skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading.

Except he's correct. The web has become a disinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theory bonanza. Finding good information still takes legwork, 22 years after this article was written.

Also to be fair to Cliff, this article was written well before sites like wikipedia had prominence. So yes, back then putting something in a search engine was asking for trouble. The results were very poor because the content was very poor.

>What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact.

Thus the rise of social media.

I think this essay was unusually prophetic and insightful in many ways.
This would be all good, if the goal was to have computers talk to other computers. In real life, typically organisations start talking to other organisations and _maybe_ there will be computers involved eventually. Most of the integration complexity is building a technical and functional clutch so two organisations can talk but do not leak too much (dynamic) complexity across their boundaries. And that does not lend itself well to automation.
It is easy to advise from the sidelines but I too think the author should be looking outside the comfort zone. He should broaden his skillset while looking to sharpen those skills that are in demand.

Also I would look into some hobbies that could potentially bring in money(twitter analyst?)

If he was doing some sort of software support for obsolete programs there is a dwindling demand for such skills in US. (ahem outs...)

On the other hand being underemployed in the wrong kind of job that saps all the energy could actually be counterproductive in the longer term.

According to the article the author is applying to jobs, getting a mininum wage job would not really change that nor drastically improve family finances in SV.

Disclaimer: I speak as someone who earns roughly the US minimum wage at my official job.
There certainly is: https://riscv.org/specifications/

I read it about a year ago and found it straightforward and clean.

Are you making a technical point about stuff missing?
One thing I haven't understood about JavaScript frameworks is how people go about setting meta tags for Facebook and Twitter sharing. These meta tags aren't readable by the Facebook scraper when set in JavaScript, so at least for my work, even if I do use some JavaScript framework, I also have to do some server side rendering so brands can share what they pay to share.

Maybe some people just don't care about this, and pure JavaScript works for them.
Came across this on Zapier. Was surprised that I had never heard about apps like AirTable and OmniFocus. Each of these had at least 300 users on Zapier.

Home many of these have you used? Seems like a good idea to check on what's working in SaaS...
Yes, it's still ok. SPA (single page apps) should only be edge cases where you really want your website to feel like an app (see gmail as a good example).
Why a site redesign should be the last resort
I think the audience for a device like that would see the ability to intentionally trigger it remotely as a feature, not a bug.
> We have invented the most important tool in the history of humanity and it's being used by billions of people to look at Facebook instead of say, solving real problems like climate change.

I think this is a mis-characterization. The Internet is used for all sorts of "good" causes. I think we just take for granted the ease with which it allows teams of scientists and researchers to connect, communicate, and share research.
I much prefer Ha-Joon Chang's "the washing machine changed the world more than the internet" [0], which I think fares a lot better than Krugman's claims.

> When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago. Of course, the internet is great – I can now google and find the exact location of this restaurant on the edge of Liverpool or whatever. But when you look at the impact of this on the economy, it's mainly in the area of leisure.

> By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society. As women have become active in the labour market they have acquired a different status at home – they can credibly threaten their partners that if they don't treat them well they will leave them and make an independent living. And this had huge economic consequences. Rather than spend their time washing clothes, women could go out and do more productive things. Basically, it has doubled the workforce.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/29/my-bright...
Falling out of favor with food delivery
Seems like something you could find, or start, for free.

* We are what we do | Meetup || https://www.meetup.com/
He says exactly how this sounds. Seems this guy is not doing everything in his power to change his situation and he never really took step back and re-thinked his strategy.
It's kind of unfair to point and laugh at the person who didn't predict the future correctly. I don't think anybody could have foreseen the interactive potential for the internet.

The internet encompasses vast video game experiences, nearly realtime communication from politicians and public figures (without hauling around a C-SPAN 2 camera team), and has even taken on a life of its own with YouTube stars and internet celebrities, completely bypassing the traditional media channels that were usually dominated by the whims of their producers.

Even now I think our impression of the internet is roughly in line with the people of the early 20th century who could not have begun to imagine the vast possibilities provided by mass electrification.
Hum... Where you parsed "most prostitution does not use sex trafficked persons", I understood "prostitution and human traffic do not have much correlation". I will have to agree that your interpretation is more charitable, and probably closer to what the GP meant, but I still want to see those studies.

I couldn't find them in a google search, that is not surprising as is quite a topic, but a quick search brings that there are 40 million people involved in prostitution, and 4.5 million have been victim of sex trafficking. That gives a rough estimate of 1/10 prostitution related transactions directly involved with human trafficking, so the use of "vast majority" is called into question.

