skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think this is a very insightful comment. i'm one of those people that spend a lot of time discussing and arguing about diversity and inclusion (here and irl) and what i wish people understood intimately what you allude to here

>but because they're people for whom this society works well already, so there's no need for a revolution.

it's very hard to convince someone for whom a system is working that there's potentially something immoral about perpetuating that system. the feeling is that since they're not proximally personally culpable that it's not a moral failing to participate but this is true

>But the real cost is that our society has to bend to support them

capital and resources allocated for wework is capital and resources that could have been allocated else where if our cultural priorities were different and therefore it's to the detriment of "abnormal" peoples that wework exists and persists.

i know i'm basically recapitulating everything you've said but (clearly) i think it merits emphasis.

this prompts the question: how do you do it? i think i'd be interested to know how you became sympathetic or partial if you're not from a marginalized community yourself (and we can take that offline) but this is hopeful as well

>But the ideas they generate, they're just... normal. They're not really strange or weird or delightful.

normative practices by definition normalize status quo. if in 50 years you still want to be wearing plaid, drinking craft beer, and listening to lcd soundsystem then go ahead and continue to exult in wework et al but otherwise you should try to include people that look very much different from you.
Poor choice of words on my part. I meant "conservative" in terms of NIMBYs' aversion to change and development.
> It’s also a problem that nobody in the city seems very much to care about

Because all the rich people living in the North West part of the city are completely insulated from it.
“We all understand how complicated and regulated school is compared to the simpler business that we are already in,” Mr. Neumann said. “But we decided we’re going to go into education. If you really want to change the world, change kids when they’re 2.”

Am I the only one who found this a bit weird?
No, not really the worst thing. Especially for desktops its pretty great. Just buy one of sufficient size to comfortably use the central 3:2 portion, and you've got side left over for whatever else down the sides.

I use a 40inch 4k monitor. You don't even need scaling (i can still read it without glasses). You get massive vertical height and plenty of width to play with.

Just because it's not the perfect ratio doesnt mean you can't just buy a monitor of sufficient size to use a section of it to suit your needs. And when i want to put my feet up i still have a huge 4k movie screen.

It would be great if the choice was there to just buy a 3:2 but the sky is hardly falling down just because 4k got here.
Would such a kid be "gangsta", or merely inconsiderate?
>If that doesn't point to a presence of insane, insufferable far left (or at least leftist) crazies I don't know what does.

I think you're mistaking how extreme their political beliefs are with how extremely devoted to their political beliefs they are. Most of these people aren't 'far left' they're just very, very committed to their center/center-left politics.
Political views are relative.

I could say that there are no hard-right parties in Europe (with mainstream ideals - I'm ignoring the fascist parties).
My first thought on seeing the headline was "continuing to reinvent the XML ecosystem...in JSON"
>- Using it with salt and water makes a kind of chicken broth'y flavor. - Butter or margerine on toast, then sprinkle nutritional yeast on top.

Australians have something called Vegemite which they use like you say, on toast. (British too, with Marmite.) It's even mentioned in a song by the band Men at Work - "vegemite sandwich" or some such phrase - heard it as a kid.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite#In_popular_culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
So many people play videos or games on their phone/tablets with the volume at max that it wouldn't make a difference anyway.
this doesn't really seem to be a unique feature of 'lispy' languages because the overwhelming majority of languages does not have wide adoption in the market.

The reason why adoption concentrates on a few languages is mostly network effects rather than objective features of the language itself.

Maybe it's time for us to think about how to increase the adoption of languages rather than trying to bolt every feature onto java just because there is a lot of java code and devs. We're going to be stuck in a never-ending mess of complication and legacy.
I’ve long wondered how Coinbase can be resistant to an armed robbery of the office with staff present. Seems like a pretty interesting security engineering challenge.
> It mostly all seem to be an attempt to blame Russia for internal problems.

Agreed. The vast majority of the time I see Russia brought up it's being used by mainstream Democrats to dismiss criticism from both the right and the left. Basically anyone that's not a staunch neoliberal gets accused of being a Russian or a Russian puppet.

They're using it as a scapegoat and it seems to be working.
The amount of tutting that would induce on the tube would be a sight to see.
Who is calling for restricting free speech?

I'd be happy with people acknowledging it is happening instead of saying it's "nothing" or "McCarthyism" (see this thread). It does no good to lie to yourself.

Some acknowledgement instead of denial is the first step towards...something.
On the other hand, can you actually make a human not repeat given action? Or explain it?
So what is the attraction of something like we-work? I've never been in one myself. Obviously investors see a lot more into it than the 1000s of other startups, so it is succeeding despite the haterade.

Is it something like Uber & Amazon? A huge revenue growth trajectory despite being already huge with an ever shrinking loss trajectory?
Interesting, especially since I am not American and I think I have a pretty good idea of what "far-left" means. Care to explain what you think it means?

