skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, your link identifies you very uncharitably as a Google shill.

Both Firefox and Safari are against most hardware APIs for many reasons including technical ones. Only Chrome is reckless enough to enable them even though no consensus has been reached on them.

Those specs are nowhere near to being standard. They are "Draft community reports". And yet you list them there as if they were standards and as if Apple absolutely had to implement them for greater good (and not because the dominant browser implemented them)

Edit. I can't even begin with the laughable "Edge differentiates from Chrome" because it removed a few Google-specific things like Google Pay.
This was investigated in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
I mean, the person is depressed.

He'd probably do well to find a local group where he can regularly listen, sit with emotions, reflect, talk, and be challenged if he tries using his intellect to deflect from sitting with or reflecting upon said emotions.

In any case, I'm relieved to read that at least for the time being he has turned down HN's free access to a wall of zero-cost comments from pseudonymous engineers who voted up their favorite ways to problem-solve depression from first principles.
You might consider prepending "Show HN: " to the title of your post.
If I may ask, how successful is this? I feel like this is in a similar space to kiwico (not exactly, but it's similar enough I imagine both that they could quickly take over, and the average person is probably more aware of kiwico even if it's not the same offering(s)). I have had an idea for awhile that's also somewhat similar to kiwico's model, although different enough I'm still tempted to pursue it, and this is the first comparable company other than some popular YouTube channels that I've found.

Has your wife had any discussion with kiwico? Is kiwico a threat to success? Are there noticeable advantages/disadvantages to subscription vs á la carte sales?
It seems like he got messages of support from those groups who thought he was one of them, rather than people attacking him because they thought he was one of them.
No one expected spillover of a SARS-like virus from bats anywhere in Hubei. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, since the scientific consensus is sometimes wrong; but no significant new evidence has yet emerged to make that more likely. The closest bat viruses in nature (BANAL-20) were discovered post-pandemic in Laos.

Most people who believe SARS-CoV-2 arose by natural zoonosis propose something similar to SARS-1's wildlife trafficking conduit. It's also possible that a human was infected elsewhere, and then traveled to Wuhan and seeded the pandemic--the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is highly stochastic until the case count gets big, so they wouldn't necessarily have seeded other clusters along the way. It's all pretty mysterious though, much more so than the emergence of the two previous coronavirus human pathogens (SARS-1 and MERS).
Seems fine to me.

It's a good article to.
Doppler is really nice. https://apps.apple.com/app/doppler-2-music-player/id14684597...
EVs generally are not more expensive than ICEVs. E.g. Citroen AMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977cZO0qXEs . A huge number of startups in China are making cheap city EVs. You can order one on AliExpress.

In Europe and America most of the EVs on the market (maybe due to regulation or to car makers greed) have huge batteries with DC charging. Said batteries are extremely expensive compared to ICEV fuel tanks, that do the same job - store the energy to move the car.
Without financial planning, you can spend an infinite amount.

Part of the problem is people think “budgeting” is for when you’re in crisis. A budget is just a financial plan.

When you have more money, it gets harder and harder to understand where it’s going.
An engineer has a dream of a work, of a machine he can build. That is to say he has a vision, or hears a song.

This could be called a lesser song, compared to Ainur's. Just a distraction really.

And in this state of distraction he acts.

Of course he's the bad guy.
I haven't yet taken this concept to completion, but when I had a similar issue years ago I hacked out a cheesy program to filter out static analysis messages on lines not modified by the diff:

https://github.com/NateEag/diff-check

Maybe someone's built the complete version out there somewhere?
Paul Kingsnorth has some wonderful essays exploring this exact concept.
Great news. For many of us who write elixir full time, is it possible to call the filters Elixir too? Because most of us don’t (directly) use Erlang. And as far as I can tell, feels a bit odd to see Phoenix or pow under Erlang.
OMG WANT.

Miss my old Sharp Zaurus.
https://youtu.be/5DqJwmzG6Fk?t=1133

This video was linked in the article. What a trip down memory lane. This is the most 90's thing that ever existed.

Also, the explanation of what a "right click" is and how it is for "power users". Wow, how far we have come. (This is at 21:50 in the video).
Practical or not who should be in charge of your PII? Is it something once released you have no control over? Even if it's not damaging now, it could be in the future. What about the concept of deadnaming, once it was valid PII but than it changed and can be used to harm. Is everything one does subject to public record until the end of time or is there a chance to life a live unnoticed? Can I change my views or am I judged by blog posts that I made when I was younger, maybe another person entirely? Can I change who I am or is my future written by my past and enshrined in algorithms that judge my creditscore or my socialscore?

