skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given we've got about 7.5 billion years until the sun burns out, and about 1 billion years before anything may become completely uninhabitable, it's pretty unlikely either new technology or space colonisation won't have happened before then.

I mean, for comparison humans have been around in a modern form for about 50,000 years... well the chances of something not happening then are few and far between. Probably could have launched millions of generation ships between now and then.
I like what this article has to say. I would just add that before you apologize, you should think out what you did, how is was wrong and harmed the other and let yourself feel bad about it, and how you can stop yourself from doing the same sort of wrong thing in the future. Then just say all that to the other person.
There's a wider question about who should really be responsbile for all these systems? Would you be happy to have an extra layer of seniority above you that looks after complex systems which you just consume? Would you be happy for them to be paid more than you? Do you think you can actually find these people?
Wendy's faces lawsuit for unlawfully collecting employee fingerprints
We Don't Need No Stinking Map() or Filter()
Finally, someone I agree with on this topic
So the protocol issues are not to do with the scaling, but with the fact that the choice was made, early on, to support node.js as the primary implementation language, and little thought was put into the protocols from that point on. It's nearly impossible to implement in anything other then node.js at this point.

I suppose I am a little off in my <1000 estimate, but 2500 is still hilariously small compared to the internet as a whole. Try it with 400 thousand users and 20 million messages (which activitypub type stuff can handle)
HUGE cat lover here. Dogs are great too but a lot of work. No point to make, just a fun anecdote:

Growing up in the country, some of my earliest memories are of my older brother, my little sister, and me sneaking down to the barn to discover new kittens, and excitedly telling our mother.

Cue weeks of sneaking down and snatching fat little kittens and carrying them around loving them.

Plus, they would hunt and keep mice out of the barn. Useful AND adorable.
I saw schizophrenia described by a person with it as "dreaming while you're wide awake". In a dream, your brain jumps on any details to invent more details to continue the dream. In a dream, if your brain says the dry cleaners are a shady government organization, then that's a valid and successful continuation of the dream, and dream reality bends to that. In waking reality, not so much.
Also note the lack of conjunctions--no "and" or "but" to be found. Apologies are most powerful free-standing.
There are backpack nukes specifically designed for individuals to carry, like the B-54. If your legal cutoff was 'designed for a single person to carry', they would be included as legal.
Maybe paying the employees better would help motivate them to learn more efficiently.
GPs earn about £50,000 to £80,000.
I don’t feel like my comment was anywhere near as strong as your characterization, but okay, I guess I did allow my feelings to show a little. Mostly I was honestly asking for the parent comment to back itself up with some actual evidence or examples. Do you feel any of my questions were unreasonable, and can you point to which ones?

The parent comment is only 100% correct in the sense that it’s someone’s opinion, so there’s nothing much to argue. Whether it’s correct is less important than whether it’s moving the conversation in a constructive direction. The irony of saying that most generative art is unoriginal is that comment has been made a million times before, it’s a fairly un-original thing to say.

Nobody said this art needed to be interesting to the public, that “requirement“ in the context of this conversation is a straw man. It had enough HN interest to hit the front page of HN, so it is by definition interesting enough to be posted here.

Furthermore, when people show work on HN, it sucks to have unsubstantive blanket comments that the genre is not worth considering because it’s full of junk. I don’t know Mike Bostock personally, but he’s written the widely used D3.js library and has done professional info art for the New York Times. It seems quite uninformed to reply to a posting of a gallery of his work with insults about “fridge art” and “doesn’t require any obvious imagination”.

> No nerd can disrupt that style by transferring Munich on Van Gogh through a neural net.

Did you look at the gallery posted at the top? There are no neural nets here. You’re arguing about something unrelated to this post.

