skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This concept is a little weird to think about today, but the Internet used to be accessed through regular voice phone lines. You'd plug your computer into the phone network with a little thing called a modem. In the really early days you actually had to use an acoustic coupler for regulatory reasons. Then you dialed the phone number of the computer you wanted to connect to - most of which were not running the Internet Protocol!

Typical computer systems you would dial into would include...

1. Proprietary data services (AOL, Compuserve, etc)

2. BBS systems - typically individual computers running services that let you send messages or files to other users who could then dial in to receive them. Some BBSes were even networked to one another, the largest of such systems being Fidonet

3. Remotely-managed IT equipment - the sort of thing depicted in the movie.

4. Mainframes - universities and large businesses would often have remote access that you'd dial into. This is roughly equivalent to SSHing into an Internet-connected machine today.

5. The Internet - originally only through remote access to mainframes (#4). Later on, data services (#1) started offering open Internet access. (notoriously, AOL utterly demolished USENET's existing cultural norms by doing this) Then companies started just selling dial-in Internet access without other services and this became the dominant use case for modems.

This concept was inverted starting in the late 90s. First, phone companies started offering "digital subscriber lines" (DSL) that provided way more bandwidth to connect to an ISP with. Then, (at least in North America, thanks to various Sega Genesis related reasons) cable companies got in on this and started offering "broadband Internet", too. With the greater bandwidth of these services, it suddenly made sense to send Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) instead of Internet Protocol over Voice. So dedicated landline channels became very outdated very quickly, and today we think of voice as just something you send over a multitude of Internet apps.
Ask HN: Masters or Startup?
I have been working at a big company that does not challenge me for about 5 years. I have been meaning to make a change, now that the US is (sort of) coming out of the pandemic.

Two things happened recently: I found a cool startup that is interesting to me, and pays more than my current company, and I applied to grad school.

Assuming that I am accepted by both opportunities, I figure that I won't be able to do both. My current job is easy enough that I could take night classes and get a masters in a few years, but the startup is small, so I can't slack off with it at all. What sort of pros and cons are there for both paths? If you took one path, do you have any regrets?
I saw a different article (sorry, don't have the link handy) that said that a previous agreement with the prosecutor barred Cosby from being prosecuted in this case.
When I worked at Asana, we created a small framework that allowed for blue-green deployments of Kubernetes Clusters (and the apps that lived on top of them) called KubeApps[0].

It worked out great for us -- upgrading Kubernetes was easy and testable, never worried about code drift, etc.

[0] https://blog.asana.com/2021/02/kubernetes-at-asana/ (Not written by me).
Other brokers without liquidity issues enacted similar policies. But you’re right, the fault doesn’t lie with them.

The blame should go toward the DTCC who increased their margin requirements on buyers for seemingly no reason other than to coerce everyone into stopping retail investors from squeezing the rich shorts.
> Those protests limited the scope of the war and their governments' involvement. Imagine the world if nobody protested, the free hand governments would have had if nobody cared.

> The Iraq War was conducted while constantly pushing back against world opinion. The cost in political capital was high; those protests imposed real costs and real limitations on the leaders. That's how democracy works

Did they change the scope of the war? I reckon they just did what the wanted regardless. Something like a million dead in Iraq (never mind Afghanistan), many times more wounded or maimed, vile treatment of POWs by US military, absolute evil undertaken by the CIA at Black sites, and of course, the enrichment of many a rich pocket. What real loss in "political capital" was there for fabricating evidence and using it for justification for invading Iraq? What meaningful consequences were there for any of it?

> I can tell you that in my community, the George Floyd protests put political leaders in a position to respond immediately or be swept away by the next vote.

I admire your optimism, but the impression I get from my US friends and colleagues paints a different picture. The media seldom even covering peaceful protests, hazing of civilian populations with helicopters and patrol cars, and several months of increased police brutality (because how else would they respond to protests about police brutality?!), with insane quantities of tear gas being used, numerous people beaten, tasered and shot with rubber bullets, several people losing eyes etc. Video after video, image after image of police brutality and negligence. Police departments blatantly fabricating evidence. And of course, more killing of black men and women under the most dubious of circumstances. Some of my friends have been involved in protests, and one was badly beaten and hospitised by a violent police officer - the whole thing was caught on film, yet the police charged him! Nothing meaningful has changed as a result of all these protests. It likely won't any time soon unless something more radical happens.

> Whenever you think protests are futile, imagine the world without them. Then get out there and contribute - the world doesn't need people sitting on the sidelines, criticizing.

