skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the history and background! It's great to get it from a first-party source.

> Ultimately the MIT AI Lab circa 1993 was the source of the decisions to use lisp for both these commercial products.

I suppose another example is iRobot, where there's a custom Lisp-like language used, at least in the earlier robots. My understanding is that it's not used as much anymore if at all.

> ITA's use of Lisp was driven by our co-founder and Chief Scientist, Carl de Marcken.

I chuckled at his website that states "I retired long ago and almost certainly do not find whatever commercial project you want help with interesting".

> At INKY (my current startup) we use Python. By 2010, when I started the incubator that evolved into INKY, it was pretty clear that scaling a development team on a lisp stack was going to be really difficult.

If you were to start it today, with the developments of languages like F#, Elixir, and Clojure, do you think you'd have a different decision or outcome? I'm just curious, as a hypothetical.
Did they actually use that power that recently, or was this one of those "200 year old law" situations?
Yes - 1Password is excellent and in the rare class of applications that actually ships new features that are both unexpected and useful!
I've never heard it spoken in this context, but I'm also not clear on what pronunciation or enunciation has to do with it. Horses trot, gallop, and go to dressage competitions regardless of how you pronounce or stress the syllables.
Isn't this $620M investment about 5,000x the amount of a typical ycombinator investment?
Just to be clear, and I speak as an Indian. Below are the affirmative actions that are doled out to people from backward castes.

1. A portion of seats in all govt. and private institutes are reserved (roughly about 50%, about 70% in some states)

2. Students who belong to reserved castes have lower cutoffs, to be eligible for a chance at the seat (which already have a portion earmarked for them)

3. Any student belonging to the reserved category can also compete in the non-reserved category (There is no law that prohibits reserved students from applying for seats allotted to non-reserved students)

4. For all govt. jobs, which are a lot in India and include all civil service jobs, a portion of the jobs are reserved.

5. All promotions in a particular role, must have a minimum percentage of promotees from reserved castes (about 40 - 50%) and this is not conditional on performance. As in, you can be terrible at your job, but still get promoted almost as a law.

There is a lot of resentment, particularly among more recent generations, because, most of the horrendous caste oppressions have reduced quite a bit (due to the reservation system), and in many urban centers, caste based oppression, atleast in student life is minimal. So there is resentment in students where those who are reserved look like they are cutting in line.

A bit of historical background. The originator of this affirmative action, intended for it to be a limited period thing (about 5 or 10 years). However, due to the nature of politics in India, reservation and doling out sops based solely on caste of the person has morphed into vote bank politics.

The absurdity of the situation is that the very state which is supposed to reduce caste based separation in the society ends up exacerbating it due to the affirmative action policy.

I do agree that caste based discrimination occurs quite a bit in rural areas, but it is generally in decline.

Additionally, there is a special law (called the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes atrocities act), which is so powerful, that if a SC/ST caste born individual as much as makes a verbal complaint (without the need for any proof) in a police station that the offender simply used "bad language" against him, the accused is, by law, mandated to be put in prison pending a hearing.

Knowing about the state of courts in India, once a person is stuck in a case, especially one as above, it is virtually guaranteed that his life is over. The case can drag on for decades.

In such an environment, there are many instances of SC/ST caste born people are excluded from many social rings, just because they have this unfair power to destroy the life of an individual.
Really? I use both (Bitwarden for personal, 1Password for work) and find the UI for Bitwarden to be more complete and consistent. Like if I want to edit a login item, I must open a new browser tab in 1Password. Not so in Bitwarden. I still can't figure out how to consistently trigger the workflow to add a new login for the current website automatically without opening a new tab in 1Password. You click "Add Login" in Bitwarden.
Were they more bigoted and hateful than, let's say, r/FemaleDatingStrategy, r/BlackPeopleTwitter or r/FragileWhiteRedditor?
TikTok is an unusual case, because the US was determined to ratfuck Chinese social media apps a few years back. The executive orders in question only applied to a handful of companies in one country. There was no concomitant demand for, say, EU companies or anyone else to shard off US users on domestically-hosted infrastructure.

A general data localization requirement in US law would mean an end to self-hosting one website and serving two jurisdictions for the majority of web users.
This is such an underrated way of getting jobs, but it's understandable given that this field is appealing to introverts and shy individuals.

If you can network the old fashioned way, then you have a really powerful tool in your arsenal that can potentially blow away all the hours you'd spend finding jobs the online/millennial way.

