skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mentioned this a few times here on HN, but I fled California (San Francisco) in January for Nashville, TN and couldn't be happier. I moved over my California LLC and businesses to a Tennessee LLC (no state income tax). People for the most part are super friendly (almost awkward friendly), and that southern hospitality is really a thing.

Costs are out of control, lawmakers and California state laws are backwards and anti-business, taxes are high, and open borders / sanctuary cities (my personal political opinion) are detrimental.
People aren’t machines. Imagine yourself as a terrorist leader.

The US Army is combing the area you’re hiding in and you’re just waiting for an opportunity to slip away to fight another day. The isolation and paranoia are mounting, and you’re wondering why you decided to put yourself and your compatriots through this terrifying time. News from the field: they raided one of your supply caches and captured your closest co-conspirator. What about my family? What would my father think of me right now?

And then a disembodied voice gently beckons you to surrender.
Lalu Yadav Ko 14 Saal Ki Jail – लालू को 14 साल का वनवास – 25-03-2018
If I run a program, I don't expect it to scrape my home folder just because technically my OS granted it permission to do so. And I don't think that is a distinction the law makes, either. Intent and explicit consent matter.
The sad truth. Likewise Linux desktops.
> Guns are, practically speaking, no more or less crazy than Bowie knives, hunting bows, cross bows, or any number of other devices purpose built for hunting.

US schools haven't seen a mass murder using knives, hunting bows, or cross bows. US school mass murders involve handguns and rifles.
> virtual medium has become more important - because more people are using it to get their information...

"More" does not necessary equals better..Having talk with a concerned authority or a minister might be thousand times better than communicating to a million reddit/hn readers..

Can you think one single instance where a reddit/hn comment ended up having a real world impact?
In 1997, I worked with FedEx to build an integrated order management system for the e-commerce company that I ran with my dad. Orders would come into my Perl-based order management system and the pickers would use the web interface to print a packing slip. A bash script would generate a Postscript barcode and then my Perl would generate a packing slip in LaTeX that included that barcode. The LaTeX-generated PS file was sent over a private T1 from the datacenter to the warehouse printer. The order would get picked and put in a crate with the packing slip. The barcode was then scanned at a FedEx shipping station by our shipping guys. That would trigger a script on the FedEx machine (written in Visual Basic, I think) that would make a call to PostgreSQL over Windows ODBC to pull the shipping address and shipping method. As soon as the workstation populated this info, it would spit out a FedEx shipping label and the VB script would then trigger an INSERT back into Postgres with the tracking number. This triggered another Perl job to mark the order as "shipped" and would send an email to the customer with the tracking number.

TLDR: we had real-time order tracking with full shipping and billing integration in a tiny mail order bicycle parts business in 1997.
Tons of asp (and asp.net) sites are restarted on a regular basis to prevent crashes. The source of most of these problems are never known.
Came back from walking along the beautiful Santa Cruz coast this afternoon and read this. All I can think is this is a genius way to slow down the immigration rate until legislation and housing developments can catch up :)
no not really, here is an example: the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993. It was serious, there were six deaths, but it wasn't a catastrophe. I was living in NYC at that time, and for me, I realized there were terrorists trying to blow up parts of New York City and quite frankly it scared the crap out of me from that point on how insecure things were, how easy it would be for the WTC (a building I worked in a few times) to be attacked again. But this was not a very widespread sentiment. The problem (terrorists targeting NYC) was there, but the catastrophic outcome was not.

Then of course terrorists from roughly the same organization tried again on the same building eight years later and it was the largest attack in US history by orders of magnitude. Terrorism proceeded to become the key societal and political issue pretty much for a whole generation.

The problem was there for a long time, the hazard was there for a long time, but it's only when we get the catastrophic outcome; e.g. the Uber car actually killed someone, the plane actually crashed, the WTC was actually destroyed, it's largely rational that that is when lots of people care. There's nothing unusual or hypocritical about it.

You might not think the outcome of this election was catastrophic but the reporters who cover the government and the white house do. They know the norms and customs that have been in place for many decades and they see that they've been ripped to shreds in just a little over a year. They know this is a catastrophe and they are rightfully trying to shine a light on every possible thing that we can get at to both patch the situation and hopefully prevent it from happening again.
We know that the companies are big and possibly seen as monopolies, the question was still unanswered though.

Do you want your ISP tracking you and selling your private data? Do you think that is the place of an ISP?

If you do like your ISP tracking and selling your private data, we'll have to agree to disagree. I think there is no place for ISPs to be evading privacy and selling your data. It isn't about competition.

I expect tracking from free services I am not paying for that my data is the product. I expect tracking from companies that make their money from ad/marketing to do that.

