skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My career has jumped between startups and FAANG-likes. All the wealth I ever built up was from stock options at the FAANG-likes. I've never made anything from the startups.

But the jump-steps in career advancement came from the startups. There's where I had huge opportunities to learn and grow and do new things. I learned and grew a lot at the FAANGs too (except Amazon), but the huge jumps came from startups.

In my n=1, FAANG-like stock options are the best way to grow your wealth.
I always wonder how chemists make compounds that are colorless. For example, most shaving cream contains lots of chemical components, yet is completely white. If I would mix even a small number of random chemical components the result would certainly not be white (probably closer to brown). Perhaps someone can explain how this works from an engineering perspective.

(And also interesting in this context are odorless compounds).
Is that a thing here? I have felt like I was being stalked and/or downvoted systematically by some BS algorithm.
And yet the discussion can go beyond that.
Bypass Paywalls Clean has moved here btw, https://github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories
To be fair, it seems like the cloud development environment choice was driven by the scale of Stripe's organization.
After years of similar issues, why are you giving them the benefit of the doubt? Especially if they won't explain what the issue is and gave out such ludicrous advice to the OP?
How does a 1-bit serial computer actually work? E.g. how does an ADD operation look like? It's a bit hard to picture.
The article states that the system was cooled using a solution of sodium chromate to inhibit corrosion. However the wiki page of sodium chromate states that it is very corrosive. Is it a typo or something?

Chromates are effective corrosion inhibitors for aluminum alloys and some other metals. Here's a brief article about how they work with aluminum:

"Inhibition of Aluminum Alloy Corrosion by Chromates"

https://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/wtr/wtr01/IF12-01-P...

When the Wikipedia entry's "Safety" section says that sodium chromate is corrosive, in context it means "destructive to human tissue by contact." That is, like sodium hydroxide (lye) and many other chemicals, in concentrated form it can destroy skin and eyes.
Next-generation IDM: managing identities for people (2019) [video]
> set the user agent header to the googlebot one

Also, how effective is this really? Don’t the big news sites check the IP address of the user agents that claim to be GoogleBot?
I'm curious about the # of svc's / stack / company / team size --
if you have your own blog -- would love to read it when you publish

could be a cool lightning talk (or part of something longer)

maybe it's a good piece for https://nixinthewild.com/ ?

I'm @capileigh on twitter and hachyderm.io if you wanna reach out separately -- here is good tho too
Since removing the office from my life, I think I spend more time at home and more time in social spaces. Meaning, obviously I spend an extra eight hours a day at home, but I also go out more than I used to. When I worked in an office and commuted every day, I was so exhausted after work that I didn't want to do anything at night, and weekends were for recharging my battery for week to come. Now that I don't have to deal with that, I have a lot more motivation to go out and do fun stuff. The last five years have been the most active and happy time of my adult life. Probably not true for everyone, but true for me.
Or before trying to do it all including a bellyflop
If you can't get to create jobs using AI, why do you think people will create them for you? What revolution is this one that someone sold you?
Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?
Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill
Hello HN,

This is a macOS app that allows you to see all your open windows on each monitor and select the one you want.

It also lets you view the current state of things like email or chat windows, terminal processes, and more.

You can use "cmd" and the key above the tab key for alt-tab like behaviour.

You can also toggle the UI by resting a finger on the corner of your trackpad.

I also wrote some dev details here:

https://madebyenzo.com/#robata
Well, that was as clear as mud.
I think a big problem is that people seem to think of development as either "waterfall" or "scrum", with a gradient between the two. Being strictly on either side is seen as bad, and being a blend of waterfall-agile is bad too. All I can think of is to throw both out the window and figure out a different set of metrics to prioritize, other than the business-driven Time-To-Deploy-And-We-Make-Profit.

I don't have a perfect solution, but the best one I've implemented so far works only in small teams, and is effectively Kanban-driven development. I try to stay close to The Toyota Way, which I learned while working in medical device (where they, like aerospace, draw a lot of inspiration from our industrial engineering forefathers).

I guess my solution is - create many small teams, let them implement "lightweight scrum" where the Kanban board is the main discussion point every day. What tasks are pending, what's next, what is stuck? And finally, let the small teams throw away anything they don't like, including the board, as long as they meet their deliverables defined by the broader team.

Is this too Scrum-y still? Maybe. But Scrum has lost its way and its time to just return to the basics and implement stuff that's worked for decades in other industries. Software Engineering had its chance to play around and re-invent the wheel, going all the way back to Fred Brooks Mythical Man-Month. The industry has had 50 years to get its shit together, which is an absolute eternity and inexcusable for how shitty a state of affairs we have now, in terms of program management philosophies. Frankly I'm interested in just using the original wheel at this point, where we assign tasks to teams and estimate them USING REAL TIME ESTIMATES (not story points like we are fucking fairy tales).

