jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, point taken - I think most people today, aren't naive enough to take these messages at face value.

As marketeers become more sophisticated, and choose to employ more devious methods of swaying opinion - the ability of the general population to successfully decode these messages improves.

Take a look at some advertising messages from the 50s, or some propaganda posters from the first or second world war - their messages wouldn't hit home today (unless they're served together with a liberal dose of irony).

Audiences become more sophisticated over time.
This is why people will not migrate to Facebook inbox.
wha...?

rape is coercion. good luck on that correlation. if incest is psychologically or physically coerced then it rape as well

incest has a negative physical effect on society as far as i understand it, but i am no expert. it does appear to be a wise for society to ban and even discourage the practice. there is no claim here that all ideas are of equal value. however, it is the expression of the idea which i am discussing, not the value, not the practice.

incest, as you say, may also have negative psychological consequences. however i could make a case that those are because of society, again i am no expert, and that does not diminish the potential social value of discouraging it. in fact i could make the case that despite the big picture problem we're discussing on the individual level the psychological problems induced by over-reactions are a downside to our collective discouragement of the practice. there's no free lunch. and sometimes the lunch costs too much, for example, how many tens of thousands of people are in prison for smoking a herb? society isn't always right (duh). that's why we defend freedom of expression. we don't know what we don't know that we don't know. ;)

again: rape is coercion, and it is expression & not practice or value which i am discussing.

to defend freedom of expression we must defend expression of ideas odious to us (nothing is universally odious). but hey, that's freedom 101, not sure why it needs reminding

and to veer in a different direction: it's also worthwhile to consider that all of the above occur frequently in literature & pulp. i'll venture to guess that rape occurs by far the most. the intellectual age has long passed wherein entertainment containing apparently negative representations of such things can be considered without considering the appetite of the audience. if we make value statements then let's try not be delusional about audience participation (i'm not saying you claim otherwise, just throwing this in the mix)

also: let's not get caught up on blaming the government for oppression, a common thread in all these discussions. amazon doesn't get a free pass by being private. power is power that affects me & you regardless where we shop. the texas board of education censors the ideas available in most american schools via the commercial apparatus of mass production aka efficiency. last i checked i don't live in texas either.
I don't have anything to offer other than sympathy, but I just wanted to thank for this post.

I'm going through exactly the same thing as you, and asking myself the same questions. You're obviously more experienced than me, so it's actually reassuring that this happens to more senior people.
This article skips a very important aspect of these subjects: can they choose a topic and learn it inside and out and not forget it? For example, if they were interested in, say, botany, could they use their fantastic memory to remember detailed characteristics of every plant species they study?

All they seem to remember is what the did on a given day, or who won a sporting event or the weather.
That description actually sounds a lot more like Clojure to me.
It doesn't seem like he needs donations. It sounds like he needs lawyers and paralegals to expand to a proper firm, and it would be self-sustaining.
It depends. Two thoughts:

1: programming is programming. I'm trying to keep it about programming in general, not just Ruby specifically. You can read the lessons here[1], they're written in a simple DSL.

2: Webapps have both a server side and a client side component. I doubt that she'll be starting off with Node.js, eh? It could be because I'm a back-end kinda guy, but I'd rather start with simple, more old-school apps before getting into javascript heavy AJAXy client-side ones. YMMV.

1: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/lesso...
I am going to use your blog post to make the switch over from bash. I've tried zsh 2 times but reverted (can't recall why).

Please keep logging your journey. Also, what are the problems you have faced ? What did not work ? Any bash_profile or bashrc lines you could not convert? Any bash scripts that did not run ?
What this doctor did is amazing. I hope one day in America’s future there’s a time when such amazing gestures are relics of the past because we have care that works for everyone. Other than in cases of smoking or second hand smoke or exposure to other carcinogens nobody willfully seeks out cancer. So the idea that it wouldn’t be covered 100% is just silly to me. Is it 100% covered in places like Germany or the UK or Canada?
These are well-worn fallacies. First, falling prices do not cause hoarding--demand for goods will increase if anything. Mild deflation is actually the sign of a healthy economy, competition, and technological innovation. Just look at the consumer electronics industry. Why do people buy iPads when they know a cheaper and better one will come along in the next couple years? According to your theory, wouldn't they just sit on their money?

The second fallacy is that 'hoarding' (long term saving, in other words) is a problem for an economy. It simply demonstrates a longer term time preference, which is actually necessary for larger and more complex uses of capital which can often take 10-20 years of investment and planning to pay off. It is axiomatic that the only purpose for hoarding cash is to eventually spend it. Trying to eliminate this 'problem' by confiscating wealth through inflation is both short-sighted and immoral.
The problem still exists that you have to provide it the YouTube video to search within, would be nice if there was a tool to search across all of YouTube.
> I am getting paid to get things done in a good manner. If I wanted to have a house built for me, I would not expect to pay somebody and immediately have them start laying bricks without them looking at the land, taking soil samples, sketching up drafts of what the house should look like within the constraints available, and then plan the foundation of which to start building.

