skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your view is well represented on the Internet, and is perhaps most aptly exemplified by the early jargon word “luser”, and the BOFH phenomenon. I have never, I think, really been prone to such thinking. I have never had a problem talking to ordinary people or users, or felt the immense frustration which many people have vividly described. (Note: I am a sysadmin with approximately 20 years of professional experience, and have always had a user-facing role as at least a part of my job.)

It reminds me where in Zen Buddhism, there are those who become enlightened and go off to do their own thing, and those who become enlightened and stay in the world with the rest of the ordinary unenlightened people. In the words of Alan Watts:

The understanding of Zen, the understanding of awakening, the understanding of– Well, we’ll call it mystical experiences, one of the most dangerous things in the world. And for a person who cannot contain it, it’s like putting a million volts through your electric shaver. You blow your mind and it stays blown. Now, if you go off in that way, that is what would be called in Buddhism a pratyeka- buddha—“private buddha”. He is one who goes off into the transcendental world and is never seen again. And he’s made a mistake from the standpoint of Buddhism, because from the standpoint of Buddhism, there is no fundamental difference between the transcendental world and this everyday world. The bodhisattva, you see, who doesn’t go off into a nirvana and stay there forever and ever, but comes back and lives ordinary everyday life to help other beings to see through it, too, he doesn’t come back because he feels he has some solemn duty to help mankind and all that kind of pious cant. He comes back because he sees the two worlds are the same. He sees all other beings as buddhas. He sees them, to use a phrase of G.K. Chesterton’s, “but now a great thing in the street, seems any human nod, where move in strange democracies a million masks of god.”

— Alan Watts, Lecture on Zen
In addition to the cyclic model already posted about by noemit, there is "steady state theory":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_State_theory
Wait, was there a $/gigabyte day pricing thing before?

I can't remember if it was there at the very beginning; but the $/GB translation has been there for years.
and to add the literal gas lighting I have seen. Just manipulating students into thinking they are going nuts whenever they question norms that make NO sense.
> If you are the luckiest out of every five entrants, you may win the profession's ultimate prize: A comfortable middle-class job, for the rest of your life, with summers off.

That's pretty good actually. Your chances are far less than 10% in physics and that's for postdocs not students, and that's assuming you're from a top university with a good publication history in the top of the top journal(s).

Edit: For all the replies that focus on "summers off", I'm not saying you have summers off, that's a part of something I quoted. I'm well aware you don't get summers off from experience. Heck you can't take off time even after a baby unless you want to jeopardize your chances in tenure. If you read the portion that I wrote, you can see that my reply is about the job security (=tenure).
You might be on to something, our inherent nature as human being, is to narrate things. Known as Narrative fallacy. maybe if we didn't care about the future, we wouldn't care so much about the past.
interesting that they have pretty much no idea where it will end up, i thought they'd be able to estimate that a bit.
For a more current use of rotoscoping, see the movie A Scanner Darkly.
It makes me sad that you think I'm petty.
I think it depends a lot on your IP too. I tried to do some google captchas in TOR browser once and it took forever! Just like this video, even when you got it right it still kept asking for more..
What makes it a "react" toolbox? Is it because it is made w/ react?
This reminds of the idea of a true urea/diesel hybrid (instead of just using urea as DEF). Of course, the diesel would have to be used first.
Users post workarounds in the threads. There was one there when you commented.
Αθηναϊκό ντέρμπι στο ΟΑΚΑ ΑΕΚ – Παναθηναϊκός
Since the per byte cost is below my rounding threshold and looks like either zero or maxint, I suggest we simplify the model and charge every user the rand (0, 1) throw of zero or maxint dollars irrespective of how much data they store.
I'm guessing you're either tenured or emeritus, or you're a research professor. You don't have that luxury on tenure track almost anywhere.
Palantir won't work w/o any of the data. Facebook would work w/o the invention of a spreadsheet. I mean, they could just program their own.
Facebook's ability to prop itself up and exist as it does, despite all the animus against it, reminds me of the essay Meditations on Moloch.
wow, PHP is on the front page, and it's positive

We have come a long way!
The file has 78 lines, defines no functions, and performs and documents a well defined single task. It is significant as a learning resource, and useful by itself to interface a webapp to a local file-system. It is written in idiomatic old-style PHP. There is a lot to like and it is easily digestable. Then someone comes along and says it should be more complicated.
> Not excusing the system, but for 99% of the population rewarding, interesting work is an oxymoron