I've done my bit, protesting on the street about things I care about. It felt good to feel like I was doing something, but eventually I came to the conclusion that I was deluding myself. None of our actions made any difference - and certainly where foreign policy, the military and war are concerned, the government are going to do whatever the hell they want regardless.

I've caved and given in, for sure; emotionally, I have nothing left to give. But I'm not criticising those who do still get out there - if you feel like it makes a difference, or even if it just makes you feel good, then more power to you.
Is this hyperbole or am I just lucky to avoid whatever you tried? What SSGs require 7 layers of templating and complicated build systems. Whenever I tried out Sergey, Nuxt, Docpad, and a few others, there was just one templating engine each and a build command for the CLI.
Ask HN: Canada Departure Tax
I'm considering remotely taking up a job at a startup while based in Canada - and as part of the compensation I'll receive some equity.

I'm also considering relocating to where the startup is based in the US in 6 months - 1 year.

However, Canada has a departure tax, and I'm wondering if I would need to pay capital gains tax on the FMV of the equity that was granted to me while I was based in Canada - and what would be considered the FMV of the equity?
The local-replica approach is only applied when your library database is on a remote filesystem, which SQLite can't read/write to (due to the absence of shm and flock).
I'm sure we could accept crypto as upfront payment.
Yes it does.

From the article:

In their 79-page opinion, the judges wrote that a “non-prosecution agreement” struck with a previous prosecutor meant that he should not have been charged in the case, and that Mr. Cosby should be discharged. They barred a retrial in the case.

In 2005, Mr. Cosby was investigated in the case of Ms. Constand, and a former district attorney of Montgomery County had given Mr. Cosby his assurance that he would not be charged in the case. The former district attorney, Bruce Castor Jr., has testified that while there was insufficient evidence to bring a criminal prosecution, he had given Mr. Cosby the assurance to encourage him to testify in a subsequent civil case brought by Ms. Constand.

In that testimony, Mr. Cosby acknowledged giving quaaludes to women he was pursuing for sex — evidence that played a key part in his trial after Mr. Castor’s successors reopened the case and charged Mr. Cosby in December 2015.
For whoever is not familiar with CRPG Addict, let me tell you that please bookmard/rss his site and you will see a whole new world. This guy decided to play pretty much EVERY RPG he can find and he is already in year 1993.
>I feel that by having my investments in Robinhood, I'm adding some sort of risk multiplier that has nothing to do with the nature of my investments. It has to do mainly with how amateur-ish their brokerage operation feels.

In the sense that they'll collapse and you'll lose your portfolio, or that they'll be down at a critical time you want to make a trade? For a buy and hold type of investor, the latter isn't really a concern.
So let me make sure I'm reading this right: prosecutor says, "testify in this civil case, and you will not be criminally prosecuted." Cosby testifies in civil case, prosecutor takes Cosby's testimony from civil case and uses it as the basis for criminal prosecution.

<insert standard disclaimer>, but yeah, let the guy walk; and disbar the scumbag prosecutor while we're at it. Disbar if not for being a scumbag, but for being grossly incompetent if nothing else. IANAL, so maybe that's why I can't see how anyone involved thought this would end well.
Today's hyper-militarized police forces are their state-provisioned security to protect the capital of the 1%.
I was bitten by something related to this a couple weeks ago:

>>> with open("pickle.pkl", "rb") as f:
... pickle.load(f)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/pathlib.py", line 1074, in __new__
raise NotImplementedError("cannot instantiate %r on your system"
NotImplementedError: cannot instantiate 'WindowsPath' on your system
How do they do version upgrades, isn't that the traditional Achilles heel of K8s that leads people to want to frequently recreate clusters from scratch and/or do blue/green?
Looks like emulation
Is it just me, but is this meme version of software engineering absolutely the lowest information density achievable? Seriously. This is a heavily-involved topic, where any project might require hundreds to thousands of hours of development, and we have five second soundbytes as principles. Ugh.
Given how much H&R Block and Intuit have unethically and corruptly leeched from the government and the taxpayers directly, I think the should literally be nationalized and have their tax software platforms absorbed into the IRS. Their company activities over the last few decades are so flagrantly, indisputably bad for the country. There's literally no upside, none at all. They have intentionally sabotaged tax filing and leeched off the people by corruptly inserting themselves as middlemen. At least the tax prep portions of the companies.
Gophercon Earlybird tickets on sale July 1st
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/air...

>The latest results from the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that 87 percent of U.S. households are now equipped with AC.

