skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Decentralized" doesn't mean "large companies don't exist."

There are hundreds of thousands of banks, but hundreds of crypto exchanges. Imagining crypto to be less centralized than traditional finance is deeply, deeply incorrect.
For any Australian, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, readers, Kraft Heinz owns Cerebos Foods who make the ever popular, and equally free-flowing Gravox.

https://www.gravox.com.au/about/
When it comes to writing code I find the best is honestly just listening to mixes so that I am not too distracted trying to pick out music. Usually I have to remind myself to listen to it again when I'm not working to get track names though because that can be a real mission sometimes
Why don’t you think that extension should be built?
His thought experiment was eye-opening, for me: what should happen if you drop a light and heavy ball connected together? Should the light ball hold back the heavy one? But the two together weigh more than either.
Do you prefer not to use a catchall alias[1] to prevent someone from just sending mail to garbage12345@yourdomain or for some other reason? I also use unique addresses for every website account I have but with the catchall, I don’t need to spend the 20 seconds to create the alias. It’s just automatically there. I can’t think of any issues I’ve had by using the wildcard alias.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca...
> This was an argument why email will never work too

No, it wasn't. Email was popular and established before spam became a big concern.

Though spam, and the necessary control mechanisms, is one reason email had become less central.
Not mentioning a cause is not the same thing as being agnostic.
> …i mean the compression in memory have been always a very efficient approach.

It’s quite possible that a large amount of stuff FB handles is already compressed (e.g. photos, video, and audio) and thus doesn’t offer much opportunity for further compression. Though I wonder how much of that stuff would be memory resident in the back end in the first place.
> Why not let the theories speak for themselves?

They did. That's what the "doesn't match the data" part was.

It's just that you haven't ever actually studied this, and are trying to wing your way through fake criticism, the way the kid who never read the book does their book report.

Buzzer sound.
All that land will be useless in 30 years after salt water intrusion. It’s all going to be housing.

California ag brings jobs and income that adds 350 billion to the state’s economy. That’s not trivial.

Having said that..putting up housing will lead to even more water shortages. People take up more water than trees and plants.

Water should be conserved and aquifers replenished.

Why should we have a limitless influx of population to California. Shouldn’t the number of people be in synch with available resources?

Which brings up the question..who can live here? Who can afford the resources of course. If everyone wants to live in the Bay Area because they want to and not because they can afford to..of course, there will be a resources crunch.
"Putin's decision to concentrate his firepower on the eastern front has largely succeeded at bringing the conflict to a grinding stalemate."

What can I say, it honestly does not look like winning. It was not expected that Ukraine could do quickly large counter offensive in Donbas. It was not expected that Ukraine can quickly recapture Mariupol and it was known that Russia will attempt to launch very concentrated and massive offensive in Donbas to make a breakthrough there. So far Ukraine is holding despite quite sizable risk they are taking and despite losses. Either way, Russia does not really advance. There has not been any breakthrough yet.
Nothing would be compatible with it anyway. It’s too slow and it only has a single controller with only 3 degrees of freedom. It’s not a VR problem or even a proprietary problem, just rapid improvement.

The Go existing at all was probably a mistake. It was a good test bed but it was always headed for immediate deprecation, it could’ve just stayed in the lab.
This is one place where growing up in a midwestern megachurch serves me well. Just like my childhood megachurch pastor, I mostly believe in what you pay me to believe. Actual believers are marks.

If my employer said this to me, I'd think: "Wait... am I the mark?"
Exactly, I just picked up a beautiful condition Thinkpad T430 with 8G ram and 120G SSD for $80. Admittedly, a great deal, but I see them commonly available for around the same price as the Pentaform.
I've given Slate and Draft.JS a go in the past and they both aren't great from a developer experience perspective and are generally buggy. Slate also had issues where it would throw a type error and break the page, Draft.JS struggles with cursor placement issues.
This argument that “if you don’t like it you can leave” is just too simple, and not in good faith. There are more options in the world than staying and going, and there’s more to it than not liking a job. I encourage you to stop thinking so black and white and have the courage to live in the grey area, because that’s where reality lies.

