skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anyone who works at those companies because they want to innovate. Everybody I know used to work at more innovative (e.g. smaller, younger companies and startups) and went to those companies because the money and benefits were good. Sometimes there is some vague optimism about "working at scale", but nothing about innovation. And they end up working on some product that is a knock-off of something that already exists, because the larger org needs a presence in that space. So, that's not innovation. I see FAANG as becoming the modern equivalent of working for IBM or Microsoft in the 90s: a comfortable, good job you can expect to still have in 10 years if you want it.
But doesn't apply to my wireguard setup on my OPNSense installation at home.
I host most of my stuff on ESXi VMs, mostly Fedora.

Local Video/Music: mythtv with fanless minipc for front end.

email: (sendmail/spamassassin/dovecot with Thunderbird front end)

sharing/collaboration: Nextcloud

Chat: Matrix/Synapse with Element web for the past year or so, Openfire (XMPP) for at least a decade.

Ad block: pi-hole

DNS: local recursive resolver (BIND)

spell/usage check: langtool (minimal usage, but interesting)

torrents: deluge/deluge web

proxy (forward): squid (mostly to cache fedora updates)

Podcasts: podgrab (just installed this based on an HN story a few weeks ago. I like it!)

Firewall: Netfilter/IPTables on fanless minipc

I was also running a Diaspora pod for a while, but got rid of it. I may go back to it at some point.

Streaming: Currently I use a Roku stick for this, but have been playing around with kodi and jellyfin. I hate kodi. jellyfin is pretty cool, but can't handle large music collections (jellyfin server crashes when trying to load my 20,000+ music tracks).

I won't use them for video, since both seem to think that I should organize my video files (10,000+) according to their strictures (TV vs. Movies, etc.) rather than allowing me to maintain the organization I've used for decades (genre). What's more, using their clients, I'd likely need to transcode many videos, whereas my mythtv front end (via ffmpeg) handles just about any format I throw at it.

Now that I think about it, I self-host everything and eschew any "cloud" (read: someone else's servers) services, as my data is mine and how/when I use it is my business, not anyone else's.

I just wish that more developers would focus on ease of installation[0] instead of docker containers or rafts of non-standard dependencies, which would allow less technical folks to self host this stuff -- incentivizing a broader ecosystem for FOSS and self-hosted stuff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783477

Edit: Fixed list formatting.
The implication they are making is that nuclear power will solve the climate problem.
Ask HN: How do you handle hard to cancel subscriptions/donations?
In November last year, I had made a donation online, to a non-profit.

Fast forward today, I notice the monthly donation and want to cancel it going forward. There is no way to do it online. So I call them up, the person says they can't help and I should leave my number and they'd call back. I ask them politely why they make it so easy to give money, but so difficult to cancel. They give some word-soup answer, a collection of words which sounded like a sentence but with zero meaning or usefulness.

By now, we are all familiar with this "model", the most (in)famous example being the NT Times. Looks like non-profits have started doing it too, which is depressing.

How does one handle these, short of stopping use of credit cards completely online? Is there any recourse at all?
> shouldn't one position in the technical career ladder be correlated with technical expertise? Furthermore, technical ability is something that the employee has some control over: whereas impact to the business has more external factors.

Partially. Your position should be your technical expertise in things important to the company. There are a lot of technical skills you can learn that are not useful and so the time to learn them would be wasted at that company.
I only touched Perl a little bit, at the start of my career in the mid-to-late 00s. I didn't hate it. For our specific use case, which was generating reports from large groups of text-based log files, it was wonderful.

I'm curious, though, do you have any Perl programs you've worked on recently that are public? I'd love to take a look at how people are writing Perl these days...
Thanks for this, that’s a wonderful idea!

Can you possibly expand a bit on leetcode problems? I’ll definitely take a look if I just can get a direction where to look.
And what should replace it? Rust? Cargo? Oops. (I believe 1Password uses Rust for security-sensitive parts too, btw.) I'd genuinely like to know what the correct tech stack for a password manager is today because using the right one is important to my current endeavor.

Regardless at Uno we're working on a password manager with a native app and rust core. It's geared more towards everyday consumers than power HN users, but you might find it interesting. The rust core including api server is open source right now because that's one point where we diverge from 1P. Whatever tech stack you choose, it needs to be openly auditable so that the community can collectively ensure it remains secure. https://github.com/withuno/identity
Languages (actually, ecosystems) do have specific smells. You can perceive them on every artifact. It's an interesting observation.
Keep a close eye on testosterone levels and consider TRT if they are low.
Not 100% sure of the legality of this now with the open-sourcing, but 3DMM is readily available on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/3dmoviemaker
Fixed price contracts are also similarly abused.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-inspector-general-criticizes-addi...
I also dislike the BTftJ (best tool for the job) cliche.

