skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Several programmer friends advised me to learn a new programming language like Python to do everything automatically, but I’m 98% sure that would have taken even longer – and introduced numerous additional errors into the results. I did plenty of programming in my youth, and I know my limitations.

I'm biased since I don't know spreadsheets at all, but I think Python code would have been far more reviewable.
Stupidity beats insanity by a large amount.
Reality Honks Back: A Reflection on the Reality War
why not put the burden of proof on the owner.

In the U. S., I'm innocent until proven guilty: prove it was me. No, I'm not telling you who was driving, because my lawyer said something something 5th amendment. But that's the theory, as this not-a-lawyer understands it. In practice, you'll just pay the ticket because the future of civil rights law does not rest on determining who was driving the car that day, and you know it was you anyway.
I agree - if having TOO MUCH power is the thing we are saying is a disadvantage of Nuclear that sounds like a pretty damn good problem to have. We just need to find some new creative ways to use that excess power.

Maybe an interesting way to do this would be to give "power" grants to local students or universities - applications could be sent in with proposals and test projects and then those who are accepted would get access to free power during excess times and maybe also some kind of warehouse like workspace / nearby location. Could be a huge educational benefit and drive innovation.
"Things were awful for me and they should be awful for you too"?
I mean it seems to me like of these two situations:

1) there's a lot of software that's mostly-open-source-except-Amazon-isnt-allowed-to-run-a-hosted-version-of-it-without-paying-the-authors

2) all the software from 1) is completely proprietary

a lot more people benefit from 1 than 2. But somehow it seems that OSS purists prefer #2? It seems like they would rather less Open-Source Software in the world, all to maintain the purity of the meaning?
China says SpaceX satellites nearly collided with its manned space station
Ask HN: How to make the most of your high school experience?
As a current high school junior, I'm just curious what advice you would give to your former self.

What did you do right in high school? What would you have changed?
Nice write up. It's an unintuitive concept, but this is a good demonstration of the power of cryptography.
China Scientists Discover Lithium Deposit in Everest Region
Super high voltage DC transmission lines are the new hotness in China right now - they could pair perfectly with this.
I was also going to suggest this. I have used a lot mouses and this one is my go-to. It's well built and priced. It definitely has 3 "real" buttons.
Counter: I worked very hard to minimize my student loans (I had less than 10k, and repaid them within a couple years), and I think they should be forgiven. Or at the very least, discharged with bankruptcy.
> Pretending like they have something for the future, which they don't.

I've been following some of their research with their VR/AR hardware, and it appears to me they definitely have something for the future. They're investing massive amounts of money, and they seem to be miles ahead of everyone else (well, it doesn't seem like there is anyone else). To me, they clearly do have something for the future, with what seems like a very natural progression of technology and interacting with computers, with something like the Metaverse being an eventual end goal, maxing out that technology.

Maybe Metaverse isn't what people want, but there's so much between the computers we use now and the Metaverse that they can dip their toes in, along the way.

I'll say it with naive confidence: AR/VR is the future of display technology/use.
All in good time!
A good way of thinking about such arguments to get you some new insight into your own thinking about it is:

"How does this argument about BTC[1] apply to gold?"

Eg is gold a ponzi scheme? "Dug up, refined, buried again somewhere like fort knox with a very small use other than as a store of value. (eg some electronics). Whether you decide yes it's ponzi or no it's not, then look at what other difference there is or isn't between gold and btc to justify the conclusion if that conclusion differs.

Or maybe like me you still haven't reached any conclusion about crypto-currencies beyond noting there are a lot of hucksters out there - just like in any goldrush.