I'm just realizing, though, that what really irks me is that the GP is using himself some kind of straw-manning himself. I've never found an prostitution abolitionist that pointed to sex-trafficking as the "big problem" in prostitution. The big problem is always women who are drawn into it involuntary, or more precisely, would very much rather do any other thing in the world. Sex-traffic is not an straw-man, but an global expression of the worst face of prostitution, and some people would say that an incidence of 10% is enough reason for pushing for the complete banning.

The reason I didn't address the second point, or the rest of the comment, is that I'm not really interested in discussing what other people discuss on such a flamewar-baity topic.
You don't need client-side stuff until you do. If all you're doing is simple html form submissions, it doesn't make sense to integrate something like React.

But then you need validations, and server-side checks for availability, then dynamic forms based on previous input choices, and data synching to preview the profile on the right, and then - might as well use React or similar instead of jQuery with DOM manipulation.
> Exceptions are for "an upper layer to handle".

So are return values :) The difference is that return value is for the next immediate layer; an exception is for some layer, but I don't know what.

IMO your HTTP layer should not be throwing exceptions based on status code. The layer above that should.
I often don't have the time to prepare and cook from scratch.

I feel a good rule (I should have said this in my original post) is : "cheap, tasty, healthy, fast" -- pick at most 3.

At the moment I alternate between dumping 'cheap' and 'tasty' most of the time, with the occasional 'fast' when I have the time.
> most people have nothing to say to each other

I think this was more of a confirmation of Metcalfe's Law than anything else. Folks didn't use email (etc) as much in 1998 because it was less likely that your recipient would read it before you might contact them otherwise via phone or other method. No one sent email because no one checked email because the utility of the network wasn't there. As Metcalfe's Law predicts, the utility of the network was climbing steeply but just hadn't hit the inflection point where you could expect ubiquity.
How about Alexa / Echo / Dot / Tap?

I'll know pr0n when I see it, well, what if its a speaker?

Another fascinating question is cat-5 ethernet cables.
Airbnb UK tax history questioned as income passes through Ireland
There are a lot of stakeholders in a large organization, and a change can sometimes elicit strong reactions from involved parties. In particular, in the JavaScript world, implementors are now also explicitly represented in standard process of new language features, since given some of the preexisting warts, there can be nontrivial interactions and many JS abstractions have holes in them. A lot of language features have been rejected for a lot of different reasons. To be fair, some really unfortunate language features have been _accepted_ that have had unforeseen interactions or implementation challenges. I could name half a dozen off the top of my head.

Disclaimer: I work on V8 but was not involved in this saga at all. I don't know which Googlers in particular Domenic is referring to in his comment. And of course I make no judgment on the particular value of cancelable promises.
Oh the hilarity :D
To me, all this shows is that economics is very hard. I like krugman although he s a bad public speaker and a sore loser, yet even he cant model long-term effects of things. I wonder where his thought process fails
> I'd rather die from starvation than doing that.

Are you a vegetarian? Then doubtful. If you've ever had a factory egg before, they shove the male chicks into a woodchipper.

> operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz?

And we're at Nazi already!
The most common $150 phone from last year only has 1GB, half of which is reserved for the OS.
Bitcoin the community and Bitcoin the software have rules and authority. "Just as much" is an empirical claim that I disagree with. I don't think Coinbase or Gavin Andreesen have the same kind of authority as the Venezuelan president. It's a set of narrower, diffuse authorities, rather than a central authority.

But even that is just one branch of Bitcoin. What makes Bitcoin truly anti-authoritarian is that even if some body of power controls the dominant branch, a group of people can simply fork it, and run their own currency completely without the blessing of Gavin or Coinbase or anyone.

That doesn't give them all the benefits of holding mainline Bitcoin, but it gives them some benefits. But anarchism never said everyone can have all the power, it says everyone should have the power to do what they want amongst themselves. It's freedom from interference, not guaranteed access.

Ethereum Classic is a fantastic example of this. As is the proliferation of altcoins, many of which are just Bitcoin forks, and in that sense are Bitcoin.
Parents, sorry, edited it.

Family does changed the outlook quite a bit though for some of the people I know.
I use server side rendering sprinkled with some JS. Works great and my users are thanking me for the simple UI.
Nice! Good counterpoints! I also noted that your screen name is "cijt" is the reverse of the parent "tjic", nicely done!
Actually, similar to the way you can find DSL's galore at all the big tech companies, in my experience people in specialized fields or in close knit groups evolve their own jargon to speed up and increase the specificity of communication.
> A lot of that is of their own doing. Github is a great business; they just got greedy.

