skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not looking to save all of America. I am just looking for actionable advice pertinent to addressing some things in my tiny corner of the world.

I am speaking with literate, competent people. I recently spoke with a guy who is wealthy and a co-owner of a local successful business that has been around a long time. He is a local mover and shaker. He told me he does not own a computer at all.

Meanwhile, the website for his company has one of the best local websites I have tripped across, his business card lists his email address and he carries a very nice smartphone. I imagine he can get online with his smartphone, yet he apparently does not consider that to be a computer for purposes of viewing my websites.

He didn't want my email. He wanted me to text message him my phone number. He is a very intelligent man with a lot going on, but he straight up told me "I am [x age], I am not going to learn this stuff." I know people about that same age on Hacker News who program, etc.

Unemployment is high in this town. I would like to start hooking people up with earning opportunities that already exist on the internet. I am facing a lot of challenges in trying to connect to people. But I think there is a huge opportunity here for making some headway against some of the local problems via spreading the word that the internet is not just a place to watch YouTube videos and hang out on Facebook. There is a lot more going on in cyberspace than that and you can have a lot more going on in your life for the price of a (free) library card and a little digital literacy.

I find it frustrating that every question I have posted so far on Hacker News related to this desire of mine has been generally met with so little real support, for example the utter lack of reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15729897
One of the reasons I maintain a wet darkroom and a shelf of vintage cameras is precisely because I can unplug everything. And you can argue tech specs all day long and none of it will bring the joy of shooting with a old Hasselblad.
In California at least, regardless of what’s written in your employment contract, you own anything you produce on your own time and with your own equipment as long as it doesn’t directly relate to your employer’s business.
> Sure - this is how control flow tends to work in monad-oriented languages too, with constructs like ifM . I don't see a conflict between this style and what I see as the good aspects of Smalltalk at all; rather I see this style as a way to get those aspects while having type safety as well.

The point here is not that Smalltalk is better or worse; the point is that Smalltalk's approach can be seen as more general. In other words, it's a matter of perspective as to what is considered to be a sufficient amount of generality.

Types are orthogonal to that (see Strongtalk).

Edit: To clarify something:

> The Free monad is essentially that (it's a type-aligned sequence of things that look like Kleisli arrows, which is pretty much the type-safe equivalent of an array of blocks), and it's well-known that you can emulate any monad that way (specific concrete monadic types are nice to have as well though, for the cases where you do want to talk about that specific type). If you're saying that monads are something banal rather than something complex and impressive then I completely agree.

Partly that (I've said before that I much prefer the F# terminology of "computation expressions" to get the purpose across), but my larger point is that this would be considered to be a very specific and limited application to a Smalltalk programmer. Again, it's not about Smalltalk being better or worse, it's about "can be generalized" as a matter of perspective.
I like that one!
One method would be what Tonganoxie did in the article. Get pissed and keep making noise until the blowback is unmanageable, if that doesn't work vote them all out.
+1 -- this is part of why learning foreign languages can be so difficult. There aren't really pauses between words. Your brain has to learn to figure out word boundaries. Check out this waveform for the phrase "on our website": https://swphonetics.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/speecheonour...
This actually reminds me of Delayed Gratification https://www.slow-journalism.com/ . I don't think they make an online version of anything, though. You get it in print. A quarter (3 month) time delay helps with the filtering. No bother about what Trump tweeted on any given day. Kind of like a history book being written in "real time".
Yeah instructional videos are awesome on 1.25 (or 1.5 if the English is good). And you can still slow down and even pause if something is harder to understand. I wish this would've been possible already when I went to school. How many hours could've been saved...
At least with a corporation you understand their goal completely.
:) Interesting comment. I was hoping we can serve both the groups, for 1, even when they are good at it, there is a lot of time expenses which can be reduced with Sieve. Thanks for the feedback, will definitely look more into this.
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May be it is US thing or generally everywhere but I notice nowadays people think cooking either has to be elaborate/expensive or with such low efforts that one would not even like the meal they prepared for themselves. Hence eating out is so common even with less money.

For me since I always carry from home for lunch and eat dinner at home, so cooking needs to be in all categories like low/medium/elaborate efforts. And of course tasty enough that myself or anyone joining me reasonably like it.
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If it's a democracy and the private jet owners are the majority - then more power to them. If they are not, and they only achieve "alignment" by any means that deny citizens of their right to vote, then shame on them.

