skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a pretty weird quirk of history is that if you squint hard enough Aramco is technically a Silicon Valley startup, with beginnings in San Francisco that was one of the largest IPOs of 2020.

It looks like the company that became Aramco was Chevron, which was a result of Standard Oil's break up. So not sure I'd call it a startup. But if I squint even harder, and I consider their investment to simply be VC money, then it sorta makes sense, but if I squinted any harder my eyes would be fully closed. Am I missing something?
It was a spare on a shelf at my office in a co working space. Password was not set up so a low level worker could use it if I needed them to grab it. Worked out well as the thief used it and thought nothing of securing it.

It was a cheap wintel computer that could have had the os reinstalled if the operating system had been locked.

The thief had opportunity and access to the coworking space.

Thankfully they didn’t realize backblaze was on it.
Would be nice but they'd have to compete as beggars on gated app stores. Face it, big tech is robber baron territory.
Note: farfar means father's father aka grandfather
Sure, but there’s a big world between keeping an eye on surges and waking someone up if it goes out of 3-4 nines.
That's not the point of his example...
Why should I care about the politics of the
software company I use

One obvious reason would be if the company in question is directly supporting various causes that you like or dislike.

You might also choose to care about the people working at that company. Suppose they support and/or practice policies that are harmful (or beneficial) to their employees. You might choose to discourage (or encourage) such policies by voting with your money.

Really, your question is disingenuous -- surely you understand? It seems like you simply don't want to care or don't feel that giving or witholding your support will make a sufficient difference. That's your call. Just be honest with yourself and others.
Oh it's an option. Just one that would preclude receiving anymore foreign investment for the next several decades.
Morning HIIT in microdoses, working up to more.

Evening exercise won't do anything and will probably make it worse, e.g., body thinks it needs to stay awake to party / dance / get some lovin. Evolutionary psych basis possibly?
The volume control in VLC deserves a place somewhere in this list. It works fine if you click on it. But if you use the keyboard's up/down arrow keys, it seems to severely rate limit how fast you can increase or decrease sound. Not great when you need to stop a big bang from waking up your neighbors.
Involuntary? I’d be taking voluntary naps all day long ;-)
> An uncontrollable desire of redesigning something that hasn’t been redesigned for too long. It has to be recreated. And it has to be innovative. Right?

> No one needs to

Tesla's new steering wheel comes to mind. I love my Model 3, but I'm never buying another Tesla if I have to deal with a weirdo steering wheel.
It's hard to discount how much the room&board aspect plays in as well.
2021 NYU has $20K room&board, you could go to UConn Stamford with in-state tuition for only $15k still!

A lot of these prestige schools are in places with very expensive real estate. Additionally for marketing reasons the schools tend to have much too fancy housing. For many NYU grads for example, its quite a come down having to actually rent an apartment on their post-graduation budget.

For reference I had friends who lived in NYU dorms the summer we all got bank internships in the the city. They were the nicest apartments any of us had for about the next 10 years.. working in finance!
How to Game Dev Metrics (and why not to)
Many of us took strange paths to get to where we are today. But finding yourself isn't just a bourgeois luxury. I would argue that any society that does not allow the cross-pollination of ideas that emerges from those journeys is poorer both spiritually and economically.
None of that is going to meaningfully impact a typically mobile, non-property owning, ‘wanders to find a job’ 20 something. If anything it opens up new opportunities for them in the chaos.
Also, your public high school got you admitted to Caltech, so… worthless??
"Merry Christmas, investors! The best gifts come in tiny, tiny boxes..."

