skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealth. Columbus wanted in on the spice trade and convinced backers to support him.

At the time, we had ships that floated on the ocean.

The space race's initial run was motivated by national pride and defense. The costs to keep it up have been high, which is why SpaceX's approach at reducing fixed pre-launch costs have found success.
> a few weeks or months of experience that they can add to their resume

Don't such short employment stints speak against a candidate?
Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
I'm curious, what problem does it create for you, clicking a link you momentarily thought was to an external site before realising it's actually a discussion on this site? Honest question, you might have a good answer, I'm not trying to be rhetorical.
No sure, I didn't mean that navigation itself was hard, more that it's hard to know where to navigate to. If you can see, you can quickly scan a page and get some sort of understanding of what is where, but at least with audio that's very hard.

It seems that it should be possible to make cheap full screen braille displays, I suppose it's just that the volumes are not big enough to drive down prices.
>>>We could confirm that the vaccine discussion on Twitter also largely takes place in echo chambers, where people primarily interact with users who share their views.

I am pro vaccine, anti mandate so I suppose that makes me an antivaxxer but regardless, this idea that the antivaxx community is walling themselves off in their own echo chamber is a twisted view of reality.

Twitter, Youtube and Facebook have spent the last year or more silencing and shutting down any contrarian voices regarding this subject. To now imply that the people have chosen to ensconce themselves in self serving echo chambers is like a bully asking "Why are you hitting yourself?".
Every captcha I've encountered thus far has been pretty Americentric, and almost by definition, discriminatory against non-Americans[1].

Doubly so against non-Americans with disabilities.

Captcha makers really need to A/B test their product across a wider global sample of people, before they deploy.

On hcaptcha being worse, for those of us using Tor Browser, hcaptcha is significantly less painful than recaptcha - https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=25227431

[1] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-h...
I don't get the issue. Making gender-nonconforming people's options the same level in the UI as male and female is a bad thing? Seems like pretty standard egalitarian design to me.
Just a heads up you could use Cloudflare Email Routing to forward *@foo.com to foo@gmail.com for free

It looks like Zoho might have a free plan too but I've never tried it https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

ImprovMX also does email routing for free along with webhooks and such
Are you saying it's not a major political defeat when a government officially renames "videosurveillance" to "videoprotection" across the country (France)? I'd recommend rereading Orwell's 1984 if you haven't in a long time.
Ask HN: Starting a company with people that are not in the same country?
How do you start a company together with people that are living in multiple countries ? We are all based in the EU, but relocation is unfortunately not an option. What company forms would be applicable in such a case or how do you structure such a situation ?

Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated !
This was one of the triggering reasons why I moved away from FB Messenger as my main chat app. I knew that Facebook was pretty awful for a long time but Messenger was a very good messenger. It is fast, reliable and has a solid set of features. Of course most importantly just about everyone I knew was on it. So for the longest time I didn't have enough motivation to start moving people.

But then it started blocking links fairly frequently. Maybe one or two a week. This is in a chat with someone that I had known for months and we talked daily. It clearly wasn't spam and very unlikely that I was trying to scam. The sites seemed basically random, like they were blocking with a bloom filter without actually verifying the "maybe positives". I distinctly remember trying to send a link to a Monty Python script and it getting blocked. That was the final straw for me and I moved that chat to something end-to-end encrypted.
It is a reference to The Expanse (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/)
Some domain registrars provide a catch all email for your domains. Just forward that to your own gmail (or whatever service you are using). That way you are in control of the email addresses and can take advantage of free email services.
For some reason I'd always been under the impression that the 'F' in 'TFA' was a different word. This makes so many exchanges less hostile in retrospect. Oops.
Yep, it’s very freeing being able to just delete things even if you think you might need them later. I just recently resurrected a test which was deleted 6 months ago because it wasn’t useful at the time but is now. Version control also saves a lot of commented-out code sitting around - delete it, and if something needs doing to it then make a ticket/task.
This is so true ... the amount of pork that's got to be bought just to get the (too small) NASA budget approved is horrendous. I'd argue that the "useful" funding for space programs is a few percent of what's spent. Imagine if we let Musk turn all that pork into bacon?
I wouldn't call that laziness. I would call that being overburdened.
> But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?

Forget about all NFTs-as-scam-overpriced-jpegs, but this is exactly what web3/blockchain-based domains are for. Take a look at https://ens.domains or https://unstoppabledomains.com/
It's cool, I get it. You find these adequate solutions to existing problems. But they are replacements of some issues for new issues. That's why I'm not onboard with Redhat vision for a Linux desktop, that's why I stay away from GNOME, Flatpak, rpm-ostree distro flavours. They are almost an 80% of something, then a coin toss away of being deprecated/ignored.

