skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conveniently ignoring the fact that on that $180bn revenue, they generate $90bn in net income, resulting in a 30x P/E multiple (the actual way companies are valued), which is only slightly elevated vs. the S&P 500's historical average.

Conversely, what's wrong with McKesson, if their revenue is $250bn and growing, but their market cap is $40bn?
For something as important as protecting passwords, why on earth would you want something that is free?
I created Video Hub App - browse, search, and organize your videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer".

It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.

https://videohubapp.com/en/

Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Apache also uses the start user to read stuff like TLS private keys, that its normal user does not have access to.
Philips usually damage the head when camming out because as they cam out the total contact surface slowly goes to zero, so at some point the pressure exceeds the strength of the metal.
You can sync local vaults any which way. I personally use Syncthing, but any file syncing service would work.

On another note, I've been using 1Password for years, for free. The mobile app can edit local vaults without signing in, and the desktop program can view local vaults in read-only mode. If I want to edit or add a password, I do it on my phone—it's not worth $150+ to be able to do it on my PC a few times a year.
Inventor of the World Wide Web says his creation has been abused for too long
I'm just amused at all the hollywood names on the PR...I mean if Black Widow herself was in on this funding round, it really must be secure!
Have you never seen a readme with a donate button?
Spotify runs fine on Linux and you'll free up a ton of disk space!
When I worked at HP over a decade ago it was literally my job to walk into a department and find processes that were automatable, implement whatever program or automation was necessary and gtfo.

One of the highlights for me when working there was automating a process which took three people thirty days to perform. I made a point to unnecessarily optimize the program to the point where it ran in a handful of milliseconds.

These kinds of low-hanging fruits are all over certain industries and companies which aren't primarily software-development based.

I sort of miss it, in ways.
That article doesn't mention the normal distribution.

I suppose she referenced it because she hoped people would assume that an article on an important topic wouldn't just be thrown around by the same author as a citation in support of total nonsense. But people who assumed that would be wrong.

Questioning the idea of a "default human" is fine. Saying that the normal distribution implies the idea -- this is nonsense.
It depends on context, but we solved this at work with virtual desktops through VPN. The heavy lifting is done on-site, the users have a thin client that barely exceeds one Mbps.

Yes, virtual desktops suck in several aspects, but we couldn't expect everyone to have gigabit Internet at home.
GitHub Actions flaw that allowed code to be approved without review is addressed
MS will probably make a EU cloud product like they've done for a bunch of other countries and govt entities.
Fubo and sports is The Jam.
I am an exceptionally happy Bitwarden user
Landlords don't like to evict. They prefer to receive rent.
I've been making a pretty consistent amount off my open-source side-project Pterodactyl through company sponsorships.

https://pterodactyl.io
I did a fair amount of threads as small as M1.2 in aluminium and brass by hand. You absolutely want to use two number sets of taps (undersize and finishing) for that.
It would be much better if these articles started by describing the experiments themselves and experimental results.

Instead the article and even recent 'scientific' papers now start with the outlandish conjectures by the author based on some strained potential interpretation of the evidence.
I saw a video the other day of a student pilot that had very light experience (I think this was his second lesson or something like that) and had to perform an emergency landing on his own because his instructor passed out. He would’ve not been able to do a guided landing without ATC. Really short sighted to think that a software based automated system could replace controllers.
Do eviction rates correlate to rent prices at all?
I always assumed people would use Rover to find a trustworthy walker, and then just pay them in cash and cut out Rover. I guess you lose out on insurance in case your dog is injured during the walk but that doesn't seem worth it for how much they take.
> There's then no incentive for the creators to put any extra effort into making the show since they won't get rewarded for it.

This seems flaws logic. Many people have pride in their work regardless. And even if selfish reasoning they know a hit gets renewed season or goes on their resume for better future earnings.
> what headset do you use?

Immersed only supports the Quest and Quest 2.

Which, from the point of view of my wallet, is a saving grace: if it ran on the Index I'd have a small hole in my savings right now.
No, but they are definitely an excessive use of incandescent bulbs in the United States. It’s too bad they haven’t figured out how to make cheap LED strands that are more diffuse and in warm colors, as this is a significant energy burden for both homeowners and the country’s electrical grid.

Your point that their usage doesn’t accelerate over time is valid, but as the link notes, this is still a significant energy burden on the country and should be addressed over time. It can be worked on in parallel to efforts to curb the growth of crypto coin energy waste, so there’s no harm in encouraging reductions to both.
Nolan Peterson: “Have we learned nothing since World War II?” [video]
Yeah, at least in traditional financial theory, if they can invest it in a way that has NPV of <$1, then they should invest that dollar, and if not, they should just return it.

