skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no! it only is happenstance that two vast dipshit useless consumerizing anti-computing applicationizing loser companies control all the smartphone market & that the market is sucky & awful & has no innovation or verve! like a lot of computing!

the form factor is not the problem nor really a big constraint. thr form factor so happens to be dominated by even loer than regular fi computing, subcomputong, of the lowest ambitions. dominated by unexpert systems & portals. that's not a real restriction of the technology. it doesnt reflect anywhere near as bad on mobile tech as the situations seems.
Let's hope we can someday program it to find the answer to life, the universe and everything, and subsequently the ultimate question, just so we can render all philosophers jobless.
Over Thanksgiving, my aunt asked for help with her Mac.

At some point, she must have enabled iCloud Drive including Documents and Desktop, then disabled it and I suppose checked the “keep copy on Mac” when disabling.

So she had both local and iCloud versions of the Documents and Desktop folders, with documents in both locations. De-duping these and moving everything back to her Mac was such a gargantuan task it will have to wait for another day.

Try as I might, I was unable to explain to her how Documents/Desktop folders on her Mac and the Documents/Desktop folders in iCloud differed. Compounding the situation, some of the files in the iCloud folders had local copies on the Mac and some were only in iCloud since the “Optimize Mac Storage” option was enabled.

Separately, I had trouble explaining to her how opening the Desktop folder in a window and her actual Desktop were different views of the same folder.

On top of that, with iCloud, there are application specific folders for those apps documents which I think predate Apple adding the Files app to iOS. So for example, by default Numbers will prompt you to save a new document in its Numbers folder and not in the Documents folder.

She also didn’t understand why iCloud Drive included just the Documents and Desktop folders and not, say, the Downloads folder. Or how “iCloud Drive” differed from iCloud itself.

It’s all become a terrible confusing mess.
A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications (2015)
Not to fuel the fire here, but from the startups perspective I'm not sure there's much functional difference between a company attempting to acquire a startup and then deciding to go it alone, and using the acquisition process for research on their future products other than intent.

No matter what if you do the DD process on an acquisition you'll certainly apply those learnings to your future efforts.

There's even a PG blogpost about it.
http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

Side Note: I'm always amazed to find people that run large companies posting on hackernews. Doubly amazed that two companies I'm interviewing for are mentioned in the same post (about interviews no less.) :D

Small world.
Billionaire uses fake crisis to help fulfil childhood dream.
Huh. A remarkably simple and effective technique, and somewhat uniquely effective on jellyfish. Very neat.
This results in a dead chemistry graduate.
PostgREST v9.0.0 was released last night. A few neat features include better support for Partitioned Tables, better handling for Postgres functions with unnamed parameters, and a (much requested) addition for LEFT JOIN support.

Big shout out to the PostgREST maintainers and contributors (https://postgrest.org/en/v9.0/releases/v9.0.0.html#thanks). The last release was only a few months ago so it's great to see so much momentum.
OK make it a 'her'.
I guess it's reproducible - creates a system that has exactly the same versions of all programs and all libraries.
>Neither is perceptively different (by humans) from a CD, even with the best equipment.

There are certain trouble files that can't be encoded well with MP3 even at 320k. I once successfully ABXY tested one such file 20 times in a row.
Ask HN: Companies Offering Summer Internships?
It seems like internship applications in the US have started for this coming summer. Does anyone know of companies that are taking interns for software development? Also, do companies typically allow college interns to start over winter break or during the semester or do roles only really start in the summer?

Looking online it’s easy to find information on internships at huge companies, but the number of applicants is intimidating and many want interns further along in college (juniors and seniors).

Thank you.
It will happen by around 2030. It might reach 100% shortly afterwards. Also, hydrogen production should increase by well over an order of magnitude in 25-30 years.
Blockchain Technology Companies
I prefer to rip my own CDs if only because I don't trust someone else to do it right.
Blockchain technology was initially limited to the protection of financial transactions being a global database that does not rely on a centralized administrator. But, with fresh case studies coming into the picture, the use of blockchain technology has emerged as a new horizon for I.T. business market
I respectfully don't consider the creators you described as "power users" in Parent's sense. What they do are mostly "productivity porn", i.e., fiddling with tools in a vacuum, without real professional contexts, and severing flaunting, sensual purposes. It's writing scripts for automating errands that I consider power user's workflow; decorating zettelkasten "gardens" filled with teaching from yet another productivity guru -- not so much.
Irrespective of whether you behaved badly or not (not for me to say, and unlikely to clearly emerge on a simple HN thread), I have always lauded your search for transparency here on HN.

Also, we I like to always keep in mind that sometimes resentment dominates the desire to share a certain story, and without knowing anything about the transaction referred above, I'd say it's quite clear that temp7536 has at least some resentment or envy over Stripe's success.