> It is just silly... or private, if you want, just a game

Says who? You’re complaining about my comment while dismissing the efforts and interests of the people posted in the article here. Maybe you don’t realize how much of an attack yours and @TheOtherHobbes’ comments might seem to the people who’s work is in the gallery linked here, or to the people who study & practice art.
Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?
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Fixing React Native WebView's PostMessage for iOS
I'm with you on that, but what I would want is the ability to know is the status of my oven.

My wife and I are always (excessively) concerned with whether we left our gas stove on/off, the doors are locked and that the garage door is closed.

For that stuff, I'd be willing to pay for the ability to check on that stuff that worries me. Having said that though, knowing that you left your stove on and not having the ability to turn it off would probably be kind of pointless.
[2007] Number of founders – statistics
This is a cool program for a small number of people but the missing word in the article is "zoning." https://www.vox.com/cards/affordable-housing-explained/exclu.... Growing homelessness problems come from many cities and suburbs making it illegal to build housing. As the supply of something is restricted in the face of demand, prices rise, causing many people on the financial edge to be pushed over it and into homelessness. If you want to comprehensively fight homelessness, building more housing is the first step.

I've worked on many homeless-service programs, and it's disheartening to see cities allocate vast sums for them: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f... while simultaneously using zoning laws to make sure they won't be very effective.
This reminds me of city-data.com

It is an ugly looking site, the forums are full of nasty comments, but it is still useful at some level I guess. They claim to get millions of page views. Not sure how much money they make, but they have been around for more than a decade
Selling access to you is not the same as selling the data, and it is in fact dishonest to equate the two. There is no endpoint Amazon provides where I can get data about people.

They have no reason to sell the data - it's their crown jewels and competitive advantage.
False dichotomy much? I guess you're free to create your own asshole-driven fork of Linux to save us all.

I suspect the bulk of any "insecurity" lies with those who so vehemently oppose codifying "be a decent human being".
The probably had to make a lot more compromises having to wait around for inefficient transport, be it bus or borrowing someone's car.
There's a pretty reasonable distinction to be drawn here. The real problem here is that the homeless that most people experience really are what they seem like: drug addicted, mentally incapacitated, or completely irresponsible and unaccountable. These people are not good candidates for jobs, and it would indeed be surprising to see them successful in a role like this.

However, there's a large class of people that are not out there panhandling, not making themselves visible to regular people who are homeless, and are perfectly responsible and capable. These people can and are benefiting from programs like this.

Let's not blur this distinction for some misguided sense of social justice.
Fortunately almost all (ca. 80%) of the libraries we use have either internal or external Typescript definitions, and it's nice to see more and more d.ts files popping up in these repos (or on definitelytyped)

http://definitelytyped.org/
I heard one theory that in general older people wake up earlier and younger people stay up later as a way that a group of people could watch the village 24/7.

I can confidently say that multiple years of waking up early as a high school student did nothing to make me a morning person. 10-15 years later I find it more difficult to sleep in to 12-1pm when given the opportunity.

As a kid, I seem to remember my grandmother always waking up obscenely early. I feel like I've watched my mother transition from a "normal" morning person who will sleep in an hour or two extra on the weekend to waking up obscenely early consistently.
Clever kid taking the safest route, 880's usually a parking lot.
unfortunate headline :) i'm sure anywhere between 99.999% and 100% of startups succeed without any help from bill gross.
The problem with negative results is that you as the publication reader don't know if the thing just plain didn't work or if the people trying to do it were incompetent.
One other idea is to find old desktop products in weird/small markets that are still selling, and make web apps to compete with those.
How much does a good electric scooter cost that lasts a few years for an adult?
As a German I have to say I was impressed by the amount of blight I’ve encountered in inner cities as well as in rural areas of the US. You immediately see that the government provides much less than in Europe, but I also got the feeling that people care a lot more and are more personally engaged in helping the poor than in Germany.