In the software world most of those would be accomplished by coding though. You code up prototypes, show them to people, ask questions, test performance, test the different dependencies etc. Making a big design up front as you suggest instead of just coding prototypes is naive and wastes time. It is a good way to look productive to management though, I give you that.
The idea that businesses would forego Facebook because some non-techies find the most powerful ad manager to be difficult to run completely mistakes where the focal point is. Brands need FB more than the other way around.

If Chrome were to remove WebSQL, bosses would have told people to 'run this or else', and you'd have found that every process was scalable with enough human labour.

There were multiple workarounds present. Probably they'd have bought a mac, at worst they'd just have used a 3rd party app until FB fixed this, which wouldn't have taken long with FB's resources. Hardly fatal for anyone.
i like the comic, but it’s more funny if the time passes in the background :)
Industry ripe for YCombinator disruption, anyone? ;~)
E.g. criticise the Orangeman and watch the downvotes pour in. Criticise his opponents, or have some contrarian defence of him, not much happens.
You mean like https://www.cygwin.com/ ?
Does XSS in the description hurt? There's nothing to steal from the /project page and it's not displayed in /admin.
Yubikey supports fido2, piv like this one but also supports openPGP so if you need that it's not a replacement.

It's more open source though. Yubikey open sources some components like that PGP applet but not all.
If Facebook didn't solve 'real' problems then it wouldn't exist. Apple doesn't need Zuckerberg and Facebook doesn't need Jobs.

Both companies to a large degree embody their founders and because of that take wildly different courses of action.

Jobs at Facebook would be a disaster because the company has not been setup in a Jobs-friendly manner.

Both companies are also wildly successful because they avoid design by committee. Facebook is about sharing your information with everyone, it's not the place for privacy nuts. Apple is about delivering the best computing experience possible, it's not the place for tinkerers.

Jobs heading Facebook would be a platypus, it just doesn't make sense. Jobs has been on a roll for a while, maybe Messaging is Zuckerberg's Newton. Maybe it isn't. Calling it on the first day is something I would not do.
Personally, since we're in PG's House I chose to filter out the actual content and focus on the pretty sweet visualization.

As an awesome UI for navigating large datasets where context and metadata edges of the graph are more relevant and useful than the nodes

Of course, that's always been known at Google (we just don't think of PageRank and AdRank/Quality Score as edge operators since GOOG has been our primary mode of edge traversal for at least a decade)
Apple or Google, or the ones who contact them like Flipagram here, should not be responsible for determining whether content is illegal or not.

As far as I know, only the judicial branch of sovereign states are supposed to do that, even though these days it seems like everyone wants to circumvent it... and then whine when they are the ones on the wrong side of such a para-legal action because they don't deem it legitimate.
I don't understand the advantage of using handwritten function instead of the
shell builtins.
The `mark` function could be replaced by `alias -g`, `jump` could be replaced
by `cd` and `unmark` could be replaced by `unalias` :

% cd ~/Dev/W3/m-r-r.github.io
% alias -g :blog="$PWD"
% jekyll build -d /tmp/out/ && cd /tmp/out
% ./index.html
% cd :blog
% pwd
/home/m-r-r/Dev/W3/m-r-r.github.io
% alias -g
:blog='/home/m-r-r/Dev/W3/m-r-r.github.io'
:dev='/home/m-r-r/Dev'
:c='/home/m-r-r/Dev/C'
:python='/home/m-r-r/Dev/Python'
:vim='/home/m-r-r/.vim'

In addition, this method works with any shell command:

% pwd
/tmp/out
% make -C :blog publish
% git clone git://git.complang.org/ragel.git `echo :c`/ragel
% vim `echo :vim`/templates/\*.rl

On the other side, the aliases are not saved at exit unless you write a function
to do it:

% tail -n 15 ~/.zshrc
function aliases {
(
alias -L -r
alias -L -g
alias -L -s
) | uniq
}

function save-aliases {
aliases > ~/.zsh_aliases
}

if [ -f ~/.zsh_aliases ]; then
. ~/.zsh_aliases
fi
Shel Silverstein [0] has been on my bookshelf. I enjoyed reading Falling Up [1] as a way to help my kids understand that poetry is more than rhyming.

From The Little Boy And the Old Man [2]:

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."

Said the old man, "I do that too."

