skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re saying that someone getting a 33% raise won’t be affected by the extra money. This is absurd for people who are making a good professional income. We’re talking about someone making $300k, not Bill Gates. This is still well within the realm of $100k/year being very meaningful.

50k post tax is enough for someone currently maxing out their retirement (including mega backdoor 401k) to nearly double their retirement investment. This could cut time to retire in half. Or it’s enough to comfortably put their kids through college in a few years. Or easily pay for private school for your kids. Or it’s enough to pay for vacations that were previously out of reach. Or enough to massively upgrade houses (assuming you want to succumb to lifestyle inflation). An extra 50k post-tax is absolutely a lot of money to someone currently bringing home about 210k post tax.
I don't always like Black's results, but I do like the opinionated nature in general and that I don't have to sit and think about how I want it configured. Wouldn't mind a few knobs though.
Can you give some examples? I’m not arguing that they don’t exist, but I do think “easy” might be a stretch.
Wow, he's pretty good, thanks a lot of recommendation.
I started to follow this approach [1] 5 years ago and it is amazing how much clearer my own thoughts in communication have become.

1. Subjects with keywords. The subject clearly states the purpose of the email, and specifically, what you want them to do with your note. Keywords: ACTION, SIGN, INFO, DECISION, REQUEST, COORD

2. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF). Lead your emails with a short, staccato statement that declares the purpose of the email and action required. The BLUF should quickly answer the five W’s: who, what, where, when, and why. An effective BLUF distills the most important information for the reader.

3. Be economical. Short emails are more effective than long ones, so try to fit all content in one pane, so the recipient doesn’t have to scroll. Use active voice, so it’s clear who is doing the action. If an email requires more explanation, you should list background information after the BLUF as bullet points so that recipients can quickly grasp your message. Link to attachments rather than attaching files. This will likely provide the most recent version of a file. Also, the site will verify that the recipient has the right security credentials to see the file, and you don’t inadvertently send a file to someone who isn’t permitted to view it.

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[1] https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre...
Please don't cross into personal attack. It's against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...).
Have a go at it here: https://www.happilybald.com/what-would-i-look-like-bald/
Amen. They used to say the first Space Shuttle launch of the year cost $3.5B, since that was the annual carrying cost of the non-unit costs. Got a lot cheaper after that, though never that "cheap".
I doubt libertarians would agree with this characterization. Rather, they would probably say some amount of policing is required to preserve our liberties, which—as a liberal and thinking person—I’m inclined to agree with (murder, theft, and oppression long predate any sort of capitalism, so implying that police are a consequence of a capitalist system is silly).
So many bot-authored and SEO-tweaked garbage listicles and advertiser-funded “reviews” and poorly-written “TIL”/“learn from me” blogs bloated by advertising. In a few ways the web is better now than it was a few decades ago, and in very many ways it is much worse. Advertising has basically leeched almost all the value out of the web.
Requires a https://handcash.io account to earn money, which is bound by KYC etc. I'm happy with Lichess.
hence epiphenomenal-ize? I don't thinkso.

Maybe it's more like epiphenomalis-m(a), where -is could be a genetive ending. I.e. the idea of epiphenomena.
I followed the link for the X32VM DOS extender, and landed at one of those generic domain squatter pages.

Anyway, the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler looks impressive.
Does anyone know how the site manages to make its cookie persistent in the browser? I've noticed a few sites manage to remain albeit it empty after the browser wipes everything, dont know if this is a browser problem or something else, like code running extremely slowly in the OS.

Edit. To be clear there is no content in the cookie, but the cookie still shows in the list of cookies in the browser. Its weird, but its not the only site.
Twitter threads are really awful to read through and, in this case, funny since it is a thread about communication.

Nothing really useful in the thread but the conclusion caught my attention: "Azure has, of course, also lapped Google on enterprise features & sales and is a solid #2 in cloud despite starting with infrastructure that was a decade behind Google's, technically."