Best according to who?

Based on what priorities?

Relative to what other options?

Based on what kind of experience and expertise with the various options?

My takeaway: BTftJ must only be a starting point for dialog and discussion. Shortly therafter, it is time to get real about each of our experience and biases. Otherwise, BTftJ is a only a thin veneer.
Its way more probable that it will leak some other way, like in logs IMO. Who knows what can other process running on the same machine do - it can change stuff in memory of another process so preventing env vars leakage sounds like non issue compared to that. Sure, there are more easily available tools OTB on most systems to do that but somebody needs to run them anyway...
I might agree with the general claim, but diatonic notation is a lot friendlier to amateurs. Traditionally, kids in early education learn solfège (Do, Re, Mi...) which is very much based on diatonicism.
They suggest that it could be used for NVR. Does the Pi have the on-board bandwidth to do 8x NVR?
Which banks have OAuth APIs? I would love to switch to one of those instead of exposing my password due to my bank's incompetence.
Thanks I will take a look at Freecodecamp. Greatly appreciated.
Cloud Commander – Cloud file manager with console and editor
lots of respect for what you and the team have built at Plaid, but this is exactly the opportunity. As a developer who's worked at multiple fintechs and integrated with Plaid more times than I care to remember, it's an incredibly frustrating experience.

Ask any fintech and they'll tell you - Plaid is simultaneously the best and worst vendor they use. Best because there's no real alternative, but worst because it causes so, so, so many headaches with how unreliable the product is. The time spent building product workarounds at every company to account for Plaid issues is tremendous.

If Stripe thinks they can build something better, then I'd really love them to try.

Edit: William (co-founder of Plaid) seems to have deleted his comment, but it was basically accusing Stripe of repeatedly copying other companies.
I wonder how VR will change this.

I got into tech as a teenager in the 90s because I was such an introvert and it felt like a way to game the system and maybe meet girls or avoid having to get an actual job.

Hah. Waking up every day in this bizarro world of endless overwork just to survive while some other geek wins it all and disappoints humanity has gotten stale. And even with all of this connectedness, people often feel more separated than ever. Like everything I ever wanted came to pass in a corrupted fashion.

So far VR is one of the few things that I consider a tentative cure for depression. I think it's because shifting out of this reality is pretty much guaranteed to feel better than staying at this point. So maybe VR will end up being the internet that I thought this one was going to be.
Is anyone using it, or does anyone recommend a similar web file browser?
Honest, albeit very naive question:

Why not start a college? Does he not want the additional headaches and costs, is he playing status games, does he think Stanford could do a better job running this school than him, or some combination of the three
Couldn't the Wikimedia Foundation raise some money to produce these kinds of videos? I wonder why they don't.
I agree on uniqueness. I think you really want at least 40 bits of entropy (so no expected conflicts up until about a million usernames).
Ditto, been looking for exactly the same thing. I don't want to lose control of my lights just because my WiFi goes down, I want a smart light switch that becomes a dumb light switch when the smart part fails
It was my understanding that those databases do have sparse indexes, but admittedly I may have applied that assumption based on my majority experience with Clickhouse where it uses LSM Tree engines and also has a sparse index.

Would it be correct to say this is like an embeddable clickhouse engine, minus the SQL interface and using Arrow and Parquet as the storage format?
Cerebral app over-prescribed ADHD meds, ex-employees say
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences
I basically agree. On a piano, this notation has the significant negative of making it unclear which notes are played on "white" keys and which are played on "black" keys, in the key of C. It's pretty useful to have that explicitly marked.
Psych study with n=114. Given the reproducibility crisis in psychology, I'll wait for the replication.
Oh hey I worked on this! Mostly Graal2K and a bit of Kingdoms, I used to go by "GodSpeed" and had a sparring area :)

Stefan Knorr inspired me to get into development and is a legend in my mind, I recall staying up at 4am walking around in early builds of Graal2K with him and seeing the infancy of "GANIs" (Graal Animations). Unixmad on the other hand...

If anyone knows what happened to Birdbird let me know, he was the most naturally talented level designer ever!
AirPods in their first year shipped more bluetooth headsets than the all bluetooth headsets from all other manufacturers combined ever (or something insane like that). AirPods by itself is a Fortune 500 company. Apple Watch is a Fortune 100. AirTags is a 1B revenue business.

Their scale is so immense that "flops" means "not a breakout success that resulted in a massive instantaneous increase to their bottom line". It also means the pressure is on them to have everything right (from the HW side) from the initial launch in terms of volume, build quality, reliability, & value add or they will have a meaningful setback to an expensive proposition (no room for exploring with smaller-scale things which is where competitors should start - Oura for example).
I've realized that vitamin D is super important to my overall happiness, I now supplement with D3 and get outside for at least 30 mins in the middle of the day.

