skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely there's cost to the business even if you don't use the service. There's marketing, salary, healthcare, leases, and any other number of expenses. Gym's pay rent regardless of you showing up. Netflix still has pay for content you don't watch.

The entire point of a subscription model is that a business can offer a steeply discounted price vs. pay-as-you-go in exchange for predictable, recurring revenue. That's the only way the model works.
> I don't understand why you try to shame us…

I suspect you may have unintentionally read too much into the motivations from the comments. I didn’t see anything which resembled shaming.
Airlines often also cancel flights due to lack of demand, sometimes at the last moment, because rescheduling the passengers is more profitable than flying the plane.
Socket for GitHub 1.0 – adding support for 5 more supply chain security signals
So you're going to slander me, make a very strong accusation, call V (the work of hundreds of contributors) a "vapor", and when asked for a single proof you just say "I don't have time for this"?

What a nice character you are.
Japan certainly does not have higher car ownership than the US. It depends on the source you use, but the US is somewhere in the 90s and Japan somewhere in the 60s. Plus they just use them a lot less as you mentioned.
Well, the ability to read text clearly is important and missing. That holds back a lot of productivity use cases.
when I grew up I also spent time in video games, none of which are around today, because they're just activities not ways of life.

Fortnite 'concerts' are choreographed just webcasts. fashion areas are just microtransactions. there's nothing new there.
GuerrillaMail is one of the oldest no-fuss throwaway email providers (since 2006!). They have been threatened by different things over the years, it's a big loss to privacy if they shut down for good.
Time in the workforce doesn't indicate competence, but time at known employers can (since we're talking seniors here).

When you're hiring, you should know where you want to hire people from. Normally, you'll know someone there, or who used to be there, so you can do the unofficial check: "Hey, do you remember X who used to work in group Y at company Z? Should I hire them?" At worst, you can do a friend-of-a-friend check.

Of course, you should call their formal references as well, but their responses are normally going to range only from "yes" to "absolutely yes" (unless the candidate has messed up, and given a reference who will actually say "no").

Also useful: a short stint at a known-bad employer. This shows that the candidate recognized their mistake, and corrected it.

I'll normally only interview someone who I can't background if their resume looks super impressive and I've got no better options.
My comment was in response to the mention of the US. I could have been more exact, instead of "actual violation of free speech", it would be "an actual violation, in the US, of the First Amendment guarantees of free speech. Outside the US, that doesn't apply.
You know, a frog probably makes really good fertilizer. Chuck a frog in with the potato and you get a bumper crop.
This is such a crazy and enraging read. If you don’t like your job, go join another company. It’s not as if devs don’t have plenty of high paying choices out there.

Especially for a startup that had struggled to find market fit, the last thing they need is a union.

Companies are not democracies and setting up a union is a hostile action. It basically says: here are the things we want and if we don’t get them we all stop working. If you want to run the company differently go setup your own company or buy some shares.
Funny how similar our days are! There is however the weekend for stuff like this. I assume an interested employer would be willing to allow that.
> I hope you are right because he's got quite a bit of power these days.

Oh c'mon. The guy is just a YouTube celeb like hundreds of others and easily disposable, what is this "power" he wields?
Who Owns a Symbol?
For startups, equity is cheaper than cash. Cash has to actually exist in a bank account and be transferred out, equity is essentially imaginary.
Crazy, I just had this idea last week. Although I was imagining a “mermaid for roadmaps”, so closely related but not exactly the same. This looks really cool though!
who exactly is setting the price of oil? I thought it was a market driven largely by supply and demand?
If this can double as a keyboard for an android device, I want one.
It's in the gist linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806599
Since you're aware of the inflation, you might be subconsciously substituting more affordable products, or your particular basket of goods hasn't experienced as much compared to the indexed basket, or both.
Ad-hominems undermine your argument and reinforce the opponent's.
In person interviews typically also involve being given lunch.
He is in fact reading it, please look again at what he pasted. It really seems somehow you're getting your wires crossed.
while i appreciate what you want for your sun, jumping to "I won't let VR goggles into my home" doesn't seem like a reasonable response either.