Incentive alignment should be expected with the majority of society - or at least the voting public.
> is limiting what people can hear going to be a good thing for them?

I mean we currently have the exact opposite problem. We can definitively answer that people hearing everything and anything is quantifiably a bad thing for a good-sized portion of the population.

See here[1] and here[2] for some quick examples.

>Who watches the watcher?

Transparency is not antithetical or exclusive to any system that allows information to be properly editorialized. Dystopian hypotheticals kind of fall flat on their face when we have practical problems that run completely counter to some far off totalitarian future.

The worst part about the media landscape for me is not the massive maze of crap you have to wade through, it's that there's enough people willing to lend credence to some part(s) of that maze of crap. It can often remove any hope of a reasonable foundation for a conversation on whatever topic.

I think the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle[3] applies well to this topic.

>The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

The current U.S. political landscape is a perfect example of this. We have people buying into certain political mythologies (either outright lies or just plain conspiracy theories, in regards to certain political factions and general policies) with no factual basis and it's wasting what is essentially valuable political capital at an alarming rate. And disappointingly, the actual conspiracies we do have evidence for are disregarded by the very same population that seems to be completely incapable of discerning and analyzing information (or misinformation) in general, across any field. Say, I don't know, climate change.

[1]: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1065912917721061

[2]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2331/epdf

[3]: https://www.slideshare.net/ziobrando/bulshit-asymmetry-princ...
This would have been news in 2005
Side note about Malibu: those beaches aren't private, but homeowners illegally block access. (with cooperation from the sherriff's dept, who know where their bread is buttered)
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I am too.

In particular, the idea of AI-driven ads to improve targeting to near-as-makes-no-difference perfect levels is rather unnerving. We're at a moment when the influence of companies or governments in social media is still somewhat obvious/trackable, often because it's driven by actual people. Making it better and then making it automated would result in a system where it would be basically impossible to tell the difference between ads and actual people.
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I never used to do this when I was young, but now that I'm getting older a sense of haste has crept into my life. I speed listen to podcasts, YouTube (non-music videos) and educational videos (such as technology learning modules on Eggheadio, Udemy etc.). It took me some time to adapt to this style of learning, but now, I wouldn't do it any other way. It makes me feel like I'm packing more into my day and as you get older, this is a comforting thing.
I've taken it a bit further with my ad blocker. Started blocking not just ads but irrelevant things like:

* Top/Related posts (they distract)

* Newsletter signup blocks in the middle of articles (I never ever want to signup for newsletters)

* Sharing tools (I know how to cut-past a URL, thank you)

* Recent comments blocks (I don't care)

* Page footers (bloated with completely irrelevant information)

* ... and so on

You will be surprised how much stuff you can actually just block!
I wish I could do something like that but my friends and family are not accredited investors, even if they have $10k to give. From my understanding of securities law and compliance it really isn't possible.
I am not sure if there is always a first mover advantage in business. There is always an opportunity to improve/innovate and do things better.
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Uber employee here:

Give some thought to what you'd expect to see over time if the company genuinely had changed internally. Hold Uber to it. I suspect it'll meet that bar.
Wait, isn't there no such thing as free will, according to science?
This is great news!

One thing that I miss in my daily Google Cloud usage is ability to assign a single public IP to multiple VMs.
(For certain reasons Google Load Balancer does not work for my use case.)
Thanks, will consider the feedback and work on this :)
Exactly. If you read the article, it answers the OP's question pretty thoroughly. Comes down to incompetence and favoritism at the highest levels. The voters simply haven't done anything about it.
I can think of several companies that produced similarly "diverse" software portfolios in the 70's and 80's (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Commodore, Apple ...), although certainly none were anywhere near as commercially-successful as Microsoft.
I think we're making the same point. The GP was pointing out (correctly) that PEI has the highest population density of a Canadian province, which is similar to small states like Maine.

I'm saying that the raw number isn't meaningful, and you have to zoom in to find value and evaluate it in context.
This reminds me of how easy it was in the early days of Hacker News to get on the front page with a project: In our new media world, the only way to get onto the Hacker News front page, or any other site, is to either have a post highly targeted for this site (with these sort of DoS elements) or blind chance.
Corporations have nuclear power plants that can be just as dangerous. Corporations can feed the masses miss-information, that may lead to destabilisation of a society by making them vote for the wrong person.
Why is that? Can you please explain?
Same here. More specifically, I keep my general browsing history , and YouTube history more relevant by opening random / "lol" content in a private tab.

