skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Untappd, RateBeer, and BeerAdvocate all should have much better data than this, which I believe are all at least partially crowdsourced in various ways. I'm mostly familiar with Untappd, but they're fairly strict about exporting any of their data. I looked into getting API access with them some time ago and basically decided that if I wanted to get any of my data, writing a scraper would be a better idea.
It was named after Margaret Hamilton, not Alexander
I think I'll also pad out your name, Nate______.
I have this article by a Czech coder named Vas3k: https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/

I saved it for another reason, but in it he solves for "X". Maybe it will help you.
That’s the question that needs to be asked widely.
Sadly, there are many movements against free speech, specially in the usa, because some people might say something, that someone doesn't want to hear.
Yes but the fact that non technical people can use them at all makes it infinitely more user friendly than the early internet.
Ask HN: How to Learn to Type Faster?
I'm a decent typist (80-100 WPM) but would like to type faster. What websites have good training systems that diagnose your errors and give you targeted practice? Free trial or completely free preferred.
That's not really a problem. Like a phone number, you just want the other person's number, not the server provider.

I still get on DALnet but it's less active now.

In Malaysia, #kampung on KampungChat is popular, often around 1000 people on at any one time. Many of them who used to hang out on IRC during school days.

However, thanks to the magic of internet anonymity, it's full of 40 year olds jacking off now. You have to control the conversation, similar to Omegle. I've had some nice conversations on books and especially chess on there. It appears that the kind of people who join IRC are also nerds in some form.
As per Einstein's theory of relativity, there is no universal now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

Also, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

"the distances and even temporal ordering of pairs of events change when measured in different inertial frames of reference (this is the relativity of simultaneity); and the linear additivity of velocities no longer holds true."
Just read through this and my first thought is Scott Adam’s book “how to fail at almost anything and still win big” which I feel like is a humorous adaptation of the authors suggestion to focus on process not outcomes.
So what you're saying is they can finally just do my taxes for me?
It was a Sony News Workstation, with an IBM branded grey scale monitor displaying 16 grey levels at 150 pixels an inch. Total display was about 1900x3600, a bit larger than an opened two-page newspaper spread. It was a CRT monitor, requiring two feet behind the screen for the back of the monitor and quite thick cabling. It was a Unix workstation, used to author R&D CD ROMs, back when the CD ROM itself was R&D.
Everything you wrote is correct, and there's previous writing available about this, e.g. https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
> indoctrinated against any form of nationalism

In America? Every morning in school they make all the kids stand up and recite a pledge of allegiance to the nation
>To act like those comments are somehow representative of the community is 100% untrue and I'm ashamed to see you stoop to that.

They do represent an aspect of the community. Not the community as a whole - you seem to assume that every criticism of a part of the community is an attack on the whole - rather a toxicity within it that seems to be growing, albeit slowly and not without resistance. That it is growing isn't a reflection on the users and moderators as much as the society that feeds into the community. We can only do what we can, but no one can command the tides.

To pretend this toxicity and bad behavior is something alien and wholly detached from the community, or that because comments are flagged and killed they don't represent the community, is specious and counterproductive. All of it is the community, good and bad. This rising toxicity and anger and cynicism is a real problem, and if you didn't take every criticism of the community so defensively as you seem to, I think you'd agree.

No, I don't know what can be done about it, but I'm certain it's not a problem that can be solve with software classifiers. I'm not going to be ashamed for pointing it out and complaining about it, either. If we simply quietly downvote and flag but otherwise stay silent, then there's no social pressure against that kind of behavior.

But I know you don't like repetition so I'll try not to do it that often.
Mainly a reference folder on a webshare. But was considering paperless-ng lately
You just can't justify joining a startup between series A and when they switch to RSUs. The equity amounts are usually small enough to be worthless, and if they are big they become impossible to exercise. Angel investing a smaller amount is almost always a better tradeoff.

In my last search, the series D+ and public offers were good, and the startup offers were just laughable. I couldn't justify going to any of them just to make a bunch of other people rich.

My friends in similar situations take exactly the options you described. Some become founders (getting 30-40% of a company), some are angel investing (and sometimes joining a company they've invested in "for fun"), some just can't handle the bureaucracy beyond 100 people and join startups, and the vast majority are at larger public companies or startups that are nearly there.

I really believe there's an imbalance that's due for a correction, because skilled and experienced people mostly avoid startups right now. Early valuations may need to increase, employee equity pools will need to increase, equity terms must become less confiscatory, team sizes should shrink, and timelines to exiting must decrease. Will it happen? I'm not sure. It depends on whether startups can continue to coast on the pool of less-skilled engineers joining the true believers.
Exactly, as mentioned up this article if full of errors.
There's no such thing as putting something "into" a wallet.
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There's something seriously wrong with a society where nobody can live comfortably without a white-collar job while at the same time there's no way we would survive if we were all accountants.
Seems like most people aren't used to huge protests like we used to have in western countries. Real protests (for things like worker's rights, preventing wrongful laws from passing) were quite common 20 years ago at least in Western Europe. I guess after only one generation makes people forget about them.