Will you also ban game consoles and televisions? Will you limit his internet usage to wikipedia, and only non sexual articles?

There is a lot of room between 'I don't support meta's endeavours' and 'BAN VR', and you've jumped directly on the extreme end of a scale for seemingly no reason.
Plain Text E-books Are Accessible
Reference? Starlink satellites do not have observational capabilities
Both 1 and 2 are nonsense. I am very curious about blockchains (Etherium primarily), but so far have not seen any web3 projects that are more “beautiful” than Electric Counterpoint by Reich or more “dastardly” than the holocaust.

If you mean that both of these are achievable on an individual level, then I fail to see how coding an idea has any more potential to achieve these extremes than using a paintbrush.

Look at the kids: they get far more excited by video games than DeFi.
Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation (NorthCal Case No. 5:12-MD-02314-EJD)
PP implied that 2015 MBP was good for 5 years for the specified workloads.

And as you note a cloud browser only handles web browsing.
Ask HN: What content niche would you like to see isn't currently fulfilled?
Given that the GOP in Texas made the declaration that “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice” part of their platform, It’s probably nice for people to know which companies are at least not echoing that, even if it’s not full throated support. I doubt chik fila is changing their logo for instance
My mother doesn't have a computer or mobile phone of any kind. Landline phone, TV and snailmail is her contact with the world from home.

I did give her an old laptop but when the link to "her email" webpage was moved by the ISP she got the error message "It looks like your page has been moved." Innocuous enough error message right?

But this caused her to freak out as clearly "someone" was watching and knew what "her" page was. Ergo "someone" was watching her on the internet. So she turned off the laptop and never opened it again.

On the one hand, she has mental health issues including paranoia. On the other hand, she wasn't wrong!
It's silly because it isn't a valid point. Linus flip flopping on those brands is precisely why he isn't suffering from fanboyitis.

It's kind of rediculous to claim he's a fanboy in one sentence then claim he's just a shill in the next when the evidence contradicts your first statement.
Its just for clean installs, but at work I can PXE boot a system and use a MS tool called Lite Touch to install Windows plus many software packages. It works pretty well. I can also PXE boot into some other operating systems and get my domain home directory. I should say, we're not using this project, but its the same concept.
> Most meat & dairy consumed on this planet comes from factory farms - that's why it's so 'cheap'. And those animals are pumped with antibiotics and they also get supplements, like B12.

That's not right. What you say does not apply to "this planet". It applies to "the United States", where factory farms are the norm. But they are not the norm outside the USA.

For example, FAO reports that 1/3 of the world's food is produced by "family farms" (both animal and crop farms) which tend to be small and are in any case not CAFOs ("concentrated animal feeding operations").

This article quantifies the percentage of "smallholder" farmers to 80% (I haven't been able to find a better source for that number):

https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/are...

Note the discrepancy: 1/3 of the world's food is produced by "family farms" but 80% of all farmers are "smallholders". That's because most food is produced and consumed in rich, industrialised countries, and the rest of the world is starving. Meat is certainly not "cheap" for, say, Ghanaian farmers, or their children! Neither is it as plentiful as for American office workers and their children.

It might well be that the majority of beef in particular, is produced in factory farms, but that is because CAFOs is where the vast majority of beef is produced in the US which is one of the largest consumers of beef on the entire planet. The citizens of the US, Argentina and Brazil consume annually, per capita, almost twice as much as the citizens of other industrialised countries:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-type?coun...

As to antibiotics, the EU has now banned the preventive use of antibiotics in farm animals:

https://sciencemediahub.eu/2019/01/03/antibiotics-on-farms-e...