Why Christmas? That just seems mean.
It seems Iran may have taken a page out of MBS’s kidnapping dissident journalists playbook: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/nyregion/iran-masih-aline...
Just scrolling through, but: please learn the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory.
I believe I understand your point, but there these options (as I see things):

1. There is little correlation, but there is actual causation (e.g: a cricle)

2. There is correlation, but it turns out to be a fluke later during validation.

So, yes. It suggests but in both cases I'd rather continue checkcing
The entire thread is pure gold. If you scroll down, he writes:

> The Chair [of the Columbia Film program] reached out and said he was confident that we could work out an arrangement to get my degree. But he insisted that I fly out to NYC immediately for an in-person meeting. So I spent a fortune on a last-minute flight in order to hear his proposal.

> But instead of telling me what I need to do to satisfy the requirements to get my degree, the Chair began pitching me his idea for a TV pilot. In excruciating scene-by-scene detail. I nodded along, waiting to get back to the terms of me getting my degree.

> But to my horror... I slowly begin to realize this IS the deal. He made it pretty clear if I wanted my degree, I needed to help him sell his tv pilot. Yep, the Chair of Columbia’s prestigious graduate film program tried to shake me down in order to jump-start his own stalled out career.
Well, it depends :p.
A Man in the Early 1900s Changed Grocery Shopping
‘Mosque Man’: India’s Hindu architect designs dozens of mosques
These are all things impacting property owners (aka not 20 somethings with massive college debt), folks in rural areas (also unlikely to be 20 somethings with massive college debt), and old people (same).

It’s not that these things aren’t happening, it’s just unlikely to concretely cause problems for this demographic.
RE 2, idk why, it has never worked for me or it's not nearly as smooth as Chrome.

Maybe there is some pref I accidentally toggled.
as an ex-IBMer, tragically yes...
Yes, the name is unfortunate. I search things by looking for nixpkgs.

The nix on its own isn't really that complex, it is really the nixpkgs that is built on top of it and then NixOS that is built on top of nixpkgs.
No one gets to run a middle eastern country without assassinating a substantial number of people each year. The US certainly kills its fair share as well.

My impression is that MBS wants to take Saudi into the 21 century. That seems very overdue and a good thing. He probably wants it because it will make his country richer and stronger, and perhaps be able to beat back his strategic enemy Iran. But it should also make life in The Kingdom saner and more humane for the people.
The reason I think Excel sucks is that it hides the formulas behind the cells. There is no way to get good report on the mathematical MODEL written in an Excel spreadsheet, far less for a group of them connected together.

Or am I wrong? Is there an easy way to get a report that tells what a given spreadsheet calculates?
Nix comes with some friction since its approach to packaging is so different. When you start using it, 95% of the time it's great. But because Nix does things in such a different way that it can be difficult how to navigate that last 5%.

In terms of installing packages, it's an advantage to Nix that it works with both macOS and Linux. While not every package is as cross-platform as it could be (e.g. some desktop apps that are available on both are only packaged on Linux), it does mean it's easy to use e.g. the same version on Tmux in all computers you have access to.

Nix can be used for more than installing packages. e.g. the nix-shell allows for dropping into a shell with particular programs installed.. like a generalisation of rvm/nvm/whatever. Nix can be used to describe Docker images instead of using Dockerfile. NixOS uses Nix to describe its OS's configuration and services, rather than just packages. (Whole OS setup described from a single file is pretty neat).
Get or give a try to a kinesis advantage. Solved 100% of my carpal tunnel problems about 20 years ago.
Yes, but compound interest from deferred payments make undergrad prices more important than a 2 years masters alone.

Let’s assume 40k / year at say 5% interest compounded annually. That’s ~82k for a 2 years masters which is serious money. But tack on a 4 year undergrad at 40k/year with that same 5% interest and your up to ~272k all said which means that 4 year undergrad cost ~190k. Add a gap year and things look even worse.

Not that 40k and 5% are norms, but it shows how costly deferring payments is independent of graduate tuition rates.
> 2. Ability to remember my CC details

Firefox can do this. It's under Settings > Privacy & Security > Forms and Autofill.
KSP is invaluable for getting an intuition for orbital mechanics.
that, I'm aware, but that about 50% more key{stroke,stretching} that C-Shift-A, foo, enter
> Sure, you can go bankrupt due to divorce or illness even when employed, but it's much more probable when you don't have an income stream and when your financial planning depends on not breaking up or not getting ill.

