skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) We're a good company aiming to help people and make the world a better place, and we promise not to do any evil

2) We've taken Venture Capital funding in order to get ramped up much faster, so we can do all those great things

3) Because we didn't ramp up as fast as the Venture Capital funding wanted, we're changing our direction.

4) We're selling to a big company for billions of dollars who will either ash can our work entirely or totally ignore our initial mission.

Founders like to pretend they didn't break their promises when their VC funders or a takeover totally changes their product in step 3 or 4. But they broke their promises in step 2, the second they took Venture Capital funding. VC is investing a small amount in many companies expecting massive payout from one of them. The end goal is to go public or sell to a large company. Either means giving up control, which means you've agreed to give up control as soon as you take VC funding. A company can no longer be trusted to do what's in the best interest of their customers as soon as they a) take VC funding, b) go public, or c) get sold. No matter what promises they've made.

Point is, don't jump from Figma to PenPot thinking everything will be better, they will go the same route within 3 years if they're successful. It's nice that it is open source, but at some point it will not be open source, or will have significant changes for a professional paid version. Open Source is only part of the equation, it also needs either a community or consistent company support, and that's not guaranteed once VC gets involved.
I prefer my resume in Comic Sans (ducks)

Because I’m tacky…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
This is the part where scraping the bottom of the barrel must become a lifestyle in order to scrape together the ginormous down payment toward a home mortgage.

Once done, it gets easier.

Of course, that is easier said than done, but it took me 10 years to save up for that first-time 20% down payment.

I too was a 90% percentile. And it also … afterward … took several homes upward before I can tap out for a bigger down payment for a 3,200 sq. ft. in “cushy” California while attaining just 25% of take-home pay toward mortgage+insurance.

First home was a killer 48% of take-home pay toward house payment.
I had a good laugh yesterday. I was setting up a password vault for my mother and had to get the login pages for various services and a few did like Etsy does - search for "Etsy Login" and you'll notice their SEO has managed to put /search?q=login above /signin in google's results. It amuses me whenever SEO is taken to such an extreme that it actually makes the results from your company less useful for people actually looking for your company.
> A Tory government apparently can't achieve much.

You could just stop there. I've yet to see, in decades of Tory rule, much but decline, neglect, and scandal. Tax cuts and service cuts. That's all everyone needs apparently. Unfortunately, labor seems so incompetent at gaining power that it seems almost like a "managed opposition." Maybe I'm being too generous to their electorate as well. The UK is a tourism attraction at this point, a historical relic found in a curio shop or flea market. Or soon will be at its current clip.
In that scenario how does Apple source all the parts made in China? They would be better off paying the 6%
> As to "cloud agnostic", don't believe this bullshit.

A notable exception to this is of you have clients whose IT departments require you to work on specific cloud providers. Although, there's tools that help abstract deploying infrastructure to different cloud providers (eg terraform, pulumi), but they still require some familiarity with the providers. With all that said, overall I agree with your sentiment
I'm sure they won't get acquired
Sabine seems to be promoting a twist on Newton's flaming laser sword, also known as Alder's razor: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

What cannot be disproven by experiment, is not worth funding

I'd say she's right.
Yeah, this.

Two days ago we returned home from a short trip and when we turned on the tap for the first time the water pressure seemed unusually high for 5-10 seconds before returning to normal. I would have thought nothing of it except that about fifteen years ago I had experienced the same phenomenon after installing a water pressure booster pump in our house and so I learned the hard way about the need for thermal expansion tanks in modern domestic plumbing [1] and so I knew right away that our tank had failed and needed to be replaced. It's a pretty trivial DIY project, but only if you do it before your pipes burst. I suspect most people have never even heard of a thermal expansion tank.

[1] https://homeinspectioninsider.com/thermal-expansion-tanks-in...
People that want this are buying M1 macbooks with broken screens on ebay and simply removing the screen. I'm not sure you could really do this without the battery to make a much smaller size as modern laptops rely on the battery for peak power delivery instead of using a larger power supply.
That’s true, I mean more for transactions on e.g. Craigslist or a farmers market.
If you're going to do unpaid work, the world is full of worthy causes.
Your religion is not my religion. The law should not prevent me from doing things just because you think it'll send me to hell, anymore than the law should force you to practice my religion.

If you don't believe in freedom of religion, that's your choice, but it sort of one of the founding principles of the USA.
Any source at all.
tngranados said "many people" and did not say anything at all about the "majority" of people.

Judging from the fact that many people choose VS Code over JetBrains IDEs, despite being aware of JetBrains existence as an option, seems to be prima facie evidence that it is in fact the better choice for those folks.
If only there was a way to have quality repositories of packages curated by the OS team itself... alas, such a thing is probably not possible in the operating systems space for another few decades at least ...

