skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People on the internet love to exaggerate how bad living in the US is.

The US is a big country and there's plenty of places that most people wouldn't like to live (every country has locations like this), but if you're a tech worker, there's no place better in the world to live than in the US. You don't have to live in the Bay Area, you can live in Seattle, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. Don't like the city? Okay, there's plenty of affordable suburbs to live in all over the country.

Plus your cost of healthcare will either be free or heavily subsidized, taxes will be lower, you'll be making more money, and the opportunities for career advancement, VC funding (if you want to go the startup route), and opportunities to network will be much greater here.

America is an amazing place to live, whether the internet wants to believe it or not.
This is probably the best solution for crappy business tactics in the end.
Why is it invalid to assign value to two different cultures? E.g. IMO a culture that encourages genital mutilation or slavery is inferior to a culture that doesn't. (Although in practice all such value assignments are highly multi-dimensional, so there might not be an overall ordering.)

Edit: This isn't a comment on whether or not Jefferson's evaluation of his and the natives' cultures was valid or correct.. but what I gather from your comment, is that you're implying any such value judgement is "racist" ("culturist"?).
I don't see any issue at all if the bot is respecting the robots.txt file. Any malicious user will figure some other evil way anyways, be it Nutch or a network of intelligent lightbulbs.
This strikes me as pretty entitled. Developer time isn't free, and it's not impossible to self host your own web chat room.
What in the hell was that?! Is this supposed to be a news article or something.
My guess would be healthcare costs, bay area living costs or the dice you you have to pass every time you encounter a police offer.
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Hackernews, Medium and Slack groups related to what you like are great ways to get to know people in SF that are into tech/startups.
Anyone has any other suggestion as to where to meet people that built something interesting? I tried tech/startup meet ups and Startup Grind but they sucked. I had more luck with unrelated events.
> I believe written communication is far more efficient.

Categorically wrong. Two examples:

1) Years ago I was moving out of a shared house and looking for someone to move into my room. One person in particular would only communicate via email about coming to view the room. Consequently days elapsed before we'd got a final arrangement that could have been sorted out with a 10 minute phone call, despite having my number, and me having theirs. Then, when I took half a day off to wait in for this person to visit, they missed the appointment. When I checked my email it turned out they'd emailed me a few minutes before they were due to turn up to tell me they weren't going to make it. Again, despite having my phone number. Already irritated by their behaviour this obviously left me fuming.

2) Just the past few days I've been dealing with an "urgent" support incident where the two people involved have been exchanging emails for three days: a conversation that could be easily accelerated with a call.

In both these cases direct synchronous communication is the key: this might be face to face or on the phone, or a video call, but in no way is written communication more efficient.
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Yeah sure - I bet if you live in a region where no company has bought exclusive television rights to F1. In my country, a pay channel owns exclusive rights to all F1 broadcasting, so all official F1 content on YouTube etc. is simply blocked here (shows the infamous "This content is not available in your country" error.)

They have gone to great lengths to ensure the only way I can view live F1 GPs legally is to pay 25€/mon subscription to the cable company. If I had a choice, I would actually be happy to subscribe to UK's Sky Sports F1 channel, who for 20€/mon have much more extensive coverage of the whole GP weekend, with world-class commentators in studio and on track-side, including retired F1 drivers' title holders. The cable company broadcasting in my country has lower quality and less content, so I don't feel like paying them each month more than I pay to my ISP.

But of course, due to the very same geo-blocking rules, Sky Sports F1 is unable to sell their subscription to my country, because they only have rights for UK broadcasting. Same thing applies to Netflix etc., where some content may be available in one EU country but not in another.

This is actually a violation of the EU's core single market principle (customers should be able to freely procure services from providers in any EU country, not just providers in their home country). And a few years ago, the EU Parliament was actually bullish about abolishing the whole practice of digital content geo-blocking within EU.[1] They eventually did pass new digital market regulations, but of course the content industry was able to water it down so that it doesn't actually apply to them at all![2]

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/europe-will-abolish-geo-blocking-an...

[2]: https://juliareda.eu/2018/02/eu-did-not-end-geoblocking/
> "Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path."

I believe this same thing holds true for coding and the modern day African American ( of which I am one ). I earn 6x more than my father ( Fisk University / TSU - BS/Masters ), 3x more than my sister ( Yale / Columbia Educated Architect - BS/Masters ) and an even greater multiple more than the rest of my family - yet I have no college education. I truly wish more African Americans saw that coding is the new literacy and IMO a real path to freedom.
The Discord client may be open source, but Discord can apply whatever terms of service they like to their server.

