skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently hear this sentiment, yet in my country I struggle to find evidence of more than a few ms of wifi vs cabled connections. Whereabout do you live that this is such a huge issue? Is it a large, dense metropolis like Beijing or Singapore?
Yes, because this gives grounds for the argument that the system is broken (does not provide the right).

If > 90% of people are pressured into waiving the right, does the system actually provide this right?
… those 15 cabinet secretaries employ more than 4 million people.
Why Are We Basing Food Policy on Black Box Data?
> If you try hard enough, you can come up with a convoluted criterion that will exclude any murder you want to ignore, and include any you want to highlight.

Isn’t that exactly what you just did?
There were funds that did due diligence and built out models of the Luna/Terra/Anchor ecosystem and realized it was unstable.

You can talk to the people who built their models and they have lots of fun things to say about the ordeal.
Speaking about non-bluetooth wireless headsets, I'm super satisfied with the corsair hs80 - the microphone sound quality is absolutely crazy and I can pace and walk around my whole apartment without any issues. Highly recommend them.
I may not be the common case, but I didn’t join IRC looking for a community. I primarily used it (and still do today) for help and collaboration — open source work and ##javascript /##math questions, usually. By being in the channels frequently enough you begin to figure out the community. Many channels also have off-topic variants for, well, off-topic discussion. Those will tend to be more like communities and not have hundreds or thousands of users.

In terms of why IRC specifically, I enjoy the simplicity of the protocol and the open-source nature of it’s ecosystem
I launched my one and only three years ago and it still doesn't pay its own bills. I work on it when I can, but at this point I feel rather resigned to it never being something I can really be proud of.
This is exactly how I'm feeling at the moment. I was an entrepreneur all of my twenties, started a few companies, one of them is mildly successful. I left that company last summer, and now I'm freelancing and probably starting a new job at a small but "normal" company as a software engineer soon.

When I was an entrepreneur, I was always afraid that going "back" to just being an employee would make me unhappy, make me lose "status" and respect from friends and family.

The truth is, that it's all bullshit. I don't care about status anymore. I learned that the most important thing for me is freedom (financial and geographic) and spending time with people I love.

That doesn't mean I don't want to work on interesting projects and maybe some time in the future have a small impact somehwere. It just means that it's not the most important thing for me anymore.
Seems that YC have been investing in quite a few predatory companies in recent years.

Lambda School and Inflow are two that come to mind.
CO2 is bad but not toxic at all. It's inert. The toxic ones are toxic because they still have some energy left and the earlier you pull out that energy the better. Preferably in a plant that puts that energy to some form of use.
Worst case extra latency added by a Bluetooth headset is less of an issue, you are close and congestion is less of a problem.

Home WiFi generally has really bad worst case latency and variability (jitter), removing it from the path is one of the best things you can do to improve realtime communication performance.
As per dang's comment a few days back(1)

> I wish more startups would achieve this, YC or not. Whenever I run across one that's trying to succeed on HN, I try to help them do so (YC or not)—why? because it makes HN better if the community finds things it loves here. Among the startups of today, I can think of only two offhand who are showing signs of maybe reaching darling status—fly.io (YC), and Tailscale (not YC).

Personally too both these companies are doing a lot of incredible things. I also love Litestream, phoenixframework and other things they are doing.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066969
Of course. But I bet they're still not going to do it...
That might be one of the most counterintuitive durability fact I've heard in a long time. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I totally agree the quality of a product may or may not be directly proportional to the market share (e.g. Windows). My previous comment has nothing to do with engineering excellence. I never work at Google nor an expert on Google cloud so I don't know whether Cloud Google is well-designed (and I'm not surprised if it's).

There're different ways to measure "smart". My view is that in the cloud computing business there are people smarter than them (at least in terms of market share) so it's perfectly fine that Google Cloud engineers learn from their competitors in terms of engineering, marketing, etc.
The issue from TFA was a simple matter of not including an intermediate at all, not confusion about which intermediate you should include when cross-signing (the article says the intermediate wasn't included, and there is no mention of cross-signing at all).

Either way, the proper solution is "include all the intermediates," which applies to cross-signing scenarios. The client will find the path from leaf to any root it trusts. If you had some kind of crazy number of alternate paths for a given cert, this might become onerous, but in reality, the number of alternate paths is basically always either zero or one.
If powershell starts up instantly, I'll have to say goodbye to zsh
Obsidian is quickly shaping up to be the best thing ever to happen to note taking in a long time. I don't know how I could live without it!

I wish it were FOSS, or had a roadmap to become FOSS once the whole world already owns a licensed copy, like everyone should, but even though I'm normally a major FOSS enthusiast, I'm just happy this software exists at all, in any form.

