skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Freenode.net there are a few good ones.

#hn is, well, HN. But nobody ever really seems to discuss anything, so most of the traffic is just a bot that posts new links that show up on HN. Still, no reason in principle people couldn't discuss things there. Possibly they would if more people were in the channel?

#startups - populated by a lot of HN users, but the discussion is pretty random, and not necessarily limited to (or even often) about things you see on HN.

##machinelearning - fairly low volume, but pretty focused on ML

#ml-ot - for off-topic discussion / idle chit-chat, vaguely related to machine learning.

#ai - very low volume, but good every now and again, in spurts

##agi - even lower volume, so please join and contribute if you're interested in Artificial General Intelligence!

#cyberpunk - cyberpunks

#postcyberpunk - postcyberpunk

#tensorflow - tensorflow

#wikidata

#swig - Semantic Web Interest Group

##cypherpunk

etc.
"Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world. In 2012, 37.8 percent of the population lived on less than $1.25 a day."[1] So if you are making $100K per year, this tax would be equivalent to giving away $40K of that for using social media.

Context matters. I don't know anything about Uganda, but maybe different political situation is causing them to use social media more as unbiased news sources rather than discussing dress colors.

If you feel like this kind of tax would benefit you, then you can likely arrange it, on your own, or with a help of some 3rd party and send X to charity for each day when you checked the social media (HN counts right? gov said it counts - so it counts, no discussion).

Unrelated but I think the strategy above is not a good one if you want to spend less time using social media. For me just sitting back and thinking what do you really want works best.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda#Economy_and_infrastruct...
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> That is a cultural reference because Europeans do care that much about scale. That is only important as a show of power.

I'm not really talking about technical scale here. I'm talking about economic scale. In those terms, it does indeed seem that the EU is falling behind.

Also, it is not just a show of power, because these companies are reaping economic benefits from their power.

> But it has little positive balance on everyday life.

That's really your personal opinion. Many people (me included) would argue that the scale of these companies definitely makes a difference in your everyday life.
It's the equivalent of working as a contractor. The main benefit is that you pay less taxes into the social welfare system, primarily a ZZP'er doesn't have to pay into a pension fund. The government tries to make being a ZZP'er advantageous, as it is perceived as being great for the economy.
A Brief History of Unreal Mode
One thing that I've learned though is that you should try to work for rich people who believe that we're in a meritocracy.
When these people see talent, they tend to think that it's much more valuable than it actually is.
It's ultimately not scalable though. You end up with floors of open offices, or different buildings, and you just end up scheduling meetings again. The upper limit for just naturally working with the group is quite small.
> I live in New York City. My taxes (as a percentage of my income) are substantially lower than they would be if I worked the same job in London, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, or any of the European cities that are considered to be "tech hubs

Got any numbers on this? I was under the impression that effective tax rate is pretty much the same (if not lower, depending on your income) in London vs New York [0]. Could be wrong.

[0]http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city_index/168817-ta...

>>> As far as I'm concerned, none of those "problems" exist. I have no monthly premiums to pay, most copays are $0 or close to it, and I don't think twice about finding in-network providers.

Right, so it works like universal healthcare... Great. You forgot to mention your deductible. Is that 0 true? Is it 0 to most people?

> That's the case in most of Europe too, with the UK being the main exception. Most European companies use some form of private insurance or have out-of-pocket expenditures.

Except private insurance in Europe is basically subsidised by government programs, which is why they are so much cheaper than in the US. Also, co-pays may exit, but do deductibles? I'm not aware of that.

> It's much easier for me to book a specialist if I need to than it would be in any of those other cities

Sure. You can also just get extra private insurance in those countries too.
Good stuff. However - only one Linux router (VM) which means that you can't upgrade it and reboot without loss of service. The way around that is two VMs and VRRP or similar and a lot of very complicated NAT and firewall rules.

Out of the box, pfSense can do multi WAN and CARP (similar to VRRP) clustering. At the office I have two older servers with lots of NICs and five WANs. Inbound redundancy is provided by dynamic DNS and SRV records etc. Note that to do CARP/VRRP, you do need at least a /29 IPv4 allocation. You need an address per box plus the virtual one that is actually used by services. PPPoA/E is harder to deal with than cable/leased line etc but it turns out that low cost Billion 8800NLR2 can do external IPv4 pass through as well as do the PPPoA/E. They will need an address as well from your range. You need something like them in this case because only one device can be the PPPoA/E dial up system at a time. Unless you have some very fancy secret sauce, your clustered routers' pppd or whatever are going to get confused as to who does what.

