skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that last link. Really interesting read.

I've read Jeffs essay. I've used programmers.se and basically vowed never to go back after a few years because the moderation itself is piss poor (there one person gnat who's sole mission is to close every new question unless it's asked by one of their inner circle of buddies). It's really a joke. There's literally no reason for programmers to exist if not for expert opinioned discussions but they started cracking down on that and rendered the site useless. It's not just me either. Other good contributors have posted the same reasons for leaving in meta and in other forums.

I think you're conflating useful questions and good moderation with opinionated Q/A. I don't think anyone wants SE to be yahoo answers. But a question like what is the correct way to implement IO multiplexing is really useful. I think in SOs crusade to rid the site of opinion-based questions that are hard to handle, they threw the baby out with the bath water and got rid of some of the most useful discussions as a byproduct. Is SO dead? No. But I certainly get less utility out of it these days because I'm less willing to contribute when 90% of the time questions are met with instant downvotes and flags because someone didn't understand the finesse in a question and/or didn't assume positive intent so they could justify being pedantic assholes. I'm pedantic too. I draw the line at using it as a reason to be an asshole though.

I'm not saying SO didn't do its homework. But I am giving one data point that feels SO's usefulness has been marginalized because of the way the community has interpreted "no opinion based questions". I feel that zealotry has spilled out into the general air at stack overflow and it's no longer engaging or fun for many people to contribute these days. Take that for what it is, I guess.
Yeah, like I said, if the platform provides that kind of tooling, take advantage of it.
I deleted my facebook a few months ago. It's been great. I've spent a lot more time studying new things since I did. I feel cut off from the most toxic people I know and toxicity in general, which is also great. I still use instagram, which has become a more negative experience lately as ads have increased. Hoping an alternative to that pops up sometime soon - I use it now because I have a performance hobby where it's heavily used by my friends in the community. Never really got into any other social media. Have a LinkedIn where I get annoyed by recruiters but don't post or do anything useful, don't use twitter.
Prehistoric humans and archaic relatives paired off twice
SnappyData employee here. In general this is called the "HTAP" industry (Gartner's phrase: Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing).

SnappyData: https://www.snappydata.io,
MemSQL: https://www.memsql.com/,
Splice Machine: https://www.splicemachine.com/,
SAP Hana: https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html,
GridGain: https://www.gridgain.com/

are some of the technologies within it
Automating TLS and DNS with Kubernetes Ingress
start by deleting all applications that have access to your information.

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications

You thought setting things to private kept them private?
I think the name of the organization that is running the ad is also a problem. They seem to be trying to co-opt the "progressive" label for something that is completely opposite to what it is supposed to (over the last few years) stand for.

I can't tell if they are intentionally doing that for nefarious reasons. Imagine seeing a "Conservatives for repealing the 2nd amendment" ad. I would assume they have some ulterior motives there.
I doubt this very much. Google has proven that success at dominating and monetizing one thing doesn't translate easily to dominating and monetizing another thing.

Both are ad companies. Google got lucky with buying YouTube and Android on search ad money. They haven't been able to translate that success into anything else.

Facebook probably got lucky with WhatsApp and Instagram. Only time will tell if they can do it again once those two start to collapse.
You're still giving market share to the "open source winners". Linus and RedHat have both made piles of money.
Who uses the long scale in English?
I know nothing about game development or the likes. But I just browsed the site. Wouldn't it make sense to maybe create a torrent or huge iso file of this info instead of downloading each asset manually?
This is my experience also.

I've largely stopped using Facebook, but my experience had nothing in common with the author's.

The content was fine, I followed things and people I actually liked and made adjustments when that changed. I felt no addiction loop, my usage time was limited, and it was honestly quite a nice site. Sentiments like "In the absence of human interaction we cling to whatever dark simulacrum is available" are absolutely alien to me; Facebook was a source of real social interaction, and almost entirely additive with other sources of real interaction.

I stopped because advertisements, autoplay videos, and timeline changes slowly made Facebook unusable as a site. Content I liked was consistently buried in favor of content I didn't like, in ways I couldn't fix with settings or following preferences. The discussions of Facebook usage time rising baffle me; my experience was of a good, usable site that destroyed its usability by trying to monetize.
Rewriting is about checking if each of the previous concerns is attended. By "soul" I assume you are talking about the message (both information and intention).

So rewrite is more like refactoring code: you change how it is presented not its function.

A tip would be write down your message in bullet points beforehand and, while rewriting it, check if you haven't missed a point you wanted to make.

