skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or perhaps, why not both? Imagine a monorepo where the same source code that produces the "ls" output also has a library function that returns the same as structs. Perhaps ls is a bad example, but it would be quite neat if the command line and programming context could act on semantically similar procedures.

The Rust effort to implement coreutils anew could possibly pick this up and make something really useful here.
Actually a startup should copy a FAANG.
I.e. A FAANG has the budget to do very elaborate customer research, and filter out a lot of bad ideas. Hence competing with the FAANG at some markets should be a good idea.
> The USPS could easily provide a form that let you opt out of all bulk marketing mail.

They could charge more for it, and let it sort itself.
UX is not a real thing for companies. GX is. Growth experience. Growth in revenue that is.
GX and UX might overlap (for example when Chrome first came out it was just a lot faster which is a better UX) but similarly everything considered “asshole design” is also GX.
Better yet, fill with glitter first.
Is monopoly the right word for a set of thousands of developers competing to develop land and build new neighborhoods?
He said at least $200K. Which companies pay software developers over $200K and don’t require DS&A interviews? I doubt there are “thousands”
I can't believe this is still a thing.. Been complaining about this for a decade now but web design is destined to reinvent the same flawed UIs over and over forever.
I think it's sometimes hard for people to accept that the difference between inventory and supply can fluctuate.

The simplistic view is that residences are either rented out or occupied by the owner. In reality a speculative boom creates excessive demand which increases the number of residences that are second homes, Airbnb's, undergoing renovation, on the market, land-banked, etc. Most of this is made possible as capital gains become more significant relative to yields.

It's counterintuitive but a speculative boom can lead to both higher prices and a higher proportion of underutilised residences.
It's very nice. I used to use this, but once I switched to a tiling window manager, I figured it was time to give everything a nice hackery appearance, and also extend customization even further to my launcher. So I switched to Rofi. Has dmenu functionality for scripts, and app launcher capability, while also being able to be customized with what seems to be CSS.
Stop the madness is great. Don’t think of it as an ad blocker (it helps with that but I use an ad blocker as well). It removes a lot of madness, like forms that suppress paste (or copy), text selection, auto play etc. Makes it possible to use a web browser.
I agree that dependency graphs are the way to go - they show the structure of the code better than anything else. And yes, the problem is that the graphs show all of the details, whether they are important for gaining a good, overall picture of the system or not.

What you need is the ability to filter the graph. Narwhal and the nx mono-repo toolset has a pretty cool dependency graph feature built in. Here's a video of how they use it:

https://youtu.be/KTGKpoiLE0k?t=253
So how down is a typical comp of a senior engineer at CB?
Which? over in the UK has been tracking this issue for a while now, recent articles:

a) Highlighting how some "Amazon Choice" products have scored really low when actually tested (due to fake reviews) - https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/amazon-tech-with-fake-r...

b) Buying fake reviews linked to facebook accounts - https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-facebook-fuels-amaz...

c) Though in the interests of posting counter argument, allegedly Amazon are making some efforts here - https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/amazon-takes-legal-acti...

Personally I try to avoid using Amazon nowadays and buy direct, but previously I've had a least one occasion where I've been asked to leave a 5* review in exchange for a free accessory and we've seen really top notch ripoffs (headphones) that were practically indistinguishable from the originals (did a side by side comparison).
And so many are celebrating this as improving the car industry.
I agree with the lottery ticket analogy, and I also use it in another comment below. However, I think the other points that you (and others) mention can be satisfied at more stable companies. And in fact, those same points are also sometimes used by manipulative people to squeeze undervalued work out of undervalued starry-eyed early employees. Not saying you're doing that, just that they are co-opted by manipulative people.

In my opinion and experience, if the equity piece goes away, it is not worth it to work at a startup. It's also very likely that you'll pick up a lot of dysfunctional behaviors, depending on how (im)mature a startups employees are. You're better off getting experience at a more stable company.
I just started giving Kagi (and Orion) a try. I'm liking it so far. Thanks for the tip.
Maybe a culture of interest in all of them could be conducive to acting to deal with all of them.