I do not expect tracking and privacy invasions from my ISP, my front door to the internet.

My ISP is also not a small dog, it is a massive media company and a monopoly in addition to my provider. At least with Google/Facebook you can use DuckDuckGo/bing/etc or other social networks and block Google/Facebook if desired.

I can't route around my ISP, there is no local competition and what competition there is amounts to false competition. From the FCCs own data, most people only have 1 or maybe 2 real competitive ISPs in their area and virtually no competition at 100Mbps, zero options for gigabit [1].

I can easily walk around Google and Facebook and block them, my ISP is a big big mean dog because I am paying for my privacy invasion, services that run on the internet are corgis and they are free but fun to play so they attracted people's data by providing something people want. They do both lobby but that is primarily because ISPs and others do so heavily and you must compete at that level or lose.

> FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds [1]

> Even at 25Mbps, 43 percent of the US had zero ISPs or just one. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/fcc-r...
I can guarantee you no VC or CEO cares about that in 99.99% of cases.
I think there's an inverse to be wary of here. If you keep talking about how difficult something is, and tell someone how this is really complicated, their expectation can shut them down to understanding something that really is as simple as it sounds.
Yes, but landings at sea tend to cause the video feed to go away, and it doesn't come back if anything goes wrong.
I love ImageMagick but I can't believe there's only one feel facto cli image processing tool. Do people know of others?
> What is going to cut it?

I don't know. I'm just saying that free-for-all is never going to be acceptable to the overwhelming majority of any population, when it comes to certain topics. If the anonymous p2p networks cannot find a solution (any solution) that can keep this stuff somewhat at bay, they will be ostracized.

Ideally, I should be able to run a decentralized facebook-like pod (or any other IM/social/sharing system) with a good degree of certainty that unsavoury material of this or that type will not end up on my pod. The Powers That Be should be able to somehow trust that this is indeed the case without being able to read all content.

If we had a system like that, we could clearly decouple the discussion on what is or is not "unacceptable material" from the discussion on whether a given communication protocol is bad in itself. At the moment, authorities can just say that p2p networks are full of bad stuff so they are bad and should be banned. You cannot fight that charge without showing some effort trying to get rid of bad stuff. Once you have something like that, even very rough and automated, it becomes easier to say "no, I won't ban X from my network because I am certain that X is legal[1]" or "no, you cannot ban me for Y because I'm sure Y is not on my network".

[1] or should be legal, which is basically equivalent for civil disobedience. If you are planning armed resistance, nothing will ever satisfy a censor, and you have very different requirements from regular people.
>I'd love to know who left those comments

The legend himself, John Carmack.

Fast inverse square root is really the perfect example of black magic in programming.
As much as I'd like to buy a house outside of California, I can't imagine living in cold weather constantly. I really need sunlight/warmth, and I can't help but feel like I would miss California's weather.
Heh - exactly.

And the other similar version: tightly fought procurement between two opposing vendors with different internal "sponsors". Winning vendor's ability to deliver is stymied at every opportunity by losing sponsor or their internal supporters. Then the few years of abysmal results happens in spite of winning vendors capability and efforts - same outcome plays out.
Why the hell should they be allowed to keep that data?
Here are the metrics they used for quality of life:

Community Engagement
Social Support
Voter Participation
Drinking Water Quality
Low Industrial Toxins
Low Pollution Health Risk
Urban Air Quality
Next from Comcast: You must install this privacy-busting add-on to "optimize your experience".
Their permission requests are outrageous. That's why I refuse to install any apps from Facebook on my phone, and pollute my Facebook account with false personal data.

Fake news for fake data:)
"men to insult and threaten other people"

If anybody feels insulted by speech, they need to grow up, grow a thicker skin. Don't go running to governments or corporations to create laws to defend their feelings. You sneaked in "threaten" to broaden your scope for your speech argument, physical attacks are already illegal.

"because it is physically possible to hold some opinion it must be as correct as any other opinion"

Again, regarding what is "correct", just for demonstration, I might agree or not agree or don't give a flying fuck and not be interested in your discussion at all. That does not and should not take your or my right away of saying it. If your opinion stands the test of time, then evolution will eventually show you are correct, and same applies to anybody else.

"Few people in power", I was speaking relatively, compared to population of a country.

Regarding "racial arguments", you used "argument" not physical attack, in which case you don't have any right to stop them in delivering such argument.

I am so glad that I migrated to this country where freedom of speech is still defended vehemently.
If you are a tech person, I'd say you should seriously consider the Silicon Prairie.

For example, it doesn't surprise me this article emphasizes Nebraska. Whereas this article mentions not owning a home in California, you can readily afford a home out in the Midwest. If you don't want that, grab a two-bedroom apartment that costs you less than a $9,00 per month. Insane commutes don't exist.