And the supplementation of animals with B12 also appears to be a uniquely American thing, as far as I can tell. Certainly where I live, farming is mainly free-range and B12 supplementation is not necessary, at least according to my understanding, that free-grazing animals take their B12 from the bacterial flora of their wild feed... which is also responsible for the terroir of my cheeses, incidentally.

> It's more the animals that are exploited to death and for what?

That is not my question to answer. My problem is that those destructive methods that your people employ are spreading around the world and slowly taking over the farming and agriculture in my part of the world. Those practices, or the people that promote them, are my mortal enemies. Those practices go against everything I stand for and against everything I believe in. They destroy the traditions that have kept my people healthy and well-nourished for generations, even through poverty and war. They destroy our animals, and they destroy our relation with our animals. The day that all meat and dairy production in my land will be from CAFOs, is the day that we will all have turned into Americans.

And then, I will never make cheese again.
> Most people hate change and will fight it as hard as they can, seeing all layoffs as "bad" and "evil".

this does not take into account the other side of the ledger -- the behavior, movement and dispersion of Kapital. Is there a shortage of profit in the last forty years, that requires creative destruction at every turn?

Perhaps the secret ingredient would be something called "stability" that includes accounting for the real system-level costs of luxury resorts, massive sports franchises, excessive personal medication and single-use plastics?

Am I seriously proposing that the German Auto Industry is good the way it is for the next 200 years? no.. is California a model for the world economic growth in the next twenty years? you tell me
No, he also had criticisms like "the V compiler depends on an OpenGL context creation library, so the claim that it has zero dependencies is false, the author is a scammer".
NFT Lending Platform Astaria Raises $8M
I can't believe they didn't toss in the "Not Working Filesystem" joke as a freebie.

Another way to have thumb-twiddling fun was for all the machines in a building to reboot - power failure, whatever - and then spend a lot of time waiting for each other's cross-mounted NFS shares to come up.

P.S.

> such as AFS (the Andrew File System)

That one prompted a senior engineer, on learning that it was to be deployed to undergrad's lab machines, to let slip "Why inflict it on the hapless livestock?"
Huh? Microsoft 'forbids' a lot of apps from being installed on any windows OS.

macOS exclusive apps, linux exclusive apps, FreeBSD exclusive apps, z/OS exclusive apps, etc..
Only 11.6% of US employees are unionized (straight from the US bureau of labor statistics), FYI.
Sales has never been my forte so would appreciate feedback from more experienced people!
Ditto. It's cheaper too. And added bonus by supporting Mozilla (or just their CEO :P)
Ubiquitous and Best are not synonymous
Why do people always think it’s a good idea to unionize when a company is fighting for survival?
How would you value apple equity vs cash? I recently got a decent offer with a total comp higher than my current all cash salary, but rejected it as it seems that equity even in Apple is not a sure bet at the moment. Even with the generous offer that was greater than my current salary that they gave me a few months ago, it would still be worth less than my current job after the recent market dip. I asked for more equity to buffer for a potential market downturn, and they insisted that Apple stock doesn't go down lol. Unfortunately I was correct. I've been in the industry for 25 years - what do they take us for?
I just came out of the job hunt, and I disagree about preferring take-home tests to leetcode. I much prefer the timeboxed leetcode scenarios to a project with no defined end aside from the specifications. The expectations for the takehome never seem chasee to me. I might solve the exercise in 4 hours, but how do I know the other candidates aren't pouring days into the exercise? Leetcode with a time constraint allows me to prepare for a known quantity.
“Am I missing a trend of app icons that recognize other 'political' causes?”

Yes.
It is the other way around, the article is wrong.

From at least 1726:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonatha...
I'm under the impression Wirecutter's reviews are also influenced from being paid by some manufacturers. No way to prove it, just a feeling as a consumer. Yet, I still look at them as a source occasionally.