The unfolding catastrophe of Global Climate Disruption is one among many existential threats. Addressing just any one is an insufficient response, but maybe addressing any adequately would unlock attention to the rest.
Add the kill sticky bookmarklet to your bookmark bar.
Tell, tell! That must have been some wedding!

How many guests were there? 40,000? Were you on the big scoreboard?
> Amazon rejected my review. It's against Amazon policy to let others know that sellers are buying reviews.

In a zero-trust marketplace it is impossible to ascertain the truthfulness of such statements. Let say, you a seller on Amazon and your competitor posts a review for your product accusing you of soliciting 5-star reviews from your customers. Now you have an egg on your face. How will you prove that this accusation is false? There were actual cases when sellers were buying blatantly fake 5-star reviews for their competitors to trigger Amazon ban of those competitors. This is a war zone out there.
Modern houses are far more complex undertakings than houses built a decade or two ago. This translates to cost.

Take a look at something like the BC Energy Step Code https://energystepcode.ca/ and its guidelines on thermal bridging: https://www.bchousing.org/research-centre/library/residentia...

It produces better buildings, but this is all new and expensive. Expand this sort of thing all out to all the other components (electrical, plumbing, foundation, etc) of modern, compliant buildings and you get the idea.
The vast majority of valley investors are OK w uk these days.
yes, but throughput is rarely a bottleneck for consumer grade cpus. Maybe on the 16 core ryzens you could get some benefit for select workloads
"It seems like it's pretty standard advice that it's better to have 100 customers who absolutely love your product and never churn than 10K customers who have a slightly positive impression of it and 10% of them churn out every month."

??? What, no.

Do the math on what you just said.

You'd have to charge 100x the price to have only the 'beloved customers'.

'Churn' is a normal part of business. 100x the customer based, for 10x churn? I think most people would take that.

'Years long waiting list' - is mostly rubb hype, a marketing tactic.

You are not going to be on the waiting list, if they think you are important.

My 'wait' was maybe 3 months, probably because I have 'some banking' elements on my profile. If I was a founder, probably 1 month.

It's a matter of who they think is willing to pay - and - a 'scarcity' tactic that feeds right into the egos of the kinds of people who would want that product.

Their tactics may be reasonable - it could be optimal for them ...

... but my issue is - they are not rational tactics in a competitive market.

Someone could 'copy the whole thing' and give it away for $1 a month.

'Churn' is not hugely relevant.

Which makes me believe that the features are just not that valuable.

They are trying to be a premium brand product in software.

I think 10% layoff is probably just an excuse to cut some fluff and R&D during a downturn. They can harvest cash a little bit before expanding.
The first time I wore heavy steel-toed boots while driving, I had a hard time "finding" the accelerator pedal and kept fat-footing them both. But it didn't take me long before I was completely used to it.
The alternative would be having a head of state that, in many countries, is also not directly elected and has the power to dissolve parliament. If you want to argue from principles that the latter is better, fine, but it would have done nothing to avert what Johnson did; indeed, as a political figure, a president in her role would have had additional pressure to dissolve parliament.
Exactly! Both can be true, humans have been around for a while and its not like we stopped evolving at some point
because boinc is useless or what? it allocates coins based on having done a distributed aciebtific computation? there’s no big consensus-securing PoW, where is the energy waste?

please share the math you’ve actually done :)
> Bay area is one of the last places in the country I'd want to own a home right now

I’d pick the Bay Area over anywhere else in the US, with or without remote. Judging by real estate prices after remote took off (ignoring condos) I’m guessing a lot of others feel the same way.
Wrong.

“Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), Sect. 604.8.1.2 and Sect. 507.1.8.2 provide two instances where mail can be refused when it is offered for delivery, or, after delivery. You may mark “Refused” and return it unopened within a reasonable time.”

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...
> flea market

A few years ago I didn't consider Amazon and Ebay as similar options. Now, I think of them as a wash in terms of risk vs. reward with Amazon having a slight edge on return policy (maybe).
All the shady behavior that Yelp has been accused of, but largely never caught doing, various state level BBB's have been caught doing.

It beggars belief that Yelp has gotten away with it. I have heard from 4-5 restaurant owners the same story: it costs $300 to hide bad reviews. Those that don't pay start getting more bad reviews.
SF only has one thing going for it really - weather.

Everything else pales compared to NYC.
Alphazero was coded by humans, some human figured out you can isolate GO into an algorithm. Human intelligence did that.

Alphastar for starcraft 2 required a lot of tweaking by the original creators.

The game destroying AI's can be beaten by a human controlling an opposing AI.

The human is the only source of intelligence that exists. Mathematics in programming always ends in an infinite reduction from the initial broad premise, otherwise it overflows and crashes.

Computers don't have 'intelligence'. They are number machines programmed to mirror the best mathematical concepts we know.
My account was repeatedly used to leave fake reviews on products I never bought.

I always had 2FA and strong password.

I tried to reach out to Amazon as a well as standard procedures for this kind of situztion, but faced only generic responses. Tried to recreate an account, the problem did not stop. Google results told me I was not alone stuck with this kind of experience.

I definitely closed my account, said farewell to my Kindle library and only use my spouse account when I need to buy some electronics for which Amazon provide a stellar customer service around here.

So yeah, Amazon lost me and I have zero confidence in the security of the platform and the legitimity of the reviews.
Completely agree. Though, I do think Grumpy Website [0] uses the footer & infinite scroll combo in a way that perfectly fits the site :)

[0]: https://grumpy.website/
I worked at a startup for 9 month.. I left decided not to exercise any options and they got purchased very shortly after for a higher amount than anyone expected. I got a slightly higher paying position that allowed me to scrape together enough to qualify to buy a house in a large city. If I would have waited another cycle I would have been priced out.

10 years later I'm up 2 million on the house, lost 20,000-40,000 grand on the startup options. I wasn't forced to move in order to full vest and be tied to a dead product for 2 years while they figured out how to move anything of value into their applications.

There are a lot of ways to earn a million and taking more cash and investing yourself could yield more.
"merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations."
Readings on History of Unix?
Looking for some reading material about the early history of systems and computing such as on the origins of Unix.
Demand is driven by those factors you say don’t matter.

That’s the point folks are trying to make.

It doesn’t just magically appear.
The BBB is a protection racket. You're wasting your time on them.
If I want to buy something online, I first search at Walmart.com and select the retailer as Walmart (I never buy from their 3rd party...that's what ebay is for...)

Walmart will actively price match Amazon. I know it won't be counterfeit and I can return in store immediately. I had a recent experience when I returned an unopened Apple watch. Despite them receiving it for several days, I never got a refund. I had to chat with customer service. I don't know if I had any products in the past that never got refunded. I only checked for the Apple Watch because it was a significant amount of money.

Amazon at this point is only good for cheap made in China commoditized goods delivered quickly. i.e. needed a pair of throwaway quality headphones recently.
Checking Texas's CPA system, it seems like the company is (formally) active. The domain is registered at GoDaddy and it points to an IP in DigitalOcean's space.

If I had to assume, they probably still have some limited sales, support and consulting (ex. schools with teachers used to old software? companies with unusual development environments?).

While looking for Mix Software, Inc., though, I found their official(?) YouTube channel with the introductions for their C [0] and C++ [1] courses uploaded 8 years ago. They definitely have that old 90's VHS feeling to them, complete with music, early 3D animations and everything.

It would seem that the MIX C compiler for CP/M 80 got preserved at some point, too! [2] I'd need to look into it, but this looks promising.

