skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some may wince at the use of the word conservative given its connotations. But small-c conservative tendencies are what temper small-p progressive initiatives from quickly entering dangerous waters, just as progressive tendencies counter conservative initiatives when they are sinking us deeper into harmful ruts.
It's the same when not logged in, the playcount is stored in cookies yes.
I doubt land claims are in their interest. I guess the strategy of more autonomy is off the table though and security forces will likely remain a long time.
Price fixes cause shortages. There is never a time in history when this is not the case.
I am baffled how we went from a liberal "free" democracy to this ersatz of a totalitarian regime where all our conversations/messages/photos need to be dissected, catalogued and approved by un-elected bureaucrats.

I mean you can literally go to eastern Europe to see the vestiges of the Stasi where they used to listen to the conversations of their citizens while trying to find dissidents among them. This isn't some kind of distant past, this is almost like yesterday and yet here we are again.

How come we end up here again? Why can't the powers that be just leave the people to live their lives in peace without being snooped on by the surveillance apparatus?

And then to turn around and seeing the EU wanting to give lessons of democracy to China or NK? What a joke.

The future is grim and to be honest I would just rather they came out in the open and acknowledged the fact that democracy and privacy as we know it is dead. Then each and everyone can decide to accept this fact or fight back.

Instead we get this grandstanding about civil liberties but in the background they are ever so working on diminishing our individual freedoms.
DNS and PKI have a lot of other purposes, though. What other purposes for WEI can you think of?
the societal consequence is that literally nothing happens. Same with the incomes, nothing whatsoever happens from having this be public.

Objectively not true. Scammers use that data all the time to target high net worth individuals. Especially high net worth old people living alone.
Hacker News really is like clockwork. Random "tech" industry problem? Gotta be "managers" or "designers." Engineers can do no wrong.
CO2 certificates are not "dirt cheap", for Polish coal-based power plants they amount to 59% of the cost of producing electricity.
> Because adults with hobbies and families have better things to do

If you really valued your time you would spend a week studying for the interview that gives you a 50pct or more increase in salary so you can work that many fewer years
this is an interesting tutorial on how to run OpenTelemetry at scale. When ingestion volume becomes super high, a queue like Kafka seems to be important to make otel collector handle spikes, etc.
I understand what you mean, and after several tours of duty across FAANGs and startups I think the bouncing-around tends to me less of an individual characteristic and more of a symptom of organizational dysfunction.

For startups, the landscape within a given role tends to vary drastically year over year. Some folks like being employee #10 but don't want to hang around past employee #20. Other folks like being employee #1000 but out of 2000 or 3000 feel overwhelmed. Organizations these days hire, especially where employment is at-will, with the expectation that their staff are fungible (they're not) and can be rearranged at the drop of a hat (which happens often).

One project can be a blast, and if the next one isn't then the grass is indeed often greener on the other side -- at least in our industry.

Some of my best hires have been folks who have never stuck around at previous places for more than 6-9 months over the course of several years. On the whole, it's all a total crapshoot.
Sorry, it was more of an overall review of the conference. Rocky Mountain Ruby was a regular occurrence in the 2010s, but then ceased operations. This year was the first time it had happened in a while.
State funded services. By now it's clear that platforms like YouTube and Twitter are integral parts of our lives, even used by institutions to release official statements and by media to publish news.

Why then should we leave such important services in the hands of a handful of investors who's only interest is increasing the profit margins?
In flood prone parts of Australia it is quite common to list "property sits yy meters above 19XX flood level" as a premium signal to the risk averse.

I would suspect that this isn't standard as most properties are worse off by disclosing this information so it would be a net disadvantage to realtors (who often run these platforms).
It works for me but I've noticed that site has got much less reliable over last few months
Question: how long does it take for bedbugs to go into these traps?

I.e., how long after placing the traps do you know whether you are safe or not?
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> Norway is not in the EU.

You are right, thank you! I just fixed that.

> Coming from a Spaniard? Go fuck yourself.

I was already fixing the error, and writing in my head the kind answer above. I hadn't seen this nasty comment.

Why the ad hominem?

I'm ranking governments — not individuals — according to international reports I've seen. Those classifications are debatable, of course. There might be bias, or nuances I'm missing. But why do you presume malice on my part?

How on Earth is it relevant that I'm a Spaniard?
I've never tried it, but in the age of AI why not ask candidates to interact with ChatGPT to solve a problem?

In my (limited) interviewing experience the good candidates were the ones who had a good mental model for solving novel problems, were inquisitive and asked good questions. I think these attributes are also a reasonable indicator of general intelligence.

