skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Web3 seems to be much more about decentralised payments. Which is not really a problem many people are demanding a highly complex solution for.

Stripe being a $100B company contradicts this.

Payments and especially finance is a gigantic industry that is still mostly centralized but doesn't need to be. If we can make wealth flow as easy as data does today without any gatekeepers or middlemen that is a huge upgrade for the internet.
I Scanned the Websites I Visit with Blacklight, and It’s Horrifying. Now What?
Also see this Ted Nelson interview from 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI
Isn't SMB better than NFS?
seems pretty accusatory, especially since that's a pretty big "typo" to have to make and the project hasn't been touched since 2019
mTLS and apple/google/other-idp signed short-lived client certs would acheive the same thing in my opinion. Bypass captcha if the client has a cert issued by a trusted idp.
But why would I want them taking stuff out of my game? I can see the appeal of putting stuff in the game, but then again, if I wanted to put stuff in the game I could just put it in the game, the NFT doesn't' mean anything to me.
Why? If we're logically guaranteed to hold belief X independently of whether X is true or not, it's irrational to say "yeah but I KNOW X is true. I can just tell." You would believe that no matter what; how can you trust that belief?
It can be all of the above (though sure technically what you wrote is correct if nit picking the word due to mean solely caused by - but I don't feel like that's the intention / argument made)

And yes agriculture is wasting way more water than climate change.

But climate change does have an effect.

USGS paper showing climate change affects

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aay9187

"Drought and warming have been shrinking Colorado River flow for many years. Milly and Dunne used a hydrologic model and historical observations to show that this decrease is due mainly to increased evapotranspiration caused by a reduction of albedo from snow loss and the associated rise in the absorption of solar radiation (see the Perspective by Hobbins and Barsugli). This drying will be greater than the projected precipitation increases expected from climate warming, increasing the risk of severe water shortages in an already vulnerable region."
It seems like he creates a fun environment at the workplace too. I bet they have awesome work parties.
What about the non-native lawns, flowers, shrubs, and trees populated by millions of homes in the states fed by the Colorado? All of which require irrigation.
Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979)
> > It's also questionable if they save lives in single family dwellings

> Actually, the statistics are rather stark.

AFAIK, this is all information about multi-family dwellings and has not been demonstrated in single family homes.

The benefit of sprinklers is certainly more obvious in large buildings with multiple residences inside, in slowing fires from reaching new dwelling units.

I find plenty of factsheets about residential sprinklers, that cite numbers of 80% reduction in death... which then ends up relying upon benefits seen in apartments... and which mostly evaporates when controlling for income.
If California residents also have to go through that same procedure (i.e., everyone is subject to it), sure, that might pass muster.

Otherwise, it sounds like a distinction without a difference. How do you imagine a "going through immigration" process that doesn't effectively produce "resident"/"non-resident" status?
Don’t remember the model, but I used a very early Oculus VR headset and came away thinking it was like looking at a blurry image through a screen door.
Almonds are a classic example of an extremely water-hungry crop, with 1lb of almonds taking 1600 gallons of water to grow. My water bill, in SF, is $0.0123/gal.

Now, 1600gal × 0.0123$/gal × 0.001 is about 2 cents.

If farms were forced to pay my water rates, a pound of almonds would be $19.68 more expensive - but they would be paying at worst 10% of what I pay, because they wouldn't need potable water or urban plumbing.

I am going to ask that you provide sources for your claim, because it seems ridiculous.
I just checked and it's actually marked "3.4oz" :)
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Almond milk isn't even healthy I don't understand. At least soy milk has some protein in it.
...in exchange for knowing who you are. (If they couldn't de-dup you via some kind of identity verification, they wouldn't be able to offer a free promo, as some asshole could then just come and generate a million free accounts and lash them together to run a botnet/crypto-mining-farm/etc on.)

I believe the GP's question is "is there any public-web hosting platform that I can use entirely anonymously; where they allow me to sign up using a VPN; and where I don't ever have to pass them anything / sign in through anything / link anything that could be linked back to my identity?"

And I believe the answer to that question is "no."

(Well, okay, if you're fine with a static website, you could pin your data using FileCoin, and then set a domain up as a DNSLink pointer to [an IPFS gateway for] the relevant IPFS URN. That's how https://docs.ipfs.io works. But that's not quite what "web hosting" means to most people.)
You seem to be longing for a combination of iFixit teardowns, Anandtech deep dives and JerryRigEverything roughtless tests.

I am with you, but that's a hell of a niche to fill.
> If a company can't exist without tricking people into paying for something they get no value out of, maybe it shouldn't exist.

Sure, but this doesn't describe all subscription businesses, plenty of companies have healthy margins even with active users.