I will definitely be making use of this dataview extension!
At least here in Germany, at the grid scale, there isn't a real surplus of renewable energy most of the time, especially if you subtract all coal and gas power going into the grid. Of course on smaller scales, batteries make much more sense. For example, it is profitable to combine your private solar generation with a battery, as you don't get much by feeding your surplus generated power to the grid.
I stopped following their investments in like 2015 after they funded a startup that makes vegan condoms, whatever that is.
>entire business will choke on Excel

Why do you blame Excel? Is it personal bias against declarative programming? Is it an anti-Microsoft bias?

How do you know it's not a business process issue bottlenecking things? We need more information to properly address this issue for you.
Math Prodigy Whose Hack Upended DeFi Won’t Give Back His Millions
Yup, I work at a tech company and our entire finance & billing team is using excel exclusively (I think our payroll/leave system is the only thing not on excel), where every other team uses one system or another. All of the higher ups makes decisions based on docs created out of all those excel artifacts. I have to admit, their productivity is quite good and they are kings at aggregating and graphing data in sexy ways. It would be a challenge to build them something that actually works better and can adapt quickly to changes (the software lifecycle too slow for them and now they have to deal with some developer types to get something done, so skip all that noise and stick to excel).
Hang in there, Voyager 1! We're rooting for you!
> Society is something other folk can worry about.

The main problem with capitalism in one handy sentence.
You can hide your self view in Meet since some months now. I even made a user script to do so automatically.
It's easy to reduce problems down to an exclusive-or choice, but in reality we need to use all our cards at the same time to look after our planet.

Of course we should be reducing plastic waste, and at least where I live, I've seen a big push for the reduction of of single use plastics, both through legislation, savvy consumers and responsible supermarkets.

While the biologists work on plastic-eating enzymes, product engineers can work on sustainable packaging, logistics specialists can work on low carbon distribution and politicians can work on ensuring economic motives align with a positive future for our planet.

There is hope.
Chrome was released in 2008. Microsoft is doing fine with Edge, though it's a moot point because Microsoft is even older and more sluggish than Google.

Spanner seems a prototypical Google dev product though; it's only invented to serve Google. I don't think any of their solutions is the de facto choice in any tech stack.
The impression I get from those tweets is that it’s not making the eye look as it it’s always looking at the camera, it’s just adjusting so that if you look at the screen (the persons eyes in e.g. FaceTime) it looks like you are looking at the camera.

So if you break eye contact with the image of the person on the screen, it will show you breaking eye contact in your video.
We have some relatives living an apartment (I think) a couple centuries old- I would guess from the early 1800s or 1700s, I have lived in multiple late 19th century and early 20th century apartments and all of them felt a lot more modern than that one. One weird thing is that there is only 1 sink in it, so if you go to the toilet you have to wash your hands in the kitchen sink afterwards.

Also only 1 toilet & there's no space for a dishwasher or some other modern appliances.

It looks nice but I would definitely prefer to live in a more modern apartment long-term.
We are all in a slow death. Right now it and we are alive with a vibrant IRC community to be thankful for.
90% is overtall efficiency including losses due to ventilation. Such system with its heat exchangers is not cheap, but long term it pays off compared with less advanced heater.
Pixelitor – open source image editor with non-destructive smart objects
Probably not much else to invest on right at this moment, at least not at this level ("small" start-ups wanting to "change the world").

I was honestly believing that the web3 bullsh.t were just some young people who didn't know any better or some scam-artists (or both), I didn't actually think for a second that a "serious" VC like YC would put money into something like that. Looks like I was wrong.
Do you have any links / references regarding that? I'd like to read more
What is old is new again: the UST algorithmic backing is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_financing

A company that couldn't get financing any other way could get financing by issuing fixed price convertible bonds. "Fixed price convertible" means the bond can be converted into shares (of the company), but at a fixed price - aka, regardless of the value of each individual share, you are promised fixed a dollar amount of them.

This means if the share price drops, you will be "made whole" by getting issued enough shares to match the fixed price.

It's called death spiral bond, because if/when the price of such a company drops, these convertible bonds will trigger, causing the amount of shares to increase (as they issue new shares), which in turn causes the price of the existing shares to drop, ad-infinitum. Often the owners of the shares would end up with nothing as the shares' value drops to zero (or the company recovers, and they do make some money).

Swap bonds with UST, and shares with Luna, and you get the above scenario.
I remember before Trump came and there were Islamist attacks across the world and praying was considered enough. (Besides worrying about victimized muslims). These actions seem excessive to me.
Oops, that was a typo. Should have been “PATH”.

And setting `PATH` via launchctl(8) doesn't only work with VSCode, but for all GUI apps.
https://i.imgur.com/qz4EeQS.jpg - This is (was?) their ads

"15% interest. No surprises."
Not that simple. Something would have to replace all those plastic containers, and it might not be any better.