The people who I hired that were less successful were the ones who solved the coding exercises but had a poor mental model of how to solve novel problems and did not ask good questions.

Trying to use ChatGPT could take the pressure off from regurgiating coding minutae. The interviewer would be able to observe how the candidate approaches the problem and whether they can spot where ChatGPT goes wrong. It might also help introverted candidates since it feels less confrontational and there is likely to be less anxiety about unimportant details (after all any syntax mistakes would be ChatGPT's mistakes).
> if one deeply, passionately believes in the necessity of The Law and all of society's institutions, one must with equal passion break laws

"-- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
This model then only makes sense for computations that are easier to verify a solution for than to solve (or where both are trivial in terms of computation), presumably?
I'm a bit miffed at you thinking additional profits would go to employees, rather than in the pockets of a handful of shareholders.
Be the change you want to see in the world.

I refuse to interview at places that are Leetcode-heavy. Never prevented me from getting 7 figures offers at FAANG-type companies.

Similarly when I interview candidates, I don't ask them Leetcode questions either. I like to get a sense of whether or not a candidate can reason in semi-unknown territories and has good intuition, not if they can parrot a textbook.
I find that my sourdough starter’s smell is noticeably more yogurty (lactic acid) and less tangy (acetic) when I add a tiny amount of food grade calcium to the water. There’s a similar effect on the final bread as well, but there are other factors (eg fermentation time/temperature) that probably have a bigger effect on the final loaf.

I believe the calcium feeds the lactic acid producing bacteria, favoring their growth.
I think we got bait and switched. Initially a lot of the services used network effects to reach a peak mass and got dependency lock in(think using FB or Google as login options as an example), and then monetized through "ads or subscription", which inherently made the experience absolute crap.

I can get behind ads in moderation or subscriptions that aren't mired in dark patterns, but I feel like 30% of my time consuming anything on social media is spent on watching ads, so I just go do something else now.
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Doesn't seem like he took his own advice, though.
Engineers do the work to make the magic happen. Too much middle management adds fat and gets in the way of work getting done. I say this as a GenXer who has been on both sides and is currently an engineer again. I have no beef with designers.
Hayward! Across the street from Costco!

Cheap gas near Sunnyvale? Probably Safeway in Campbell.

What solar policy? The NEM changes? It seems like you have to get a battery pack to make it worth it.
pledge and unveil.
i’ve been using this for over a year, and it’s honestly really amazing.
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How does this work game-theoretically? Couldn’t a Verifier assume that most Provers are honest and just skip doing the computation themselves?
> That is not helpful for a discussion.

Fair enough. Edited that part off. I was simply extremely shocked at the implications, if I understood it correctly.

> So the situation is that you have lots of old people living in houses that they could never, ever afford at today's prices.

I don't think punishing people for what companies have done to inflate house prices is a good move though.

Screwing over people that bought houses that they live in instead of fixing the root causes for all these insane price hikes seems completely backwards to me.

Remember that companies or rich folks might have to pay some extra taxes but, in general, they can freaking afford it. Normal folks more often than not, can't.
> Burnout happens when my work doesn’t matter.

This is over simplifying it. There are dozens of reasons- currently my job is fairly easy and we are shipping to the customers but we are understaffed so I’m supposed to keep track of 20 separate things. When the appropriate amount for this company would be 2-3.

I usually quit because I lose hope in the senior leadership.
Yes, but with no viable theories of a minimal unit, I'll assume that no such thing exists until given proof otherwise.
It's not just slide decks, and also the networking at those events is quite good. Swag and catering vary wildly though (even in France where poor catering is somewhat insulting).
Unpopular opinion: Elon did the right thing wrt the reorganization of Twitter/X.

The valley became (and still is) an echo chamber of fringe and often anti-western ideals. NYC had a little of this too, but the valley was especially egregious. When employees started needing safe spaces and HR department size was disproportionate to engineering staff size in every other domain the valley jumped the shark. It became less about building things and more about coddling employees. They invited all that corporate overhead in. Then there's the forever present techno-elitism that came from SV. So, they can cry me a river.
> Why not use artificial intelligence and cameras to detect the cars

Hell no. You want something that's explainable and predictable, not something that will allow a truck to run over a bunch of kids, just because it's painted in a pattern engineered to make it be identified as a bunny.
I dislike these kind of statements. I can’t take notes. I learned very explicitly that I will retain information much better if I take no effort to write it down and instead just focus and listen. If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless.

