skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dotcom bubble was nervewracking for me, even though I had pulled my tiny amount of assets out of stocks months before. I was a rookie.

Mortgage crisis and COVID barely register. I love watching people freak out when stocks are down 3 or 4% in one day. It's my happy place. 1987 was 20% down in one day. If you're going to freak out about that, do something else with your money. It's disaster porn for me.
It doesn't just require taking the story as gospel, you'd also have to take the officers' words as deterministic of their actions (which is dubious at best), and you'd also have to interpret them in the worst possible way.

For instance, you can interpret disappointment in at least two ways:

(A) Disappointment that they were unable to apply lethal force regardless of the situation; or

(B) Disappointment that the situation did not call for lethal force, but had no desire to apply lethal force where it was not required.

You chose (A), but there's really no evidence presented for that interpretation over (B).

This is just another reason we should judge actions rather than words. Actions are much more objective.
And their midi playlist is banging, gotta say.
> Well, DUH! Did anybody put forward the first version which sounds like a strawman?

A lot of proto-linguistic (I say proto because linguistics want a real discipline yet) thought in the '50s-'60s did actually believe this. It was the informal basis for teaching lots of colonized peoples Western languages. It was the basis for the book 1984's Newspeak. It was also the hypothesis that motivated the creation of the Loglan (predecessor to the more well known, but still obscure, language Lojban) language. That you find this to be a strawman argument is a good testament to how widespread the knowledge of its disproval has become.

N.B. I also think in the pop programming language world (e.g. Twitter rants) that a lot of folks genuinely believe something similar to Strong Sapir-Whorf, at least as applied to programming languages.
Last time I checked Firefox didn't support Native File System API, Constructable Stylesheets API and HTML Dialog API which are used extensively by Boxy SVG.
I'm old. I remember reading about this crap back in 2003 and thinking "I'm sure it will be thrown out of court in a year or two". The court system is nuts.
Tesla FSD should be up there
Thank you, I didn't know neither of them and they will probably save me some time in the future.
Recent and related:

Freshworks (previously Freshdesk) files for IPO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28335299 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

Past related:

How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427728 - Aug 2012 (24 comments)

How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340732 - March 2011 (92 comments)
So, I guess webrtc should be disabled by default and a site that tries to use it should trigger a permission prompt (like camera and microphone access).
So we are now speculating about future hardware? Apple macs were never locked down. Why would they now suddenly start being locked down?

If Apple wanted to lock them down there would not have been a better moment then with the M1. They already have all the tech ready to go. But they obviously decided not do to that. Assuming a product line that has been not locked down for decades to suddenly start being locked down AFTER the best moment to do it is the wrong assumption.
Also assuming you went to university you probably have such access via its library as an alumnus/a, though not (at least in my case) remotely, would have to actually go in and access from the network.

(I've never done so; I don't expect many people do, but especially living in the same city still I quite like the idea that in theory I can!)
And what are they paying for? Case was always described as meritless.
i'll see your book and raise you one, "turing's cathedral" covers the origins of computers from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds to Princeton and Los Alamos, leading up to the ENIAC and how von Nuemann used it to simulate the detonation of the hydrogen bomb, how the shockwaves would reflect off the interior of the shell to reach the pressure to kick off fusion. the narratives of people and machines are well balanced for an entertaining read.
Are you trying to say that the availability of food along the way can supplant a bird's entire migratory instinct?
I am sure one person could come up with and maintain hundreds of queries of fake products on Amazon using search terms and not machine learning.

There has to be a reason these clearly fake Amazon listings exist. What is it? I can’t believe it’s because Amazon wants to make more money.

BTW, there are real 1TB SD cards selling for under $200. That’s crazy!
>Iran has repeatedly expressed its desire to obliterate another sovereign nation

Do you realize that stating we must use "any means necessary" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb is expressing the desire to obliterate a sovereign nation? What means are acceptable for preventing your possible aggression?

>We can, in fact, ensure that they are incapable of making nuclear bombs. A country with stone-age technology is not going to be enriching nuclear fuel.

So you're fine killing however many millions of Iranians to prevent them from having the potential to kill a large number of people.
Very different case and fact pattern of course, but HP won a $3B lawsuit against Oracle because of the latter dropping Itanium support.

