jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
These companies, and the systems and platforms they own, have not become "the public square" any more than a widely read newspaper, or the only Kinkos in town have. Nor are they utilities.

You're using words and phrases with significant legal implications to characterize things that don't meet the well-understood legal definitions.

I don't think you're being dishonest, but I fear you've been bamboozled by the dishonest arguments of others, and are now parroting them.

I may not like the decisions made by private companies, but private companies doing things I don't like w/r/t hosting speech is preferable to getting state power involved.

I don't like Nazi's marching in Skokie. And I don't like what the right insists of calling "cancel culture". But both of those things are constitutionally protected for good reason, and those rights are worth defending.
The point is that these are security boundaries. Look at all the malware that was being spread by people posting bad Fortnite apks. I posted a Fortnite apk to a forum and I included some of my own custom code. I made a decision to install that on other people’s phones. (I didn’t really do this)

Obviously this is a bit self-serving on Apple’s part - restricting software installs begins to feel like a protection racket. But it still serves as a security perimeter.
One of the most disruptive changes was the master-> something else.

Sure the default is now main. But for a few months teams came up with their own standards. Now when I'm working on large scale changes across many systems I continously have too be aware of these new defaults.

trunk
main
dev
develop
main
prod
Canary
...etc this is time I wish I didn't have to spend. The amount of effort I've had to spend has done nothing to benefit race relationships and of course we still have master branches laying around.
Yes: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-guillotine-ever-failed-since-1...
Which is exactly the point I'm pushing: Who will pay for other's incompetence (or for lack of a better word failure)? Will we simply sweep someone's life under the rug? With regards to the idea that a company will be 'responsible,' just think of Shell and the oil in the gulf. I only want to be held accountable for my own actions, and not be a statistic a corporation sweeps under the rug. The issue is the accountability, and its ability to be exploited, not the actual legal value.
Thats why you only should allow delete, patch and put with a UUID or similar ID. Exactly the same could be said for a DB query not running in a transaction.
Long before you and I were born, people typically only communicated orally. The alphabet wasn't really designed for spontanous communication. Countless emails were misinterpreted before the smiley appeared. But I do agree they are not strictly necessary for a "README" ...
Oh -- do you mean to ask how state/national politics play into San Francisco's housing crisis?

California state law is a big part of the problem: it gives individual cities way too much power to decide what gets built and what doesn't, severely restricting supply. For example, neighborhood associations can filibuster new development into nothingness, even for contradictory reasons like not having enough parking but also not being public-transport friendly enough. Additionally, California has wildly skewed tax law that disincentivizes people from moving or downsizing (look up Prop 13). Add in a lack of public transportation, zoning restrictions, and massive corporate subsidies and you've got a housing crisis brewing.
All the way. It isn’t as if all VPN providers are part of a shadowy cabal to steal your data from an otherwise valuable service; the very premise of commercial VPNs is flawed. Any VPN service is inherently harmful.
If I remember right, the biggest innovation of webOS(other than the at the time especially, amazing card based interface that is so common now) was that its applications at their core were built on web tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with some performance underpinnings to QT

It appears that also lives on!

https://www.webosose.org/docs/guides/development/web-apps/we...

this would have been a very interesting twist of events if this aspect lived on as hardware became more capable especially

I think its safe to say though its going to be relegated to a niche at this point. Though I hope the best for this project
A huge problem is the lack of public toilets. When I first lived there, I got locked out of my apartment and could not find anywhere to go to the bathroom. I had to wait until my roommate got back. If I did not have a place to go back to, what could have I done except poop on the street?
I had a look at Mastodon / Riot and it looked like there was quite an active community there too
> It's like most people lack the ability to simply ignore what they find distasteful.

I don't think that's really it.

First, I will say that I'm not wholly decided on the issue. I think free speech is important, but I also think there are reasonable limitations on that freedom (as with any freedom).

I actively encourage debate. I truly enjoy hearing other people's perspectives and considering things from opposing views. I often find myself changing positions on things because I realize I hadn't thought about an issue in a particular way before. People like me are not so rare, I think (so long as you approach the discussion politely and with manners).

But I believe Facebook (to pick one example) is problematic. That they don't vet political advertisements prior to running them is problematic. That they experiment on people's psyches by manipulating their news feeds is also problematic. That they encourage the formation of echo chambers (for all people) is — you guessed it — problematic. These factors have contributed to an atmosphere of hostility and a lessened desire to listen to opposing view points. People want to hear from other people who think like them, and that's exactly what they get. It radicalizes people (to use a perhaps slightly dramatic term) by exposing them only to notions with which they already agree.

Now getting back to the part of your comment that I quoted.