When getting a air purifiers over a year ago, I read Wirecutter, Amazon, Reddit, and a few other blog-like websites and used that data to compare. For instance, Wirecutter recommends the Coway units. Yet Amazon had many recent reviews of their units breaking. And filters are expensive year after year. Wirecutter also recommends Winix as a runner up, and even says it performs better than the Coways, but they liked the Coways because it looks nicer. That tells me Coway pays them to be #1. Because other sites tell me about the breakage and expensive filter cost. Wirecutter omits that Winix has cheaper filters and doesn't have manufacturing issues. But according to them it's uglier even if it slightly out performs the Coway.

That being said, I got several Winix units and they've been great. Wirecutter served it's purpose for me.
I don’t have any close friends. I love working from home. I love the freedom of being able to work from any location. And most of all I love being able to focus on work instead of having to wear noise cancelling headphones so I can drown out other people chatting about YouTubers and Netflix series’ while I’m trying to get my work done while I’m at work in order to avoid working from home during my personal time.
> should be a cost or penalty for trying to impose your beliefs on all of society via those kinds of organized actions.

At least in the US, "organized actions" would be protected under "right of the people peaceably to assemble" part of the First Amendment. Unless those organized actions presented a "clear and present danger"[1], it's difficult for me to see how a government could restrain organizing.

1 Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
It doesn't run off to infinity, because the high cost of living city is connected to other markets. E.g. the price of groceries might increase a little. Price of low-end housing could be expected to fall a little from reduced demand.

There's a transfer of wealth to people who are at the bottom of the income scale.
Lacking features is not always a bad thing. I am much happier with github issues than Jira.

And a good PM is to Jira as lipstick is to a pig. It might give the pig redder lips, but that won't make anyone want to kiss it. Even with the best PM Jira still had severe usability issues and bugs that atlassian shows no interest in fixing.
>Why do you expect to have to purchase property in VR?

because its already a thing in virtual spaces.

> probably nothing that would require you to get a mortgage.

oh so now you expect it, but you think its not a lot of money. Seems like you're in agreement with him about purchasing virtual spaces, you just think its worth the money.
A true hacker! Though not sure what to think about the security of that headless browser setup
He is kind of like the original RMS, as he talks about repairability and things being made for the user (like really for the user, not kinda for the user, kinda for the corporation).
FB account holders have recently been receiving this link together with a notice about a settlement and a case number.

It does seem legit [0][1].

[0]: https://teddit.net/r/Scams/comments/vg8m61/facebook_internet...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-facebook-pay-90-mil...
When I was a kid it was fairly common to see salt shakers with grains of uncooked rice in them. This was to keep the salt from sticking together in a humid environment.
https://www.ivpn.net/ also generates a random userid and also accepts cash in the mail (only for large purchases unfortunately). I wasn't able to get mullvad's multihop to work on Android, but iVPN Pro does the trick. iVPN also has a nice server status page that helps you optimize for speed (low load server) or anonymity (high load server) as appropriate: https://www.ivpn.net/status/ They have a weird "anti-marketing" homepage which devotes almost equal space to explaining why you should not buy their product :-P

Perfect Privacy accepts a gift card (more convenient than mailed cash IMO) and has a nifty "neurorouting" feature which aims to be better than standard multihop (claims of speed, at least, I can attest to). They do ask for an email address, sadly, unlike iVPN/Mullvad. Also I just saw this and it looks a bit worrisome https://www.security.org/privacy-guide/perfect-privacy/

Both iVPN and PP let you block various trackers / MANGA corps at the network level.

I like Mullvad but it seems good to support a diversity of providers. Curious if anyone has any dirt on either of those two, or if they can make more recommendations.
> You can mail them cash with account info and they'll set you up

If I wanted to self-host a VPN, I would still need to pay for a cloud provider.

Is there an equivalent cash (snail mail) offering for hosting?
Second this. Whenever I'm looking up a review for a notebook, my default search term is "<model> notebookcheck" to see if they've done a review.