This is exactly missing my point:

Just because you retire early, doesn't mean your financial planning depends on you not breaking up or not getting ill.

Just because you work out the rest of your existence, doesn't mean you've successfully accounted for breakups or illness.

> Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events.

Why is that, exactly?

> You're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions about my "worldview" and about how I'm "gloating" over the author's misfortune.

What assumptions? Am I correct in saying that you believe "Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events" is part of your worldview, and that you're taking the author's failure as a confirmation of that worldview?
From the video he is showing in his tweet[1] it's VMWare Fusion, but NixOS should work on all of these.

[1] https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1346141887996915712
Because only Ghosn (considered to) did embezzlement?
My car does this and it's annoying as crap. Luckily it is easily disabled. Audi calls it GALA - "Graduated Audio Level Adjustment."
> The goal of the government reducing these costs is to make sure poor people can use them.

The tragic irony is that the government’s involvement has had the opposite effect. College is more unaffordable than it has ever been.

A pure free market solution is not perfectly optimal. But it’d be a hell of a lot better than the unmitigated disaster that exists today.
He simply follows the steps of much bigger parasites, the ones who developed complex methods to soothe the itching, or even to mimicry as “giant tech companies”.
As well as there being less non degree career options that pay decently, causing many young folks to feel "a degree" is only option.
Thanks for this comment. It was very insightful.

It's interesting that they keep finding™ more® oil* but have never increased their output.
In my past experience, public condolences at work were the responsibility of administrative assistants, the folks formerly known as secretaries.

Complaining about a lack of a sympathy card is basically complaining that the admin support staff dropped the ball on meeting his personal emotional needs. So how old is Cornel?

Be nice if the complaint mentioned the unmet emotional needs of his support staff (garbage collectors, groundskeepers, janitors, food service, admin assistants, etc.) instead of simply the top of the ladder folks. Did he send sympathy cards to them during their moments of need? I’m guessing not, but I don’t know.

In my worlds, anything more public than a sympathy card would have been thought inappropriately intrusive, borderline cruel and just weird. It’s a place of work and the presumption would be the worker values a wall between work and family. An emotional HIPAA policy as it were.
Or maybe you should? Going by comments on hn or reddit, you'd think that everybody thinks that amazon was a horrible company (eg. poor treatment of workers, fakes/counterfeits problem, fake reviews, monopolization), yet the surveys show that most people have favorable views of the company[1].

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2021-harrispoll-juneusa...
Play to Earn vs Play to Burn
I'm not sure the point was about tone. It was letter by an academic for an academic touting the former's intellectual contributions and apparently intended to be publicly displayed. I would have expected something more structured, easier to follow, and better targeted.
I feel very, hopeless for lack of a better word, about this kind of thing lately. I feel strongly that we're sliding by popular demand into this kind of thing, that I'm well in the minority (not on this site but in the population at large) for thinking that it will end terribly, and that instead of putting up my own meager resistence to it, I'd rather egg it on because I believe everyone who genuinely believes it to be a good thing deserves every single repurcussion of it that will inevitably come to them.

I realize this headspace is neither productive nor healthy, but honestly other than burying my head in the sand about the world today, I don't have any bright ideas for how to not be perpetually, distressed?
If a user wants to delete the comment user should be allowed to delete the comment or account. Period!

Reasons like community interest are not strong or proper imho.

Also there’s no information about whether HN logs user IPs or any other info. Or info about how many IPs are logged. Whether they log all the IPs or last K IPs. For how long those IPs are stored.
Users pick browsers and their OS. They don't pick the latest iteration of Bonsai Buddy.
> I frequently regret dismissing the potential need for something that would have been much easier to add (or at least to lay the groundwork for) at the start.

