostly just sell them on. All you do by choosing to buy an EV and a house with charging is push the emissions onto somebody else.

The important choices, the ones that determine the overwhelming bulk of the outcomes, are being decided by elites and politicians. And they are choosing in the wrong direction.
Smaller contributor here, so when I googled for a specific flash log location it was my own EDIT to an existing answer that I needed.
HTML (as a language): supports all HTML5 constructs.

CSS: CSS 2.1 in full + some most popular CSS3 modules like transition, animation, transform, etc.

CSS flex and grid are supported but in Sciter specification, see: https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/11/10-years-of-flexboxi...

JavaScript: ES2020 specification in full + native JSX and Reactor, see: https://sciter.com/tutorials/reactor-hello-world/

JavaScript runtime:

+ most popular and used JS DOM APIs

+ Node.JS runtime: FS, Net, Process

+ Desktop specific runtime, for example HTML Windows (https://sciter.com/html-window/), components (https://sciter.com/tutorial-learn-sciters-html-components-in...), etc.

See: https://sciter.com/developers/for-web-programmers/
>"insure against complete destruction of a given business."

Isnt that what fire/flood insurance is for?
History of ZFS Part 2: Exploding in Popularity
An interesting article about some of the history of ZFS and the birth of OpenZFS
Any evidence of this?
Yeah this has happened to me at least a few times as well, it always makes me laugh :)
The honest statistics show that it’s about 50/50 male and female initiated violence. See Murray Strauss’s 30 Years Denying the Evidence.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233717660_Thirty_Ye...

It’s just that some groups find the honest research inconvenient so they try, largely successfully, to suppress it. The suppression behavior on certain sides of issues has been discussed by plenty of reputable people, including Steven Pinker in his book The Blank Slate.

These days in order to believe the results of any research paper I need to read it for myself with an incredibly skeptical eye for what is being left out, how questions were asked, etc.
That gets discussed every time, hackers were using prepaid cash services. Ransomware predates cryptocurrencies by decades.
You keep reputation on sufficiently old, sufficiently voted posts even if they are deleted.

Presumably, there are also deleted questions or answers that were up voted.

Additionally, there was a "up votes on questions are also worth 10 points" recently (past few years).
Sometimes the secret is just bullshit, though.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-i-have-nothing-say-about-nsa-le...

> Emails from reporters started coming in last night. Could I comment on the leaked National Security Agency (NSA) report on Russian interference in the election?

> The short answer was no. The reason was simple: I couldn’t read it.

> As one of the 5.5 million Americans who hold a security clearance, viewing that document would violate my obligation to protect classified information.
From https://youtu.be/cCqGtvTA36k?t=58

"the clock ... depicts time as a wave coming out from the center of the universe".

I see some liberal handling of scientific lingo here :).
Defined process to run things without systems, if at all possible. That would sound obvious to me. May take lot of effort but with critical sectors such plans should be mandatory.
and underpriced bug bounties.