That way the omnibar suggestions show me content that I'm more likely to revisit and doesn't get clogged up with random results I don't care about; and YouTube gives me more interesting recommendations.
It will, but how many accidents per minute are there by drivers in the world? And we don’t say, puff I don’t trust drivers. Somehow we accept dying by human errors better than by a computer, somehow I always hear, look the computer failed , like if you in that situation as human wouldn’t have done it. I don’t know, I embrace the future , if compouters tomorrow are able to code and My job as a engenieer becomes obsolete, welcome.
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Yes. Media has been dead since the Kuwaiti girl testimony in 1990. It's done, it's over, today's scandals are just aftershocks of that turning point.
This is what "land of opportunity" means to many people, 50+ sovereign jurisdictions to shape the legal framework however you want with no outside pressure possible.

Everyone else is playing by a less effective set of rules.
Actually, if you've ever heard a talk by one of HN's more prolific OP's, danluu, it sounds like the guy is talking (in his normal non-speed-up speech) at almost 2x (listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I). I wonder what speed he uses for his podcast listening?
I wonder if it's an age thing (seems counter to my intuition) or more of a zeitgeist, sign of the times type of thing. The world (especially the digital/knowledge world) is faster these days.
This is awesome! Nice work :)
Debian and Kernel developers have very functional platforms that require little maintenance compared to GitHub & co.

Still, email is slow and kludgy. Someone should reinvent NNTP.
What selllikesybok said.
> If a terminal actually executed commands based on data printed to stdout, that would be a very significant vulnerability. It seems far more likely that the gibberish you're talking about is the usual mess of escape sequences.

Well, this is what happened. It was a few years ago on some IBM copy of Linux, don't know the exact system or shell. It was like Linux except most of the things you'd expect to exist on a Linux box were missing.
> Also, I wonder how far you could get in time compression by merely removing spaces between words without actually compressing the words?

Some audio time-stretching libraries do exactly that, reducing the amount of samples in silent periods compared to samples of non-silent audio.
Uber fined $8.9M for allowing drivers with felony convictions
Seems to me to be an obvious attempt at humour.
The baffling conceit here is that people in government are angels and people in business are evil. They’re still people, with all the same motivations.
> What happened to the controversial cliqz program that they were testing? Last I checked, Mozilla did not respond to the privacy concerns of the integration.

Mozilla owns parts of Cliqz, so they have insight into the business process, and they have a contract with Cliqz/Burda that says that no personal data is allowed to be stored.

So, even if Burda decided to violate the contract/law, Mozilla would notice that and could pull out by simply shutting the sending of data off in Firefox.

Mozilla also has made an official statement that no personal data will be collected, so if they did anyways, it would be misleading of consumers, so Mozilla themselves would then violate the law.

Meaning that, unless you have no faith at all into the legal system, I don't think there's a reason to be concerned.

It's just controversial, because you can easily spin a wholly different story by leaving out some facts, which is of course extremely convenient for Google/Microsoft/Apple, anyone who's for whatever reason salty about Mozilla, and last but definitely not least, clickbait journalists.
I'm just surprised that there is a lack of space in Minnesota.
I am not convinced self driving cars will ever be a thing we see in our lifetimes that just drive around the city unmanned. Sure, I can see a fully custom Uber navigational system built in with systems that make getting passengers and dropping them off much more predictable.

However, what should be relatively simple as that fails to address the human component.

1. Some people like talking to a driver, it's one of those small interactions that make getting from point A to point B an experience. Some people don't and that's fine too, not arguing against that.

2. People left alone will be much less careful, graffiti, spillage, throwing-up, drug deals, etc. Fully expect these to become little crime bubbles.

3. Not all cars will be fully utilized all day long, so what is a car sitting around unmanned? Will the insurance to cover vandalism and having the vehicle repaired raise higher than the value of paying someone to sit in the car?
If you could send me some basic details about yourself, I'd set up a demo and see if this can be useful for you.