Fun personal fact. Apparently HP actually used an analyst report I wrote as one of their exhibits in that case.
Don't forget the point that most of the world was locked in their homes for a year (so disregarding the lazy man trope) and DoorDash had to rush to an IPO because even in this dream situation for a delivery company, they could barely make a profit and had to raise fees.
I really don't understand the pervasive idea that we are going to hold robot cars to so much of a higher standard than human drivers. I'll take 1.2x . Human drivers kill a lot of people every year in what are largely preventable accidents. Lets use robot cars in places that it makes sense to do so and save some lives and they'll get better over time.
I miss it but it was never the same without PJ and I hope she's been able to move on and is doing well.
https://archive.is/SK69M
You're saying that China won't launch a nuclear first strike against an unused silo based on a joking email? Interesting commentary.
Do you think that walkable housing is viable nationwide? Seems to me it would only be viable in urban areas, vast swathes of north America are very very remote, the people that live there by and large choose to. Wouldn't it make more sense to just build more grocery stores?
Lisp Macros making DSLs have similar issues, your DSL doesn't work with the other guy's DSL trying to solve a similar issue.
I do, and I use a Lisp language for almost half of my work.
Sure. Why not. They (government and citizens who elect the government) are all stupid patsies who willing allow themselves to be abused in this way. They get what they deserve! If they had spines, they prevent it and/or reverse it. But they "think with emotions" so they are incapable of doing the right thing for the state and its citizens.

BTW NYC did the same thing during the 1970s/1980s to clean up homelessness and criminality of NYC: folks were bused to upstate cities of Albany, Rochester and Buffalo to "get them out of the problem space" of NYC. That was key to how NYC recovered from the 1970s hell-hole it has become. Now it's returning to the same and current leadership is again spineless.
Weather and traffic - fair criticisms.

HD Maps - really aren’t as difficult as you’re making them out to be. Most AV companies can update their maps using sensor data from their own fleet. And the cars need to recharge/service at a facility every few hours anyway. So there certainly isn’t any need for 5g or expensive cell data to make HD maps scale.
Most of whom would be annihilated if Iran got into a nuclear exchange with Israel or another country. And I said nothing about “sacrificing” the population, just crippling the technology. Stuxnet had, I think, one casualty, but severely set back their nuclear program. You’re making a lot of assumptions, not to mention repeatedly editing your comments. Thanks for offering your opinions, but, for these reasons, I don’t think this conversation is going to be productive.
At the price of putting the lives or health of innocent people at risk? No, thank you.
I doubt the parent commenter is really all that bloodthirsty, instead they are likely imagining Iran as a country in the abstract sense, without inhabitants.
There is a short tutorial where we can create CRUD application for MySQL database: https://dev.to/ipselon/create-an-admin-panel-full-stack-app-...
It should be socially acceptable to live in a tent. There shouldn't be a big jump between renting a room and living in a tent. People who live in tents shouldn't be seen as some kind of underclass with the label "homeless". There should be a continuum with painless mobility between a tent, a room, an apartment, a house. Everyone should be expected to follow the law. The system should work for all people, all the way from 0 to infinity.
Some webs says it’s included, but in Beta 1 wasn’t and I didn’t look further. It make sense it’s just an update in the branding.
The HTTP and XMPP traffic is encrypted using TLS. The proxies were used to decrypt, log and re-encrypt this traffic in real-time.
8 for me... weird?
> until there is a U.S administration willing to goto war with Iran?

US driven regime change has a rather poor track record. This week in particular.
Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos.
I'm not sure how the study you linked is an indictment of the weak version. It seems to fall well under my understanding of the consensus that the weak version is only true to a certain extent and definitely not to the extent Sapir and Whorf originally claimed.

So this does present an interesting result, and one that (AFAICT---I am not a linguist by training) does run counter to the claims of SWH but, more importantly, the study is limited only to spatial reasoning. Surely there are more areas of thought than that?
You are correct, the difference i would point to is that sex work is real work and should not be marginalized while spreading mental malware for self enrichment that causes harm to society should be marginalized. This is simply an result of utilitarian calculus to me. If you don't subscribe to that ethical system that is your choice and i am not going to convince you otherwise.

Decriminalization of sex leads to less suffering for prostitues and better health for the customers (they way Germany accomplishes the second thing is not ideal, like requiring even blowjobs to be performed with condoms but that's a tangent).

Criminalization of anti vaccine speech (similar how holocaust denial is illegal in Germany, only high profile cases are really prosecuted) would lead to better discussion about vaccine risks, better vaccination rates, less death and fewer fights within families due to intellectual malware.