Yes, this may be often motivated by religion - but who cares? No surprise to me that the most progressive state in this sense seems to be Utah (Mormons are encouraged to devour a percentage of their time to social causes, the state switched to provide every homeless with a roof first, ask questions later ...)
GitLab – Share events externally via ActivityPub
There's a graph at the bottom of https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatschappij/verkeer-en-vervoer/tra.... It's in Dutch, but should be understandable if you Google Translate and click "Show table".

Basically, bikes are not very dangerous except for people over 60.
There’s a problem with this. It’s called “s
I'd add a #4 voice control to that. You don't think you need it until you've used it, then you use it and wonder how the hell you ever survived without it. An Echo with a couple of smart switches feels like the future.

This is one of the sane use cases for the cloud, IMO. Local speech recognition kinda sucks, and expecting consumers to manually update their firmware (since we've taken auto updates off the table) for new improvements is not realistic.
I buy mine in large wine store Total Wine, but there is decent selection in Safeway as well.
I'm a co-founder of Mixnode and we want to "make web-scale data affordable for everyone".

Having access to trillions of data points from the web is a super power reserved for only a handful of companies;
what if anyone could access and analyze these data points without having to hire 25 experts in distributed systems and raise VC... Imagine the explosion of innovation this will bring about.

We want that explosion to happen sooner rather than later.

If you find this mission intriguing please send me an email: nj@mixnode.com
Heh, I thought it was about the modern Kafka. For the disappointed: http://notes.stephenholiday.com/Kafka.pdf
acid house
These people are free to leave whenever they like. They're not enslaved physically, financially, or otherwise. Don't just throw around words like slavery casually. There is a huge difference between slavery and a job.
The % is probably similar for Canada too. I don't know anyone who doesn't have one.
Maybe its me being dumb, but I don't get the description of what the author actually does. I guess he picks some random theorem and then has two lists?
Pointless updates really are a scourge of modern tech. I wish there was some googleable concept to focus and unite user rage. I don't think the culprits even recognize there's a problem.
Profound Non-Proofs Of: The Riemann Hypothesis
Good point. It's more fascinating though to connect this tree, which is still living, with this long-dead man whether it's true or not.
Why is this being downvoted, this is exactly what this is. If anything, this incentivizes making people homeless. Instead of dealing with what causes homelessness we are instead profiting off of the fact that they are homeless.

Moreover, there is something insidious about it being run by a real estate company, an entity that might very well have contributed to homelessness in the first place.
Trolltech Foundation: financial support for projects in developing areas
But that would require your oven to be IOT-connected... which means remotely hackable.
So I wanted to drop Chrome a while ago, and looked at Chromium. Apparently using the "no sync" version you can no longer even log into Gmail (or any other Google service) on the web. That was definitely the last straw for me losing trust in Google, but there's just no good alternative.

I'm not sure where to go from here because it seems pointless to even use Chromium if I can't remove Google from it and still be able to login to Gmail.
At the bottom it says that the next post will be on what causes schizophrenia, and I imagine the author will get into the different diseases there.
Only to a degree. For example, a nation without decent lawyers or engineers could never become wealthy. Or, in other words, a nation of 100% illiterate people won't be as wealthy as a nation of 100% PhD, which shows that education is about more than just relative position within the population.
There’s a problem with this. It’s called “squatter’s rights”, and it makes it very dangerous to give people a chance.
All cooker controls should be timers.

I never want to turn on any part of the cooker for ever and ideally this should not be an option available to me when tired.
Instagram is the unlikely savior of concrete Brutalist architecture
* Reddit's leaking
Former Kentuckian here. I moved out to California shortly after college, partly due to the exact reasons you described. There's simply no parallel job-wise to west coast tech jobs in Kentucky, including my hometown of Louisville.

I know several fellow southerners and midwesterners who are working at large tech firms out here. No matter how much we may love where we come from, there's simply no realistic avenue for us to go back.