/s
yep, that's coming too!
I’m from the hills of KY and I left for a reason, so I find this not-insulting especially if the teller of the joke is also from some backwoods.

But I have a soft spot for the people whom I left obviously, and won’t tolerate highbrow coast-dwellers being jerks for no good reason. These hill folks tend be victims of their own boredoms caused by an independent nature that was once a highly desirable trait when we talk about survival… but victims of inevitable progress and deserve help/pity instead of scorn. Except those who deserve scorn, ya know??
I don't know why WxWidgets seems to be less popular now than it was back then. I remember it being somewhat popular. Now people hardly seem to know about it.

FLTK looks horrible next to most modern applications. But FLTK 2.0, which has been abandoned for 10 years, actually looks pretty modern and the API is actually pretty elegant. There was some kind of split in the community about FLTK 2.0 breaking backward compatibility and I guess the 1.0 people won in the end.
DL/State ID is proof of identity. You can have such documents and not be eligible to work in the US.

SS Card (unless stamped not for employment or the electronic equivalent) proof of eligible to work.

US passport proof of identity and of citizenship, and of course citizens can legally work.

Probably 99% of US Citizens will have some combination of these as their I-9 eligibility documents.

Permanent residents will likely have a DL/State ID and their green card.

If you look at the I-9 page https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-docume... there are a significant number of other documents, which many HR departments seem completely unaware of, like special endorsements on foreign passports and special eligibility documents, or military IDs or Tribal IDs for proof of identity.
People are bringing up that past rates were higher but leaving out how much lower past prices were. Have a look at rates over time[1] vs median home price[2].

Yes rates were 16% in 1980 but the median home was $64,000. That's $230,000 in today's dollars.

If you'd prefer to pick a time when rates were more comparable, how about 2001 at 7%. The median home price was $180,000. $301,000 in today's dollars.

Today's median home is selling for $440,000. It's small wonder that people are upset.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
What are you using instead of Bitwarden?
That's probably true, but as somebody on the other end of the political spectrum, I'm not sure it matters that much if the reason is actually "because Jesus" or really "Jesus is just an excuse". Either way, voters and the politicians they elect self-identify as conservative Christian while ramming through policies that are largely not the will of the people (at a national level).
I got a good chuckle out of them having a PyCharm plugin. I'm not going to create an account just to kick the tires on that, but I'd be stunned if they out-magick PyCharm
The reason for using a match statement, even though there is only “one” case, is because it’s matching against a complex and (as you mentioned) deeply nested pattern. Lines 43-56 match the current AST node against the pattern (shown here as pseudo-python):

with open(_) as f:
_ = f.read()

(Where _ can be anything, and f can be any name). The traditional alternative to lines 43-56 would be dozens of lines that check the top level of the AST, and if that matches against what the top level of the pattern is expecting, diving one layer deeper and checking that level against the next level of the pattern, etc, until you reach the leaves of your pattern. Once your familiar with pattern matching syntax, this is much easier to quickly read/grok/audit.
Lambda, SQS and SNS.

That’s how just about everyone does backend API services with AWS. You’ll be shocked at how cheap, scalable and bullet-proof it can be.
And didn't these explosions happen the same day it was announced that the pipeline from Norway to Poland is now open?

USA likely did it to send a message to Putin and AfD (who talking about reviving it) that Nordstream is officially dead, now and forever. USA will be supplying the oil and gas to Europe, not Russia.
> Is there? Seems like we're heading for a recession and reduced demand

Perhaps lower demand for consumer devices[1], but at Google and Amazon's scale, getting more efficient Tensor cores, ARM processors, and AI accelerators for their respective clouds will save them some OpEx by requiring less power (and cooling). It may also save CapEx as well, by reducing the need to build additional datacenters by getting +10% more compute[2] with the existing DC footprint, power and cooling budgets.

Server costs are amortized over long periods - longer than whatever recession may or may not happen. Also, if they can lock-in TSMC for years, they'll continue to reap benefits long after the recession is over and shift capacity to Kindles or Pixel devices when consumer demand recovers.

1. Which may explain Apple developing cold feet.

2. Back of envelope calculations. I do not know what node mixes Google and Amazon have in their data centers, but I'm guessing it averages-out between 10 to 15nm. How much can they benefit by replacing their oldest processors with 3nm parts?
I know it does, but is it comparable to what you get access to if you learn French or German or Indonesian?
> Point is, don't jump from Figma to PenPot thinking everything will be better, they will go the same route within 3 years if they're successful.