This is one of the reasons why I often ask myself why the suicide rate is so low in society.
Neat timing on this resubmit. I just watched The Farthest on a flight this week. It's a neat movie that gives interesting (and human) context to the mission and those who executed it. I'd definitely recommend it as a watch for anyone even nominally interested in space exploration.
Check #webextensions on irc.mozilla.org. Here's an old list of people who have "office hours" for helping people port extensions. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/WebExtensions_office_h...
How Metal Gear Solid manipulated its players, warning us of an age of Fake News
totally fair question, one I tried to answer in the README. This current version doesn't require react at all, but I dont want to just make a lag radar extension and leave it be. I think theres a broader potential to make dev tools to help all the React developers who will be making stuff in AsyncMode. So I want to (is target the right word? im not even selling anything) the Async React developer use case and just make one thing that works for them.
The No-Trust Society
> If you can get all the food you want but you choose to go down a path where you are likely to starve... what does that say about your mental health?

To me it says that the respective person is an idealist deep in his/her heart.
Since any competent reader could make the same inferential judgement you did by reading both the original article and the comment, I'm not sure why you made this comment.
Ask HN: Know anyone who was already old and committed suicide?
Specifically, was this person into tech or programming? Burn out?
The public and the media are out for blood, and will gleefully ignore the context of discussions in order to publicly hang someone on a single quote.

Under that threat, real discussion and debate is not possible, so I think it’s wise of employees to censor themselves.
How is Apple a technology company when their main business is selling consumer electronics?
Please don't post flamebait to Hacker News! I'm sure you didn't mean to, but you triggered just the sort of umpteenth regurgitation we're hoping to avoid here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725399 and marked it off-topic.
Interesting, I didn't know about agenesis of the corpus callosum. Why are all split-brain experiments use patients with surgically removed callosum and not this people with a rare, but still frequent defect?
"encrypted plaintext"
IIRC Hawking expressed concerns about that: if we were to be found by a more advanced civilization, then we would in all likelihood be ultimately destroyed, because there seems to be a recurring pattern showing that this is what happens when a higher civilization meets a less advanced one.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_...
The only threats are advertisers pulling out or users leaving. Most people like Facebook for staying in touch.
Gawker encroached his privacy, but Palantir was built to do exactly that to the public, at scale.
I wrote cl-async. I really missed continuations because any synchronous code that wants to use async basically has to be rewritten all the way up to accept async. This can be somewhat alleviated with promises, but it's still a rewrite no matter how you slice it.

Continuations would have solved this completely by allowing first-class green threads or coroutines or whatever the hell you want to call them. There's cl-cont, which is a horribly hacky syntax macro that converts all your code to CPS and, as I remember it, kind of sidesteps proper error handling altogether.

So, you can argue over which is better for error handling all you want, but I would have strangled a dolphin to have continuations/coroutines back when I was building out the async ecosystem stuff.
> With FB the user is the product being sold.

This is not strictly true.
FB makes Workplace, which is a sort of Facebook for internal and cross-company collaboration (competing with Slack): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2017/10/26/f...
Pointers aren't useless... things don't move if you don't tell them to. The compiler can statically guarantee they don't move while you have a pointer to them (via references/lifetimes) or with unsafe code you can just tell the compiler that "I checked and I don't move this thing". I've had plenty of rust datastructures that are just a collection of pointers.

The distinction I guess is that in rust you can move things assuming you have no references to them, while in c++ you can't really (I mean, move constructors, but that's really a fancy copy where the initial thing still exists in some form). And moving things is pretty normal - as is taking pointers to them - just not at the same time.
Silicone CIEM
Storage is so cheap, it wouldn't be surprising they save everything they possibly can.
Sinclair's script for (local news) stations
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also your summers aren't off, necessarily. If you're at a research institute, it's not like the group of PhD students and postdocs you manage vanishes.
This game was so freaking hard! I'll never forget.
What the.. PHP has a built-in server now?
Seems odd to me that the authors don't reference George Lakoff's Don't Think Of An Elephant[0] which seems to describe much of their findings under the term "framing".

Then again, this is written in part by Lera Boroditsky, a psychologist who seems to think that doing linguistics require little to no training. For whatever reason she's extremely keen on proving "strong linguistic relativism"—i.e. the latest term for "linguistic determinism"[1] which hasn't been taken seriously by linguists for several decades—and actual linguistic research as well as very plausible alternative explanations for her findings aren't going to stop her. She comes off as a person that's looking for data to confirm her theory rather than the other way around, at least that's what I took away from her 2010 paper Remembrances of times East: absolute spatial representations of time in an Australian aboriginal community[2] which I spent a great deal of time dissecting while doing my master's in linguistics.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455.Don_t_Think_of_an_...

