skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been politicized because a lot of people get pressured or deceived into working like this, which people are justifiably upset about. But this isn't that, in fact it's the opposite of that! They're being totally up front about it. If you don't want to crunch, don't apply for the job, nothing wrong with that
I really dislike TailwindCSS but everyone else seems to love it. I'll have to give it another shot
It’s deliberate plausible deniability.
Politicians currently in office of both parties do it, yes. That doesn't mean politicians of both parties who will be running for office in the future will necessarily do it. There are many ways for voters to communicate preferences prior to elections in order to influence the policy positions of candidates. Of course it won't change drastically in just one election; we didn't get to where we are now with just one election. It took many decades. But change has to start somewhere.
A Theoretical Justification (2021)
A lot of the news coverage dances around the issue, but the direct cause of this actually seems to be a catastrophically failed attempt to switch away from the previous polio vaccine. Vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks used to be pretty rare because the vaccine kept them under control, but there was always the fear that some war or other disruption to vaccination would trigger a major outbreak. So the WHO came up with a plan: everyone around the world would stop using oral polio vaccines with the type 2 poliovirus components (which is the main culprit and protects against a variant that's been eradicated in the wild), they'd estroy all their old trivalent vaccines and switch to bivalent type 1 and 3 ones, any outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus would be mopped up with a special type 2 only vaccine reserved for that purpose, and then it'd be gone for good. Instead vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks exploded all over the world. The nOPV2 vaccine was then rushed out through development and into production to try and patch up the mess. (In theory they could've just switched back to the old vaccine temporarily, but that would mean admitting failure and besides they didn't have the big stockpiles of it anymore.)
Yes. Are you willing to risk your life or serious injury over a stranger's property? Very few people are.
Thousands? Why not more like $40/mo, like several cities in Europe where 10G is already offered?
The most advanced modeling I know of is coming from Christopher Clack, whose latest models show that deploying lots of storage at the grid edge now will pave the way for much cheaper energy in the future. I thought this was more recent but it's 16 months old now:

https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-146-why-local-sol...

Even if there are grid upgrades, getting a higher utilization factor, or more precisely, knocking off the highest peaks of demand, has huge cost savings on the grid size.

So as we shift spending away from fossil fuel, that money will be going to utilities which will allow them to do the grid upgrades.

Unfortunately utilities make the best profits on grid upgrades, so unless there are really good utility commissions, utilities will not be looking to decrease their grid investments or make grid utilization better, the are literally incentivized to make transmission and distribution costs as high as possible.

If you live in California and have PG&E check out how many times more they charge you to deliver a kWh than to generate it, and you'll be fairly shocked and annoyed at CPUC for having done such a terrible job of reigning in PG&E's management.
This is what normal people understand right now when someone mentions bicycles: "Portlandia bike clip" [1]. It's a 10+ year old clip but all the better for it, sitcoms like Portlandia were in the vanguard of a lot of class-suppression and gentrifying stuff that we now see as "good for everybody!", not just for the middle-classes from which we're a part of (and which those sitcoms were targeting, self-parody used to be part of our class-related shtick).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI
Why, it would be an inclusive instead of exclusive range. N is the last element, so no reason for N+1.
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Cognitive Risks of Adolescent Binge Drinking
He should have rested up and taken a week off to get some perspective before attempting to write recruiting spam on Twitter.

Sounding twitchy and strung out and high strung and histrionic? A filter for sure, but not for the things he thinks he wants.

This is how you get broken, desperate, unhealthy people, and that is reflected permanently in culture, and almost always in product, with poor prognosis for success.

Seriously the guy needs to chill the f--- out.
This is when I admit that the concept isn't quite done baking.

My intuitive (read: hand-wavy) answer is that the negotiation between devs / feature requesters should take this into account - the pricing reflecting the amount of work * the scarcity of the dev's time.

There's also no reason that a single project == a single dev. If it's really an open source project, the feature requests could be posted as bounties and devs could bid on them.

Still don't have a solid idea as to how 'contribution timeouts' would work - with kickstarter, the timeline for funding + development + production are all managed by the same party, which simplifies things enough to (mostly) solve this issue. I'm sure that it would have to look different here.

All that said, I haven't yet taken a look at the site that someone else responded with, which sounds like it does comparable work. If so, I might just hitch train to them.
What incentive will they have to make ad free not an option? When they can just charge any amount extra for the premium ad free version?
> Anyone who thinks the grid can approach steady-state operations near capacity hasn't seriously looked at demand patterns

I think that's a bit of a straw man, the key thing is to reduce the peak, rather than get to steady state.
>>You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less.