There's obvious optics to draining the cash balance, but it's not a problem per se, because worst case, they just return it to shareholders and Net Income/EV should be unaffected.
An opposite data point: I've hired people directly and through recruiters and I never felt one way or the other based on the recruiter overhead cost or not.

A good candidate is a good candidate and they're hard to find no matter the source.
Written in Rust.
What kind of mansion you live in? Highest rent I ever have paid was 400€/mo and it included water, electricity, and internet.
Oh OK for a moment I though "how could I'v missed that ???" :)
Here's a Java example that sums the populations of a list of Countries:

int population = countries.stream().mapToInt(Country::getPopulation).sum();

The Go implementation:

var population = 0
for _, country := range countries {
population += country.Population
}

It gets more perverse if you need to flatMap, or transmute components of map types, etc. If you want even more power, take a look at https://github.com/amaembo/streamex. This sort of container manipulation is bread and butter for business processing. I use it every day, sometimes with a dozen operations. This (with liberal use of `final` values) makes for some pretty functional-looking code.

I'll grant you the Kotlin or Scala version is slightly more compact. But not fundamentally different, like the Go version.

I (and the pretty much every language designer in the post-Java era) disagree with you about checked exceptions, but that's a whole different thread...
When you have whales buying game assets with crypto, you avoid platform commissions (30%) and sales taxes (10% on average and rising, globally). This is really the chief innovation of P2E games.
> The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain areas

Finding meaning in this is hard. Is there any list of the areas? Knowing the areas would allow for some deeper analysis. For example, is an area one that is trying to operate as it did pre-pandemic?

Any analysis of what this means makes a lot of assumptions.

> The renters which are most behind on rent face the highest eviction risk.

Isn't this always the case? Is there a time this isn't the case?

> On average, renters are behind three months’ rent and owe $2,550.

On average, renters aren't behind. It's renters being evicted. So, renters being evicted are, on average, those that are 3 months behind in paying their rent. Is eviction after 3 months of non-payment typical? If not, what is?
They have virtually endless developer resources and aren't building native apps?! This is insane. Not only from a performance perspective, but more importantly from a security standpoint. The more they rely on 3rd party code, the more vulnerable they are.
How to master Streamlit for data science
It is all about location, any conversation leaving that out is like comparing cars in general, some people are taking about sedans, some SUVs, some trucks, some semi-trucks...

Even within cities it doesn't help, it is down to neighborhoods and streets. These threads seem to devolve into "It is so expensive in XYZ" or "You can get 5 homes in ABC."
My website is hosted for free by Netlify. They don't allow me to see the logs though unless I pay $9/month: https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/

Damn it! Looks like I'll have to set up my own web server and save the logs myself.
> What's your plan for ensuring that such a berserk national leader doesn't retain nuclear capability in a post-disarmament world?

That is for the UN to decide, and I’m sure they will come up with a plan. Options include sanctions, boycotts, shunning from international sports and cultural events, etc. Individual nations can go further and fund opposition groups etc. International disarmament treaties like these have worked in the past, there is no reason to think that nuclear weapons are any different. What is different is the scale of the potential damage.

> When it comes to preventing war, MAD works. Wishful thinking doesn't.

I’d argue that the assumption that nuclear weapons prevent wars are speculations at best. Hoping they won’t be used by nation states in future wars and hoping there won’t be a devastating accident involving them is not just wishful thinking but also an extremely dangerous belief.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing GSheets break on-the-fly filters?
appears Google is removing the ability to do on-the-fly filters and forcing us to create filter views or their new "slicer", both of which are extremely clunky for many filter use cases

also -- appears to be on account-by-account basis, as some of our sheets have OG filters removed from menu and is still present in other gsheets on other accounts even after reload --

all accounts are getting the slicer added, just that they're selectively removing filters at the moment -- just ugh, as probably most common feature used in gsheets
>So fixing it is as easy as spinning up a wood lathe and making a new leg.

Which, for 99.99% of humanity, equates to "not easy".
This is the old fantasy that 'landlords' (one of the most inaccurate words in the English language) lounge around extracting money from the peasants living in their properties. This mom and pop rentier idea is specious, but that is exactly what the big global corporations who are hoovering up North American properties are doing this year, under a Democrat controlled administration.