> The most troubling part of this thread to me is multiple people here asserting the existence of seemingly absolute rights without even a passing acknowledgment or thought to the ramifications and what negative consequences it would have [...]

There are absolute rights. Absolute human rights, everyone has them, practical or not. Even if you can't enforce them. Protection of personal data is such a right.

Sorry for all the pathos, but I firmly believe it. I think this is the core of our discussion. Maybe our fundamental disagreement. I understand your point of view but I weight other aspects stronger and you other aspects.
In all seriousness what is there to do for kids in the South Bay? Is there anything fun left, compared to the 90s and 00s? Fry’s, Micro Center and Circuit City, gone. Tilt Arcade gone. Now soon Great America.
What about victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, etc. who have purchased a firearm and/or applied for CCW as a means to defend themselves? Will you explain to me the societal value in the government releasing their address in context with other PII to the general public?
> I do "readability" reviews at my company to make sure
> people apply good coding standards and adhere to the
> coding guidelines that we have.

Consider avoiding the entire formatting arguments as part of the code review process. There are excellent linters for every language that can run as part of the check-in process. GitHub + Actions can automate every aspect of this using all turkey stuff.

Automating where possible avoids all the arguments, actually enforces standards, and saves time for everyone. Using "Standard" linting rules (aka: The defaults) also help promote good practices for everyone.
Ask HN: How can I optimize seed leverage with new YC's $500k Standard Deal?
I don't know how much dilution can a SaaS startup negotiate at seed round, given the performance number below + YC new deal. I'd love your help with opinions and comments.

I'm not in any YC batch just yet. I like the new $500k standard deal from Y Combinator because (if I were accepted to the future batch), I can then hire 10 Vietnamese employees and extend my runway to 24-27 months for better growth.

Here are the numbers:
* $2.5k MRR at 15% MoM
* target growth is 30%
* seed raising target of $3M
* target MRR at seed fundraising is $180k
* might take 18 to 24 months to reach that target MRR

Based on the data above, I have a few questions:
* at what dilution can I negotiate with seed investor given those number?
* would that be in pre-money or post money SAFE
* what else can be done to optimize leverage at seed fundraising?
Likewise dense construction shouldn't be forced on people who are happy with their suburb/exurb.
That's not a given, it's the first two predicates of an illustrative example of how dietary advice is more complicated than "which diet is best?" If all three of those predicates hold true, then your advice has killed them, therefore all-cause mortality rate is important.

It doesn't matter what the exact reason for higher all-cause mortality rates on low carb diets is unless you can give people advice on how to avoid them. What's important is the outcome of giving the advice, not a theoretical ivory-tower diet that most of the population won't or can't eat.
It is just the opposite. Haha their when they are easy and anyone can play them. It is why there is such a large mobile game market today.
Pole position wasn't hard and didn't take to long to learn. You can't compare it to a game with superior graphics and controls. For the hardware pole position is pretty good.
I would outsource the development of this simplest CRUD system offshore for like $30/hr, using managed platform like Microsoft PowerApps Portal. This would be perfect and cheapest for enterprise, but answer like this wont get me software gig :)

auth via ADFS/SAML/Kerberos, everything else is managed and provided by office365 ;)
Take a look at Doppler, I can play my own mp3 files as well as iTunes on Doppler, there are others, but that’s the neatest solution I’ve found
Less pointless than this comment for sure though
I just read the post, and I don't see what's worth criticizing there? Sounds like he's suffering from depression and isolation, and navel-gazing on his situation in life. Has the post been edited or something? I'll admit, I am super tired while reading this, so maybe I skimmed over some troublesome metaphor that I would have caught if I had been more alert.

I am asking seriously; what did you criticize?
Form a DE LLC (but for god’s sake don’t sign the certificate of formation yourself) and no one will know who owns the entity (other than anyone you tell, of course).

But don’t you have an employment agreement with your employer? An IP assignment? A non-compete? A duty of loyalty? A duty not to usurp corporate opportunities? And I don’t mean a vaguely moral sense of things you should do to be a “team player,” but actual legal duties you owe to your employer.

Talk to a lawyer before you do anything like this. Make sure you’re not offsides.
The magazine was created to shock the public, but I posted it because I think it is interesting as a historical artifact. In 2022, nobody is likely to call the police over the four letter words, but some people still find naughty language obnoxious.

There's a line I love in a book review by George Orwell:

"When I first opened Tropic of Cancer and saw that it was full of unprintable words, my immediate reaction was a refusal to be impressed."

My self-censorship of the title was also an attempt, and maybe a misguided one, to signal that my posting the link is not some feckless attempt at being edgy.
Where I live (San Francisco), many homeless people refuse to go to shelters, because the shelters have strict rules around belongings, enter/exit times, and alcohol and drug use, among other things. Personally I am of the opinion that we should just say "tough shit", and require homeless people to stay in shelters if there are beds available[0], but apparently that's not "humane" or whatever.