> If you add something and later decide you don’t need it, you can remove it. If you added it badly, with loose couplings etc such that it is now painful to remove or replace, well there’s your problem.

I don't understand this logic at all. If it's not something that needs to be deeply intertwined with other logic, then it's no trouble to add it later. If it does need to be deeply coupled to the rest of the system, then ipso facto it'll be painful to remove.

Flexibility and modularity are no substitute for simplicity; indeed it's often much harder to add something to a modular system if the module boundaries aren't in exactly the right place (and they usually aren't).
I would think the best version would just be a button you push when you want to adjust the volume to a “reasonable” level. I agree that continuously varying the volume would be annoying.
So the problem is grad school? Fine.. lets shut down the grad programme and stick to undergrad basic training, with an industry placement, Get people hands-on experience and a union ticket.
I think this a logic fallacy. It’s a false/ incomplete comparison.

Mozilla is not an advertising company. They have no incentive to track users or invade privacy. Their whole ethos as a company is pro-privacy obviously.

Yes, they take take money from Google to make them the default search engine on a fresh Firefox install. They are a big company with lots of employees (less as of recently) that need to be paid, and they don’t really have any products that generate large amount of income.

Seems like a small price to pay if you ask me. I’ve never heard anyone who throws out the ‘Mozilla takes Google money’ criticism back it up with why that somehow compromises Firefox as a browser.
> Is there any type of work that is NOT suitable on these keyboards? I feel that the UP and DOWN keys are kind of strain at least in the beginning.

I'd say situations where you need more discrete buttons that are easily accessible. Gaming comes to mind as a big one where the lack of physical keys in a situation where you need immediate access is going to be difficult. This is of course game dependent and some games can be easily accommodated. Tasks that aren't as latency-dependent will be mostly fine.

> edit Holy just checked the price and it's above $200. Why is it so expensive? It's almost at par with my second-hand laptop. I guess it's fancy but do you feel the price is justified?

Manufacturing relatively low volume products with injection molded parts and the need to hand assemble the keyboards is pretty expensive. You can find planck kits for cheap and if you know how to solder you could build one for under 100 dollars probably. DIY kits will usually use stacked laser-cut acrylic or 3d printed cases. The price is justified if you want one that is well made and prebuilt.
It would definitely be challenging. This situation is not unique to Saudi and has actually been defined in political theory as the situation of being a “Rentier state”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state
+1

My company's internal apps use a mix of VPNs and IP fenced load balancers. We are migrating to app proxy.

No inbound connections + access based on Azure AD identity with conditional access (restrict apps to Intune enabled corporate devices) and MFA is an absolute killer.

My only complain is that connectors are not very DevOps friendly. Cloudflare Tunnel is much better in this area.
Feels like if Chrome isn’t operated and controlled by Google, some of these problems would go away.
How to design landing page copy like Circle.so
Yeah nah.

I will criticise the government and their laws, be skeptical, be very vocal about my privacy rights etc.

But when it comes to covid, the restrictions make sense, and I agree with the goal for which they are deployed to meet, which is reduce spread, hospitalisation, and death.

So do I like rules? No. Do I want to stop the spread? Yes. It's that simple.
Search youtube for the theoretical minimum https://youtu.be/iJfw6lDlTuA its a whole playlist for quantum mechanics, Wilberger also has videos on hyperbolic geometry and relativity
> We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-...

Interesting.
1. Paying customers get worse experience than pirates.
2. Your software lifespan is reduced. (Worst if you use 3rd party DRM).
3. The company pay for something that 99% of the time doesn't work.

So I see the intent, but not the logic
No, I understand that there are n! permutations. Again you aren't actually searching through the permutations. You're running comparisons on the data to reduce the set of possible permutations to the one it has to be. (pigeon hole principle) I believe my point still stands. You should be able to cut the search space in half with one comparison every single time, which should perform the same as a binary search.