Small landlords are losing not only their rental properties and their homes and are up to their eyeballs in debts in many cases.
May be it's just more people viewing his own thing, instead of the whole audience running to the number one show? The long tail?
We switched everything to Torx at one of the companies I do work for (from Phillips) because too many screws would strip out. This is SATCOM stuff, mostly maritime. You get a tiny bit of gunk seizing the thread, and you wouldn’t be able to get screws out because you couldn’t apply enough torque to loosen them without camming out and stripping them. Torx has basically completely solved the problem.

At the factory all the structural screws and bolts go on with torque wrenches (not really necessary for covers etc.). But you can get the feel pretty easily when required in the field - we’ve had so many fewer problems, it’s crazy. I’d never design something with a Phillips screw in it again!
Pet trusts: It is sad how pets are treated like kings, compared to people - but is easy to see why

Made me think of this thread, no wonder people want to walk dogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867290
I've read through this thread and you're doing a pretty poor job of convincing me the employee should speak up.

The employee has two choices:

1. Say nothing and keep collecting a paycheck.

2. Speak up about the script and start a conversation that has the possibility of leading towards termination.

It's a pretty big no-brainer for what they should do.
You can use Privacy Badger by EFF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badge...

Edit: Please note that they seem to have removed the link to Google fonts from the website now.
> No, I was saying earlier that there are limits to WUFFS

Of course there are limits to WUFFS, that's why it isn't a general purpose language. You shouldn't implement these distributed protocols in it for the same reason toothpaste isn't a good engine lubricant, you deliberately can't even write "Hello, world" in WUFFS.

And yet, if you find yourself, in your distributed system, Wrangling Untrusted File Formats, you should reach for WUFFS to do that safely. Somewhere between "The device has a single button, it's green, press it" and "We process any PDF, HTML or XML documents sent to this email address" you will realise you need all the help you can get to Wrangle the data safely, and that's why WUFFS.
It could be.

But this is Hacker News so it often means something hacker-related.
> The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain areas.

This is kinda shocking - not that the rates are rising, but that after the drumbeat we've been hearing about the coming eviction-pocalypse, it hasn't happened. Seems that there'd be pent-up demand for eviction after 1.5 years of not being allowed to, which would result in a much higher rate for a while until it leveled off. Guess that didn't happen!
I had a similar job. Probably 1 hour of real work per day. It was awesome at first. Quickly I started to hate it. I spend all day dicking around so when I went home I had already done all of my hobbies. I imagine that if I had that job now instead of in my early 20's I would be able to fill that time with more interesting things and/or family time. But I left that job because I feared I was losing any skills I had and eventually the gig would be up and I'd be forced to scramble to find another job.

These types of gigs are often a blessing and a curse.
Google is also the company that had a motto of "Don't be evil".

> However, legislation being debated in the House and Senate could break these and other popular online services, making them less helpful and less secure, and damaging American competitiveness. We’re deeply concerned about these unintended consequences.

The point of breaking up these services is so people can actually compete with them?

> Antitrust law is about ensuring that companies are competing hard to build their best products for consumers. But the vague and sweeping provisions of these bills would break popular products that help consumers and small businesses, only to benefit a handful of companies who brought their pleas to Washington.

Yeah, the benefit would be for the other S&P 500+ companies to even stand a chance. Google holds top market cap for the #5 & #6 spots today. More breaking up tech = more competition in smaller niches to make products that are absolutely amazing and affordable. Not increasing subscription plans when you have a monopoly on the market.

The fun is over. Stop trying to play God Google.
I'm all for providing a social safety net in exactly the way the US doesn't. Housing (aka shelter) is a key part of that but the way the US does this is completely backwards.

The government saying you can't evict someone is basically telling people they don't have to pay rent anymore regardless of need. Rent control is the same way: you can't raise the rent regardless of need. So these programs don't really help people in need: they help market incumbents.

This is the government foisting welfare onto the private sector rather than doing it properly.

If the government didn't want people evicted due to pandemic circumstances, what they should do is assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need.

The Internet is full of stories of people who just stopped paying rent because they didn't have to anymore as well as taking government checks intended for the landlord and just cashing them, which is a whole other issue.

But some people justify this because, you know, "f*ck landlords", which always struck me as incredibly backward: the only reason there exist apartments and houses to rent is because someone has provided the capital to build them and rent them to you.

Now you can argue maybe the government should do that. I can respect that.

But no rentals at all? So the only way to have somewhere to live is to buy a house? Really? How is that practical and not a recipe for massive homelessness?