I notice you have a cloud key. Unifi on an Ubuntu VM is easy, and much easier to backup and snapshot before upgrades, so is safer. You can also front it with HA Proxy for simple URLs and perhaps Lets Encrypt. pfSense has a HA Proxy package with a GUI and I believe it is CARP friendly as well ...
whats the diff? What are people working on hft solutions called then?
A lot of ZZPers aren't really self employed. As an example, an Uber driver would be a ZZPer therefore avoiding certain rights and laws a normal employee would have. Another example would be MLM such as a Tupperware salesman. They also don't get pension.
I'm talking exclusively about the addictive and distracting quality of these platforms, not fake news. I think it would probably be bad if Ugandan's were taxed for accessing any media publication. As for Hacker News, I consider a category apart from Facebook or Twitter. Whether the Ugandan government does is another question.
If the article was trying to say that the “low tax low service” government model is terrible for low income people it did it well. Not really related to Tesla.
I feel like something like this may be in my future. I've osteoarthritis in every cervical & thoracic vertebrae. Good days, it means constant pain in the upper back & neck. Bad days mean numbness in my hands/legs, possibly spasms and/or shooting pains down limbs. Every year it gets worse, and yeah, I'm still in my 30s.

I was disappointed in the article in that it basically amounted to little more than an endorsement of talk-to-text. Lacked details. Coding? Didn't even hardly mention navigating a document other than a few "line up", "line down" quips. Coding isn't like dictating an essay, it requires constant back and forth navigation of a document (source file). Just this week, I've probably touched +100 source files because we decided to change how common objects are allocated (yes, the source is poorly arranged and has way too much coupling and very poor cohesion).
How is it a small user base? The EU has a larger population than the USA.
While I think it's impossible to do with this crowd, because we've already been biased by this conversation, it would be interesting to run the phrases "Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition" and "Native Americans figured out the secret to a healthy lifestyle" (or some other positive association from a positively associated group) randomly across focus groups.

I suspect people will come out with more problems accepting "figured out" for a negatively associated group than a positively associated one, even through I think the meaning of that wording is identical in both phrases.
You are wrong on the whole wealth issue.

If you are are renting, then you are paying significantly less than a morgage.

If you don't have a morgage, you can put a bunch of extra cash into investments that make more money than housing "investment".

And once that stock market investment increases, you can spend all that extra money you got on anything you want. You could even use it to buy a house! Probably even a bigger or more valuable house than if you "invested" in a morgage years ago.
Does the foundation have a history of being pro-oil? Just because John Rockefeller founded it doesn’t mean the foundation is somehow permanently coupled to the fortunes of big petrochemical companies.
You can’t begin to build apartments where there’s currently a house until the person living there sells...
From what I've seen, most NJ home prices have stagnated or gone down unless it's located next to convenient public transit to NYC. People are pricing in the severely underfunded NJ government, which owes billions of dollars, so more tax increases are inevitable with more cuts to services.

Many other metro areas and suburbs have seen much higher appreciation over the last decade, such as Seattle, Austin, Portland, Denver, Nashville, DC, SF, LA, SD etc. NJ doesn’t have a major city and it’s inconvenient to travel to NYC or Philly.

From a financial standpoint, I’d avoid NJ/CT/IL just due to their value having been maxed out in my opinion.
> Since then, no progress on this front. Not even a repeat. This is not an accelerating rate.

Well, one could argue that since then a significant bunch of our top talents have been allocated to generating financial innovations like motgage backed securities and figuring our how to get more people clicking on ads. So if this talent was reallocated to space exploration (which again someone might argue that can't be less stupid way to allocate these resources than click industry) the speed of technological progtess might change dramatically.

Just makes one wonder if there is something fishy how the free market supposedly is the most efficient allocator of resources...
GitHub – Canner/canner: Universal CMS Framework
What 'strong social net' are people referring to in this thread? As an independent contractor ('zzp'), you don't get unemployment benefits, no insurance against not being able to work and you have to get your own health insurance like everyone else. 'Bijstand'? I mean, that's food stamp level, and you can't have any assets to be eligible in the first place.
Basically, in an open office you use slack more, which is more or less my experience.
My last job was 100% WFH and I tell people this all the time who ask how I do it.

"Dedicate a work area for work and nothing else".

All I have on my work desk (which is an actual desk in a smallish room I converted for the purpose) is a monitor, keyboard and mouse and a coffee mug full of pens. The only thing in the room that isn't work is a Dualshock 4 PS4 controller that I use for gaming when I'm on lunch breaks or after work is done and I feel like playing some street fighter.

You don't just work at the house and expect to be productive. Much like muscles in the body working out for a marathon, you have to train at it, exercise and make deliberate efforts to get better. You don't just show up and run if you expect to have a good time.

YMMV though. I'm lucky to be a single-ish guy with a cat and no kids.
On the fifth.

I go to college and work full time.