It’s amazing how easy it is for all of us to just take for granted that we are powerless at work and the only way to gain power is to create a company and disempower others.

Is it so hard to imagine doing it differently?
>reddit

no thanks
That doesn't change the question though. We don't know how many layers are beneath the known laws of physics. Who knows, one of them could be consciousness. Maybe it's turtles all the way down.

They question remains. Can you provide a direct answer? If we measured all the particles in the brain, would they be operating in a way not compatible with the currently known laws of physics?
Home prices could fall in some U.S. cities. Here's where and why
The people who use NextDoor deserve the worst experience on the Internet
Shrinkflation ftw?
that's a concept zuckerberg has been talking about
US new-home sales just plunged to pandemic-era lows
I've taken at least a couple dozen interviews, maybe more. I create trello boards to keep track of them when I do job searches.
But that is what they are doing. They don't feel safe in the EFF / govt controlled internet at large.

They are constantly ripped off, scam called, misled and hassled elsewhere. Everything from lying promo offers that jump hugely after X days, hard to cancel subscriptions and endless bad behavior such as spam calls / texts and emails and mail with misleading headlines (urgent: last chance).

Our representatives are no better. I donated to the "defenders of rights" the democrats last cycle. You are SCREWED if you do this, you CANNOT get off their mailing list, because they resell your name 100x - your rights, in practice, are FAR secondary to their need for power and your money. They epitomize horrible behavior as they preach about tech CEO's, it's totally pathetic.

More on the dems good behavior here: https://medium.com/@jjdanek/ngp-van-and-the-endless-deluge-o...

I'm sure republicans are no better, but I don't donate to them so have no clue.

So yes, when it comes to user trust, folks are picking a corporation (Apple) vs their govt reps (dems and republicans).

What you learn in business is TRUST is literally the highest margin product you can have. You can sell the EXACT same product, but if you are trusted, you can charge more, the value of a trusted brand is huge. And apple has a trusted brand on metrics that matter to most users (and hated by scammers trying to exploit them). Folks like match.com are exploiters with a TON of scam / dark behavior in their playbook, even as they fight apple for "users".

And apple knows this.

Here is something interesting - when Apple sponsors something, because their brand is so strong, they often don't have a nonprofit announce their sponsorship AT ALL. They don't need the brand buff. So you won't (normally) see titles like "The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, powered by ExxonMobil" with Apple as a sponsor.
It's going to be even weirder once Google et al gives AI more and more agency to interact with people and objects the real world.
I'm "senior" at least in the sense of having been around long enough to be called an old fart. My last two iterations involved:

1) a 2 hour conversation with one of the founders, followed by a 2 week tryout (paid consulting), followed by a job offer that I accepted. This was through a HN Who Is Hiring post.

2) a round of multi-hour onsite interviews involving white boards, live coding, pairing, etc., but no take-homes. This was through Triplebyte, which organized everything.

There were a couple of other discussions involving take-homes (one of them in good faith on the company's part, the other a little more doubtful) and those two experiences convinced me to not do them any more.

I guess I could imagine a take-home project if it was (through discussion) something that interested me and that I thought would be useful and I could keep the code afterwards, to re-use for other purposes.
As you said, corporations steal all the time, so they're able to use this "for free". But since I'm not willing to steal, I can't use this for any sort of project because commercial activity is not well-defined as the root comment points out. Ironically, that intent doesn't seem to line up with the result.
Hey Lars, came here to post nearly the same thing. Kudos :)
Quic is a great protocol but IIUC you have to apply a user space library for things that normally (TCP) is kernel/hardware. Well, at least in my own experiments with a Golang implementation, I've seen CPU be the bottleneck for high bandwidth transfers (MTU is ~1300b). Add to that that common OS:s don't give you a particularly large UDP receive buffer, which can cause a BDP bottleneck for high latency connections.
That PR has been merged now, so presumably those tier issues are fixed now?
fair critique, I just linked to that to show its a real thing you can buy

