skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also owns several properties and derives rent from them. Are people in their 20s going to benefit from:

1. get a time machine

2. go back 20 years

3. exploit your peers

He's full of it. I recall reading one time about him speaking about having a pound of oats in his hand and what a lot of raw energy that represented if used wisely.

That at then income of two other families whilst they struggle.
Credential verification for the world
I feel FB is kind of dying anyway. All the trendy/cool/geek people have left FB. Users don't share much stuff anymore. There is this ego fatigue too: people are tired of playing this game of making their life looks cool on FB.

It's no coincidence that FB buy WhatsApp, Instagram, Occulus: they have the metrics and they need to move on to something else.
Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.)
I feel for you, that is a tough situation to be in. Having been in an emotionally abusive relationship myself, which sounds like what yours has developed into, I can kind of relate. I was neither married nor have children, and it was still very hard to disentangle myself from someone who was using me for stability. As others have said, you should probably talk to a lawyer since a child is involved. I also highly recommend finding a counselor or therapist if you haven’t already. This is deep emotional stuff, and it is hard to work through, and there are people who are trained to help you heal.

As someone who is living a non~monogamous lifestyle, I want to chime in about that aspect. When two people are in a monogamous relationship and one person decides/discovers that they want to open it up, they don’t get to just do that to their partner. It is still not consensual if they never got informed, non-coerced consent. It needs to involve lots of talking (much more than simply saying “I’m doing this now”), it may need to involve marriage counseling, and it absolutely needs to be done with love. The label “polyamory” in particular designates multiple meaningful, loving relationships, I.e. not just bringing people home, especially if you as her first partner aren’t cool with it. That ain’t polyamory, or any kind of consensual non~monogamy, because her actions are not taking your well-being into account, so if she’s calling it that then she’s fooling herself. (This still applies even if you agreed to try it out and it became clear that it didn’t work for you and you told her as much.)

Opening up an existing relationship is not an easy change to make, and it requires both partners to be on board, and it is absolutely fine for you to know that that’s not your relationship style and that you don’t want to continue a relationship with someone who has decided that it is hers. There is no need to feel bad about discovering that you are incompatible with each other and going your separate ways. I’m sorry that she didn’t know or care enough to handle the situation constructively though, that’s extra pain that could have been avoided.

It’s a shitty situation but you can bounce back from it. I was 29 when I got out of my bad relationship. That was 6 or 7 years ago now and I’ve been enjoying life more than ever! Just make sure to spend time taking care of yourself, and don’t be afraid to ask people for help when you need it. Best of luck to you.
Most JS is unwanted code running in the browser. Seriously, the web devs are the ones that want it, not the user.
Right, sure. But on a bus, routers blindly route all packets. They don't discriminate.

On a mesh (at least in OSLR or BATMAN), nodes only route certain packets. They are also free to drop packets for any reason, be they geographical or economic. Nobody can demand that a node perform routing.

I can absolutely imagine a malicious regulator claiming that the law requires every node on a small-town mesh to cart Fox News to the other side of town with just as much priority as packets originating from within the town. And that's not really sustainable for a mesh.
It seems like you think art has no "intellectualism". IG is a great way to see contemporary fashion and art around the world in real time.
I agree with your points, except the part on jealously and warning against self-help. I view his life similar to investing, as he mentioned: being "long term greedy." I thought him and his parent's story illustrated this. It is unlikely that his parents had the best schooling in the world, but they were successful financially somewhat. When their son struggled in school, they enrolled him somewhere else and gave him more resources. He used that and achieve more by attending the most prestigious institution in the world. While it is likely that luck played a huge role, ie. China's market liberalization and growth, U.K. schools wanting to make more revenue, his stint at GS. He and his parents needed to be there in position the first place to take advantage of all of that. I do not think this is his point to warn against self help, rather than an examination of why and how he got to where he did.

Luck only comes when you are in position to seize it. Yes despite your best efforts, it might never come. But it can come when you never expect it because you are in the right place and the right time.
That's why I qualifed with "relatively safe". Arbitrary code from potentially malicious/incompetent sources is arbitrary code, but its a platform on which its relatively safe to run arbitrary code.
> Training employees.

Same as with MS Office. I remember me and my parents doing trainings in MS Office, which wasn't exactly free either.

> Securing the environment.

Same as with MS Office.

> compatibility with proprietary formats isn't 100%.

MS Office' compatibility with open formats isn't 100%.

> Maintaining the environment by addressing bugs.

That is a win for MS Office. Now offset that against the license cost and vendor lock-in risk.

