skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more updated version of privacytoolsio:

https://www.privacyguides.org/

(Some history: the privacytoolsio website was created by the subreddit r/privacytoolsio. A while ago the founder was kicked out after being inactive for over a year, but that founder happened to own the website domain and refused to give it to the remaining moderators. The founder also started adding affiliate links into the privacytoolsio website. So the remaining mods decided to rebrand completely, creating a new sub r/privacyguides and a new website as well. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv...)
The Web 3.0 Yield Curve
WorldWideWeb, Part II
> it would generally be a good thing for a car’s energy consumption to be independent of distance traveled. (“O(1)”)

No, not unless the energy consumption when taking into account actual average usage is lower than a car where the consumption is tied directly to the same level of usage.

If you really believe that constant rate O(1) is always superior to usage-based consumption, then send me $3000 a month for your electricity bill regardless of how much power you use. Of course, Bitcoin still has an upper limit on how many transactions per-second it can fulfill, so similarly you would still have an upper limit on how much electricity you can use throughout each month.

But, you'd pay $3000 to me regardless of whether you had your fridge running or not, so technically the fridge is now free to run, right?
Very HN article. The only job that matter in an organization is developers, product managers are useless, marketing is when you don't have a product, sales people are liars, Support people prevent developers to know the problems and so on.

It's cool sometime to have developers with a product mindset, because they understand better the value they are bringing and can help brainstorming. But first if you had only product-mindset people everyone would want to ship different features and nothing would be shipped. And also the more time developers spend understanding customers the less time they spend coding.

I should probably write a satirical article arguing that "Coding should not be left to developers as product managers should code things much closer from their plan"
We could always confiscate your property while we're at it. Every little helps. After all there can be few on this forum that aren't in the upper decile of wealth globally. Property is theft!

(er, kidding in case that wasn't obvious)
Grey water like you talk about could be huge. Really big.

Desalination could be interesting but is pricey to scale.

What I want to know is how expensive or unfeasible it really is to just make a long ass pipeline from some other part of the US that gets stupid amounts of rainfall. We do it with oil - isn't water easier?
> nevertheless my point was that i believe we are headed to a mild recession and that is a far better outcome than a severe recession.

Ceteris paribus, I would agree, but I don't think that policy response and the effect on the distributional shape of the post-recession recovery is independent of the dimensions of the recession (though there are other aspects of the economic and political context that play a role.)

There was a general feeling that the preceding recession never ended leading into the Great Recession and the reason for that is that if you look at the experience across the economy adverse conditions persisted across most income segments despite aggregate expansion. It is my contention that as well as an alignment of the right political conditions when the recession occurred, the policies which contributed to this were able to be implemented and sustained, in significant part, because the aggregate recession was short and mild.
> engineering has to get involved in some level of detail to understand what has to be built anyway

Of course, that's a big part of the role for a senior engineer.

But if you're building a real product, and not just a collection of random one-off features that customers ask for explicitly, then there's a whole set of work that needs to be done to enable good decision-making. It starts with defining who your customers are and what are the problems you're trying to solve for them. It goes all the way through gathering feedback from customers in a meaningful way.

> I would rather encourage engineers to get involved and understand the domain and the project than rely on this role.

The fact that you use the word "project" is interesting.

If someone comes to you and says "here's a project I need you to build for me" (could be custom development for an external customer, could be an internal stakeholder who gets to dictate custom development) then the role of product manager doesn't make sense.

If, instead, you're building something based on a need that you believe the market isn't meeting, then the role of product manager makes a lot more sense. The product manager IS the stakeholder in this case. They are the one identifying unmet needs in the market, possible customers, business problems to solve, etc. For a team trying to build something new that is expected to be sold to lots of customers, just the part of defining the market is hugely valuable, because it gives the team a starting point to evaluate any solutions they come up with.
I make personal observations and share them, you are correct!
> (The nonprofit National Safety Council reports that a person in the United States is several times more likely to die of “sharp objects” than a plane or train crash, though the events that preceded the recent emergency Boeing groundings make such statistics cold comfort)

Somewhat OT, but I wonder: Do statistics like this actually take the priors into account or are they just comparing the absolute counts? Or in other words, could I add my own statistic and advertise the safety properties of unicycles for highway travel?
Reversing Resy's API to create a reservation bot
> what if in addition to privacy policy and terms documents, each
online property has an acquisition term

> It might be a nice payday for the founders but it's terrible for the
business environment.

