skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe it or not, the world is evolving to become smaller and like a small town gradually. Sad... no more curiousity about my neighbor towns
I wonder why Whatsapp is fine, but Telegram is not.
The Gentoo website / handbook does this.

Or rather, did this a few years ago when I was last messing around with Gentoo. It seems to be HTML now.
Whoa hold on... We have to contribute to society now?!
That's why Musk had art of BFR sitting on a Jovian moon, for the same delta v to get into earth orbit, you can get anywhere else in the solar system, quick (relatively). Big rockets and large mass fractions enable all that, as my comment above indicates. Rocket equation is for real, but so are economies of scale.
Keep in mind the idea of libel and slander exists in the US. I’d see this court decision as an extension of those ideas (materially true information that can be deindexed by the subject).
I would guess it's to reduce the amount of frivolous accusations by people who only think they were lied to or simply disagree. I would imagine that most government officials would spend their day fighting off these accusations, with no time for their official duties.
All the more reason to tax unearned income at a higher rate, no?
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There are several types of engineering positions open from SRE type roles to product development on the Openshift team. Positions for golang and python developers.

You can email me with questions to razevedo (at) redhat.com
"Paywall"
If Apple Music was cheaper, maybe they would sell more.

I mean sure, Apple Music is great, but I'm doing just fine without it. But I would consider it if the price was lower. Yes the price could be considered low by some people when you look at the value, but I have to look at all my different subscriptions, and it sticks out as higher than the others.
MDN includes clear documentation about what is actually implemented in all major browsers (the compatibility tables), so I (as someone who wants my code to work everywhere now, not next year) can tell at a glance what pie-in-the-sky ideas I should ignore.

That's great that it's based on the WHATWG's work – it should be, since it should document what's in Firefox, and Firefox presumably is following their own work with the WHATWG. But the WHATWG shouldn't pretend that they're useful to me in any other way than a preview of what's coming down the pipeline. For that, I need clear documentation of what is, not what will be. W3C HTML specs prior to HTML 5 (with the exception of the abortion that was XHTML 2) have historically served that purpose well. It was easy to make the judgement that, once my target market primarily supported HTML 4, I could use anything in that spec. The WHATWG "spec" throws that idea out the window.

Ideally, with a "living standard", periodically there are snapshots of some form that document what all or most major browsers supported as of some point in time. So I as a developer can say, "well I know most of my target market have updated their browsers since date X, so I can just use anything in this standard snapshot". The W3C I think is trying to do this. They might not be doing a very good job (indeed that is the crux of the WHATWG's objections); like I said, I personally rely on MDN to fill this same role for me. But the WHATWG living standard itself cannot fill this role, short of including MDN-style compatibility tables, or making their own snapshots that are somehow "better" than what the W3C puts out.
What do you mean by "no solid dependency management"? Do you mean out of the box? This used to be true, but with glide and dep (https://github.com/golang/dep) it seems to. It is not npm or bundler - but progressing.
It's absolutely insane what they are doing (EU). Should libraries remove newspapers with my name if I don't like what's written there about me? It's pure censorship. It all stems from the fact that society hasn't yet adjusted to the reality that not everything on the Internet is true. People share between themselves lots of false beliefs. The Internet is just another medium.

The problem is that if I put up a billboard that says John is a thief, they can find me and sue for defamation. If I do a website and use SEO, then it's not so easy, even though it serves similar purpose.

But that is how the world works now. We are able to send information to many people, anonymously, often in a targeted way. That's how politics work, that's how ads work, that's how HN works. The problem is not the information, the problem is trust. It's not easy to solve, but it's doable.
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Are we getting fatophobic in here?
I'm not concerned about the porn sites themselves. I'm concerned about the increasingly intolerant sentiment towards anything sexual in our society.

There is a tendency to criminalise, censor or otherwise punish voluntary sexual activity between adults, and its coming from all political sides with different excuses and wording.
The article gave some reasons why. Do you disagree with them, or did you not read them?

"With a small, mostly homogenous population of 340,000 and a high degree of economic equality, Iceland is one of the world’s safest nations. It is the only Nato member without a standing army. [...] Police are not armed [...] The feeling of security is bolstered by Icelanders’ tendency to look out for one another, a tradition that dates back to times when close collaboration was essential to make it through the long, brutal winters."
In before questions of "why would I pay so much for such a slow machine" - the target market for Talos is not necessarily those who seek raw performance.

For many of us, having a workstation that is at least in the same rough range of performance while being free and clear of IME and PSP is worth the price premium.