I care more about making high-quality software and less about management philosophies these days.

More about my rant here - https://www.ashwinsundar.com/story-points-stupid/
> most publications are often available for free via public library.

Via public library in the USA. Other countries exist and as far as I’ve gathered aren’t typically given this level of free access.
Experienced Engineering Managers Use Triage, Advocacy and Implementation
Its not just the tv manufactures...

NBC ran commercials during Olympic completion, shrinking the competition into the corner and they also ran 2-3 second ads during the program, too fast for you to skip.
Hockey is placing continual advertising with rotating animations on the dasherboards and the ice surface.
Youtube is placing much longer non-skippable ads into content displayed on smart tvs versus mobile or web browser.
HGTV has raised the art of the in program ad popup to a whole new level in terms of frequency and size, even shrinking the current program while placing ads on the left and bottom border.
> Soon thereafter I imagine that we have a runaway cascade and everyone is "compromised".

The web isn't as well woven as it used to be. They'll just harm a bunch of innocent people, not numerous enough for the public at large to even notice.
> Do you take any stand at all with regard to the conflict surrounding Jerusalem

My opinions on various geopolitical conflicts should have nothing to do with what Cascading Styling Sheets programming code I am writing.
Turning to Pair Design (2014)
Very rarely works.
> Why would you ever trust something like this that will helpfully pull images from the internet?

How is that different than pulling an ISO image of your favorite distro, or using a package manager like apt?

Yes, I know that Linux ISOs have checksums and apt uses digital signatures, but so does iPXE. The only difference here would be that for some reason you trust the websites of your Linux distro vendor, but not netboot.xyz?
lol, this so true and it keeps from visiting certain places. You just know it's going to be either circling around for 20 minutes or more trying to find parking, or parking really far away and then having to carry everything to the beach which may not even be possible to do on a single trip.
I'm in the US. I've spent time visiting in Canada recently as well.

Everything in your list is stuff I experienced in most of the parts of Canada I visited. Not all though, for instance it wasn't like that in the parts of Mississauga I visited. And everything in your list is stuff I experience regularly in the US, in the parts I've lived in.
Curtis Yarvin has returned to Urbit
There's probably something to be said for getting an old laptop just to use for that stuff with a made up identity on, and nothing of your real identity on that machine. Then connect to the web in some random internet cafe, maybe use tor, get a hotmail account, and maybe a regular free blogging account like wordpress.com.

Be careful to have nothing in common in terms of usernames, passwords etc with your normal identity.

If you look how other people got caught it was often things like reusing a name from their other identity like with Ross Albright

>Investigators were given a major break when, eight months later, “Altoid” made another posting on Bitcoin Talk, stating he was looking for “an IT pro in the Bitcoin community” to hire in connection with “a venture backed Bitcoin startup company.” The posting asked interested parties to contact rossulbricht@gmail.com.

And Satoshi seems to have used his real birthday on a forum and some other things.
I'm curious about the feasibility of modulating light onto a solar panel. I feel it would not be feasible, except possibly onto a single panel at a time over a long time period. Just a gut feeling based off radio stuff (GPS).
Which directs you to https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads which is not ideal...
Late Again
You can see the Starbucks and grocery store from my cousin's house in some new suburbs they copy and paste around Texas, but it takes 30 minutes to walk to it because you have to snake back to the single entrance and then double back along the highway.

Unless you want to hop a fence and walk through a ditch, which I did, to get there in 3 minutes. And there's certainly no path along the highway to ride your bike.

So depressing especially once you've left the US and have seen how much better we could design our lives.
Endless comments, text and gibberish when the answer is just the smartphone.
I'm mostly in agreement with ya. I've always been big into the outdoors as it's what truly allows me to recharge. Fishing/hiking/hunting/mountainbiking, etc. All of it is good for the soul. As the kids have gotten older I've been able to get them out in the same activities. In my house 8/10 times we are outside doing outdoorsy stuff, while the other 20% is gaming.

The type/quality of the games definitely matters IMO. My six year old really enjoys DCS World and Kerbel Space program. Roblox is a total no go in my house, but I rarely deny my kid from wanting to land a jet or build a rocket.
What politics of today in any way fit with a 500 story about a magical Monkey fighting monsters? I just want a compelling game, no one is going to change their politics suddenly after playing a magical monkey game. For politics there is a time and a place, do you think there should be political messaging in Banana bread recipes as well?
Couple of things you can check:

1. See if VirusTotal lists your site (including subdomains, app.domain and www.domain, etc): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

If wrongly flagged, reach out to each security vendor manually - takes about 3-5 days to get them to rescan manually and remove any flags.

2. Check for any dodgy javascript libraries you might inadvertently be using. Specifically, just remove all non-relevant JS until you get approved, then you can slowly add them back in if really needed.