Doesn't matter - it's an open source app, I can clone it and run it on-prem or locally (and I already have - and opened a PR!). FLOSS simply eliminates a great deal of SaaS risk.

They can delete their repo tomorrow, go full-proprietary, sell out to the highest bidder, get taken over by Adobe. None of it matters, I can still work on my designs.
Is the problem with home flipping in general, or with Redfin in particular flipping homes?
The above poster has completely ignored the large religious morality groups that have made it their mission to remove porn from the internet entirely. They are the ones that took pornhub to court saying all their content was child porn and got pornhub to remove 90% of its inventory
This looks great. Care to share the API call used for searhing?
"Without a doubt"

That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means.
Yet the US has freedom of religion, it seems there is a large conflict there
> but after some point it becomes onerous.

That's exactly the point - a sufficiently deep supply chain attack can avoid detection just because no one bothers to look that deep.
The more I work with cloud the more I see this 'saves time on infrastructure' being a half-truth at best - we still have overwhelmed DevOps people who, unlike managing on-prem services, have 0 insight or control over what goes on inside AWS. And the services require a decent amount of hand holding, proprietary know how, etc.

In the end you replaced sysadmin with DevOps and got up charged multiples.
> It is widely thought that SCOTUS decides based on ideology and politics, and only justifies it with the text of the Constitution after the fact.

In addition to this being widely thought, do you happen to have any evidence that indicates whether or not it is true? My initial inclination is to suspect that it is not.

My personal experience with arguments deriding the constitutional coherence of SCOTUS jurisprudence usually involves people who are bringing their own political/ideological bias into their evaluation of court rulings -- often without even reading the rulings themselves -- and/or applying their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the constitution. See, for example, discussions surrounding the Citizens United ruling, where almost all of the controversy involves incorrect assumptions of both what was at issue in the case and what the ruling concluded.

While there have been breaks with stare decisis in some important cases over the years, by and large, these seem to be exceptions rather than the rule. The idea of the court abandoning the increasingly expansive interpretation of the commerce clause that's been at the basis of a huge amount of federal law for the past century, just to enable Texas to regulate the internet for the entire globe, seems incredibly far-fetched.
Docusign has 7,400 employees. TFA doesn’t bother to mention anything about their revenue. Gross is $622 million. Net is -$45 million. Somehow they are losing money on document signing software despite having overcome, to their credit, resistance to the concept and developing something like a monopoly.

How are they losing so much money?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and please especially omit snarky swipes from your comments.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> bring in the US Department of Defense or US government in general

This is a guaranteed route to introducing even more delays, cost overruns, schedule overruns, onerous requirements, intrusive oversight, and about a trillion meetings and studies along the way.

If you want to go fast, stay far far away from the USG.
> Well, I'm of 20th C. origin—not 19th

This already is a massive difference. Large majority of children in the 19th century did not have any access to electricity, let alone knowing how to fashion an electric bell.
There are still people paying money for beanie babies, so why not.
Discussion about this on Woit's blog ("Not Even Wrong"), including a response from Hossenfelder:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13070

I've never really followed Sabine Hossenfelder but I think I prefer Peter Woit's skeptical takes over hers. It is kind of weird how they both agree more than disagree about the current state of high energy physics, but she seems to see the need to attack him over the details (and where I think Woit gets it more right than she does).
But watch out! Kentucky Cave Goblins!!
https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/61-am...
Another solution: stuff everything that fits into Git repos, fetch --all from each of your different computers regularly.

For things that don't fit nicely into Git (e.g. large collections of large binary files), I use a homegrown git-like system for storing filesystem snapshots: http://github.com/TOGoS/ContentCouch
> Ruling appealed and upheld, tech companies shrug and disable moderation, the money's still coming in so it's all good

Another possibility here is that social media sites impacted by this may implement a Reverse Great Firewall of Texas (and Florida), and possibly terminate employees living in those states who won't relocate.
Pricing is one aspect, but OSS solutions bring community and a level of transparency that most closed source companies don't.
Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly
Tobacco is tolerated, not celebrated. There is a large gap between someone's vices being no one's business and actively celebrating them.
Please don't descend into flamewar, and please especially don't cross into personal attack.

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Or see a more complete implementation of English blazonry here https://drawshield.net (disclaimer I am the creator of this site, and to follow up a point below, yes, I did approach Blazonry as a programming language)
BankRate is saying 6.86% for today.