Places like Kentucky already have huge tech talent pools, but the workers are currently in exile in the coasts. I'd imagine if these states focused more on bringing tech firms to their state, they'd see a lot of that tech talent return home.
> First there is a historical analysis of the process of an old theory being replaced by a new one. Second Kuhn tries to come up with a metaphysical explanation of what is going on here.

Sometimes this is overblown. The canonical case of Relativity replacing Newtonian mechanics doesn't invalidate Newton. Rather, it makes Newton's theory a special case of GR that's still valid for most everyday calculations.
Choosing Between React's Context API and Redux
Elixir/Erlang is pretty good at forcing one to learn concurrency.
Maybe you should ditch Gmail instead?
well, you could always try that thing called Firefox. I can log into Gmail just fine.
If you're really set on a Chrome-like browser, there's ungoogled chromium. Otherwise, I guess Firefox is the only truly free choice at this point, and even that includes DRM to be able to cope with sites like Netflix.

Edit: actually, there should be more browsers that I don't know about because I haven't really looked around anymore since choosing Firefox a decade ago. Is anything as well-supported (in terms of proper rendering and security, as well as being FOSS / privacy-conscious) that I should look at other than ungoogled chromium?
What? Do you think it's the libraries job to decide that the program should crash or yours?

I assume you agree that they should at least declare that they throw them? I agree that the rethrow should be painless at least.
GOAT Is Hiring Senior Front-End Engineers in Culver City, CA
There aren’t many billionaires, and SS taxable income is capped; $128k this year. So a billionaire receiving SS is rightly entitled to receive what he contributed.

You can strip SS from the 1% and it will make no difference. You can do the same for the 10% and it will make little difference. The 10% payed FAR more in than they will receive.
Well the problem I'm trying to solve is "how to use gmail on chromium without syncing to google" not "how to use email that isn't gmail".

I like gmail web mail a lot, and don't have any desire to switch. It seems absurd that my web browser would be incompatible with that.
Learning Solidity (YouTube Tutorials)
Interesting. I wonder if that could explain the stomach problems I get when taking some pharmaceuticals that are meant to target my central nervous system.
> there’s just no good alternative

Are you referring to the chromium space options, or the browser market as a whole? I’ve never left Firefox and still find it to be a pleasant browser, one with which I’ve never felt really left out barring a few annoying bugs from time to time that are typically short lived.
The fact that scooters can be used in such ways is not a compelling case that they're more dangerous than cars. If anything, what strikes me is that a scooter on the sidewalk seems outrageous to some people, by contrast, largely because it's just a banal fact we're all accustomed to that cars kill people by the tens of thousands every year.
I'm using Ubuntu's Chromium package and it isn't "un-googled" at all (69.0.3497.81-0ubuntu0.18.04.1). Any Ubuntu users have tips?
I went to a high school that had a college-like schedule with the campus covering a few buildings in downtown (small city). Attendance wasn't mandatory, grades were exam/deliverable based.

The freedom was great for high-achievers. Normal students showed up to classes like normal. Almost-dropouts didn't go to class and waste everyone's time (eventually they were transferred to regular high-school).

I learned valuable life-lessons compared to the hand-holding and babysitting done in other high schools, and highly recommend the model.
I engaged with the folks pushing this feature internally when my own browser started enforcing omnidirectional login. One of my specific complaints was that it was an end-run around the user-provided sync passphrase, which nominally prevents Google from hoovering up my logged-out history.

They didn't grok my privacy issue. Maybe they were deliberately misunderstanding me. Doesn't matter either way. Now I use Firefox.
Firefox is a truly fantastic browser now. I've been using it again for about 2 years and haven't regretted it at all. There have been a couple of weird feature hiccups but generally Mozilla seems to get things right.
Brave browser is LGTM
Boeing made the 747 because Pan Am asked them for an airplane that could carry 400 people. https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-succes...
Google is incentivized to do this, they make good money off of it. It’s boring and true. They’ll keep doing stuff like this until it reaches some publicly unacceptable limit.