Those tools are not teaching me how to fish, but how to carve out and build a fish rod, fish anatomy, and anything in between. When all I want is the proverbial fish.

Things got dicier in the server space since the IBM acquisition, e.g. RedHat 8 experience was anything but good, and their entry into the container space with UBIs. A pile of things breaking, when switching the Dockerfile from CentOS to RedHat. Even more ridiculous things, like RedHat 8 offering a license that allows X install for free, but then the ISO wasn't even distributed by torrent file and the download speed for me in EU was under 100KBps.

But anyway, here I am ranting about RedHat, when I didn't want to. My main complaint is still with Firefox, it wants me to restart the browser but I can use the existing tabs just fine for any web browsing. Nothing is bricked by the update, just Firefox deciding when I should restart my browser, just like the very vague Windows experience I left so long ago.
She's 6. Of course she didn't. She drew it on paper and then he made a website that looks like something a 6 year old drew on paper.
When you do the math I average 3 mph for 3 hours going between benches in different laboratories plus at least another mile of moving slow so that's 10 miles per day 5 days a week.

Wears out the sneakers in 3 months. People give me a hard time since I keep wearing them an additional 3 months ;)

Compromised sneakers like this don't damage my feet, my feet damage the shoes.

One afternoon per week I put back on the quads and skate the same old way. It can get hot in Texas, I wait until the temperature drops below 96 F and I'm fine.

I go about 10 mph for one hour so that's another 10 miles that day. Even after a 12 hour day I look forward to skating, it's just still fun at "retirement" age. After warming up for the first 45 min, then I fly over 30 mph for a few choice blocks before the last recovery mile or two where I cool back down.

After 15 minutes in the shade I like to be able to go into a nice place and nobody thinks I've been sweating or anything.

Certainly not a speed skater, I don't even lubricate my wheels every year, I'm trying to get more exercise in a shorter period of time after all. So the wind doesn't bother me either.

Probably more endurance and sustainability, it has taken me decades after all, and I'm still going in circles or I would never make it back to my vehicle.
Last I lived there (2015) it was very well organized and more reliable than most other infrastructure in Romania.
I don't think the package managers are at fault here and this would be much more easily fixed in Firefox itself by not touching the filesystem after Firefox starts - resources are already bundled so you only need to keep a handle open (package managers don't change file contents but replace what the filename points to) and only fork instead of executing new processes (keep a pristine process running to fork from if you want).
It depends where the lines are drawn, given pressure from religious or other organisations I could easily see websites being put into these kinds of categories without much cause to score political points. I also doubt it would make the web safe by default unless they're targetting other kinds of potentially offensive but legal/age-restricted content

Given that similar systems have disproportionately affected LGBTQIA+ groups in the past (whether that's maliciously or not), I think it's a fair point to bring up in response to this new legislation (in addition to it being an expensive waste of time and resources)
Limited rentals are actually banned unless you have a very specific reason (you plan to occupy the flat yourself, you plan to renovate extensively or the flat is meant for temp workers - so no extensions and much shorter intervals) in Germany as well.
If you're at a university that allows undergraduate research I suggest trying it at least for a semester. Undergrads at my university got to work on really cool stuff like finding water on Mars, and the bar to join is often just expressing interest and the willingness to put in time

Research is often more self-directed than what you get from classes and will teach you a lot

I'd also suggest extending your time in school in exchange for doing more internships. Internships are the best time to "step up" the caliber of company you work at and also give you a chance to try out new kinds of companies/industries/teams so you know what you want to do.

After you graduate, trying out new companies/industries/teams becomes way way harder
Buy from Amazon and Get Suspended
Long story short I needed to buy some software for business from Google for Android. Not sure what exactly I would need I've decided to buy play store gift card from Amazon. Few moments after completing a purchase I received an email that my account is suspended and I would need to click this and do that to get it reinstated. Clicking ended up in never ending circle. So I called them - the guy grilled me for a while and then said that he has to submit all data to higher ups and can do nothing himself and I should wait for email. At this point I was pretty much fuming.

To their credit few hours later email did come telling that account has been reinstated. I did have to enter credit cards again though.

Phew. I went to internets and read about the subject and people say that buying gift card is considered scum / laundering and is ground for account suspension.

Now comes a question - if the above is true then why bother selling those in a first place?
Interesting! When I first opened the post before I made the comment it wasn’t clickable, and now it is. Maybe it requires a moderator approval?
Why doesn't Google just rate limit suspected gmail accounts to incoming only and demand that the user identifies for continued use with strikes as on youtube..?