RISC V is slowly getting there, but for real work, this is a decent option for us tinfoil hat crowd.
The reason we have the freedom of speech in the US is because its the powerful that abuse the ability to censor.
A video analysis of the related phenomenon:

"Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8

It talks about possibly using machine learning to create many videos targeted at toddlers and using techniques to ensure the next autoplay item doesn't change to another channel.
Ask HN: Best headset for remote workers?
As a remote worker I like to sometimes work from neighborhood coffee shops, but I need a headset with a microphone that does a good job of filtering out background noise. I'm currently using a basic Microsoft USB headset and it's failing pretty hard in this respect (although it's a great choice in a quiet environment). Any recommendations?
> Mankind has done perfectly well without a "right to be forgotten" for hundreds of thousands of years.

On the other hand, mankind has done perfectly well without computers, an internet, or indeed indoor plumbing for hundreds of thousands of years.

Sometimes new technologies demand new responses.
I got a random idea: what if sites like HN, Reddit, RSS readers, etc. would have netflix-like subscription for articles?

I don't care about WSJ or other paywall publishers. Especially not enough to subscribe. I however do care about occasional story that ends on HN.
Have a child. Get home to him / her every night and just look at that smile.

It's working for me better than any other thing I tried in the past. And obviously (?) we didn't even do it for helping me deal with burnout.
Yes. But laws must fit within a given culture. Different cultures have different risk appreciation.
While I also oppose the "right to be forgotten", I think an obvious reply to your last point is that we also haven't had search engines, the web, newspapers, journalism, or even writing for most of that time.
That particular person is longtime leading advocate for "humanitarian eugenics" for promoting the "advancement of civilization", so undemocratic elitism in web standards is fitting with their overall worldview.
Start by identifying the root cause of the burnout. I feel like programming itself shouldn't burn you out. It's usually other parts of coding for work that lead to burnout. I've interviewed thousands of developers over the years for books, research, jobs, and if I had to choose a single culprit I'd say the most common cause of programmer burnout is a really terrible codebase that viscerally painful to maintain.

I did my best to illustrate that here: https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/896405621494382593

Tangled, nasty, poorly maintained code is not an easy problem to fix. The first step is getting everyone on the team -- and especially the boss -- to recognize the real problem, and accept that fixing it will save more time than it costs.
Mark steal cookies, gets caught and serves his sentence in jail.

Now Mark is out, looking for a job as a JavaScript developer but when Mark is Googled to check about his involvement in OS projects and personal portfolio before his Github profile the article on CNN from 5 years ago is displayed and apparently Mark is a cookie monster.

Is Mark sentenced to never be employed again? Mark made a mistake but Is He really worse from all these people who commit crimes and never get caught or end up in the news?

Maybe the balance could be to not display Marks convictions until specifically asked for?

I don't say that I have the answer but I really don't understand the concept of unforgiveness.

Maybe we should approach all this from a utilitarian perspective? What's the utility of labelling Mark as a thief years after he paid for what he did?
On the other hand, if SpaceX's product is vastly superior, they could capture market share considerably, then at a later time open source to get the rest.
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Drivers using mobile phones could be fined without knowing they’ve been caught
My guesses would be: PDF is an ISO standard, while MD has a handful of competing implementations/standards. PDF is very widely used, while MD-as-file is rather niche.

And browsers will open .md files, they'll just interpret them as plain text.
You say it’s doable. How?
In a "right to work" world, it is _very difficult_ to prove true discrimination, and the burden of proof is always on the accuser.
No, that hero would be called Englandman.
I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power. On the one hand I agree that I would like to keep America investing in R&D to create the next great innovation that revolutionizes the world, on the other hand I do not fear other countries of the world overtaking us. I frankly think it's awesome to see other countries of the world investing and leapfrogging off of American innovation and some day I would only hope that we can do the same.

I think instead of using attacking vocabulary like "threatening" it would be more worthwhile for the media to say that the US is not keeping up with it's peers.
I know someone who works at CarpeData, and the agents just search through Facebook/Twitter/etc all day. A lot of low hanging fruit!
Englandman. Irelandman. Chineseman.
I couldn't tell if you were talking about Japan, Europe, Canada, or the United States until your very last sentence, to be completely honest. I mean, yeah, the article is about Japanese youth and Japanese society, but I can draw a lot of parallels to my own life / acquaintances / colleagues / friends / family in the states.
There's definitely been a lot of great material on HN about this in the past. If you haven't seen it, I invite you to check it out:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=burnout&sort=byPopularity&pref...
If you love using evidence then you should probably take a look at it once in a while. It’s no coincidence the economic powerhouses in the US are also the most diverse and progressive places in the US, and that the US is the economic center of the world.