This didn't happen because of any communication strategy from VPs to developers. It happened because MS is an enterprise company with a strong brand.
I do believe it is not possible to build a reactor in the US without NRC approval and abiding by NRC regulation. Source: the NRC website.
I’ve always found “lemming” ridiculous, especially in all software that copied Google despite not being generalist. “We’ve seen you are searching for ‘Phillips screw 24x17’, I won’t tell you that we don’t have any but here are results for ‘Screwdrivers’, just in case you want to use a screwdriver instead of a screw. Also here are a few Phillips TVs, in case this might help you fix your car.”
Ah you're right, 6to4's a 1:1 IPV6 to IPv4 translation.
Uh, well, the ... that you elided provides the context for the slips of paper analogy. The article is not literally calling them slips of paper.

> The community holds internal discussions and then votes on decisions using the token, on apps such as Snapshot, the way one might slip a piece of paper into a cardboard box to elect a class president.
DDG does much better with quotes for required/exact matches.
To be fair, $300k won't buy you that house in Palo Alto.
This is very distressing to me. When I try to communicate using examples or analogies, people often get stuck on a particular example and try to solve that example.

Communication is very hard.
"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves." - Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

Or technically a character from the book.

But I think, that's the point of the article: Smaller government for the part of government which doesn't concern you. But that in turn might look differently for people in different circumstances.

Demographics (to avoid the term "race") affect your view if police or other parts of government are essential or rather part of the problem .
No IMAP on their free tier but their Lite tier doesn't appear to be missing anything important and is only $12/year/user.

Previously (2 years ago), someone on a list I'm on reported they tried Zoho (after using Google and before switching to Fastmail) but A) found customer support to be terrible and B) their email was being treated as spam by a couple of big providers (Yahoo and AOL). I'm not too concerned about the customer support opinion but delivery is job #1, it's a major reason why I won't consider self-hosting email.
It seems "group communication can't be nuanced" doesn't capture the situation he's describing at Azure. My hunch would be management saw reliability levels as a given, something that daily orders wouldn't change whereas velocity was something that daily order could change.

But just as much, this is a Microsoft division. That company has historically won by having more features sooner than competitors with the problem of the whole thing being a mess being a secondary consideration. Sure, in this case, the risk is they'll push so hard the whole thing blows up - but that doesn't mean you don't push as hard as possible because it's at least perceived that if you don't that, whether you blow-up or not won't matter (see the concept of technical debt, etc).
The voice recognition has gone to shit as well, to the point where it may as well be editorializing. Apparently I'm not allowed to begin a sentence with the word "our" because no matter what pronunciation I use it becomes "how". I just don't get it. I learned my "computer voice" talking to garbage voice command systems in the early 2000s that insisted on crystal-clear speech and had absolutely no issues with Apple or Google voice typing until probably 2018. Since then it's a been a steady decline into near-unusability. I dare anyone to successfully get Google to voice-type the word "o'clock".
Thanks for the kind words!

Interesting idea, hadn't really considered the standalone concept. Is the desire for a self-hosted portal related to privacy? If so, the extension doesn't store any data, but if you want full assurance, you can self-host the API that's in the repo [1] and install the unpacked extension yourself [2].

[1] https://github.com/samueldobbie/troogl-extension/tree/main/a...
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24577024/install-chrome-...
Depends on who you ask. ISO and ITU would insist that VPx are the proprietary (read: non-standard) ones, which is a different sense of proprietary from what you're using (read: costs money to use).

The whole video codec industry was predicated upon a particular licensing structure where everyone was paid to participate in ISO/ITU codec development in exchange for patent ownership over the final standard. That's why Apple never touched VP8/9 - decode blocks for ISO-standard codecs were very plentiful and very good, compared to those you could get for royalty-free Google ones.