Trust me, I am not used to it (at least not yet)- I have only had it for 5+ months - I have been WFH for more than 25 years and only had access to 3Mbs DSL before this.
There is no difference as far as I know. The network is supposed to finalize blocks that are almost 13 minutes old. If it's not able to do that because there is not sufficient quorum then it starts the inactivity leak phase and the penalties associated.

By the way, there is a bug bounty program. You can earn up to 1M USD per critical bug either in the protocol or its implementations.
Maybe it could be optional.

Companies might decide it’s worth to take a risk, and hope that engaging will differentiate them from others, and generate engagement/good will/hype…

Like a sponsored Show HN
That doesnt mean anything. I can go ahead and register an LLC in Pennsylvania too for a few hundred bucks and then put up a website with a completely fictional privacy policy. I could collect everyones IPs depite claims that we do not, and no one would be able to prove it.
People on HN use Facebook?! I was genuinely surprised by the number of responses here. I honestly thought that nobody uses Facebook anymore much less HN users.
> It is always nice to read sober writing

Are you used to reading drunken writing? :)

I read this earlier too and was very impressed at how everything was explained in plain english. I wish I could send this article to myself 2-3 years ago, it would have saved me literally days of trying to figure out what parts of k8s do what and why.
Truly a tricky spot. Who keeps an eye on the features for things like code quality / deliverables? I don't know how I would solve this, yet.
Thank you for this bit of history! Looks the benevolent dictator wins again.
If I build a building in the shape of a double helix, what order are the two floors in?

Hmm, are there actually an infinite number of floors? Do we need to switch to floating point?
Reddit also allows or used to allow commenting on the some ads.
I can tell you why: when I was growing up in the US I was constantly bombarded with the "radiation bad! corrupting your life essence" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone)

I think those three things, along with War Games, solidified the idea in multiple generations that nuclear was bad (specifically: causes cancer and disrupts infrastructure). The Day After had an insane impact, I remember everybody coming to school (I was 10) the day after sort of shocked.

What can I say, it's a dramatic looking risk that human brains see as much larger than the cumulative damage of living next to a freeway for 10 years.
You've posted this a few times. But now the devices are actually available and X13 starts at $1097... That's $103 less than cheapest MacBook. What a difference 5 days makes, right?
Depends on the car. There’s an infamous bolt on the transmission of 6 speed 2nd gen Miata’s. If you remove that bolt accidentally instead of the fill plug near it when replacing your transmission fluid, you will need a transmission rebuild/replacement. Likewise I would imagine if you shear off the crank bolt on a car while removing the crank pulley to do replace a water pump or a seal, you’re probably in for a heck of a tear down, and depending on how bad it is to get it removed, maybe a bottom end rebuild to replace damaged parts.

Heck we still live in a world where some cars with interference engines use timing belts instead of chains. Repair that 20 belt wrong and you will indeed need a whole engine, and that assumes your got to it before it broke and ruined your engine for you.
There was such a post recently with the title “OlaClick (YC W21) first LaTam startup to raise from Facebook, Google; now hiring”¹, which I thought was particularly sneaky, adding extra ad copy in the title of an impossible-to-criticize post.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31523852
Guess they are sticking with their old equipment, because IPv6 is free in any modern industrial ISP router.
Note: I had this response typed up but didn't submit...

One related app that I absolutely love is Qalculate![1] (yes, it has a built-in exclamation for default enthusiasm :) )

It can do cool stuff like converting N (newtons) to kg.m/s^2 when you specify units as ?kg. It also converts units like 1kW x 1year = 31.55... GJ

It's fantastic for engineering and specially back-of-envelope calculations. This notepad aspect does seem useful though. One alternative is to use Jupyter notebooks, sometimes I work problems with Sage[2]+Jupyter. Sage is extremely powerful (you can do calculus, linear algebra, and more) but doesn't support units (that I know of), it's more geared toward advanced maths.

[1] https://qalculate.github.io/

[2] https://www.sagemath.org/ It's a bit on the heavy side although it's definitely worth it if you're doing a lot of math. I think the flatpak is preferred due to its significant size.
The problem is that libraries which assume 0-base break when you have a 1-based array. And vice versa. Trying to combine libraries with different conventions becomes impossible.

Therefore changing the base leads to more bugs than either base alone.