So just set up your own server using their open source server software, which surely they must have released under the AGPL, because they weren't just using “open source” as a buzzword.

...Yeah. The client software being open source is irrelevant if it relies on a single proprietary server. Choose open standards instead, or AGPL'd server software.
Or just removing WhatsApp support and supporting some other platforms instead. If they don't want people to find their platform convenient, no problem.
“How do we stop the A.I. brain drain to the U.S. — or to the U.S. companies anyway?”

Uh.. create an alternative work place with comparable benefits and compensation?
Author (of the post you reference) here. On https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html every single triple with SPARC in it lacks cargo, and only a single Tier-3 port has rustc (NetBSD). Solaris and Linux just have std. That's not a port, that's barely a beachhead.

If you know this has changed, then the maintainers need to update that.
A couple of comments:
1) The author complains that the Socratic dialogs are contrived and largely consist of one character explaining something and the other saying "I see" and so on. Well, that's true, but that's kind of how the format works. You could make a similar complaint about Plato's _Republic_.
2) I think the author totally misses that the reference to not hearing the silverware during 4'33" in a cafe is a joke. Of course it wouldn't work that way.
It probably helps that GCC was around when OS/2 and other now-archaic systems were relevant.
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"looking past the faddishness of cryptocurrencies".
Bitcoin is an excellent proof of concept for blockchains but I sold mine some time ago because of the ethical issue I have with Bitcoin mining consuming so much power. Some of the newer coins are much more efficient in terms of consuming power. To refer to cryptocurrencies in general as a fad though is very naive and sounds more like central bank desperation.
So rather than paste the text.. Paste the link, which they then open, to fetch the render-Middleware from this site, to render the text in the browser? Rather than just allowing the message app render the text in-line or as an attachement?
This is great advice. Now, I just need a time machine ...
Would be much easier and persuasive to the privacy-sensitive to provide an email address to send emails to and process them from there.
A lot of these don't make a lot of sense to me. How is freeing up my right hand to use the keyboard a reason to use my left hand? If I use my right hand then it frees up my left hand to use the keyboard instead.
The other problem is no LLVM that runs reliably on 10.4/10.5. fang did some early work on this but nothing current is known to run. I just don't have the inclination or desire to port that and Rust and work around the thread-local storage problems (which probably won't work around all that well).
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Tesla drivers getting disgruntled in key European market
Agreed on "human individual". But what is the limit of "biologically dependent on the host". A born baby needs to be fed, it can not sustain itself. But obviously, the "host" can change. So I guess you would say "not biologically dependent". On the other hand: A 8 month unborn baby could easily (in the sense of "as easy as a born baby") live without the host if somebody just would help it out of the host. Which is often done.
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Cars don't have much network effects, the best car is bought regardless of the dominant brand of the year (I agree with your point on the car). However, social network have a network effect which makes it very hard to switch, if all your friends use app A, it's difficult to make them use app B.
...Unless you want to talk to all of the friends who refuse to use other services.
I wonder what Google thinks about this.
If these companies only use standard Android API's, and they get sued over that, that isn't good for Googles platform at all.
A reasonable response from Google would be to change their terms for publishing to the Play store, if they don't say it already, that you aren't allowed to sue other app makers, if they only use standard API to interop with your app.
I saw someone crash their car therefore driving is an inefficient method of transport.
Considering his blog hasn't been updated since 2013, can someone add the proper publish date?
"Yes, we are individuals!" Oh, the irony.

That being said, I can see how -if you identify as a non-conformist in some way or the other- it makes sense to move to a place with a higher-than-normal ratio of other non-confirmists.

After all, even if they are not of the same bent as you, at least they are familiar with the feeling of not fitting in and, hopefully, as a result are more tolerant of other people who deviate from the norm - whatever that norm may be.
The leading faces of the Brexit movement--people like Boris Johnston or Nigel Farage--were completely caught off-guard by the victory. Cameron's decision to resign immediately after the referendum loss also meant that the Brexit negotiations would be completely owned by the Brexiteers, as they ran out of people who could be blamed if/when things go south.

What was desired by these leading anti-EU folks was not a victory, but a very close loss. They get to keep blaming the EU for every problem (useful, when the biggest gripe--immigration--was entirely under the control of the UK, not the EU). They get to demonstrate that they have too much support to be ignored, but they don't have the responsibility of actually enacting the agenda.
That's not the exact question I asked.
Thank you. Yes, could you name the features ECS is missing for running at scale reliably, please?
The thing is, they could easily extract participants and require opt-in from all parties.
It's crazy to think that if Snapchat accepted their offer, all the major social networks would be own by Facebook.
You think that Apple of all companies doesn’t understand popular culture? Two of their senior executives used to run major fashion houses, another is Dr. Dre, and the guy who previously served as their music content director is the frontman of Nine Inch Nails.