No one is saying there aren't subscription businesses that abuse subscription pricing to get recurring revenue from what should be one-time revenue, leave customers locked into something they're not getting value out of, etc. but that's not a truism of subscriptions (even the traditionally shady ones like gyms!)
When AR/VR is available as an option for my normal eyeglasses at a negligible cost & inconvenience, I’ll agree with you.
If it were peer programming, that would be fine. I'm happy with peer programming. We'd trade off, I'd have a look at their style, get a feel for their culture, they could see how I drive and navigate...

But, irrespective of how it's billed, it's always "code while I watch..."
Why do you assume that unions, or some other form of labor power, would burden startups? In fact, why do you assume that they might not lead to fewer startups failing?
The Project Farm channel on YouTube does a great objective and transparent set of reviews to follow along. It’s not exhaustive for every product on the market but does a reasonable sample and is a joy to watch.
In the 1980s, going to Japan really did feel like stepping into the future. A decade later, it didn't so much. There are still neat things you see only in Japan, but you can say that about a lot of countries. As a traveler/worker in Japan over many years, I am so tired of hearing from that kind of visitor who idolizes their limited idea of the society, regards anime/manga as Japan's most significant fine arts, and refers to all Japanese as "-san" even when speaking English.
No, that would mean you support each woman who wants to have one and you probably shouldn't tell them it offends you if they do. Especially if they depend on you financially and you can break up with them without consequence.
That’s a theoretical argument; in real life it doesn’t matter what happens in a single transaction right now. All those services are operated and used by real people, if they’re legal now it’s because they’re complying with laws, and if they stop complying with laws they won’t be legal.

Assuming you expect to still be alive in the next few years, it’s not a good idea to pretend like you don’t have to care about this. You can end up in front of a judge if you do something illegal, and they aren’t impressed with “you can’t stop me” as an argument. They can find someone who can do something and they can order them to do that.
Ask HN: Can I start a tech company with mandatory 2 month yearly sabbaticals?
I really believe people need time to unwind and explore all aspects of life and interests and tech companies right now might have the luxury to afford us the same.

Vacations are great, but never cut it fully. Importantly, unlimited pto never works in the workers favor for some reason.

One of the ideas I’ve been mulling is mandating a vacation and a long one at that. I’ve heard many industries already take a fairly long summer break in EU, so I suppose this is similar.

One worry I’ve heard is our work will be delayed due to this break but maybe it won’t? I feel rejuvenated good engineers would be more productive in 10 months than worn down ones in 12.

There’s also the practical logistics of running an always on service, but I feel like for most tech companies this should be doable with a skeleton support staff (even if that) especially if we freeze the code weeks before we leave work.

Would love anyones thoughts on how this might work and what the pitfalls would be (and also to ask if this would entice the best engineers as much as I believe).
Sorry, I thought you'd understand I was talking about marginal cost. Yes, I understand that software companies have non-marginal expenses. And yes, gyms pay rent, but I clearly said I was talking about "service/software subscriptions".

I also disagree that's the point of subscription models. If I'm on a month-to-month subscription, there's no legal guarantee the revenue is predictable more than 30 days out. That would be just as true if auto-suspend were required for non-use.
Free markets work best when information is available. One option would be to have all rentals require energy efficiency testing with a score being published on all rental listings. That way renters are able to compare properties and factor in this in to their choice.
My first thought is how this dynamic interacts with early childhood education and learning.

What happens inside the brain of a child who's subject to chronic under-nourishment, and what are the long-term impacts of this?
A bit contra, but this is a bit like asking fish how to catch them and the fish saying, "send more worms!"

I'm pretty senior as an architect in my field and I ask things in interviews like when their last round was, staff size, runway, revenue - basically like I'm an investor, because at this stage of my career that's exactly what I am doing. If that sounds funny, consider that there are LPs participating in seed and A rounds for less than the value or revenue a key hire can deliver. Obviously, I'm not an investor, but consider treating senior talent like somone who is investing in your company and they may open up. You don't have to kiss anyone's ass, and arguably a lot of perks are kind of patronizing above a certain level, so just treat recruiting as a business deal and not a patronage application. A lot of recruiting processes optimize for finding people who don't know what they are worth, and often at the expense of finding the people who really are worth a lot.

Also, this is for finding exceptional talent for near term outcomes in the growth phase of a company. Once your major growth phase is behind you (e.g. an D-F round to get you over the line to an IPO or an acquisition, or you are an institution) I'd recommend moderate and steady hands who can manage and scale jr's, and not a fireteam of tactical operators. Consider whether you just need better mid level managers who can really leverage a team better instead of more experienced IC's. A good IC is gold, but a good manager is a refinery.

Someone who is still an IC after more than a decade in the field is going to be motivated by solving interesting problems that actualize them, so perhaps lead with your hard problems. Someone senior understands organizations and starts with second order thinking, so tip some of your strategy and business model to them to let them apply their experience.

