skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I'm doing this with the company I've been building [0] and it works. While it's taken a while being completely bootstrapped, we make enough money to grow and focus on our users. No one is obligated to track and stalk everyone online; that's just the prevailing business model (unfortunately).

[0] https://write.as/principles
don't worry, it's going to be siphoned off next time you get your car serviced anyways
I feel like this is a normal amount of problems combined with a very high level of transparency
Here in the UK, where we drive on the left and overtaking is only allowed to the right of slower vehicles under normal conditions, there are some other variations:

c- a vehicle in the lane to your left that you were going to overtake has itself caught up with a slower vehicle and wants to pull out to overtake it, moving into the gap in front of you

d- a vehicle with an impatient driver is undertaking traffic (passing to the left of slower vehicles) and then moves into the gap in front of you.

The first of these is a normal situation, but still results in a vehicle moving into the space in front of you, sometimes without accelerating up to your speed first. Fortunately, it's usually easy to anticipate this situation, and many drivers will helpfully drop back a little to allow more space for the other vehicle to move out.

The second of these is a result of aggressive and probably illegal driving, and is more of a problem because the driver cutting in may well be going too fast, move out into a space that isn't really wide enough, and then brake suddenly.

Still, in my experience these don't cause much delay if you're allowing a sensible gap in front. I find people who try to keep closer to the car in front to deter others from pulling into "their" space seem to get far more upset about these situations than I do.
> CyanogenMod and LineageOS is the same entity, that only makes two big communities

So you agree that there is an AOSP open-source movement? Nevermind it's harder to create a ROM than a Linux desktop distro because drivers are not mainelined by OEMs, but even this will be resolved by the HAL from Android P onwards.
I think they were raising the possibility of having multiple reedits, each owned by a separate entity, yet still compatible. Like we have multiple email providers, for example.
Boycotting Amazon
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
Disqus is a centralised data harvester and no better than Facebook as far as I can tell.

Discourse is just another forum software, but it's open source and you can setup your own. Jeff's taken some of the ideas from StackOverflow and tried to apply them to forums. To be honest I think most people are happy with regular forums, they work as you expect and there aren't many rules to learn. I've come across Discourse forums a couple of times. Plotly charts use Discourse for their forum [0]. They work well, but as you say Discourse tried to rebrand the forum and so introduces a layer that most people just won't get.

[0]: https://community.plot.ly/
This is one way to put it, but another way would be clarifying that Facebook is a dark-pattern filled, dopamine-tuned, unethical, illegal, and sometimes wilfully criminal social network.

While this was back ages ago, Zuckerberg used failed logins from Facebook to hack into a reporter’s email. Yes, Facebook captured plaintext passwords of failed logins, and Zuckerberg personally used them to hack a reporter’s email account who was digging into FB.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacke...

The problem isn’t scaling pains as you try to wrap. The problem IS Facebook, and almost everything about it.

Examples: Pledge 99% (for-profit, tax structuring), Internet.org (locking in of Facebook; closed intranet as ‘internet’); anticompetitive actions against Snapchat through copying of stories; and the 999+ privacy scandals that have continuously plagued Facebook because it is the core business model.

For you to call Zuckerberg commendable, is almost an insult for every founder with a moral compass.

He is certainly competent, but “commendable” is the exact antonym of what I’d use to describe him.
Didn't they do this on Gas Monkey?
Why is working with spreadsheets not considered programming?
Yes but you still for anything non trivial write the SQL, PL/SQl, TSQl or what have you its just easier to do that using a GIU tool than direct on the command line.
Is it though? There’s a saying that goes “there are no bad teams just a bad leader”. Could you provide a common seen example where this does not hold up?
I never noticed a anti depressive use of ibuprofen. Ketamine however actively puts you into a 'better mind space'
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
I like to keep various employee stock grants for about a year, mostly so I feel like I have "skin in the game."