[1] yes you can use some other cryptocurrency as your example and some other precious metal or stone such as diamonds or whatever if that is more useful to your thinking.
That's a problem with many federally-backed student loans out there. The government being in the job of backing student loans is inflating college costs, as there is no factor to stop price increases. They aren't available for bankruptcy. There is no risk analysis for the people being lent the money. There's no balancing between job prospects and the degrees people are earning.
Obviously it’s wrong for the Biden administration to do this, but lets not pretend that “the people of Afghanistan” would have seen a single penny of those $7bn.
I'm using castnow:
https://github.com/xat/castnow

and for our needs works perfect.
Currency is backed by only one thing: army. Even during ancient times, when people thought that the currency was backed by gold, it really wasn't. Why? Think who owns all the gold mines? In ancient times, if you discovered a gold mine, king will automatically take ownership while paying you handsomely. Soon, neighbour king will attack and swallow your kingdom with a gold mine because it had a bigger army. You get the point.

Currently, US army is the strongest and so US gets to dectact the world reserve currency. US can print trillions and export the inflation out. It doesn't matter if country X adopts gold or bitcoin as currency. They are always valued against US dollar. So US gets to dectact what a gram of gold or 1 bitcoin is valued, not other way around. Therefore, gold and bitcoin are commodity, not currency. You can sure do limited barter trades using commodities but if rest of the world suddenly ganged up and try to force in gold/bitcoin as reserve currency then you can be absolutely sure for US army to intervene. At the last resort, you can be sure for US to secure majority compute resources so they control the bitcoin. There is no reverse cycle as Ray Dalio suggests. There is no real hard or soft money to begin with. Person with the army gets to control the cash and call the shots.
Diagramming tools are pretty common. It’s not like those two players invented the concept. Even if they did, people trying to build a better lightbulb is how competition works.
I know "spreadsheeters" and I strongly suspect the author is right about his own programming incompetency.
Here's what happens when you search for "Firefox" via Bing using Microsoft Edge on Windows[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517187
> Generally speaking you only see good buildings get demolished when the land becomes worth so much relative to the structure that it makes economic sense to knock it all down and do a clean sheet because the little extra optimization you get from doing that is worth more than what you would have saved by keeping the sub-optimal structure.

My city has passed so many building code requirements on remodels that now days it is, from what contractors have told me, about the same price to remodel as to tear down and replace.

I was quoted over 150k to add a new bedroom to the 2nd floor, most of that is because the city would require me to completely replace my roof structure with a brand new one to bring it up to modern insulation standards.

I imagine, without doing the math, that the carbon footprint of tearing down a house and building a new one is much higher than whatever energy is going to be wasted by having amazing-but-not-the-best-insulation in my attic.
I'm making $120k in Seattle and it seems like I'm no better off than my mom was making $35k as a nurse when I was a kid. Sure, that was 20 something years ago but its absurd how I make nearly 4x the money and it still doesn't go as far as it used to.

Annual vacations, family car, 3 bd house at an affordable price. Sure, we didn't have cable but we would get dvd rentals and broadcast TV worked pretty well. Now you are lucky to get 3 channels that work consistently even with an amplified antenna.
I _just_ got mine paid off. I even went to one of the colleges where debt was forgiven (ITT Tech), but I didn't get one of the bullshit degrees like game design or whatever so I was able to pay mine off.

I don't yet know how I feel about this, but I can't help but think its probably best for humanity that these people can live normal lives now. On the other hand, are these people now who I'm competing with for resources (e.g. housing, etc)

All I really know is that I'm glad I finally paid mine off, at 34yrs old no less..
Funnily enough, I'm wary of people who can't make small adjustments to their behavior in respect to whomever they're interacting with. If they're incapable of adjusting to even small differences, it's a pretty good indication that their overall behavior isn't going to be so cognitive either. And sorry dude, pandemic rejection is societal institution rejection and thus definitively not "conservative". It appears you've been taken in by a bog standard political con.
Sure, but I’m not making that call, nor endeavoring to although I might look at these spreadsheets when I have some time. Just pointing out that if this is calculable, then a sufficiently complex spreadsheet ought to be able to do the job.
> What is the reason for no group emerging, forking gnome and doing it the right way? I'd actually pay to support such efforts.

