skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll dodge specificity and just say I value HN for commentary by thoughtful people who contribute information and opinions on matters that interest me, but for which I have less than expert chops. This covers a wide range of topics.

And even in those few domains where I might possibly be an expert, I occasionally get turned around by HN commenters or the stories they submit. That keeps me growing.

I'm deeply grateful for the quality of the HN community and to HN for maintaining it.
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The low-hanging fruit reply to your question is that he supported Trump immensely. The more nuanced answer relies on his speaking to the Property and Freedom Society, founded by Hans Hermann-Hoppe, as well as what White Nationists have said about his views.
And Apple offered an adapter -for a price -and the EU said they were in compliance. The whole purpose was to reduce ewaste.

Actually though, that goes to my point. The government mandated micro-usb, and now there is a better connector USB-C. How long will it take the government to update the law to catch up with technology?
I've been here since the 90s as well, and I can't think of a single major company that came out of SF until recently. Not enough to cause a huge shift in where people worked.
I found out about Y Combinator through HN in 2007. The big thing I learned from PG's essays and the links on HN were that I could start a company myself, and that there were lots of smart people like me who had done it and were going to do it. It gave me the confidence to quit and start working on something.

The next year I applied and got in with my startup Posterous. We built that to a Top 250 Quantcast site, and Twitter ended up buying it. In 2011 I joined Y Combinator as a designer in residence, then investing partner through 2015. In 2015, I started a $125M Seed VC fund (Initialized Capital) with Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, who interviewed me in 2008 to get into YC.

So I literally wouldn't have done any of those things and probably would have stayed on at Palantir as a software engineer in 2007 if I had never seen Hacker News.
I dont think we have a divide, my view just includes racism and sexism as things black people and women have to deal with, in addition to what you list for white males. Its not either or. So I guess my question to you is, since you know racism and sexism exist...why are you so wed to subtracting it from their equation?

Otherwise we agree. I come from a very white, very depressed region. I understand the dynamics well.

As to the govt, I believe the vast majority of all social programs do deal with things on an economic basis. So I dont see the conflict. Once again, not an either or. Most things arent.
Ah. That seems like a pretty odd dealbreaker. It's possible in theory, I guess.
Very much this. I am pretty passionate, but I've learned more about civil discourse on hn than just about anywhere else, mostly because of dang. At first I really resisted the non-user approved positivity rule change, but it's forced me to reevaluate how I approach disagreements online in general. (Even in irc)

It's also been a place for me to vent a bit as a senior sysadmin, and learn quite a bit about how much I don't know.
It was worth it to determine if it was possible to get infinite cheese this way.
We did that. Thanks for using GitLab!
Do you mean SF or SV? Silicon Valley traditionally ended at Palo Alto in the North. It was only recently, ie. last 10 years, where tech companies moved out from Palo Alto. Only a few scant companies were outside of prime Silicon Valley until then.
I hear you. What would you suggest instead?
My entire career.
Yeah, but there are also often a lot of things that just genuinely don't make sense anymore. Xterm is packed with support for an insane number of old tty devices that no one needs. There are plenty of terminal emulators that successfully skip all that and no one ever complains.

I don't know of a magic formula for being able to tell the difference, so it's hard thing to talk about in the abstract.
It got me interested in building software. I am currently studying with Platzi, a Y Combinator Company that gave me a scholarship for a whole year to learn about programming, personal branding and startups.

It has given me knowledge about interesting topics in the tech world. This has made talking to interesting people a lot easier.

This is a little more personal, but it has given me hope of having a better life in the future.
Ask HN: What sci-fi most resembles the Strugatsky brothers' “Roadside Picnic?”
GLSL (OpenGL Shading language, for GPUs) implements this language feature[0]. They chose clamp(x,min,max). Although, it's not exactly a language feature, because I think most GPUs implement this instruction directly in hardware.

https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/html/cl...
Not in competence, but in political systems. Western countries have more societal control over government which leaves less room for low-ethics decisions.
I've always kinda liked debugging, and sometimes love it. I wonder if there is a general correlation or even predictive property here, with taking to debugging right away and programming achievment. (as little as you know how to program, you still can and will need to debug it, right from the start of learning)
They are a, for profit, every website/app has a tech debt it's inevitable and you are asking them to keep an old API that will cost them more money to maintain as they will have to be careful while updating the database not to break the old API.

You didn't update your apps for a month, it shouldn't be that big of a deal but security fixes, bugs, and new features are several reasons why they need you to keep it up to date.

For example they introduced a new feature allowing drivers to see you on the map so they can find you more easily (you can disable it) most user will add extra pressure on the support by contacting them telling them they don't have that feature while it's 100% their fault for not updating, now if they force updates that's will reduce their costs.