Some have been short - 4 month contract at SAS, six months at NG. It's worked out though. Liked every job more than the previous.
It seems to be handmade as it doesn’t really merge the GitHub UI: the README is a little bit different; the stars count is not up-to-date; nor is the latest commit; etc.
> Why would someone want to move permanently to the Moon?

Jobs. Aluminium-based refueling stations? Research? Cheap real state? I don't know, get cheap flights there, and people will find something useful to do.
Rolling things over in my head. Warning mere speculation.

ARM doesn't sell silicon, they license IP. However might be they're licensing IP blocks. Essentially a tested CPU layout you can more or less paste into a design. Think Lego's.
People mine bitcoin because there are millions of dollars per day of bitcoin rewards available.

I would guess that collectively, millions of dollars are being spent each day on cancer research around the world.

These mining farms were built for a purpose. It’s not like all these spare ASICs were laying around waiting for somebody to find a use for them. The people running these farms would be on some other venture if cryptocurrency was never invented. And those ventures probably wouldn’t involve curing cancer either.
These are similar arguments the proponents of the Patriot act made, lauding the protection it provides and the great achievement in passing. Lots of people don't see this as a big enough issue for the sweeping changes that have been made, and to go from free for all to free for some scares people. We shouldn't confuse the universal right to privacy with the universal requirement for privacy. Not everyone wants the latter and it's not our role to "convince" them as though they are ignorant. Almost everyone agrees with the goals/intent of the legislation, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired as did its predecessors. They just keep doubling down instead of real pragmatic solutions such as actual enforceable statutes and education. It's so many failures on so many levels, but since it was done with the right idea it seems to get a pass.
I find it somewhat difficult to believe that Facebook or Twitter could in any sense be called an "unbiased news source", but if there are no trustworthy publications in Uganda, then I could see that perhaps whatever discourse happens there might be a net good.
> Americans should support Uber and Lyft for nationalistic reasons.

> why do you think I should "stand by" American companies like Uber, whose unethical behavior across many different domains is well documented

Is this the same question?

I will answer the first, Americans should support their local companies because their economic well being depends on it. Same exact reason Chinese support their companies. I want Indians using uber not ola because latter would be of no benefit to me.

Is that a satisfactory response?
That, my friend, is a sunk cost.
what other moocs did you take? How did you learn and train yourself to a software dev position?
Did you ever find out why this all happened?
I totally agree that the platforms are addictive and indeed distracting (though I do question the idea that distraction is intrinsically bad, the idea seems to be tied up in the rather pernicious notion that we ought to be productive all the time), I really don't think that depriving people of the ability to access it is beneficial, and for the reasons I mentioned in my comment. It severely limits expression, and by limiting even the possibility of discussion the status quo is maintained. Social media, while often entangled with mass media, offers a unique way to subvert mass media too. That's important to keep.

A HN thread a while ago talked about how old forums moved from phpBB to Facebook; although the post was lamenting this fact, it remains that car forums (to use the commenter's example) among other groups have moved to Facebook (which I think is rather sad) -- but such "special interest" forums occupy exactly the same space as HN. So you can't consider HN is a separate category, the categories are intertwined and they have been for quite some time now.
What's the point of this? Like, what can you do with this elaborate setup that you could not do already with your laptop + internet connection?
Can developers use photos without permission? A federal court ruling says maybe
Well said. Though I don't expect that to fly with the corporate authoritarians around here.
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”, game based upon H. Ellison's short story
The FIBs play the sneaky long game. Or they get lucky.
Turn on hwnat to keep up with gigabit. (It won't keep up with simultaneous gigabit down and up).
Don't be evil.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
It's the seniors' job to seek out criticism and lead the way to criticizing their own ideas.
Customers are a business's constituency. Whether we want to change the behavior of a politician or a business, ultimately it's done by garnering the support of some threshold of our fellow citizens. There's no real basis for blaming politicians rather than businesses for deals like these.
Meant piracy. Somehow my vacation brain missed that.
Its their sandbox.
The problem is the money. Not source code nor contributors.
I feel like this "article" should go there, not on HN. I mean, we all know what a server rack looks like?
copyright needs to be abolished
Is there any way to contact you personally? I'm a member of a group developing educational games for software engineers and we're looking for project ideas. Perhaps we could collaborate on a graph exercise application that would run students' code, grade their submissions and, for instance, visualise graphs.
Big Data and Predictive Analytics Recalibrating Expectations [Paywall]
Why don't they just put the MLS team in the empty Rams stadium?
sctb stop trying to control everyone you dipshit
Still, that's not a bad thing, per se. If we underestimate based on a vaguely remembered overestimated value from the highway code based on 1960s cars, then the effects cancel out and we're basically correct for modern vehicles?
Unfortunately, OP is using Centurylink fiber. It's been a few years since I lived in Tacoma, WA and used this service but it's something like PPPoE over VLAN. There was a FreeBSD bug a few years back where PPPoE was ridiculously slow when running on top of a VLAN interface. OpenBSD did not have this problem, which is why I ran that for a firewall instead of my preferred pfSense.
Another happy fastmail.com customer here.