Additionally I have invested in a small home gym setup (bench, adjustable dumbbells, and a yoga mat) and followed Matt Might's least-resistance philosophy approach to muscle building [1].

[1] https://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/
Sun/Jenday Conure. They don’t believe in personal space
Why focus on the landlords? The CDC decided to do away with the rule of law and took powers they didn't have a mandate for.
They/you forgot:

0: Establish venture-funded "marketplaces" for various climate-facing tokens to skim value while providing no real value-add.
Portainer - Docker management via web
Sonarr/Radarr/ Bazarr/ Jackett - Linux ISO manager
qBittorrent- Linux ISOs
Overseer - So my family can request Linux ISOs
Plex - Streaming content for family
Nginx Proxy Manager - Too lazy to configure reverse proxies by hand
Homebridge/ Homeassistant - Home automations and HomeKit integrations
Hammond - Vehicle expense tracking
Octoprint - Mainly used to check on my printer without standing up
Heimdall - Launchpad for all sites hosted above
I think you're taking the comment too literally. It was quite an allegory in the first place, just like the myths we're talking about right now. Up to your individual interpretation.

I still believe many of the stories you list here remain relevant to my original comment (especially Uranus->Chronus->Zeus) and I'd even add a few like Prometheus, Apollo, and Jason who had motives of improving the next generation/humans/children/etc.
Godspeed here, I worked on G2K/Kingdoms :D
What did being pedantic prove here?
At the boundaries are events. "User wanted to change time of meeting".

Once you have recorded events, figuring out what side-effects (often causing new events in other systems) should be triggered from the set of all events input into the system can be coded using whatever flavor of functional/relational/reactive programming.

I think the combination of event sourcing and functional programming, and databases that support this way of working better than today and doesn't have OOP as their main target audience, is the future. (And I absolutely don't mean Kafka. SQL comes at least closer; to efficiently work with events and implement functional business logic on top of events relations and structure is important.)
This wipes out all the good Google has done in my eyes (and there's plenty of it, e.g. Project Gutenberg). They could have at least issued a statement of support.

Please do what you can to help Alexandra and the Sci-Hub crew. https://sci-hub.se/donate
The US government gets $0.16B less that it can control in social spending. But in return, a regulated non-profit institution gets $1.1B more in its budget. That's a pretty good tradeoff for the social good.

For an alternative way of looking at things - almost any economist would tell you that it is wise to tax negative externalities and subsidize positive externalities. This is one of the most foundational insights from microeconomics. And charitable giving is the closest to an ideal positive externality that you will find. Person spends money to a cause because it makes him feel good to do so. That transaction ends up helping other 3rd parties as well. Textbook positive externality.

https://www.economicshelp.org/micro-economic-essays/marketfa...
It’s cute that you have that belief, however PoW is not going away. PoW is not some evil monster that is eating the world — however there are enemies of Bitcoin that would sell it to you as such.

All PoW miners are rational actors that choose to spend energy to secure the network.
We can and should push that the energy is generated cleanly and renewably, thus pushing clean energy further as there is a clear incentive for use, regardless of external load or demand.
Koka's effects: modify the log level of an HTTP handler at runtime
I use a framing hammer to hang pictures on my wall, and I've never messed up my wall.
Recently I read about using paracetamol for social anxiety. There is a connection.
What great work. The only thing I had to read twice was how energy is restored to the oscillation. The text doesn't discuss the role of the slope on the jewel fork teeth. But everything else was so clear as to be transparent. What a loving gift.
Yes, I'm aware, thanks. Lifetimes, ownership, etc. are all overlaps of RAII and associated concepts.

Again, what did being pedantic prove here? You clearly understood what I meant.
Well yes, if you're a fan of hypogonadism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789927/
Which functionality was removed by switch stacks? What is the actual usability impact? I currently use 1Password7 and haven't updated to 8 so I'd like to know before updating.
It's much more boring and you don't hear much about it but it's ultimately more pleasant to run things this way.
There must be some way to structure contracts to allow for cost of developing new technologies yet incentivizes minimizing that cost.
Sounds like buying Wordle was one of those situations where the buyer had a much greater ability to monetize the product than the seller did, making it a good deal for both.
Hmm, I installed it a long while ago, and don't recall what guide I used. One of the benefits though of buying a Protectli box rather than the original Qotom version is the is support. Protectli should be able to get you up and running - check their website and get in touch with them.
Courts don't make decisions based on your income.
Yeah cool factor is a valid play I suppose
The routing number of each bank is public :-)
Yes. Colorado to Texas. And looking into Latin America next.
Plaid slaps Stripe around a bit with a large trout
Thank you for calling out BTftJ as a mental model. Recognizing the very idea of mental models is a huge step forward. Arguably, it could be used as a metric for how advanced an organization (or even society) has become.
Is there any negative externality in this particular version? Opening a new school to educate future generations such that they contribute new solutions seems totally positive to me.
Shame them publicly on social media.
How is this premature optimization? Since it's equivalent to the alternative, it should be known that this way has an advantage.
I know that Charles Schwab has some sort of OAuth flow which I used when connecting my account to TurboTax this year.
Motion graphic: House prices across the world over 40 years
Deflation means I have no motivation to spend today for a small car, when I know I can get an apartment for this money in a few years.