Of course, nowadays the ISO/ITU business model is broken[0], so maybe the actual standards will move towards "royalty-free by default". Or AOM codecs will outcompete ISO ones and they become the de-facto standard[1]. But I don't see that happening until and unless Apple actually ships AV1 hardware codec blocks.

[0] Specifically, a good chunk of HEVC patents are only available from a company called Access Advance, a patent pool that has overlapping membership with MPEG-LA's pool. Since there's an overlap, you have to pay for certain parts of HEVC twice, and Access Advance won't reimburse you for the duplicate license. They say you should ask MPEG-LA for a reimbursement, despite the fact that said reimbursement would be more than you actually pay for MPEG-LA's half of HEVC.

[1] One of the founders of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, is very outspoken that royalty-free codecs outcompeting FRAND codecs would mean the end of innovation in video coding. I personally find this a mistaken view (AOM's members were going to be doing the R&D anyway) but that's how the ISO/ITU people think.
Oh, that moment when I find I can simply hold down my finger.
For a worthy cause people were willing to give their lives. A couple of naysayers can not affect it in any meaningful way. If you can undermine a mission with one measly podcast, that might mean your mission is not in a good place to begin with.

Rogan routinely hosts people with very diverse views. Why wouldn't NY and JM go to Rogan's program and debate him? Why don't YOU go to his program and debate him if you are so certain you have a strong position? If you ask me, I'd say it's very sus, almost like they know they got nothing to say
A couple nights ago I was watching some blowhard host on CNN describe going to war with Russia as “defending democracy” which is something we do “because we’re the good guys.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
This is now improved. Black is compiled with mypyc, should be roughly 2X faster than before.
Discussed at the time:

PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119991 - Feb 2019 (307 comments)
As a counterpoint, when I was grew up it was very common to ask a random passerby to take a picture of you while you posed. Maybe we don't do that anymore because we've become too accustomed to doing it ourselves, maybe we're just too isolated from each other to invite/allow others into our lives, if even for fifteen seconds.
Can someone confirm if it's also broken then for bits of text that are wrapped in inline elements? I don't have a suitable example to try to search for off hand, but for example:

<div>
this is the <span className="bold">best</span> day of my life
</div>
Why not grep? Are you saying you want full text search with like, stemming and result ranking?

If I can piggyback on your question, my notes are in Word files and I sure wish I could grep those. I bet none of the answers at https://superuser.com/questions/70343/grep-in-microsoft-word work any more because Microsoft will keep changing the file format.
Yes, if they could only throw caution to the wind, give it to the lowest bidder, and relax quality and safety standards!
Constitution Dao is not the most notable at all, just one that caught the dumb dumb news cycle.
Great, I'm sure it will end up with a good solution eventually. Unfortunate that it had to be this heated about this change.

R. Hettinger needed to learn to always be graceful when commenting or criticizing the work of others, especially volunteers.

And we all saw how wild the difference is in engagement for a project like ipython between the "normal" level and the "viral" level. Users are just using it and depending on it, never interacting with the project, but if something attracts attention it can be like a thousand flies flocking to it. Often when something gets negative attention..
Have you ever played the game Little Inferno? I can't place it but this feels like that. (And I mean that in a very good way)
This is a great project, very useful!

One comment is that if you try to export a PDF containing unicode characters you'll get garbage. Here's a sample I created: https://app.tango.us/app/workflow/9e4b9623-3bd3-4209-8a18-e3...

If you export this to PDF you won't see the greek characters anymore :(
Perhaps "don't attribute to cleverness something that can be explained by incompetence" applies here.
> And if I'm not mistaken, even on HTTPS sites, the domain is visible in the request in plaintext too.

I originally misread this sentence. Yes, HTTPS requests expose the domain/subdomain name in plaintext to support Server Name Indication, which allows a server to host multiple HTTPS sites.[1] The domain/subdomain name can be concealed from the ISP with Encrypted SNI,[2] which Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver supports.