I'd like to point out to those fluffing about the price for fastmail - Google Apps For Business (aka: pay-for-gmail) runs $5/person/month, minimum. It does have additional services (eg: the office-apps), but AFAIK, even the business one doesn't promise that it won't look through your private info. Fastmail does make this promise.

There is certainly no way you can run your own email server for $50/yr (or even a few hundred per year), even if the hardware itself were free, and you were not counting the cost of the internet service (eg: using your own home internet), and you were willing to accept that you might fail to update some things, sometimes, etc. If you value your time at all. Even at say, minimum wage.

Not to mention the deliverability issues etc.

If you just love doing it, then, by all means, do it. Just don't imagine it is somehow less than $50/yr, or comparable in quality.

I do wish Fastmail had more competition, even if it cost a bit more, and (as the Fastmail folks here have said) the competition participated in open standards and contributed to open source. I think others are "in the works" particularly with (even more) security/privacy emphasis. But, IMHO, eg: protonmail does not currently directly compete. We'll see what pans out.
Well no not really, as that completely lacks the semantic part.

There certainly does seem to be an as yet untapped intersection between some of what GraphQL solves, with what JSON-LD and SPARQL provides where a greater than the sum of their parts result could emerge, this is a hunch on my part.
242 are unprofitable or do not have profit/tax information publicly available. The Fortune 500 only requires revenue numbers to be public for inclusion.
Can you give some examples from the original article that you consider dumb? I'm curious whether I agree or disagree with you, because this general subject is something I'm keenly interested in.
If she goes back to Intel, that would be interesting.

A couple of years ago as I remember, Microsoft hired as their Global Linux Officer or something some guy who had worked on Linux for 20 years at Oracle. They made a big show of how they had to lure him to Seattle, convince his family, etc.

6 months later, he’s back at Oracle...

EDIT: this guy - http://www.businessinsider.com/wim-coekaerts-microsoft-open-...
You're seeing text input demos because conventional english dictation systems have been horrible at fast and precise technical text input. This is a classic example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec

I believe it's far easier to solve navigation than text input. I will gladly record for you (or anyone here who has an idea) a synthetic (pre-planned) demo video of some more complex task. Want to come up with a specific workflow for to test? Like maybe "find <some project> on github, fork, clone it to my machine, perform <some specific refactor> / code editing task, commit, push" all without my hands, and I upload the first take.

The underlying systems are far more powerful than the article covered, e.g. in Talon you can write an editor plugin that collects filenames and turns them into commands in realtime to switch between files. Someone did a PoC with Talon's eye tracking to specify a symbol for insertion by looking at it. There have been demos of scope-based navigation / selection.

Personally I heavily optimized my alphabet/number input case (there's a specially designed alphabet that can do about 280 letters per minute at 100% accuracy), and use Vim commands directly, but many of the users use more conventional editors.

I plan to get into the habit of live streaming hands-free coding at some point so people can get a better idea of what it looks like to use this sort of thing, and so I can go back and watch and realize that I could be doing some things much better.
Naive, but honest quesrion: why don’t homeless move to where housing costs less? That’s what I do if I can’t afford something: I find an alternative.

It seems to me something else is going on that pulls homeless people into San Francisco. But I readily admit I don’t understand it all very well.
Solved problem? Doesn't look like one:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-...
Works on my machine.™
> Since then, no progress on this front.

But we're sending probes on Mars now; and Mars is a lot more interesting than the Moon.
>Average annual hours worked is defined as the total number of hours actually worked per year divided by the average number of people in employment per year. Actual hours worked include regular work hours of full-time, part-time and part-year workers, paid and unpaid overtime, hours worked in additional jobs, and exclude time not worked because of public holidays, annual paid leave, own illness, injury and temporary disability, maternity leave, parental leave, schooling or training, slack work for technical or economic reasons, strike or labour dispute, bad weather, compensation leave and other reasons

https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
Reported by whom? What do those quotes mean?
Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
Terry A. Davis who is homeless at the moment.

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

http://www.templeos.org/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZTn-fPu-uIA55UI47_cXg
Better yet, quit and get away from such micromanaging morons
How does this differ with a shop keeper in, say, western Europe or the US?
If you are just an employee and your company hasn't employed this you can do it on your own. Simply build a consensus by meeting people 1:1 before the meeting. When you do this you are no longer as dependent on your in-meeting performance.
It impacts the majority of the web and it's vague in a number of important places.