Individuals who are really, really good at something are usually good at it because they were optimizing against a constraint. As in anything, technique is an artifact of constraints, so consider that the very best technical talent is likely going to have an albatross of some sort. Look for minor contradictions, inconsistencies, and rough edges that created a situation where they have to be at least 2x better than anyone else in a specialty just to sit at the table. Their value has to offset their roughness for them to survive, and whether its conscious or not, that's often how they signal it. Many of them are more outdoor cats than indoor cats, as all the strategic sr. indoor cats are already managing directors and SVPs somewhere running people and not machines, so maybe see if you can lure someone out of a successful consulting run with some recognition and respect, and let them meet your execs. Post exit or significant culture change they will attrit out, but it's to mutual benefit.

Just a few ideas, but being attractive isn't a transaction, it's demonstrating that you are growing and how someone can be a part of that trajectory, so really attracting talent is the effect of showing promise.
"I rarely feel that bitchers have a true understanding for the extreme difficulty of the organization-wide problem Jira is trying to solve."

What is that problem exactly?
Gonna need stronger reasoning than "the device can't do much because I haven't done much".
That is assuming we can find less polluting ways of moving mass with similar cost benefit to fossil fuels.

Also, I am assuming the few billion people in developing countries will be happy to pick up the slack in fossil fuel demand in the event developed countries do find an alternative. The Middle East can pump it out for a few dollars per barrel, I imagine it will be tough to compete with that.
Are you prepared to regulate individual homeowner's yards?
I believe I know who the OP is and it's a very sad situation of simple hurt feelings from largely misunderstanding. It's a sad situation actually, but such is life and differences of cultures and human interaction. I feel bad for the OP to have had to have felt so badly that they felt the necessity to post this hit piece vs trying to really address the issues that other community members have gathered from it as actual issues to resolve. So sad.
I had exactly the same response as you. If they were even loop-faded I could listen to them for a few hours on repeat quite happily
Depending on the product you can find tiny youtube channels that do honest reviews, usually just normal people who really liked or disliked something and want to talk about it.
I do think it's probably a fair assumption that people in apartments have less expensive furnishings than people in houses.
Only if you toss in multi-site for fun. :)
Next door is a dreadful system that is so overloaded with advertisements that its almost useless. Im very surprised facebook hasn’t developed a local-focused platform
It boggles my mind that anyone would connect a TV to the Internet (!)

Although it wouldn't surprise me at some point if Samsung or other makers started bundling cellular modems in or had deals to have them automatically log into the "free wifi" for the major cable internet providers :p
Make sure to read between the lines. It only looks like a busy loop. Remember, the OS can pause and preempt your thread at any time. This is a real and likely event.
Near me, the price has varied greatly in the last few months by what you buy and when, I assume because the original driver is supply-line woes at the processors. Produce and canned stuff have been weird too, but meat especially was the most stark: Beef got expensive right away, but for a while pork was cheap, and then it wasn't anymore, and then all the chicken was gone entirely one day, and then seafood (in Ohio) was cheaper than any meat, and then the chicken came back, the other meat came back down a little and frozen shrimp shot up in price. A week ago at least two different supermarkets had cases full of bone-in beef shanks, a cut I'd never seen mass-marketed, so I got a couple and braised them. The best way to manage it is to be able to cook whatever's on sale that day.
iOS users pay more != iOS users/devs needs strict IAP enforcement. Google Play is on similar situation but sales are less. I don't see much praises for App Store's discoverability.
Considering the origins of these tech giants, I read your first paragraph and couldn't help but think, "meta-VC"
There’s always “sudo reboot”, too :)
Watson was pretty good at jeopardy.

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Does anyone understand how TLS is happening over UDP? I thought TLS was a TCP-based protocol
As an Apple apologist, I also concur with most of the above.

Though I do find it amusing that Linus has often commented negatively on companies that don't want their employes to unionise, when Linus does much the same thing. In the case of LMG, Linus employs emotional threats, publicly warning his employees that forming a union would represent a declaration of "personal failure". Don't get me wrong, I agree 100% with Linus here. Unionising is what you do in response to exploitation, not as a default state of affairs. I just wish he could see the parallel when commenting on other companies which aren't currently unionised.

[Edit: just noticed that this exact point was already discussed to death elsewhere in this sub-thread.]
> but you are underestimating how immediate and real the threat of homelessness appears to the class of people who work warehouse jobs.

A shockingly large chunk of people making six figures live paycheck-to-paycheck. The perceived threat of homelessness is useless compared to actual homelessness statistics, which tell a different story.

> if Amazon wasn't getting more utility and value out of their resources than they spent, Amazon would not be profitable. it is okay to call that exploitation. it doesn't require tricking anyone.

It's not exploitation, and it's not OK to call it exploitation. All trades must create value for both parties, or else they wouldn't happen. It's the reason why civilization is able to exist at all.

