skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back to a 2008 R-series several years ago after having some newer laptops fail on me. I still had it and it kept working, so I kept using it. Last year I finally decided I needed a trackpad so I upgraded to a W500 (2009) which if you squint is the same computer with everything upgraded slightly. It's low-end, but it can still do a lot of work and even load Facebook or recipe sites if necessary.

Overall, I've found that even in 2021 a Core 2 Duo can still be a sufficient low-end CPU. Thanks Intel!
I was on the same boat many years ago, when I co-founded Monodevelop, a port of #SharpDevelop to Mono. I started by porting the text component, which was the core of the text editor itself.

There was a book explaining the implementation of this IDE:

https://www.amazon.com/Dissecting-C-Application-Inside-Sharp...

I think you might find it interesting for what you are trying to do, even though it's a bit old.
Do you live adjacent to a hydro dam or solar farm, or what’s the reason for such a low price?
Even with ethics aside I think you would have to address the legal challenges assuming you are taking official channels to do this. Technically labs could release a variant that matches your criteria. There are some circles that believe Omicron was just that but AFAIK there is absolutely no empirical evidence to back that up.
Wasn't that Ariane 4?
Exactly what? The government wasn't involved here so GitHub was allowed to decide what they wanted to host and the author was allowed to do what they want with the code?
Even if it's true that Covid most direly affects people in certain cohorts (and I think it's fairly clear that this is the case), the behavior of everyone is still a matter of public health for the reason that people in low-risk cohorts can pass the disease on to people in high risk cohorts.

Part of the "public" part of public health is that sometimes it's necessary to take actions as an entire population to limit the risk to a subset of people with higher risks.

I recognize that there are many factors besides dying of Covid at play here. A lot of people have certainly suffered economically, among a great many other affects, as a result of both Covid and the response to it.

I'm not trying to oversimplify here, but it's also not as simple as "let everybody make the best decision for themselves based on the available data". Which I'll point out we (mostly) didn't have in March and April of 2020.
How about just "work," and whenever it makes sense? I've always figured that if I achieve what I'm supposed to achieve, why does it matter how or where that happens?
to try and extend this weird turn of phrase, human progress is the equivalent of making sure everyone's ass is clean.
> The NSA for example would find it difficult to spy on Senators,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spy...
This article on VS Code has been on my read list for a while. Maybe you'll get to it faster than me.

Bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster - https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/09/29/bracket-pair-...
i mean, why waste effort on curing ppl that contribute to global overpopulation.
Google: Bing Is Copying Our Search Results (2011)
There's also the fact that on the pricier machine you'll get better hardware, as in "nicer to use".

For example at work, we use HP Pro and Elite books. Just got a brand new one the other day, and while the screen is incredible compared to the 2013 models, it still looks like absolute crap compared to my 2013 MBP. And I'm not talking resolution, I'm talking washed out colors and ridiculous viewing angles.

All along these years, they also had shitty touchpads, shoddy body assembly that would dig into your wrists while typing, atrocious coil whine, loud fan spinning for no reason, power light that would blind you at night, etc.

So even if the total price paid was lower than my MBP (which I doubt, since I'm on my fourth HP in 6 years), it basically means that during these 8 years I would never have used a nice computer. And only this last one (with a zen 3) is actually faster than my old Mac.
I wonder if OSS world needs kind of Spotify/Netflix platform for OSS distribution. If I would put in analogy OSS Developers to Music authors and songs/albums to OSS projects then such distribution platform would be paying developers depending on how much their project is used and maybe some other criteria and everybody who would like to use some OSS would need to pay monthly subscription to that platform.
+1 to everything you said

The exercising point is really important. I've heard that 30 minutes of light cardio per day is equivalent to taking antidepressants.
Hey HN, I shared an earlier prototype version of pgsodium but I just released 2.0 and felt this could be a good opportunity to share some updates!

[pgsodium](https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium) 2.0.0 is a postgres extension that uses the [libsodium](https://doc.libsodium.org/) library to provide high-performance, modern cryptography support for PostgreSQL 10+.

2.0.0 includes a ton of new feature and a few bug-fixes:

* Support for [XChaCha20-SIV](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-xchacha20-siv) deterministic nonce-free encryption, this is useful for one-time workflows sacrificing a bit of speed and larger key size without worrying about nonce-handling issues.

* Support for [SignCryption](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-signcryption) Sign & Encrypt identity verification. Signcryption goes beyond public key verification to provide identity verification, and negotiating a shared-secret key between two parties to use fast streaming encryption of the payload.

* Key id support for HMACSHA 512/256, generichash, and shorthash. This extends support for pgsodium's key management feature to these useful hash functions.