I've commented negatively about Google before, and this seems like a very harsh punishment based on what I assume is a rule/ML based anti spammer policy with no humans in the loop.
Pixelart images?? You sir have too much free time on your hands

Love the outcome though
I was wondering why the zoom was all wrong and I had to zoom out 2 steps. Turns out thats what happens when you use 125% ui scaling in windows 10.
They got a lot of exposure, even before Netflix. Now their model is to milk the brand they built. That's not traditional farming, that's marketing wrapped in farming.
As a taxpayer, paying DoD prices for a military program also doesn't make sense (aside from the question of whether we even need most military programs).
I thought you meant open space like a forest picnic table or something.

Pre-Covid, open-plan could be OK in small doses if you get there very early, and find a spot far enough away from others. Noise-cancelling headphones are good too. They are just like cattle pens but if you have your own little corner it is bearable.

The worst thing is people go to the office to shit in the toilets in the morning, amazing and horrifying. So life is better if you scope out a toilet few people use.
> the day reddit will end up like digg is always a day too late

Many people ITT are saying that they're even worse than that right now. At least the Digg big redesign was halfway usable.

On the flip side, there's now a decent chance that the next "big" discussion platform might be a properly federated system, allowing for some longer-term resilience against this sort of deterioration. Much like E-mail/Usenet vs. centralized Compuserve or AOL.
Don’t let your degree get in the way of your education.

The ability to socialise with others and form connections with people is of maximal importance when it comes to convincing someone to employ you. There is no textbook for this. Interact with different groups of people and you will soon become a very good communicator, as you will be able to talk confidently and amicably with anyone.

Beyond that, a couple of projects that you can demo in an interview is a nice idea.
Well, IMAP rather than POP3. I don’t think there’s a single legitimate reason to use POP3 any more (or has been for at least a decade).

The fetch approach has some significant caveats.

Firstly, it introduces something like 5–10 minutes of latency before you receive messages compared with forwarding, so it’s not suitable for every purpose. If you’re accessing via the webmail, forcing a refresh may trigger remote fetches too, if you know to expect something.

Secondly, if you leave messages on the server, there’s an undocumented limit at which point it will stop fetching mail, probably without notifying you. Back in early I think it was 2015, I went for a couple of weeks before I realised I wasn’t getting any email to what had been my primary address for six or so years (there were still just enough things going to my @gmail.com address that I didn’t notice), and on investigation, it told me that it refused to fetch from a mailbox containing more than 50,000 messages.

(Qualifier: I haven’t touched Gmail for five years (I now use Fastmail), so parts of this could be obsolete or altered.)
While the stuff we write down is not valuable, the process of doing so is very valuable.

Most people don't even take notes or use a shoebox/second brain to store these things. What most lifelong notetakers know is that the notes themselves aren't important, but rather the process of physically writing the notes, internalizing the information, and building new connections in your head is quite important.

The remnants of this process are mostly throw away from the author's perspective, but may be novel to a random person. This reminds me of someone uncovering a journal of nonsensical information saying "What's this about?" to then the author says "That's how I figured it out".

The beauty of it all is that it's meaningful to the author and not necessarily anyone else.
> You can't honestly say that about Firefox nowadays

I guess I need to start advocating for this more, because people genuinely don't seem to know: Firefox is, today, straight-up better than Chrome on privacy in user-visible ways; albeit maybe not immediately obvious ways.

Just off the top of my head, Ublock Origin on Chrome doesn't reliably start up when the browser starts up. If you have a page set as your homepage on Chrome, it might get loaded with ads on it even if you have Ublock Origin installed, because Chrome doesn't supply a mechanism for them to defer requests until after extensions load.

I've seen people argue that they'll switch back to Firefox after Manifest V3 is required, but Ublock Origin already works better in Firefox than Chrome (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...).

I don't know if that counts as visible though, because I see people who argue that even Safari's adblocking is "good enough". Maybe stuff like blocking ads just isn't obvious enough? Certainly all of the privacy improvements in Firefox (and I'll make the same claim, Firefox is just straight-up better than Chrome on a technical level where privacy is concerned) -- but those privacy features are not visible to even technical users, even people on HN don't notice those features.

I would think that being one of the only big browsers on mobile that has good adblocking would be enough of a selling point that almost everyone on HN with an Android phone would be running Firefox on that at least, to me that's a user-visible feature. But I know a lot of technical people who still use Chrome on Android, and I've run into people who straight-up don't know that Firefox supports adblocking on Android.

Informal poll, how many people here with an Android device are currently running Chrome on it, even though Chrome doesn't block ads on Android? If that number is high among technical users, then either adblocking doesn't count as user-visible, or people just don't know? I'm not sure what to make of that.