Until then use browsers like Firefox or Safari where the incentive to be creepy is far smaller.
Have you not looked at wall street and seen people shooting up drugs or people in our government who have been accused of sexual misconduct myriad times? How about that those same people who are responsible for making many of those people homeless in the first place skating and allowed to bring us on the verge of financial collapse again? Where is the moral high ground for these people?
Firefox, Edge, Safari, pretty much all non-chromium browsers are compatible with gmail.
The upside is that if you learn to apologize with the sufficient apparent contrition you can get away with a lot of asking forgiveness rather than permission.
I joined a startup in 2000. All employees starting before me were offered ~50k shares in the company as part of compensation while I was offered ~50k options. I was told options were the more correct way of doing way of doing things and other than the strike price they were essentially the same.

As a junior employee who didn't know any better (and no negotiation leverage anyway) I accepted the deal. Fast forward a couple of years and as a potential sale of the company approached it was announced that the stock was going to split 10 for 1. What this means is everyone with shares now had 10x, while option numbers were unaffected (ignoring that the stock price is now 10% of what it was).

When the company was bought the price per share was equal to the strike price of a second grant of options I had, making them worthless. I suspect most of the employee options were at this strike price.

A fellow employee with shares made 40x what I did for starting a month earlier. My payout was <$30k.
Google's culture breeds internal arrogance and blindness to outside concerns. Arguing with Google people about issues with their products is approximately as effective as arguing with a brick wall.
This + the screwup of hiding ".m." and ".www." substrings in URLs + the public threat of getting rid of URLs entirely = patience wearing very thin. Also, enabling webUSB and webMIDI by default earlier, both of which apparently unneccesarily exposed vulnerabilities makes me wonder who's in charge, marketing or security engineering?
Disclaimer: I'm not a historian nor a philosopher, though I do wonder (I like to think, at least) deeply about these things. I've also only just read the first two (three?) chapters so far, so this may be way to soon to opine. Still, he doesn't strike me as a "surprise twist" type of writer, so hopefully I'm doing the basic ideas justice.

Anyway... I was actually really surprised at how ad-hoc the go-to example of "science-without-paradigm" seems to be, namely the study of electricity and the scientists of that era. All he seems to be doing is an absurd amount of cherry-picking and handwaving as to why these people were somehow "without a paradigm" whereas modern physics (or whatever) is somehow 'more paradigmatic'. Yes, there were a lot of weird ideas (fluids, etc.) about in those days for what electricity was, but that's just because the set of observations was very limited, thus expanding the space of hypotheses beyond what we consider reason these days[0]. I honestly don't understand how we can elevate that to a more 'noble' or 'pure'[1] way of doing science or reason.

I might be a little to drunk to comment, but I'll do it anyway. Sorry.

[0] ... but the thing is that we have a reason these days to consider many of those ideas crazy, namely observation that contradicts them.

[1] This is what all of the book so far seems to be doing to me: "Floundering about without a set goal is much better!". Nevermind the fact that you always have to form a hypothesis before you can even think of anything to observe to confirm/deny it.

EDIT: Just to say: Maybe I've been lied to in my general education on the ancients, but I'm really confused as to why we can't consider the Greeks to have had a "paradigm" (geometry, "perfection" in some sense) or the Egyptians who constructed the pyramids (I hear they were big on astronomy and astrology). Maybe I should just read further into the book.
This feature doesn’t enable sync. That’s something that members of the Chrome team have been patiently trying to explain to Matthew Green on Twitter for several days now.

[0] https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1043505744144826369?s=21
Firefox is completely ungoogled once you change the default search engine.
Sleep schedules also change base on your behaviour. If you need 10 hours of sleep, go to bed 2 hours earlier. I used to sleep from 1am to 9am half a year ago, but now I sleep from 10pm to 6am, and feel exactly the same. The only thing that changed was when I went to bed.