jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I feel like AI is pointed AT us rather than working FOR / WITH us more often than not.

That's not AI, that's capitalism. It's not profitable to use AI for wholesome and healthy things for people, so nobody does. It's more profitable to cram advertisements into every corner of our life, it's more profitable to mine our personal information and personal friend networks, it's more profitable to sell us a service instead of a tool. The next time you're upset at how technology is being used, think about who benefits and what their politics are, because everything is political.
This is nothing new, "static" software with yearly licenses has always been around and if anything it's a guarantee that bugs will get fixed, features will get added and your data won't be sold to third parties.
I honestly don’t see the issue. They picked a crypto coin with a much faster transaction settling time than the alternatives you mentioned, and they’re explicitly discouraging people from using it to store wealth.
It sounds like your frustration is with people who should be doing more work than they are. I'm not sure that OP is looking for a job where they can wriggle out of responsibilities. It may be they are just looking for a job where the responsibilities are minimal to begin with, which doesn't seem unreasonable to me. If OP can fulfill the requirements of a job and someone wants to hire them, who cares?

Also, I don't like the implication in your third paragraph that people who aren't working at full capacity are "wasting their time." There's more to life than work. The suggestion that undermotivated people start their own company seems particularly egregious. Seems like starting a company requires more motivation than working other jobs, not less.
If you want my advice, it is simply this: look for dysfunctional companies. They're easy to recognize, because they look like pretty much the opposite of those companies everybody really want to work at.

Take everything you see from a website like Elastic[1] for example and invert it:

- It should NOT be clear what the value proposition is.

- The website should NOT adhere to modern design standards, or at least do so very poorly.

- Bonus points for lots of unnecessary, buzz-heavy text that does not give any further indication of what the product/service offers.

Just look for any remote developer job via linkedin or any other place recruiters frequent and just invert what seems to be a "good" job and look for that instead. Approach it with your current attitude (maybe not in the actual interview) and assume that you probably won't even want to add it to your resume.

I think you won't have any problem finding a role where you can get away with this: how it will affect your mental health is another question, but that's for you to find out. If you ever want to bail out, you can just drop it and fill this gap period with something else in your resume, like whatever hobbies you were busy with.

For the record, I think the incredulity in some of these responses is pretty hilarious. 99,9 % of companies do not care about your well being as a person, by choosing this attitude you're really just treating them the way they are already treating you: a disposable business partner that will be removed from the equation as soon as they are no longer beneficial for you.

[1]: https://www.elastic.co/
That's a bit more than just 'go underground'. I've seen people dig for cables but I've never seen them dig a hole 15m deep.
It's funny to see the guy thinking you were depressed. You seem actually very excited to myself, not just excited about some boring coding job like most of the people in HN are.

Wish you success in that endeavour!
Which has benefit so that you can see past messages. This why I think Telegram is a perfect place for hosting public groups chat (like an IRC but with better usability).
And compatibility was big reason why Windows 95 was a success.
>setting up periodic purges, archives, and such, usually gets pushed to another phase.... which may never come.

Isn't that where security compliance programs come into play? I think someone doing their due diligence in asking, "What is the business justification for storing building access logs indefinitely" would have been able to create a procedure for addressing the storage of these types of things.
"Chuckie Egg" was my introduction to hacking.

I wrote an assembler program to load the game from tape, disassemble the code and overwrite the instruction that decremented the life count.

The inline assembler in BBC Basic was an incredible feature. I wish more systems today had the same mix of high-level and bare-metal.
sorry, meant to say revenue GROWTH has been declining.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/31/probeat-slowing-aws-micro...
>Uyghurs (mostly on Chinese social media) pushing back against the charge of “genocide” by US politicians and Western media. Some of them are even laughing at the absurdity of it.

I see these kind of strange examples posted. Like you posted, and others usually involve travel stories where the person was supposedly in the region and "didn't see anything".

The general idea here is that the oppression has reached the level of genocide... with that in mind:

Are people supposed to find an oppressed people showing up on video convincing of anything? Is the opposite even possible from inside China?

Does anyone find hostage videos convincing?

Is "laughing at the absurdity of it" supposed to convince people of something?
Over-engineering always fails.
More like Xi Jinping and the coterie have no opposition and have gone of the deep end.
Evergreen point that if users actually wanted this tracking, if they actually believed that ads and tracking made their timelines better, then they would say "yes" when asked if they wanted to be tracked.

Apple's change doesn't make tracking opt-in or opt-out, it forces users to make a choice, with both choices being equally easy to make. It's a perfect compromise between default privacy and default tracking -- presenting the user with an unskipable dialog that makes sure that neither option is buried in a setting someplace, that presents both options on equal terms.