Final thought (not referring to Stripe nor Sequoia in particular): yes, most companies, and most VCs, are sharks. I was recently reminded of that twice, and probably lost large sums of money in the process (again: nothing to do with Stripe nor with Sequoia). I think it's a rule that have always applied to life, in general, and it won't stop being applied just because we have the internet.

I simply hope that things like the Panama Papers, Wikileaks, and such, will eventually bring more financial transparency to the world, and make it harder for these sharks to keep feasting on their prey.
It's not even a North vs South thing. The so-called Hindi belt is a tiny part of North India, and even then plenty of people that live in it don't speak it.
Thanks, appreciate it. Do share with others :)
Very interesting points. Thanks.
Maybe in the future we will have high bandwidth chip to chip standards (like PCIe, and network chip to chip standards like XFI) with optical communication for better latency, especially in large switches with latency constraints.
These kind of examples are always encoder specific, and even encoder setting specific. They are never general rules.
yeah... one is the good people defending each other & pluralism, the other is goosestepping fascists pushing their narrow perogatives onto a culture & the world.
Yeah reducing costs of rockets by constant innovating is just his childhood dream /s

Clearly he is making a large difference in making us a space faring world
Thanks ojaswa1942. Feel free to contribute.
> Unfortunately, people are so conditioned to conflate "feels like it should work" with "actually works", that no matter how much we repeat the contrary it seems to have little effect.

Thank you for this. This sentiment applies to so much online, especially in the field of online content, social media posting and conversion rates.

What feels like it should work is not the same as what actually works.

This site was posted on here at some point and it made me mad because everything the guy recommends sounds awesome, but where is any proof that it actually improves sales?
https://examples.roastmylandingpage.com/

Humans are complex beasts and sometimes the exact opposite of the obvious is the right solution: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-11573666
> Usually the only reason someone asks "what browser" is so they can make snide comments about it

Far from the intent, just genuine curiosity. As you say, “most…are unfamiliar with the full range of alternatives”.
Law enforcement isn't reading random cycling blogs looking for admissions of crime. It's hard enough to get their attention with a call of "Hey, there's this crime happening right in front of me and it's causing a pretty big scene."
Looks like 102 root level comments.
Only though Certbot, as far as i know: https://certbot.eff.org/

That said, Nginx still blows most other web servers out of the water: it has excellent performance and the configuration file format is easier to grok than that of Apache2/httpd and can let you get more done in less time. Perhaps this is why it's often chosen as the default solution for implementing an ingress, e.g. in Kubernetes.

And in my eyes that's a shame, since Apache2/httpd has served me faithfully for years and is a decent web server on its own, hence the addition of this new functionality has the potential to either make Nginx adopt it as well (which would be a net positive for everyone), or simply make more people consider Apache2/httpd for their deployments (which is good, because then its decline will be slower).
Maybe NASA can pick it up for pennies on the dollar. Bankruptcies are opportunities for the bold!
Seems someone thought I was lying. Here's the article: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/24/final-cut-pro-subscription/
In the US in tech they’re basically a meaningless formality.
The thing is the IPCC is kind of the authoritative body on global warming. Their synthesis reports are basically meta analysis for all climate change related science. They produce these reports using a team of volunteer scientists working through a consensus based process.

Which means everyone on the team has to agree to everything in the report. This process is inherently conservative. Language has constantly been tempered to avoid any fear of sounding alarmist or even slightly going out on a limb.

So the latest science is pretty much always running out ahead of the IPCC showing it to be underestimating the impacts.
> This is neither low cost nor commercially relevant.

That's the case for a lot of research. It paves the way to be iterated on.
I downweight them sometimes too.
Wish PostgresQL has built-in version control for every DDL changes.

For example, i want a history of changes when i run command like CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION...

Else programming inside database is still a pain.
There's many other ways for you to share some of your story, without revealing too much.
I doubt that's possible with the C++98 preprocessor.
They're definitely related (and more so the closer to start a business is). Depending on the business you may be benefiting from research, product/market fit, marketing, experiments, and on and on.

It's not that the stuff you would do isn't relevant to starting your business but that it's not the complete picture.
While I applaude the engineering effort that went into the project, I really dislike documentation that uses asciinema for regular non-interactive CLI interfaces: instead of showing me the commands in an overview I have to sit through the whole thing.
Your comment got me curious, so I looked up per-capita annual cost of the NHS (the socialised healthcare system in the country where I live).

The latest official data says "In 2017, the UK spent £2,989 per person on healthcare, which was around the median for members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development."

This is about US$330 per person per month.