here's a quick sizzle reel that shows the product - it's a stack of transparent displays that produces a very convincing depth hologram, I've seen them in person, they're really cool

https://youtu.be/4pJxdNRA1CM
This is common enough that many sign-up forms reject the +. Spammers can definitely do that much.
They do. If you mark something as spam, gmail should put all future emails from the sender in spam. On Fastmail they make it a little clearer by calling the option “block sender” which puts all their emails in trash.
A very long time ago I was quite stupid. I got an email about this weird thing and I tried it. It was slow, did nothing new and I dismissed it. This was the first web browser (NCSA Mosaic?). I dismissed it out of hand. The thing I missed was that despite the problems it had, in a fundamental way it changed how people saw and interacted with the internet.

No one now has a clue as to what VR will eventually look like. Meta is clueless, VR critics are clueless. But the fact is that VR changes how we interact with the internet in a fundamental way. IMHO. :-)
I too thought it was gonna programming languages…
Why would unions reduce the growth of jobs? By default unions want more workers, by ensuring things like 40 hour weeks and overtime pay (to encourage companies to hire more people).

I could see if some unions want to limit membership in case pre-existing union membership is required to be hired, but at that point it’s the trade association aspect of the trade union that’s the problem. But you can probably solve this by allowing other unions in the same trade, so that unions that are too closed end up having to compete with unions that train enough people to do more work. Maybe there’s a reason this doesn’t work that I’m not seeing though?
I had the privilege of working in a co-working space in Tahoe that also subleted out to outdoorgearlab.com/techgearlab.com.

Having been on their private list where they resell items that I purchased I can say that they do purchase and touch every single item that they’ve used.

I also find the reviews tend towards a higher priced end of the spectrum because it is affiliate paid. Nevertheless, I was pretty impressed by how much they put everything through its paces.

For the record, I haven’t talked to anyone there since 2016 and have no reason to pump them.
I was privy to something while I still had a twitter account: a certain group of people, mostly anon or semi-anon accounts, having been brought into contact by some combination of algorithm, self-selection and serendipity, many of whom seemed to identify more with their emerging twitter ingroup than local circles, more than a few of whom self-described as very (if not terminally) online, self-organized a gathering IRL, which, while some seem to have had a good experience, quickly strained apparent bonds and revealed a number of fault lines

if this sort of thing is not unique to this particular group I could see it reinforcing the schism you describe, with online "communities" hesitant to talk to each other with goggles off lest it be discovered that a virtually established milieu may depend more on the avatars than the people behind them
It at least doesn't lock anything up that has a file open when the network goes down. NFS is a nightmare with that. NFS is more idiomatic on *nix but still a huge pain when dealing with matching file perms across systems.
Just use sub-addressing, then discard all emails send to that address.
Almost all VPN providers do such confusing advertisement, but Mullvad doesn't.
Employees do not have a say, that’s the discussion. It seems like you are arguing that a startup has to have worse working conditions for employees than other companies.
You might as well conclude that my fingers typing this post aren't conscious. It's a weird argument.

The analogy might be more valid if arguing its not possible for a third party to actually determine whether an entity/system is conscious (irrespective of whether the entity is conscious or not)
They do! My friend has tens of thousands of dollars worth of tools that he bought used for pennies on the dollar from Facebook Marketplace.
> But make no mistake we all know what pride is, what lgbtq people want legislated

As a European atheist living in Texas, I know exactly what Christians want legislating, since they never stop bleating about it.

Ronald Reagan Jr appears to be the only person willing to hold America to its own basic constitutional amendments, frankly.
Every prosecutor is a conspiracy theorist. The courts decide whether the conspiracy theory corresponds to a real conspiracy.
That seems to be extremely common in that time period. Fyodor Dostoevsky got married to his stenographer, Anna Dostoevskaya (neé Snitkina).