So Facebook wants to argue that it's a worse experience for consumers if they're not being tracked, but the truth is that they know a large portion of users don't want the experience that Facebook is offering. That's why Facebook is scared. Not because Apple is bullying users into being private, not because (in this case) they're attacking the Open web, but because Facebook knows that when users are presented with a clear choice that makes it equally easy to opt into or out of tracking, they choose to opt out.

Advertisers are always saying that people want what they're offering. But they are so stinking scared about being asked to prove it.
...whatever happened in Africa...(tumbleweed rolls by)
Source for this please? Interested to read more.
No one can force someone to take a vaccine - but the government can prevent people - or segments of the population - from taking it. By preventing one group taking it, due to health concerns, it may increase the spread of the disease in other more vulnerable groups. Preventing deaths in one group that result in more in another. I guess this is essentially a trolly problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
"T-SQL" - in reality, everyone just refers to it as SQL Server even though it's obviously not a language.

I find this syntax super helpful:

DECLARE @someName AS VARCHAR(100)
SET @someName= 'Bob'

When coupled with SPs and Functions, you can write some fairly readable logic in SQL. I am completely against this for most applications, but when you need it, it helps.
Thanks! Very helpful, that talk looks like a (very) condensed version of what I was looking for.

It looks like the video for that talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkTUMZRBE8
Working from home definitely has advantages, but I've been absorbing costs e.g., heating, cooling, electricity just to name a few. I think if given the option I would prefer a majority WFH situation, but these other costs do affect one's total compensation.
Asked the same question to an commenter posting the same link, anyone know of a similar resource for the Canadian context?
Who pays vat? Less than 10% of my monthly outgoings are on VATTable things, and most of that expenditure is because I bought a new car rather than a second hand one.
If I were you'd I'd push to try and ship anything, it looks brilliant and I'm sure if some people try it you'll have the push to keep going.
Surprisingly, Go's png decoder is half as slow as the default libpng :(

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-deco...
I am so conflicted about the environmental impact of Proof-Of-Work. In many ways it feels like an arbitrary energy spend - but I think criticizing cryptocurrency for it seems a little disingenuous when we don't apply the same logic to other areas.

What's the environmental impact of better refresh rates on monitors? What's the environmental impact of large scale cctv systems? What's the environmental impact of western-style mattresses?
I've never understood why there's a split between what taxes get paid by your employer and what taxes get paid by the employee - in the end, the employer pays all of them anyway. I'd like to know exactly how much money an employer would have to pay for a given amount of money landing in my bank account in a given time period.
Will they start paying SF salaries when you started working in London?
Here's a pic of a post 'explosion' cloud (7th page)-

http://eng.arctica-ac.ru/docs/journals/33/earth-decontaminat...

Google will translate the document for the details. Still unclear how much the ignition of the gas is part of the power.

Word of the day: Cryovolcanism
It's very easy because there is nothing objective about being a genius. It's purely about social perception and for this man the only social perception he cares about is himself. That's why he can confidently declare himself as genius and other people don't.

Why would I care about someone whose latest accomplishment was half a decade before I was born? The complexity of modern games is so incredibly high that his equations look like toys.

I once had an idea of making a simulation game about constructing dyson sphere. Now that dsyon sphere program exists do I claim credit for that even though I never communicated with the developer of that game?

That's the behavior Crawford is engaging in. He's shutting himself off and blames other people for his problems and he never wants to rely on anyone else for his successes. The superiority complex is exactly the thing that is holding him back.
For many of the sibling comments discussing before/after tax: part of the confusion arises here because many European countries essentially have two steps of taxation. I work for an American organization as a Dutch person and have had to figure some of this out for my own contract situation.

For the Netherlands, your contract will state a wage "before taxes". But the employer will play "employer's taxes" over this wage, making you effectively ~20% more expensive. What gets transferred to your bank account is wage "after taxes", but this is after income taxes.

For example, say that your salary in the Netherlands is E50,000. Your employer pays E60,000 for that, but E10,000 goes straight to the government (doesn't show on your payslip, used to fund primarily social security systems). After that, you pay income taxes, let's say 30%, so you get E35,000.

Of course, effectively you're paying close to 50% taxes and your employer considers you as costing E60,000, but the two-step process hides part of it and makes it somehow more palatable for the employee/tax-payer. This is a really large part of why European wages are lower than American ones.
Hi, I'm noob in deployment, From the description I understand it might be simpler than deploying directly on AWS.
Is there any benefits of deploying to Qovery instead of netlify,... for a website, portfolio, or a startup webapp?
Thanks.
Perhaps you could do something a little bit novel allow all comments to behave like a chat room:

fixed size comment area, with a scrollbar that starts at the bottom, when you scroll up you load earlier comments dynamically?