Amazon was/is greedier and look at where they are now. My central point is that great businesses are just a small set within great ideas with lot of value. One simple example is what happened with software tools in Windows. There are great tools that provide a lot of value for the users but people are use to free software and almost nobody is buying them.
One of the big problems with people's expectations was, perhaps, a sense that technological progress would involve ever-greater energies, sizes, velocities. This certainly would have made sense in 1967, but what's been done since then has so much to do with using less energy to do more. There's so much to do in computation, biosciences, materials science, and so on - it doesn't look big and impressive necessarily, but it's still major progress.
>Are you just talking about salaries?

Yes, because outside of AppAmaGooBookSoft and the ecosystem of venture-backed startups in the SV bubble (i.e., this is not applicable to venture-backed startups outside of that bubble), very few programmers get RSUs, signing bonuses, etc.

>Google and Facebook pay between $150-200k to new grads, and a senior programmer at either of these companies can get double that.

This is not representative of the career path, and the high dollar comp package is less impressive when you consider that these companies usually require their employees to be located in very high CoL areas like San Francisco or New York. Rent on an apartment in those cities will easily consume 35-40% of that salary. If you have a family and need a house, forget about it.

These companies are also reluctant to hire those without Ivy League pedigrees, which means most employees will have substantial student debt.
I grew up in a similar situation and thus gained the same sort of skills. However the area I grew up in is pretty depressed (Cumberland, MD for thoses who care https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/in-trump-...). What I'm seeing is that now we are at a point where so many people do things themselves that the service industry is also struggling. Contractors are no longer doing good business in the area as there has been a race to the bottom. If people don't fix it themselves most turn to a low cost do-it-all 'handy man'. Because everyone is trying to save a buck money doesn't really move around much and we're in a downward spiral.
Fabrice is not active in QEMU anymore (and has not been fur almost 8 years now).

Without having looked at the code, I would guess that it wasn't worth the effort of being the first 128-bit target on a core that is based on JIT compilation and supports 32-bit hosts.
Great counterpoint.

I guess the availability (technical possibility of building) of interoperable API does not mean that it will be used in every case. It would be used in cases where there is an economical benefit and vice versa.
Yes, that is correct. The code checks the encoding at runtime ( https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/8444b46d20ef9c8de3f7e2... ) and converts between the structures as needed (see calls to `zsetConvert`). The alternative (for large zsets) is called zskiplist, the manipulation code is directly in t_zset.c and the structure is defined at https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/8444b46d20ef9c8de3f7e2...
I would love to work out a way of making sardines more palatable. I do force myself to eat them, but it is a real struggle.
ctrl+shift+i, ctrl+f "mp4"
I have also seen HR departments so slow, hiring procedures so onerous, that it is obvious the company doesnt want to actually hire anyone. "Jobs" sit unfilled for months/years until someone wonders why the position was ever created.

I'm an attorney specializing in compliance and privacy, so most all of my work is 'consulting'. But I run into companies every day who enjoy being constantly understaffed. It's the fashion in IT atm. A company without dozens of open positions isnt considered 'lean' and so they keep many open just so they can say they are there. (Some hr depts probably also think open positions are a headge against downsizing. They arent.)
> I remember when my mom told me how her nightshifts in the sausage factory as a student made her more humble

I was lucky to avoid having to work in the service industry - aside from occasionally having to work the floor at a retailer when we finished unloading/loading a truck early - but my wife worked as a server for a good long while, and we both agree that we will absolutely encourage our children to work jobs like those - aside from earning money, it teaches empathy and how to deal with difficult situations.
There was a project which pursue a similar strategy: https://github.com/tsgates/mbox
Right now distros who backport, such as Debian, need to very carefully read changelogs and decide what and what not to backport. Quite a daunting task.
So its not possible to remove a message?
His normal column hasn't been much better, for years now.
Charting All the Beer Styles
You wouldn't happen to be Sawbones listener would you?
Regulating interstate commerce is outside the purview of a State anyway. Since the internet and the manufacturers are external to the State and its boundaries, this law is nothing more than a political statement. First federal judge that sees this bill will laugh it out of court.
The freezer is your friend.
Our obstetrician said something very similar - he only does obstetrics, and says that it's a very unpopular field to get into.

Probably for very similar reasons.
Solaris _absolutely_ "went" open source in the form of OpenSolaris. Oracle re-closed it, but the main line of innovation in that line of operating systems (arguably all operating systems) is still open source in the form of Illumos.
These are not just instances of "strong language," these are personal attacks. Linus never differentiates between the problem and the person. He just yells and insults. There's a difference between not trying to not offend, and going out of your way to offend.