Places like Kansas City have Google Fiber and other places like Lincoln and Omaha don't have Google Fiber, but still gigabit Internet or even 300Mbps Internet plans (for $60/month)

For a while, the fastest growing company in Nebraska was a tech startup called Hudl (https://www.hudl.com/)--which you really can't even call a startup anymore since they're big enough to be building their own buildings now.
I don't think the homogeneous part is accurate. Four of the top eleven countries in the happiness ranking are Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. Those are among the least homogeneous of any western countries. All have over 25% of their populations who are immigrants.
I left when they announced support for 300,000 Americans dying each year from Obesity. They think this is a good thing.
They still see every DNS request.
I hated math in high school. Sitting in that desk with an overhead projector and a textbook was torture. I never groked basic trig, just memorised. And then a few years ago I made a dumb little space shooter video game. The trig clicked and I was instantly in love. And then came vectors and I was even more in love. It's left me yearning for the free time to go back to school and very angry about all that missed opportunity in high school.

I've wept at the reflection of how awful math class was, and how amazing it could have been.
Much like learning anything else, physical exercise seems pointless and unnecessarily difficult at first. Once you start to put things together, understand the way your body works, and see yourself make progress over time, it becomes fun! I've gone through that process myself, and I remember when exercise was a chore. It's unfortunate there isn't an effective way to communicate this to people who haven't been through it, because life on the other side is just so much better.
Ah. I was trying to figure out what was wrong with Woolf.
I’d welcome a non-partisan coalition that would fight the bias of the press, which led to this and many other issues. Unfortunately, such a group will never form because most of the press either endorses or excuses everything done by the left, and castigates everything done by the right. No more clear example of that exists than this situation.

Therefore, the left has no incentive to fight the bias of the press, because it favors their side on nearly every issue. The ironic part is that by making the misuse of Facebook data acceptable (even celebrated) when Obama did it, the press may have inadvertently helped Trump get elected years later. They’re upset now, but they’re just trying to put the genie that they unleashed back in the bottle. We reap what we sow.
I wonder about this argument. This argument seems strongly at odds with the "fake news" efforts, which clearly push the need for government regulations to prevent specific content from being spread by private companies.
How about voice quality? It's a phone!!!
Intel Clear Container runtime was something I had used before to no avail
Check 'minimaxir's profile.

Unfortunately, his comment prompted my mind to continue the play and I ended up at Max "Three Woolf Moon" Woolf, an image I'm having difficulty eradicating.
Is it really much extra work to do the migration online instead of offline? It's just that second step where the application writes to both tables (and usually a step where reads switch to the new tables). Everything else is necessary for either method.

In many situations taking downtime for it is more expensive for development. When taking downtime, often you need to be really damn sure it works beforehand so you don't take unnecessary down time. Having to roll back and try again later after fixing something (and eating more downtime) can be a bit embarrassing. When you are doing migrations without downtime you can take your time between each step and add additional validations that might be impractical when trying to minimize downtime.

If you don't need to minimize downtime then maybe it doesn't really matter but that situation seems rare from my perspective.
Luckily, there are plenty of other states with similarly nice weather.
In the last couple of years the company I work for wanted to build social scoring methodologies. In 2013, Facebook revised their privacy rules and we were not allowed to collect the data we needed. However, there are paid partner programs with different rules. Same as LinkedIn, afaik.
The shed will be used to store bicycles, yes?
It's pretty annoying when you pay (a lot) for local newspapers and still have to see advertisement.
I believe other states send us their homeless cause here you can find places you wont actually freeze to death in winter. It may skew things a bit. Not sure.
What is the problem with social media?
My dad had a similar thing with his car. An old jalopy, I don't remember exactly what was wrong, something slipped out of place in relation to the engine, miles away from any support.

He happened to have clamps in the back, put a clamp on it and a few rubber bands for good measure. When he finally got to the garage they looked at it, laughed, then suggested that he keep it that way, given that the parts for the car were rare and the fix was reasonably expensive. I believe that he ended up driving on that for a couple of years until the car broke down from an unrelated part failure.
Except they'll just start checking SNI instead to see what sites you're browsing. Getting rid of triple handshakes is good from a theoretical perspective, but it does nothing at all to increase your privacy against middle-boxes.
If YouTube is a shopping mall, it’s a mall in some libertarian ‘utopia’ where there are no public sidewalks at all - no government-owned forum which is freely available to all. Not only that, individual property ownership is rare as well: businesses typically own their property, but for your average citizen it’s too difficult and expensive a process to go through with unless there’s a good reason. So even if you only want to share your beliefs with friends, people who will specifically visit your house to listen to you (rather than the random passerby who might hear you on the sidewalk)… you’re going to have to acquire a house first. Actually, for some reason, you can obtain housing relatively cheaply if you promise to only communicate by handing out written text; but most people just want to talk face-to-face (i.e. with video), which is much more expensive.