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

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20959511
How is that different from any other premium content provider?
Are you sure? Palantir doesn’t encroach privacy more than R or SAS or any of the other myriad analytics software.

Are there examples of Palantir collecting data? Or violating user privacy?
For quite some time already and not to be used in production.
One of the great developments in the PHP eco-system is the use of components and the inter-op standards developed around them [1].

For many years now, "frameworks" such as Symfony and Zend have been mainly been a set of components with an optional thin framework layer. So, not frameworks in the traditional sense.

For those interested, another great resource is "Create your own framework on top of the Symfony Components":

https://symfony.com/blog/create-your-own-framework-on-top-of...

[1] https://www.php-fig.org/
> You don't get it, you don't have to pepper the code. If you already have a `Circle` the check is unneeded.

That's not even what I was talking about...
Find some documented case where a US police officer was punished, in any way, for pulling someone over arbitrarily. There are too many loopholes. "Crossed center line", "erradic manuevers", "tint seemed dark", "appeared to see open alcohol container", "did not come to a full and complete stop", and so on.

We even have full on Stasi style checkpoints occasionally, where everyone is pulled over.
College student who had distressing behavior will be deported for visa violation
Apple, if you want to win in education, look at what sucks about iPads
50TB of data is about $500/month on BigQuery. $0.02/GB for new data, then $0.01 after 90 days of being unchanged.
Simultrans always looked nice, but scarily in-depth too.
Probably because it's hard to predict where it will reach an altitude after which it starts rapid reentry. This could basically happen anywhere in its orbit, since the station is uncontrolled, so there's not a whole lot of confidence in where it will end up.
The power requirements are such that you could just deliver that power to the grid in place of the fossil fuel generated power you are cleaning.
Great news!

My train / resources transport fix is met with Factorio ( https://www.factorio.com/ ) , if you are part of the few you don't know this game and love logistics/automation, give it a try.

But be prepared to sacrifice a bit of your social/love/professional life for a while..
No "software applications made available in a browser" is not the single defining characteristic of SaaS. SaaS is foremost a licensing and delivery model although it is often accessed via a browser it is not a prerequisite. There are SasS offerings with desktop integration points, sync clients, native iOS apps etc.
Agree that this is an excellent combo.
Somebody has tried to do this [1]. It would be nice to see this analysis from Tesla themselves. As you say, we can probably guess why we haven't.

[1]: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb...
Is it just me, or could this (deleting internal messages) get them in serious trouble if lawsuits come as a result of the latest troubles?

Or are they just "deleting" them like they do everything else?
I think you make a good point, but actually AWS is where Amazon makes most of their profit. Can they call themselves a technology company?

Google and their cloud offerings are a little different. For the most part Google is an advertising company with expensive hobbies but it's always possible they'll figure out how to add another 800lb gorilla to their portfolio.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that because most people tolerate their jobs, then there should be more suicides related to pressure and distaste for work?

I'd think most people work because they find happiness elsewhere (family, alcohol, video games, etc) and work pays the required bills to continue this happiness.
Sinclair's script for stations [video]
If that is the case then do you think there is even a problem?

I personally don't think it is the case.

I think the rate of people dropping out of academia is a good indicator that something is not quite right. Especially as these postgrads are dropping out well short of "making a difference".

That so many people continue to go into the system despite this shows a clear lack of judgement.
What is your definition of 'old'. It's all relative.

But let's start seriously here. You created this account a few days ago, and I'm going to read into this to suggest you've been thinking about this for a long time, and that it took you x number of days to even create the account and then x number more to even post the question. It must have been very difficult, and I'm sure you even tried posting a few times and didn't.

You've taken the first step to get help. But this isn't the place to do it.

Suicide is never the answer, and particularly, it isn't the answer to being burnt out. If you're feeling burnt out, the answer is to stop what you are doing and take some time.

You may be thinking that you can't and that you've got responsibility x,y and z, but you'd be amazed at how a support network will gather around you when you're in need.

Take a deep breath, and recognize that there are better solutions to whatever it is you are facing. Holidays are particularly challenging times for many people.

Reach out to friends, family, find a support group. Somebody here at HN may be able to make recommendations to your local (I'm in Sydney, Aus if that's helpful at all).

Take a deep breath, have a cry to get some relief (yeah, it's more than ok). Take a shower, keep breathing and find someone to talk to who can help.

I hope we keep seeing you around here, and that you can tell your story of triumph one day, and you can help others on the same path.
They work directly with the government to enable them to do so. I’m not faulting them directly, just pointing out why the link can be made.