At the founding stage we tend to choose from highly quantised "types"
of company, usually from a boilerplate legal template; limited
liability, independent trading company, partnership, charity,
non-profit and suchlike. I am no expert in company law, but as far as
I know, at least in the UK, "Articles of Incorporation" (the charter
of the company) can be almost anything that's legal.

Hence I've long been of the opinion that founders should build-in
"non-acquisition" clauses, making it impossible for predators to
simply scoop up a promising company, perhaps for some fixed period
like 10 or 20 years. That would solve some of the issues under
discussion here. It would also change the ecology and motivations
within which companies are created, grown and invested in.
I love list comprehensions in python. I had no idea the Elixir version was so expressive.
I recently discovered pnpm myself and found it to be a significantly better experience. I've been meaning to add something like changesets to it, too.
Oh that is interesting - I only worked directly with a few terminal systems and never twigged that the 3270s were doing anything fundamentally more sophisticated than WYSE or DEC vt200s. I do remember tabbing between fields on an IBM3090 library catalog search form, though and it being basically an edit and submit process.
Any preferred brands on LED lightbulbs? Have gotten good mileage just out of f.lux for roughly the same reasons, would be glad to take it to the next level.
Despite ‘right-to-repair’ law, there’s no easy fix for wheelchair users
As one of the townsfolk, I'd like to note that fireworks on the 4th of July are never done tastefully.
Well, it said "one of the most notorious". That's perfectly compatible with being virtually unknown in the mainstream populace if the mainstream populace knows very few conspiracies in general. For example the one and only British conspiracy I remember off the top of my head is the Gunpowder Plot.
I've personally found the BBC, The Guardian and Aljazeera to be less awful than the rest. (Websites, at least, I don't TV).
I have played enough OpenTTD in my life that it silently sits in my library, tempting me, but I refuse to open it for exactly the reason you highlighted. it's a massive time sink and I'm far too old to suddenly realize the birds are chirping and the sun is coming up.
I've actually been wondering about this for years. Nearly every startup I've worked at used Google Apps and put all their strategy documents and trade secrets into platforms owned and operated by Google. I'm sure there's something that assuages this concern in the contracts, just as I'm equally sure there's some clause that completely invalidates that and lets Google do whatever they want. I wonder if they actually do mine their data to identify startups for acquisition / competition, they certainly are incentivized to do so.
So, going blue-sky big-picture here, the long-term appeal of airships seems to be in transoceanic travel alternatives to heavier-than-air craft.

I'm starting to think that transoceanic trains might actually be a more viable alternative. There's been some very preliminary exploration of this.

It turns out that for several heavily-travelled routes, the water distances involved are actually reasonably short. Most notably the Bering Straight link from Alaska to Siberia, 82 km (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point.

Traversing the Atlantic would be more formidable, possibly a multi-hop bridge from Newfundland to Greenland to Iceland to northern Scotland. Other links include the Timor Sea (between Australia and Indonesia), Gibraltar, and the southern Atlantic crossing from, say, Recife, Brazil, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, about 3,000 km (1,900 mi).

Norway has proposed "floating tunnels" as a technological option to bridge fjords for vehicle traffic for its E39 coastal highway project. These might work for transoceanic rail links: tunnels would float deep enough beneath the surface to be spared wave action and collisions with shipping traffic, but shallow enough that pressures would be reasonable. Depending on speeds, even the longest crossings (3,000 km) might take from 15 to 3 hours (200 kph to 1,000 kph).

Costs and risks are of course high. The project might be limited to, say, automated freight transport initially. But it's not obviously impossible, and could prove an alternative to either slow boat or high-emissions aircraft for future transport and travel.
Especially in politics, when everything is blown up to be the end of the world then the actual stuff that might be worth taking note of is buried in the noise.

I came to the conclusion the only time it's probably worth checking up on news or historic news is before an election, that has some value.

Otherwise ignore it. Anything truly important will reach you anyway.
There's a geometric solution as well!

Since M is invertible and symmetric. It acts on R^N by independently scaling the coordinates of an orthogonal basis. Eg, M = O^T*A*O where O is orthogonal and A is a diagonal matrix. Let sqrt(A) be the diagonal matrix with entries equal to the square root of the corresponding entry in A. Then K = O^T*sqrt(A)*O is symmetric and K^2 = (O^T*sqrt(A)*O)*(O^T*sqrt(A)*O). Since O is orthogonal O^T*O = I, and K^2 = O^T*A*O = M.
That works alright in development / non-prod, especially for a smaller team or small scale application. Not in prod though. In my opinion as a database specialist, tying database schema changes to application deployments is an outright anti-pattern in production. (assuming you are using a networked database server like Postgres or MySQL, not an embedded database like SQLite)

Generally you always want to ensure your application logic works properly with both the current schema and next schema. This way, you can roll out the schema change independently first, and then only if/when it succeeds, you roll out new application code (and/or enable new feature flags etc) which actually uses the new columns, tables, procs, etc.