Your view of it is simplistic and you only see your own benefit and not the full picture.

Yes the things you use everyday could stay the same for you and just work but that won't bring any income to the companies, if you buy a juicer that needs to be connected to the internet to work that's your own stupid decision.
It's probably more than that if you've structured your passive income such that decent chunks of it are long-term capital gains at 20% federal.
"Roadside Picnic" is a science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. The novel was first translated to English in 1977 by Antonina W. Bouis. By 1998, 38 editions of the novel had been published in 20 countries. I have read it countless times. Here's a PDF, in case you've never had the pleasure:
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/picn...
Well, “never” would be wrong, but it's been a while since that was the common (and, when I say a while, I mean since the Democrats were the southern conservative party and the KKK was a major and overt influence in their candidate selection.)
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Doctors are rich. If they have to work to keep their nice car/house/boat/lifestyle then they aren't wealthy. Of course, there are wealthy doctors, but the definition of wealth is financial independence, not any set income level.
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It's given me an eye on the tech world outside of my own country, and a sense of opinion on things outside of my immediate coworkers.

On the dark side it does give me shiny object syndrome - wanting to read up and know about a lot of things, and some inferior feelings as I see super successful people here, however I am moving on and being happy just to be a guy who enjoys coding, earning money for the family etc.
Rich and wealthy are usually synonyms, and seem to match pretty well what you call wealthy. I think what you label “rich” would be better labeled “high income”.
Wikimedia has always been in favor of net neutrality, it's just that their role in the issue was always muddled by zero rating. From 2014:

> The Wikimedia Foundation believes that the principle of net neutrality is critical to the future of the open Internet. (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net...)

In that article they also discuss how they reconcile net neutrality with Wikimedia Zero. From December 2017:

> Net neutrality is essential for access to knowledge (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/04/net-neutrality-access-...)

Regarding Wikipedia strongly supporting net neutrality, I'm not sure I would agree considering it didn't participate in the day of action on December 12. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Action_to_Save_Net_Neut...)
Thanks for subscribing! Would love to hear what you think about it after a couple issues.
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house, lord, protector are all synonymous in some sense. Hor is a proper noun, but that must derive from common words. Just as temples were actually serving common goods often enough.

I agree, the presentation is loose and wild. At least, I don't see it creating any specific context. And there is no motivation given for the proposed translation. But as words go, the translation speaks for itself. Hor meaning observer is Proto-Afro-Asiatic [1], that relates to Hüter (protector). Hr is also being connected to xal face, surface, upon; which is, at least today, a common metaphor. The hyroglyph is a head on-face. "Head of state, family", etc. has the same connotation. In the sense of the sky, which is the roof and surface of the world, hor has a divine aspect, the falcon being king of the sky, figuratively. And the roof is "on" the house protecting the inhabitants. xal meaning ruler is very productive (if I say so myself), and as it stands a ruler is nothing without an army, an order. Further, face and sky can be linked to vision and light respectively, as in over-see-r. While the falcon is know for good eyesight and vision is a very common metaphor for knowledge. So Hor is a spiritual guide.

J/K: Hor was probably into (H)ornithology, too. And Order (whence Horde). And Oration (which can be heared - eye and ear being close). And Orthography (which you can see). Half of these words are of uncertain origin.

For symbols it doesn't hurt to be ambiguous. So Hathor might just be the house of the house of the houses.

Obviously the article resonates well with me. I have a hunch that hwt-ke-ptah (house, soul, ptah) was the old school of architecture - hence Pythagoras. The word calculate is from a word for stone, which is pt (egy. stone), too. And in terms of counting, a kind of bank would be another civil service. But the service of a temple was likely variable. The identifaction of the god as well. Ptah - pater is just too inviting a link to make, so I think ptah is the deified founding father, the temple having been in Memphis, central to the unification of egypt.

Also, memphis was called "white walls", so much for the racism.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Afro-Asi...
I just switched our small company over to gitlab over the last couple weeks. So far the experience has been great. It seems like a really solid piece of software.
I beg to differ: https://youtu.be/EwMBjKcY2Uc?t=616
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If ajax was Web 2, I feel like decentralization feels apt enough to define Web 3. Like a major upgrade. ^^
Honestly, not much. Mostly, it's reinforced my switch from programming.
It's a neat story but for those that don't read:

1. He's a doctor with a Harvard degree.

2. The nursing home he stayed in was close to his parents... "When he needed a shower, Peck — who was 35 at the time — would drive to his parents' home, which happened to be nearby."

I'm not knocking the significance of things- it's a cool read and a reminder how painful it is to work in and around healthcare with all the bureaucracy and how sad it is he contacted 2000 institutions and only three got back to him.