The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."

"I do that too," laughed the little old man.

Said the little boy, "I often cry."

The old man nodded, "So do I."

"But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."

And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. "I know what you mean," said the little old man.

[0] http://www.shelsilverstein.com/

[1] http://www.shelsilverstein.com/books/falling/

[2] http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poems/best/shel_silverstein
> Journalists and researchers will need to devise ways to understand the complexities of scope and impact

This article talks about misinformation and then recommends journalists be part of the solution. Isn't poor journalism exactly how we got here?
Absolutely. It is the digital version of a gold dealer where you go to exchange your currency for local money. Imagine you travel to Vietnam, you can get local currency from your ATM and get a terrible rate... or you can take USD to a gold dealer and buy the local currency "on the black market". They give you a rate, take a cut, use it to hedge against their gold. Almost always a better rate than the banks.

Now it is happening online for people who want to say switch between various ETH tokens. This is what DeFi is all about. $20b is locked up into this stuff already and growing. Things are moving insanely fast.

If you want to dip into the more regulated version (CeFi), take a look at BlockFi or Celsius.
Here's some good write-ups. There's more to money than supply.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp#:~:text=Ve....
No offense, but I don’t think you understand the gravity of what happened. The fact that a mob of people, attempted to overturn the results of an election, is in itself a pretty serious event. That they were unlikely to succeed doesn’t cancel out the fact that they could have easily started a shootout with Congress people inside, that law enforcement seemed so unprepared to deal with a situation that had been telegraphed for so long, that as the article points out this has serious infosec implications, and that the sitting president of the US helped instigate an attempted coup.
If I'm being optimistic, the hashes of a user's contacts are salted with the user's own phone number, so the space could be 10^18.
I would like to switch to any of these, but my family members don't use any of these.
What would "success" even mean for a currency? I don't hear of many people actually spending it, although I'm sure some do. But it feels like it has devolved into nothing but an asset for trading, with literally nothing backing it.

There will be people who find success in trading it. If it keeps getting bigger, institutional investors and governments may play. But does that make Bitcoin itself a success? Or is it just another playground for rich people to get richer?
> stacktraces are better than common lisp's

Stack traces are not standardized in Common Lisp, so this is a non-sensical statement. At worst you could say that Python's stack traces are better than some particular CL implementation, but not CL in general.

And almost certainly, if you don't like the way your CL presents stack traces, you can easily change it.
Seems a bit reductionist of the concept of privilege because everything becomes privilege as there is someone who has experienced worse with few options. For an extreme example, dying with cancer becomes a privilege compared to someone who loses their life immediately in an accident. Only one of those two has a chance to say goodbye as well as prepare their friends and family.
> It's work to run/manage a server: find a hosting provider

I'm thinking it might be time to accept that 'we', hackers/nerds/technically inclined individuals/early adopters, start 'selling' and providing these services for our families and friends.

Assuming you are involved with communick: I like the idea of, but I am not sold on moving my communications etc to some random llc. Especially with as little information as there is on the website, I'm having trouble trusting that. I would not send my friend and family there tbh.
This would be a neat reinforcement learning project.

> Some places the drivers are so polite to the point it really makes things dangerous

I've known people like this, who will approach a 4-way intersection and stop even when they don't have a stop sign and the perpendicular street does.
Considering how easy it is to take quotes out of context, your comment that doesn't provide a source, a direct quote, or context only really serves to start a flamewar.

Perhaps this type of rhetoric should stay on Reddit and Facebook.
And yet I still couldn't use the fingerprint reader in one of my laptops because Apple bought the supplier. Driver updates stopped soon thereafter, sadly right around the time of a major Windows release and my reader was SOL.
We are using PHP and thus no connection pools at all. This definitely doesn't help us with speed. With public IP there was some mystery point that just slowed everything to a crawl.

MySQL for our DB.
Orion has considered this problem... :)

https://www.amazon.com/Orion-2x54-Ultra-Angle-Binoculars/dp/...
In image processing we often call those "binomial filters" due to this binomial distribution / Pascal triangle connection. Cool thing is that they both a) sum up to powers of 2, making the normalization divisions in fixed point super efficient - just bit shift! b) due to central limit theorem, they approximate Gaussian better and better.
Very useful tool in image processing, especially on DSPs where fixed point / shorter integer arithmetic might be faster or wider vector sizes than floats.
Facebook buys data from data brokers, but does not share data with data brokers.
You had to give money before you were able to receive money... Sorry, that seems like a classic pyramid scheme.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a single B2B company that isn't a pyramid scheme, by that definition. Pretty much everyone spends money in order to make money. Easy example: before I can build and sell my widgets, I need to buy the parts for them.
YC does? they record the interviews, I thought.
Then it should at least be scaled by the probability of actually converting to a sale...
She never actually got to the point of paying for it. Call a hotel, make a reservation, then don't show up. Does the hotel come after you for the money?