In general, though, my employee stock is usually not much. If I had a huge windfall of stock, I'd probably consult a financial planner and sell much sooner.
Why was that a huge red flag to you?
No concrete goal beyond having a reasonably useful UEFI development environment (more so than the 96boards one).

It’s been useful to be able to run the same Ubuntu and SUSE images as VMs and servers do, but that’s only really possible because the built kernels have RPi3 support (but at least you now don’t need a custom image with U-Boot).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16344562
Plus a wide variety of product offerings.

Heroku takes a similarly transparent approach: https://status.heroku.com/
Also, the reference at the bottom of the article is a classic introductory text in the field:

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780262541855

Or the free textbook from Izhikevich:
https://www.izhikevich.org/publications/dsn.pdf
in many other countries smoking is on the increase so it hasnt been as nearly effective as you think.
There is 'flair' which is essentially a signature. And people get creative with usernames to replicate avatars.
This isn't really true. If you actually wanted to and tried to put in early stage money, you could. Lots of startups raise their first few hundred K from "friends and family" type rounds and are usually readily looking for small investors to write small (25k or even less) checks.

I would bet within a couple degrees of separation within your network you can find someone raising money for a project you're at least somewhat interested in. There are also platforms like AngelList that are making it easier to fund deals with small money.
Test-Driven Development with React, Jest, and Enzyme – Part 1
It's mostly a disclaimer for the time being. I'm making no guarantees that the editor will meet those claims at it's current state - but that's the end goal.
It’s All Coming Together for Arm in High Performance Computing
YMMV, but when I go, I walk in through the cash register area directly into warehouse and can usually get what I want in short order. Sadly, checking out still takes forever though. I don’t get why stores have 40+ checkout lanes and only ever have a few open, even during peak shopping season.
I really don't care, because it's important enough to repeat in any discussion about rebuilding the Web. Involve some real systems people. Design a real app platform, with multi-language support, especially compiled languages. Have a cohesive end to end development story.
There's a whole world of software out there besides the web. I know that the context of this discussion was web, but I really think people forget that that's not all there is to software.
Its basically impossible to make any media both availible on the internet and not availible for illegal/unethical distribution/collection.
Note that this does not affect your domain if it's already purchased (at least as far as I can see) -- I'm a gandi customer (they offer a fantastic service when it's not down). I'm not affected by this becuase I only use gandi for purchasing and managing my domains.

I use:

- Gandi.net for domain purchasing (for the TLDs they support anyway. I own some TLDs I can't use them for and am pretty sad about it since I like their DNS management UI so much)

- Let's Encrypt for TLS

- My own email server for email

So this downtime doesn't affect me but glad to see they're transparent about it at least
Wouldn't the better comparison be if they just rented the planes from the manufacturer though? Or even better, have a 3rd party company buy and maintain the aircraft and they just rented the aircraft from them. What could go wrong?
This portion of the article must have a typo:

> "What if there are parents who wanted to select for Tay-Sachs disease?"

I doubt there are any would-be parents out there who want a child with a 5-year death sentence. Judging by the sentence immediately following:

> "There are plenty of people in Silicon Valley who are somewhere on the spectrum, and some of them will want children who are neuro-atypical.”

...I suspect the author intended "Tay-Sachs" to be "Autism".
If Senators Don’t Understand Facebook,How Will They Make Sense of Health IT?
Just as a different perspective ketamine is (and was) pretty common in my circle and the idea that it works as anti depressant slowly faded.

It never really worked for me as that, at least not more than lsd or so would. And some friends claim that it has way less effect on them today even thought it seemed have to worked before.

It may is the abuse (probably higher amount on some occasions) it may are long term effects.