Firefox used to support ESNI as an about:config option, but in version 85, Firefox replaced it with support for an improved mechanism called Encrypted Client Hello.[3][4] ECH is not widely used yet, though Cloudflare is testing it on some of its servers.[5]

With DNS over HTTPS/TLS and ECH, the entire process of connecting to an HTTPS site can be done without leaking the domain/subdomain name to the ISP. The only remaining parts exposed in plaintext are the remote IP address and port.

[1] https://https.cio.gov/faq/#why-are-domain-names-unencrypted-...

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-encrypted-sn...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/07/encrypted-clien...

[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

[5] https://blog.cloudflare.com/handshake-encryption-endgame-an-...
This talk from 1933 aged poorly. America's initial lack of intervention in WW2 resulted in Pearl Harbor and German conquest of most of Europe. Smedley Butler can stay forgotten as a footnote in the dusty annals of history.
Reminds me of politics. Try having a nuanced public policy discussion. What's especially bad about that is it makes people identify more strongly with their respective sides and double down on more extremest ideas.
So apparently you weren't forced into hypergrowth by VCs in the way this article says you would be? Why not?
Those happened while he was alive though no? Whereas the iPhone6 and iPad Mini came after his death.
Community college.
To me it was eye-opening to see just how bad people were at understanding what they were told in the clear, simplified language of public statements regarding COVID.

I don't just mean "lay people", I mean the relatively well-educated HN crowd and even some medical professionals misunderstood what was said. Across the entire group, literally every part of what was publicly said by government agencies was misinterpreted in some way and turned into an argument.

For example, the "We don't recommend the general public wear masks at this time" was consistently misinterpreted to mean "Masks don't work", which is not what was said at all. The more nuanced and complex statement has too many parts to it, and just like Dan Luu said, the second you have an AND or an OR, (or IF, THEN, BUT, etc...) people will just blank and see some random subset of the logical statement.

The full nuanced statement was: "The CURRENT scientific evidence that is available does not support (OR deny!) that mask wearing by (specifically) the general public is (cost) effective enough to legally mandate. ALSO, at THIS TIME there is insufficient supply of masks, AND UNTIL supply can be increased the masks should be prioritised for health workers (that are trained to wear them properly)."

(This of course implies that once evidence is available to support the efficacy of public mask wearing AND the supply problems are solved, the recommendation may change.)

Something like 50% of the people listening to that misunderstood it. And then when the recommendation changed, they lost their minds. "I don't even know what to believe any more! They keep saying different things!" was a common response.

People got especially confused by the "current scientific evidence does not support", because to them that sounds like "scientists say it doesn't work". That's not what that says at all, it's just a statement to say that not enough studies have been done at all to say anything one way or another confidently.

This kind of precise speech as heard from scientists is ironically less effective than simpler but technically incorrect statements!

For developers: One issue I've had with Agile techniques is that that same people that just can't wrap their heads around government agencies changing their recommendations to fit the changing scenarios of an unfolding event like a pandemic also work in large enterprises and are unable to comprehend a plan changing. Ever. Not even once. Everything has to be known ahead, forever, and be set in stone and never change in any way. It's "just too confusing", a sentence I've heard verbatim more than once.
Because you have all the overhead of NAT plus losing functionality that cannot operate through NAT. If all you want is to have addresses that done leave the local net, just do that.

You’ll lose weight in a famine but nobody would suggest it as a diet plan.
You're on your 3rd Tesla? My parents still have their 2001 Camry and I still have my 2006 Corolla.

3rd Tesla in what, 10 years? is nothing to brag about...actually - to use your words, I find this laughable that somehow you think you've pushed your Teslas enough to see any hint of reliability issues.
> It's unbelievably safe, it has the among the lowest death toll per TWh of generated electricity.

I have never understood the rationale behind that measure. First of all, radiation only directly causes death in most extreme circumstances - but even before it will increase the likelihood of severe diseases like cancer or will cause birth defects in the next generation. Deaths/TWh captures none of that stuff.