That way you can always see the most recent comments in the discussion, and easily scroll backwards through the history to follow a conversation.. scrolling and loading dynamically is a lot 'lighter' of an interface than the frustration of paging. (that's my own opinion, not backed up by any usability studies)

just like people expect from a chat room.
I call this the Activity Stream domain:

http://activitystrea.ms/

It has a lot of idiosyncrasies. One thing I noticed recently, and tweeted about, was how Facebook uses different ordering within a single view of its News Feed:

> facebook stream format: <(>>>)<(>>>)<(>>>) (reverse chronological order for news items; chronological order for comments on news items)

http://twitter.com/#!/BenATkin/status/10561264480686082
It's a directory of name -> IP addresses, publicly editable.

Obviously it's not a robust solution, but if the government or Amazon takes this down, well, there's a problem.

Vote it up if you want it to stay live.
While we're going on writing instrument fetish:
http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/2007/05/ohto-supe...
Did I miss something? This is in German ;)
Techzing hands down. 2 guys just talking about startups and trying to make it. The guest are fantastic and they always drill down into topics.
What a waste! especially since I have little to no chance of getting picked to try one out :( Oh well.
Interesting. I hope there will be an option for tea stains (and especially for Lapsang souchong or strong Assam) in this document class.
A shortened URL is still a link, but the whole idea of a TLDs and text-based rather than numeric URIs is that you should have some idea of where you're being sent: PayPal.com or PhishingSite.com and have some chance of remembering at least enough of the web address to be able to navigate your way to the specific page. I realise this is an ideal that's never been fully realised, but obfuscating evrything with http://bit.ly/unmemorablealphanumericcode is definitely a retrogade step.
For that type of waitress I will not hesitate to tip 22% or higher.
Additionally, visit the Genius Bar at the apple store. They'll help you fix the issue.
To my mailing list, via a bunch of blog posts (on my blog), at free Webinars I've given, during a talk a gave at the hack.summit(), and on Twitter.

I tried some ads (Facebook, Google, and Reddit) for a short time, but they didn't work -- mostly, I'd guess, because the landing page is still immature, and because I didn't give away any free chapters or other elements.

The landing page is now better than it was, and people now have a choice between buying the book right away and getting a chapter's worth of exercises and solutions over a 10-day period via a drip campaign. These improvements have definitely raised the conversion levels.
Probably because of other services--not necessarily written in Go--which already use memcache. Don't fix things that aren't broken, right?
There have been 5-6 things that have contributed to - the biggest one is that I'm somewhat of an expert in the community - I have lots of free blog posts and videos so I've gained trust there.
We've hired a few as test engineers, and I think results have been quite positive.

We treat our QA department as kind of a software engineering farm team. In fact, I don't know the last time we hired an entry-level SE directly. So maybe our QA engineers are what other places might consider a "junior SE".
Python has trillions of libraries, but in my experience many (most?) of them are so bad that you're better off not trying to use them.
Hey do you have a link for this?

Sounds interesting
Neat, that's somewhere in between a `union` and a `std::variant`. You could build your own, but it's cool that it's a first class member of the language.
yep, automotive industry turned just-in-time manufacturing into an artform.
Super interesting. Do you know how much advantage a player using this information gets against a 'naive' player non-using it?
Family members two generations down from some famous person generally aren't relevant for the article or, if they are, someone else will at some point add them to the article. Seriously: you are surprised that someone may believe you have a conflict of interest when you're making an edit that has your name in it?
"Discussion", top left.
By "tape your mouth", James Nestor suggests taping the mouth shut while sleeping, to condition the nose (extra benefit of not drying out the gums--my dentist approves). It took months of applying a thin strip of tape vertically across my lips (surgical tape, easy to pull off if needed, but it never came to that), and now I habitually breathe through my nose at night instead of my mouth, and can nose-breathe all day, too, where before I'd need some mouth-breaths in a panic.

The switching-nostils breathing is just one way to practice (there's a list at the back of the book). If anything, best practice for oxygenation and venting C02 seems to be inhaling over 5-6 seconds and exhaling for the same or slightly longer. The more-recent book Breath Taking by Michael Stephen backs this up.
The article seems to be claiming that artists are different for the attention they give to detail. True enough I guess. The way humans look at the world is perceptual, whilst artists (a sub-class of human) tend to employ a more optical approach.