Diversity has nothing to do with losing culture. It’s about sharing cultures and understanding other cultures and points of view. Diversity is a fundamental requirement of all life, whether it’s cultural, racial, or cellular and genetic. In all cases diversity increases resilience, whether to new unaccounted for situations or new diseases.
I've been watching this product for a while: https://www.nuclino.com/ it seems they too have built something really impressive on top of ProseMirror (it's a lot like Quip/Paper but more interesting). ProseMirror really feels like the only editor on top of which you can build an entire user experience and app.
Entering into a deeper relationship with someone (employer/employee, landlord/tenant, etc) you want to know everything about the other person. This is not because you are some nosy person - its because breaking that relationship means risking lawsuits or damage to your property or a whole eviction process which can take months to years...

Its a dangerous thing to "trust" someone when they'll have that level of control over your future so people use government records and google to know if they could possibly have an issue.

This isn't a privacy issue its a minimizing risk issue.

If you give people better options for minimizing risk then google results will matter less and less. For instance I'd be happy to hire a convict if I could a) pay him less than I normally would (initially) and b) fire him at any time for any reason.

Same for renting. If we draw up a contract with a no-drugs no-weapons clause and allowed me to inspect the place once a month for the first year or so I'd be happy to rent to him.

But these things sensible precautions are illegal. There may be good reasons because of them "evil corporations" blah blah. Sensible or not that's reality - so people understandably discriminate against people based on google results. Its a fairly understandable precaution given the amount of risk involved due to regulation.

Therefore the fix isn't to make google "forget" things - that only increases risk dramatically. The fix is to make these relationships less risky by allowing business owners and landlords more control over their own personal.
They have started to pass laws. The GDPR covers the processing of criminal convictions here: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-10-gdpr/

While mankind has not needed a right to be forgotten previously, it didn't have the omnipresent Google to deal with either. These are just the opening shots in the Privacy battle that will spread from GDPR.

Other search engines are affected too, but Google has a massive market share and has a long litigation history in Europe.
Yes, I don't understand why Pijul didn't re-implement the guts under basically the Darcs interface rather than re-doing it all. It's not obvious that it wouldn't fit.

I don't understand the comparing repos requirement. if I'm comparing Darcs branches it's going to be for the presence or absence of certain patches; what else do you normally need? Also, how does Darcs' rebasing negate the benefits of the model?
Then why not just copy and paste the text....
According to the data it is very strong. There are only few countries where there is both high economic inequality and low incidence of crime, and those countries are full blown dictatorships like North Korea.
Have a network, as in family, friends, partner. Also, make them your priority over work. And as other have pointed out, do something else on your free time, and protect your free time.
Some people affected by eye Toxoplasmosis begin to see floaters all the time. And, strangely, it make at least one person on Earth also see those white blood cells (the little white spots you see against a blue, bright sky) with the unaffected eye, too.
Working from home is not a recipe for avoiding burnout ... might actually be the opposite.
As working at home might help some people be aware that it can lead to burnout faster as private and working lives merge. See e.g. https://jaxenter.com/working-remotely-leads-to-burnout-13130...
Which powerful entity do you mean? The people who want things unlisted, or Google?
I'd prefer that, to the extent that they get involved, government work to provide better options rather than attempt to legislate away (what some people judge to be) bad options. [1]

An analogy that I think fits is the availability of abortions. For an individual pregnant woman who wishes to terminate the pregnancy, many people [likely including her] would view the option of having an abortion as an objectively bad yet best deal available outcome. It would be preferable to a wide swath of people's opinion had she never become pregnant in the first place, via education, wider availability of free/trivial cost birth control, whatever. In aggregate, the world would be a better place if the rate of abortion was reduced via these means (less physical and emotional stress, etc).

That doesn't extend to banning abortions, for that doesn't help the particular individual woman.

[1] - It is chiefly for this reason that I prefer something like a UBI over a minimum wage law. If someone's labor is only able to create $4 of value per hour, I would rather let them choose to do that than not be allowed or be forced to do that only as an entrepreneur. To reduce the amount of desperation that might "force" someone to do that, UBI takes some of the economic pressure off.
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Why is "creating a rendering engine from scratch" the bar here? A new player could fork Blink or WebKit.
This sounds cute, but isn't really true. In a competitive market, there is still an incentive to find cures. If company A has a treatment with the properties you describe on the market, and company B comes out with a cure, guess who's going to get all the business?
You have to vary your routine, workout in the morning but in different ways on different days, play with your kids, visit friends for coffee, talk to your spouse, play a sport or put together a robot. Pick activities that are not in front of a screen so when you do burn the midnight oil or push yourself to finish those deadlines, it doesn't feel like your life is just in front of a command line.
Mankind has not had any rights for 99,9 percent of those hundreds of thousands of years you mention and we have only had such accessible records on each other for the past 25 years.
W3C attempts to make proper web standards.