That's basically what happened with XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon and Budgie, the rest of the userbase is pretty contented with other desktops like Plasma that can fill most of the same gaps.

With that being said, I too would fund a GTK2 or GTK3 fork if I could be promised developers who don't swing their ego around like a sledgehammer and refuse to apologize when things break. The GNOME project is starting to be the albatross of Linux development, and while I'm happy to develop with GTK3 ad-infinitum, I do hope that a fork emerges from someone more capable (and with more free time) than me. Come to think of it, it's kinda crazy how most modern DEs are made just because of how tired people are running the GNOME treadmill.
Build vs buy is hard. Generally you're correct, but then when your tool gets bought out by eg. Splunk (or whomever) and they raise the price 2-5x, you're kind of stuck.

Every 3rd party dependency is a complexity you must manage.

Every in house system is a complexity you must manage.

Nothing is free.
I have read the book. He says that engineering degrees are basically the one exception. They're like trade schools. Also, e.g. a social science degree is useful if you're going to be a social science professor/academic, but otherwise none of the skills or knowledge are transferable.

He also says that having any degree is "worth it" to an individual, monetarily. It's just not worth it to society to require everyone to have education they don't use.
This seems to be super path dependent.

I've seen google devices nag daily, and O365 stay logged in for weeks/months.

Too few measurements to have a strong opinion on which scenario is more likely, but it does seem interesting that a number of configuration or other issues seem to be solved by : just aske for auth again.
I think the AWS ES Service is the worst AWS service I've ever used. WE have constant issues with it and AWS staff don't seem all that comfortable working with it - which is rare in my experience. All in all, it's the most hands-on 'manged service' I've used.
16000 borrowers who were targets of fraud benefit. A drop on the hot stone, as they say. It's not at all the change in policy that the current administration promised us.
I have no sympathy for people who'd get tickets as a result of this. It's illegal, and inexcusably rude.

However, any kind of automated surveillance-based ticketing makes me nervous. We should be careful about turning off our skepticism about the misuse of information just because it's being used to punish people we have no sympathy for.
> I've seen nag "notification"-type pop-ups advertising Pocket and other things, that I have to dismiss.

Any chance you have a screenshot of this? I see those kinds of notifications for Safari and Edge (on macOS and Windows), but not Firefox.
rocket job is pretty solid too, has a lot of the pro sidekiq features for free https://rocketjob.io/
> If the speculative estimates that went into Caplan's spreadsheets were essentially made up

When Caplan released the spreadsheet and asked people to "check his math" I am pretty sure what he was really asking was for people to test that exact conditional.
I'm never running again!
I've seen plenty in both realms that were impenetrable.
I absolutely love this. The first Wordle type game I might regularly come back to.
A not insubstantial cost of that rebuild is permitting.
Are you not concerned that you are leaking exactly what domains people are looking up in realtime?

If I used a service like that I would expect some degree of privacy that goes beyond this. It's crazy to me that you're doing this to be honest

https://plausible.io/nslookup.io/pages?period=realtime
You've just outlined how the marginal cost that you originaly stated was near zero, is in fact quite a lot larger than zero (you can't open channels without locking up your node's Bitcoin). Also, each channel opening costs a Bitcoin L1 transaction fee (which is a lot larger than $0.01 and can only really grow from here).
The idea behind dual licensing is that hosting providers would pay for a license and others wouldn't. The arguments that AGPL isn't strong enough are pretty speculative.
You don't have to have staff turnover for this to emerge.

If you just keep teams starved of resources so that they're working on keeping the lights on, then escalations, and then berating them for barely ever delivering features, then they'll have zero time to address tech debt and you'll build up lava layers over time.