I use it to describe any political ideology focussed on equality of outcome and legitimacy through elimination of self-judged "oppression", which is IMO as good a definition as any as the communist disasters of the 20th century.
That's just at the mean. It skews even more once you start heading toward the tails, the high end of which you would expect to see in the engineering labor force.
Let's take a starker example, for the sake of the argument. The building I live in today did not allow Jews, Asians, or people of color until the 1960s (my family would not be allowed in). An explicit Code of Conduct, now in our bylaws, prohibits discrimination based on those categories. Was it a "power play"? Would you make the same argument as above to justify not passing bylaw amendments that argue against discrimination?

The BSD rules are a softer version of that starker example. I am truly perplexed by the resistance to it. It has huge benefits for a marginalized group and marginal inconvenience for those already in power, already privy to all of the benefits.
Backstory and caveats:

> Losing Data and NIH

> You can lose data on crash and there is no replication, so you have to orchestrate that yourself doing double writes or something.

> The super simple architecture allows for all kidnds of hacks to do backups/replication/sharding but you have to do those yourself.

> My usecase is ok with losing some data, and we dont have money to pay for kafka+zk+monitoring(kafka,zk), nor time to learn how to optimize it for our quite big write and very big multi-read load.

> Keep in mind that there is some not-invented-here syndrome involved into making it, but I use the service in production and it works very nice :)
No, that minor inconvenience is absolutely not worth whatever benefits you imagine.
SF has been dominated by what passes as the American left (with the neoliberal wing of the Democratic party being the local “conservative” establishment) for several decades.

This has not radically changed recently.
I haven't been to San Francisco in 10ish years or NYC in 5 so I can't compare directly, but Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston all have tons of homeless people as well and they seem to get very little attention.
Do we include libertarian techno-utopianism as left leaning or democratic talking points?

Because there's a ton of libertarian techno-utopianism.
I've thought for a long time that colonization will probably never take off, but space industry is absolutely a good idea.

Building colonies on mars is sort of like building colonies in Death Valley, or in the Marina trench, or inside the reactor cupola of Chernobyl. You could probably do it, but it's expensive, and nobody in their right mind would come. Once you've spent a ton of fuel getting out of a gravity well, you'd be insane to go down another one, especially if the only thing you're going to get from it is radiation poisoning.

Space, on the other hand, offers some really interesting opportunities for manufacturing. It's effectively a gigantic clean-room, allowing for a whole load of processes you can't do on earth - like no-heat welding.
The Stockholm Metro got 3G in 2005, by installing a radiating cable that acts as an antenna[1]. Should work everywhere, really.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_feeder
I agree that the best transition strategy would be for grid/network operators to acquire these people as reactors reach their end of life and are decommissioned.
Much of this doesn't have a 1:1 equivalent tool, but is workable anyway. This comment got really long so I moved it into a gist: https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/594040cb476f93c503715d4635b...
I pretty regularly get transient LTE service in Lower Manhattan's tunnels. Although, certainly not consistently enough to make calls.
So you self-identify as liberal and never actually been exposed to people in an area that is predominantly conservative?

Isn't that the definition of insular and close-minded?
I agree. I mentioned it in another comment but you're right, 32 inch up to 40 inch is a good sweet spot with huge flexibility to do what you need.

You can basically use the central 3:2 section for most stuff unless you need to tile some windows wider, yet you still have huge vertical height to enjoy. It really is a great way to avoid multiple monitors, bezels and expense.
I don't think AI needs to be able to explain itself in order to be trusted. Human beings, in general, cannot give arbitrarily deep and valid explanations for their actions, and yet, somehow, we manage to come to trust them.
I think that's near-completely false, and harmful/inhumane/unethical to boot. My comments elsewhere in this thread explain why.

As a separate aside/quibble: when you say "blue haired" are you referring to people with dyed hair, or people older than a certain age? Both are derogatory/prejudicial/rude terms in context, but throughout my life I've heard "blue hair" used to refer to the latter (older people), has that changed? Is "blue hair" now a stereotyped signal for political beliefs?
... but the terms left and right have lost all meaning so this saying is kinda meaningless too.
Yes, I use Guile for work. (But I work in a not-for-profit environment.)
The only advantage of a large protein surplus is quickened muscle development. That aside I wouldn't discount the value of dietary protein. Testosterone levels in males this generation are already too low (leading to weakened hearts, infertility and apparently lethargy/depression), and protein is one thing that can help.
I hope that I demonstrate through my polite and hopefully-constructive replies that I am in fact arguing in good faith.

