skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC Switzerland is introducing a "homeowner's tax" - the equivalent to the tax your landlord would be paying on your rent if you were renting instead of owning - essentially, they're considering you're renting to yourself, so you need to pay the tax. Now that's pro-equality (ironically, for Switzerland).
Why Every Startup Employee Needs to Understand Liquidation Preference
Their recaptcha is broken and causes a lot of pain especially when you're on an ISP that may have had some bad apples (pretty common in India where ISPs don't care about spam or piracy). It's like the whole neighborhood is paying the price of someone else's crime and it feels like the digital version of being racially profiled.

Worst part is even after solving dozens of images (which keep refreshing by the way to no end) you still sometimes get we don't believe you're human comment and no way to go forward.

Cloudflare and this recaptcha can really break the internet for some people, esp in small Indian cities.
Where? It says use one of the many frameworks that do SSR. How is that saying not to do SSR?
> They're a waste of engineering talent and have contributed nothing to the world.

That's arguably true now...but to claim that IBM hasn't contributed anything to the world is just hyperbole. I mean, they invented the relational database and hard drive, and practically every modern computing concept is just a reimplementation of what existed on a mainframe.
It's only been like that for about 60-70 years

So basically is human history work has never been the solution
Not in Ontario Canada. The law says the owner is guilty. It doesn’t go against your driving record/insurance though, so it’s a free-for-all if you’re wealthy.
Disabling the new design still requires you to be signed in, though. I don’t sign in most of the time I’m using Reddit. (Which makes for poor monetisation, and even being able to disable the new redesign only when signed in is a win for them over the current situation.)
The slice of the pie? If these companies are upset about it, they can just leave the UK market.
they started tracking outbound links for all users sometime ago and offer the ability to advertise to users based on their browsing behavior, keywords, community affiliation when I'd investigated last year. They were expecting an overhaul of their platform this year, so I imagine targeting has only improved for un-registered users.

I don't believe Reddit (owned by Conde Nast, a subsidary of Advance Publications) has any intentions to sell the platform outright, as they essentially get to control the v̶o̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ front page of the internet.
Ask HN: I'm just a programmer worried about climate change, how can I help?
Hello everyone.

Since I was a teenager I've been worried about climate change, this led me to reduce my CO2 emissions, consumerism, and waste as much as possible; I do the best I can to not use my car, plastic bags, straws or bottles, re-use water and many other actions that I think can help.

However, every couple months I still read a new article stating that we are even closer than we thought to the point of no-return, even a few say we are already past it.

As a father I'm really worried about my children's future, and cannot avoid feeling overwhelmed by the fact that even if I do my best I just cannot fight against huge corporations that does not want to do the best they can to help climate change.

A couple days ago I read this http://carbon.ycombinator.com/ in HN's frontpage and got amazed about such creative and smart solutions, and cannot stop wondering what can I do to proactively help any of those, or any other idea, become true and help to repair the damage.

Sadly I'm just a Software Engineer and I feel that I cannot help as, for example, a Genetic Engineer to make those ideas become true. I'm not a genius, nor a millionaire philanthropist, neither a clever startup founder.

Is there anything I, a normal person, can do to actually help?

Thank you for reading me.
> Perhaps a better way of saying is is that hidden data is a characteristic of abstraction. Which is certainly fair, and fits the analogy to algebra quite well.

I'd disagree with even that much; I'd say abstraction is much more about parameterisation - factoring out the common structure from different constructions - than outright hiding anything.

> But in any case, parent's comment that "OOP has no special claim" to hidden state/data (or abstraction) is sound; after all, ADTs already do that.

ADTs don't hide mutable state. That much is something OO has a special claim to.
> This gives money to richer voters because the higher your earnings, the more tax saved.

a rise of the zero rate equally effects anyone earning above the new zero rate threshold (regardless of how much they are above it [1])

a full time minimum wage employee earning ~£14,000/year
gets exactly the same reduction in tax from this specific increase as an engineer on £90,000/year

[1]: once you get above £100,000/year your personal allowance goes down (ultimately to zero)
Trump complains Twitter has removed people from his account
The cost of fighting it in court may be far less than the cost of the public/employee backlash.
I think he's talking about David Reed's work: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...
> The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines takes the opposite approach and begins with addressing the recipient of a message, instructing them to hear what is said to them in good faith. Talking to the recipient first, before the speaker starts the conversation off wrongly,places the bulk of the emotional labor on the recipient of a message rather than on the sender.

Emotional labor? Give me a break.

Being inclusive does not require anything more than the absence of barriers. What does the author mean specifically when they advise that we alter our approach to match the cultural norms of other groups? My "approach" in writing online is to talk to a person, not specifically a male or a white person or whatever distinction you care to name. The internet has always been great that way. No matter who you are in real life, in IRC you're just a nick, and on mailing lists you're just an email address. That's what drew many of us to it in the first place. It seems bizarre to now claim that in fact the opposite is true.
I disagree with your interpretation. This is a more compelling argument:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/voting-...
I get a lot of value from Twitter's AI and computer graphics communities, but I used to see a lot of retweeted political garbage too. I found that Twitter's "mute words" feature works wonders. After muting about 100 words ("trump", "obama", "republican", "democrat", "evil", "lied", "nazi", that obnoxious hand clap emoji, etc) it's like a whole different place. Much less rage-inducing.