* Support for low level [XChaCha20 streaming](https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/advanced/stream_ciphers/xch...). This is if you want to support your own low level algorithms on top of XChaCha20 for example, PASETO.

* More tests, docs, and small bug fixes in argument parsing

* In-memory key now protected with [sodium\_malloc](https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/memory_management), now the key has additional protection from over/underflow memory attack.

Check it out at:

[https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium](https://github.com/mich...

Please feel free to submit any issues you may have and as usual pull requests are greatly appreciated!
Laptop: rarely. My main travel one is a Thinkpad X220 I bought used for £150 in 2017. It replaced a Thinkpad X200 I bought used in 2013 for about the same price.

I recently (end of last year) bought i7 versions of the T420 and T520, because for me they are the last generation of Thinkpads with good keyboards, and I hope they will last me for a while.

My phone? It varies but typically every 18 months - 2 years. Phones lead hard lives and don't last very long.

Current: Umidigi F2. Before that: 2nd hand iPhone 6S+. Before that: PPTV King 7. Before that: Blackberry Passport (used). Before that: iRulu Victory V3. All those in the same time period that 2 old Thinkpads have covered, and all were relatively cheap.
Just as a point of technicality, this is not pro rata for YC, right?

> a pro rata clause in an investment agreement gives the investor a right (but not the obligation) to participate in one or more future financing rounds to maintain their percentage stake in the company.

This deal explicitly says "hey, here's 375k; we'll take whatever share of your company that is next time you raise." That's not maintaining percentage stake; it's actually agreeing to the possibility of a fairly small stake.
Your attempt to bend my morality to yours doesn't register with me, bud.

Some things die so others may live. That is the way it always has been, and always will be, regardless if some subset of humans decides that "that's immoral". I will continue to eat meat and hunt animals and feel zero guilt. I do not care that something was killed for food when... I dunno, grass juice and pitaya could theoretically sustain me instead (lol). Animals taste good and are calorically dense. That's 100% convincing enough for me.
Maybe in theory but in practice even in less centralized systems there is still generally just one person you need to persuade, and that one person is generally easier to persuade than if they were more central. If you compare local governments to state governments to the federal government, there is substantially more graft in the smaller governments. Local officials are cheaper to influence, have less of a spotlight on them (both from criminal investigators and the electorate), and have fewer competing interests to worry about.
How so? Because later investors force more cash than founders need?
Until we have a government willing and able to rein in the excesses of corporations, realism is going to look a lot like cynicism.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, and I don't expect such a government to just fall into my lap without a Herculean effort on the part of somebody, but I don't see any point in sugarcoating the current state of affairs. Corporations and other wealthy interests aren't just a symptom of our current malaise—they're a direct contributor to it.
PGE rates in Northern California are nearing 30cent/KWh. Nearly 5x your rates.
It isn't more work for the maintainer to _not_ close issues purely based on time. This argument has been repeated often. And with the prevalence of lazily-used stale bots, it's not feasible for anyone to make all the forks necessary.

Discussion can eventually lead to a shift, repeating this argument can't.
Cannot say, but many years ago (Italy, in constructions/earth moving industry) the Fiat-Allis track loaders were ubiquitous, with model names (depending on size/weight) like FL-4, FL-9, FL-10, etc. and it was a common joke, to call FL-1 (hand) shovels.

I guess it is the kind of thing that is worldwide or (re-) discovered independently everywhere.
So is it 4/10 or 4/9 or 4/8?
I'm pretty sure that the "most favored nation" term goes back to international tariffs.

Among the nations your nation trades with, some are your "customs buddies" (not a real term :-)), for whatever reason -- there's a lot of reciprocal trade, you're allies in war, the other nation is scary enough to shake you down... Those nations get lower customs rates. The nations that get the best rates are the "most favored nations". When countries negotiate new trade agreements, a common demand is for "most favored nation status", i.e., that you won't charge them any more than the lowest rate you charge the "most favored" country.
We can call it a tuition fee!
Maybe this was a misunderstanding, like a focus group: the pains are legit, just not the solution
If people are weaving in and out of traffic, they are likely not the most at-fault. If it is both possible and desirable to pass you on the right, you are committing a crime in many states and a civil infraction in others.

For example, in Virginia, it is explicitly lawful to pass on the right on a multi-lane highway, Code Virg. § 46.2-841, available at https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/secti... and explicitly unlawful to remain at the prevailing traffic speed in the passing lane when someone is trying to pass, Code Virg. § 46.2-842.1 ("The driver of the overtaken vehicle shall move to the right to allow the overtaking vehicle to pass as soon as the overtaken vehicle can safely do so."), available at https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/secti... .
This is awesome. Works great on my RM2, it's actually exactly what I was looking for. Great work!