(I don't have any point to make. Just thought I'd share the data I found.)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
I tried to recreate such a session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ub36q03vkc
> De-globalizing certainly helps in all round development of all countries

How? Globalization allows companies to exploit comparative advantages, such as cheap labor. The increased demand for labor, over time, leads to higher wages, which leads to a number of social and - obviously - economic benefits.

It's certainly not the end all, be all, but better living conditions through economic activity is the primary driver the large decline in extreme poverty that's occurred over the last half-century. Globalization didn't play a role in all of this - export-led economic policies, along with targeted investments in prestigious industries by many countries, also helped. However, this decline in poverty, at this magnitude - absolutely - would not have happened without globalization.

Case in point. In 1990, there were almost one billion people living in extreme poverty in East Asia, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. In 2017, that number fell to 27 million. Source: World Bank, https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/10/07/global-....

> Concentrating all manufacturing in China leads to power centralization

Employment in the Chinese secondary sector is almost static over the last ten years. GDP from the secondary sector as a percentage of GDP is down significantly. While the size of the secondary sector in absolute numbers, iirc, has gone up, this is due to Chinese manufacturings moving towards higher priced exports.

China will likely continue to be world's largest manufacturer for a long time. However, there is nothing that suggests that global manufacturing continues to centralize there, and there are a - very, very, large - number of signs suggesting that companies are off-shoring away from China to lower cost countries.

> as is evident, and forms the basis of creation of another hegemony.

To quote Game of Thrones, "Power is Power". Russia has an economy that is smaller than Italy's by several hundred billion dollars. Russia also has a blue water navy and nuclear weapons.

> The effectiveness of military power goes only so far.

Agreed.

> There is no realistic scenario where the US and China go to war.

We can agree to disagree here. There is no reasonable scenario, but there are a number of realistic ones.

> So China has great leverage and will continually nibble its way to global dominance.

Let's assume that China's economic and demographic issues are beginning to catch up to them, which is very common for middle income export-led countries with poor demographics. They share borders with two nuclear armed countries and several other highly developed countries. Their largest trading partner is their largest "adversary". Their lines of communication run through other countries, and they are dependent on other countries for their energy needs. China also happens to be a highly heterogeneous country, which has been concealed by a thin-veneer of nationalism.

In short, China much more closely resembles 19th century Germany than it does 20th century Russia or the United States.
Just from personal experience: more. The past few years I've worked at a company that really values its employees and does none (or at least very few) of those destructive common things. They also do a surprising number of things right in terms of how to actually motivate people (the autonomy, mastery, purpose stuff.)

For the first time in my life, I didn't feel the desire to find a new employer at the two year mark.
That Google also isn't the same Google that's pay-to-play.
I seriously doubt they're as bad as google recruiters. I had almost 3 job offers from them over a period of ~10 years, and I finally decided I will never interview there ever again.
Flashing lights is meant to communicate to others they need to slow down or otherwise obey the traffic laws. How does that have a negative effect on safety?
In addition to systemd-nspawn, Kata Containers might also work for you: https://katacontainers.io/
> Why does a bridge have to benefit the local community? Why not eg the wider community?

This was written in the context of maintainability. I'm obviously not opposed to infrastructure benefiting a larger community.

Imagine two equal bridges. One benefits the people nearby a lot, the other not so much. Which one do you think will get maintained best?

>> Can we bring the design closer to the layman? Can we for example design a bridge so that it will visually degrade in step with safety degradation?
> What's the benefit?
This was again written in the context of maintainability. Imagine two equally unsafe bridges. One to the layman looks "visually ok", the other "a nightmare of fear crossing this one". Which one do you think gets repaired first?

>> Technological advances have enabled a cheap/fast/overbuild culture. This very much includes the design phase.
> You say this like it's a bad thing. If stuff becomes cheap enough to build that every generation can afford to build their own, that's much better, isn't it?
I was mostly saying this is not an optimal thing. Cheap/fast/overbuilt can be a real burden in the long term in terms of maintainability. Budget and environmental issues are also very closely related.

> Your comment emphasis closeness in space a lot, with talks of local community etc. So why not emphasis closeness in time, too?
Absolutely! That's why I mentioned an example of building infra in now very flood-prone areas out of potentially less durable but cheaper, more quickly replaced materials like wood.