I am also for a criminalization of climate change denial as it also a form of genocide denial which violates the human dignity of future generations. Note that in German law statements of facts are exempt from that. Only statements which are univocally false, so they can't contribute positively to societal dialog and deny human dignity to a protected group or statements which are to made to inspire violance against a protected group are subject to these kind of laws. If you say "No jews were persecuted under the third reich" you are commiting holocaust denial. I would propose that "emissions of man made CO2 don't impact the climate", "CO2 emissions will be completly absorbed by more green growth so there will be no impact on the climate" or "climate change or unlimited CO2 emissions will not lead the displacement of people in costal regions due to raising sea levels" can be prosecuted.

Is that a limit on free speech? Yes and i am fine with that as there are positive and negative freedoms. The moment where speech violates the human dignity of other groups of people it should be limited.
Not surprising if many of the cases are mild. I would typically multiply any reported number by 10x (earlier in the pandemic) to 3 or 4x (now) to get a better guesstimate.
> giving up control and instead going up to a meta-level, enabling sound methods of development to evolve - as opposed to defining specific processes, architecture and implementation...

Intriguing! Sounds like we'll end up with something hugely team-players-dependent. Also removing lead dev dependency is an interesting take. (I had at most worked with 2 devs in a project so this is definitely something to keep in mind when the team scales up.)

> I’ve read that the one-child policy in China was not strictly enforced outside of major cities, and resulted in many children born in the countryside essentially “outside of the system”, not having access to education or healthcare

Maybe not that many. But definitely not a phenomenon unfamiliar to the city dwellers (esp when there had been a huge rural-to-urban migration from 2005~2018)

At one point they did (unofficially, I think) relax access to education and healthcare. Ultimately every actor in the societal chains of command would try to milk out from the perpetrators as much as possible (in the form of bribes/fines), until eventually very little can be milked and then things became cheaper (or close-to-free).
It doesn’t service the major bar area of downtown Chandler, much less Old Town Scottsdale, Tempe or Downtown Phoenix

I live in Arizona and was going to say exactly this: Waymo doesn't go to many useful places right now. If it even expanded to cover Tempe (where ASU is located) and a good chunk of Scottsdale, it would be a lot more useful. Anyone on the margin of keeping a car or selling it, or not buying it in the first place, is unlikely to be heavily persuaded by Waymo availability because the area covered is so small.
What does this mean? Is this only relevant for users of WebRTC, whatever that is, or for everyone?
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https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2...

Look at that graph and then ask yourself what changed in 2013. Hint, 1994-2001 they had a republican mayor. 2002-2013 they had a moderate republican who turned into a moderate democrat. And 2014 - now they've had a radical progressive.
This family did it for 40 years. Not a bad run:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...
I don't see why more people aren't taking advantage of it.

This commenter covers it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28338580
languages come with environments and libraries. Some environments are easier to use than others. For me, C/C++ is always painful because there is no standard build system or package manager and certainly nothing cross platform so integrating any random library is always work.

Conversely, I guess ruby, node, python, perl? all have fairly standard package managers so it's generally? easy to grab a library and it just works, no having to learn how to integrate it into your build system, only having to learn how to use its API

I do agree there are big things to learn from different languages. I haven't actually used F# but I did learn from this article (https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-for-correc...), that I'm missing out on saving myself a ton of work by not using a better language that (a) builds new types for me easily (b) lets me switch on types easily.

I'm also mixed on lisp's macros. What I'd like is a language that can use itself at compile time. I hate that nearly every large C++ project integrates other languages (make, cmake, gn, python) somewhere in the build process. With a language that can run itself at compile time like lisp the build tools themselves can also easily be in lisp. I don't thing C/C++ though is particular good at simple string manipulation so using it to build itself sounds like it wouldn't be so nice. That might be another example where some languages excel over others in certain domains.

The downside to lisp macros is everyone builds their own DSLs and so I have to learn those DSLs. Of course maybe that's just the same as learning some C++ class hierarchy I'm unfamiliar or some template magic so possibly not a valid complaint. It's just a feeling from the lisp I've worked with.
Can't agree more. How long have they been collecting money from customer for this promise?
Why do they hate them?
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That is fantastic to hear, tech hardware might be one of the hardest things to create. Congrats!
No, let's just use common sense. You can't trust anything to be e2ee if it's not open source too.

In this case Apple can do anything they want with the keys since it's a locked down and closed platform.
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Semi-related but I recently bought a knock off windows 95 t-shirt because I wanted a shirt with something old that would be recognizable but not mistaken for nostalgia. Kinda like a "oh yeah that used to be big" feeling.

It's weird how we can have things that are extremely well known / commonly used in our culture that suddenly disappear as soon as something better comes along never to be thought of again.
I was surprised the shift away from small business job growth, but it does make sense. Large companies get large government handouts and do have advantages of scale. Of topic, but for about twenty years I preferred being a consultant but now I prefer working for corporations for a variety of reasons that are probably only interesting to myself.
Yes. iCloud backups are the easiest way to get the messages in clear text.