Edit: You are correct I made a mistake in my big O notation, it should be O(n log n).
Also: become Liam Neeson upset.
Yep, I found the `shell.nix` setup to be too complicated and time consuming, even if it's technically "correct", so I just `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.pkg_name` every time I would have previously used `brew install pkg_name`. Since nix isolates each package from every other package, there's no risk of package incompatibilities when I do this (compare to homebrew, where package A needs one version of python and package B needs another version, and updating python can break both...), and so every project I work on just has all the tools it'll ever need.

For package management within a project, I just whatever tool is appropriate for the language -- NPM, Poetry, Cargo, etc.
These are emergency powers assumed under a pandemic, settle down now.
This article[1] has a little more detail.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9783343/WA-man-sent...

Some things to note:

* There were fifteen separate incidents of quarantine breach. He also, "regularly left his house for hours at a time" during that period.

* The magistrate as much as said the harshness was in-part a warning to other would-be offenders (sending a "powerful message").

Yeah, we do take quarantine pretty seriously here. Having gone through the extended lockdowns in Victoria, while our geography was advantageous, it also required a huge effort of societal and political will and cooperation to get back to zero community transmission. It relied on following the advice of our health experts and scientists in the face of large economic and political pressures.

In Melbourne now we are enjoying reasonably normal conditions compared to B.C. (Before COVID) times. So we have a pretty low tolerance for any "dick-head" that may put that at risk. That said, I'm surprised at jail time instead of a steep monetary fine.

It is a shame we pretty much squandered our gains with a very poorly handled vaccination roll-out (but that's a discussion for another time).
I’ve experienced registry getting bloated and it is terrible for data restoration. I can’t think of any meaningful similarity between windows registry and Unix /etc. I’ve experienced orphaned config files but no other real issues. The orphaning is intentional usually because the config file has been changed from the default.
Ask HN: How do you use RSS?
I find Feedly and all those apps too bloated. Is there just a minimal plaintext site (in an HN style) where I can get links to my subscriptions in a list?
Yeah, Teams is notoriously bad for software engineering related messages. It wastes a shit ton of horizontal space and every code block/log snippet that you send is horribly displayed with big font and scrollbars. Of all the things compared to Slack this infuriates me the most.
I think that’s right re. idempotency. However, I think if each webhook is a statement of the state of an object at time t (using some monotonic definition of time, like a Lamport clock), commutativity is trivial: compare the time in the webhook event to the time in your local database, and only update your database if the webhook event is newer.
Richard Feynman had a satirical theory that any complex mathematical problem/theory when stated in layman's terms becomes self-evident. This is the perfect example of this.

There's only one universe, QED.
Never heard of the barocco, thanks. If they made that keyboard with bluetooth (particularly the 60% version) I'd be sold. Currently using a Nuphy F1 which is minimal yet sadly not split.
Just in case an MS engineer is reading these Teams gripes…

On Mac, Teams does not honor system-level Do not Disturb. So when I turn off notifications during a presentation at work and my friend sends me snarky comments about our boss…
The first couple documented solutions for the volume warning on my new rooted Android phone didn't appear to have any effect.

The volume warning is required by EU regulations, so it's hard to blame the OS maker for that. I do, however blame Google for increasingly trying to discourage rooting and providing facilities to app makers to prevent their apps from running on rooted devices.

They could, however have implemented the volume warning in a manner easier to defeat.
I'd infer that most people struggling with vim or emacs UX are people who are newcomers to each editor.
Probably
Military History Visualized's
"Why Japan had NO Chance in WW2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M . Go to the 12:30 mark for the the near-final ship totals.
Rik Schennink Bootstrapped a JavaScript Image Editor to $20k MRR
That's why I asked about GR specifically, to have a common framework to work with. Without it you can say words like experimentally, practical and talking about differences between different pis whatever that means but this will only lead to misunderstandings at best and nonsense at worst
We’ve had some outstanding juniors hired from bootcamps, self motivation is powerful.