But it surely is not the magic cure some make it out to be.
The RICH Economy (1980)
Tighten Up Your Numbers
I doubt it will be too long before 32-bit versions of Windows are no longer produced or supported. The 64-bit versions do not run 16-bit software. When that time inevitably comes, the Windows 1.0 software will also stop working in native Windows (rather than a 32-bit or even 16-bit Windows version running through emulation).
Mind you these are average statistics and such; included in those are people that drive drunk in their early 30's and kill themselves. And probably not included is the people killed as an effect of e.g. drunk drivers.
Governments…

Give them too much money and they will build you a singing road.
The debt was given by a company to him with lots of caveats, one of them is not paying it. They are consequences of course.

Rule of thumb: pay back your grandma, but if the corp lender will screw you if he had a chance, treat him the same. Debt from people really trying to help you out and debt from companies trying to milk you left and right isn't the same.

Should one feel guilty of not paying, if you CC rate goes to 30% for being late a few payments and they do nothing to lower the rate?
I would argue that Beaker is providing a better UX for the web while solving the centralised nature of it. Its API allows websites to provide interfaces for creating and modifying websites tailored for specific audiences, owned by the user.

So you can have your own RSS subscriptions in a Dat, a feed reader in another Dat, click a button on a website to subscribe to it and add it to your Dat. The Feed reader can keep track of what you've read and store it in its own Dat or a different Dat (if you want client/data separation). Your mobile phone can sync to your Dat(s) so you have Desktop/Mobile sync all in a single place.

I've not tried this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
or ggplot
We haven't always had CIDR.

Saying that not carving a single /24 out of a class A network is bad UX when variable length netmasks weren't even in use yet is a fundamentally silly misreading of history.
So if you struggle to "setting up environment and dependencies on different hardware setups" then maybe Data science and technical programming is not for you.
Another problem with early ABS is that it was widely misunderstood. Many drivers thought it would allow them to stop in a shorter distance under very slippery conditions, when in fact the opposite was often true (but you could steer more effectively). Thus they didn't slow down as much as they should for the conditions and didn't have enough time left to stop.
Millions of Funds in Coinsecure Cryptocurrency Stolen, CSO Blamed
Amazon workers pee into bottles, scared of being punished for taking a break
Thanks for the advice. I'm diagnosed with a serotonin deficiency based depression which appears to affect memory too, which could be the cause; it's not a sharp change, it's over at least a decade.
Yes, yes, downvote me, let the hate flow through you.

Doesn't change that you can do anything in a gui :)
There is a reason VisiCalc was such a big deal when it first came out. This is a UI that is both intuitive to regular people and also incredibly powerful -- and one that takes little effort to learn. It's a sign of the kinds of things that are possible with computing (reducing the gap between what today we call "coders" and "users"). There are few really large efforts towards research in this area these days and we are poorer for it.

Here is a good paper from Alan Kay that relates:
https://frameworker.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/alan-kay-com...
I'd probably be saying this for the hundredth time or whatever, but I've always seen the machine crawl after Chrome opens a few tens of tabs and uses a lot of memory, while Firefox (even before Quantum) would use a lot lesser memory for the same number of tabs. Firefox has always been my browser whenever I need(ed) to have several tens of tabs open.

The extensions in Firefox also have worked much better for me, all along. Even today, Chrome wouldn't restore tabs after crashing and relaunching, and this was after it asked me if I would like to restore tabs and I said yes. Chrome, to me, is nothing but a toy browser good for some single tabbed kiosks or a open-read-close model of use. For anyone who wants a browser for heavy use, especially with a lot of tabs, I would recommend only Firefox.
It's interesting how you still observe the doppler effect even though the road isn't moving.
> In my understanding the main selling point of blockchains is to outsource the accepting of state changes to a consensus protocol which does not involve human interaction/interference. And just as git a blockchain still works if only one or few actors are involved.

Agree. git works for vaguely defined rules like "is this README readable, up to date, and useful" where human input is necessary.

Blockchains can be used to enforce clearly defined rules like rules of a smart contract or rules of spending virtual money.