[0] https://youtu.be/ikTh2JQbkls

[1] https://youtu.be/wAm3CKoJW3o

[2] http://www.cpm8680.com/mix/index.htm
tar (x)tract-(z)e-(v)arious-(f)iles

also, substitute (x)tract for (c)ollect

Never forgot a tar command ever again.
Here's an attempt: https://youtu.be/RgvxLEYeb3g
I didn't even realize there were i10s
that is one part -- meanwhile, stupid building codes in expensive areas, are real; crooked inspectors in very expensive areas, are real

source: four years in construction trades, my own two eyes
My wife has an intel macbook circa 2018? It gets uncomfortably hot just watching youtube videos, my M1 macbook air has never even gotten warm. Her battery life seems terrible, maybe it is 4-5 hours or so, but I go days without charging mine with casual use. If you are not diligent about recharging every night, the drastic increase of battery life makes a big difference.
Has anyone compared memory usage of these launchers? I can report albert consumes a constant ~600MiB on my machine, which seems high for a list of filenames and application names.
Disconnect the landline.

For mobile turn on do not disturb with only contacts or favorite contacts allowed to breaktrough. Aggressively respond with a stop word to incoming texts - that eventually clears your number out of marketing databases.
I take the effort of marking them "return to sender" and throwing them in a mailbox for outbound mail. I don't know if they actually get sent back, but my hope is that if the important mail gets sent back the org that sent it will try and find their new address.
How is this "less painless" than `toolbox`?
> I can't blame them for selling it…

Yes you can, and should.

I don’t try to sell candidates on the possible stock upside because I don’t want to provide investment or tax advice. I’m not licensed to do so; I have a company to run. It’s up to them to decide if they want to early exercise or if they think it’s fair not.

I do the opposite: tell the candidate the number (that’s what the board approves) and what FD percentage it represents. If they ask if it’s a reasonable amount I explain how much we give for a given position plus how that is modulated by company stage. I always allow early exercise.

In 30 years of startups nobody has ever complained.
Sorry, I got confused.
My point is that this is something the flashbot service does before submitting the transaction. There is nothing technical stopping them from submitting it or frontrunning it (besides destroying their reputation). In addition, when uncles and reorgs occur, the rest of the network sees the transaction, and hence could frontrun it / submit it and have it fail.
Yeah because creating new valuable information takes attention, and we are having attention sapped from most due to the addictive smartphones and technologies that are always with us and super performant.

I got the iphone 13 pro, and the 120hz screen lets me read more stuff more quickly. Have I benefitted towards my "life goal"? Probably not, it may have been a detriment.
I browsed the list a bit and I recognized a few misogynists on there and he rated them all highly, take it for what you will. :) Even if I read a little of those just to sample them I would definitely disagree with their viewpoints.
Doesn't quite fit, but it's a classic and takes place in the UNIX world of the 80s: The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
The William James quotation at the end should not be presented as a single one. An ellipses should only be used if they were from the same paragraph. Actually, the two parts are from distinct passages several sections appart.
“Sharing your Social Security number and date of birth is optional, but the website says that giving this information can help them ensure that they can successfully process your request. It says the information you give is confidential and will be used only to process your request to opt out.”

“The website says”? How wonderful.
Yeah the 16" (last gen Intel cpus) is the one I have! That's what I'm saying, it's fine and while the battery life of the M1 seems absolute stellar, I'm def not going to be buying computers for the next 3 or 4 years just because I have like 3 unused MBPs that all are literally in great condition. Too much churn in hardware tech.

