skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or even, person at address X has a birthday this week, so this envelop that looks like a birthday card, and has their misspelled name on it, is obviously for address X not address Y.

That seems awfully contextual and ad-hoc. Surely this mechanism won't work in many instances unless you only receive mail on your birthday. It's a nice thing if it sometimes succeeds even when it shouldn't, but that's not something you can rely on. And should you get a different mail worker who doesn't know you, poof, your mail is gone.

> I’ve had our friendly postal worker deliver post correctly to me, despite having a throughly munged and incorrect address, because she recognised my name, and knew someone with a similar name didn’t live at the more obvious interpretation of the incorrect address.

Considering that this was presumably a problem with an address written on a physical item as a linear text, that's not quite in the purview of the problems that I'm trying to solve for my own application which needs to process physical addresses of objects (sometimes not even involving people in any way). So I can't comment on mail delivery specifically, sadly.
Let me see what I can do...

Early in the Cold War -- while the US had a nuclear monopoly -- Von Neumann was a strong proponent of an all-out, surprise first strike against the USSR by the US. "With the Russians it is not a question of whether but of when. If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"
We've been over this a lot before. I'm not saying pg's definition is the end-all and be-all, but for usefulness in discussion "high growth potential business" is the most reasonable definition: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
How I Use Obsidian at Work
> with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible.

That can be balanced-out with other media outlets voicing other side.

And... not attacking China's great political unification, having and using politics to censor out a lot of government corruption that ultimately hurts its own people... doesn't look great

(no 'political balance-of-power' + no freedom-of-speech/press + no-election:
the government officials can de facto do whatever they want, from small things like accepting bribes for not noticing fake-food factories, to uh... ok I'll stop now.
I can't understand why you're getting downvoted so hard that your first comment is dead now. I'm with you, I don't expect the act of installing an extension to perform destructive actions. At the very least I would have thought you would need to click the toolbar button.

Optimally it would display the full list of everything it's about to unfollow and have you confirm you're okay with that.
While I agree with that usage in the example you mentioned in your post over there, I don't think it applies here.

Some applications use -h and some --help. Many support both. So unless we get all software to agree on one standard here, expecting your user to remember which one it was is actually bad UX in my book. Best is to just support both, so people don't have to think about how to get the help.

Displaying a notice when some option changed makes totally sense tho, but -h/--help is not that kind of issue.
Oh, my sweet summer child. How do you terminate 60,000 pairs of copper on a single rack? If they were all bundled together, the bundle itself would be larger than you. This still takes a large frame and lots of line-equipment racks.

Newer switches are smaller than older ones, but line-equipment can only get so dense and still have room to work on it. Some multi-floor offices have entire floors sitting empty because a new switch was installed elsewhere in the building and then the old one decommissioned and removed. But there's still tons (literally, probably dozens of tons) of transport equipment, cross-connect, power and cooling, etc.
Author here, that's exactly the case :)

Left FAANG knowing that money would be better there. My new opportunity is (so far) a lot more fun, a I'm learning a lot more about the things I want to learn.
Why would ad blockers just not block reddit.com on non Reddit sites if Reddit were to start a tracking ad platform?
> I don't think it a coincidence that the rise of linguistics coincides with a decline in cognition that we can all observe today as reaching a sort of critical mass, in which the mention of a thing is gauged to be a judgment of a thing, particularly in social media contexts.

I don’t think this is true at all, or supported by any examination of history.
Out of curiosity, is there any data to support this mindset? It's probably true, but Curiosity(TM).
I thought EULA's are not really worth anything anyway, cus if a case actually comes to court any EULA is usually ignored, cus all users ignore them + they often have loads of illegal stuff in them.
On the other hand I don't buy games with denuvo so that's a lost sale right there.
Of course it did happen already. Look at this site with card games and patiences, and try to block ads: https://razlozhi.ru/patience-spider2