If you tie the schema change to the app deployment instead, you have to do the opposite: ensure that the new version of the application is backwards-compatible with the old schema. That's necessary because you probably have multiple copies of an application running (for HA), and some schema changes may take a long time to run.

So upon deploying a new version of your application, even if your modern ORM correctly handles migration locking (to ensure only one app copy runs the migration), you would still have a window where other updated app servers are running updated code but the schema hasn't been changed yet. So if you tie schema changes to app deployments, the app must be backwards-compatible with the old schema: every single reference to a new database object must be gated with a feature flag, every time.

In contrast, the decoupled deploy / forwards-compatible approach is much easier, because generally application code already won't interact with database objects that the code doesn't know about.
https://yashalevine.com/books/oligarch-valley
If you think CNN is “center right”, you’re revealing your own far left biases.
Yeah. This is what we all want I think. I want to be in a world where when some story of a cop doing something ridiculous surfaces, we're all confident that justice will be done. Unfortunately for me it's usually a sad feeling that nothing will be done about it.

We gotta be more willing to fire, ban, or prosecute cops.
The problem with crying wolf all the time is that people stop believing you have anything important to say. I don't recall the last time that CNN broke any news. Probably early nineties or so. It would be news worthy if they did.
So you're a freelance mechanical engineer.

Are you sure those calls you get are not just scams?
FYI, to your first point about ads and pop ups, you can use the lite version. It’s much faster.

https://lite.cnn.com/en
>Their pages are overrun by ads and even pop-ups now and that makes them really look like a tabloid.

True, true! But some engineer there still maintains https://lite.cnn.com/ :-) Also relevant: https://text.npr.org/ https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news
This is something I wonder about Amazon/Google/Microsoft specifically: since they’re hosting basically every startup, how much are they able to leverage that data to their own benefit? AWS alone must have quite a detailed insight into which products and services are gaining traction just based on traffic data, or even how much they’re billing customers.

To what extent are they able to leverage that?
Agreed, startups give you sort of a lottery rush, you imagine how much money you can make and you can accept just out of the thrill of you having so much money.

More often the stock options are worthless, and that's how many companies value them when counter offering.
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be even more of a scathing condemnation compared to what OP said.
Are you making the case that a person with numerous DUIs doesn't have a choice in the decision to drive drunk, and therefore isn't a scumbag?
She interviewed a Taliban leader a week ago maybe, runs her own company I guess. Great YouTube presence.
Whether contributions are steady support or a constant drip of (sometimes quite large) support varies tremendously by industry.

Games rely a lot on the one-time / tip model through Twitch.

Podcasts are almost exclusively through recurring subscriptions / support.

My impression of video / YouTube is that a lot of it comes through stuff like merch which is more of a drip of one-time support, but there's definitely continual support there as well, so a bit mixed?

I suspect that it would be hard to experiment too far outside of the standard in any of those contexts, since you'd have to convince people to support you in ways that aren't the norm.
Investors LOVE red flags. It shows a healthy can-do attitude that won't be blocked by laws or ethics.
I recall one day seeing the red banner on the top of the CNN site that read, “BREAKING NEWS: No update on the…” followed by whatever was the hot story at the time. For real. It was both comical and tragic.
The Google app store has an interest to publish all kind of apps, FOSS or not. It supports their "the customer is the product" business model.

Apple has an interest to publish the same apps. It supports their "keep the users in the walled garden" business model.

Both form an unhealty duopoly from both app developers and end users point of view.

Saying they have no obligation to host an app might be correct, but it's a very limited perspective of the whole situation.
How exactly is this flamebait?
At some point I started telling people that the acronym stood for a different thing every time I talked about it. There is a place where I called it “Phil’s Awesome System”.
No, this Achron (2011) Tutorial - Time Travel :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGmMenc1jCY
Agreed. I've seen comments in similar threads in the past where people rag on games like poker or backgammon because they believe the randomness factor moves them from skill-based to luck-based.