EDIT: your music link sharing site is neat, be my friend
Do you have a good reference for that? The references I found don't look so good.

https://www.livescience.com/how-much-plastic-recycling.html

And anecdata: whenever I look in a public recycling bin (e.g. restaurant, school, airport, etc.) it's always full of non-recyclable trash and food waste. The only system I've seen that seems to work is 100% industrial compost, and even then it gets tainted with random non-compostables.
This may be true with iOS devices but it is less true with macOS devices. I regularly repurpose my macOS devices with a nix installation, and I have not yet seen any discouraging move from Apple against this. Indeed none other than Linus Torvalds (the man behind Linux) has been known to use a MacBook Air for nix just because of its superior hardware - https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/srq2g/linus_torvalds...
Wow, thank you for linking that.

I've been meaning to buy this game, and in fact I just about bought it today (it's on sale right now). Now I'm not sure I want to.

If I understand correctly, this is a game in which great pains are taken to make you take the emotions and ethics seriously, in which you are railroaded into making an unethical choice (murdering an innocent thinking creature for the sake of personal convenience)?

I don't know of anything less ethical in storytelling than convincing players that sometimes murder is the only reasonable choice, in situations when clearly it is not the only reasonable choice.
To clarify: I treat the BBB as a review site, to peruse before engaging in business with another business, to see what people have said about them.
> question like "Will we want to change our action in some way based on the result of this test?"

This is my absolute favorite question. I am continually amazed at how much crap it can cut through.
Really they should release low level stuff for OS community to make linux for it, once the devices are past EOL. That would leave them an easy moral out, so I wonder why they don't do it. Maybe proprietary low level stuff that they don't want to share.
If only he had! I suppose it could be as you suggest, but the context does not seem to me to fit a past tense indicative. Just a few lines earlier he even writes ‘Thou … art alive still, while thy book doth live,’ and the previous sentence matches the subjunctive + conditional structure (‘if I thought … I should commit’) that I think he is using in the disputed sentence (‘though thou hadst … I would not seek’).
If there was software for automated code diagramming to help me quickly wrap my head around a new codebase, I would buy it instantly (assuming it was licensed like, say, Sublime Text
and not like Adobe Creative Cloud).

I keep bookmarking threads like this one, but I haven't found anything useful for me. The closest one was SourceTrail, which is unfortunately not developed anymore.

With so much hiring and onboarding going on, I am surprised there isn't a market (or an offering) for such tools.
The Full Pipe
We should be pushing some of the "repair" legislation to include clauses about, "If you're no longer going to provide OS updates for a device, you must provide a way to install alternate firmware on it." We'd either get continued updates for devices, or a way to install something else. Either way is a win.
I’m going to get real petty about this. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah that’s not bad.
Doesn't your argument against using the third party agency DMAchoice apply just the same to the BBB?
Years ago I completed the permanent opt-out for everyone in my household (needing to mail in a paper form is shameful). However, very few unsolicited junk mails since. For any that get through I call that company's support line and request removal. Works ~90% of the time.

One cool free feature the USPS does offer is Informed Delivery [0]:
Every morning around 7am I get an email from the postal service with scanned images of all the mail (face of the envelope) I'm receiving that day.

[0] https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.acti...
The Metaverse Needs to Figure Out How to Deal with Sexual Assault
This feels like a GPT comment. Some pithy ideas but they just don't have any truth in my personal experience. and the whole "what if the reverse is true?" bit that leads to extolling the virtue of ignorance (??). Not even worth debating.
Make sure you have drinking water for several weeks. A large fraction of the deaths after Hiroshima was because thirsty people would drink the "black rain". (The fallout caused water in the atmosphere to condense, causing it to start to rain, and the rain was black with fallout.)

Anyone forced to go outside to find drinking water over the first few weeks have pretty poor odds, if the water contains fallout.
32 is thin only if you have highly specialized workload. Its enough for all games and even pretty hardcore software development.
Ask HN: Has anyone used CharaChorder for software dev?
I've been keeping my eye on CharaChorder[0]. There's not that much online content of real users using it. It looks like a huge time investment to learn. Does anyone here have one and are willing to share your experiences?

0. https://www.charachorder.com/