Things like demonstrations at every big city, roads closed with barricades, public transport frequency reductions, even shops, offices and factories halting for a day or two.

Ottawa is well under control (for now). The Ottawa or Canadian governments can evacuate the city whenever they want. They have three ways, negotiation, accepting what the movement wants or repression (which would hit Canada's reputation quite badly).
Check out https://nexusdev.tools/

Kotlin/Rust could be supported if there's enough interest.
You’re not even advocating for anything specific except action. Are you encouraging Trudeau to attack the citizens of Ottawa? I hope not
I still use a mouse pad made of hardwood and a hempen cover, and find it by far the most pleasant mouse pad I have ever used, with its very slightly rough surface that feels natural to the hand. You can even put it slightly over the edge of your desk and it won't go floppy. Easily cleaned every few months with some water and dish washing soap. In the age of mechanical mice, it also kept the mouse ball clean, but it works fine with optical mice too. I have two, one at home and one for work, and must have used them for more than twenty years now. Very durable, I am sure there would be a market for these things, but I have never seen anything like it before or since.

I bought it from the now-defunct Hober folk web radio, one of the earlier internet radio stations, which only recently finally turned off their stream. Here's an archive page describing the mouse pad: https://web.archive.org/web/20021013110318/http://banqa.uaqa...
I also have the 2019 MacBook Pro and it's been a dumpster fire. I'm running 3x 4K monitors and it's completely unusable with the dedicated GPU (the 5500M).

I spent months trying everything I could think of: downgrading to Catalina, turning off transparency/shadows, running as few background services as possible, and not using scaling at all (which was the most effective solution). And this was only with 2x 4K monitors; I added a 3rd more recently.

Nothing worked. Thermal throttling and insufficient sustained power were two problems I was able to identify (the 96W adapter is not sufficient for the system's peak power load, so it uses the battery to get over 96W of draw).

Eventually, I broke down and bought an eGPU (Blackmagic eGPU) which solved the problem. For about ~$700, I'm now able to use my machine without a hiccup. Not a great or affordable solution, but it has made my $3,100 machine usable again.
The government is spending money on infrastructure, it's just not very good infrastructure. You can open up any state's department of transportation website and find billions of dollars worth of ongoing projects for widening roads. These are not the projects people dream about, but they do satisfy the people that are invested in the suburbs. A lot of advocacy revolves around "live in a dense urban core, work in a dense urban core, and travel to other dense urban cores", and people just aren't doing that, so it does make some sense that politicians with 2 year terms aren't champing at the bit to do those projects instead of "widen congested freeway" (even though we know that never solves the problem).
Ah, maybe not. I think the angle combined with the ramp made it look slimmer than the UHK to me.
It's all relative. 35 is older than many people, but also younger than many people.

You have way more money than most people. If you move to a place that is not expensive, and if you invest the money well, you may never need to work again. That means, you get extra 8 hours a day (more if you include the commute). That means, if you compare yourself with an average 20 years old, both of you will have the same amount of free time between now and the moment each of you becomes 50.

For most people, the greatest professional achievement will be to pay their bills. Congratulations, you have already completed this game!

So now I would suggest focusing full-time on your personal and social life. Find a hobby that is neither about making money nor about consuming things (that includes travelling). With that hobby, you may find a community. With the community, you may find relationships. (Much better way of meeting people than "festivals, bars and clubs". Bars are for drunks; drunks are sad.)

People in their 20s have the advantage that the school provides a social environment for them. Past that age, you need to actively seek the company of people; it will not happen on its own. There are probably many activities happening all around you; you just don't pay attention to them. If you see something happening in your neighborhood, go there. You may find recommendations on Facebook. Try to visit some social activity at least three times a week. Especially things that you never tried before. Find a list of local non-profit organizations, call them and ask if you can help them in any way; that way you can enter lots of new bubbles.

> I feel like I've seen most things before, and it's all just different iterations of the same.

There is a possibility that although you have experienced many countries and jobs, you were doing similar things everywhere. Specifically, making money and partying; because I don't see much else mentioned in your text. What is conspicuously missing there: hobbies (other than technology), values, spirituality, prosocial behavior, art... You might want to try experimenting a bit with these and see what happens.

> I feel like my time for everything is running out.