The story of Fyodor's proposal (excerpted from Wikipedia) is pure gold:

In the Memoirs, Anna describes how Dostoevsky began his marriage proposal by outlining the plot of an imaginary new novel, as if he needed her advice on female psychology. In the story an old painter makes a proposal to a young girl whose name is Anya. Dostoevsky asked if it was possible for a girl so young and different in personality to fall in love with the painter. Anna answered that it was quite possible. Then he told Anna: "Put yourself in her place for a moment. Imagine I am the painter, I confessed to you and asked you to be my wife. What would you answer?" Anna said: "I would answer that I love you and I will love you forever".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Dostoevskaya
The existence of PopOS is pretty disappointing to me, they should instead be offering a choice of preinstalled distros, contributing to those distros and sponsoring those distros.
Agreed. For reference, you probably want System 8, which was current around 1997, when SK8 0.9 was released, and a powermac G3 model or emulation of it from around that time.
I just went through this and the unsubscribe links in emails are slightly deceptive.

They only cover that specific type of notification and have a toggle switch on the form that makes it confusing as to whether you're subscribing or not.

It took about a week to fully stop the emails because different "types" of notifications kept coming in.

Shady stuff.
Breaking Google Nest Hub’s Secure Boot
The point is, the blame the problem on climate change, rather than the real culprit. As long as people think climate change is the problem, then Big Ag can do whatever they want, because people wont be looking at them.

Also the situation is compounded by the fact that a good chunk of the population don't even think climate change is real. So Big Ag can lobby against climate change, making the problem even worse.
The Quest 2 is a terrible replacement for screens, (also because it has a fixed focal distance of 2 meters) but the resolution and clarity has improved so much since the launch of the Vive that I’d bet new headsets will be there within the decade.
Status of that, two years on, appears to be complaints that Google is violating its discovery obligations.
I watched Margin Call. The huddling that goes on between the higher ups and the peons when the chips are down is what JIRA does for companies every day. If the firm in that movie had been using JIRA (and it it were real life and not a movie); I believe they would have had daily, much better communications and coordination and could have avoided the whole scenario the movie is about. Spoiler alert, Spacey's character's dog would still have died.

The poorly optimized performance of JIRA almost makes me believe they don't even use their own product. Perhaps performance is on the backlog of the backlog.
Fair point. Same for wifi and offline tracking on shutdown.
>people who know what goes into the sausages

More like "people who know to a degree what goes into salads act like they know what goes into sausages."

More often than not, it is about as interesting and insightful as watching Steve Ballmer staging a mock funeral for iPhone in 2010[0].

0. https://macdailynews.com/2010/09/10/microsoft_windows_phone_...
NFS is basically the original S3. Both are useful for similar scenarios (maybe a slightly narrow subset for NFS (especially in later incarnations), and the semantics of both break down in similar ways.

I've always just presumed the development of EFS recapitulated the evolution of NFS, in many cases quite literally, considering the EFS protocol is a flavor of NFS. S3 buckets are just blobs with GUIDs in a flat namespace, which is literally what stateless NFS is--every "file" has a persistent UID (GUID if you assume host identifiers are unique), providing a simple handle for submitting idempotent block-oriented read and write operations. Theoretically, EFS could just be a fairly simple interface over S3, especially if you can implicitly wave away many of the caveats (e.g. wrt shared writes) by simply pointing out they have existed and mostly been tolerated in NFS environments for decades.
Ask HN: How do you cultivate social skills?
Hello HN. I’m a soon-to-be college student, and I’ve always found it difficult to make friends and conversation. In conversations with strangers I become anxious and the exchange of words invariably fizzles out. I struggle to cross the divide between being being an acquaintance and being a friend. I’d like to get over my shyness and become a more friendly person. How have you all gotten over inherent shyness? What approaches to making and keeping friends have you all found work? How does one become a people person?