I know we conclude the same, namely choosing FOSS for many kinds of environments, but your post sounds a lot like there are many costs unique to FOSS while in reality there are lots of costs involved with both options.
It's OK I don't mind.
1. This was a bit of rant but questions like this are very related to communist's/socialist's "it's always someone else's fault". This is not productive nor is helpful. It's better to educate yourself on how economics work in the real world. Then you will have a chance to make the world a better place yourself instead of "let's use force to take from productive people and give it to unproductive people" which is not that good of an idea in the first place from economics perspective (proven empirically in many countries many times).

2. Nit-picking on my my "all". I didn't mean that literally. Billionaires' wealth is tied up and even if they would sell everything (and give everything to charity) someone else (who takes over) would be even richer which most likely would result in less competition, less innovation, higher prices and lower quality to everyone. Lack of understanding in how economy works results in questions like this.
The main goal: Make more art. Specifically, the kind I call "art you have to plug in" -- kinetic art sculptures that include light, motion, and interactivity. I work towards achieving it by having my own company with a workshop full of the tools (3D printers, CNC mills, soldering stations, etc.) needed to make the art. The company uses those same tools to make products that solve problems for other companies. A portion of profits goes into funding the art projects. The technical skills needed to make the for-profit products are the same ones needed to make the art.
All we have to do is raise the comprehension level of (1/2 * n + 1) voters for democracy to work well. And it's not a perpetual cycle. The universe's complexity is finite.
Office's formats are now open, and have been for a long time, now - they're basically just zip archives full of XML files.

Whether they're easier or harder to work with is maybe a topic for debate. My experience from working with them is that OXML tends to be easier to work with than ODF in simple cases, in part because of better open source library support on more languages, and more StackOverflow-type advice. (Yes, open source support for the Microsoft formats really is quite a bit better than for the OpenOffice ones these days.) But it also tends to be the one that produces really gnarly compound documents that are just impossible to make sense of.

I'm not sure that's because the format allows for more complexity, though, so much as because MS Office makes it easier for the kinds of people who use templates that look like spiral bound notebooks with Comic Sans type to create trouble.
These ruins from the Nintendo world will make you cry
You can minify those a lot. I tried some on https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ and got ~20%-30% without any visual changes.
I love that SVG survived! It dates back to 1999 and was almost forgotten. When D3js first got started around 2010/2011 I was astonished that SVG support was so good in so many browsers; Mike had been using it even earlier with Protovis and Polymaps. Everything but IE had support as some sort of unnused vestigal thing. And then interactive visualizations started using SVG regularly and now it's vital again.
Post author here: As others said, it's a CMS for static site generators.

Traditional CMS's are opinionated server side applications that live outside of the site developer's workflow, and are subject to maintenance and a high potential for getting hacked. The advantage is eschewing all of that for a hackable React app that literally lives on a page on your site, and gaining the speed and security benefits of static development.

To better understand the methodology, check out https://JAMstack.org.
I think it takes a tiny bit of courage to look around the room, to have thoughts in public, and to have an image of "I'm not constantly busy". There are millions of George Costanzas, who are constantly acting busy in and high demand, not because they don't want more work, but.. well I don't know why. Maybe they actually ARE busy with social media, but I always look at them like they're pretenders.

Being free is better than acting busy.
Isn’t there always a flaw?
Those are people who are vocal about their choices.

Based on what you're reading here, the average HNer uses Fastmail, has no Facebook account, writes code in Rust, exercises a lot, wants a self-driving car and works at or owns a start-up.

While most people reading this site are most likely Java, JS or .Net programmers; work at a large enterprise, use Gmail and Facebook.
Pictures of food, dogs, and people lounging on some old guy's yacht who they met through tinder doesn't really count as intellectual art.

Also merely photographing someone else's art doesn't quite count as being an artist. That's just cheap mimicry.
That's how it sounded to me too.

Besides that, what's the advantage of having Wikipedia as an onion vs visiting the site from Tor over HTTPS?

Wouldn't that mean you're just adding this onion proxy to your circle of trust and hoping they aren't giving you altered articles or logging accessed articles? How is that better than accessing Wikipedia directly (via Tor and HTTPS)?
Just blindly accepting whomever the minority party nominates is not a part of 'custom.' Letting the minority party select who is nominated is. But nominees are indeed rejected, though often it doesn't come to a vote. Voting is often a formality as decisions are agreed upon beforehand, so for rejections see the numerous appointments that are left to "withdraw."