What it's all about is social proof. Merely showing up to some sort of technical meetup gives you more social proof than otherwise because it means you are at least interested in the work beyond the money making level. Give a presentation, no matter how shitty, and you are even more passionate than average. Talk to people and bring up "war stories", and you are relatable and you may even come off as smarter than you really are. If you can hang out with attendees afterwards at an after party or at a bar, people can know you're cool to be around at a personal level.

Right now this will still hard to pull off properly because of the disease and all the mask wearing, but I foresee this strategy making a big comeback in the near future. It's not that you can't do it now, but I think there will be a hunger for this kind of interaction, and that's going to lead to the judgment of people in charge of hiring being compromised (in a good way). The "metaverse" and Zoom calls don't cut it in the face of the sort of one-on-one interactions you get with real networking.
To those saying this can't be true, while it may be exaggerated, I can believe the core of it.

My first job was for a doctor who fancied himself a programmer. He was a reseller of customizable medical software. The customizations were essentially really simple config files. The most complex thing was a half-baked pseudo HTML document language.

My job was "programmer". I was supposed to help customize and maintain the system.

This took absolutely no time at all. I filled my time with skunkworks, busy work, education, and job searching. I think when I left they eventually had to decommission the patient web portal that I wrote and some other bits. Because they had no one to update and maintain them. So when the parent company would change the structure of the database, they couldn't reflect those changes in what I made.

One week, I probably spent way more time making a SVG/CSS eyeball follow a mouse cursor than doing anything remotely related to my job.
I think you’re conflating the economy and the monetary system. The latter is part of the former, but only part.

Money itself is mostly done fine. Mostly: There are exceptions, but (outside of wars) I know if only a handful of examples where governments had something less stable than Bitcoin.
Ugh that subreddit is just a cesspool. Most of the stories are fake and it attracts the bottom feeders of society.

People need work to feel fulfilled. I get that a corporate job may not meet that demand but this idea that you can just eschew any work and be mentally ok isn't true.
To differentiate from git, pijul should focus on its core features, not on arcane command line functionality.

After all, you do not know how pijul will find its success. Maybe command line will end up not being used at all one day.

Remember Java? It was touted as a language for web applets first.
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For those of you who are younger and perhaps haven't experienced it, forget the movie version of true love. This story is a much better example - it's imperfect, illogical, sometimes downright gritty and yet it persists (with bouquets of flowers spread throughout).
> don't use the fact that a government is banning them to upsell your own tracking software.

This isn't very convincing.
Miners investing hundred millions dollars into operation. If court will tell them, like for example 3 biggest miners from US to make that block, they will do it to protect investment, because other way they will get sanctions from gov. Other people on non-mining nodes can fork it, but noone with millions dollars at stake will be on forked chain and only miners make blocks. Court will not be stupid and believe, that such move is legal way to disobey court.
Maybe, but unlikely.

They want someone to be available to fix/update and perhaps do other things too. Part of your salary as support staff is being there when they need you.
This would be an incredible engineering feat. I think there is still a stage and some parts that aren't reused on a Falcon 9 rocket. Also some said re-usability of parts is less economically important than assumed, it is only worthwhile if you do a lot of starts.

But to have a plane reach space and establish orbit would be awesome. Many said it would not be possible with the gravity and atmosphere of Earth.
I didn't automate my job, I just did a good enough job that things stopped breaking, and I had less and less to every day. Eventually I'd just show up, make rounds, wait for things to break, make rounds again after lunch, wait until quitting time.

I did try to improve the office productivity as a whole a few times by patching up the wonky database they used for accounting, but got shut down each time because of fear of change.

So, in the end I was being paid to show up, mostly. I lived in constant fear of getting fired, and in the end the job was outsourced out of existence. Good on them, bad for me.

That job slowly crushed my soul. I haven't recovered, a decade later.
Mainstream news more reliable than social, alternative media for health infos
Agree. It can be a tiny project, too, just make sure there's something new or unique or conversation-worthy about it. The point is to have something you can talk about that shows you can walk through the basics of a dev project.

When I've reviewed applicants for junior roles, some demonstration that they can code in a relevant domain made a big difference.

Too many people can talk themselves up and/or repeat nice-sounding things from their classes better than they can do basic coding.
how is he taking it on himself to decide what work needs to be done? He was hired to perform a set of tasks, and has written a script to accomplish them. You could argue he has taken it upon himself to decide how the required work is done and then one could say "so what?". If the business is happy with his output then everyone is a winner. To think its an employees job to suicide their employment is not the actions a rational actor takes. If that is the case, OP would be incentivized to destroy his script and return the prior method of manually processing files which he specified was not keeping pace with business needs. Society has reached a strange place when bottom of the food chain employees are expected to suffer financial hardship for the good of the company execs.
Bitwarden for private password managers and something keepass based for shared passwords in small teams works great. We use Keeweb with a keepass database on a shared Google drive. I put the master password for that in Bitwarden.