Thank you for your comment. I'm grateful for the opportunity to discuss this. It's a subject that almost naturally attracts my attention. Might have something to do with living between Belgium and Latvia. Belgium has lots of physical infra, often not very well maintained. Cheap/fast/overbuild is definitely a thing. Latvia has a lot less infra. Due to history's course, there's very interesting distinctions in terms of infrastructure. Some of it is cleverly minimalist. Most of its new infra is heavily EU subsidised. Many projects are no doubt very beneficial, but often one can almost smell the bloat of needing to spend those sweet subsidies. In many places, the bulk of infra is Soviet era. A significant part of what's still in active use is often badly maintained or not at all. Then there's the enormous visible scars in the landscape of crumbling disused infra. Some fascinatingly sad examples are the giant former agricultural collective farm buildings that are falling apart all over the country.
You are implying this is intentional. That has not been established. For all we know, an essential person to the hiring process died from COVID, putting some real ghost in the ghosting.

The CEO responded. He doesn't agree that this is norm, but he can't, can he?

One person, one story, n equals one. 1 does not equal 10,000. Worse, hiring has x^n variables. He could have nailed the interview, astonished absolutely everybody into hiring him, only to be outcompete the very next day by the guy who wrote the book on managing managers at financial institutions.

The attempt to amplify this as something oft-repeated at Stripe lacks evidence. “I've heard this” and “I've heard that” about Stripe is hearsay, secondary, questionable at best.

Doesn't this post strike you as mildly disgruntled?
The important thing to note here is the point isn't how you word your reply. Nobody is saying you have to word it like I did. You can be as crystal-mathematically-pedantically-clear as you want in your reply about intents vs. actions vs. perceptions vs. whatever, that's beside the point.

The point is that your reply would need to address the lack of ill intent no matter how you word it. I find "I never ghosted you" and "I never intended to ghost you" both adequate, and you can disagree on either of them, but that's not the point. The point is "I've never heard this directly before" would NOT be adequate. It comes across as a completely ridiculous reply that very obviously fails to deny what is clear to everyone to be the heart of the accusation: the ill intent. Which makes it hard to interpret an omission like that charitably.

Edit: Sleep well!
I wonder what exactly are their competitive advantage there

Materials cost? Salaries? Cheap CNC machines? Several mechanical engineers on call with long shifts?
I know! We'll sell kerosene with perfume in a spray can, at a 100x markup!

Already done.
That was never my experience. I found clients from my existing network and was always turning away work. My sales activity was passive rather than active.
I'm the real Satoshi, so I have you all beat.
> Hard to agree that vinyl sounds like rubbish.

Maybe I was too harsh - the warm, compressed sound isn't for me :)

> Also, the art sleeves are nice.

I do absolutely love the size of vinyl art sleeves - I've noticed some friends effectively buying vinyl to display rather than to listen to.
Web browsers are not part of the OS I believe. It's an application that can be ported to your OS.

Note though that at the same event, a few days earlier, a hobby OS was presented which ship with its own ex-nihilo web browser implementation: SerenityOS [0]. There is still a lot to go but apparently they have:

1. A lot of resources (dozens of active developers).

2. A plan (meaning organization, resources, tooling, etc).

It's still a hobby thing but it's promising.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270776
Interesting but your comment on doco and the fact that you need to ask the dev on twitter is a huge turn off.

Documentation > performance for most business applications, because it's developer performance. I don't have time to reverse engineer some uber nerd's SIMD optimized world wonder, I have things to ship.
EdgeDB seems like a good way to approach this

https://www.edgedb.com/
I don’t think NixOS (where service configuration would live) is system-agnostic. It relies heavily on systemd already.
You can get around this by simply interviewing for a regular dev gig, then telling them you’d prefer to come on board on a contract.

That’s how I’ve negotiated my last several gigs, and it nicely sidesteps the business development issue.
> There is no realistic scenario where the US and China go to war.

How many wars have been preceded by everyone believing they can't happen.
I'd like to add a third, pro-terminal point, that cli tools are inherently ready to be scripted, piped, executed in batch and in parallel, none of which are common in gui apps with or without command palattes.
I've been my own boss for ~ 7 years. 2 of those as a contractor, the other 5 as a SAAS founder.

I've been able to take any day off I want, but I have NEVER been able to switch off. It took me about 4-5 years to finally be relatively OK with it. Annual leave is far better.

I've taken a bit of a "holiday" this year by taking a full time role for ~8 months and it's been a great opportunity to recharge and work with amazing people that are much smarter than me, but I'm already feeling the pinch to go back and do my own thing.

Having said all of the above, I'm very lucky that I'm 10+ years in the software industry and I've always got the option of a great full time role to fall back on.

All in all, so far I'm not sure it was worth it. I wouldn't have been as successful and fulfilled if I kept my full time role, but I'd be a hell of a lot happier.
interesting, that's better than 40% assuming that the 41 figure represents root level comments as well.

Thanks for digging into it; you didn't have to.
The Story of How Direct 3D Won OpenGL
Buying a stock photo for commercial use costs like $0.3 each if you are buying in bulk, which I assume that’s how it should work for a media company.