skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we need another way to express user stories. So I am sure most all features do have some 'user story,' it is whether or not it is formal or looks like one. Where I work, we don't have 'user stories,' but when I and others on the team work on a ticket, we all essentially create our own user story in our head. The issue with this, does the user story I imagine, sometimes even unknowingly, match up with what was expected without it being implicitly stated? I imagine we all, regardless of how the requirements are laid out, design and code things in our mind with some thought as to the perspective of the user. Sometimes it turns out good, sometimes not so much. Some of us are good at it, some of us are dogshit at it.
I don't have time now to reply to everything in here; there's a lot. But I did want to mention that I posted some thoughts about WASM accessibility here: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32697514 which are hopefully valuable in terms of how the problem could be solved without rewriting a given target application.

With regards to the rest, suffice it to say that I don't find the slippery slope argument persuasive. Given, though, that we're mostly arguing about how to approach doing the thing we both agree should be done, figured I might try and think about things that actually achieve the goal instead.
>The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. Mastodon is a platform where a server of your choosing hosts your account, like an e-mail provider hosting your inbox. From that account, you follow any other account on the network, regardless of which server hosts that account. Everyone you follow appears in your home feed, and everyone who follows you receives your posts in their home feed.

I've been aware of Mastodon pretty much since its inception and I had no idea that this was the case. The messaging really needs improved.
And I'm perfectly fine with that and agree with it. Maybe they should stop paying for outbound recruiting and save everyone time, given the tons of talented people that apply.
Yes. both a link and the code.
I’ll admit my Google Foo is currently failing me but when last I checked fractional reserve requirements were a very real requirement up until the last couple of years.

Do you have a source to support your claim that they only apply in economic textbook theory and not in reality.

Could you perhaps help explain, ideally with a numerical example, how it currently works in practice?
The article only makes a quick mention of one case of data insecurity, but I feel like it's the real driver for this change. There have been several data loss incidents just this year, and data storage and portability like the fax machine in Japan are anachronistic reminders that data privacy and security only move forward after damage is done.

https://www.barrons.com/news/drunk-japan-cop-loses-investiga...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/asia/japan-amagasaki-usb-data...
I remember thinking at the time that is was a great metaphor, and then reading on HN that its straight from some business school text on how to motivate change.
Fax machines have legal status, they aren't going anywhere.
Do you know what that judicial precedent actually was? That quote about "yelling fire in a crowded theater" is from Schenck v. United States, a Supreme Court decision that affirmed the conviction of person who was distributing flyers against the draft during WW1. So, it basically came with a slippery slope pre-assembled and deployed.

But the good news is that it's not active precedent, since it has been superceded by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which defines the threshold as "imminent lawless action". Thus, anti-vax sentiment is protected by 1A, except for any specific utterances that can be conclusively demonstrated to have influenced people to not only not vaccinate, but to do so in violation of the law.

(FWIW I'm pro-vaccine myself and think that anti-vax is stupid and harmful. That doesn't mean that they don't deserve the same rights we all do.)
Why not count the pages and then create a separate task for batches of N pages? You could orchestrate the batch thru parallel map in step function and bring together the results on the final step.
> If the mob keeps it where I don't have to see it, then it's not my problem. I'd rather live in a city with illegal gambling done in private than in a city where the street is lined with casinos and gambling propaganda.

Illegal businesses tend to branch out into other crimes, and to corrupt law enforcement. Both of those can end up affecting those nowhere near a place of gambling.
Are there any reputables places where I can buy a USB type C cable that supports everything? It probably wouldn't be cheap but I'd love to just stop having to check to see if my cable is the issue.
Cathay Pacific had an LED wall which changed colours in the manner described. Quite bizarre and disturbing.
An interesting thing:

Twitter is literally experimenting with being more "Mastodon-like" with "Circles"

Are there any paths or efforts toward the reverse? I know that's not the design but might there be some value, utility, and possibility in a more "centralized" Mastodon?

Specifically, the value of centralization here wouldn't be governance, but analytics. Finding out what people are "mostly talking about" and perhaps getting more attention to bigger names. I know that's not everybody's bag but I think it would be valuable.
This kills me because USB naming is actually super straightforward.

USB3.0, USB3.1, and USB3.2 are spec revisions.

USB3.1 (and 3.2) support Gen 1 and Gen 2 physical layer/transmission modes (gen 1 is 8b/10b encoding and gen2 is 128b/132b encoding).

USB3.2 adds support for using the extra differential pair in the cables to transmit data. So now you get x1 and x2 which correspond to the number of lanes available for data transmission (akin to PCIE x1, x4, x8, and x16).

So USB3.2 gen 2 x2 is just the USB3.2 standard using 128b/132b encoding over 2 lanes.