It's entirely possible, and indeed normal and accepted, to communicate in a straightforward and clear way without insulting people. Linus could do that. He chooses not to.
Weigh and deliver: compensation and the evolution of law and money
See superagent where anything that's not a 2xx is treated as an error (https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/283)
Interesting. I had no idea they had a beta version for macOS. I've gotta try it.
The silver lining as I read this is how this guy even with all the trouble has remained married provided for his children all while living in one of the most expensive areas in the world.

And with offical unemployment at 4.5% as some else has mentioned jobs may not exist for these guys given the current economic structure. The demand is not there. Hopefully, no matter how imperfect, a large infrastructure investment happens and stimulates demand for prime age male workers.
Just wanted to add the explosion in fentanyl and other synthetic heroin ODs in your community is also related. I'm not going to pretend the users are innocent, maybe they a teenagers who start off buying pills to get high -- point being that RX drugs are a very real and literal gateway drug to street narcotics, which are cheaper and far more dangerous.
But this also conveniently ignores the fact that the same brand of blue-fearing SC republican also dominates the NC state legislature [0]. I can imagine NC easily passing a similar law in an after hours closed door special session. So the more rational GA, TN, and VA states should be excited.

[0] See all behavior since McCrory was ousted from being Governor and the State Supreme Court flipping pro-Dem.
Interesting use of openvpn. Eventually your sysadmin might have his day, as managing the overhead (both in engineers and CPU resources) for site-to-site networking becomes a pain without hardware designed to do it.

My problem with setups like this is they are usually fairly brittle in the long run, and the person who created and maintains the links gets bored but nobody has the desires or skills to take over the project. It breaks once and suddenly the hardware cost just isn't that big of a deal.
it could hardened it with seccomp filter.
A "a fun, let's make some provocative predictions type article" sounds like something very unprofessional to me. Also there seems to be a suspicious pattern of claiming exactly that after such an embarrassing prediction is made. I doubt the same would be claimed if he had happened to be right about the internet and the information economy.
Couldn't have said it better. Fake news is in the eye of the beholder.

That sadly includes a lot of things being posted now on someone's Facebook page about Obama being a secret muslim....
Here is the representatives contact information for the curious.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=0351704504
I don't think it's that only reason. However, it serves as a great talking point when campaigning against an opponent.

Imagine having to defend against, "Candidate X voted against the Human Trafficking Prevention Act!" when you and other privy voters know it's stop the turd hidden underneath the polished gold.
I agree, sites that enforce disabling add block should not be allowed to be posted here.
Typeform Home documentary
Frequency distribution of birthday balloons on Instagram
Aldi is insanely cheap, and I mean that literally: I feel as if I am insane to spend my money elsewhere. As much as I love Wegmans, those "helping hands" corralling shopping carts in the sprawling parking lots have to be paid, and it comes out of my purchase.
Gluten free is often a useful proxy (for the most parts of the world) for less processed foods.
Doesn't apply to speciality "gluten free" items but chicken and rice and vegetables are also gluten free.
Try it out when flying sometimes.
What is the best casual router for Wifi?
Why shouldn't someone have an opinion on things? Who are you to tell the parent commenter not to?

Linus is the de facto head honcho and enjoys special privilege.
Supreme Court to Hear Patent Case That Could Limit Venue Shopping
I'm not a big fan of that book. For all its weight its still surprisingly informal.
I was going to make a comment about the context of this being Europe but then remembered the current state of the Middle East/cradle of civilization!
This law is good PR, or it's a decoy.
I am really hoping that companies are measuring the bounce rate for these types of tactics.

When I see one of these I could become a subscriber and log in, I could whitelist the site's advertisements, or I could open Web Inspector and disable the popup layer manually, but I don't do anything of these things. I acknowledge its existence and hit the back button.
There's a yawning chasm between shitty journalism (regurgitation of statements like in this article) and just making up pernicious nonsense.
I've posted many, many times here on how abusive and gross Linus's conduct is. It continues to flabbergast me just how many people leap to his defense. He doesn't need defending. The people he insults do.
agreed, feels like fist-sized crayons and picture books to me. too much scrolling, too much affectation, too much grey-on-white and too much padding and white space.
No.

Wow Bettridge's law really works!

PS: I especially like Godwin's law: when you confidently state something inaccurate online, someone's bound to correct you. It's a great way to crowdsource an answer that you might have a hard time looking up.
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The holographic anime “robot” for lonely salarymen
They couldn't feasibly attempt EEE on JS without Internet Explorer's dominant market share.
Yes I think there are individuals making extreme breakthroughs in every field of science in modern day.