This is supported by this lovely paper looking at the difference between how artists look at images and how non-artists look at the same image:

Mao D, Kakarala R, Rajan D, Castleman SL. Understanding Photographic Composition through Data-driven Approaches. InVISAPP (2) 2010 (pp. 425-430).

https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2010/28421/28421.pdf

(Of course they used an eye tracker)

In brief... non-artists dwell on regions of obvious interest (faces, bodies etc), whilst the way artists look is more wide-ranging. They may find a lamppost behind the human subject as interesting at the human.
You could give http://clicktoflash.com/ a try
Thanks for telling me about this. It is modestly faster than my usual "take a screenshot and then crop in Paint.NET" workflow.
Question - is there a bug for this on Android ?

if not, I suggest someone file it (I dont have Android.. yet).
Only because of HECS. I'm a full fee paying computer science student, and it'll cost me upwards of $60K
Using the YC scale, that would be somewhere around 67 million startups funded. Which is somewhere around 7 million startups per year.

Although I'm an entrepreneur, I wonder sometimes if it's a suckers game.
I love screenshots from the iPad maps application imported into SketchBook or some other drawing app. Very useful for whipping up driving directions to forward to a friend.
i use piwik
but you need to host it yourself
Zuckerberg's bad press comes from the fact that he just DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. Of course, that's what enabled him to be so successful in the first place.
You can fined tune (almost like uMatrix) the blocking in the latest version by enabling "Advanced user feature".
I would be so interested to see some research about information spread during active containment efforts. Obviously many institutions have developed highly effective measures of containment. They all involve coercing involved people into silence (NDAs, threats of criminal prosecution etc.) combined with, at least attempted, strict controls of where the data goes.

I feel like information just sort of succumbs to entropy and it will always "try" to leak out of containment like some fleeting gas.

Is that due to human nature? Or due to the nature of information itself? Would other intelligent beings with a different psychology/ social structure also spread information like a wildfire?
Bill Gates is working on that. He said in his AMA that one of his goal is to slow down aging.
I'm guessing they're talking about here on Hacker News, where young, rich professionals who may want to live and work in SF are upvoting stuff that undermines rent control.

Which is convenient as they'd like to use their superior purchasing power to acquire nice SF apartments, and rent control blocks them from that goal. So it helps to have economics on your side, to a) make you feel better about yourself and b) to convince others to join your side.

Maybe in this case that's "right", but the fact that we are collectively upvoting the economics that helps us and not approvingly discussing some other economic theory about how importing low-wage software developers would boost the economy makes it political.
There are various factors including the unpredictable nature of the flow as well as the cost and sheer effort involved. But, also very prominently is the cultural sensitivity to not disrupt the will of the volcano goddess Pele.

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/county-diver...

KHON2 (the local Honolulu Fox Affilate) has a good 5 part series on the ongoing Kilauea eruption -- check part 3 for more discussion on your question.

http://khon2.com/kilauea-facing-the-fire/
the consideration is the content of the website. EULA haven't been tested in court, sure, but i think against the average person, they won't be able to do battle against a large corporation should they decide to enforce it.
Happy to see Nomiku on the list - they ran a fantastic Kickstarter campaign, and I hope they get the help they need to scale up into everyone's kitchen.
I doubt it, the public blog post has less details on what breached compared to the private emails they sent out.

I'm not so mad about the password being stolen, but the combination of my e-mail address and my DOB which can be used for a lot of things (sites with bad password recovery). I suppose it's time I start a system where I provide fake DOB.
Hey HN! I am a developer of Helprace. Decided a few years back that there's no crowd-sourced support + helpdesk solution. We're finally launched and looking for feedback! Demo can be seen right in our support portal @ http://support.helprace.com
Parent said "This is why as a user I like Apple's OS X sandbox.".

This is a bug from 15 years ago, much much before the sandbox feature was introduced.

A sandboxed iTunes would have prevented that.
Less.js will cache the CSS on modern browsers after the first load using HTML5 local storage, so subsequent loads aren't an issue. First load is also very fast and won't make a huge difference. Like you, I wouldn't normally recommend running the compiler live but the performance here is really impressive. Please don't assume how fast Less.js is before you try it.
I hated the vacuums (the one I bought was way too heavy, loud, expensive for what it did) and air blades, but love the fanless ventilators. It’s light, cute, easy to move, with no visible moving parts, is still surviving spotlessly. I wish there was better competitors.
But does it really disposes the plastic in a form that does not cause more harm? That's the entire argument. It's just as bad for the environment as it would be if you'd just dump it on landfills. But than you can dig out landfills later on, when you've got a better solution, in a centralized and known location. But who is going to track down and demolish all the pavements in the decades to come? These bricks are essentially guaranteeing that the plastic used will cause micro plastic pollution for generations to come.
And even if you never find a solution, having the plastic in a landfill makes it possible to at least control the circumstances. You can burry it, reducing the exposure to the elements, like sun and wind. The more I think about these bricks the more I'm sure that's the worst thing you can do with plastic, except for just dumping it into the ocean.
> reportedly considering

Why would they make such 'considerations' public to employees, so they can take a hint an find another job?