But honestly you don’t need it. Even though iMessage is end to end encrypted, Apple mediates the key exchange. It’d be trivial for them to do a man in the middle attack by saying the other guy has a new key.
And the new certificate and DNS records are to make the proxy look legit to the Zoom client, which would otherwise not accept TLS connections. Especially if there are DNS records which specify which CA is used for the certificate.
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Longest lived non embedded system I've worked with was a Linux server with an uptime from 2007 through 2019 serving as a L3 router. Amazingly, after shutting it down, it turned on again :)
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you don’t need specialized hardware to do this
Don't Americans split off Hispanic status as a separate question? That's what I've encountered when filling in US forms...

There's plenty of white people in Latin America, and race is, if anything, much more rigidly stratifying there than it is even in USA. It's not a coincidence that if you visit Miami, you'd imagine Cubans were a fairly white-dominated population, but if you visited Cuba itself you'd find that's not at all the case.
Tim Draper invested $500K ($0.5M), of the ~$275M Theranos raised in total.

And he wasn't on the board. I think it's reasonable to invest seed capital in unproven but interesting ideas, and it's unfair to blame seed investors if those ideas don't pan out.
> Or maybe those people know what they are talking about and the truth is that many people who are big fans of automated testing tend to overrate its value when it comes to many areas of software development.

There's been a lot of research, and internal studies, done at many companies that show pretty impressive benefits.

When really questioned most engineers just say "I know my code works" or "I test my code, I don't need automated tests". That's the mentality I just don't understand.

> Testing takes effort and makes it harder to change things.

If it "makes things hard to change" just delete the test? You'll still get the benefit of knowing XYZ are broken/altered. You can also automate end-to-end and black box tests which should absolutely not require any modification if you're just refactoring.

> If I am writing code that controls a spaceship then it makes sense to spend a huge amount of effort on testing. On the other hand, if I am adding a feature to a web application then in my personal experience, most of the time adding automated testing is a waste of effort.

If you are working something that is allowed to fail, then sure, you don't really need to care about what practices you do. It's a very end-all-be-all argument to say "it's ok for my things to break". That argument goes just the same for all of these things:

"Why do I need a version control system? It's fine if I manually merge my code incorrectly"

"Why do I need a build system? It's fine if I forget to recompile one of my files"

etc.

In addition: the "argument" for automated testing isn't that it will just prevent you from breaking something. It's that it lets you know when things change and makes it easy to update your code without manually checking if things are broken. Recently, when adding features to our frontend, I just run our tests and update a png file in our repo. I then play around until my styling is how I like it. It's completely automated and saves me a lot of time. It also lets others know immediately when their CSS change will effect, or will not effect, my components.
I think waymo's best customers in suburban america would be the old and young people who cannot drive themselves and cannot walk to their destinations. Waymo to shuttle your 10 year old unsupervised to school and back, your 70 year old grandma who a cannot drive anymore and disabled people who cannot drive would be amazing in those communities, but in both cases, they are either not allowed, or are too old to use a smartphone effectively too. I wonder if waymo has human phone dispatchers, which is something I could see the old people being more into, if it would result in way more usage by that segment.
Sure, but the same is true of the NATed IPv4 solution strenholme said they resorted to.

The person you’re responding to’s point was that strenholme did not need IPv4 and NAT just to get stable addresses for internal usage.
https://electrum.org/ says:

> Warning: Electrum versions older than 3.3.4 are susceptible to phishing (links to [0])

3.3.4 was released 2019-02-13 [1]

[0] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/4968

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/releases?after=3.3.6
I don't know the whole story so maybe there is something more to your argument, but on face value this doesn't sound like a strong argument. Early stage investing is high volume, low involvement, low due diligence kind of thing.

I would be a lot more embarrassed if I invested 100M into a 10 years old company that turned out to be a fraud vs 500K into a brand new pre-product team.
My experience with XSLT is it only works until you hit an edge case, and then it's impossibly hard and you need a full programming language. I usually hit those edge cases quickly so I'd prefer XSLT didn't exist and that I just had a well designed XML library in something like python
If you're interested in this topic, I suggest the short book Ghosting The News.
2. What you wrote makes no sense. If linking to gtk provides nothing at all, why is the code even there?

3. Why is the default config for TRAMP so bad? It isn't spoonfeeding for everyone to not want to reconfigure it.
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Can the world just fall apart?