That said, the more you can just use a foreach to not worry about the index at all, the better.

Of 0-based and 1-based, the only data point I have is a side comment of Dijkstra's that the language Mesa allowed both, and found that 0-based arrays lead to the fewest bugs in practice. I'd love better data on that, but this is a good reason to prefer 0-based.

That said, I can work with either. But Python uses 0-based and plpgsql uses 1-based. Switching back and forth gets..annoying.
You can even get aftermarket remote starters on manual cars. Though usually you have to sign a waiver.
> it only allows a single writer at a time.

This is true. However, in my testing with a relatively old NVMe device, I can push well over a gigabyte/second to the database with that single connection. One trick I employ is to only ever maintain 1 connection and to use an inter-thread messaging framework like Disruptor to serialize everything beforehand to a single batched writer. Another, much simpler option, would be to just lean on the fact that SQLite serializes all writes by default and to take a little bit of a performance hit on the lock contention (assuming a small # of writers).

I know for a fact that I can get more write throughput out of SQLite in an in-process setting than I could if I had to go across the network to a hosted SQL instance. In many cases this difference can be measured as more than 1 order of magnitude, both in latency and throughput figures.

Going vertical on hardware in 2022 is an extremely viable strategy.
I can't seem to find any documentation on this. Details?
So I could see your argument if in my original post I said something about the law being wrong and needs to be removed. But I was careful not do that as I agree with most of the CCPA. I simply stated it is ridiculous that this law does not apply to more people. Especially when those people just leaked 200k+ sets of PII.

Again I simply said more people should have to follow the CCPA, nothing about stopping or slowing it down. Yet you choose to try and invalidate my point by connecting it to something I very clearly did not say.

From my point of view it appears that you just wanted to shut down criticism of the CA government because... well I have no idea.
Do you think the Steam Deck ships with a Switch emulator installed? It doesn't, nor does Steam even have one for download. You can load one on because it's literally just a handheld computer but you can also load on pirated PC games...

It's not the primary purpose of the device. I've yet to even bother loading up an emulator and have just been playing PC games.

It's basically as ludicrous as suggesting Microsoft is also supporting Switch piracy because Yuzu also runs on Windows.
Another reason for a proper, external audio interface is noise. My previous ASUS mother board introduced a noticiable buzzing noise when using it for receiving audio, even though it was claimed that the isolation was good. Maybe something else in my desktop was outputting stronger interference than what they had tested with. Newer ASUS motherboard doesn't suffer from the same issue.

Although the noise sucked, the real reason I got a external audio interface was the 1/4"/XLR connections anyways, so matters less.
>someone should really make an email client with user-friendly filters to let you sinkhole that junk into a folder you never look at

If you read past it, he actually wrote "I don't want to have to filter my inbox".

I also agree with him. I never use email clients' software filtering "rules" or "smart folders" because that's extra digital housekeeping work I don't want to do.

Doesn't matter if the email client filtering UI is "user-friendly". I still don't want to mess with it.
I am aware that they are susepctible to nation state level data collection, just like every site on the internet. I conduct all my non e2e encrypted communications/interactions with this in mind.

I just want to avoid my data being monetized.
I guess it's just experience to be honest. It happens rarely, you might be lucky enough to be involved with solving it, and then you focus on the important parts of the project again. I've only worked in startups so don't know about the 'Big Tech' solutions but a little knowledge of general linux sysadmin, containers, and queues has yet to block me :) Once the company is big enough to need some complexity beyond that I assume there's enough money to hire someone to come in and put everything into CNCFs 1000 layer tech stack.

Edit: Thinking on this, if I want to scale something it'd be specific to the problem I'm having so some sort of debugging process like https://netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60... to find the root cause would be generic advice. Then you can decide to scale vertically/horizontally/refactor to solve the problem and move on.
> short of contacting a legal department that has no public contact info

All corporations are required to have an "agent for service of process" in the state they are registered in, and the secretary of state should maintain a lookup tool for this (haven't checked all 50 but it's common). Opt-out should take you approximately ten minutes - look up their agent for service of process, and send a certified letter explaining the action you want them to take to avoid the lawsuit you are considering.
That sucks. I’m sorry.