Super frustrating that Google has this much power, and totally ridiculous they want you to switch to .com (pretty sure that's an outsourced CS worker giving you a random suggestion).
When using a userspace stack you can (and should!) optimize your program during and after link to put hot code together on same/nearby lines and pages. You cannot do this or anything approximating this between an application and the Linux kernel. When Linux is built the linker doesn't know which parts of its sprawling network stack are hot or cold.
I just removed tailwind from a big project (~20k lines) and it was so easy while improving DX, bundle size, etc. I used to love tailwind but that was just me not knowing enough CSS.
You might want to look at media converters.

e.g. https://www.fs.com/products/96396.html?now_cid=1037

I use a pair to isolate my cable-modem from the rest of my network, to the extent possible. I once lost a modem and a Unifi USG (thankfully only that) to a lightning strike. Now with the media converters, hopefully it's only a modem and a converter.
Does this resonate with you "I feel more alone around others than being by myself"?

Loneliness != being alone
No, your point was clearly stated:

> But the security argument? Yeah, that ship has sailed. Total war, means total war.

Those are your words.

I'm saying, focusing on total war is irresponsible and leads you to draw false conclusions. In the real world, limited conflicts are what we're dealing with 99.9+% of the time, thank goodness.

And now in your new comment, for some reason you're focusing on "plausible deniability" which is another red herring. If China wants to disrupt Europe's grid, it doesn't care about plausible deniability -- the entire point is to publicly retaliatiate. It just needs to do it, as easily as possible. The idea that relying on a cloud vulnerability "doesn't make a list of your top 10 options" doesn't make any sense at all. It might very well be the #1 option, or one of three tactics employed simultaneously.
Google IPO banker tracks two-decade journey from Silicon Valley upstart to $2T
Your domain has a 20+ year ownership history. Are you the first owner? The suggestion that you switch to .com could be a subtle way to tell you that your domain has a bad reputation that cannot be fixed. Once Google thinks a domain is bad, it’s hard to change their mind. If you’re not the first owner, you don’t know what the previous owners did using the domain.
While I agree in principle here are some commands that help:

- df -h /

- ip -brief a s

- mount -t ext4 (or whatever you usually are using)
I feel like at this point, browsers should at least not prefer text/html if "open image in new tab" or similar is used.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220522184048/https://input.clu...
You can use the data collected from hobbyist ground stations and displayed at https://sondehub.org/ to track them while in the air.
Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB RAM now available for $50
> the city zoning laws means there's no corner cafe, bakery, or small-scale store like there really ought to be

So basically we actively reject the lifestyle of European towns, or the life style of early 20th century of the US. I wonder why that is good for the city in any way.
Brother if you are going to spam your project everyday, do the minimum effort of buying a proper domain. Spamming this halfass project with multiple accounts won't do you any good.
This is 100% true in the US because nearly everything is commercialized and built to create profit for someone. Third spaces resolves this, but there aren't many of those around if you exclude local parks.
It’s a fair point that the internet and in particular civilian watchdogs on said internet have given us great tools in the fight for transparency but it can also be argued that the internet and its anonymous nature has created a whole new kind of misinformation/propaganda problem which governments are exploiting other (and many times their own) citizenry. This lessens the impact of the previously mentioned transparency boons and imo strengthens the idea that you can never trust government.
Ran into the same issue when I purchased a .ml domain (naively not looking into why .ml is such a cheap TLD to buy good names for, it has a super high spam risk). Purchased a different .com domain and haven't had any issues since. I didn't change content or anything, besides changing the domains in all of my links, and the same google ad campaigns and workspace for the new URL were able to be created without issue.
Ironically, the 1970 Waterfall paper proposed a better alternative (that was mostly ignored).
Do you have any plans to write about World War 2 era mechanical firing computers? I searched your blog but didn't see anything.

Or maybe early RADAR systems of 1942 and later?

(been reading about WW2 Pacific naval/air wars, and I am curious about these new-at-the-time technologies)
Real Fake: guess which startups are real vs. AI generated
^ This describes my experience as well. And there are certain outlets where I'll read an interesting article if someone links it, but don't want to give them money due to my objection with <xyz> editorial practices.
Sodium chromate is highly corrosive to humans (as well as carcinogenic, see the movie Erin Brockovich). However, it inhibits corrosion in metal, acting as a passivating inhibitor, forming some sort of protective oxide.

I've been doing a lot of research on the impact of Minuteman and Apollo on the IC industry (which led to the current post). The Air Force likes to take credit for the IC industry, as does NASA, but the actual influence is debatable. My take is that both projects had a large impact on the IC industry, more from Minuteman. However, even in the absence of both projects, there was a lot of interest and demand for ICs. If I had to take a quantitative guess, I'd say that those projects advanced ICs by maybe a year, but the basic trajectory would have remained the same.
Indeed, this is a saddening development. Especially as people get older and need to interact with people they know socially on a frequent basis.