And no, these are not their own ads, they proxy the requests from their own domain to the Yandex Direct ad network. Even worse, there is some evil javascript that tries even different non-sensical HTML element names to try to get past the blockers.
If you admin a Google Apps account on your own domain, with family/friends on it, they have to suffer if you want to migrate away.
I think that you touched one of the reasons why not all unicode characters are supported. You said that it is not recommended to use identifiers with confusables because they will be wasting the time of the SR user. Imagine though that someone decides to write an entire text in english using lets say the french or german alphabet, putting accented or umlauded letters everywhere where it is possible. Now, one can say "lets convert the confusable to the main form and read it like that", but what happens if you stumble upon a new text where there is a meaningful difference between the accented and not accented letters? The situation is not hypothetical, because very often one can find either a multilanguage document or a book with with names and single words in another language.
After reading HN daily for years, I finally registered to answer this question. I'm a military officer. I spent the first half of my career flying helicopters and doing general management stuff, but now I work on IT (not software development, sadly) within the military because I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in CS. I still do some programming as a hobby. I guess I straddle both worlds, like others who've already responded, but I'm definitely not in the originally intended audience of Silicon Valley startup founders and employees. I used to read Slashdot and various subreddits to keep learning and stay current on computing, but I ultimately found that HN is the best place on the Internet for that. Now that I have an account, maybe I'll start adding my own insights to threads that touch on military matters.
I'm frustrated for sure. I am looking for some pointers tho.
How do people handle this "patch on patch" code. It reminds me a lot of the sunken cost fallacy.
How do you approach this to the people who wrote it?
Yeah I am old enough to remember setting up various analytics tools in early 2000s. Most people ran them on subdomains but some ran them in on same domain. Also we had tons of server-side tools like webalyzer.
How are they going to make billions of profit from air filters?
> US won’t jail you unless you disobey?

They’re the same as in nobody is forced to get the vaccine. Nobody will be threatened with state violence for not getting the shot. They’re just barred from a lot of facilities for the choice they made. We do similarly for children whose parents refuse to give them measles shots.

Enforcement, naturally, varies. In Manhattan, I’m constantly asked for card and ID. In Long Island, it never happened.
Maybe it is just selective memory, but I feel like the "Show HN" became a lot less fun.
What if I don't feel like building an irc replacement? There's real problems that don't have a potential for multi billion users. For example, working on problems that working scientists face: there's a potentially huge second order impact, but a small potential user base and not necessarily a lot of cash floating around.
I like to think of there being different domains of trust. Trust to present accurate information to their best knowledge, trust to thoroughly vet information, trust to not construe facts to construct a false reality (ie a narrative), trust to tell it like it is, trust to not present a biased self interested story that omits important things purposefully, trust to be an expert on the subject matter, and so on.

Obviously any thinking individual will know Joe Rogan is worse at some of these aspects than mainstream media but they also recognize that mainstream media will willfully consistently violate other domains where Joe Rogan won't.

I trust Joe Rogan will tell me some stupid stuff about conspiracies and extra dimensionality trips, but I also trust that he won't tell me this stuff just to sell me on sponsors or his party's agenda, unlike the mainstream news.
Coincidentally today is the saint day of the famous British theologian John Henry Newman who died in 1890. https://angelusnews.com/faith/saint-of-the-day/john-henry-ne...
He meant first-party tracking. Reddit aren’t doing that.
I've noticed that reviews here are trivial.
How would you approach this without stepping on toes?
I agree, but another problem with gut is that it stretches under load when moist -- one of the issues with catgut strings on instruments is that they can't hold a tune, and that's much worse on hot & humid days (digression, they sound great though... much like nylon). Gold is also malleable, but can take quite a bit more tension before failure and work-hardens where catgut undergoes plastic deformation.

The other point I'm less certain of is that the discovery was based on dental calculus... I suspect that this wouldn't have been so pronounced if the thread was replaced frequently.
And then drop it into the sun. CO2 in space doesn't count toward global warming.
Only in a small percentage of cases, typically exurbs where the subdivisions have been wired with such cabinets as pairgain equipment. Usually those cabinets are just cross-connects, basically patch panels, to assign individual subscriber drops to lines within the distribution plant. All the lines go back to the CO for termination, at least for the majority of subscribers that're fairly close to the CO and thus it doesn't make sense to deploy pairgain less than a mile away.
ANZAC stands for Army corps, not for the countries. And the countries have hemselves are not in Asia.
Yeah every time Chrome accidentally opens on iOS I cringe at the shoehorned design choices

This probably happens because i clicked a link in gmail
CA still has large and growing industries that could be great clients. I agree there is zero reason to focus on engineering talent in CA but depending on your company it might make a lot of sense to build with a sales team in CA.
ANZAC stands for Army corps, not for the countries. And the countries have themselves are not in Asia.
This is largely good advice, but… I find that in 2021 the capital environment has become so much easier compared to even 5 years ago, some of this advice feels a little out of date. Yes investors want a company that can scale 1000x, but these days I’m hearing a lot of VC interest in companies whose ceilings are probably in the $50-250M range, and who are offering pretty good terms. You don’t need a unicorn exit for that, you “only” need to make a product that works with a degree of traction, and then get acquired by a bigger player. As long as you don’t raise too much that can still make for a nice outcome for all involved.