If they do, they would use the court system, they wouldn't use a well known con to recoup their loss.
Anyone have a non-Scribd copy (if permissible)?

P.S. When did "Don't" enter the French language (p 42)?
Google Analytics provides resolution and colour depth info.
It's not fraud, it's promissory estoppel.
There's an HNer writing a book on this very topic based on soke blog posts they wrote. I can't remember who it is, alas, but hopefully this will remind someone who can follow up with some links..
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This is the same con used in the classic three card monty.
What if we all plant 2 trees each in our lifetime?
Property rights are based on the premise that I cannot take what you have. Police are there to enforce this limit.

Jury trials prevent unfair convictions being levied by the government. Jurors enforce this limit.

Speedy trials prevent unjust imprisonment without trial being forced upon an individual.

The right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure is there to limit the government's invasion of a citizens property and life.

The right to face your accuser limits people's ability to make false accusations against others.

All of these are obvious limitations upon others. Yes, they require people to enforce them, but the net result is less action, not more.

Providing internet access or clean water is adding something not previously inherent to the system as opposed to preventing what is not part of that system (theft, false imprisonment, etc.)

I'm surprised that this difference need be pointed out.

edit: As a side note, anybody that avoids jury duty or regrets the necessity of safeguarding a fellow citizen's rights should be ashamed and spend some serious time in reflection on why we conduct jury trials.
PR China is a dictatorship. There are no longer totalitarian, since Mao died.
What I want is the ability to sync my work and home browser profiles into distinct remote storage. At the moment, you get one sync profile per GMail login. Nor is it like XMarks, where you can tell it to pick and choose which folders to send.
Pft. My 5 year-old Peugeot 206 averages 60 mpg.
It's a great example that you brought up, dekulakization, because it illustrates exactly my point.
Pre-Soviet Russia was indeed an atrociously brutal an unjust place to live. Is it any wonder that resentment and revolt ensued, and that people exploded in a murderous rage? Not good, but very understandable. Maybe if the Czars had actually worked towards a more equal society instead of crushing millions of peasants under their yoke there wouldn't have been a dramatic reaction to the state of affairs, don't you think?

Likewise today: improvements in quality of life have stagnated in huge parts of the world, wages are falling in real terms, inequality rises to Gilded Age levels, democracy is backsliding. Is it any wonder there is "resentment"?
It is quite common for people with a post-secondary
education to think that they have fundamentally better
critical-thinking skills and are much less prone to
propaganda, just because they have sat in lecture halls
for 4–9 years

sigh.

There's no way to be clear enough against somebody with a bad-faith agenda.

It's pretty clear you want folks with postsecondary education to disdain those without it.

Perhaps you had a bad experience with education, perhaps it simply feels good to you to tee off on perceived elitism -- whether it actually exists or not. You wouldn't be the first. Some people just get off on that underdog angle.

I regret to inform you that I do not think that postsecondary education automatically makes anybody better than anybody else at any particular thing, and few do, and I've not said such a thing ever. Do I think there's a positive correlation between like, education and critical thinking skills? Yeah, sure. I'd also agree that universities turn out plenty of idiots, and of course some education sucks and can be worse than none at all, and that at best formal education is just one component of being a well-rounded person. All hail the autodidact.
I’d say that another constant is the belief that living in a place for a certain period of time confers a sense of ownership over a city, along with the right to decide who should and should not live there.

You obviously see that in states where Californians are moving, but you even see that in California against those who moved there recently for a job.

Frankly I find it completely bizarre.
> Why hire a $100K Midwest US engineer when you can hire two good international engineers for the same salary and not have to pay for their health insurance?

As I mentioned in another comment on this thread, engineer salaries are bimodal. I believe this is because labor demand is bimodal. It sounds the company you are describing has this hiring philosophy: we prefer to hire as many mode 1 engineers as we can for the dollar. However, there are also companies that have a counterparty hiring philosophy: we would rather have a smaller, more mode-2 engineer centric organization than a larger more mode-1 engineer centric organization.

What's more, I've noticed that the small, more deliberately leveraged organizations have a strong bias towards the latter hiring philosophy, because it applies not just to their technology divisions, but to the organization as a whole. In finance, it's the boutiques; in technology, it's the startups. Large companies that are able to maintain mode-2 centric culture exist, but generally only when they have high-profit revenue based on R&D.
>having your tally of meaningless internet points decrease

When you're flagged dead, you effectively disappear. This is wrong in my opinion.