I think Palantir is mostly a joke, overpaid consultants selling subpar technology backed by slick salespeople and PowerPoints. Like IBM.
If professional ethicists are no more ethical than other philosophers I think we can lay to rest any hope that education in ethics effects behaviour.

Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student E‐mails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self‐Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/meta.120
No, the point was that there was a “damn the consequences” attitude on the growth team because of some higher calling that more connections equals more revenue equals the ability to build great products.

For goodness sake, at one point they partnered with media companies to automatically share every article you read with your friends. Absurd.
Related question: Am I allowed to send a package via regular Uber?

I need to move t-shirt samples across LA regularly and end up driving myself, would happily send an Uber or a Lyft instead.
Oh man, I love that "chocolate covered banana" example, I've never heard of it before, thanks!

Will definitely source these, how come the original site is down? Edit: found one that's up: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.h...
I agree. It remains true that most people inherit their culture in the same way that we inherit our genes (from our parents). Cultural paradigm shifts don't always imply the previous people were replaced. Ireland's conversion to Christianity is a good example of this. The added data points of genetic analysis can help us determine when a culture shift was due to a paradigm shift in the community or when the shift was due to replacement/displacement of the previous people.

America is a perfect example of the latter, where Native Americans and their culture were largely replaced by Europeans both culturally and genetically. Of course Native Americans and their cultures still exist, but they are no longer dominant in North America. A genetic analysis would confirm that Native Americans didn't simply start building European style cities in the 1500s, they were essentially displaced by another people.
Universities have their own police forces, surveillance systems (they know every time you badge in or out somewhere, along with video footage and who knows what else) and when I was in college there was talk of installing metal detectors (thankfully the powers that be realized how idiotic this would have been). I'm not arguing that this makes surveillance OK, but from a perspective of housing, this feels overblown.
How Wakanda's economy works
Trump steps up attack on Amazon
Every company is a technology company now (or soon will be if they want to survive). It's a meaningless label.
Good point!
Are there any publicly accessible crash/death statistics for cars with a similar price/safety/demographic profile as Teslas?

I feel that is the only way we could isolate for self driving and not other factors.
see also: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-mac-gaming-consol...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F...
After working for a bespoke semiconductor foundry, I can’t help but be annoyed that “technology” == software.
Hi from Argentina!

I'm not sure if you want:

1) A clone of HN in Spanish

2) Know if there are many users of HN that speak Spanish

There are many users here that speak other languages (in particular Spanish). Most of the time it is not visible. I only say that I'm from Argentina when it is relevant (a local new, some localization problem, some crazy idea for a new kind of money). But if you read the comment of some users you can see some patterns. For example if they post news from a particular country, errors in the usage of the English language, replies to post in another language.
Deterring Hospital Patients from ‘Drinking’ from Hand Sanitizers
How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease
What was the openradar id, out of curiosity? That sounds really disconcerting
Many sites do a canvas fingerprint, and send you to the captcha if the fingerprint fails.

And then it’s captcha hell.
Anyway, if this is how people use PHP these days, why not just use Java? I guess deployment is different (PHP is not compiled), but code/concepts seem pretty much the same at this point if you want to use this style of programming.
Yep. in the testing stage and after that the miner was tested on an subdomain; on every other part of their website was no miner.
Since Coinhave exists many creators of content switched or added the coinhive javascript miner which allows to mine the cryptocurrency monero without a seperate programm. But on high load on the processor.

Most sites showed a message and gave the users the option und most times also a guide, to prohibit or disable this specific java script.
But others like thepiratebay just added it with neither named to the user nor was it easy to disable (without turning off all JavaScripts)

As administrator of an network with 300 computer workstation all connected up with central antivirus, we had up to 10k Virus warnings in the browser caches.
> Of course, the irony is that US society now has more than enough wealth so that anyone who wanted to could live like a graduate student researching whatever they wanted on a basic income.

Which is more or less my plan. Some details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16610362

> My plan right now is to save money, retire early, and then do whatever research I want that fits my budget. This avoids many of the problems with the current system, but is not possible for many.

> This would allow me to pursue more risky research (in the sense that the research may fail to produce useful results) than an assistant professor trying to get tenure could. I also wouldn't have to raise funds, so I could focus on projects I believe are important, not just what can get funded.

I wish this option was more known and accepted. Some people seem to think I'm insane to intentionally pursue this, but as far as I can tell they don't see that the ship they are on (academia/government research/etc.) is sinking. It would be nice to talk with other independent researchers of this variety, exchange best practices, etc.
Please keep the crypto racism off HN.

The Nobel Prize is a European institution.
The right to request deletion of data is already mandated in current laws, GDPR doesn't change much in that regard.

The hard part is actually enforcing it, and assessing compliance.