It's somehow more important to give someone the right to sleep on a street corner at noon (something I witnessed just today, in an area where there usually aren't many/any homeless people), than it is to help get them on their feet, plus allow the rest of us to feel safe and not have to deal with garbage, human shit, and needles all over.

[0] That's the other thing, though: I doubt we have enough shelter beds to cover all the homeless people here. Yet another thing that needs to be fixed. I hear NYC is able to house around 95% of their homeless, and we're a much smaller city.
Your technique has already been proven to create unconscious bias, because you are more likely to hire people that are like you. You even said it yourself, you want to work with people that you like and that you get along with.

Here's one of hundreds of articles that talk about this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/05/01...

Unless there's data that backs your choices vs the ones that you rejected, all you're doing is reinforcing particular stereotypes in your company and in the software industry.
I never understand this argument. "The Houthi say "death to America," something they clearly state is an attack on US imperialist policies, so why should we feel bad about slaughtering them and the thousands of unrelated civilians?"
Easy to say. Would you push through a project at your job that has a high risk of getting you fired?
> people who prefer to isolate are on average slightly more intelligent than those that prefer to be around others in their free time

But that's the rub; it's the forced isolation of those that prefer to be around others that aren't going to fare well. Based on your observation these folks are already not the most intelligent of the bunch, I suspect it goes downhill from there when pushed into solitude.
You can see where the mines are, it's the guy in the back of the car muttering to himself about Dr. Phil ejaculating in the water supply. Don't step on him.
Leetcode-style interviews : software engineering :: auditions : acting

Auditioning is nothing like being an actor, but that's primarily the only way actors get gigs. Unless you're so well-known that they seek you out. This is exactly the same thing as in programming. You have to submit yourself to a humiliating barrage of LC and systems design questions because that's how companies like Google have decided that's the best way to determine talent. And based on their multi-trillion dollar valuation, it's hard to say that they're wrong.

So unfortunately, unless you can come up with a better way, auditioning for your software engineering job is here to stay, just like auditioning for your acting job. So you might as well accept it.
I usually prioritize diplomacy over everything else. You are probably better than me at this. The fact that I found an issue you didn't is probably just coincidence.

I could even be wrong. Maybe it's not an issue at all.

So I'll say "Could we move this out to a separate method? recountFooToilets seems pretty sepf contained and reusable" or just "I'd extract that method".

I don't want to say anything that implies I know better than you.

I'm pretty big on best practices, and a lot of people aren't, so when I find something like that I try to frame it as my problem, not their problem.

Especially with wheel reinvention, in-house implemented algorithms, use of low level primitives when the language provides high level things, lack of unit tests, or any other lone genius/cowboy coder/three star stuff.

I try to use the kind of tone Rust's compiler uses. "I don't have any reason to believe there's anything wrong here, but I don't know how to evaluate it, I don't have any experience with this style, it's above my skill level, and probably above some others too. Doing X is the tried and true standard, anyone can understand it, it will be easier to maintain".
Count me among the ones using FF Mobile. I can't imagine browsing the mobile web without an ad-blocker, and I'm happy to fight back against the browser duopoloy.
A rule of thumb I've used in both career and investment decisions is that to make money, at a minimum, one has to be in the vicinity of where money moves.

Fintech - in any of its forms, as you note - takes the maxim to its conclusions and seeks rent over transactions themselves, which gradually inclines it towards zero-sum "find a mark to dump my toxic assets on" shenanigans. So the industry perpetually leverages itself into fragility on the backs of "rip to them but i'm different" leadership and whomever they can convince to come along. At the nation-state level this creates nasty entanglements of regulatory capture and debt that let market leaders who play the game well make rules for themselves and pay off enforcing bodies, which contributes to macro-scale misalignments in who is getting funded or regulated for what, and therefore many "ills of the market".

The tech of crypto assets themselves, on the other hand, is antifragile in construction: Winning at the trading game does not result in regulatory capture or bailouts, since the settlement ultimately takes place on-chain, and on-chain is an automated consensus, one relatively hostile to political machination. Rent-seeking doesn't scale up well with this kind of asset. You can pull a small-time scam, but it doesn't lead to an empire lasting for generations. And if your asset becomes too hard to trade in because you've come up with some crafty way of polluting it or gatekeeping it, it's substitutable in a way that state-backed instruments are not. Price survival over a crypto bear market is a pretty strong signal for a project, and as the market gets bigger it attracts bigger players trying to remake the rules with a slant so that they can win. It's escalated every cycle, and really is a phenomenon beyond retail now.