Second, why is the energy output even in there? We know nuclear is a high-yield energy source. That doesn't tell me anything about the likelihood of accidents over time or my personal risk while living next to a power station (or next to a disposal site).

By the same logic, you could conclude that binge-drinking alcohol is safer than drinking water as it's deaths/hours of fun measure is lower.

Or that chucking Earth into the sun would actually be an even safer method of producing energy than nuclear: Sure that would cause some 8 billion deaths, but look at that energy output!
Yes, being unskilled on a construction site is called being an apprentice. No one complains about having too many apprentices around when they can get you everything you need without you needing to get off the ladder.
I have a soft spot for https://findtheinvisiblecow.com/
'It's also a reasonable expectation that 100% of your "work energy" go to the company.'

Yeah ... no, not even.
Oracle and SQL Server have been using JIT for quite some time, no need to wait for LLVM.
This totally, many Govt employees feel they are above the law. I've seen nurses, teachers, soldiers and police all dish out their own form of justice. I think its a Govt employee mindset, that they are untouchable because they "protect & serve" the country and the population and therefore can do what they like.
This however is a business dispute. Zappa vs Gore, as well as the rest of the sick legacy of PMRC, was absolutely an issue of government overreach and real censorship. If this particular case should ever require a senate hearing then I’ll be shocked.

(Luckily for those of us growing up around this time, the ‘Parental Advisory’ sticker basically became a label of good taste - if it’s got that sticker, it might ge worth listening to.)
I am a minority, and I am furious that my advancement is besmirched with the asterisk of the possibility of affirmative action. But I am powerless and unheard.
the rural eastern WA / OR / ID ones, mostly.
Having an outdated firmware (which could be solved by mandatory updates from the ISP, which appears to be the direction AT&T is going) is still much better than having no firewall at all. An incredible minority of people, who “manage” their household internet access are aware of any of this.
I can't say, I implemented my own queuing system in Python. It seemed simpler.
I've used emu2 to run ancient MASM out of a Makefile. It should work under WSL. (Edit: it doesn't propagate exit codes afaict) https://github.com/dmsc/emu2
> And the tools for managing IPv6 firewall rules suck on "SMB grade" stuff like ubiquiti and are virtually non-existant on any consumer grade router. If I have to SSH into the router and treat it like a "real" router to set up IPv6 firewall rules... it is never gonna fly for anybody who isn't proficient with "real" routers (i.e. >99% of the world).

Umm, the IPv6 firewall interface is exactly the same as the IPv4 firewall interface on UniFi[1].

1. https://i.imgur.com/waISjwe.png
>>> if you are using VBA or VBA-rr, stop using them right now. These emulators are extremely inaccurate, and also contain severe security flaws

thnx for the alert! does this include mgba?
U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Could Take a Wide Toll
If you think the Chinese system is anything to aspire to then maybe you should move there for a while and try your luck and see how far you advance? Based on strictly merit I'm sure.
The phrase "regulation" implies that the regulators--the State--are ethical actors. They aren't. How many more examples of that do we need to see before people believe it?

The dichotomy of "regulation" vs. "lack of regulation" is a false one. Neither work because too many humans are fundamentally unethical and non-trustworthy, leading to inevitable low-trust societies such as the one the West is experiencing right now.

We need to reject globalism in favor of localism. Local government is fundamentally more accountable to their constituencies if for no other reason than the physical proximity. I can always leave my house, walk or drive a few miles, and protest at city hall.
>IIUC it includes stuff like gasoline used for transportation and natural gas used for heating and cooking.

As it should, as those are the things we should be replacing with environmental friendly sources and consumers (e.g. EVs). So if nuclear can't cover energy uses of 'stuff' currently using gasoline and nature gas, it's no real good...
I care more about my principles than I care for additional visitors to my site.