Worth the read- just a tiny bit sensationalized IMO.

Edit: added quote
I'd like affirmative action removed because I believe it does more harm than good nowadays, and maintains racial and gender divides. I think it was necessary when implemented when rampant, blatant, extreme racism and sexism was the norm, but that just simply isn't the norm nowadays.

I know my negative emotional reaction to seeing a "diverse" leader is racist and sexist, but that's not going away while their advantage is codified in every single corporate handbook in the country.
Nice set of people to chat and comments are especially helpful.

Good reading list

Made me aware of silicon valley and startup when I was India, now I am here :)
Some languages let you spell out the arguments upon calling a function.

clamp(x:3, min:1, max:5)

Oh look! No mental strain required to think about what the function does nor what the order should be to minimize mistakes; it’s clear as day!

I wish more languages adopted the option to do this.
I’ve mixed it into spaghetti sauce too.
Aside: Voting Republican != Conservative, and vice-versa. Despite your voting record, you can still be conservative. See NIMBYism.
There is no difference, really. I just tried to point out that aesthetics can have a influence on language, because you were basically saying the writing system wasn't linguistic, which is really painful to read.
Where's the check?
For a weekend project you should choose something useful to you so you have motivation to finish it.

Are you a blogger? Write your own blogging software so you don't have to deal with Wordpress and ton of plugins, build something tailor made for you.

That's just an example but I recommend choosing something which will benefit you personally as a weekend project otherwise it might be difficult to motivate yourself to finish it.
JSON Lines: Newline-Line Delimited JSON
Moreover, you could also allow for something like passing a structure of parameters.

clamp({min:2, max:5, x:3})

^parameters can be rearranged as you see fit

There! Now the programmer can decide what’s the way they want to call the function that makes the most sense to them.
Transitioning to being a programmer
HN used to be a daily source of nourishment.
But today it is a source of "informed bewilderment" like everything else on the web. Google the term. Understand it's consequences on you and the people around you.
Gratz, man
You are of course right. I was offering (sarcastic) advice on how to convey the racist intent of the sentence in a manner that was slightly less crudely obvious.
I guess the point is that legislation is difficult to undo, is typically written to implement short-term political goals that are not always in the public interest, and further disenfranchises the outgroup of the day
You should probably check everything out for heavy metals. Municipal water sources can carry heavy metals as well.
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The "don't go there" answers only hold true if there are actual alternatives.

It's a shit argument, and collusion to monitor and track customers is pretty much universal.
Without a set of watchmaker's tools and the patience of an adult-- those coil springs and gears are pretty frustrating!
Licencechecker command line application which identifies what license things are
"Roadside Picnic" is one of those books that stick in your brain for a very long time, which in turn makes it one of the books I most love. I do not know ANYTHING about the novel (or movie) "Annihilation" but whenever I see the trailer for the movie, it makes me think of "Roadside Picnic". Perhaps there are some similarities there?
This reminds me of a running joke we had in highschool: When you learn Calculus, you forget Algebra.

Because the vast majority of our mistakes involved adding or subtracting wrong, something "simple" that we didn't expend much thought on.
Why did he live in the nursing home and not with his parents who lived nearby to the nursing home
You only got ~60 upvotes?

Interesting, I always thought the number of upvotes for a Show HN post correlates to its future success.
There’s a lot to be said for the “slim, fast-loading” bit! HN is my go-to “is my internet connection at all functional?” web page. And when T-Mobile cuts me off when I run over my data allotment each month, at least I can read the comments.
Or even center-right. Many of my family, who are definitely right leaning, mildly racist, God fearing, Church attending Christians, we're absolutely devastated at Trump's victory.

I fail to understand how "crying Donald J Trump is the president of the United States" equals being an "insane insufferable far left crazy." Even if you mostly agree with him politically, you may still be very upset about someone who boasted about sexually assaulting women representing you/your political beliefs. That's just one example.
It says: "Goals: Multi-terabyte heaps"
I think there is probably something to this explanation. One reason I've seen for why women prefer not to go into start ups, for example, is that it's more of a high risk, high reward, gamble - which is typically more interesting to men. Likewise, ideologically conservative people are likely disposed not to make such risks.

The question isn't, or shouldn't be, "Do we have representation of women/conservatives/whatever in proportion to demographics?" Instead, the question should be "Are we treating people unfairly?"

For example, I'd feel quite comfortable wearing a Burnie Sanders shirt or hat to work. I'd expect that wearing a MAGA hat would cause problems.
Yeah, basically low latency versions of FaaS.
1. GP is talking about type safety in general, not just exceptions.