This was always the case, you just noticed it now. Hopefully, you still have lots of time left.
I don't understand this consumerist mindset. A monitor is a monitor. Programmers don't need color accuracy so any 4k will suffice. Your thinking just incenivizes "Programming grade" monitors that are just overpriced regular ones. I don't see how you could make a several thousand dollar 4k monitor if you tried.
I'm not trying to make $1M at a startup, but it does bother me when a startup spins their compensation to be what it is because the equity will become so valuable in the future.
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Sounds like it might because you consider being nice and helpful to people as some kind of work affectation rather than a character trait. What kind of influence do you want to be in the world? If it’s negative so be it, otherwise consider being nice and helpful in general, in and out of work.
Why is use of print better than the logging module?
Except testers and users aren’t programmers. Code reviews are what’s supposed to catch this stuff, but it’s rare for a team lead or other programmer to investigate every single commit.
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

-rfakeroot has been the default since dpkg 1.14.7, released in 2007:

https://lists.debian.org/E1IekzH-0006ul-Cy@ries.debian.org
This reminds me of the Verizon One Home Phone[1] which didn't have many applications to justify it being smart but was smart for smart's sake. Breaking beyond that barrier and aligning a product, in a customer's mind, with a problem it solves is a key starting point (IMO) for someone who wants to justify the cost of a first adopter product.

I think it is interesting they branded the Simon as "the first personal digital assistant or PDA to include telephony features" rather than the telephone with PDA features. I think this is a key distinction in marketing that can go overlooked - everyone has a household telephone but a PDA was more of a niche product. Its easier to wrap your head around "I have one of these and it does more!" instead of the other way "I don't have a PDA so why would I need one that makes calls? I already have a phone!"

[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2007-01-08-the-next-verizon-one-net...
> Anti-vaxxers/Covid deniers have physically assaulted and sometimes even killed bystanders

Some extremists that are also supposedly unvaccinated have done that.

Lumping everyone together under one insulting label and then judging them by the worst apples leaves you with a skewed image.

> and it's not far-fetched to assume they don't take safety of other community members as seriously. Why would I want to share a plane with such people?

I would say it is extremely far-fetched. Of the unvaccinated people that I know, nobody is aggressive or violent or would ever engage in behavior that is risking the safety of other passengers.

Punishing them for what some extremists have done is neither fair nor lawful.

> Why would I want to share a plane with such people?

Would you prefer to share your plane with a psychopath who happens to be vaccinated or a lovely person that happens to be unvaccinated?
I've been on the fence about updating to 4K from an Ultrawide but the eye strain is the big reason I want to.
It's making me think that this will be a future fizzbuzz/bowling pin/Roman numerals kind of example for programming.
>Imagine how proud Pierre "just watch me" Trudeau must be, looking down on his son be so afraid of saying the wrong thing or hurting someone's feelings, that he is paralyzed into ineffectiveness.

Non-Canadians may not know that Justin Trudeau went into hiding because of the Ottawa protests. Seriously.

4chan is, as usual, on the case, and found Trudeau in Luskville, Quebec. <https://np.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/sj88d9/a_story_of_wea...>
Excellent question! I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the value of equity and I'm assuming I would join a company that I truly believe.

If you account the true risk, for sure is not worth it.
a previous thread from 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28413011
when did you try this?

the 13 pro max camera is insanely good so you're likely seeing a bug. I would very strongly disagree it's worse than the iPhone x or 11. I had both.

I think it's possible you're seeing a bug where the camera is using the wrong lens for the distance. I did notice earlier neat launch when I switch between 1x and 3x sometimes the software will use 1x and digital zoom to 3x instead which obviously produced horrible images. I think this got patched as I haven't seen it recently.
Exactly. CBDC is not a response to cryptocurrencies. It is a (belated) response to the fact that the way cashless economies have evolved has basically privatized money-as-infrastructure.

The privacy implications of CDBC are a real problem, but the rapidly approaching end game of the current slippery slope is one in which, among other things, all participation in the economy is gated entirely by private banks. No sovereign country should accept that. And yes, any real implementation of a blockchain as a day-to-day cash replacement will have the same problem. These are legal problems requiring a legal solution, not a technical one.
> Those would be seals (usually royal seals), in European usage.

Well, the European usage is to call them seals in a European or Near Eastern context. For some reason, exactly the same thing in an Asian context is often called a "chop" in European usage.
mouse ball?
> VAERS reports?

... Aren't proof. VAERS is data collection, not analysis. It's a giant anecdote database. There is no vetting on the input data, which is self-reported.

There is a VAERS entry describing someone being turned into the Incredible Hulk after taking MMR vaccine.

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=221...

Fortunately, there are tests and analytics on the side-effects of Ivermectin that don't rely on VAERS. You can find most of them listed in the FDA front-matter for the drug, because it was approved for other uses besides COVID. The approval process includes grasping side-effects.