As an aside, we do need to do something about hedge funds running around and buying up all the property, only building ultra-luxury property and the ultra-wealthy just parking money in real estate but none of those issues invalidates the need for a rental market to exist.
This is correct; the cookie banners are an attempt to annoy the EU into abandoning GDPR. Ain't gonna work - we like GDPR.

Just use a cookie-blocker (e.g. the one built into your browser), along with some kind of popup-dismisser (e.g. Super Agent, https://www.super-agent.com/). If your browser is configured to block cookies (third-party, or whatever kind you don't want), then it doesn't matter if the popup-dismisser auto-clicks "Accept".

The thing that annoys me more is those US local news-services that outright block access from IPs that they think are within the EU. They aren't pitching their content at a EU audience, so they don't care. But if they're already checking where the visitor's IP is, couldn't they just decline to serve cookies? I think they're just ignorant about GDPR.

It's not hard to grok GDPR and comply with it, unless you have a business built around collecting PII.

[Edit] Incidentally, I'm not in the EU, since Brexit. That was two years ago - but I'm still blocked from e.g. LA Times.
Ironically, Cobra Kai is on Netflix now. They bought it after YouTube stopped supporting it.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983071
Question for consumer users of this service who are also Apple users — how does it compare to Apple’s password management?
The last time someone promised to free the Men from the gift of Ilúvatar, it did not go well for them. A good reason never to use Rust!
There's a reason for people to hate it... it's a tool used for something similar to genocide, only instead of killing the individuals (like they did in the past) it is used to reduce the population out of existence over time. To get benefits as a tribal member, you need to have a blood quantum over a certain amount. That means native populations are guaranteed to shrink because there are fewer and fewer 'full bloods'.

It's also incredibly racist, when you get down to it. Does a white person need to be able to trace their lineage to claim they are white, or any other race, for that matter?

When you talk to Cherokee people, most of them are very clear that if you are part of the Cherokee culture, you're Cherokee. Throughout history, they have 'adopted' people of other races into their tribes, and those people married and had children. If an adopted white man married and adopted white woman, their children would be considered full blood, regardless of their skin color. So from a Cherokee perspective (and I assume any tribes that behaved similarly) the measure of a Cherokee is whether they are a part of the Cherokee culture, rather than what their genealogy shows.
I have a few blogs with visitors from around the world hosted in NYC in a shared hosting. What's a legal alternative to Google Analytics that would be as easy to setup? I dont want to host anything myself, just replace the JS that Analytics provide and that's all. If I can import my historic data from GA to the new service that would be perfect.
Does such a service exist? We can't ask bloggers who install Wordpress to run a instance of Matomo, PostHog, Plausible or whatever.
Read my post again. This time slowly.
Thanks, Fixed.
Used 1Password for years and years. Being forced to have my password database leave my control and be hosted by a third party, AND pay a subscription fee for the privilege was a bridge too far.

I now have a vault-warden docker running on my Synology NAS at home. I have Bitwarden running on my computers and mobile devices. I have no ports open to my NAS. I'm using a UDMpro router and have an L2TP VPN configured. This allows me remote access. I pay nothing and I'm in complete control of my password data. This has turned out to be a wonderful setup and I'm very grateful that it's possible.
Is it still full of uploads of old 128kbits/s mp3 encoded at least 3 times over 20 years with a great slideshow as video?
I was assuming people just want to hang out with a dog now and then regardless of how much it pays.
All that Fed money supply has to go somewhere.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Actually, that is not "with respect."

And you have no idea how much self-reflection is a fundamental aspect of my life. I challenge you to match it.
Yes, the output of help2man is not perfect. My main gripe is that it imposes a rather strict format for the manpage, and not all manpage markup is available. But it is better than not having a manpage at all.

The problem with non-ascii characters can be solved, though. Just add an option like "-L en_US.UTF-8" to the help2man call.
Wow. I need to step my game up...

I've been working 4 jobs SWE roles remotely (3 full time, 1 part time) for several years now. I have to admit that the most challenging aspect of working multiple jobs is finding the right balance of working hard enough at each job just to get by. Automating a lot of the busy work sounds challenging for more hands on technical roles. I may need to take some pay cuts to find easier roles that I can automate.

If anyone has any tips on how to automate parts of their engineering work I'm all ears!
Yes, every developer thinks the same about almost every API/service, that they could build it over weekend.
No, you pretty much can't - not as an US-american company at least. That's what this problem is all about, and why the privacy shield deal between the US and the EU failed.
It needs a Homebrew release https://pijul.com/manual/installing.html
Great, maybe now they'll be able to afford native apps instead of Electron...