I guess for bigger enterprises you might like something with a bit more fine grained access control and auditing features. E.g. rotating the master password is a bit of a PITA. I actually did that this morning because somebody in our team left.

Most companies would want some kind of solution and most bigger companies would likely end up paying for something.
A small lawfirm that doesn't have its own IT department doesn't have engineering opportunities
I don't think every spelling correction has to be taken as an attack, as is implicit in your comment. I'm glad to have people correct me when I'm wrong, since it makes me better at whatever I'm doing. It seems to me what's unhelpful is not correction, but the feeling that one must always be correct, that there's no room for growth.

That being said, I think it's absolutely fair enough for the parent commenter not to know that. Their English is certainly better than my Czech. For Americans - divided by a common language - it's a more bewildering (and bewilderingly common) mistake.
"Sick" is definitely a relative term. I've given literally thousands of demos to people--some of which were pretty janky, back in the early days--and I've yet to see anyone throw up from VR.

There is a very small minority of people who put on the headset and immediately can't stand it. I've seen maybe 2 or 3 people in the last 6 years, so it's definitely less than 1%.

Depending on content, I've seen about 50% of women and 25% of men experience mild discomfort after using the headset for about 30 minutes. Studies on simulator sickness include that in "feeling sick".

My current project is not able to use every single sim-sickness mitigating strategy available, due to the sort of source data we're using (a lot of flat, 360 imagery in a multi-user tour-like scenario), but even there, we've only had 1 out of 100 people express actual feelings of nausea after using the headset. If people report any discomfort at all, it's on their first time, after they've not heeded our warning to limit their first interaction to 30 minutes, and then they only mention feeling a little light headed.

People report feelings of nausea after playing 1st-person shooter video games on large screen monitors or watching shaky action movies at movie theaters. This is not a problem unique to VR.
Alright, yea, if you're working under constraints like that, C sucks more than it has to.

It just doesn't feel fair to criticize C without mentioning that your experience comes from working under such unusual constraints. "Strings are hard, C sucks" is quite different from "strings are hard, C sucks when you can't rely on libraries." Also feels unfair to say you get crickets when you ask for a lib but actually you weren't even willing to use one. (There are tons of string libraries for C, it's impossible to miss them if you look around.)

Even then, if you're stuck working with only libc and your own code, there's a very high chance you're doing something wrong if you're doing math on strings and terminating them manually. There's a fair selection of libc functions that do all the math for you and will always output a properly terminated string if your inputs are a buffer & valid size and strings.
Nope. It's because the illegal product has lower cost (because complying to regulations costs money one way or the other).
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He wouldn't get any imaginary internet points for that.
Also, for some software "everyone uses" like e-mail or an office suite, you can afford maybe some complexity or annoyance. The alternative "do not use e-mail" or "do not use an office suite" is a no go for almost anyone.

The alternative "do not use a password manager" is however totally common. So if you want to get someone with limited time or affordance for annoyance (like your wife) to use a password manager, the process of setting it up and using it better be very smooth and frictionless.

1Password is very good at that part.
I don't know what jurisdiction you're referring to, here in Canada what he did would likely be illegal, and the other instance would not. I don't know of a locality where what typon said is illegal. It's not difficult to get creative when pursuing theft of company time, and here I doubt you'd even need to get that creative. I'm an EIR at a law firm so I will ask and report back.
That's only because measuring poop is the easiest way to measure food intake.
>But, I'm curious. What would have helped the Soviet Union from forming? Was there a solution?

Large-scale invasion by the rest of Europe in support of the White Army, potentially. Hard to imagine Europe having the stomach for it after WW1 though.
Hear, hear. I've found the same. Love, like any sort of relationship, takes work and compromise, but when you do it with honesty and candidly, it grows far more easily.
I'm literally in the process of build a test hardware rack most of which will be full of Pine64 hardware... Drew is spot on here, as someone that is putting my own money where my mouth is and trying to support the hardware, the priority is inverted. I've got a PineBook Pro that can't sleep because S3/S4 sleep state stuff is low level kernel & foundations stuff, there's patches and packages but its far from clear, I had sleep working once, now it doesn't, and I'm putting an entire spare PineBook Pro into my test hardware rack after I crack it open and wire all the reset switches and stuff to external cables, because I'm sick of "whoops buggered the uBoot on the SPI, looks like I have to do take the case of and do that hardware reset dance again. I shouldn't have to turn a laptop into a hardware device under test to pre-flight basic stuff like boot loader updates due to the poor state of low level support.