Similar to banning plastic bags, we could replace all our disposable water bottles with higher quality *non* disposable plastic bottles. It would be slightly more expensive for companies to produce, but drastically cheaper than paying the proposed tax. Consumers may or may not treat them as disposable anyway, and there's huge health concerns over reusing plastic bottles, especially after exposure to heat.

A simple manufacturing tax wouldn't work though since we'd just start importing bottles from neighboring countries instead
The last time I remember such a run on HN was when we created Docker. It was on the front page or mentioned in front page comments almost daily for at least 6 months (late 2013 early 2014)

Fly.io has a great combination of user virality/momentum and fundamentally technically interesting content on a wide range of topics.
> the thing we call web3

The thing some call web3.
Mentioning it somewhere is good for history, but it's confusing and meaningless info for most people. People don't care, don't know and would rather have something "fresh", also from an internal perspective in the org.
It does when the poor decision is to run a ponzi scheme

e: ah, only acting as the middlemen between the end user and a ponzi scheme. Probably that'll give them and their VC backers enough plausible deniability to avoid being arrested.
Our CEO Paul recently got interviewed by SmartBranding to share how we got our roiquant.com domain name, and also to offer some advice for aspiring founders thinking to start their new business.

"Obviously, I searched online to check if roiquant.com was available and if anyone else is using the name.

The moment I saw that the domain was available and the search engine was returning very limited results, I immediately purchased the domain.

In fact, crazyegg published that “.com is still the best domain extension for most websites because it’s familiar and easy for people to remember due to its decades of trust under its belt”.

Moreover, roiquant is a created word where our unique keyword can easily appear on the first page of search engine results, compared to our old domain flipidea.co (redirected to roiquant.com), where some of our previous users would mistakenly visit flipidea.com.

Every aspiring founder also ought to grasp a good understanding on how to read financial statements and how business finance works.

If first-time founders want to raise venture capital to kickstart their business, they need to understand the economics and mechanics of venture capital, and know that VC funding is not the only available financing solution in the market.

I also recommend that first-time founders plan their business exit strategy from the beginning in order to determine the kind of business they desire to build.

In doing so, founders will be able to prudently design their fundraising strategy accordingly, should they decide to fundraise capital."
Generally, it is all YC hype. HN is biased towards YC startups.

There are other alternatives like Render.com, railway.app, etc but it is clear that fly.io is unsurprisingly overhyped by the HN crowd, especially if you are looking for a Heroku alternative.

It’s like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
You can say it was just a bad decision to pick up a feather from the ground. But that’s still illegal. The magic of statutory laws.
I'm certainly not an expert on nuclear vs solar energy, although I do have some background knowledge. As with many things, I make up for my lack of expertise by seeking the analyses and opinions of real experts. No offense, but I trust them over a rando on HN who built a solar array in his backyard :) . A simple google search of "nuclear vs solar cost" strongly suggests that you are very wrong - nuclear is far more expensive than solar, and the gap is growing as solar gets cheaper. Of the first four results[1][2][3][4], only one argued that nuclear was even remotely competitive[3], and it's 6 years out of date and the most convincing data it cites is from 2005.

I found [4] to be the most straightforward and pithy explanation. Basically, nuclear wins on capacity factor, but solar makes up for it by a) still being cheaper even when you have to build 4-6 times more capacity, and b) it takes 10 years to build a nuclear plant vs 1 for solar, so you get to start using your electricity and paying off capex (and reducing CO2 emissions) much sooner.

Now it's possible all these sources are so deeply flawed that they came to the completely wrong conclusion, but the onus is on you to present evidence of your assertion and provide a convincing argument. Saying (and I'm obviously paraphrasing here), "the calculations are simple and you all are idiot sheep" doesn't cut it.

1. https://www.literoflightusa.org/solar-vs-nuclear/

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nucle...

3. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-problem-wit...

4. https://earth911.com/business-policy/solar-vs-nuclear-best-c...
>A day later I start to see detailed results from the model. Its generated images actually look like vaginas:

This doesn't say much about the amount of vaginas that this guy has seen.
Thorium has had catchy promotion. The reality is less appealing.

Really, anything that needs a steam turbine is going to cost too much to compete.
My guess would have been that communications don't have an huge impact until they are exceptionally bad or exceptionally good.
I think you've got things a bit off. I think more correct ones are:

- "This country became a world power with 76 million residents in 1900 before it got any of the Progressive era administrative state."

- "The country became a world superpower with 180 million residents in 1960 before it got the modern administrative state"

You wrote "world superpower", but the US didn't become a world superpower until WW2, well after ~1915, which is when the population reached 100M.