Apple undoubtedly has some significant hurdles to jump over in this space but a lack of cultural understanding is not one of them.
America is an amazing place to live if you do not have to be stuck in the same place for decades waiting for a green card.
Did you sum up your experience reading the book? Or did you try to sum up the critique we're discussing here? If it's the latter you failed.
What's the difference between a start-up and a corporation?
In a corporation the mouse is symmetric. (so you can move it on the left)
Advice is to visit, not to move!
Jack Ma of Alibaba had few advice to various age groups: https://youtu.be/__Mz-oxsXAs?t=116
Their privacy policy is much much better! Unfortunately the battery drain seems to be higher.

https://www.bigpaua.com/arcapp/privacy
It was published today.
The specific issue with Article 13 is that it requires hosting services that allow user-uploaded content to be published to ensure that copyrighted content is not made available. The specific wording in the law is "non-availability". This is different from takedown mechanisms (that already exist) in that it requires the service to screen the content before the fact, or become liable for the content. The current situation is that the service is not liable for copyright infringement as long as they implement a takedown mechanism - that is, allow rightsholders to complain and have the content taken down. The new situation would be that the service becomes liable at the time of publication. This shift in liability is what constitutes the most significant change, and because there is no punishment for false positives (failing to publish non-infringing content) but there is a punishment for false negatives (failing to stop the publication of infringing content) this will lead to a chilling effect. If you run a service that allows users to upload any kind of content, you would become liable for their copyright infringements.

The talk about filters comes directly from Voss's (the law's author's) blog, where he explains the law and what is intended with it. There is a specific reference to google's content id as an example of the kind of measures services are expected to implement. In the law text these are refered to as "effective technologies". The specifics of how the filter is implemented is not exactly relevant in this case, but another aspect is - currently nobody except google has an implementation of this technology, and google's implementation has very bad recognition rates and is also easily circumvented. So if you run a service that allows user-uploaded content, you now either pre-screen each post manually, license a buggy filter from google, take the risk of being sued for something your users posted, or block user-submitted content entirely. The last one is the only option for things like small forums.

Reading specifically into the law's author's blog post about this, they state that if something is wrongly filtered, the recourse is attempting to force the service to accept the upload by taking them to court. Clearly this is not something you can do on a routine basis, so if your content gets wrongly identified as infringing (and of course automated systems cannot recognize parody, or remixes, or similar but unrelated content as non-infringing) you'll end up effectively prevented from posting it.

So yes, you're right that there are already mechanisms to take down infringing material. The added change in this law is that it makes publishing infringing material the point of liability, and so each service becomes responsible for all the content that its users post. This is the significant change.
Which are usually made from recycled material, and can easily be recycled.
The one from Carl Sagan or the new one?
I suppose the idea is you'll suck at left handed mouse handling so you need to compensate by using the keyboard more.

Totally agree with your view though. No real compelling reason to switch sides
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I'm literally in France now.

I hear people talking trash about 'brown' refugees on a daily basis here in Paris. I've probably heard something similar once or twice in my 8 years in the US, mostly coming from mentally unstable people like the ones you see in the streets in San Francisco.

TBH UK is a lot more sensitive than the mainland Europe (there's a lot more immigrants in London too).

Anecdotal, of course, but that has consistently been my impression.
I read and finished GEB first, and then read 'I am a Strange Loop'.

I think the trick to reading GEB is to not take it so seriously. You can skim sections, you can skip parts, you don't have to understand everything, not everything has to make sense. I think the author here misses that when he complains such about the quality of the metaphors. They're not meant to help understand, as much as being there to give a vague idea about what's coming in a fun way.

If you still don't enjoy GEB, then it's not for you, and that's OK too.

I found 'I am a Strange Loop' a more dry and less enjoyable read than GEB, but it was certainly a lot clearer, and better written in many ways. I would probably recommend it before GEB for most people.
"Most students will not use such trivial devices as flash cards; it seems to be beneath their dignity. They suffer accordingly."