What this past cycle entailed was an attempt by larger fintech players to muscle in on the crypto game and apply various strategies to capture it by adding obfuscating instruments in the name of liquidity and yield. The ones who survived made an early exit or successfully derisked, but many of them committed to their strategy in a way that ensured they would lose. And from here on, the only remaining escalations of that game involve some of the largest amounts of capital on the planet - the biggest banks, or actual governments.
Good luck with that!

Rule of thumb: as a baseline, you have absolutely no rights in life... that is, no rights unless you're able to enforce them.
When I said green I meant solar and wind. Hydro electricity has been used for 140 years. It has a proven track record.
Called for Jury Duty?
I think that's a reasonable criticism, but I'm more optimistic that there's value here for two reasons. One is that even a "basic proportional" level of control is under-used, and most practitioners don't even go that far into analyzing the dynamic behavior of their systems. The other is that I think that fixing "local" behaviors where systems are linear enough and time invariant enough is likely to have a lot of value. Many of the "hold down" loops are relatively local effects.

You're right that a lot of the techniques of classical control theory (both continuous and discrete-time) are hard to directly apply in a distributed systems context today. I do think there's a lot of value in the patterns of thinking, and that future research along those lines is likely to bear fruit (or, at least, be the genesis of better-suited techniques).
I love that they included an ortholinear keyboard and open schematics. Definitely keeping my eyes on this.
And it's a hideous brutalist thing that towers over the park it is in, frightening the children. It looks like something out of a futuristic Lord of the Rings reboot.
It is: taking the red pill. That also happens to be a good book.
If only Tolkien wrote another story where the industrial revolution in Middle Earth (as you describe it) occurs, along with a fellowship that brings it down and returns Middle Earth to it's former glory.
I had a HP200LX back in the day, it was a great little machine and I taught myself rudimentary C primarily on it and have often yearned for a modern replacement.
> Chrome is something users install because it's their preferred choice.

Ah yes.

The preferred choice advertised by dominant web search.

The preferred choice that is forced by Google apps when clicking on links that actually conveniently forget about said choice.

The preferred choice when Google sabotages competition across its dominant platforms https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686

And so on
Good catch on that. It looks like there's a single regular-sized key for space, like some kind of fever-dream spacebar. :)

Since it's hackable, I wonder if there's a way for the author to produce and ship a long spacebar that can be switched out for four or five of those keys at the bottom. I assume he has control over everything from the keyboard firmware to the OS, so it seems doable.
Yes exactly. The Scourging of the Shire - something no depicted in the movies but one of the best parts of the final book - highlights this perfectly.
There are many other cases where modern hardware provides opaque high-level abstractions to software, trying to predict the workload at its own under the hood, instead of letting the user control it. CPUs largely work like that with branch prediction for ages, and the crazy situation where they use neural networks to do that doesn't seem to bother anyone.
Most people are notoriously bad at saving money. It's fairly well known phenomena that large lottery winners and inheritance recipients also tend to go bankrupt (something like 1/3?). I guess even at the smaller scale - even making the money yourself - it doesn't matter. Once you size up your lifestyle and get acclimated it's very hard to reduce.
> except learning it hurts the library more than expected is a downer.

Which is likely an incentive for libraries to not expose those costs on a per-request basis. As thebitstick mentioned here[1], libraries want to encourage usage. Overall usage volume has already been budgeted for, so the variances between one request and another for a typical patron won't materially impact the overall capacity of a library from serving their patrons. Inversely, if exposing the individual request costs disincentive enough conscientious patrons from making those requests, it makes it more difficult for the library to justify the service at all and could result in the loss of budget to continue covering it. Which ends up being a net loss of access for those patrons which do not have the means to access it elsewhere and were reliant on the library for it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31902549
For what it's worth, we're glad to see MNT building the Reform and now PocketReform. We don't consider them competitors (especially in relation to the colossal incumbents in the PC space) and are happy to see them championing open hardware.
When I visited the park a few years ago and rode the elevated car that crosses the park, the thought came to me that this was super valuable real estate and I wondered how much they could make just by selling the land.

The other thing is that “Great America” felt so out of place in the Bay Area. For whatever reason, the Bay Area felt like one of the least “patriotic” places I had ever visited in the US. And having a theme park with that vibe seemed so out of place.
I don't think "danger" is the right word. Sure, you might run into someone who could physically attack you if you act toward them in a way that sets them off, but I think most would either just act out (without actually touching you), or yell at you, or something like that.

No, it's not great, and I wish our elected representatives would actually do things to fix these situations, but the idea of "I need to carry a gun" to solve this "problem" is just bonkers.
Standard autocomplete="off" attribute/value pair they've refused to implement since 2015.