That is to say, it’s all just personal preference. Explore and exploit what works for you.
Every org has an internal referral process, and referrals get to the front of the queue. This is true both at a no name startup and Google.
pledge(2)? That’s generally about blacklisting syscalls though a few options allow carveouts (mostly around file system access). Sealing memory mappings is a lot lower level, and more fine-grained.
Great explanation. Seems like the Cliff's Notes version is that values are based on supply and demand, ignoring costs, and car culture has distorted both. I've been a Georgist since forever, but I'd never looked at things from that angle before. Thank you.
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No nap for me then....
the problems people have with crypto does not include 'decentralization'
I've been calling it bullshit too, because the thing about bullshitting is that the truth is irrelevant to a good story.
Why should you have to do anything? My binder of pokémon cards is worth thousands of times what I paid for it but nobody has the right to levy an unending amount of taxes on it until I can't afford to not sell it.
Sounds like you’re not in Spotify’s market if you don’t want to stream and you don’t care about discovery. It’s probably not the right service for you.
Evictions are not reported on a credit history report.

There is no single credit score in the US. Anyone can calculate whatever they want from a credit history.

There is no requirement for a lender to negatively view a borrower’s decision to buy pay off a loan. In fact, I doubt any even do.

Using a credit card is borrowing money, hence shows up on a credit report.
"But the US doesn’t want to be more restrictive than necessary, Raimondo said, emphasizing a consistent message from the Biden administration that Washington doesn’t seek to hurt China’s economy"
BillG probably did to a large extent: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
The culture and politics around what startups are and can be seem to have avoided these questions too long. Now that we're evaluating these concerns more in earnest I think it is worth a little soul-searching to determine if it really is worth the money to follow the herd and invest one's time and effort into such applications of technology.
Strongly advise reading Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century.

One of the key points made in the book, which is full of wonderful data and is a GREAT read if you’re into that sort of thing, was the idea that *wealth is much more unequal than income*.

From Vox’s coverage of the book:

> You hear a lot about income inequality, but as this chart makes clear wealth inequality is much more severe. In the United States, just 1 percent of the population owns about 35 percent of all the wealth. Even in relatively egalitarian Europe, the top 1 percent owns around 25 percent of the wealth. In both continents, the top 10 percent owns over half the wealth.

It’s hugely important to understand that point, which gets lost frequently.

Wealth inequality > Income inequality.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10/5561608/9-charts-that-explain-...

You can’t argue about the benefits of the system — they are material. You can try to argue about global incomes rising. But it’s a hard argument to win when it comes to global wealth distribution.
...Alice may not wish for that information to become public, for whatever mix of reasons that she decides.
I read your comment, this sentence in particular, and thought, I wonder if this is related to a very particular group of people known for such harassment:

> That observation lead inevitably and inexorably, within a single week, in masterly chess moves, by people obviously coordinating, well versed in the rules of Wikipedia and with ungodly amounts of spare time, to my being harassed, doxxed, and sanctioned by Wikipedia.

Decided to check your username on Wikipedia, went to your contribution history, and sure enough, it was those exact set of people I was thinking of.

Reminds me of how they treated former Wikipedia admin Athaenara when she made a similarly critical comment.

I'm sorry they inflicted their harassment tactics on you. I know how it feels, I had a similar experience a few years ago on a different forum and it soured me both to their activism and, after a long, critical look at what they were actually demanding, the entire concept behind their activism.
While I love the article and premise, he doesn’t make any points on preventing monopolies, rent seeking and regulatory capture.

Like the “It’s time to build” article, it’s great VC porn but a16z is still mostly funding SaaS companies instead of hard tech.

Have they brought down prices of food, healthcare, housing, energy, infrastructure?

Since the beginning pandemic, things are heading in the wrong direction for the median American.
Besides the slide content, the purpose of conferences like this is to get to know other people in the industry, have organic discussion, talk about common issues or needs from the vendors, and learn from one another. The sessions are the frame for that. And, if the company you work for is paying for it, then it's a nice vacation, if it's a multi-day event.
Nor me, but if they're going to advertise an event, they should hold it, and if they're going to cancel then they should inform the people who RSVP-ed.

I will add that, if it is on company time, I may use it as a networking opportunity.
Can you explain what point you are trying to get across? I just see a page of code.
Your last sentence for me is it: total crapshoot.

Agreed, it’s so hard to tell. I try hire more for personality and general intelligence and assume we can teach process and new tools.

Historically I’ve attempted to tell developers what you said upfront, that some projects will suck but I’ll do my best to make sure you’re not always on the sucky work. I think managers often forget that cycling people in and out of fun roles is important for retention, just as is pay etc.