That was 12 years ago.
As a Francophile Brit that grew up in France, and with the greatest of respect, you are French. It's a totally different story if you are not French. The bureucracy is horrific, even today. My parents have lived there for 30 years, both are fully integrated into the community, and they still face bureuctratic issues and delays, even digitally because they are not French. I'm not suggesting in any way that France is a particulaly xenophobic nation - us Brits have that sewn up, sadly - but the system is very xenophobic in my long experience.
Yes, and battery replacements aren't cheap.
Nodes in keywordspace don’t die with the businesses that created them. The popularity of domains and links and words and phrases are permanently altered by the existence of the business. It’s a digital footprint like how a real-world business leaves a physical footprint. Some footprints are harmless - just a memory of activity that once happened. Other footprints cause lasting harm, like contaminated soil.

Abandoned formerly-popular domains create a kind of long-tail info-environmental impact, just like an abandoned warehouse can become a real-world hazard.

Maybe we need a digital superfund process.
> "'Hey, that's our code you used to replace us!' we will cry out too late."

Are we in the software community not the ones who have frequently told other industries we have been disrupting to "adapt or die" along with smug remarks about others acting like buggy whip makers? Time to live up to our own words ... if we can.
This feels just weird to me. I can understand having some money in the bank as a cushion etc, but tens of billions of dollars? Aren't these institutions supposed to further education and spend whatever resources they have for that purpose instead of hoarding and running a hedge fund style investment program?
I want to see genuine competition between businesses to try and make their offices better. People got off the treadmill long enough to realize that their workplace sucks. But many issues are completely fixable.

Make workplaces better. Ask people what they want improved, and then actually improve it.

The future can't be about squeezing out every ounce of productivity at the expense of happiness and autonomy--it has to be about increasing every ounce of happiness to make small gains in productivity. The equation was looked at backwards for far too long.
it's so weird. i know it'll be cold in feb in minnesota. i know this because i have experience. and that experience translates into my ability to give guidance. if you want to be taken serious, you need experience to be able to estimate.
Gotta talk to an accountant/tax person.
NLP Tricks for Domain Adaptation
So the U.S. spends tons of money but is terrible at using that money efficiently?
With a cable modem, you were on the same physical cable as your neighbors. If you looked at "Network Neighborhood", you would see your neighbors' computers and printers (unless they had turned off file and print sharing).
The gist is that Cosby had an agreement with the prior DA that they wouldn't charge him and the future DA reneged.

"The collective weight of these considerations led D.A. Castor to conclude that, unless Cosby confessed, “there was insufficient credible and admissible evidence upon which any charge against Mr. Cosby related to the Constand incident could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Seeking “some measure of justice” for Constand, D.A. Castor decided that the Commonwealth would decline to prosecute Cosby for the incident involving Constand, thereby allowing Cosby to be forced to testify in a subsequent civil action, under penalty of perjury, without the benefit of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

Unable to invoke any right not to testify in the civil proceedings, Cosby relied upon the district attorney’s declination and proceeded to provide four sworn depositions. During those depositions, Cosby made several incriminating statements. D.A. Castor’s successors did not feel bound by his decision, and decided to prosecute Cosby notwithstanding that prior undertaking. The fruits of Cosby’s reliance upon D.A. Castor’s decisionCosby’s sworn inculpatory testimonywere then used by D.A. Castor’s successors against Cosby at Cosby’s criminal trial. We granted allowance of appeal to determine whether D.A. Castor’s decision not to prosecute Cosby in exchange for his testimony must be enforced against the Commonwealth.

...

When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade. No mere changing of the guard strips that circumstance of its inequity."

https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-100-20...
Glossy produce clearly nicer image (sharper, colors are more vivid), but reflections can make it very impractical (especially during the day). Ideally I would choose matte but with higher resolution than Full HD.

Glossy/matte is also not a binary choice, as I understand there are displays with various degrees of glosiness/matte which might provide better trade off.
I was totally about to agree with your post based on the first part (needing a better way to distribute land). But I don't feel that idea and the idea of prefab homes are mutually exclusive.
I live in So cal and this is a super good idea. What many people don't know is that the cities have been big advocates for building Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU). These are smaller homes that are basically built in people's backyards. It is seen as a way to increase housing units without doing any significant rezoning of traditional zoning.

I was looking on google maps satellite view and noticed that the vast majority of homes with large backyards do not have an ADU so the potential here for investment is pretty significant I would say.

We are also in a housing crisis and rents are soaring.
For larger companies, I think a huge benefit of Kubernetes is the shared language for defining and operating services, as well as the well-thought-out abstractions for how these services interact.