This reminds me of one of the best cities I’ve ever been on, Brasília. Literally every block is build to be walkable as a small condo and have its own cottage businesses like the so-called “padarias” (Brazilian bakeries), grocers, etc. And all condos/blocks have some amenities like multi-sports court. A unique feature in Brazil (perhaps in all of Latin America) is that all buildings are walkable in the ground floor, meaning that it’s all open spaces and you can actually see kids playing in their building or region. Very lovely.
Thanks, that's very interesting. Does Top Gear have a similar long term review for a Tesla model (with the average efficiency calculated over something like the 10,000 miles in the Toyota review and presumably with the same group of drivers/environmental conditions/mix of highway/city driving)? You are correct that the 2.7 miles/kwh is low. But I suppose it isn't too far off the EPA estimate of 107 MPGe (highway rating), which would be 3.175 miles/kwh.
Which similar issue? The other people who were hosting malware who didn't realize it?
Is there a way to pay for journalistic content that doesn't involve participating in the extensive tracking that those websites perform on their visitors?

I love to read the news but I don't love that the news reads me.
This is sort of true, but it's common for engineering management to force Scum on their engineers. It's not being forced by a VP but it is still forced.
I was one of those people. Or months at least along with a group of my high school friends. Most of the infocom games took between a few weeks to a few months of obsessive game play to get through & we played them all.
1. What are the alternatives?
2. Can you explain why chargebacks are not the play in most cases?
DHS Considering Tracking Migrant Minors with Facial Recognition Tech
The original title was:

> DHS: We May Start Tracking Minors With Facial Recognition Tech; Also DHS: No, We Won’t

It took me a long time to settle on a title which would fit the character limit.
I think this is the next sequel to the movie "Her".

You bring up a good point though. Very dystopian idea of a new type of enterprise tooling that emerges to soothe and calibrate human knowledge workers. Very Severance Wellness room.
I planned to write about the electromechanical Torpedo Data Computer used in WWII, but I got distracted.
So wordy. What was his prediction? I still don't know what he's talking about.
It looks like you still have rrweb running. Have you tried removing that?
Programs like this and VCV Rack are great ways to get started on the road to building your own modular synthesizer [1]. Many of the modules in the program are based on real hardware, and while the hardware versions of these modules can cost hundreds of dollars, the software versions are using the exact same firmware. Whether you stay virtual or go out and build the hardware equivalent of your rack, it's a great way to experiment and learn the basics at a lower cost than in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer
I was recently reflecting on how I love seeing live theater productions, but hate going to movie theaters to see movies. In principle it seems like they should be relatively comparable?

LOUD was definitely one of the first things I thought of. I don't feel like I need to bring ear plugs to make watching a play comfortable.

Intermissions are another. It's nice to have an opportunity to stand up and stretch my legs, maybe take a bathroom break, chat with my partner about the story so far, all without missing anything or bothering other people.

I think, though, that concessions are the other big one. Stage theaters don't have sticky floors, they don't reek of popcorn, you don't have the person behind you chewing with their mouth open so loudly you can somehow hear it above the aforementioned exceptionally loud volume, etc.
Spine is cool, but I find it ridiculous for more and more tool software for games to force Enterprise licenses, rev share, etc onto developers.

>Businesses with more than $500,000 USD annual revenue require a Spine Enterprise license
"Agile" is so vague, I don't even know what people mean when they're talking about it. It's like trying to talk about socialism or feminism - huge, nebulous terms and everybody has their own definition.

I feel they are almost never ever talking about the original Agile Manifesto, which is pretty minimal. It's more of a rejection of "waterfall" than it is a set of actual practices: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

When people hate "Agile" my experience is that they are generally talking about Scrum, or some ad-hoc derivative of it as seen at many companies.
Hence “ymmv” (your mileage may vary) ;)
Scientist performs the first nonlinear study of black hole mimickers
A tale as old as time, hahaha
This. Zoning and car-centric life are endogenous. I would even add NIMBYism w.r.t. adding public transportation stops or bicycle lanes.
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need

God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
I'm most blown away just by the very existence of lenticular sheets -- I didn't know that this was a general-purpose thing that you could do at home Years ago I paid for a 3d lenticular photo print but I always assumed the technology to do so was out of my reach.
CBOR is a schema-less binary format. JSON BinPack supports both schema-less (like CBOR) and schema-driven (with JSON Schema) modes. Even on the schema-less mode, JSON BinPack is more space-efficient than CBOR. See https://benchmark.sourcemeta.com for a live benchmark and https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799 for a more detailed academic benchmark
> mpv

can you please explain what you mean with this acronym?

EDIT:
this seems to correspond to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer
This. 12ft has never ever worked for me.
New eccentric brown dwarf discovered