I do not lack the ability to ignore things I find "distasteful". I ignore Alex Jones and all his conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook. I ignore Flat Earthers, and 911 conspiracists, and other people like them. Interacting with them is not worth my time, and reading their positions never leaves me feeling more enlightened than before I went in.

But I am privileged to not be subjected to some of the things that others are.

To pick another specific example: semi-recent discourse online has contributed to an atmosphere of hostility towards non-white people (at least here in the US where I am). This has real consequences for such people. They find themselves subjected to everything from mild harassment to actual murder.

Suggesting that they should just "ignore" things online which are "distasteful" in this manner is 100% missing the forest for the trees. There is a problem with the fact that people that are violently racist (and I mean "violent" literally) are able to organize and find a platform in the same space as other people. This creates a culture that is unwelcoming and dangerous in a very real sense.

I do believe there is a need for some form of regulation, not because I am unable to ignore things that I do not agree with, but because there are groups of people who must be deprived of their platforms for the benefit of the physical and emotional well-being of others. I do not want everything to be sugar-coated or covered in bubble-wrap, but I do want public platforms to be devoid of open hostility. I don't think that's so much to ask.
Exactly. That's why there's the AI vs. AGI distinction.
I am debating Ordering a pizza right now and I was thinking of putting it in the oven for 2-3minvwhen it got here then store it in a container I have at the house and discard the box as usual.

I see no flaws in this plan.
Go play a wind instrument. Saxophone, Trumpet, Flute. Breath control is very important. As it is for singers.
As I mentioned elsewhere, the fact that big-endian positive integers (and IEEE-754 normalized floats/doubles) sort the same lexographically and numerically is useful. The same goes for UTF-8-like big-endian encodings for variable length integers and ISO 8601-formatted dates / times. It's handy to be able to use memcmp() on compound b+ tree keys.

The advantage works both ways: it's also nice if your normal integer vector instructions can be used to accelerate memcmp, without needing an extra opcode or instruction flag to specifically support parallel lexographical comparison. Note that if the vector units only support signed integers, then you only need an exclusive-or to flip all of the sign bits in order to get lexographical sorting, and that vector exclusive-or has important real-word use cases for hash functions and so-called add-shift-xor encryption algorithms like ChaCha20.

Alternatively, if you're going to include a dedicated lexographical comparison instruction for strcmp/memcmp (like x86 REP CMPS), a fast implementation will need less dedicated circuitry if your processor natively supports big-endian operations for other instructions.

Big-endian use in mainframes likely evolved from big-endian BCD numeric fields on punch card sorting/tabulating machines, where big-endianness was an advantage in that the normal lexographic sorting would put constant-width numeric fields in numerical order.
If Facebook did anything to contribute to the current unrest, it was supporting competing echo chambers that challenge the dominant one. The organic emergence of echo chambers is surely a problem, but let’s not pretend that the corporate-broadcaster world of the past was more virtuous.

I believe that information being freed from top-down control is a necessary process for the improvement of our civilization. The alternative just leads to more corruption, slavery, and death.
I recently reread "hot-tubbing an online community", a classic from 1999 (http://www.calebclark.org/?p=870), which seems very relevant.
This is only slightly on-topic, but regarding the service-oriented architecture that he mentions at the beginning of the article, how would one implement this internal? Specifically, how would you communicate with your internal services? Just an HTTP API? Is that fast enough? Another thing I'm wondering is what's the best way to handle internal authentication between your frontend and some backend service for example? Sorry if this is too specific for this discussion, but I've just always wondered this and I figure that HN knows.
Generally speaking, bandwidth is cheap. You can get an extra 100gb of bandwidth added on to any linode for $10/mo. S3 bandwidth is incredibly cheap at $0.15 per gb for the first 10 terabytes after that it gets cheaper.

More S3 pricing information can be found here (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/)

Using those numbers you can generally figure out how much you would need to charge a user to stay profitable.
I like the mention of the improvisation concept of "yes and" as being a huge influence on her professionally. She describes how this can take good ideas from two people and create something newer and better.

Some of the best collaborators I have had were of the "yes and" attitude while the worst were of the "no but" or "no because" variety.
Love the name. I've definitely taken a matchbook from a place just to remember it
Did this marketing company forget what happened to Cook's Source when they screwed with the little people? The internet doesn't respond kindly to that type of bullying:

http://techland.time.com/2010/11/17/cooks-source-magazine-co...
Off-topic; how did you make the screencast?
Check couple of things:

- Use procmon, not filemon - enable durations.