A section of the codebase will get so bad and escalations or features will demand it get done better, so it does, but then the rest of the codebase never comes along. And then every new developer needs to be taught which bits of the codebase are good examples and which are the ancient layers that really need to be paved over and rebuilt. And often PRs come in copying from the ancient layers and the code submitted is poor and not up to standards (not helped by the fact that some of the most critical bits of the codebase are often the worst examples because upgrading them costs the most).
The last sentence is quite far from true.

It used to be not-too-dishonest when compared to coal, but always was compared to hydro. Now we have solar and wind, besides.
I have the same gmail issues and didn’t realize you could change to text labels!
I loved that manual too. I think we got a slightly different version with our IIGS, but I loved how inviting it was. I was probably 11, maybe 12.

15 years later in grad school I found a copy lying on a chair in a computer science classroom. I think it aged well.
You could learn it in a few hours. There aren't many rules.
“It would have been a politically unpopular move domestically” isn’t quite the same thing as “there was no alternative to end the war”.
> He has a fantastic brain

His big idea was a hot or not clone.
Essentials, classic or fully-loaded version?
and does it support ublock-origin?
Have you never needed to annotate/sign a PDF? On Mac OS just open Preview (the sane default for PDFs), use the annotate tools. There's even a built-in UI for "scanning" a signature via the front-facing camera, the software automatically cuts out the background so you have a signature to drop on the page. Save and the PDF is signed. Trying to do this on Linux requires moving a mountain.
No one is stopping you from engaging in private charity. I'm just asking you not to vote for men to come with guns to enforce your charitable endeavors.

Right now the Amish are able to 'opt out of social security.' Very much this were an option for atheists and those outside of these religious exceptions. I'd agree to sign my death warrant and never be bailed out by society if they agree to let me opt out of the insurance plan.
I'm very frustrated by this perspective.

I want to live in a world full of intellectually curious, creative people who build things. I think we can best do that by giving people access to education, health care, housing, food, and physical safety.

The positive externalities of an educated populace are massive.

I think the choice is between:
(1) punish people because it's fair, and live an objectively worse life because everyone around us is miserable and dysfunctional
(2) tune policy to support people, and live an objectively better life because everyone around us is healthy, productive and creative.

Immiserating debt destroys lives, and destroyed lives makes all of us worse off.
I didn't go. Could have went for free even, still didn't go.

During interviews for my current position as an L6 in the AV space I wasn't asked until a degree until post offer, and even that was a recruiter asking in passing.

Turns out you can just... not go to college and learn things on your own.

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I don't necessarily agree that people with bad loans should hang out to dry, but in my opinion this mess should fall on schools first.

They got to use 18 year olds to cosign unsecured loans. Simple as that.

A school can't ask a bank for a $500 million dollar unsecured loan. But it can ask tens of thousands of kids to each bring back 50k.

Now that the jig is up I want to see for-profit schools held accountable for the practice.

The class of people affected by this are not the worse off in this country. There are a lot of places where trillions of tax dollars could be a bigger help than college grads.
Read up on sales, figuring this out is part of the sales process. The answer is different for every company, though there are patterns. For small companies, it's usually closer to the user than you are thinking.

To Sell is Human, The Challenger Sale, Crossing the Chasm, The Little Red Book of Sales

Don't do ads until you have a repeatable sales playbook and never outsource lead gen

You will learn sooooo much by studying and doing founder led sales. It will pay itself back many times over
By “there’s no DB”, burgundy means that the dev doesn’t interact with the DB—the state of all their code is automatically being saved to the DB at each step.
This reminds me of people online who construct gigantic walls of bad faith argument text and insist that it's up to everyone else to "debate them" and spend hours deconstructing their argument.

Just possibly, dude, your argument isn't worth anyone else's time to debunk.
I agree but should there be some kind of repercussion? It isn't like the loan amount is hidden from you. If you have never had more than 1,000 in your savings account doesn't taking out a 6 figure loan trigger some alarm bells? This stuff kinda hits me in a similar manner to rehabilitation for violent offenders. It is the obvious ideal but my faith in humanity makes me skeptical of it working well.

