skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that, at SpaceX, Musk is the “vision guy”, and Gwynne Shotwell is doing the nitty-gritty day-to-day operations.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-jo...

As for Neuralink and The Boring Company…well, I am typing this, not using my brain-machine interface, and my friend took the Blue Line from O’Hare this morning, and not some underground supertrain.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-elon-musk-hyp...
They make several comments alluding to the fact that I am dumb and have no idea what I'm talking about, ignores every important bit of my comments, then concludes with "trust me", and I'm hostile for saying "no thanks"?

My apologies, I guess.
The other important factor is the liability shield from these crooked medical companies. The government vaccine program doesn't really compensate adequately and it certainly wouldn't compensate for hard to diagnose autoimmune disorders caused by the vaccine
Products don’t benefit the user? Honestly, what is your stance here? It seems like your stance is “crypto bad”. Yes, people who made a product benefited, as did investors. How is that dishonest? Audius has 5m monthly users, please explain why 5 million people use something they get no benefit from.
Says the people who are downstream of the founders/traders of crypto but upstream the final bag holders.

The game is - the more people/demand who come into the place, the greater the asset value. Earliest in benefit the most.

Sure there are benefits from crypto (but those are mostly a distraction for its core use case and a way for murky individuals to validate investments to the real bagholders) but the costs and the model works in that you keep having to find more people to buy into the asset class in order to validate the most recent purchases.

In traditional equities - you get some kind of return on your investment through traditionally dividends/share buybacks from profits generated from the business - right now its a lot of capital appreciation not to dissimilar to what I described above (i.e. TINA)
If it could the title wouldn't have a question mark on the end, you'd get more clicks with a definitive title and newspapers wouldn't waste that
This is not the case. The protection from vaccination is both higher and more consistent than natural infection with Covid-19. The very best immunity observed is in people who have been naturally infected and subsequently vaccinated (I don't think any studies yet out that have tested the other way around). Those people produced antibodies which showed strong in vitro activity against even highly mutated and apparently immuno-evasive mutants and against other known coronaviruses.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04005-0
Apple is suing NSO because NSO employees created accounts violating iCloud's EULA.
Meatspace libraries often have a big collection of CDs too. This is part of our cultural heritage, and I think making it accesible in this form is a no-brainer.

(By the way, maybe it was a typo, but the spelling is "Beatles". They were better at songwriting than puns.)
> The reason that's the best choice is that it's the approach that provides logical data rather than a specific visual style, allowing people can just configure their editors to do word wrapping to whatever line length they prefer and set tab width to whatever value they prefer (including fractional values!), so it's strictly better than all alternatives.

But often you _do_ want to provide a specific visual style with your code. Vertical alignment is a powerful tool for communication and readability. Hence monospace and space-based indentation.

Also, word of advice: when a disagreement has been running for decades and involved thousands of people on both sides, casually describing your conclusion as "obvious" and belittling anyone who disagrees as "[not] very rational" signals superficiality, not intelligence.
Yeah, musk is the perfect counter example. In the brief time he left Tesla in someone else’s hands the other CEO almost killed it.

I'm also skeptical of Jack's claim about founder led companies. When you're the exec handing things over you'd have to make some comment like that to show your trust is entirely behind the new person. I don't really buy it though.

Also I thought Evan Williams and Biz Stone were the Twitter founders? Maybe I'm forgetting the history.
There were no mouseover effects in the Web rendering stack in 1995.

Copyright date != Creation/Modification date.

Archive.org offers no evidence that this page existed prior to 2008; between 1995 and 2008, it didn't manage to find that page.

The Archive's 2008 fetch serves up a blank page, with a Copyright 1995-2010 date: two years into the future. Unless the Archive screwed up, it shows that in 2008, this existed as a blank placeholder page only, whose purpose was to make a falsely dated copyright claim over an expressive work that is blank.
There's a lot of focus on how this changes the dev environment, but there's another aspect to this change:

- You could use this to remote into a CI build that failed

- You could use this to remote into a production environment that crashed. E.g., if an unhandled exception is thrown in a server, the process pauses and waits for a debugger to attach while the API gateway switches to another server.

This could merge the concepts of CI, production, and personal dev environment so that the only difference between your dev environments and production is the scale of cloud computing required.
I'll bite - this is an incomplete list:

- Save web pages to disk (in an usable form, i.e. usable by scripts etc., offline)

- curl + script to handle content - now you need puppeteer etc.