(Oh, and there aren’t public roads, either. There’s just one big private road network, which finances itself by placing billboards on the roads. For the most part, they’ll build out roads to any location, big or small, without worrying about what kind of activity goes on in those locations. But only for the most part…)

Luckily, most people never need to deal with these difficulties! There‘s one big shopping mall chain that dominates the whole country - most of the world, even. (It’s owned by the same company as the road network.) And it has a really nice offer for everyone: you can have all the space you want to engage in everything from idle chitchat to grave political lectures, from science demos to showing off your video game skills - all for free. Plus, the mall staff takes care of efficiently guiding people around to speakers that might interest them, so it’s really easy to spend hours bouncing from one interesting session to the next, with all your needs taken care of. Altogether, a highly engaging, communal, even productive environment. Much nicer than going to someone’s house. The only catch is that the staff will never recommend anything outside the mall, no matter how relevant. Oh, and... there is that mall cop. He mostly stays out of sight, though. There are only a few things that bother him, so just make sure to steer clear of those and he’ll leave you alone. Although, he does sometimes change the rules at a whim… and if he does kick you out, there’s almost nowhere else to go…
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Here are the criteria: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/quality-of-...

Among the measures used to evaluate states' natural environments are drinking water quality, air quality and total toxic chemical pollution per square. The ranking also considers how much each state puts its citizens at risk for long-term, chronic health effects from pollution. Social environment, on the other hand, investigates how involved people are in their communities. Two of the measures, community engagement and social support, are based on surveys where people shared how often they participate in community events and how often they spend time with family members, friends and work colleagues. Political involvement was also determined by evaluating average voter turnout at the 2016 presidential and congressional elections.

North Dakota -- a desolate wind-swept plain littered with fracking wells -- is #1 for Quality of Life, which makes me seriously question the metrics used here.
I was thinking the same! That all the word processors from the 90s must've already figured this stuff out, and half those people must still be at MS. But that knowledge probably wasn't passed on somehow.

Although I have to say, Monaco and VS Code have always felt performant from day one. And that shows the difference between the MS and Github pedigree. This is speculation but there was probably more "CS" applied to the Microsoft implementation from the beginning, them having so many compiler people and CS-trained people, than on Github's side. And Github arrived at that through iterations over the years, them having more of a web developer DNA.
That is just insane. Separate rendering engines for each tab?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670291
Is there a full, complete compatibility layer between X programs and Wayland now? I know quite a lot of people who use X Windows still. It's not that unusual or weird.
Was like...a survey of the happiness of the population not at least one of the metrics they used?

It seems...like a really silly metric not to include in a quality of life ranking.
Also California is a huge place, not just SF and LA. We have as many national parks as Alaska, 100's of some of the most beautiful state parks and 100's of county parks. Many states have much worse drug problems per capita. Any country of 39M people and the economy we have is going to have upsides and downsides.
Does this apply to tech workers in the Bay Area? Because it seems like the quality of life should be very high with what they're getting paid.
The Atlantic has a magic PAGE_COMPLETED comment that we used when I was there to tell the CDN whether to cache a page or not. I imagine that’s common.
Facebook is less trustworthy than Google.

Facebook has a very full history overflowing with deceit, misdirect, lies theft and not really giving a toss when getting found out.

Google has tripped up once or twice and actively tries to fix its problems.

I find Google a lot less scary than Facebook.
Have you ever been to Angel Falls? Or Parque Nacional Henri Pittier? Or Bahía de Cata beach?

Well, all those places are stunningly gorgeous! And in Venezuela.

So what's your point?
Yes, I can live without Google Map, Google Search, GMail, Photos, but Youtube is unavoidable. For me, Youtube is more than just music or cute videos. I learn programming, mathematics, physics a lot from Youtube. :(
But drugging, kidnapping, and raping is already illegal. Arrest the people offering the service. How is this not clear? So much the better if they advertise themselves as maw breakers. Surely I’m missing some nuance.
So, the answer is to continue reinforcing the divisiveness and polarization, giving up because it's others that are causing the issue? That's one of the ways we got to the point we're at. Sounds defeatist to me, and something I'm not willing to do. I encourage you not to, either.
If you need to use Facebook on your Android phone you should be using one of the many sandbox wrapper apps that exist.
Feels like the “I’m a Mac, I’m a pc” ad.