So roughly speaking: git = blockchain - distributed_consensus + fork_merges
Google works out way for AI to isolate voices in a crowd
How much do you think a company would have been valued that let you create a meeting space for people with very little work, communicate it almost instantaneously to everyone you wanted invited, and to have the meeting space focused on any subject you liked - not just dog parks.

I believe Facebook is overvalued, but comparison to the value of a dog park is not exactly fair either.
Scientists Want to Replace Pesticides with Bacteria
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847749

second paragraph
A healthy dose of skepticism for every claim of what is good for you is... er... good for you.

Glass of wine good for you? This message or research was sponsored by the wine industry.
Avocados good for you? Avocado industry.
Smoking good for you? This is literally what the tobacco industry said until it was finally stopped by legislation and counter-evidence.

With every claim you have to assess who would benefit from it. In the case of alcohol, it's both the alcohol industry AND the state, due to high and extra taxes on alcohol (in my country at least), which are intended to discourage heavy drinking but which at the same time contribute a lot to tax income. The same weirdness is done with smoking; it's not banned because of obvious health reasons, just heavily taxed and packaging and advertising are tightly regulated, because outright banning it would cause it to go underground.
States Want to Force Online Retailers to Collect Billions in Sales Tax
Dealing with cold starts in AWS Lambda
Aledgedly, with no details.
Just look at what it does to metal in a short amount of time!
Based on the very light skim I just gave, I like that book. Thank you for the reference.
These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos for a Facial Recognition Database
I've thought this would make sense too and I feel like I'm missing something as to why it hasn't been implemented. Complexity perhaps?

Interesting to note, though, that we do have weak forms of braking that don't light up the tail lights - heavy engine braking in the case of manual transmissions, lighter engine-braking for automatics, and in the case of electric vehicles (at least a Tesla in my experience) the lights don't kick on from regen unless it's passed a certain deceleration level.
Indeed.

AWS likely has significantly more problems spread across their entire set of services but Amazon rarely updates the dashboard[0] unless it hits a news article. I've had entire availability zones seemingly go offline, and the dashboard changes to a "some customers are having disruption" message. It is almost comical how under-stated the AWS status dashboard is... Almost...

[0] http://status.aws.amazon.com/
There is some irony in painting the major content delivery platforms in the 90s as bad actors when in actuality much of 90s media (like BBC) had much higher standards than so much of what comes via the web today.

I don't think that really means anything. There is so much junk, that anything that honestly attempts to be good is better than "so much of what comes via the web today."
sigh ...newsgroups...

I remember when I knew everyone on rec.sports.basketball.college and then the damn web came along, and everyone was on the internet.
The GUI Will Never Kill the Command Line
This is also a feature on Pfsense, or just about any high end router, switch, or firewall.

The article asserts, "It expands the attack surface and most of this isn't covered by traditional defenses", which is bogus. It's just another device that doesn't need to be on the same network as critical services.
I've had K for anesthesia at the oral surgeon's, and it did not make me unconscious. It put me in a K hole. I was conscious the way you're conscious in a narrative dream. I have pretty clear memories of the experience (trip) - just no memory of my teeth being extracted.
How I protected my home network
Talking Video Game with Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff
Yes… See my original comment.

They could’ve perform such an experiment without playing games. Then, they wouldn’t have wasted citizens’ $90,000.
I dunno. I personally like the non-variable brake lights because I can gently tap on my brakes to make tailgaters give me space.
The pre-google internet also had a discovery problem. Remember webrings? I think OP is right that the decentralized internet is the same as in the "golden era".
Haproxy SSL Termination in Docker Using Letsencrypt – Jekyll Example
Try KNIME. You can do data science with a GUI and not to be limited at all. Specially if this GUIs let you also execute Python and R.

Also, Knime and similar apps show a workflow way easier to understand at first sight. Specially for people with low programming skills.

Not to mention that you don't have to care about the environment and quirks of the packages and so on, although I recognize this is not really a problem in R, but I had with Python from my noob perspective of programming.