The only downside I see so far is not being able to make changes to the PDF while also keeping existing writing. Not sure that's even plausible with a PDF but I may want to change the habit list/special dates throughout the year and keep all of the things I've written in there so far.
Maybe forcing workers to work when a hurricane is approaching or not increasing the minimum wage for decades while cost of living skyrocketed was the real detriment all along.
You look at the percentage, such as 95%? I'm not sure what you're asking.

Add up the losses in each conversion, plus the losses from the house wiring.
Microsoft Hit by Defections as Tech Giants Battle for Talent to Build Metaverse
Agreed. Their BIOS is full of bugs. I've investigated a few on the 7275 (business grade): I believe it's technically impossible for it to really sleep on Windows, regardless of how you look at it. It just saves a little bit of power while it looks like it's sleeping, then Windows realize it's an unacceptable power draw and pulls the plug (power off) then transparently resumes from a S4 hibernate to disk.

Check my previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29762909
Decentraland: The Metaverse's Early Mover
6mo in prison for dicking around with a laser pointer is right up there with sending the swat team to break up a bunch of teenagers partying. People routinely don't even get 6mo for crimes with a victim (on their first offense).

For nuisance behavior like this a bunch of community service would teaches the lesson just as well and not waste as many tax dollars.

Edit: FFS people, seriously? It's the aerial equivalent of some hooligan doing donuts in the middle of an intersection.

Yes, you can always come up with some appeal to emotion crap but the fact of the matter is that while the behavior was reckless and negligent nobody was harmed and there was no victim, the only transgression was a temporary risk of harm.

There's a very big difference between being a reckless nuisance and actually harming anyone or actually causing harm. Results matter. This is enshrined in statute all over the world (and in case law for common law jurisdictions). I hope all you people are smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It really bothers me that we've all accepted (not you or me specifically, but every time I see unions discussed it's the subtext) that we have two choices: no union or a shitty union.

Why can't we work for a union that is good? If the answer is that humans are involved and it'll never be possible, then that could be applied to anything and is an absurd answer. This is not a strawman, I've heard that argument many times.
Badger finds one of largest collections of Roman coins in history
Not switching yet, but evaluating the switch. Will be interesting to know how it goes.
'Challenging projects every programmer should try' - first example is a text editor with some pointers to some data structures to consider, some design patterns to use, and a few links to other resources. https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html
Surely not. If you don't raise another round, YC may just write off this as a cost of doing business (similar to failed startups they've invested).

It may be written into the terms some other backup for this situation.
New macOS vulnerability, “powerdir,” could lead to unauthorized user data access
True story: I once had someone from England joke with me "military intelligence -- bit of an oxymoron!" I retorted "so is Great Britain" and we both had a good laugh. :)
I suspect this is your first rodeo with a scaling stage startup, or smaller, company. In that respect, don't expect any of the operational details like IT, legal, onboarding, etc. to be worked out. That's the price you pay for the lottery ticket that is startup equity. That's not to say all equivalent stage companies won't have a few things worked out... but, generally, it's a shit show.

Asking for extra stuff in exchange for is fine, but given your level, you sorta get what you get / take it or leave it. I've seen startup executive hires ask for and get all kinds of stuff...but, asking for anything non standard is always a cost benefit for the company and you're probably in the rank and file ranks. So, you get what you get.

If you like things to be more established, by the book and, generally, a more mature tenure... this stage probably isn't the right place for you.
Exactly this. As an additional layer of obfuscation, it's useful-- it just should never be your only defense. People take the "never do security through obscurity" thing a little too literally.
Why don't you elaborate on that rather than posting a leading question. I don't understand what a supposedly bias scientist living in Canada has to gain from his analysis about India?
If I may shamelessly plug my startup: https://histre.com/ I'm building recommendations on top of your bookmarks / notes / highlights. This could be interesting because there is no conflict of interest in those recommendations (ie not trying push anything). It has a lot of integrations including with IFTTT and Twitter, with more coming.
In my mind, it’s a signal that we’ve solved all the problems capable of being solved by a hungry person with little experience in the problem space. The problem space that’s left is in places that require a significant amount of expertise to be able to even spot an opportunity, and the cost of developing products to address those spaces is much higher since there are ample opportunities to become a millionaire through just working for a big tech company.

The tech product world is just more mature, and more mature leaders and developers are required as a result.
I think part of it is that the presence of either is sufficient to validate a sender, but the absence of either doesn't tell you much, because there are multiple valid reasons either could be missing from a valid sender.
No, it’ll help everyone get their work situation where they enjoy never being contacted after hours.

Or if your position requires after hours work, it’ll ensure you are fairly compensated.

Goodbye ability for upper management to demand unpaid overtime or fire people for violating unspoken “agreements.”