While the US started becoming a world power in 1898, with the Spanish-American War, and fully became a world power by WWI, that was after the Interstate Commerce Commission was formed in 1887, as the first administrative agency.

Now, you wrote "modern", which of course is in the eye of the beholder and likely is meant to exclude the ICC. Did the modern era start in 1906, with the FDA and the Federal Meat Inspection Act? Or Wilson, with the Federal Reserve (1913) and the FTC (1914)? Or the New Deal (1930s), like the SEC (1934)?

You'll note that all of those were before the US became a modern world superpower, and several before the US population reached 100M.

On the other hand, this beholder - https://ballotpedia.org/Administrative_state - points out that the modern administrative state didn't start until 1964 with Johnson's Great Society programs.

Here's another equally true statement:

- "The country became a world superpower with 203 million residents in 1970 before 18 year olds had the right to vote."

While true, that wouldn't justify removing the franchise from modern 18 year old.

Your observation, even when corrected, seems to be similarly weak as an argument to remove administrative agencies.
https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680705...

Article is from July 2021 (according to Google), updated 7 days ago
it's not like my ears hurt, but it is annoying when I fall asleep while listening to something (it's a habit I have, I know, maybe not the best) and if the timing is bad it can pull me right out some transitory sleep phase. would be nice if they were a bit smarter about that signal...
IRC as in the 1988 chat protocol, sure.

IRC as a concept has never been healthier. Lots of alternatives, most proprietary, some libre, and more users than ever.
We Are All Farmers
It is PR-speak for the enlightenment conferred by a liberal education. Often seen in Ivy League brochures. In this case the author is comparing the book to a freshman experience.
I can't disagree with the conclusion that coding skills are more predictive of interview success (although it surprises me), but I will say from my work experience that, after a certain point, I value communication skills much more than coding ability, and I would guess they are, in many places, more predictive of success on the job than raw technical ability.
Nowadays, they do have option to use incremental garbage collector which in theory alleviates frame spikes.
How about what happened to China when they switched from a centrally planned socialist economy to a free market based economy? Or look at the divergence of the fortunes of North & South Korea after the Korean War?

The evidence is everywhere, and very strong.
Lol why would it be more difficult with blockchain?

If it is a chip, then maybe. Even more if the chip was like a yubikey with challenge-response (but it isn't).
Companies will just pass the cost to the consumer, blame regulation, and keep using plastic because it's easier and there's nothing we can do to stop them.
The money changed hands... from people gambling on financial instruments to other people who are probably also gambling on financial instruments. Significant real value was only destroyed forever if the underlying tech for this is based on proof of work. Mining bitcoin destroys an enormous amount of ~real value, and nobody who cares about the advancement of society should touch it. Proof of work crypto mining is something we can and should just ban as a society the same way we ban watering lawns with drinking water in the middle of a drought.
The author is right about full duplex audio. My opinion is that manufacturers long neglected audio, incorrectly thinking that video and eye contact was the key to more natural conversation (the pandemic did do something to correct that, though)

We run https://cleanfeed.net/ to focus on full-duplex low latency audio (no video). Of course we are dealing mainly with studio environments and good quality equipment, making it a different challenge to a regular meeting tool.

But since the first prototype, we were using it ourselves as an "always on" line between developers. The ability to have 3 or 4-way conference in full duplex with low latency appeared to foster much more of a 'human' relationship than the meeting apps. The lack of picture may even have a positive effect, because it was part of privacy that made people more relaxed.
Being rather cynical about human society, my first impulsive thought was that it's likely to be more like Total Recall's authoritarian evil than Roddenberry's Star Trek utopia (of no greed, no evil, no harm).

But more realistically, I think the occupation of Antarctica is a good model, at least for a century. All the big earth powers will carve out their own areas, set up labs, and put up their flags. Only when earthlings start migrating en masse, disputes may start.
Just realized taht "/s" is a de-facto standard recognized almost everywhere in the international tech world - perhaps it would be viable to submit a RFC for it that can be referenced? Plenty of time before next year's April.
Omitting centralised device management features does not reduce the IT workforce needed to maintain your products. Quite the opposite.
The only criterion I used was "murders that, despite being ideologically charged, did not cause the government or media to tar any associated movements, ideologies, or people with it".

I don't find this very convoluted. Another point of difference is I merely gave examples - I did not claim the murders were more or less heinous because of some detail of the crime or perpetrators, such as the presence or absence of mental illness, planning, a manifesto, etc..
Hi Addy,

It is sad to see that more often than not, the top comments on any article are overly negative or even vitriolic and any interesting discussion languishes deeper in the article.

I read your draft, and it is full of excellent advice. Some of it being which I also find very important, some which gives me food for thought and some which I am happy to be reminded of again. I look forward to your finished post.