The US decided, ages ago, that "snake-oil" (unproven drugs with side-effects) were something the government would step in and stop because people suffering and dying are desperate and easily-cheated. Other nations have different histories.

(... Regarding Japan, I'd double check primary sources. https://www.newswise.com/articles/misleading-reuters-article...)
Just in case anyone's reading this, there are no nazi's in the protest. There may have been some design essentially equating vaccine mandates with nazi-ism, and that got jumped on as "look, they're nazis!!!!!"

Even if a few undesirables do show up to the protest, it's squarely about mandates, despite what the people complaining might want you to believe. At least imagine that it's possible to simply have had enough of the covid restrictions, without having some additional "extremist" agenda.

Also, it's a pretty serious accusation to call someone a Nazi...
>You'll never stop running into problems that require a driver to take conttol.

That's pretty much the nail in the FSD coffin.
>This was an unimaginable breakthrough 10 years ago.

We had real time green screens 10 years ago. I don't think it's that unimaginable.
I use this but I still try to swap periodically with a normal mouse to give your thumb a rest.
I helped a kid at my church pay off a title loan that he got when he was desperate to make rent. The interest rate was 212%.
There's no guarantee that computers will end up being any better at driving than humans.
some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice i'm willing to make.
It appears to be possible but I've never done it.

https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough
> Also, military coups are a problem in many countries, but not the US

Standing armies’ threat to liberty isn't exclusively, or even mostly, via military coup, it's through acting without effective oversight against citizens when employed in a domestic security role, heightened by the separate culture and us-vs- them attitude standing forces create.

And, since the mid-19th century, it's mostly been realized in the US through standing paramilitary police forces rather than an normal standing military, as the former were established as permanent entities before regular standing armies in the US, and displaced regular standing armies from the dangerous domestic role that is the main underpinning of them being in Jefferson’s statement.
Why is it you think a CDBC can't be set up, legally, to require subpoenas?
If it breaks privacy then it is NOT secure.
I think it's the Nazi flags. Symbols of treason and rebellion, expressions of violent intent towards fellow citizens. It stopped being fellow citizens with disagreeable and even laughable views expressing their right to freely assemble and express themselves then and there.

Oh goodness.

I don't support the protests or their aims, but remember that there were a hell of a lot of protesters in CHOP and BLM in general carrying and displaying Marxist and Soviet iconongraphy. Making the whole BLM movement answer for the 80 million dead Chinese peasants and Kulaks would be pretty stupid. Do you really expect BLM to be policing their ranks like that? If you cut them a break for a few ignorant fools in their protests, why is this any different?

Don't be crazy. This whole situation is bad enough what with the break-down in law and order without hysterically shouting about Nazism.
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Yes, it's in the second paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse
> I make around $0.9M-$1.2M per year today

Wow, can I ask how you make that much per year?

I am not in that position but to me it sounds like you should not go with the startup. The chance of failure is very high

EDIT: One thing I thought you go do is invest in startups. That way you're into the startup world with less risk.
libui, even if it was properly maintained, would still only be suitable for toy applications.

As a user, I don't want to use toy applications. So hats off to those who do things properly and use the real platform frameworks.
headphones with noise cancellation (Bose).

Remarkable 2. For reading and drawing stuff e.g. new kitchen arrangement.
Make a list of the jobs that aren't "reasonably paid" then note that our society runs on a certain percentage of people being in those jobs at all times. US govt has a detailed breakdown if you're interested.

I would say falling out with your parents is a common cause of poverty. Which can be due to homophobia, alcohol abuse, abuse, any number of things. But the parent's issues have a knock on effect on the child.

Once you're in poverty it's difficult to get out. You lack a car (which makes everything more expensive and time consuming), lose confidence, get hungry and can no longer think straight... instead of up skilling it is difficult enough just to balance food and the bills.
Tamper evidence is actually the only thing that cryptographic signatures provide. If either the "document" or signature is modified then verification fails.

Cryptographic signatures don't provide evidence that someone looked at the "document" in transit. For that we use a separate sort of thing called encryption and prevent the problem entirely. The two things work together to provide the equivalent of a sealed envelope or securely folded paper document.
This is a legal problem, not a technical one.
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The strongest case for startup equity as compensation is made by Ben Kuhn, in my opinion, and it amounts to: you can diversify your equity exposure in more companies than you could as an angel because (i) the best companies will want to hire you and (ii) you can quit your company as soon as it appears to not be a rocketship, something you'll have insider knowledge of. https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt/
My browser says "An error occurred during a connection to www.trs-80.org. Peer reports it experienced an internal error."

Here's an archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210416072520/https://www.trs-8...