There is some value in expectation setting around “I’m not going to abandon you in the shit forever, but at times you’ll be in the shit and so will i, and i appreciate you sticking with me and will do everything i can to reward that”

Ted Lasso kinda stuff…but it’s not all worthless even if it doesn’t work 100% of the time.
Vinegar – native video controls for YouTube (2021)
Hard disk storage isn't getting cheaper at the same pace as earlier(before the Thailand floods 10 to 15 years ago IIRC). Bandwidth is also expensive, especially across the world. Microsoft threw in the towel in a related space(live streaming) with Mixer. Twitch wasn't really profitable for a long time IIRC, if it now is(even after adding a lot of unskippable ads and adblocker blocking). Kick is bankrolled by online casino gambling profits and is probably a huge money sink.

If something was feasible, surely the people who hang out on HN would be all over it trying to build something. Even if something does get built, it will go the same route eventually.
Some side benefits that come with the app: Since even the most popular desktop apps have a web version, like Slack, Teams, Outlook, etc., you can completely move away from all your desktop apps and your browser and get work done all in one system. It is truly refreshing and eliminates tons of friction in your flow. The advantage of using tools like Slack inside Floutwork is that any link you click on within Slack won't bounce you to your browser full of tabs; it will just open as a tab within the Slack app within Floutwork. PWAs that are installed on your OS taskbar as apps have this major flaw — they still bounce you to your browser whenever you click on a link. So, accessing any web app or PWA within Floutwork offers a seamless experience.

My previous post: I posted about this product at the beginning of the year, but it was still very rudimentary and I didn't give any background on my post. I received a lot of feedback from the HN community and implemented some much-discussed topics like 1.) Dedicated focus mode. 2.) Smooth onboarding. 3.) Dark Mode. 4.) Ability to download all your data. 5.) Upfront pricing. I greatly value the HN's insights!

There are great screenshots of the app in the landing page: https://www.floutwork.com
Of course, the idea that there is any kind of "permanent ground truth" around morals/laws is very much up for debate. Some philosophers think it exists (usually called "natural law" [1]), while many others think it's nonsense.

I would guess that most anthropologists, for instance, would say it's rubbish -- people who have studied the exceedingly wide variation in what is considered moral or immoral across cultures. A duty in one community may very well be a prohibition in another.

But you don't need to believe in any kind of "permanent ground truth" law in order to "break laws and throw rocks at the police". You merely have to believe that the current laws/administration are acting unjustly according to the local morals of the time and place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
Yes, and those costs are covered already. We're talking about squeezing additional profits out of the product in order to make the shareholders happier.
Show HN: The first hyper-personalised podcast. For the SF tech entrepreneur
We're laying out the infrastructure to get to a point where everyone can choose themes, topic etc and get a hyper personalised podcast delivered in their feed every day. For example you can opt in for World, Tech and SF News, Football scores, a startup story, and a daily book recommendation and you'd find a daily 10' podcast in your feed every day.

I know I'm missing out of ton of details (e.g. what sources will you use, what's the technical implementation etc), but I'm keeping this light and I can answer any questions in the comments. In short, we've been running Hacker News Recap for 6 months and we have confidence we can pull this off.

To test this out, today we're releasing the first Hyper-personalised podcast, as would be assembled by the persona of a Tech Founder/Operator/Engineer that lives in SF. Check it out and please provide feedback both about the particular version but also what you would like to see in the future product.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/Vi5zpB3_qoQ
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HNTddzcgxHoUkpGIA0BGW?si=004baa46bfab4873
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bay-area-bytes/id1712111005
They can be none of that but regular work, just in person except you have the time to bind in person and decide (or not) to share time together after work.

My team is split across several countries, I don't need to see my teammates in person on a daily basis but I like to have the chance to see them once or twice a year and also tackle specific problems, run some workshop together during hackathons and participate in a teambuilding event.
Roundup even sells an "Advanced" formula which is essentially vinegar, salt and a surfactant!

I've used it, it successfully kills what it touches but it doesn't kill the roots.
https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
How long until YouTube figures out how to block all of this stuff like Piped and Invidious etc.?

I feel like a better answer would be alternative platforms.
Well the tap isn't necessarily generic, it's in a specific spot and usually by a specific finger associated with only a few letters. While handwriting is just wiggling your hand a bit for anything you write.

We're sort of like LLMs in the way that we don't really see letters when reading anyway, we just see words or parts of words directly. I would expect writing to be the same conceptually.

If anything I'd more lean towards having to form complete solid thoughts before writing them by hand could be beneficial, while typing lets you go back and correct or reword everything, making the overall memory of it fuzzier.