Apple Google MS break them and and try to push for substandard specs pushed through W3C.

As a web developer for 11 years, I can state that web development is devolving to chaos of IE6 era.

When W3C allowed itself to be subverted and let big dotcom browsermakers to hijack the process.

A result of that is the continuous bloating of the acting web standard, when you have dozens of new abandonware APIs being showed into the spec on a whim, and no focus on things that should really matter.

It is 2018, and yet browser makers still have open CSS bugs from the previous decade that are banal to fix, yet all they care is how to stuff yet another API useless outside their own business setup.
Besides the usual services like Stripe etc. which most will likely recommend, I would highly suggest you look at http://fairpixels.pro these guys are the best I know of when it comes to helping companies design beautiful b2b saas UX/UI.
In the long run, we're all dead. We need short term solutions.
I've been using `glide` for a few years now, no issues at all. It's the same as cargo(rust), bundler(ruby), npm(js). Thanks to Go it's probably better since deploying dependencies in those languages is really painful.

And not mentioning the security issues associated with having a central repository for packages.
There's one amazing tidbit in the documentary about how China's systems work. Starts around here:

https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY?t=3585

The system seems so controlled which I don't think is feasible for any other country.
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As someone who used to sell a very similar product, most people understand that those prices are estimates and a just a starting point in determining a fair price.

Others would insist that I match whatever numbers they found online - our standard response was to explain that Zillow won’t actually buy your house from you at the number they’re quoting, so we value their prices accordingly.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: now those who have done heinous things in history can rewrite it. I shudder to think of a terrible leader excising his failed tenure from the annals of history.

Google, for better or worse, is a repository of knowledge, the most powerful one we've ever had. We owe it to ourselves to use it responsibly, not hobble it. The problem is a puritanical society that refuses to let someone with a scarlet letter move on with their life.
And your point is?

Let's go though this again. You still have to trust someone to implement E2E encryption, guarantee said confidentiality and guarantee to keep it with each update pf the app they provide, etc. It's absolutely the same as trusting them to just not spy on you on their servers with client-to-server encryption. And if they are forced to implement a backdoor, it doesn't matter whether they do it on their servers or push an update to a supposedly secure app.
Agree with you on most points.

A jail, however, is not supposed to serve the purpose of being a mechanism of forgiveness. It is a mechanism of punishment. We as a citizenry give the government the sole right to jail / punish citizens as a way of enforcing the law. While someone may be reformed as an outcome of serving time, it is not the primary goal. Otherwise, we would see a higher focus on lowering recidivism rates.
> Honestly, do the other 450+ W3C member organizations matter? (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List)

Given that the W3C charter requires actual implementations in order for a standard to move forward, I'd have to say that no - entities other than those who might produce a significant implementation probably don't matter in this case.
Granted, it's easy to mispronounce an English word from the spelling alone (try to read aloud the poem "The Chaos" [links below], infamous among advanced English learners).

However, the sound/spelling correspondence is good enough, as I said, and certainly better than in Chinese. Thus, I stand by my position that premature concentration on reading/writing is a bigger problem for Chinese learner than for English learners.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruize-rijmen/De_Chaos

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

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html
It's really sad that so many HN users would downvote comments like this. It just goes to show that insulting Asians really isn't taken seriously.

Thank you for bringing it up. I also don't understand why some people get so offended when they are told that certain words can cause harm to others.

I always try to be respectful and if someone tells me that a word or a name hurts them, then I just won't use it around them.
wait. why wouldn't at least some corporate customers be interested in this sort of thing?

they'd have a standard, non-selective, purely time-based expiration policy which would be defensible in the face of a government investigation.

"Your honor, we made no attempt to hide specific details about this matter. Our policy has always been to destroy all messages that are greater than 90 days old."
I would have bought it if it had Spotify and/or Bluetooth support.
Safari for iOS doesn't support background sync or push notifications.
I prefer ActionScript to all the other languages I've learned/worked with (C#, Java, PHP, Python, Lisp, etc).

So thanks but no thanks.

Oh, wait...
Electron, and no macOS binaries... I wonder if this was a conscious choice or more of a "not enough time" situation (curious, not complaining)