2. Not “all general purpose programming languages” support exceptions. To name a few that don’t: C, Rust, Go.
A daily reminder of how far the tech community has to go socially and morally, and hopefully a chance to help change that in a positive direction.
I just interpret 'serverless' to mean 'an abstraction layer above the server'. The term is poorly named, but just like git commands you gotta go with what takes off. shrug unicode
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(mostly) political news-free content, but I'm here mostly for the comments, 'Show HN' and 'Ask HN' posts.
Because the nursing home would only agree to work with him at all if he stayed on site.

Also: This seems to be a YC company. He was flying back weekly for YC events.
It just strikes me as a circular development pattern.
Can you explain how Thiel is a neo-Nazi or white nationalist?
I believe 60 upvotes at the time is probably equal to >150 upvotes today.
When you say conservatives support Meritocracy do you mean like how Ivanka and Jared got jobs with the White House? When people criticize the word "Meritocracy" they are not criticizing the concept but the usage.
1. The Harvard part of the degree is completely irrelevant

2. His parents’ home happen to be nearby, but note that was a semi-lucky coincidence. He was living in Silicon Valley when he cold-called all of those institutions. One of the few that actually answered was near his parents’ house.

Here is the relevant passage: “So he cold-emailed and called more than 2,000 facilities across the country.“

This guy will succeed because he was willing to cold call 2,000 places despite having a Harvard degree. He was willing to live in a conference room despite having a Harvard degree. He will succeed at whatever he does and it wouldn’t matter if he went to Cal State Fullerton.

In my opinion this story is intrinsically sensational because he is such a stud. A guy willing to go this far is a guy YC is lucky to have.
An audience.
That's exactly right. Male engagement in computer science and programming sky rocketed with the Advent of personal computers, while female engagement didn't change much.
It took many more words, several days and a lot of listening from both sides for a more reasonable position to emerge.
..full of people who's views differ from mine that I can have good arguments with.
Writing Emacs's dynamic modules in Rust
Isn't it suppose to be:

18 to 20 is 2
20 to 30 is 10
30 to 33 is 3
2 + 10 + 3 = 15

?

Also, how does she know it's 18, plus an additional 18? Why not 18 + 20? What happens if it's 33 minus 21? 21 + 21 is 42...

Just curious - but at least she's got her own system that works!
Ads (matching, serving, recording analytics), Scylla uses the same protocol Cassandra does. I've been using the CDRS crate which is pretty nice. It has a few rough spots that I've started to smooth over and send PRs for when I get a chance.
You're right. I also cannot think of anything useful that "smart" contracts can accomplish that a normal contract cannot. Also, wtf does "apps" mean? Can I run this "app" on my phone? Is it like instagram?
Yeah, I felt it was pretty good at the time. BTW my comment here has 110 upvotes, many more people on HN then in 2012.
Knowledge and company for people building knowledge companies.
Other fields, like chemistry and mathematics have transferable knowledge to, for example, pharmacology and teaching, respectively. This isn't so much the case with the fields that still feature low engagement among women.

The people vs. things hypothesis has pretty robust data supporting it at this point.
Yay! Thanks for using GitLab. Every month we're trying hard to make the installation, the performance, the security, and the interface better. Still a lot of work to do but we've come a long way from our beginnings being based on gitolite.
What does having mutable state have to do with being decentralized?
How is China an alternative to western ideology? The modern Chinese economy is just capitalism with a heavier authoritarian element to the governance.
A trifle to Truffle.
It motivated me to make stupid github projects for Internet points. A couple of them got voted to the front page and one even got flagged killed.

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10968004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198391
Luckily, the Git UI has progressed massively and has graduated to merely obtuse.
Wherever you work, are they hiring? :-)
I haven't downvoted, but the obvious rebuttal seems to be:

If there is spare capacity in the network, why not simply increase data caps.
Quick, someone name an Ethereum app that does something useful and is in widespread use.
Break contract, be forever viewed as less trustworthy. The punishment fits the crime.
Opens Friday February 23; can't wait! Thanks!
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This is the first I've read of the JSON Lines format. What problem does this solve?

*answered my question shortly after posting by re-reading the blog post: "enables incremental writing and reading of the recording."

So it makes streaming data a lot easier.
I was wondering the same thing myself. Digital Ocean had been great for me.
I first learned about Go here. It inspired me to learn more about the language. Myself and two others worked to get it adopted at work, where it has become the main language there, which makes my daily life much more pleasant.

The other thing HN has given me is a large time sink. I spend far too much time reading comments here.
+1 for mentioning my friend Denny. I wrote an application that Experteliigence sold for me - lots of fun. Expertelligence had a high talent density.