Thank you for your advice!
VR also... isn't that immersive

I'm a huge VR nerd, I love collecting headsets and playing with new ways to display visuals. But I've never thought it would be a mainstream product, because of exactly what you said: you have to strap something to your head

It really isn't that immersive. Once you are into the game or story it doesn't matter whether you are reading a book, watching a TV or viewing it through VR. You get immersed regardless

My main interest in VR is playing with the idea of replacing my monitors for coding, graphic design and 3D modelling. 3D modelling in VR is already very good and better than a screen due to the hand-tracking and being able to easily manipulate directly in 3D space (not the immersive display, so much)
Post the salary, ditch the take home assignment. We're engineers, busy people, not students.
It disables efficiency from distributed CDN, but don't break internet. There were no CDN on early internet.
Any tips for getting the first customers?
Guy Built an Open Source Casino on Dero’s Private Smart Contract Platform
My last company wanted to self-host their own conferencing platform, bandwidth was one of the many reasons I told them it would be a horrible idea. Economies of scale are capable of solving many "simple" problems, and gain many benefits, due to their sheer size.
This is basically a poor man's Dura (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784238) in 20 lines of Bash that is run manually instead of using a background process and a timer.
I have never seen a gold iPhone in real life, even though more than half of my friends/family have iPhones. IIRC they did better overseas(?). Not sure.

I don't think iPhones signal much (in the US at least) -- they have like 50% market share here.
Thank you. I had wondered about that.
https://github.com/bhunt6/HorseBlinders
It's about the composability with external tools and users being able to trade assets without you having to explicitly code for it. Games companies want this for the same reason they want modders - because their game is enhanced by it and adds more value for its players.
I've been assigned the same Comcast IP for years now. I believe the IP allocation is linked to the modem's MAC address.
If I’ve a base when I am travelling and have a predictable route then — I’ll carry my cabin carry size Samsonite trolley bag (an ultra light/thin Decathon day back in it) and I’m not keeping anything on back and shoulders, my “very useful so far” Osprey FP 40 be damned. Period. No matter how “life changing” the backpack is it’s no fun on the shoulders and back. I learnt that this works for me.

> if…… you're doing it wrong

You might want to stop reading or listening at that point in most cases. Besides there’s no one way to backpacking, it takes a long time and hit and trials to know what works for you and also important what options you have in your region.

e.g this bag OP mentioned - Hynes Eagle Travel Backpack 40L - gave me shoulder and back pain by just looking at it, but I’m pretty sure it works for OP.
About the whole “existence” bit - I think you’re unintentionally arguing a straw man? I never asserted that not having a rainbow logo meant that you must clearly hate the gays.

I don’t really disagree on that point, I just didn’t make that argument in the first place. :)

> Unless the OP states otherwise you don't know either. I don't like to make assumptions when the poster goes out of their way to not bring up the topic.

For certain? Not from the text, no. I’ve been clear this whole time that I feel it is likely what motivated it.

That said, I found a few transphobic comments in the authors HN history with no real effort, so I feel pretty comfortable with the assumption.

I would encourage you to learn to recognize this kind of dog-whistle. The explicit omission of what political group motivated a rant centered on politics is a common rhetorical technique.
What kind of work were you doing? They were several times the price of a highend PC at the time, right?
I just paid using Bitcoin Cash (BCH), low fees and simple to integrate ;)
Mister Rogers on the Roots of Nurturing and the Role of Men in Child Care [pdf]
> The most charitable interpretation is that it's a protest against heteronormativity

Protest? Come on. The most charitable interpretation is that the person making such a statement merely think non hetero people deserve the same rights as anyone else. Which is quite different from taking a position against something.
The followup blog post says this is a Linux kernel bug:

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10390-pipe-issue-lik...
A more dense filter will just restrict air flow. What you want is a crappy filter with a large surface area.