How much would you be willing to pay for this per month? If you want to take it private, please email me sanjay@sievehq.com

and hey thanks for the feedback.
R&D, in my experience, is viewed even more harshly than IT as a cost center.
I've tried out the Foxy Gestures add-on in the meantime. It turns out it has rocker gestures (called 'chord gestures' in the 'Other Gestures' setup tab) and besides the drawback you mentioned (doesn't work in system tabs) it works well so far.
I'm also an uber employee, have been for a while. I totally understand the bad will against uber, but things inside the company have changed an insane amount since the january '17 stuff (deleteUber and fowler blog post), and with Travis out the new CEO Dara in, it feels like much... better company. Happy to talk more if there are specific questions.
Ironically, the recent victories against ISIS in Syria are due in large part due to the efforts of YPG and YPJ, the Kurdish militias that make up most of the SDF The SDF is the preferred name used by US/Western media to reduce association with the PKK(Kurdish Workers Party), of which YPG/YPJ are military arms.

The PKK is the main political force behind Rojava or the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, a group of self governing cantons in Syria. These are the first significant truly democratic and secular developments in the region in a long time. It is also a bold experiment towards tolerance(Rojava is comprised of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Syrian Turkmen and Yazidis as equal members) and gender equality,

The movement has strong anarchistic tendencies, and the PKKs leader Abdullah Öcalan(currently imprisoned in Turkey) is heavily influenced by American anarchist Murray Bookchin(though he later preferred not to use the term).

There is no central government, and it is a union of self governing cantons. The cantons are collectively managed through Athenian style direct democracy, with strong participation of all ethnic groups and women. The YPJ is the purely female counterpart to the YPG.

If Rojava succeeds, it could be an outcome exponentially better than the Ba'athist/Islamic Nationalist status quo. Even if ends up failing, it is a symbol of hope to me, hope that we as a species can radically rethink social relations, like the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, or Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%96calan
I thought the idea was to render it server side just once, then have the client take over for all future requests? In which case it's 10x slow for the first page load, but all future requests are just hitting API endpoints and can be fairly fast?
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Thanks for taking time to write in this detail, will go through all of this one by one and do the needful to incorporate this into our product, thanks again! :)
It is not, and by thinking so you are limiting yourself.
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I watch deep learning course videos at 2-3x depending on the speaker's cadence.
They bet on OS/2, and had a solid version for that around 1988. But nobody wanted it.

Their solution was to go multi-platform, with an all-singing cross-platform super-product that would run everywhere. Except it didn't actually run anywhere; it broke under its own weight.

So they were very much behind when they finally buckled down to porting the 1-2-3 codebase to Windows in 1991.

Source: I was on the team that shipped the Motif and OpenLook versions of 1-2-3, separate but concurrent to the above.
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There's quite a bit of skill required. It's actually quite an advanced math problem to figure out optimal strategy; see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/comments/4rrbpi/math_...
A simple first step, which changed a lot for me: Keeping your phone on Do Not Disturb permanently.

It (AT LEAST) frees you to decide when to check the phone, rather than letting these companies, (through notifications) decide for you when you're going to check your phone.
You are confusing what the business leaders of today think with what they thought in the 1920s. In the 1920s and before nobody could think of a reason why large inventories would be bad: they were a buffer against surges in demand, and you got to build them at today's prices. A large inventory just meant you need to hire more salesmen (literally men, it was a sexist time), and/or hold a sale.

Of course now management theory knows of many reasons the above is wrong, it is entirely accepted that you want inventories low because of the advantages it brings.
We've stopped making interim edits, it was when only a few people commented, now it's like waves of feedback :) I'll go through all the comments and work on this, will update you in a few days.
Metro has its problems but avg. commute time of 45 min. for 4 miles seems high to me. Unless you mean Bethesda to Silver Spring.
(lambda code) is focused on code, {lambda talk} on text. Your opinion is welcome.
Do you have a source for something similar from back then?

Honest question because I keep up with this field and this seemed pretty novel to me (at least the quasi-DIY aspect of it)
I'm not convinced. Using your description even high quality software releases are still "just" products: products that cost the company resources to build. The technical skills required doesn't change that.
I still don't understand that revulsion. Yeah, it looks "ugly", maybe (a valid but very subjective opinion), but it also makes it obvious that something is a variable and - specifically - whether that variable is singular or plural at a given moment.

The "Perl is indistinguishable from line noise" meme came about from folks equating JAPH-style Perl Golf one-liners with all of Perl. It had very little to do with the use of sigils specifically; such "line noise" is perfectly possible in Ruby and Python.

If anything specific to Perl contributed to the "Perl is line noise" meme, it's probably the fact that a bunch of special variables have names consisting of punctuation marks. Nothing stopping the programmer from doing a "use English;", though.