But I want to push back against this narrative a little bit that Firefox just doesn't have anything going for it anymore. Firefox is indisputably the best mainstream browser available available today outside of Tor for privacy, adblocking, and (even with the decline of functionality) extension support. I'm just not sure that stuff matters for market share; or maybe the gap isn't wide enough that people care.
I also do this! A bonus benefit is you can go back through the list when packing up to come home so you don’t leave your charger/toothbrush/… in a hotel.

I always feel a little obsessive or over-careful making lists for this sort of thing but it’s amazing how much easier and less stressful it makes packing for me.
OT: How is the tech scene in Taiwan?

My wife is from Taiwan. Every time we visit I am very sad to leave. We have thought about moving to Taipei.
Also caught in the Legacy drama. :-( still haven't decided what to do about it. blurg.
Race to the bottom. The political parties won't let it happen.
That's a terrible analysis. I would bet that even the innocent people convicted of a crime are more liKely to commit a crime after and this speaks more to our poorly functioning justice system than the person convicted. Besides, statistically everyone is a criminal because the number of laws are uncountable and unknowable.
Interestingly enough, you're using a state-sponsored[1] program as an example here…

[1]: yes, I know the “state” was “a bit” different in that early modern world, but still Columbus would not have done that thanks to market forces alone.
I was permanently banned last year, for no reason I could find. I do somewhat rarely run a PIA VPN at times so maybe that flagged me.

I appealed the suspension, which sounded hopeless, but about 10 days later my account was restored.
Maybe not necessarily a "problem" but giving them the right prefix makes them show up in the https://news.ycombinator.com/show and https://news.ycombinator.com/ask header links which are sometimes also implemented in HN apps as separate categories.
I've worked in: small offices of ~6, medium offices of ~15, open spaces of ~30 and one open space of ~400. Small office of ~6 is my favourite by far. I really didn't enjoy the 400 person office floor. But, there were some minor positives:

- Easy to see if someone is at their desk

- Easy to go and talk to them

- Easy to hear potentially useful context-sharing conversations in the vicinity.

Of course, each of these positives can come with disadvantages.

I haven't worked there for 5 years but I know that Covid shifted many of them home for the lockdowns. Now they are back to the office, which hasn't really changed other than there being around 60% of the people in that same big room on any given day.
Absolutely beautiful, I was expecting some kid looking fancy website. And I will leave a polite message of encouragement. Instead I thought this is extremely well made. It has the good old Apple skeuomorphism for Notepad which I know HN hated it but I love it.

And it was fast. Very fast. I am not sure if I am impressed by your implementation of your daughter's design or both. Could you describe the process of "digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs." ?

You also went from Sales and Marketing to product designer and Founder. This is going to be an interesting read if you ever decide to write about it.
Read this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LE4SR32/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Why can't you just go around selling your data to the highest bidders and use the money to pay for the myriad of already-existing hosting providers?

I'll tell you why: because you are not worth that much to advertisers. If you are so cheap to the point of asking to get your data harvested, chances are you never going to be a high-value customer.
Ha, it happened to me on Sunday, I posted a message like "We got our booster 1 month ago and didn't have any side-effects" in lockdownskepticism (which is not even an extreme or anti something sub) and started getting messages from pics/netflix/showerthoughts and so on that now I am automatically banned from subs that I never even posted in for posting in a sub that promotes medical misinformation. I send a message showing the message that I posted and one of the mods from one of the subs just blocked me from contacting them again. Basically my 14 year old account is useless now, because a message in a sub (regardless of content) triggered an automatic ban on most of the subs I subscribed to.
The Expanse authors got it from Heinlein, which was what I was referencing ;)
The significant risk of the way Google operates is there isn't much firewalling of the services. If one piece decides you're a scammer, that account can lose access to everything... And they'll tie other accounts to the offending one and lock those too.

Relying on Google is a single point of failure.
DFT as in Density Functional Theory, not the Discrete Fourier Transform. Yes, in the context of the article (quantum physics) it may not need clarification, but to some of us having the acronym expanded helps.
Another huge red flag: a warrant for share dividend was distributed with a strike price that would make 1/10 the number of short sales held by the short added to his burden. When the warrant price hit, the short sold 600k shares in a few minutes to get the price down.
> “… I no longer agree with anyone telling me that all aspects of my life must be…”

My heart goes out to you for feeling so much social pressure from a blog post. I feel the pain here.

Personally, I quickly tune-out posts which i feel bent on preaching to me. I hear your anguish, and I just want to say, ‘turn the page’.

I guess I’m sometimes missing out on catching the “best waves”, or the “bleeding edge” of technological and social change.

I do have strong feelings about ridiculous social situations. Right now I’m positively mental about customer support people (and by extension SO, Reddit, etc) who don’t answer your direct questions.

What are you going to do? Mindfulness training.
That's a quarter century of experience - thanks a lot for sharing your experience!