The problem is that everyone decided to use the tech spec identifiers rather than the consumer identifiers for labeling products. If you are in engineering working on making the product which uses USB ports, then you would look for ICs that support USB3.2 gen2x2 operation but if you are selling a consumer product, you are supposed to label it as a USB3 SS+ 20Gbps port.
I would be down for an open source AWS services. Shouldn't be to hard to make web front end to the fire cracker instance, but make everything in the backend open source, so any one can run the community edition.

Any thoughts on that?
I had a Windows 8 phone from Nokia around 2015 or so and other than the lack of apps it was a phone like pretty much any other at the time or even these days. By that I mean I don't remember anything really bad about it, especially because I mostly use the web anyway.

I have no idea why things succeed or fail and so I don't know for this either, but my guess is it was new, but didn't have anything that provoked an interest with mainstream users. And Microsoft does not have many faithful users.
By the time they admitted this to themselves, it was like a decade too late to do anything about it
Hopefully there is never a pea under your mattress.
> average level of assets per client account was about $57,000

It’s strange to me how people with such low assets would pay for a roboadvisor instead of just a fidelity or vanguard mutual fund. Even at a low price of 25 basis points per year that’s not very wise for the simple needs of low value portfolios.

I can understand if you have a lot and actually need some complicated management. But if you just have a few thousand then there’s no need.

It’s interesting and sad how it seems regular people get fleeced when they should just pay $500-1000 once to a fee only advisor and do their thing.
An average person doesn't need mods than USB 2.0 speeds. Anything past microSD speeds is fine. Even M.2 can only do 2GB/s or so, right?

120Gbps is way beyond anything an average person needs.

The only issue is that hopefully it will replace HDMI and some cables might not handle that. But even then, it's solved by buying a few Ankers and marking them with tape.

Yeah, it's all super confusing, and could be better, but in practice it works really well.
There are ways to do it right. In the suburban context (as long as you have decent soil and keep inputs out of it), whatever you grow is an improvement on grass or weeds. If you grow from seed, compost your own fruit and veg waste, maybe raise some chickens and use their manure - you can grow a lot of food from what would otherwise be unproductive space. I was just pointing out that that isn't what happens for most people.
Switching to Microsoft seemed like the best decision at that time. Those criticizing are underestimating the software engineering effort required to build a modern OS and the app ecosystem.

But what about Symbian and Ovi? I've had a bunch of Symbian devices with the Ovi store. They were simply not in the same league; the apps were basic because the development tools were just not good enough; and targeted basic low-end experiences. Windows Phone was the most modern OS out there (including the dev tooling); and had the best shot at competing with the Androids. I also bought the N800 (which ran Maemo) from Nokia in 2007. It was ok - but it never looked like a phone platform.
I'm not saying this is a great letter, but he wasn't wrong. I owned both Symbian and Maemo devices, and the experience (both to use and develop) really was this bad. That's not to say everything about it was bad, or that there was nothing to like (as HN comments have often pointed out, there was), but it didn't hold a candle to iOS, or even Android. (And Android in those days was pretty hideous.)

Now what Nokia did in response... that may not have been right either. But they had to do something.
There are a lot of things that are bad for you. I don't think anyone drinking alcohol thinks it's good for them.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't let people do it. "Free solo" or whatever it is where people climb without ropes - it's incredibly stupid and we should let people do it. Same for racing fast cars and so on and so on.
Hi NickFF, if you work for me full time, I will pay you in the range of $1 per year to $40 billion dollars per year.

Ranges can be non-compliant. A range like that sure is non-compliant. I don't know if it is technically, but surely it is in the spirit of the law.
Yikes! That sounds like a nightmare. I’ve never seen that here in the states, but I’ve certainly been on the receiving end of bad actors who truly are spamming. No fun.
Why Product Managers Should Not Report to the CTO
Here's 20 articles from the September edition of Geology, zero seem to be political. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/issue

August also seems politics free, though I'm too lazy to check five issues to see if it's 99%
GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
Complete speculation, but I would guess that in many cases the company/organisation running the conference would want lots of people to come (e.g. for marketing or hiring purposes), even if they could increase total ticket revenue by raising prices.

Selling expensive tickets is also bad PR, which might be worth more to the organisers than the extra ticket revenue.
Or read the Bogleheads wiki for free.
Even easier. Just have the EU mandate that everybody will be required this year to support USB4 Gen4x2x2(v1) on all devices. This will solve everything!
After mastadon started blocking stuff they didn’t like at the client level, I bailed.
They start with less and transferring out is complicated.

There are much worse decisions like not being invested at all.
Yes, that's why I changed it to having a list of arbitrary integers.