- Easy automation of web pages (same as above) - can't just do POST (yes some pages have APIs. Most are different and require effort)

- Custom CSS that works universally

- Do powerful stuff with proxies (i.e. rewrite requests, responses)

- Link to individual documents or even anchors by default

- Pages are the same for everyone, you can send people a link and expect they see it, and see it the way you do

... the list goes on, but these cover some of the most important points.
Does Chromium work?
In two days there will be December thread on https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring Each posting is required to state if remote work is possible. In the "Searchers: try" line you'll find some tools to make filtering easier.
Are you sure that was ever a feature? I can’t remember comment scores ever being visible for anyone’s comments except your own, and those are still visible.
> Whatever happened to the customer is always right?

The customer not being right.
Agreed, and web3 isn't getting any better
/snark off
yes probably they've added something during the years, but on some segments at least here in Italy, there are some crazy times and speed, light years away from PRO numbers, so there's still some cheating going on
I guess you’ll know 3 months in post hiring.

But on a serious note - take home assignments (if any) should only be a small part of evaluation.
Is it bad that I start hearing the Aladdin (1992) soundtrack whenever I read that line?
Depends on the goal to connect? Why "spam" at all if there is not clear working or influencing relationship to develop?
My outreaches have usually been to expand the network and most times I will mention in invite "I researched your company and feel connecting would be a mutual fit, so hoping we get to network and explore common interests in <domain-space>". HTH
For a data point, they bought Baremetrics and immediately removed the cancel button (which itself is a Baremetrics feature!). Now you have to call them to cancel.

I guess that is exactly the kind of stuff you'd expect a SaaS PE firm to do, but it still feels a bit sleazy to me. IIRC the founder reported that from his perspective, they handled the purchase well though.
Memory safety is a spectrum, and Go is much higher on that spectrum than C/C++.
That would require me to have a note with the generated password around otherwise you can only reset it in a state inaccessible for everyone. Or the manufacturer has a db with all serial number and pwd combination, which remains a security issue.

You could as well force the user to set a password for the device to work and a way to reset to factory default. But this would probably now be against the law.
You're welcome ^_^ Thanks for the nice comment
Probably yes, but I think the market does not care about anti competitive practices anymore because everyone is trying to do the same thing, the difference between Google and them is the scale.
> Cable news is all Senior Citizens while Gen Z is off on Twitch and TikTok

Both of those are garbage sources. It's a lateral move, in my opinion.
Now storm drains. Also last week:

"people taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29283742
HTTPS website+API, confusion about best practices?
Let's say we have a site
www.coolstore.com
that accesses
api.coolstore.com

What is the best practice and possible attack vectors when not sticking to them?

It seems that www.coolstore.com should be under https://www.coolstore.com. What about assets? Let's say we force a redirect to https:// on the site itself, but not on assets. e.g. you copy the request and change it to http you can access some javascript files. Would that be a problem?

How about API ? Is it neccesary that also api.coolstore.com requires https, even though it's only used by the website? Should it have http:// completely turned off?

Is there some manual of best practices with deploying react site + api ?
That's a terrible idea. Bitcoin is completely public, you should use a privacy coin like Monero or ZCash.
Is Technological Progress Slowing? The Case of American Agriculture
A shortcuts editor for Xfce and a couple of other things
Is this legal obstacle true everywhere? If a company stops making a breakfast cereal permanently, then I can replicate it and sell my own. Why not a browser that Opera is never going to sell again?
When it comes to social media companies, it is all relative. Compared to Facebook, Twitter seems like a saint.

They definitely could do more, but remember they did more than other social media companies - warnings on tweets, banning accounts etc.

This is not ideal, but I don't think any social media company is going to do more than Twitter did. Sad state of affairs
Since around 2014? It's not a recent change.
Right? I've been emacsing for a couple of years now but I haven't reached the critical mass yet; where I can sit down and just code something up like this.

Anyway, M-x-helm is pretty critical to my workflow; half forgotten (or guessed) commands work pretty dang well when you can complete them.
It would appear that this granularity is not part of Monterey's implementation of extensions at all. Might be a good addition to the Vinegar app.
> If your leadership puts you in a situation where that is necessary

While I'm mostly inclined to agree with your higher-level point, I think this particular argument hurts more than it helps. Military leaders plan for unexpected situations in the ultimate adversarial environment. They don't mean to put people in this situation, but they plan for it anyway because they want troops to survive even when things don't go as intended. Being able to reach an objective on time is important, and being able to run away from trouble even more so. These are elite units, put into the highest-uncertainty kinds of situations. In that context, at that age, seven-minute miles for an hour or so is not at all unreasonable. It's not even that far from what I could do, despite being 56 and never having been any kind of physical elite. "Indefinitely" and under load might be pushing the idea too far, but the idea that there should be some minimum requirement is fundamentally sound. It's the repetition and the normalization of tactics unnecessarily requiring such high levels of physical prowess that creates problems.
You didn't answer my question.