I also believe that this acronym also establishes an order of priority for the concerns, from more important to least important: 1) Information, 2) Intention, 3) Rapport and 4) Order.

Your soul should be on the first two and they are the most important to be preserved (writing or rewriting).
> 30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope.

At least it's public, people will eventually accept no body is perfect, let alone when they were teenagers.

I concern more about Google. They monitor everything users did, they memorize everything users did even you delete your account, they use data for everything that may not benefit users.
Sonic CEO Dane Jasper relishes role as net neutrality defender
WebOS enters next phase as Global Platform under LG’s Stewardship
Introducing Orchid, a new static site generator for Java and Kotlin
/r/Neutralpolitics is great.
Not sure how common this is but, when I know I am going to buy something I use Google to search. But really, I know I want to buy it from Amazon. I'm not really searching for other places to find it. I've just gotten used to Google === search. I know Google will help me locate the Amazon links so that's what I use. However, if I start searching for things using Google and can't find Amazon links - will I start buying stuff somewhere else? The answer is no; I will start searching somewhere else.
I deleted my Reddit accounts this weekend, after three years on the site. I knew it was bad when I could predict the top n comments before even heading to the comments section.

I don't care as much about these companies having my data - I care more about the value they actually provide to me, which is very little in most cases. FB is garbage; Reddit is a bonafide circlejerk; LinkedIn's value is marginal, outside of connecting and following-up with potential new colleagues/business partners (the content on LinkedIn could be some of the worst on the Internet... talk about clickbait).

In the few days since I deleted just Reddit, my thinking has been clearer (even though it was the weekend, I still worked both days), and I am thus far able to accomplish and focus better.

Although, here I am on HN, writing this comment still...
Amazon had what you would call a search engine 15 to 10 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal
Is there any way to batch delete posts in FB?
I'm afraid I don't have great suggestions, but if you're around Lausanne one of these days, do not hesitate to ping me to have a chat about it.
Lead-free solder has since improved greatly. These days it's pretty hard to discern from leaded tin other than the fact that joints tend to not be glossy.

Especially if you're a hobbyist: Go for lead free solder. it's no worse to work with than leaded but a whole lot less toxic. (Still don't breathe the fumes though, solder flux is nasty stuff)
Poor analogy. Most people with Windows computers can’t simply switch to Linux and expect their lives to be the same - they have file formats and IT department setups to maintain - while most people could quit Facebook and see no significant change in their lives, except perhaps for the better.

And yes, people do care. I work at a top tier U.S. university, and in our college at least we have so far refused to update or support our Windows machines past 7. Microsoft’s Windows 10 stumbles do matter.
Whenever I ask a SO question, I have to brace myself to spend the next several hours defending my question and correcting misunderstandings that I'd already anticipated and addressed in the question. It's exhausting.
The GP is about popularity not freedom.
Google prohibits Android forks like Fire OS from using their products and services. You can't install the Chromecast app, for example, on a Kindle, therefore, a Kindle owner is unable to set up a new Chromecast without getting a proprietary "Google Android" device, or using Google Chrome, yet another proprietary Google option, to set up the Chromecast. You'll hit similar issues trying to use Amazon devices to interact with other Google hardware like the Google Home.

Amazon stopped selling Google devices because Google won't permit those devices to work with Amazon's devices.

Side note: You'll find "common decency and basic fairness" doesn't exist in the land of corporate business, and neither Google nor Amazon exhibit it.
Hard work only increases the chance for opportunities, to a certain ceiling. It is not, however, the only factor. Or even the most important factor.

Let's use a few sterotypes for examples: A hard working trucker will take years to set aside $10,000 in savings. An average programmer at a financial institution can do the same in months. A debutante able hire a stock broker to invest their slush fund can do the same in hours.

The trucker, in terms of advancement and opportunities, will probably max out at running their own owner-operator business. Maybe they'll get really lucky and be able to employ other drivers as well.

The programmer can probably keep raising their pay by hopping jobs every few years, until they can retire by playing the financial market with his savings.

The debutante just keeps being a debutante.

We could call the trucker the successful one - they ended up with their own business. And there's a cost, too. All of that long haul driving and manual labor moving freight has left them with severe, if managable, back pain. However in terms of capital, in terms of being able to pay for a loved one's fight against cancer, the truck driver isn't even a blip on the radar.
>Did you not read the article?