You're also assuming integer ages when a more natural comparison would have date of birth. Which has 365 times the number of buckets. Something that was again problematic to fit into a 1980s memory.
Couldn't they have been counterfeit YKK zippers? It's a big thing, unfortunately.
I’m mainly arguing against the idea that banks take in money as deposits and lend out that same money as loans. In modern economies, this is not actually how it works (Though it used to be true! Just not anymore.)

“Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions — banks do not act simply as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’ central bank money to create new loans and deposits”

I highly recommend reading the whole paper from The Bank of England, it shows that much of what is taught in outdated macro textbooks is wrong.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
I’ve found keeping expenses well below my means provide a great sense of freedom and autonomy. I don’t need to stay at a job I don’t enjoy and not having work means it’s not a big stressor. It also means I can be selective in the job I do end up taking instead of worry about not being able to pay the bills if I’m out of work too long.
that really give one a sad state on the reality of business.

the fact that google is against AGPL, makes it even more important to use it! Whatever is good for google, it is not good for humanity, and whatever google doesn't like is beneficial for humanity. Support AGPL!
If memory serves Cubic did the initial RFID readers for BART, after BART finally gave in and joined TransLink/Clipper. They were way slower than the readers every other transit agency used.
I am one of those people that have less than $57,000 in Wealthfront. I just checked and I paid $.11 in August for advisory fees. I wonder when it becomes worth it to pay someone $500 like you mentioned, if I’m only paying a couple dollars per year in advisory fees.
Why was Windows a better choice than Android? You mentioned that Windows had “the best shot of competing with Android”, but why was that desirable? The adage, if you can’t beat them, join them comes to mind.
Was your first language a LISP? Mine was Fortran IV and then pascal and I truly suspect this may be about birth tongue dialect
Pho-topia ? Like a utopia for photos.
Saurik, spotted in the wild. Off-topic, but thanks for all the work you've done over the years for the iOS jailbreak community. Hope all is well.
"Also, block size can be increased". Politically, no, it can't. That is the hill that "Bitcoin" has chosen to die on.
I’ve done the math on it and the losses I can declare on and deduct from my taxes from their tax loss harvesting cover their fee. Am I missing something?
Do you have examples of reputable journals publishing politically motivated results? Or even just some significant examples from the arxiv?
Geology is the only science you're aware of?

Try psychology, sociology, medicine, climatology and the things in this direction. I probably agree with the broad thrust if the politics in those fields and that isn't the point!
I don't remember the vending machines, but I do remember the frustration from having to make several attempts at swiping that thin magnetic stripe card at the turnstile at just the right speed.
You should totally link that link here!

I'd love to create a chaos-as-a-service for this, $2/mo and we'll throw random legit-looking patterns in different places using your AD ID.
American mains are single (split) phase 240v, your country's are likely 3 phase 240v. Your appliances are likely hooked to 3 phases simultaneously with a 20A breaker so they can get 12kW, American 20A hookup is only good for 4 kW (240x20x0.85 because you cannot draw more than 85% of max power continuously by code).
I stopped after reading the use of a nebulous “they” scare quote which lets the reader fill in whoever “they” are, and which is basically a right wing dogwhistle. Consider for example a recent analysis of a certain right wing talk show.

I think substack should be banned completely from HN.
>The equipment would cost millions to replace

I don’t buy this. Worst case scenario, the microscope talks to the PC using a proprietary hardware interface (say, an ISA card). It would cost far less than millions to hire a competent electronics engineer to reverse engineer the ISA card and the driver that talks to the ISA card, and fabricate a modern interface. Best case scenario, the microscope talks to the PC via a standard interface, and would be even cheaper to reverse, since you’d just need to worry about the software layer.

On the other hand, it would truly cost millions when the aforementioned ancient interface inevitably breaks and becomes impossible to reverse engineer, necessitating purchase of a brand new microscope.

>what they had apparently worked great

This is the real reason: because the scope works fine right now, nobody thought it prudent to invest the tens of thousands it would take to future-proof it. Exactly like companies that prioritize short-term profits over long-term success.
Have you tried ADHD medications? I don't normally take them but they really helped me going through the interviews (I legitimately have ADHD, but the side effects are too much for me for normal use)
Geology is more of a hard science so harder to make political.

Softer science like social science or psychology seems easy to politicize though. "Studies show that people need <my favorite policy> to truly be mentally healthy"
I don't doubt it. It doesn't mean it's good.
I have an ICD, and have had to have two lead revisions, once when the lead failed to implant, and the second when it cracked. My resting pulse is 100bpm, and the device overpaces me if I exceed 140bpm (unless having sex, when it kicks in at 220bpm. Is this so I'll die happy?). So in ten years my leads cop at least 500 million bends. Since my device does cardioversion and defibrillation there's no way a wireless implant in the atrium and ventricle will work.