It’s really astounding how much money is chasing so little return right now.
Not from the looks of a Google image search. I'm guessing it's the court house he was tried in?
> UK: Was the most interesting country to live in up to 2016, no sadly going isolationist.

In what way? Can you point at a thing that would mean we are more "isolationist"? If you are referring to Brexit: it means we will have to interact on a more global scale whether we like it or not (e.g. negotiating trade deals, etc). That sounds less isolationist does it not?
When defining statistical entropy in his Cambridge lecture course on Coding and Cryptography, Thomas Korner adds the following footnote:

"It is unwise for the beginner and may or may not be fruitless for the expert to seek a
link with entropy in physics."

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Shan.pdf
You don't need a raid-driver for linux:

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup

That AMD-"raid" is Software too..the same as linux.

~pure Hardware raid's never need drivers, because you tell the hardware (raid controller) to present the hard-disks as one (or whatever you want) device to the Operating-system. Some management tools are sometimes used (start raid scrubbing etc).

BTW: Don't use Raid5 if you don't have a UPS (if you use software raid), or a battery buffered write-cache (hardware raid) aka write-hole:

https://serverfault.com/questions/844791/write-hole-which-ra...
Yeah, this take on "I also try to block first party tracking" is just weird in my opinion, or at least impossible (beyond just normal cookie blocking tools).

The ways most sites utilize AJAX and JS, there is just no consistent way to block "tracking calls" vs. blocking requests needed for particular pieces of functionality and data.
They are against the west and the USA waging war. They are not against the Taliban, the Syrian government, Russia (in Eastern Ukraine and other places) waging war. Russia is heavily involved in Syria supplying and supporting the Syrian government, but gets zero criticism for it. They're silent on the conflict in Ethiopia because the west and the US aren't really involved. Go and check, there's a full on conflict with massacres and military intervention from Eritrea, and not a single article on The Grey Zone, they're just not intersted.

On the conflict in Yemen all of their articles are only about criticising or highlighting any US involvement. Iran is up to their eyeballs in it supplying and supporting the Houthis but they never get criticised, just the US. It's the only angle they cover. China is recklessly provoking Taiwan militarily, not a single comment against it. Only criticism of any and every US contact or relationship with Taiwan.

They have a very specific anti-West, anti-US agenda they pursue relentlessly and exclusively, completely regardless of the context.
What's the point vs repeating what people give?
With the caveat that you don't need the full cap table - a company not disclosing outstanding shares, last preferred price and 409a/strike price are giving you a signal to run away.

Agreed that liquidation preference would be helpful, too, but if at the time you're signing on you think the liquidation preference will come into play you shouldn't join them.
The popular alternative is bitwarden-rs, and it's usually chosen because it has a much smaller footprint and is well suited to self-hosting where you only have a handful of users.

The official backend is multi-container and uses a full SQL server install.
Well, it shows that there's a lot of demand for free rides. But that isn't actually the business that Uber thinks it's in...
How does this interact with yesterday's facebook story.

Facebook has a buggy UI that makes it hard to unfollow everything. Some dev created a plugin to fix this. Facebook banned him and lawyered up.

Is the plugin legal in europe or not? Is fixing a dark pattern a bugfix?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28801908
> whose coziness with the military-industrial complex remains controversial to this day.

Why is it controversial? I know nothing of Von Neumann, but it doesn't seem like a bad thing. "Coziness" could mean a lot of things, but personally even if Von Neumann was taking the military industrial complex out on a date every Tuesday, I wouldn't see a problem with it.

Is the implication that the military was influencing his integrity as a scientist?

The bigger criticism of Von Neumann is that he set back quantum mechanics for a few decades: https://twitter.com/orzelc/status/1446414513465696256

EDIT: There's a shocking comment further downthread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28811713

I retract my claim that the bigger criticism was his treatment of QM. The bigger criticism is that Von Neumann was a lunatic – I try not to call names, but advocating the extermination of a population is the dealbreaker threshold of niceness for me.
Iraq's bloodiest battle will be a video game
I also take it to mean RSUs in a public company. I wouldn’t want RSUs in a private startup because I couldn’t sell them, but I’d still take the tax hit as they vest.
Not surprising? HEPA filters have been known to be able to filter viruses for some time; it's maybe the main reason they were invented? Not sure about that though.
Could Facebook sue whistleblower Frances Haugen?
You will never regret time spent with your child. The way to deal with it is with sound priorities. Good luck.
well, a partial list of their investments is here: https://ventures.coinbase.com/

Some major ones aren't included such as CoinSwitch Kuber which Coinbase Ventures recently co-led a $260M round.
Do others also feel this way?