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/mortgage-rates/

Zillow is saying 6.54% (actually down 6 basis points, though still up 39bps from last week). Zillow does break things down into categories more with Jumbo loans having a lower than average rate at 6.36% while FHA loans are at 7.05%.

https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-rates/

It's hard to estimate what the average loan rate is (or really anything in the real world where you don't have complete data). What's the average price of a gallon of milk in your city? I mean, it sounds like a simple question, but quickly becomes complicated. There are 5 supermarkets in my city. Do I just look at the price at each of them and take the mean? Do I weight the prices based on which supermarkets are more popular? Do I only take the lowest price of a gallon of milk at the supermarket or do I average in the prices of brand-name and specialty milk? Should I also include milk prices from bodegas in my average? Should I include the milk price from Instacart where they're adding their own markup?

With the average mortgage rates, is this the average rate for mortgages with zero points or the average rate that buyers are getting with some deciding to pay points? For those who don't know what points are: you sometimes have the option to pay an upfront fee for a lower rate. Each point is 1% of the loan value. If your loan is for $1M and you pay 2 points, you're paying $20,000 upfront to get a lower rate.

For example, when I look at mortgage rates on BofA's website (https://www.bankofamerica.com/mortgage/mortgage-rates/) for a $500k home with 20% down ($400k loan), they pop up 6.625% (6.787% APR) with 0.865 points which would be an upfront cost of $3,460. Their calculator doesn't say how much the rate would be worse without points, but maybe they do if you're actually applying for a loan (or maybe they don't give you a choice).

Beyond points, there's so much difficulty in knowing what average rates are. Do you look at each lender and just average the rates or do you weigh rates from BofA higher because they're writing a lot more loans than smaller lenders? Do you even really know?

Also, since you posted (and since I started writing this comment), Mortgage News Daily has adjusted their estimate down to 6.82%.

I think one thing we can certainly say is that mortgage rates have been pushed quite high and the average is likely in the 6.5%-7% range at the moment. Yes, that is a reasonably broad range, but it's certainly a contrast from the sub-4% and even sub-3% rates we had seen.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.09.27-142609/https://www.nytimes.com...
Remember that Intel's fabs are waiting in the wings and that I would bet dollars to donuts that Intel is talking with Apple.

TSMC's position in that context is less strong than you'd imagine, especially since Apple has to be thinking that they want to diversify away from Taiwan and China to avoid "Russia risk" of having their supply shut off to zero suddenly when China does something crazy.
As it is now, with no worker protections, its bleak. But with some study and regulation it can be otherwise.

Hell, factory workers were 'modern slavery' and we made that better.

Nothing new here about 'sex workers', just about unprotected workers in a taboo industry. We can fix that, if we stop denigrating and start talking.
High performance Node.js image processing
Take a stroll through LeetCode and you'll see that the hard part isn't memorizing all the "good approaches", it's understanding when to apply each and also whether you need to pull out parts of the algo or apply multiple.

Many of the questions don't have obvious solutions unless you've answered similar questions multiple times (or you have good recall and recall a pattern after seeing it just once), or you're able to tease out the "real problem" from the obfuscating English.
The funny thing is that while I don't doubt in my mind that a lot of the folks with anime/furry illustrations in their blogs are generally younger, I suspect many of them are still knocking on 30 at least.

What happened? Anime and furry fandom became more socially acceptable across contexts. Why? Probably because of the ridiculous degree to which we are connected online and the way this has eroded our ability to segregate identities. A lot of people you have seen online have always been huge losers, but many of them are more open to flagrantly displaying it now.

Is this good? Dunno. I think making some of these subcultures more mainstream can suck for the subcultures themselves. I've never found it all that off-putting personally, but that could just be a reflection of my own biases as a long-time online loser.
> I suspect most people have never even heard of a thermal expansion tank.

I suspect that if you did surveys every year going back to the 19th century, in every single one of them the majority of people would have never heard of a thermal expansion tank.
It reeks of hyperbole you say? I invite you to attend services at the Southern Baptist church of your choosing and then try bringing up the topic of sex workers after services. Depending on where you attempt this you might make it to your car under your own power.

Your claim that I'm advancing a strawman argument here strongly suggests to me that you may not have a solid grasp on conservative attitudes on this topic. I assure you Alabama (for example) exists, and it's residents absolutely have opinions about things.
That would apply to any form of self employment. I don't get unemployement for not starting a youtube channel either.
Do you mind pointing to a paper that explains this phenomena?
I only think it's the case in terms of medicine or science, especially disciplines that are so granular that even someone from one subfield can't fully understand a paper in the next. Most areas of physics are so specialised that they take at least a decade or two to become competent in. I don't think politics or war are as specialised. Also, those things are within the realms of daily experience, while most physics is not. You already demonstrated your ignorance on the current state of physics by asserting that theoretical physics has a drought.

I think you are just being contrarian really. You know well why a lay person's opinion on politics is more relevant than a lay person's opinion on physics.