(Obviously being union doesn’t force everyone into the same position description.)
Unfortunately BitTorrent is still heavily centralized when it comes to discoverability. Without a website hosting .torrent files or magnet links, it's very limited.
Seems reasonable from an "evil authoritarian" perspective. Make a show of trying people for spying (but don't actually convict anyone!) for the public, and then really punish the person who blew the cover on the operation.
also safe to say that a vast majority of ppl on the planet can't afford for-profit cancer treatment
How much are you "supposed to achieve"?

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Edit

Since some of the replies seem to have missed what I was alluding to, I want to put here what I replied below:

Sprint goals are based on capacity, which is loosely defined by how much your team works. Defining how much you need to work by basing it on how much you should achieve, which is based on a number defined by how much you roughly work, is circular reasoning.
This is a very interesting product, and since I have some data that could really benefitted from this, I tried it out.

I went through the upload process. But then I don't really know what to do from there. I tried some filters. I went to the invoke page, but I had no idea what invoke does or what the example output is. (Eventually figured out that I can just put text in the invoke and run it). All in all, there are a bunch of things that I don't really know what they are. I was a statistician before ml became popular, so I understand the underlying premises, but none of the modern language.

I would also really have liked to been able to filter by say, if the confidence level is over 80%, how accurate is the model. Because then I can say, well, if we use this, I can knock out tons of work at the 80% confidence rate and then just manually work with the rest.

I'm also not sure if you are seperating training/test data. All in all, looks nice, it was very easy to get started, but I'm a bit lost on what to do next and I'm having trouble judging how useful this will be to me and if I should invest more time.
Just because there are a couple exceptions doesn't mean you can write off the rest of the country's experience as irrelevant or incorrect
Hilarious analogy. "Nuclear power vs. acorns".

How's the computing power of a squirrel's brain compared to our best AI in terms of "number of system states"? I'm not in the field, so I'll elaborate my poorly-phrased question below:

My understanding is that you can calculate the number of "system states" of a computer by calculating how many different combinations of open-closed its logic gates can support. It's a mind-bogglingly huge number, but no matter what, the set of "all possible open-closed gate combinations" will be larger than the set of "the smartest, best simulation of an AI we have".

So--if memories, instincts, etc. are defined by things like "angle of neuron twist, number of transmitter molecules fired at second 0.0001, age of neuron in nS", etc., then just how many more "system states" can a squirrel's brain hold then a supercomputer can?
Erik Kennedy has an interesting hack[1] to naturally darken or lighten any color using the standard HSB color picker. He mimicks how colors generally change when shadows are cast on them in the real world—simply by twisting the Saturation and Brightness knobs in opposite directions.

I thought a lot about why that needs to happen. He describes it as an operation that is “adding or subtracting white”. Geometrically, you’re just moving the color closer or further from the white corner of the RGB cube. So I wonder if that maps close enough to moving up-and-down in the CIELAB/UV color spaces, where the Y-axis represents luminance.

[1] https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/color-in-ui-design-a-practi...
It'd be interesting to see what the payback would be like with a small-scale battery system. Obviously it'd be a lot longer and more suited to places with common outages but interesting nonetheless
That's true. I wasn't sure what else to call it. I guess it's more investment upfront at a later valuation. It's almost like a SAFE where the next SAFE acts like a priced round.

It's a non-trivial amount though -- it's probably the case that the next funding round for most YC companies gets low millions. So that's a nice chunk of the round.

Getting it upfront is unique though, and really quite valuable at this early stage. Still curious if YC will allow opting out -- I don't think I would have -- but still curious.
I went through YC years ago so maybe it's changed, but at the time I think it was ~1 company per batch would get better terms. In other words, it wasn't negotiable. This wasn't baked in, their stance was "we don't negotiate" and only in truly extraordinary cases would they make an exception.

The reason to go through YC is, quite simply, they will increase the value of your company by significantly more than 7%. If you don't believe they can add that much value, then you shouldn't do it. There aren't many people who don't think YC can add that though, just the valuation bump you'll get while fundraising is significantly greater. And on top of that they really do a great job of actually helping you, which alone is worth the 7% in my opinion.
I quit caffeine
From linked article:

> Edit: Greg Ross suggests that the figure might be possible if there is another hidden edge. Can anyone explain this?

This would appear to be the simple example of such.
First you need to create the postscript file
Alas, this isn't sufficient. For the same reason that unlimited vacation results in people actually taking less vacation, if you say this to someone without a ton of security in their position they will work approximately as much as their boss.

If the boss keeps sending emails on Friday there is no way that other people will really feel secure disconnecting.
Question aside: using arXiv for distributing such interview questions, seems to me inappropriate. Is there any SEO trick behind it?