I am curious whether Apple might release the TV+ VODs sometime down the line though.
I looked up Apple's "black stick" because I was curious what it was. Turns out I use these all the time at work. We call them green sticks for some reason despite being black. "Plastic/nylon soldering tool" is a common name from vendors but I'm not exactly sure how useful it is for soldering since it's made out of plastic and would quickly melt. We mostly use them as a spudger or pry bar, anywhere you'd normally use a screwdriver to pry something off but don't want to mar any delicate surfaces. We also have "orange sticks" which aren't really orange but are just thin wooden dowels with an angled cut at the end you can use for situations where plastic can scratch a surface.
Security weakness aren’t a problem if you limit yourself to MISRA C techniques. You don’t need modern languages.
How is it a dark pattern or undisclosed advertising? I thought it was one of the perks of being a YC company. There is very little advertising on this site, and what is here, e.g. jobs for YC companies, is labeled and on topic.
I guess the foundation is prioritizing the health of the overall ecosystem (diversity) over the convenience of people who just want to get started. Perhaps they see Ethereum as backend infrastructure not as a user-facing system.
>>Tether has not been contacted by US officials or law enforcement with a request to freeze the addresses sanctioned by OFAC, but as noted above, Tether normally complies with requests from US authorities, being in contact with them almost on a daily basis.

Rephrased as: "US Treasury, we're ready to lock & freeze as many addresses as you need -- just give us the word!"
It's dishonest to ignore the longevity of well made products. Even if they are hard to repair.
It's documented that there's protection against it: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#anti-v...
This seems to be a international effort, sadly. Article is also pre-covid.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/
If you, on the other hand, want to write good, performant, maintenable and (relatively) bug-free software, then there are better choices.

You can do that part when the money comes in.
Elon Musk Tells Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta Tester to Stop Complaining
How is this a good thing, that a "charismatic leader" can censor transactions?

It's absolutely terrible. Wasn't the goal to create digital money no one can control? I might as well use the US dollar then.
I've been using matterbridge[1] to bring all sorts of 'modern' non-standard-compliant chat services back to my irc client[2]

[1] https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

[2] https://xkcd.com/1782/
The correct starting ordinal is 0. A list with a 0th element has cardinality 1. This is a concept that exists in many places in english, where the naturality of starting with the zeroth element trumps inertia but english is wildly inconsistent so it has both.

Constructing the naturals without including 0 and starting with it is incredibly awkward. Addition doesn't even have an identity.

Look at a clock, is 1 at the top, or is it the next one after the top.

Look at a ruler. Does it start at 1?

Do you want to have to shuffle everything around when you go from whole numbers to halves? Do you start at 0.5 or 0? Depends if it is "halves" or the real number 0.5

This is a recipe for pain and off by ones any time you're dealing with time steps (which is why it's so stupid that matlab and fortran are 1 indexed by default, if anything there's a better argument for C to be 1 indexed than scientific languages).

Now index and compose a bunch of ranges. A half open range of two elements is incredibly stupid 1 <= i < 3.

So closed ranges go with 1 indexing. Composing and splitting them is incredibly awkward [a,c] is split into [a,b], [b+1, c] ... that's kind of okay, but not unique as you could use [a,b-1], [b,c]. Now do [d,e], [e,f] compose at a glance?

Half open ranges go with zero indexing and they just work.
Uh, they just bought One Medical like a month ago. That's a big bet, way bigger than this little doodad.

Uncle Jeff is still coming for your medimoney.
I think about this a lot, actually, because I am the type of person that doesn't enjoy living alone. I just get bored and depressed without people around me. (But I'm still a strong Work from Home advocate.)

Having roommates is good for me (I'm a single dude and, by choice, I live with a good friend).

But having bad roommates is horrible. I'm lucky to have been given an opportunity to live with somebody I've known for many years, but the person in the article has "random" roommates that are chaotically moving in and out. That sounds horrible. (A constantly filthy kitchen because nobody "owns" it is terrible.)

Is there a reasonable middleground for a way to find pre-vetted "high quality" roommates? I know that many of my friends would benefit from that. Posting up a Craigslist ad and having lunch with somebody doesn't give you enough confidence. Is there a better way?

(A lot of people, especially in America, are depressed because of loneliness. If we could de-stigmatize living with people, I personally think that would do a lot for the world to create more happiness and "community" for people. But I'm also an optimist at my core. :) )
I'm disappointed there isn't one at the Aviation Musuem in Ottawa. Though I'd like to see a full Arrow as well :(
Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time it's just easier to stay on Wifi and deal with 400Mbps throughput.

Not sure about windows, but USB-C maxes out at 10 Gbps IIRC, so I'd love to hear what folks in that realm are doing.
If you’re calculating indexes at runtime, you’re probably not worried about that level of optimization.