Yes, Amazon gets more out of their workers than they pay them. Workers get paid more for their labor than they would get out of it themselves.
Many people do want more people because global populations have been continuously centralizing. Cities have become more dense and rural towns have drained out. People have made this choice on their own.
The price is zero because the rights holders own the water rights.
The problem with diffing goes further than most people think.

It's not a problem itself, it's a symptom of a deeper problem: we represent all of our code as plain text.

We have built almost everything around plain text, for a long time now. The few things that aren't built around plain text tend to require either proprietary software or open software that seldom lasts more than a decade.

Yes, plain text has impressive strengths (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521545) but it may be holding some areas back.

There has always been talk of smarter diffing tools (new diff algorithms, syntax aware diffing, semantic diffing) but it tends to get hamstrung around supporting plain text.

Usually the approaches go with one of two ways. Either:

1. a diffing algorithm has a smarter diffing algorithm than what we already have, until it gets into a corner case and ends up worse than what we already have.

2. an LSP-like service goes through the effort of building a full AST to perform diffs with, only to convert everything back to plain text in the end. This makes diffing take longer. The fact that ASTs can't represent some changes and we don't realize until after the work is done doesn't help this.

I'd wager that over the next few decades, new languages are going to migrate away from plain text representation and move entirely to AST representations. ASTs can be perfectly diffed, and only writing code as an AST means that it'll be impossible to write some kinds of code that is almost correct.

There's a few academic research languages around this, but I think one of the more interesting explorations with this kind of AST only development styles has to be by Dion Systems: https://dion.systems/blog_0001_hms2020.html

They basically acknowledge that we as developers are not going to move to a new AST-based tool if it's not going to work with our other tools, so they want to experiment across the development workflow to see how well ASTs can work across the development space.

Their 2020 talk about this was fascinating: https://vimeo.com/485177664
I would argue the lack of atmosphere and high cost of shipping materials is a LVT in and of itself. You only build things that are useful on Mars.
Then I guess its widespread adoption is inevitable, because if there's one thing corporations seem to be incapable of resisting is a more effective way of tracking people.
Given that I was born and raised in the area and my father still lives 100' away from me (and he owns two properties here), I knew the area market extremely well.

I bought the place sight unseen while I was in another state because I knew exactly what the property is and its history. It is also easy to see in this very popular beach area that the prices have appreciated over time.

The people selling the place... well... I googled them and it seemed like they needed the cash. I lowballed the offer (counter to my agents wishes) and they accepted. Business is business.

Apologies if it came off as arrogant, but like I said, I got lucky. The stars aligned into something I knew would be a good investment if I could get it and I did.

One semi interesting side note is that I was originally looking for a place to rent, not buy. One of the other owners in the same building wanted some crazy $6k a month for a 1 bedroom because it is all profitable short term rentals. Because of everything in the area being short term rentals, there is literally nothing to rent. I then saw this place come up for sale and figured I might as well buy. Again, lucky, but also understood very well what I was getting into.
So why hasn’t this happened on Android? The App Store that protects users but also is where all the people go so they have the power to force Fortnite, TikTok, Facebook, etc to all do the right thing?

As others have pointed out, this only works as well as it does for Apple because there isn’t a reasonable way to side load apps. As soon as there is, Facebook will just jingle their large carrot on their own distribution system that lets them do whatever they want.
Not sure it has to be that exact brand, but those that do the fast vibration style different from ones that just spin a brush.
Ask HN: Handbook on Startup Fundraising
Wondering if anyone would be interested in a practical book on fundraising for early stage companies?

I have found the knowledge is largely scattered across different parts of the process and are not tied together in a coherent and pragmatic way.
Interesting, whole foods has a repurchase feature on amazon's website that shows previous purchase price so looking at some items for me (previous on 3/29):

```
365 by Whole Foods Market, Almonds Sliced, 8 Ounce

Qty:1

$4.99 ($0.62/Ounce)

Previous price: $5.29

365 by Whole Foods Market, Artichoke Hearts, 14.1 Ounce

Qty:2

$2.49 ($0.18/Ounce)

Previous price: $2.24

365 by Whole Foods Market, Oil Olive Extra Virgin Mediterranean Blend, 33.8 Fl Oz

Qty:1

$8.99 ($0.27/Fl Oz)

Previous price: $8.69

Salmon Atlantic Farm Raised Portion, 6 Ounce

Qty:2

$6.99 ($1.17/Ounce)

Previous price: $5.99

```
Understandable to misread - I, funnily, did as well as I was quickly going down through the original comment + replies.
Honestly, email notifications and the concept of "unsubscribing" is a big fad. 9/10 services that I try to unsubscribe to, end up asking confusing questions, and instead of ubsubbing me at once, they will rather ask me which topics I'm interested in.

So much for the email "privacy". I guess I'm better off not giving two shits about it.