You're definitely right about the reasons Google failed to compete, but we can look at it even more fundamentally. The major problem is that people, for whatever reason, were insufficiently incentivized to sign up. When regulations are overly precise in what and how a product must be offered, it ends up turning competition into an RPG style stat check on scale. Could you make a McDonalds style hamburger cheaper than McDonalds? Not a chance. Fortunately, you're not required by the government to create hamburgers in the same style as McDonalds and so there is room for competition in ways outside of price alone. This not only enables competitors, but also requires that McDonalds not take their own success for granted. If their style of burger is no longer what their demographic desires, they can easily lose - fast.

So essentially deregulation opens up two mirrored possibilities. The first is if the monopolist begin to really carry out the doomsday scenarios some people are fearing, that's damn sure going to incentivize people to swap when possible. And similarly, the lack of regulation enables far more creative offerings. The cliche example is a nearly free email-only type package, but really there is no limit to what could be achieved particularly with partner companies and motivated investors. And these offerings would not be so readily matched by the monopolists since their value is far more difficult to gauge, and the value to ISP themselves would also be a dynamic value. E.g. an ISP partnered with Netflix would receive a different level of value from from a certain package than Comcast would from the same package.

Again, I'm not really convinced this is a reasonable enough argument to give up net neutrality -- but it's an argument that I think is fully cogent and viable. The thing that concerns me is that people aren't really even discussing his views -- instead just demonizing him, and justifying their own behavior by claiming he doesn't even have consistent views which is plainly absurd. We should be able to civilly disagree. And indeed as it looks like net neutrality is almost certainly going away, civilly accept loss. In any case it will be a great test to see who was right -- and if Pai's statement that bad behavior itself will be regulated against is something that he will stay true to, if necessary. If it does indeed become a serious issue it could even be a topic in the 2020 presidential race -- Pai's term expires in 2022.
> If you have Windows 10 Enterprise edition, all telemetry can be disabled.

I remember reading that this common belief is wrong, but unfortunately I don't remember where/who claimed that. Did it recently change, perhaps?
This Rust code [1] heap allocates some things (e.g., a string with `String::from`), and results in this [2] WASM file, which is 65kB, or 25kB after `gzip -9`.

[1]: https://github.com/killercup/wasm-experiments/blob/bf3b30eed...

[2]: https://github.com/killercup/wasm-experiments/blob/bf3b30eed...
I'd like to see the data, personally. I'm sure there have been plenty of studies of how social media affects society, but do we have much of a consensus?
Use notebooks to keep track of my life's work. Write less code. Transform social media to be more transparent.
> Would it be wrong to say that Microsoft is "too big to fail", similar to some banks? I'd expect governments to actually try and save Microsoft precisely because of this situation.

It doesn't really work like that. If Microsoft fails, it will be slow. You don't go from 90% installed base to 0% installed base overnight. There is no point at which they still have enough customers to be too big to fail but don't have enough to continue operating.

But as businesses transition to something else, they have to pay the transition cost. Which is a lot higher when changing market conditions force you to transition unexpectedly than when you have the foresight to plan and get ahead of the curve.
To follow the Ten Commandments, to be a productive and a creative person and to contribute positively to society.
> what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain?

LDAP

> How do you centrally manage workstations?

SSH

This is how my school does it: there is a system user with an ssh key which they use for pushing updates and such (e.g. recently fail2ban was installed on all computers), and we can all log into any system using LDAP.
Representative government is our thing.
While social media profile portability is generally impossible, almost all email providers will let you export email as a MBOX that you can then import into your new account.
Very cool! I would advise to try minifying with svgomg, some icons seem to benefit. Eg bitbucket.svg can be reduced by 20% without any visual change.
I've been doing this using uBlock Origin's filtering on the social media sites I visit; anecdotally, it makes a significant difference in how much I engage with content that is not highly upvoted. I highly recommend it.
> A good test for this would be to see if tea drinkers also experience health benefits similar to those seen in the study. If not then that may indicate that my theory is wrong.

Yes, or drinks with artificial sweeteners.
Europe-based engineer here: Is a 401k completely unaccessible until 60?

I am currently resident of Switzerland, which has similar restrictions on the tax-free part of retirement savings, but allows earlier withdrawal for reasons such as

* purchasing a home (restriction: you have to live there yourself

* leaving the country
How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.)

There are different solutions, such as Red Hat's Satellite:

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite

Or Canonical's Landscape:

https://landscape.canonical.com/

But a tech-savvy team could do the same with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
This is a quite critical personal information, I would share it with care on the internet.
> Also that as your income rises you need to be aware of (and fight against) the natural urge to spend (and often waste) more money.

This is probably the most important thing to remember. For many years every time I received a raise, I just upped my savings/retirement by the same amount. My take home never changed, so it was easy to stay at the lifestyle I had become accustomed to.