Richard Hamming
It frees your right hand to use keyboard buttons intended for the right hand such as backspace, delete and numpad.
Thanks for slightly optimistic reply in this regard. But I think it will all come down to how this will be implemented in member states (and I'm sure it will be far from common in EU), here where I live not all rights are transferred as part of the contract, some rights are non-transferable.
Nevertheless it's scary how this is developing, I wonder who will be deciding about "fairness" of compensation, will it be courts deciding how much some services are worth...
I wonder if UK will accept it, if not I'd expected lots of business moving there from EU.
Such contra-laws are would be 'only' useful for casual citizens, so there's no way to get multi-million lobbying support for them by mega corporations.
So the internet won... By a 6% margin.
Sadly you won't have any say in the latter.
60% of what exactly? Take home pay for a salary of £100k is about £66k, and about £74k for £120k.
Now that's a strange rant. Not everyone who wants to download Youtube files to MP3 is downloading electronic dance music for the purpose of playing it live as a DJ.

In my personal case, it tends to be relatively obscure classical music. Due to the "nature of the genre" there are quite a number of pieces that have never been studio recorded and exist only in OTA radio recordings, or are only available on long out-of-print vinyl, sometimes from foreign sources.

I honestly tend to prefer other sources other than Youtube personally and will only plunk from there as a last resort (Youtube is a place that is more "perishable" than others, which is why I Youtube-DL instead of just relying on the stream), but Youtube has attracted some curators of recordings of this sort.
>You make it sound like there is money "lost". The dollars that are spent end up in the economy

This trickle down economics argument was used commonly in the Reagan era, and could be heard frequently in the 90s in conservative media.

While it is correct that the money does not disappear (which in theory would generally just be a transfer of wealth too all money holders), the problem with the argumenr is that it is wilfully ignorant of the introductory economics lesson of 'guns vs butter,' as well as other lesons.

Yes the money 'stays in the economy,' but what is it buying/producing? Someone just replied to me in another thread about the propensity to which Wall St bankers buy prostitutes and drugs. Leaders have bought us wars and domestic surveillance.

An arguable reason to spend on basic science would have to do with money multipliers and a great reason would be return on technological investment, which you touched on.

TL;DR good arguments exist for this spending, but probably not the trickle down economics one
As was stated in the article. Buttons like delete and backspace are on the right so you can mouse select and delete without significantly changing your hands position on the keyboard. But yes that is a little bit of a weak argument.
Yep, also you don't have to move your arm as far to reach the mouse then by not moving over numeric keys.

Seems small, but as a righty i've been doing the left hand mouse/trackpad for a while now and it definitely helps on the rsi.
It is an awesome idea, but what if there is more than two parties?
I agree. Copy and paste is on the left hand for QWERTY. That gets a lot more use compared to select-delete. Besides, select and delete with the mouse is seldom the most optimal (and you could just cut the text with ctrl-x)
Ask HN: Could big rubber pipes save the Thai cave boys?
I'm wondering if large rubber-like pipes could be used to make crawl-able tunnels through the submerged areas of the cave?

Divers would carry the rubber pipes through the cave such that both ends are above air, the water would be pumped out of them, and then the boys would just need to crawl through the pipes.

If a suitable type of pipe could be found/made this seems like a good solution.

What does everyone think?
An interesting experiment would be for a group of EU countries to agree on a modern innovation/copyright regime, for which they would prioritize national enforcement resources.
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I tend to keep a trackpad or mouse on both sides, so that no matter what position I happen to be sitting in, it's always easy to reach it.
It is hate speech. But, it's historically significant hate speech.
There is also the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK).

If you want to try a stripped down version on your local machine, kubernetes-core can be installed into LXD containers via conjure-up with a click of the fingers - nice for playing around.
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It may seem pedantic to you, but network effect creates a benefit, not a cost. That may create an opportunity cost for those not in the network, but it's not a direct cost. This distinction is actually very important.

Also, how did I imply network effect doesn't exist? Where did I say anything that you're implying I said? You're trying to strip out the network effect from this theoretical product and I'm saying you can't. Something can be superior simply bc of its network. Take the most obvious example, the internet. Where is your outrage? TCP/IP sucks. BGP sucks. But we embrace these things nonetheless because of the (literal) network.

This extends from computers to anthropology to biology. You're trying to make an apples to apples comparison assuming no network effect and I'm saying that's pointless.
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.. but in the meantime businesses have to have their contingency plans in place, at considerable trouble and expense, which may include pre-emptively moving operations to the EU.

(But either all the current disorganisation is keyfabe or this lot couldn't plan their way out of a paper bag, which is going to result in us taking whatever we can get)
I can't say about Apple (though they really haven't made a start), but Amazon already have some really good stuff. American Gods, Preacher, now The Expanse, and I'm really enjoying Patriot.
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You pretty much have to maintain an install script for bare metal. It has to check everything and install&configure everything.

We then ask to rerun the script. If it fails, we fix the script.