Costs are generally less of a concern, but having one way of running, operating, and writing services allowed our dev team to move faster, share knowledge, etc.
How to manipulate a radio controlled clock via speaker
Nobody can be 100% efficient from day one, because even with all other things being equal, the new guy still has to learn all the idiosyncracies of your existing codebase (which is quite likely full of technical debt and poor decisions), your team, your process, your management style, your politics.

Realistically, even the basic "we want someone that's 100% efficient from day one" is the most unreasonable expectation you can have as a hiring manager, and is usually the one spurring the "high quality candidate shortage" complaints.
I have lots of hobbies and plenty friends through those. I also really enjoy my workplace and the social interaction I get there. Either one of those alone would definitely be insufficient for me.

I sort of feel like these discussions are just (oversimplifying here) extroverts and introverts arguing back and forth about the best way to find satisfaction socially when they just have profoundly different social needs.

Also FWIW I've never lived in an apartment with climate control past radiators and window AC units. I don't think that's too unusual if you live in older buildings.
I have to put myself out there and talk to people
You are right! Here is a manual for one of Citizen watches explicitly mentioning DCF77 (with 900Km radius range): https://www.citizenwatch-global.com/support/pdf/a414/e.pdf
Consider using credit karma tax (run by good guy Jack Dorsey); it was forced to be split out from CK when they were bought by intuit. It’s free, it supports nearly everything you would need these days.
I'm just going to go off the top of my head here.

1. They released a "checking account" that they claimed was FDIC and/or SPIC insured when it was not. (yes, they backed off of this one when they got caught).

2. They've gamified buying/selling stocks using addictive dark patterns (like confetti explosions). FOMO-inspiring push notifications are another example here.

3. They have such a terrible level of support for a product which involves people's real money.

4. They let people start trading options without any of the due-diligence typically performed.

5. They released an initial options product which was quite literally "Do you think this stock is going to go UP or DOWN?"

6. Their entire product is based on people having margin accounts that do not know that they have margin accounts.

7. Their Payment for Order Flow is (or at least was) significantly higher than industry standard.

Overall, their business model is taking a variety of complex financial instruments and wrapping them up in lipstick to sell to people who overwhelmingly do not understand the thing they are actually buying (or selling).

I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple but I'm also multi-tasking at the moment.

Edit:

I forgot about the "infinite money" "glitch", which was a situation explicitly called out in regulation as prohibited (regarding counting outstanding margin credit as assets when calculating margin credit)
I remember it differently. I was there in London to protest, but when I returned home and saw the sweeping overhead shots of the crowds on the BBC news, I was awestruck by just how many people there were. You wouldn't capture the scale of it with cellphone footage.
Those NATO levels are all just the start. Every NATO member runs many of their own layers. Over and above NATO come levels that are country-specific. In the US that means things like "five eyes" or US-only, which are technically secret (ie not TS) but are still above NATO. Remember that anything NATO is going to be seen by a large number of countries, including Turkey and Greece.
Given someone is working a white collar, air conditioned office job, I would guess their probability of having AC at home is north of 90%.

https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/air...
I hope you see the irony in this. Many of your comments, including this one I'm replying to, have "I think ..." which is really just speculation.

I mean, you say "It is the exact same process which reinforces beliefs in flat-earth, anti-vax, chiropractic, homeopathy, the stolen-election narrative, and other such nonsense.". But is that true? How do you know? Do you have all the facts? I'm sure it seems reasonable and matches what others think...
There is an anecdote that describes the Chine governments attitude towards climate change.

In anticipation of some international event, like the Olypmics, the city government put in new streetlights with integrated solar panels but the solar panels were never hooked up. It is important that they look like they are doing something without regard to it having any actual effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)
We aren't related with this Turing.edu. We are aware of them but we don't have any legal problems regarding trademarks as our brand is protected in Europe.
Think of your resume as a list of things you can learn quickly, not a list of things you already know.
Thank you for your recommendations, I'll take a look on them.
this got chased off the front page right fast -- can't let anything that challenges the statist propaganda gain any mind share.

people don't understand how managed the front page of HN is.
Researchers have to put the test people in front of a choice, is normal, what is significant is that there isn’t a big difference between white/black people choices:

“Among Black participants, 56 per cent saw yellow emojis as more likely to signify White identity, while the figure for White participants was 63 per cent”

This is the key point of the this research in my opinion: there’s a slightly bias into yellow emojis as associated with White people, but just a slight difference.
Also Pandorum (2009).
I wish that our government (the people who allowed them to be the middle man) would take some accountability. But I guess that would be uncharacteristic.
Even if they collapse you shouldn't lose your portfolio. These people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_Company keeps track of what you own.