The visual size comparison tool is also extremely handy for comparing something you're about to buy, with something you already have access to. It gives you a much better sense of how much bigger/smaller this thing is.
Looks like I remembered it wrong. Still, it’s quite high and more than Australia/Canada.

https://internationalcomparisons.org/environmental/transport... (2015)

The UK having the highest transit mode share (in 2014) is a bit surprising.
A friend of mine was just telling me about how the programmers at his job fix bugs by adding special cases at the top layer instead of by digging down and finding the root cause.

But my friend is old school and can't bring himself to be so hacky... But this means his co-workers close more tickets and it looks bad for him.
Came here to say 'field of view'. I have a Vive and my girlfriend mentioned the "field of view" limitation, which I didn't even notice at first but now I can't unsee it. I'd love to switch to Pimax but I'm unsure if most computers can even handle it.
That diff message is really annoying indeed, but that is not the only thing that leaves in the browser session. I have set up my browse to be wipe clean every time I close it, and a lot of things like PR notification for update also live in the session. So if I reopen the browser all the PR are marked with blue circle.

I don’t like Jira, though I can its positive points, but Bitbucket is just the worst tooling I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I can’t believe a single developer in Atlassian actually uses that.

> company behind it and its engineering practices. Their mediocrity goes beyond Jira.

100% agree. Bamboo bitbucket, confluence, Jira all of them made my development workflow worse.
I mean, at the end of the day, the companies and individuals that own gas stations.

But to answer the meat of your question: I believe the largest components of the price are OPEC and the oil & gas companies.
If you're pro-something, surly you'd want people to do it?
That sounds like a self-discipline problem. It would be highly beneficial for you in and outside of the office to work on that.
Good thing I don’t make decisions :)
Sorry dang, I'll stop doing this. It became an addictive habit that got way out of hand.
Intercity trains in Switzerland do stop for longer periods. This is a basic feature of the network to facilitate transfers.
Most startups fail. Why burden them more? There are plenty of stable jobs out there at big boring companies. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
Why Ubuntu? Mostly because it just makes packaging and compatibility easier. There is a plugin system which creates tarballs out of overlays... so you can add additional software into the system and the building of the tarballs can include things like apt install. These tarballs get downloaded and installed early on by a hacked init script. This way, we can do things like install minimized downloads of GPU drivers.

There are some issues with this, but overall it works ok. For now, it is just what I ended up with. Total boot download is about 100megs, which isn't too bad... machine is up and running in 60s, which is fine for this workload right now. It does suck rebooting the whole datacenter at once though. ;-)

The lbu stuff looks interesting for sure. I'm not a huge fan of the additional NFS requirement, but I assume that can be worked around. That said, I'm open to changing stuff up and optimizing things further. This is some esoteric stuff and we are hiring. =)
The immediate result of this is that publishers who don't want to play by Apple's privacy laws will only host their apps on alternative app stores. Want Facebook on your iphone? It'll only be available on the app store that has less strict privacy protections.

It's not seeking out and customizing my experience if the only choice is "have my privacy violated, or don't use the service. That's the experience that already exists on platforms with less strict privacy protections.
Disagree, i think it's so you can find your friends.
Tip:

This portable secure travel router supports MullVad (and Azire-VPN) out of the box:

https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT1300-Wireless-Pocket-Siz...

Just input your Mullvad account number and it will upload all WireGuard configurations for all MullVad servers worldwide automatically.

Perfect to use to connect to any unsecure Wi-Fi and drive all traffic via VPN in hotels, airports, coffee shops, etc...
The pg_stat_activity table has that info. Just select *
Except with a 5in phone screen, you still have some sort of situational awareness of people walking up on you whether you choose to ignore that or not is totally different than being in a headset where you have none.

I keep seeing ads/promos for VR with people on a train/subway in a VR headset. I hope you don't mind having the rest of your stuff taken from you while you crush it in what ever game you're playing on the subway