Let's suppose such Indian engineer who lives in India and has the exact same skills as a Google California engineer (including English fluency) exists.

Why does he earn less than the Californian one? Because his Indian colleagues are not as good as him?

On the flipside, I'm sure you'd agree there are incompetent Californians, yet they earn more than highly skilled Indians.

Tell me how exactly that isn't racist.
Weirdly, mocp always led to memory leaks for me on Lubuntu.

These days I mostly listen to soma.fm (you can use mplayer for their feeds[0]) or youtube in browser

[0] A small gist I am super proud of as I don't write much bash: https://gist.github.com/tomrod/0b5caceec1a10acfb134aefb5fd85...
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey expected to step down as chief executive – reports
Are the wings painted too? Would it result in detachment of the airflow?
Already done:

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM

https://webamp.org/
as far as I know they were removed in early 2011, to try if they reduce flamewars based on people trying to out-score others.
XMMS was a really nice Winamp clone for Linux way back when. Might be a good starting point.

http://www.xmms.org/
You mean Monero thou. Why use bitcoin?
It has pictures of a clay model of a production-looking Scion FR-S as well, so I can assume it has been updated at least as late as 2012.
None of this actually refutes my point. You're just suggesting that the fact that PoS is incapable of producing a consensus is outweighed by it allegedly being more decentralized. Be that as it may, it's not relevant to this thread.

Is it even true? Steemit had the exchanges do a hostile takeover, because everyone was staking through them.
> It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor.

Monitor size/resolution has gotten larger which is some of the factor but I think people downplay the shift in common effective DPI which leads to a much bigger perceived change in UI sizing design than there really has been. In the late 90s to early 2000s an effective DPI of 75-85 for a typical home user was not uncommon. Nowadays an effective DPI of 125-135 is pretty standard, many tech folk using an effective DPI of 150 because it gives the effect of having more workspace.

So what may have looked like a half physical inch wide UI element on a standard user's display in the late 90s might look like a quarter inch wide UI element on many HN reader's screens today because nobody likes to set their DPI properly :p.
I had two Indian co-workers once, and we got into talking about languages. I was a bit surprised at the time to find out that the only language they shared in common was English.
One spoke English, Tamil, and a regional dialect, and the other spoke English, Hindi, and a (different) regional dialect.

I later came to find that this is actually quite common in India. And I understand English is still widely taught there, as a legacy of British colonialism, and so many (most?) Indian people - especially in urban areas - do speak English to some extent.
Norway have had at least half a dozen language reforms in parliament that dictate the written language, and so indirectly pronunciation.

E.g. the 1907 reform removed a lot of soft consonants in favour of harder ones (e.g. "løb" -> "løp", "kage" -> "kake").

Most of them, incidentally, reducing the similarity with Danish...
So, you're telling us that you like having reinforcement of whether an idea is popular or not, and you know that that's problematic in social media, but you don't think it would be a problem here.

Why would you want a reinforcement of bias? And why would human social dynamics be different on HN compared to anywhere else?
I just can’t understand the point of the DMCA takedown here. This software is very dead and abandoned at this point, and the only thing bearing its name is vaporware that appears to be so distant from the original as to effectively not even compete with it.

Of course, the copyright holders have every legal right to do so. But doesn’t it seem pointless? This codebase probably has more historical interest than commercial by now. Am I missing something?
Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter chief executive
> well informed skeptic

Ah, I found the problem. We have the skeptic, and they effectively stop major projects dead in their tracks, but rarely are they well-informed.
I'm going to second musicbee. It's really fast and the UI is very clean. I don't doubt that foobar can be customized to one's grandest desires - it's just that musicbee works well out of the box.
It was surely to design a system of continual innovation that ensures the public domain received its due benefit from providing the environment in which the idea was created, while guaranteeing sufficient incentive to innovate by providing a reasonable but modest term for individuals to profit from their ideas.

Selecting a subset of its mechanisms and declaring that it is the goal misses the entire point of the policy.

Why did things go so off the rails after WWII? I do not think Disney did this alone.
My meta theory of the new movies is that Snoke was a representation of Mickey Mouse and First Order was Disney. The movies was an analogy of how Lucasfilm would survive a corporate takeover.
You’re slightly missing my point. I’m not claiming twitter’s niche is bigger. I’m saying for a social network to plateau at 300M users for 7-8 years that’s very embarrassing. Especially when the positioning was that “we’re a Facebook alternative.” For a social network to figure out tablestakes monetization 7-8 years post-ipo, that’s equally damning. The biggest offender is actually the glacial product development that Twitter has. Several Rudimentary features non-existent or canned because of analysis paralysis.