Once we abandon that assumption then all hope is lost.
Show HN: Comm – a decentralized, censorship-resistant p2p messaging app
I’ve been working on this p2p protocol for a few years now as a sort of hobby. I’ve recently wrapped it up as a GTK app. I’m still working on getting it fully documented, as the protocol mostly exists in code and floating around in my head. I spew it out every now and then verbally, but still need to capture it in writing.

It lacks a lot of features that you'd expect, like encryption and group messaging, but, I wanted to share it because I’ve pushed really hard to get it to a minimally useful state to force myself to finally “finish” one of my ridiculous side projects.

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/zacstewart/comm-gtk
A pre-built MacOS app is in the releases for download.

The underlying protocol repo is here: https://github.com/zacstewart/comm

The network layer is based on the design of the Mainline DHT described in BEP 5[1]. Atop that is built a messaging layer which handles all the relaying, message acknowledgement, storing messages for delivery later, etc.

Thanks for taking a look!

[1]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html
> They are in the right space at the right time

I should have made myself clearer by explaining what "space" I was referring to. I wasn't referring to any sort of educational space, I was strictly referring to the abundance of co-working spaces these days, especially "cool" ones. WeWork is the archetype of the cool (and expensive) co-working space.

The area I live in has an abundance of these types of workspaces. It's almost comical. One of the newest (it hasn't completed construction yet) is advertising a creche. I thank my lucky stars that I'm in a privileged enough position that I (currently) earn enough that my partner can stay home and be the primary carer of our daughter whilst I go and work in my studio/workshop in an unfashionable (but surely up-and-coming) part of our city.
A few years ago, I sent a message to Stripe about a problem with its documentation (they let you switch examples to be in different languages, but at least some Java examples showed up as C++). They not only sent a personal message saying they fixed it, but also offered me a free tshirt. It really sent a message that they cared about documentation.
It cost mere 2 million (of their huge budget) to serve ALL of the pages from Wikimedia Foundation for 2017.

It can't cost "that much" for someone to download Wikipedia pages. And if so, you can still buy a Wikipedia snapshot CD/DVD.

- But if Wikipedia is "too much" bandwidth (1) then what CAN you access on the internet? Why would you expect any utility from the internet at all, if a mostly text page is too much?

- Unlike Wikipedia taking on the world itself, Wikipedia should be LOBBYING people with even more money to do it for them. You know... building internet infrastructures. Think how bad our internet would be today if in 2005 they said, "Let's work on minimizing the bandwidth usage instead of complaining that our ISPs need to get faster." It's like someone who wants to get out of poverty by spending less. Yeah, that's great. But you want an easier way to get out of poverty? Make more money. Trust me, I know. We should be elevating internet quality (and incomes) around the world, not minimizing usage for one of the already tiniest bandwidth websites on the planet.

(1) BTW, there's also bandwidth reducing plugins for Chrome that have a 3rd-party convert them to black-and-white/low-res.

[edit] There's even an official Google plugin! (If you're okay having them basically store the contents every site you visit...)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-saver/pfmgfdl...

I don't recall the 3rd party one I used but it definitely worked when I tested it out. It might be this one, Bandwidth Hero:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bandwidth-hero-liv...

(Basically search "Bandwidth saver" in extensions.)
You see no difference between someone sharing something on a social platform versus having that information plastered across the nation?
InfraGard, FBI’s privileged first class citizens website!
Doesn't that solid wood sheathing in the core of the building act as cross bracing?
"thoughtleaders"
> Are men more accepting of high risk, low QOL careers?

This question has been studied and the answer is yes: men on average show greater interest in high-risk behaviors, and high-risk, demanding careers than women. Here is one study on risk-taking:

> Title: Gender Differences in Risk Taking: A Meta-Analysis

> Abstract: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 150 studies in which the risk-taking tendencies of male and female participants were compared[]. Results showed that the average effects for 14 out of 16 types of risk taking were significantly larger than 0 (indicating greater risk taking in male participants) and that nearly half of the effects were greater than .20. However, certain topics (e.g., intellectual risk taking and physical skills) produced larger gender differences than others (e.g., smoking). In addition, the authors found that (a) there were significant shifts in the size of the gender gap between successive age levels, and (b) the gender gap seems to be growing smaller over time.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232541633_Gender_Di...

It's also been studied how this difference in risk-taking between men and women affects occupational preferences. For brevity I won't quote it here, but see "Gender differences in financial risk aversion and career choices are affected by testosterone". http://www.pnas.org/content/106/36/15268.full

See also "Women, careers, and work-life
preferences". In this publication, Catherine Hakim explores women's work-life preferences in the context of demanding jobs. She notes that some jobs are highly demanding (such as requiring long or irregular work hours, at short notice, or lots of travel) and observes these jobs are inconsistent with the work-life balance desires of women more so than men, explaining why there are fewer women working in these jobs than men:

> The majority of working women seek a large
degree of work-life balance (Hakim, 2005), certainly more than men do. Women are more likely to ask for shorter work hours than to ask for higher pay or promotion (Babcock & Laschever, 2003).

https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim...
Let me tell you, if you shed tears because Trump won the election you are mentally unstable.
Show HN: Find info about future Python conf's and meetups through your terminal
One of the arguments for mass surveillance is that you could hand over to another system if the suspect goes off-camera. So in this case, presumably they knew exactly what time the thief left the building and, provided everyone talks to each other, you could figure out where he went next. Ultimately you might be able to determine where the suspect lived or transition to a camera where better footage is available. Problem is that while we are watched en masse, most of these systems are separate. I'm not arguing that we should have this capability, but this is the obvious use-case.