- Use dependancy walker, load the acrobat executable from there. Check all checkboxes on. Press F7
On a related note, if you want to keep the connections open and get reconnected automatically on disconnection, try this autossh http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

So I have something like

autossh -f -N -R 2222:localhost:22 home -S "none"

at my work machine(put into startup script), so I can always get back to the work machine from home.
To be fair IQ tests would probably be weighted less in relation to other things on the resume than a college degree is relative to other things on the resume.

But since a college degree is perceived as a more raw evaluation of skill/potential skill than an IQ test (which is more speculative as it only evaluates potential and evaluated in a short test), the degree is often given too much weight.

IQ test: speculative evaluation of potential but requires virtually no money/wealth to master. College degree: can/must be bought with (sufficient) money or (semi) inherited (in the case of legacy admissions). Both are bad.
In the relative world of finance, I doubt you could argue anything is definitively "good".
> xx network does not distribute, offer, solicit sales of, or sell any xx coins in any state or jurisdiction

So it's a cryptocurrency scheme?
Example 1:

Dang you admitted yourself to shadow banning me for this post:

https://travelhead.medium.com/amazon-delists-us-again-3c8874...

You claimed this was self-promotional. The article had nothing to do with self promotion and was written as a critique of big tech, which ironically as an SF “big tech” website you appear to be defending by censoring my submission from HN readers.

All I requested was a “fair chance”
to submit my content and get upvoted or downvoted by my peers, which you explicitly forbid by killing the post within 2 minutes and shadow banning me.

In fact, my previous submission on a related topic received 511 upvotes and 267 comments, which was fairly promoted to the first page of HN:

https://travelhead.medium.com/competitor-reported-our-no-buc...

You claimed my new submission was too similar to my previous submission even though it was on a completely different topic.

At what point does Dang (ONE GUY) have too much power and control over what gets seen and distributed to potentially millions of people?

I’ve read over the HN terms, guidelines, rules, and your moderation techniques seem to be completely unjustified. I neither spammed HN, submitted promotional material, used bots, or submitted irrelevant content. Yet my account is treated just as a spammer even though my previous submission had
267 comments and I was interviewed by national media on TV, etc about this exact topic.

Example 2:

Within 5 minutes of submitting this post it gets “FLAGGED” status. Granted, this was probably from the community and not Dang (although I’m not certain). As a community, why is this topic so heavily downvoted and flagged? Why is it controversial to discuss in the open HN’s policies towards content moderation and specifically shadow banning when it’s not clearly disclosed in any terms of service or website policies that are available for the community to read?

Example 3:

After submitting this thread and noticing it was flagged, I attempted to ironically post another submission pointing out this post about moderation was flagged and censored, but my submission was immediately shadow banned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30240159

Essentially what is happening is there is no discussion on the topic of HN censorship and shadow banning policies, any attempt to discuss it results in immediate downvoting and shadow banning, and this all happens under one guys watch, Dang, who everyone trusts to moderate content without any bias across a wide variety of topics that he may or may not agree or disagree with.

However, Dang, I do appreciate you responding to this thread and “unkilling” this thread. This shows me you are attempting to act fairly, although I disagree with your moderation policies and ability to kill topics so quickly which you solely deem irrelevant (To YOU).
Great observation. I don't have a clear answer for this. The relationship between Ivanov and Anthony reflects the power relationship between their respective hedge funds (and later when Feng shows up, Feng > Ivanov > Anthony). Could say that Anthony was responsible for executing Ivanov's plan, so he's blamed when it fails, or that Ivanov is the kind of person who blames everyone but themselves when things go wrong, and Anthony is weak and/or afraid of Ivanov, so he just takes the blame without pushing back. But again, great observation, will try to improve in future drafts.
I'm curious how they coordinate between the transmissions providers as to what gets cut off when and by whom.
An exciting opportunity for anyone to gain experience working at an innovative blockchain company.
Curious to hear about the details once they come out.
It's pretty simple: the interviewing process goes both ways. The company interviews the candidate, the candidate interviews the company.

If you feel that a request is unethical and it's not what you want in a company, well... you - as a candidate - can terminate the interviewing process.
> a lot of that is junk and meaningless. "Dead code", so to speak

... so far as we currently know.

DNA is only mostly software; it's also a physical molecule. Many of the columns in a DRAM chip look like a waste of capacitance until you know what alpha particles are and what ECC does.

> the blind spot in our eyes, which is there for no real reason

It's there for a very good reason, the optic nerve connection. Only cephalopods have figured out a better solution, and it's not at all clear that it would work for humans.