I’ll actually challenge you on the niche point. Twitter is niche because they completely failed to elevate the product experience to the masses. Mark was able to bring Facebook beyond a college network, Spiegel built snap beyond teens and texting, but Twitter continually fails for the average mom and pop. Every single piece of user research and UX audit finds Twitter to be very confusing for new users.

So Twitter being niche isn’t a victory. It’s an admission of defeat a la segways
> Airbus says there is no risk to the A350's safety - a point echoed by the other airlines, which have not grounded any jets and describe the issue as "cosmetic."

Talk about parties with vested interest in a “nothing to see here, keep moving” conclusion. The only opinion that actually matters here is that of the regulators.
From what I see, his system seems to be about focusing on one company, one problem at a time. Neuralink and Boring are side projects. And I believe he definitely doesn't recommend running two companies at a time.
getting Bob Ross vibes from her voice
haha yes, and Microsoft included IE4 into the Windows desktop so that users could have all the benefits of IE for free.
The fact that the Kindle is a greyscale display means you can't use it to make colour photo frames.

If you mean "why are there no colour e-ink displays" then a) there are, and b) if you look into how e-ink works it's pretty obvious why it is so difficult to do colour.
I have a bit of an off-topic question for you: I'm developing a single app for Windows in 3 languages: C#, C++, and Typescript using Visual Studio and I get excellent autocomplete/integration support. However I'm looking towards porting it to Linux, and I'm looking at some other IDE. Is there something that can handle building/debugging/autocomplete for these 3 that's not VS?
Perhaps this is an unfashionable opinion, but if you think that 'flu' is a process whereby your body gets rid of toxins, why would you want to stop it?

Rather than repress the symptoms, instead you would want to indulge it in order to get rid of as many toxins as your body is capable of flushing out in sweat, phlegm, mucus, etc.
This is bad news for safety critical computer vision systems like Tesla vision.
I don't know what you are talking about. At least for me, I've never seen comment scores on HN discussions. The only ones I see are my own, and the fading effect of downvoted comments.
You may enjoy this for a nostalgia hit: https://webamp.org/
This is a fairly poor article.

I can't take seriously anything that notes US copyright was increased primarily to reach some form of life+70 and then claims that Disney was responsible, not mentioning it's that exact number because the US had already agreed to it in international treaty negotiations because it's was the duration of copyright in Germany.

It's US centrism gone wild.
That has to be one of the best advertising campaigns in history. I've heard non-technical people in the last few years still say things like "I think our new computer has a Pentium or something". The word Pentium was synonymous with quality and speed.
Please post this on Medium and submit it to HN. I'd be glad to help this get seen.

You were robbed and deserve the handle back. And potentially compensation if an audit trail reveals an inside job.
Well yes. We don't have a vaccine that kills coronavirus, because vaccines don't "kill" anything.
People love to bash Dorsey but he had more of a backbone than Zuckerberg in every possible way. And while the game is always about money, Dorsey did try to improve the eco-system in a principled way even if arguably he failed in many ways - this courage was probably there because he was a founder of the company. The new CEO will be more like Pichai at Google or Cook at Apple - only there to make money.
> huge collaboration of countries

So what you're saying is we need a committee of countries.

I suspect the days of doing major engineering work are mostly behind us. For better or worse.
Firefox needs to go with a one locked-down process per tab model. There is no excuse these days for a single tab crash to kill off substantial portions of the browser. Moreover, there is no excuse for a tab compromise to allow access to other tabs' memory.

I use Chromium because it has both a safer and more reliable design and implementation. If web browsers were OS's, Firefox would be Mac OS 9. If Mozilla wants to understand why they're losing market share, they should try and understand why no one builds OS's like that anymore.
Might be worth updating the link: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720
Of course, but you don't own the business, so the software still needs to meet the businesses goals. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is?
I'm all for minamilism and get why it is the way it but this website does not encourage me to sign up. Most users will leave before they understand what to do and fewer still know what a PWA is.
The tweet of his email: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720?s=21
> Country A has very little recourse if Country B decides not to honor the intellectual property laws of Country A. The most that can be done is an embargo/sanction, which may or may not be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B, depending on the IP in question.

Embargo/sanctions are... quite a big deal? They will absolutely never be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B.
The AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator
I'm thinking of a triple Pi-4B 2GB to setup a cluster so that could be a gift idea for younger people (or middle-age branch out techies like me).
Where I live, you just go to the weed store and use USD.
Thank you for so delicately pointing out the problem/joke here -- I hadn't noticed it, not even back then.

My question is: in what English accents do "four" and "fore" *not* sound alike?
Not being able to find a job without experience is devastating to morale and self-confidence. Never understood the arguments for less jobs.