I know if I had a loan right now I would be biden my time until it got forgiven.
Maybe somebody can clarify, but wouldn't that land also be much less taxable per acre because the value is lower?
You seem to be ignoring my second paragraph. Supply only goes down because the builder has decided it’s not worth it to build any more to sell. That’s the market force that equalizes the price to remain above cost. At that point, as prices begin to rise, the buyer’s decision is once again only related to “how much are they willing to pay”.
In practice if they applied that "tainted address" logic strictly it would empower anyone who controls a blacklisted address to take down the entire system just by sending small amounts unsolicited to random addresses. Or not-so-random addresses—nothing prevents anyone from "donating" some crypto to, say, the address where Coinbase keeps customers' funds, thus "tainting" every withdrawal from that exchange.

It's also relatively easy to escape this sort of analysis by exchanging the coins somewhere outside the jurisdiction where they're blacklisted. A simple swap like Bitcoin → Monero → Bitcoin is enough to seriously complicate any attempt to trace the resulting coins back to a blacklisted address.

Still, keeping these donation in publicly-known receiving addresses wasn't exactly smart. A better system would be to use a different address for each donation. That would have made it difficult to identify any address to blacklist in the first place, and even if any were blacklisted the rest would remain protected (provided you don't spend them in the same transaction).
I think "the bank with a problem" is the government, in this case.
Oh yeah, there'll always be waste but reducing it by orders of magnitude is the best waste management bet I can think of. Less mining in sketchy places too. 'my waste is my energy independence strategy' :-)
>ME/CFS is defined by post-exertional malaise, so by definition it wouldn’t be improved by exertion.

That's not quite true, because it isn't all exertion that causes PEM. Generally it is only doing too much that triggers it.
I have a large number of them blocked in my /etc/hosts file. My first experience with CDNs as an ordinary user was finding they were the source of a large amount of advertising and garbage I don't want to see.

Most of the web still works, though I sometimes run into odd things, like web pages where 1+Mb of cruft is delivered by the main host, but the 2Kb of text that I wanted to read was hosted on a blocked CDN. Ah, well. I'll find it somewhere else, then.
As long as you get through the whole ordeal, no matter how you did, you'll do fine after. Marks never come up in resumes, and even if they came up in job interviews, you can fluff to your heart's content since no employer cares to see your High School marks (except for University claims, of course). So take this with a grain of salt. It's basically my thoughts on what got me through relatively unscathed.

When you count how many hours you get for each class in a semester (or tri or whatever division of the school year you have), you realize that if you skip any one class, you miss out on a big chunk and can get behind really fast. Then you end up asking the questions everyone already knows the answer to, and it's all quite distracting and frustrating for everyone around.

So if you must take a day or days off, try to catch up as soon as you can before your return. Otherwise you might have a hard time understanding what the subsequent classes you attend are even talking about. That advice obviously doesn't count for bird courses. (Make sure you always have at least one bird course!!! It's a way to get easy marks with something that's at least interesting and fun.)

If you skip a class to hang out with friends, then any subsequent hardships are yours to own.

Also... you have to find a way to at least somewhat enjoy classes with material you can't stand. For example, I really hated History because it dwelled on WWII and specific names and dates, when there were other things that are more interesting and not so deflating as reading walls of text and watching old black and white movies with that old-timey documentary accent and wobbly sound track. I barely skimmed by because I just couldn't hack it. The only saving grace was that my uncle was a captain in the air force, and he could tell the same stories in a way that were far more captivating than those depressing school films. If it wasn't for quizzing the crap out of him every time we visited, I would not have passed.

BONUS: My teacher was lenient on me because she knew I was trying to get this stuff down even when not in class. As much as I hated the class, I really respected the teacher for her understanding.
AWS is now all-in on OpenSearch.