The doctors keep quoting figures of how reliable this tech is, but I've had 3 procedures due to device failure in the last 5 years.
My mother was one of 8 children born to Finnish immigrant parents in America. As an adult she used the local Mormon temple to research her ancestors, connected with them on Facebook, then re-established the family back into the old country. She then visited the matriarch and lived with her for 2 weeks as my distant cousins visited her and made their acquaintance.

Most recently my cousin, whose daughter has an extremely debilitating incurable illness, emigrated back to Finland on his sick daughter’s request. The whole family is attempting to learn Finnish but it is apparently a struggle compared to other languages they learned.

Totally off-topic, but Nokia is a sad story and Finland is a wonderful country with wonderful people.
Culture fit is basically how companies hide their biases when it comes to hiring.
I get why FAANGs do this, the scale the work at and the salaries they pay make it seem worth the extra scrutiny.

I wasn’t clear in my previous question but I don’t work at FAANG tier, I work at startups and enterprises who struggle to break 200 million/yr in revenue and offer 180k max for principal engineer positions. What I’m curious on is why all these bit players are acting like they need FAANG level talent without paying out the salaries, but more importantly, paying the cost of having this complicated an interview process.

Every position they leave unfilled is an opportunity cost and every extra step they add to their interview process is another few thousands of dollars they add to the acquisition cost of every engineer. I’m struggling to see what the benefit is for them when they do not operate on the scale that requires meticulous engineering
You’re claiming banks make 5k in profit for every 1k in deposits. Chase has 2.3 trillion in deposits. Why don’t they have 10+ trillion in annual profits?
It's also heavy and won't be recycled till we can landfill mine.

Now your short cables need heavy steel and fiber just to make long cables possible. Or else you have to have fiber+high speed copper in one connector.
Maybe they concluded (rightly) that there are no margins in Android devices. Samsung is a rare exception, but by then the signs were clear that manufacturing (including the R&D around it) was shifting to East Asia.
What level were you? I've never heard of managers interviewing software engineers at AMZN.
Im not insisting there should be an underclass of peasants. I am defending an old woman against the charge of NIMBYism, or that she should not take space for the young generation. In fact, Id make these living arrangement illegal.

However, as is often the case, emotion driven decisions have horrible secondary effects. Is Seoul setting aside money for compensating landlords for loss of legal income? Is Seoul building affordable housing? Is Korea delivering high quality government services evenly throughout the country?

Seoul, one of the world's richest cities, isn't offering her a NPV of her future rent. Seoul isn't building affordable housing.

This landlady has had a much tougher life than her tenants who have had much tougher lives than most on this forum
I think you have things flipped. Since the fee is a percentage, roboadvisors are perfect for someone with relatively low assets. If you have millions you benefit more from spending the time to manage/rebalance everything yourself and also gain access to different investment opportunities/vehicles/services.
Basically agree. A -1% EV max mandate would be much better. Excitement without much loss.
$10,414 in today's dollars.
We live in a society where things are allowed by default and banned if they cause harm, not a society where things are banned by default and allowed if they are proven to not cause harm.
The editing mistake wasn’t deciding whether to identify the interviewee’s gender, but revealing part of their internal privacy process by missing it in edit. It doesn’t matter, for being interviewed, what proportion of sex workers are any gender if the publication reveals flaws in how they protect anonymity of the people they interview. I spotted this with a very cursory read, and distrust the publication on instinct. Again not because I care about the gender of the single sex worker interviewed, but because I don’t think their editorial process was thorough enough to protect one source.
I recall being am amateur epidemiologists suspicious of "elites" and I bet on masks being efficacious while health authorities were pooh-poohing them and came out ahead. I felt the "Elites" were being bias by the ongoing shortage of medical masks into downplaying the efficacy of masks for the general public, which in hindsight, actually seems pretty spot on.

I saw lots of people sharing studies, including before peer review, I mostly didn't see anybody come to a substantively different conclusion from the authors after like the first few months of pandemic confusion had cleared up. I found scepticism and DIY science very helpful this pandemic especially when things were more chaotic.
A colab notebook shared on discord has some interesting exploration of this https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1dlgggNa5Mz8sEAGU0wF...

Caveat: While I believe there's nothing nefarious about this notebook... I am unaware whether or not there are security risks with random colab notebooks.
Yeah, the work stuff really took off during that decade. Probably a function of the 60s and 70s student terrorists/protestors becoming a significant portion of tenured professors finally.
What are the chance you're a Conan O'Brien fan? I bet 100%. :)
Why would you do such a thing when you can use something like Kermit (which has been around for over 40 years)....
Everything I Know Wiki – Operating systems
Super cool. I’ve been using it for the past 20 minutes and have been sending everyone I know a link to this post, but most people don’t seem to realize what it is!

It’s so rad to have a project like this so accessible through text.
I remember early mastodon marketing being criticized for emphasizing federation _too much_, and that it would confuse new users.