Our eyes have to tolerate a lifetime of much-higher UV exposure than sea-creatures, for starters. Cephalopods' optic nerves grow in from the retina toward the brain, and there's a huge bundle of complicated connections to make where they "meet in the middle". Vertebrate optic nerves grow out from the brain and embed themselves in the retina, so there's no wiring problem to solve.
Any chance you’d consider an ARM64 architecture in the future (like a Broadcom SOC)?
It's super hard to deal with that first refund. Every time I receive a request I get a little bit sad, but it is what it is.

Thank you so much Steve for the kind words.
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I don't think the author is in here, but yeah, he has the platform stuff here: https://github.com/davidgiven/cpmish/tree/master/arch

You would have to add the platform specifics for each one, though it's likely you could borrow from ROMWBW.

Basically ROMWBW focused on supporting newish retroboards, and CP/Mish focused on supporting actual old retro computers like the Kaypro, Brother WP-2450DS, etc.
Not a convincing argument. We wouldn’t have artists if their work could just be copied whenever.
> Only really matters if your only concern is wealth

I don't get this knee-jerk reaction where, if you discuss money, then it immediately must be the only thing you care about. Why can't it just be one element of the equation, along with other usual stuff like weather, food, etc?
I don't remember that Pollyanna public discourse. What would you consider the most shocking Snowden disclosure? None that I'm aware of were that surprising. It was an open secret at the phone companies that TLA folk of one sort or another have been (only sometimes with direct cooperation) plugging mysterious gear into the network for decades. Really astounding that their methods are now targeted at Gmail and Facebook?
It is possible that someone with little dev experience could complete our challenge. We were mostly trying to avoid wasting time: theirs to complete the challenge and ours to review it, if we thought it was extremely unlikely they’d complete it.

However, when I referenced the hypothetical ops guy, I was referring more to a misalignment of goals: someone looking for a job where they’d be doing more devops stuff vs our need for a dedicated developer.

Regarding the hypothetical pascal developer, it really depends on your need. I’ve been in the position to hire bright people who can learn our tool set on the job, and that’s great. I’ve also been in the position where we can’t afford a month or two while a new dev learns our language an framework before they become productive. When in the latter position, it makes sense to weed people you’re not interested in out early.

I would love it if a well-written job description would prevent unqualified people from applying, but my experience has been that it just doesn’t. That’s why some people use fizz buzz (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...). That’s why we used a short phone screen.
Certainly wasn't intended to be a personal attack. I'm not claiming that I don't test my ideas, I'm claiming that I do so in a different way. Rather than testing ideas by running the program, I test my ideas by type checking it.
And anything that obeys those laws is a monad (if I understand correctly).

[Edit: And if the implementing pieces are named correctly.]
The point is staying away from burnout. In my opinion we all have genuine interests in some fields. In my case they are computers.

Over the past few years I have noticed that if I neglect things that truly interest me like building a compiler or reading about automata theory just because I had to do other things (study for finals etc.) my performance drops. It may sound a bit metaphysical; but I think everyone in this world has a purpose in life and we are all suited for different interests. It is important to protect our hacker spirit and our general enthusiasm for life. These words may sound a cliché for depressed person; nevertheless in my own experience they proved to be right.

If you and more importantly your subconscious believe that you are not wasting your time and improving, you will experience joy and satisfaction. It will be much more easier to cope with circumstances and acknowledge the unpredictability of fate. You will naturally show
a genuine interest in everything, because you are supported by a purpose that you believe in.

I have experienced several burnouts and severe depressions; and at times I thought I had lost my faith in computers. But when I embraced them back, it all went away, not at once, but eventually.

Kill your darlings had a wonderful quote on this topic:
"Some things, once you’ve loved them, become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you. They become a part of who you are, or they destroy you."

If you want some philosophical background on this topic I would suggest reading more about Stoicism.

a guide to the good life: the ancient art of stoic joy is an excellent hands-on book about the practical parts of it. -BTW, I discovered it through an HN Post-
Sigh.

Rom in the game emulation world means 'game image'. Along side that, it also refers to the appropriate memmap of the console as the rom executes.

edit: You are a pedant. Your non-comment was insulting and added nothing to the conversation. And yes, I would have said the same thing in real-life. And I have.
The insurance companies get to spend less paying for treatment, and using the tax system gets around the public goods problem which prevents insurers from doing this voluntarily.

That makes no sense. If you put a limit on potential returns by instituting a fixed "X-prize", why would companies continue to invest in R&D? Wouldn't they just pick the cheapest to develop drugs in order to maximize their return?
I've noticed this with websites in Safari recently, the first thing you see is "Allow <site> to send push notifications", and I immediately click no - I just want to read the article!

It's always better to wait to see if someone's interested or just exploring.
that's one of the rationales between a Value Added Tax instead of a sales tax.