I moved to San Francisco a few years ago with the sole goal of starting a tech company. The “cushiness” of my well paid day job has made me a bit lazy in that regard, but it’s still the goal.

However, I’ve become extremely disenchanted with the city and state, so the idea that tech startup == San Francisco is the only thing keeping me here.
Back when we were trying to do smart things with Apache logs. And so when JS was prevalent enough and Google (+ others) started handing out snippets to get great macro data about visitors, we were all about it.

It wasn't until that data became intricate user interactions that were bought and sold, did we worry.

edit: So I guess that gets to where my surprise comes from. I expect first parties to gather all kinds of info about how I use their service. It's even fine. I literally signed up for it.

The next step is to examine the TOS (in this case: Reddit) and see what I agreed they're allowed to then do with that data. ie. sell it so others can sell to me.
Self-parking Car in 500 Lines of Code
Time Management: A case study of how I've built my own system
Getting more demand that you can handle with your current team/systems/resources?
This post overlaps things that are intellectually interesting and politically charged. Unfortunately it has been flagged because of the latter. We as a society should be concerned when the level of dehumanization on any front approaches that of the grievous past we should all be aware of
I see no ads on my Firefox with ublock and privacybadger ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It would be prohibitively expensive just to launch a bit of it into orbit, much less to enough of it far enough into space that it won't just get recaptured and dumped back on us eventually. Plus, the process of creating the spacecraft alone (with near physics-defying fuel efficiency and carrying capacity, and more rockets than we have the physical capacity to launch, to boot) would create more pollution than gets carried off, per simple thermodynamics.

Also become sometimes rockets explode, and you don't want to be anywhere around the exploding rocket full of nuclear waste.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t...

https://astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-ro...
If you want to balance a system dynamically, you want negative, not positive feedback loops. The latter will just grow until they shake the system apart.

In other words: polarisation is useful when it's transient. Some issue causes people to divide and work out some consensus, and then divisions die down. A persistent divison that becomes its own end is destructive.
I don't really disagree. Much as the "But pg says..." school of argument is like fingernails on a blackboard for me, there is clearly a qualitative difference between a business that's just intended to support one or two people and maybe some other employee--and has no larger ambitions--and one that will possibly take off or, more likely, close down within five years (or whatever).

Obviously there are still other businesses that aren't inherently self-limiting but that aren't really constructed for go big or go home either.
Great, this is the most constructive answer. Eternal useless pessimism instead of at least trying simple steps to solve the issue.

Great credit to the authors of the tool. I used it many times when I was stuck with windows - and I'm grateful that they did all the work to make it.
The name is confusing. I initially thought it had something to do with one of these two existing "xterm" things:

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

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

I see that it is a "Window manager", but not related to The X Window System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

It does however provide windows of Xterms (first link above) with good compatibility to the X version.

Cool!
I think you know it when you experience it, but on the engineering side it feels like an uncomfortable level of demand that you know your product can’t really handle yet. So for example, you’re turning entire categories of people away - or ignoring their bug reports / feature requests - because you literally don’t have time to write the 500 lines of code needed to support their use case yet (and you’re busy doing the same thing for another cohort with higher willingness to pay).

The “drowning” description is apt because living through that is stressful and uncomfortable, even though it can also be exciting and have fun moments. Especially great are the moments you discover a 1-hour hack that can unblock something you and your team thought was going to take 2-3 weeks to accomplish, and what a relief that is to “fast forward” in time.
Lawyer and military officer. I self-studied programming in high school and did a minor in CS in college. Always enjoyed it as a hobby. Found HN because Metafilter was trashing on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Indeed. Von Neumann was an incredibly prolific scientist, and definitely one of the greatest geniuses in history, but that doesn't mean that he was always justified or right - he was still human, and had biases, and made mistakes. His work was still built upon by others who managed to gain understanding of the subject beyond what Neumann did, though certainly much more slowly, and he himself built upon the works of others. He was definitely a class or five above anyone that is likely reading this and probably even more above my own, but he was still a human.
BLE Beacons, they send your device ID a couple times a second as a broadcast.
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The money added to the company’s coffers gets added to its valuation, so you are not trading equity really unless you are personally selling (a “secondary”). It’s just that the pie becomes larger.

Now, most VCs don’t want to be in the business of management. Each partner oversees 5-10 companies, they do not intend to be managing each. Most intervention comes when the founder is running the company into the ground. I can find many more cases of scandalous compliance by VCs than active intervention.
The first thing VCs look at is the quality of its founding team, it’s not for wanting to kick them out.