I do pretty complicated stuff with Knime, PostgreSQL and Apache Nifi. I make workflows almost on the fly, snap many operations to them, etc. I'd love to see this guys doing something similar in the same timeframe I do.

Well made GUIs like Knime has, make your life easier, this kind of articles sound a bit snob tbh. This statements are true for developing websites and many other fields, not really for treating data. It doesn't make much difference given the current tools.

Edit: I see people arguing Excel is fantastic. It's true, it's amazing but it doesn't keep track of what you do with the data. It's difficult to understand what's going on if there's something even a bit complicated, not to mention if people just copies and pastes stuff everywhere, which is common.

Sorry for my poor english.
Vista and 8 had their problems, but 10 has been fine for me. I disagree with the statement "The last usable windows was Win7." But then, I've seen the same argument before, in different flavors. People complained about Windows 7, wondering why anyone would switch from XP. They complained about XP, wondering why anyone would switch from 98SE.
This Is the End: Otherworld Development Cancelled
The VentureFizz Podcast: Howard Kogan – CEO of WordStream
Spend 15 minutes on these hacks and get your Gmail inbox in order
There's a big difference between boycotting Nike, and boycotting Amazon. In the case of Nike, there were more than enough substitute goods to fill the gap for a consumer choosing to not purchase athletic gear from Nike.

How would that work with Amazon? Their product isn't only the stuff you buy. It's the ease of the process and the quickness of delivery. What can you substitute for that?
Yes, it's not entirely without uses to have a third manifesto. There was, for instance, a NoSQL manifesto a few years ago. Relational purists could reasonably point out this is a clear sign of the immaturity of the new technology as they were on their third manifesto nearly two decades previously.
Yeah. But Windows NT's ACL is kernel level and applies to any object that the NT kernel can make. (aka: anything with a "Handle" can be controlled with Window's security core). MMaps (called "Sections" in Windows), Threads, Processes, Mutexes, and more are covered by Window's ACL security model.

Even then, ACLs are just part of the picture. Windows NT's "SID" system for identifying user permissions is far more flexible than users / groups.

WinVista and later also adds mandatory access control on top of that, in particular event logging / auditing guaranteed by the kernel and "integrity levels". Anything that is "drive by downloaded" by Chrome for example has an integrity level of "untrusted" and thus is locked out of all kernel objects. (IE: "untrusted" integrity in Windows prevents access to files, processes, threads, mmaps, all services, etc. etc.).

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Linux's security model is too weak to be used in a modern operating system. That's why Google extended it with all of the Android App stuff. Android's security model is closer to what modern Windows can do.

And if you know anything about Android (despite being built on top of Linux), its security model is quite different. Windows basically offers Android-level security at the kernel level. (maybe a bit more: major services on Windows, such as LSASS aka Login / Password service, can run in an isolated VM for example)
It's because the purpose of slowing down is primarily in terms of safety margin: if something goes wrong, you give yourself time to safely stop. If the occurrence of low visibility is infrequent enough for people to not have experienced an accident, but frequent enough to have experienced it more than a few times, it quickly settles into a habitual "well, I've had no problems going 70 in 0-visibility fog the last dozen times, so it can't be as unsafe as I'm told." What makes it more annoying is that actually driving a safe speed is also immensely unsafe, because the other cars are going 70 and can't see the car going 25 until it's too late.

One of the most unnerving drives I had to do was traveling on the Ohio Turnpike in super-dense fog. The traffic was heavy but moving more or less at speed. Cue the toll plaza... and the need to reform two lanes of traffic, with slowly accelerating truck traffic, cars whizzing from the right to pass the accelerating trucks, all in dense fog with almost no visibility (I don't think you could see the rightmost toll lane from the leftmost). And one idiot didn't have his lights on.

Final safety tip: if you can't see the road very well, turn your lights on. Even if they don't help you see the road (which they don't in fog), they absolutely help everybody else see you.