No he didn't. On purpose
It's moreso that the inverse is true. Not working hard will almost certainly not lead to success (unless your family is rich enough to where you can just "buy" more success). Working hard will not necessarily lead to success, but it's a prerequisite. The amount of work required also depends on what obstacles you're born with and degree of success is desired
This is the difference between tinkering, experimentation and engineering. All of these have their proper place. There is no shame in having a shoddy piece of code as long as it is within a lab environment. Trouble usually starts when this kind of code changes hands and finds serious users.
If you're using NetworkManager you can get DHCP options by being mildly angry at the D-Bus API:

$ python3
>>> import dbus
>>> bus = dbus.SystemBus()
>>> nm = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager")
>>> conn = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", nm.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", "PrimaryConnection", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"))
>>> dhcp = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", conn.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active", "Dhcp4Config", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"))
>>> options = dhcp.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.DHCP4Config", "Options", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
>>> str(options["subnet_mask"])
'255.255.255.240'

I guess you can parse /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.*.leases otherwise?
You're comparing Murdoch now to Zuckerberg aged 19. I dread to think the sort of nonsense I said in private IMs at 19.
How can it be inequality if you are not comparing someone who delivers the exact same service or product?
Whatever rules in life get laid out, whether it's scoring soccer goals or everyone gets X amount of food per month, someone always becomes good at "optimizing" those rules.

We are humans born with different abilities with different tastes and strive for different things. Equalizing the outcomes of all by artificially holding some back suppresses the very creative life force in each one of us, ends in misery and progress is hampered.
The events are in motion which will eventually culminate in long-awaited David Fincher's sequel, "The Anti-social Network."
Only 30% of tech workers in Silicon Valley are Americans? I'd say there was an imbalance there that should be addressed.
Like so much on the internet, SO is not what one would ideally want, but is definitely the least bad way of asking for and getting answers.

And maybe it's something about software people. Other parts of the Stackexchange network that I use, like photography, English language and travel, are quite pleasant.
That is very interesting and does make a lot of sense. Thank you :)
I think the ad is utterly genius (in a nefarious way) because it's making me want to play devil's advocate soooo badly. The authors are clearly trying to get people to conflate "H1-B abuse" with "immigration".

People can be against H1-B abuse and NOT be anti-immigration.
The salvagers who raise World War II tanks from the dead
> * Security testing integrated into CI/CD pipeline

> * Automated routine network monitoring

Do you have specific recommendations on these 2 things?
It's hard to tell when something like that is a deeply revealing character flaw that the subject will never turn around, or more along the lines of what you described. I think a lot of people's instincts, perhaps informed by life experience, is to assume the former. How often do you really see people improve on their character flaws?
I use LinkedIn exclusively as an online resume with the occasional message to contacts asking for advice or asking about details for a job. The social aspect is lost on me, as well.
I have tried this in the past and didn't work. I would just land on the duckduckgo.com/lite blank page, with no search results. And I have also try it right now and can't even install (I'm assuming it's because Firefox recently moved to version 59.0)
What did the sponsors get in return? I am guessing traffic was pretty low comparatively so what was the pull?
I find it surprising how much people underestimate the long-term impact of Occupy. Now when people say “the 1%”, everyone knows what they are talking about. The most popular Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, would not be where they are if OWS had not lain some groundwork ahead of time by introducing wealth and income inequality as mainstream conversation topics. And maybe they will have a successful presidential run in the future.
I don't really think this is the problem here.

Sure, you shouldn't give any idiot a degree without doing something for it and yes, you shouldn't make it harder for intelligent people to get degrees, just because their parents are poor or something.

But if you have low conscientiousness and low IQ, that was also given to you without asking. It's playing on the same level as poor parents.

With your proposed change (which is already done in countries like Germany, we have almost free healthcare and education) you still have 50% of the population that has a IQ below 100.
I've had an account on LinkedIn basically since it was available to the public. I stripped my account bare years ago and never use it for anything. I log in about once per year to check privacy type settings and maybe change a password.

From my observation, LinkedIn has had three relatively distinct eras for the product.

In the early days it was very simple work & business networking, as you'd expect it to be. A profile + connection between people.

Then it tried to evolve into a more general purpose tool, including publishing content, some communication, etc.

Then having fully captured its market, and with limited upside growth potential on users, it went full spam abuse engine. They kept ratcheting up the user monetization focus regardless of the damage to the product quality, and it has never turned back from that path.

I think LinkedIn is a social hole, where people deposit an account and information out of perceived necessity, and then rarely engage the product again until they change or update their job situation. There appears to be a shield of social-work pressure that keeps it alive and updating. People use it, so people use it. The value proposition certainly appears to be mediocre over time. I've known very, very few people that have gotten much value from it, yet almost everyone I know (that is non-retired) keeps and maintains a profile at a minimum level.