Sounds good doesent it, saving is good.

But it also means the company selling that small car wont sell that car, meaning they wont produce as many, meaning they wont employ as many people.

Essentially demand would go down to only essentials, supply would follow, unemployment would skyrocket, total production would plummet.

You dont want the Japan example, then how about The Great Depression.

Inflation on the other hand encourages spending, increases total economic output and encourages investment.

A deflationary store of value is good, and an inflationary currency is good. The problem is that crypto is trying to be both, so its failing at both.
It's partly that, but Google's counter has always been this refrain of "we are a data-driven company". I guess that is better than completely subjective metrics, in some respects, but it introduces another bias, which is focusing on things that can be measured.

Being "data focused" is probably a Good Thing in a very general sense, but there are real dangers that come with that. For example, there's a form of "data myopia" you can develop, which is best expressed by the old saw "data and optimization can help you get better at doing $SOMETHING, but don't tell you if you're doing the right $SOMETHING in the first place."

I saw a lot of successful promo cases that were based on pushing metrics. That just rewards quantifiable things, and disadvantages unquantifiable things. Worse, it makes people introduce bullshit measures and game them.

And of course there's Goodhart's Law[1] which leads to situations where trying to be "data driven" actually makes things worse when people start trying to "game" the metrics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
This is such an easy to follow understanding on mechanical movements. WOW! From someone who tinkers with watches all the time and has to explain a simple mechanism over and over I've found my resource to send to friends now.
I bought Pi Zero 2 on aliexpress few weeks ago. Can't say whether it's genuine as it's not arrived yet. But I did not find it anywhere else.
In addition to the reasons you have listed, it would probably be a big headache to jump through accreditation hurdles, hire staff, find a physical location, and any number of other problems that would distract from the goals he has in mind.
You're right - reference designs should be parametric. Everybody wants this including the semiconductor companies.

Seems like the failure in the tools is that parametric generation is really badly supported by the usual graphics-oriented approach.
My take (and sorry if I hadn't articulated it well) was that it's better to be a commodity in an area that one enjoys working than to become a commodity in an area that one went into just for the career prospects and be trapped there later on if circumstances change. Beyond that, the effects of commoditization seem likely to be significantly worse for web development than systems engineering given that the barrier to entry is lower.
>You're asking for title inflation

You're asking for feature bloat. If the only way of winning is getting new stuff done, new stuff will be done regardless of the benefit or cost to the company.

That does sound like Google alright, though.
Random thought, but it makes me think that it could potentially be possible to hack into someone's light switches and burn their house down by setting the motor to leave the switch in the exact middle of on and off position so it arcs electricity.
> Only 1.6% of all remittances were received in bitcoins via digital wallets in February 2022, according to El Salvador’s Central Bank.

I seem to recall that remittances has been touted as crypto's #1 use case for a long time.
How does it get fixed though?

From the article:
>What is relevant is how the public perceives these methods.

So much of the problem seems about political risk, but that seems to be a feature and not a bug of publicly funded programs. We generally want the public to have a say in how their tax dollars get spent and we want there to be transparency in the process. And yet those two factors combine to create many of the problems in the article.

Is it a misalignment of researchers and the general public in terms of priorities? Is it an issue of educating the public about the intent of fundamental research? Something else?
Yes. https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/22/boeing-withdraws-from-...
Intrinsic quality isn't linear.
The tools I linked rely on usernames that are public. I think most sites that use email addresses as usernames don't make the email address public (think of the spam). Are there example sites I'm forgetting?
Inform 7 is a trip to explore. The natural language inspired programming language right now is still such a unique experience to write in. It makes writing a text adventure feel more like writing a novel to a kid that needs way too many details on how the world is structured.

I also was a bit saddened when Project Spark got shutdown. It had some great ideas, it just couldn't compete with Minecraft and Microsoft bought Minecraft. I keep wondering why more of Project Spark's good ideas don't show up in Minecraft at this point, though.
I put better in quotes because Linux-on-x86 wasn't the technologically better choice in the early 00s; but it was the much cheaper, yet viable option and had better ROI for many SMEs. Sun lingered in organizations with bigger budgets and had the expertise to appreciate it, but Linux had the momentum; most of the new server-side was Linux-first.

It wasn't just Sun that suffered, but all of big iron.
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