Don't get me wrong, it's better than a LOT of other ARM based hardware. The Pine64 guys deserve to be commended for the work they are doing, but they do have their priorities inverted and need to do something about it. The recent changes about having "community pricing" and "regular pricing" are potentially a step in this direction but it doesn't seem to have made much difference from what I've seen so far.
Can you explain in your own words, not Khan's, what you think her argument was — don't forget to cover the linked article she was referring to[1] — and why you believe it's incorrect?

1. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.6757...
to his defense it's not like there is anything serious stored there with those accounts, it's just subtitles
Being likeable is more desirable than being an amazing programmer

People would much rather work with someone mediocre who is pleasant than someone very talented but who brings everyone down, this is especially true for junior positions where you're expected to not be very good... so as unfair as it is make sure you come off as charismatic in your interview
https://archive.is/soOQm
It was literally developed for them. He even explains that he has no intention of selling it because it is pretty much custom to the one place.
You can go outside and workout just fine, you're just choosing not to. Everything about doing exercise on machines is worse for you. It's better than nothing.
It's so valuable because knowing lots of people's passwords is useful for mass surveillance, cyber attacks, industrial espionage etc.
Religion has nothing to do with it.
It's a not-particularly popular fork of Bitcoin. If they did this, I guarantee there would be a hard fork and the value of Craig's "bitcoin silver" would go to 0.
>> When I wrote that gold held its value I meant exactly that: preservation of value.

> Re-read the articles. ... If you're looking for long term inflation protection (50+ years) then it doesn't either.

How about some specific references? This was not productive (especially since the second reference is behind a paywall). Quote a specific statement and we can drill into this.

> If shit really hits the fan, you wouldn't be able to convert to a currency that you could actually live on so this point is moot.

Forgive me for what I am saying next (it is not a payback for your "re-read the articles" comment; honest), but I find statements like this incredibly naive. I think you have a pink pony view of the "catastrophic risk". Have you seen civil wars? real hunger? deaths from easily treatable infections? cannibalism?

Throughout this type of crap having some physical gold is one of the most reliable tickets out. You can often trade it (with significant haircuts) for stuff you need or a safe passage. Yes, you have to deal with underworld or gangs, but this is still much better than the alternative.

I am now one of the "rich, soft americans" and I hope my kids do not have to go through any of this. And I personally do not see it likely in the US, at least in the next 10-20 years. But the world can change fast and I still want to have a few gold coins in my physical possession, together with a good knife. No offense, mate, and good hunting!
Yes now that the EO has been written (it was announced before that), it's more clear. People can optionally do this meaning that the Gov can declare success over covid and nothing will actually happen.

The striking part of all this is that the goal seems to keep schools open rather than keep educating kids. My son's high school has 400 kids out last week, that's about 45%. Yet the "important" thing is to keep the school doors unlocked which is the only factor used in determining total success. It doesn't actually matter if anyone is there or if anyone is being educated, or even if the "educator" is trained to educate in anyway.

It's very frustrating to see your public schools constantly receive less and less over the years and then all of a sudden we need to fix the schools with random people showing up for a day here or there (and nobody shows up).
In particular because of this issue:

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-septe...
I was focused on responding to what I perceived to be the core of your argument, and that got lost by the wayside. To me, the core of the argument continues with my Condorcet point.

Specifically about this point, I disagree. You're greatly exaggerating the intrinsic difficulty of change - witness any "emergency" bill that gets passed after a few months with very little debate. I agree there are bureaucratic difficulties in general, but when discussing how well representatives represent the will of the voters, the inefficiency due to those difficulties are still quite relevant! The argument you're making basically lets you write off any outside metrics that aren't the ballot box - deferring to the opaque paternalism of "that's just how the system works" and shutting down any criticism of the representative bureaucracy itself.

Furthermore on the topic of marijuana deillegalization, most of those bureaucratic difficulties simply do not exist. No legal regime needs to be pondered and crafted, rather the laws that criminalized it in the first place simply need to be repealed - strike them by number and name. That we're likely to end up with more complex legislation rather than a straightforward repeal is entirely due to the corruption of the system where all of these incumbent moneyed interests get their says before the will of the voters can become law. That corruption is exactly what you're defending by rejecting basic objective critiques of the system's effectiveness.
hot take: this is basically UBI in practice.

"different people have different opinions" but it's funny to see the cognitive dissonance. Lots of hate ITT for anti-work, yet HN is usually a hotbed for pro UBI sentiment.
I switched from pass to 1password because my family kept on losing the password. 1password family plan is badass.
Good old remembering the days of LOIC.