The quality of CCTV footage (or lack of) is well known. How many times have you seen a news report with a blurry photo of a suspect and a plea for information? This is vague proof that mass surveillance is ineffective unless you throw serious manpower at it.

This is what happens in the case of serious terrorism cases, where the police can wave RIPA around and subpoena footage from everyone, but presumably tracking between cameras still requires a lot of manual intervention (and therefore money). Catching a locker thief isn't worth it.
> syntax-independent programming languages

https://blog.plan99.net/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69
That's not the picture I got from the WeWork spaces in Berlin. A significant portion of the companies there (probably enough for break-even) are profitable. Small floating offices from big tech companies, consulting firms, or startups in profitable niches.
There is a linguistic sleight of hand at work here: 'libertarian' and 'left' is not what is happening in SV. These terms have been hijacked by the identity politics cartel.

The SV political and ideological climate is all about pidgeonholing you into 0.01-0.3% segment ('left-handed bisexual javascript expert'), then maintaining these segments and manipulating the fractured society into neoliberal directions.

It is obvious that there is nothing that can be named as a common interest in SV: there is no such discourse. The commonality is restricted to your 0.01-0.3% segment.
> Not only is it not “pretty liberal” by any definition

Any definition? I'm not from there, but if you use votes for liberal candidates as a basis, they are pretty liberal [0]. That's at least one definition, whether or not it's yours. I could understand arguing nuance, but to say it isn't pretty liberal by any definition appears incorrect.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee#Politics
Having the ability to allow new ideas to emerge and having a government filter to prevent the wrong ideas, are fundamentally in opposition. I look forward to ignoring your paper until The Ministry of Truth approves it's not secrete propaganda, since you did use term "Russian".
I still want to know who turned a "quantum change" from the very smallest change one can possibly make to something revolutionarily large (I bet it was some marketting guy)
> I believe that Sway will be the key to mass Linux desktop adoption...

I'm curious what the basis of this thinking is. Sway looks like a nice i3-like tiling window manager for Wayland, but I don't see how such a piece of software would make so much of a difference.
Go look up the term "Gish Gallop" -that's the substance of the "Russia is responsible for everything I don't like" conspiracy theory you're writing your dissertation on.

I agree there is something there: just like there was "something there" when these same clowns were selling us the Iraq war. The "something" isn't actual evidence which exists in the corporeal world: it's manufactured nonsense.

I mean, the very absurdity of the accusations on display here: OMG RUSSIANS DID THINGS ON TWITTER AND SOCIAL MEDIA. FWIIW same story with the "all of our intelligence agencies agree" dossier; basically, Russia Today exists. Russia Today, now listed under FARA laws. Somehow the WSJ and WaPo Saudi/Israeli amen chorus manages to escape FARA -wonder how they managed to do this?
The US, Israelis, and Saudis, among plenty of others, have engaged in campaigns to influence foreign elections, no doubt. I think lumping them all in as information warfare campaigns with the most recent Russian activity is misleading, though - information warfare is more about seeking advantage and spreading disinformation. I doubt the Israelis are both lobbying for their interests with US policy as well as simultaneously running campaigns advocating for Palestinian or Iranian support. Likewise with the Saudis. America has no doubt influenced foreign elections- I've read an autobiography of a CIA case officer describing in detail such activity in the Philippines prior to Marcos' ascendence. Again, though, we were not also simultaneously running campaigns stoking advocacy for Philippine communist groups.

The Russian campaign here is as much about increasing chaos and discord in our civic sphere as it is about trying to push specific positions that favor Russia. Their goal appears less at getting our government to take specific pro-Russian stances as it is to weaken our society as a whole so that we are less able to act as foils to whatever Putin wants to do.
> Or JSON shouldn't be used because XML is good enough?

Mu. Neither JSON nor XML should be used, because S-expressions are good enough, and more attractive to boot.
> "It seems like that minor inconvenience is worth the net benefit to the community, from which your wife benefits"

You'd be hard pressed winning her over with those arguments in all honesty

> "...for example, by being legally protected against sexual discrimination in the workplace"

Sexual discrimination in the workplace protections aren't the result of the work done by groups previously mentioned...