Perspective is also important. I did not have much growing up, so while what I have now is modest it is way more than I ever thought I would have. Another trick is to listen to old rap ;) In the 90s it was extravagant to have 50" TVs and game systems.
Show HN: Improve and get automatic feedback on drawn sketches
As I was struggling to draw people that actually looked like people, I created a website that compares a hand drawn portrait of a person to a photo. Instead of rapidly looking back and forth at the end to see how I did, I ended up making some software that automatically puts the two pictures together and blends them back and forth. This way you can see small deviations in your drawing and areas to improve.

Instead of asking for feedback every time, you can see your own mistakes and learn to make the proportions, shading and edges as close to the original as possible.

The site is below with a few examples you can look at to see how it works.
http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison

http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/alGoreN5R...
http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/brie
http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/brie2ICPW...

Let me know what you think.
The universe's complexity is finite.

For a given bounded region.
Yes, but first he needs to contact a lawyer.

He has already made several fatal moves:

1. Left the marital home which the courts will consider abandonment. She just won legal custody.

2. He is paying her $4K or whatever a month without any judicial order. None of this will count towards future spousal or child support - instead it is a gift that establishes her minimum financial need.

3. He is (probably) not documenting, down to the minute, the time he spends with his child. Again, there goes custody.

4. The next call from the playbook will be to get him for domestic violence. As the man, it is absolutely irrelevant if there is proof or not (see the Duluth Model). He's not recording every interaction with her, though he should be.

If you do nothing else, start reading: http://forum.mensdivorce.com/viewforum.php?f=12

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_model
It's actually great for highly complex, high traffic setups as well - Smashing Magazine was a conglomerate site using Wordpress, Kirby, Rails, and Shopify, and are now entirely static (10x faster literally) and using Netlify CMS for content management. If you haven't checked out their site lately you should!

https://www.smashingmagazine.com

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/11/21/smashing-magazine-is...
Facebook vectored away from trendy/cool/geek when it stopped requiring an email with .edu. It just took awhile for people to get used to the internet. Old people use it to see photos of their grandkids. It's a bigger and more sustainable user base than young people. Young people turn over. The first person I knew with Facebook is 33 with three children and a mortgage.
Ask HN: How to make money from blog?
Do you monetize your blog? If then, how do you do it?
I really hope you are kidding.

Books and newspapers have the power to enrich the mind with knowledge. Writing a book requires dedication and thought out arguments.

Apps are designed to get you hooked on rewards. Twitter allows people to communicate with each others, but if its just garbage coming out, then it does more harm than good. Look at the president.

Books are like fruits and vegetables. Apps are sugary drinks.
Really appreciate your comment. I consider myself a pretty progressive guy and I agree with your statements. It’s not about the multiple lovers, its the way she just decided to do it with no regard for me.

I did see a picture where we are happy in an open marriage. But not even close to the one that she is painting right now - the one she has gathered from the influence of IG influencers. And she has let me know many times she is not stopping.

Thanks for your insight.
These community projects are great ways to test potential upstream changes before trying to make a bunch of upstream changes. The maintainer of the project doesn't have to field half-baked pull requests.

I think a bigger problem with man pages is not that they are badly written, it's that man itself is not user friendly:

1. I can't immediately jump to an entry for "-o", I have to use a search expression that might or might not work.

2. I can't reliably search for all references to "-o" from its definition.

3. I can't reliably jump to the definition of "-o" from any given reference.

4. I sure as hell can't search for "output" and easily find that "-o" is the option that controls the name of the output file.

5. There is no table of contents, and even if there were, there would be no way to link from an item in that table to its location in the manual.

HTML, for whatever it's deficiencies might be, is a far superior format for disseminating documentation. The Vim manual is pretty good too, due to the use of aggressive tagging and tight integration with those tags. Funny part is that manual pages can be written with semantic markup, but the semantic meaning is discarded once the manual pages rendered. It is totally backwards, and the world is in need of a better manual page renderer.
Yep, we're managing Git content through their API, which is exactly the kind of thing the API exists for. There are working PR's for open for Bitbucket and GitLab backends too, those will be out soon.
I like it. Wordpress charges extra for plugins, Appspot is blocked in China, Rhcloud closed down, and I registered Github pages while they still gave out .com subdomains.

My personal website is written in Markdown and loaded & converted to HTML on load using JavaScript. I hard-coded the whole thing a few years ago, and I dread maintaining it so I rarely post.

Now there's a decent CMS that's targeted to Github, I'll experiment with it and seriously consider migrating my website over to Netlify.
Did you just time travel here from 1999?
Create a podcast out of any website or file
Could have sworn i have seen old ads for meth as a diet pill...