In truth, managing randomness is actually one of the core skills of the game. Not just on the decision in front of you, but on future decisions as well. It's a hard skill to master. Moreover, the timelines to evaluate one's skill are long, sometimes hundreds or thousands of games, incorporating tens of thousands of decision points. It's not a wonder it's often misunderstood.
I came here to ask this in a different way. I'm willing to pay for accurate news. What do rich people or companies use as a news source? People who really need/want to know what's happening in the world, and how it affects them, but without the clickbait style news.
Well quite, but they seem to have the most teeth, I've been trying to solicit a response from another EU DPA for months, they won't even engage - to the point they don't eve n allow consumer complaints
Great that you contribute your own language pairs.
I agree that they could use improvement but compared to MSNBC and Fox they're still probably the nearest to the center out there.
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One thing I have always found wierd is why is the "personal essay" (which is easier to game by folks who have the right connections/support groups/etc) a criteria for getting into a college? It almost feels like this is very hard to establish a transparent bar for, no? Cant colleges does exploit this aspect to get around randomness?
A useful, related website: https://explainshell.com/
This is an amazing story and great concept/startup. I’d love to know more about the economics around the company, given that you raised 2.5M USD last year- what kind of capital costs do you incur that make the VC route a good path here? How do you plan to scale up to returns that are comparable with other YC companies?

In other words, geopolitical situation aside, why not bootstrap this business or rely on debt?
Haskell's number system has its good points, but there are some hidden gotchas there as well. For example, all integer literals are interpreted by starting from the most general type (arbitrary-precision integers) and narrowing them with `fromInteger`, a member of the `Num` typeclass—which doesn't offer any means of handling failure (e.g. `321483209423 :: Word8`) other than a runtime error or overflow. It can also be rather verbose since all other conversions must be explicit, even ones which cannot possibly fail.

IMHO Rust's `Into` and `TryInto` traits offer a better solution than Haskell's `fromInteger`, distinguishing between conversions which cannot fail and ones which may. It also infers the correct width for unsuffixed integer literals from the context—but it draws a sharp distinction between integer and floating-point literals, which is why `2 * 3.14` (integer * float) is a type error while `2 * 314u16` would be accepted without issue. The downside of the Rust approach is that the type inference rules for integer literals are hard-coded into the language and can't easily be extended to cover user-defined types, whereas Haskell's approach can accept integer literals where any type with an instance of the `Num` typeclass is expected. One alternative, combining the best of both worlds, would be to infer the narrowest type which can hold the literal value and add an implicit `.into()` for non-lossy conversion to any compatible type.
And this, folks, is why you have immutable modules. If you know before runtime what something is, lookup is a lot faster.
yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. let's start slowly, only requiring a camera in the living room. then some time later, let's seek out incidents that had occurred in bathrooms, run them in the news every week to prime the masses, then they'll ask us themselves to mandate cameras in all bathrooms as well.

all detractors will be branded as pedophiles, of course
I agree. I’d like to see rail service straight through too. It would be so cool to be able to hop on a train and ride 2 hours or so and step off the tracks next to Lake Erie to catch a Browns game or explore Cleveland (and other permutations of this).
> Everywhere in New York I see "help wanted" signs.

if they had been hiring, they wouldn't need the help wanted signs - now when i see help wanted i think "doesn't offer high enough wages to get help"
Actually, I think the real reason there are so many opinion pieces is because they're much cheaper. They don't require resources for discovering the story. Personally I skip right past opinion pieces that are labeled as such, but I find so much of CNN's stories are so slanted they all read as opinion pieces.
Are there sensors that tell the controller where the train currently is, on the track?
There's dialog: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog , which you've probably seen in action if you've ever done a 'make menuconfig'.
Big companies also make it hard for mom and pop stores? In the end competition is tough and when there are new players old ones suffer.
ExpressVPN does this a lot for their "European" servers. If you ping them it ends up in the UK (as far as I can tell), even for their countries like Serbia and Montenegro
Non-US? PokerStars, by a country mile. Always has been.
the question was, is it better (than running off-disk), rather than "is it good enough for X"

the answer is, yes. even an infintesimally smaller attack surface is better than an infinitesimally larger one, all other things being equal
> a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be

very well said
I think we might more accurately say; the entire “business” of some
investors is to get companies acquired. That's not the same motive
as seen from inside the startup. And indeed, it's only some
investors. I believe there are plenty who are in it for the long
game, or are far more strategic in terms of ROI.
just because someone doesn't explicitly say something is bad doesn't mean they think it's good, you are just assuming that for some reason. the thread is about CNN, so he commented on CNN.