I suspect now that social media has reached a point in the last ~5 years of all-connected status (just speaking of the US here), it's going to become increasingly socially acceptable to quit platforms that were previously regarded as necessary. More and more people will experiment with rejecting the pressure that has been maintaining these networks artificially. I've seen that happen increasingly on Facebook, and LinkedIn often seems to be a graveyard these days.

I don't see where LinkedIn can go from here, in terms of increasing its value to people. They're very clearly not going to return the product to a less annoying, basic use case that sparked the user build-out in the first place. They may find a few more clever ways to monetize their hostages though.
The reaction to this ad is predictably absurd. The far left's constant push to draw increasingly unremarkable positions like "US jobs should go to US workers" as beyond the pale is why we're stuck with Trump.

For my part I don't even agree with the ad, and I consider myself lucky to work with my H-1B coworkers. But it can be disagreed with minus the pretense that it's equivalent to painting a swastika on the side of a bus.
Good point.

I love Instagram. It's the only social network I use regularly. I like Twitter, but I use it in a read-only way and only check it maybe once or twice a month.

Instagram though, is fantastic, at least for now. They are starting to ruin it with ads though. I wish I could pay for an ad-free version.
The President of the US used to be referred to as the leader of the free world with some credibility.

That is less true today but the term remains.
Yea, this is a conversation that people should be having, the "progressive" part seems to just be a straight up lie/misdirection. Hard to take it seriously.
Type-directed metaprogramming in Rust
I suspect if Yelp clearly runs afoul of Google's policies (and "don't compete with Google" is not one of those policies) and the page rank demotions are explicitly documented to be because of chronic violations of such policies, then such lawsuits would be uphill battles at best.
Well, in this case Epic and whoever benefits from these assets are taking the Taxpayer for a ride. So this is a “convenient” incentive to Epic and others who use these assets (as opposed to inconvenient, as when it happens with [company not relevant to the SV echo chamber]).

A) Epic closes Paragon down

B) Epic opens Paragon assets

C) Epic deducts Paragon losses from their earnings, saving on federal taxes

D) Companies that build assets based on these assets do so while getting a nice taxpayer-enabled corporate welfare check.
It's an attack on memory, part of the War On General Purpose Computing.
In a meritocratic society, there is positive correlation between talent and success. But how steep should this relationship be? If the talent-success slope is very steep (i.e., a small talent difference causes a large capital gap), you might end up having a wide distribution of wealth (severe economic inequality). On the other hand, if the slope is quite flat (i.e., a big talent difference makes little difference in capital), the society has weak meritocracy, which may disincentivize people from achievements. The right degree of steepness depends on how one defines fairness and how much inequality a society can handle.

This discussion misses one important element of returns to talent: more capital in the hands of more capable people should result in better allocation of resources, and consequently better outcomes for society as a whole. Too little inequality would, according to this view, result in destruction of capital over time, and in consequence impoverish the society.
Definitely has been on HN before. Cool read though, once again.
Build with LEGO bricks in React
I enjoy reading these articles but in the end I don't think they're very instructive as to the chances of success or failure. Game design is such a specific creative talent that it's a little like my saying I quit my job to become a full-time songwriter and didn't make any money. Kind of the expected result the majority of the time.
I had to look that one up.

It looks like a variant of the philosophical zombie argument, which I always found fascinating because as far as I can see, that one really argues that consciousness is the illusion, not that physicalism is false.

Although I think the main issue might be that the word "illusion" is no really appropriate here. I figure the mind is analogous to a moiré pattern: it's real, it emerges from underlying patterns interacting with each other, it is distinct from those patterns, but it cannot exist without them. Which is probably also why looking for consciousness in the brain is fruitless: you will not find the moiré pattern in its component patterns either.

I was so impressed with myself as an art student that I made an artwork about that. I think that's when I hit peak pretentiousness, glad I switched to programming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

[3] http://jobleonard.nl/books/Contemplating/
Because Google no longer will show you the BEST results - it will show you the results that are most profitable for Google.
Since the example data is stock data, i think it is safe to assume people don't want to be 249.9ms late with their purchase :)
works here, tried it before suggesting it :/
G20: Cryptoassets do not pose risks to global financial stability at this time [pdf]
>...substances used for positive controls, e.g. histamine for skin-prick tests...

Are you 100% certain that every single person, regardless of age, health, or any other criteria will always have the exact same response to these, under every conceivable circumstance and environment?