You can also disable Twitter's annoying engagement-boosting features by muting special undocumented tokens like "suggest_recycled_tweet_inline" and "suggest_who_to_follow". https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/19/twitters-annoying-f...
When AWS in teh UK can grant share awards of £11.8m to staff, but only pay £155k in tax, that doesn't seem like they are paying their fair share in UK tax.
It would be uniquely refreshing if Facebook would apply an overlay to every post that gave it a true/false and hate/love rating. This makes an interesting 2 x 2 box score and for a while I was looking at some NLP to pull out common themes and rate them, but I realized that if you just used a bi-variable version of the "like" widget you could have people moderate.

Such a signal, combined with actual research on the veracity and tone of the post could be combined to highlight places where people need help and where bad actors might be plying their wares.

But I don't honestly expect anyone in management at Facebook to advocate such a system.
Not if certain parties have their way.
I don't have a solution to the problem and I concur it is a difficult problem to solve. A sibling comment has pointed towards https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-captchas, which doesn't have much enlightenment either.

That said, I'm merely pointing out the problems I see in the current "solution":

1. It is a very robotic approach to design a system: we end up treating human beings like numbers and thereby marginalizing the minority. After inconveniencing these people, we turn around and tell them: "just be normal" or "no you shouldn't think like this". If that's the type of society we would like to build, I think I have nothing else to say.

2. ultimately externalizes the cost of abuse detection to ads, which makes it very tempting for everyone to adopt it as it is "free". Even if differently motivated entity solved this problem, I'm unsure if anyone would want to pay for it given how invisible the issues it causes are to the business (as you have pointed out). This may mean that what I pointed out in (1)_will occur everywhere and I don't even think there's really a way to stop it from getting to the possible dystopia I see.

Maybe I'm just over dramatizing this and I really hope that is the case.
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ReCaptcha, of all things, has pretty good accessibility measures. Likely more than the site in which it's embedded.

Nobody is claiming it's perfect. But notice how nobody here is analyzing why people use ReCaptcha in the first place nor providing alternatives.

If you knew nothing of ReCaptcha and only read these comments, you'd wonder if it was a gag website operators put on their website for self-amusement, which is basically how I looked at homework as a kid. But I feel like this discussion is a bit more one-sided than I expected on HN, a place where I would've thought more people had experience running a website and how immediately effective ReCaptcha was the second you added a <textarea>.
I assume therefore that you dutifully calculate and pay income tax on any and all birthday or Christmas presents?
Plenty of people have reasons not to use Facebook but I believe it mainly just became uncool. Mostly because parents started showing up everywhere. But when something becomes unpopular then people stop using it without actually needing a rationale. Human behavior is largely dictated by subconscious social effects and the rational brain comes up with explanations after the fact.

So now younger people mainly use Instagram? Or what?
Those seem to all be effects of being rich.
Reminds me of https://medium.freecodecamp.org/million-websockets-and-go-cc...
The language used seems alarmist, particularly given the extent to which Google use bots themselves.

For example, "the new way to stop bots", "alert you of suspicious traffic", "identify the pattern of attackers", "pages are being targeted by bots", "stay ahead of attackers and keep the Internet easy and safe to use (except for bots)"

Many companies have built valuable services by automating HTTP requests. One might even think that Google would like them to stop.

Two things that particularly worry me about this are a) encouraging sites to apply captchas to pages that have nothing to do with authentication and form inputs, and b) the hint of requiring two-factor authentication and phone numbers to proceed. [edit] will Google be offering to handle this on behalf of sites?
To be clear, I wouldn't say it's a fully programmed bot. It's probably a real human writing the "fake" comments. I wouldn't be shocked if a couple of governments had tens of thousands of YouTube accounts that they created many years ago and then let age and try to make it act like a real account for a couple of years. Of course, over time they'd start using it to write comments that are related to their agenda. Say, every 30th comment or so could be related to pushing their agenda and as long as each comment is different it'd be hard to ban such an account.

This type of operation sounds silly until you realize you could push your agenda to tens of millions of unique people reading the comments section on YouTube alone. If this idea sounds crazy, just remember the recent US elections were found to have a similar scenario occur with fake websites being pushed on various social media platforms and eventually people believed and trusted the articles written on the sites and started reposting, liking, etc. the fake news.

"have you noticed this with HN comments?"
As for HN comments, I don't spend a lot of time reading through comments here to know. I'd assume that it happens on every social media platform. If this is occurring on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then every platform is in the targets. It's all about the eyeballs, so I'd be shocked if there weren't already thousands of fake accounts already opened either aging or already in use on HN. If I were running this type of operation, I'd have thousands of accounts on each platform: Pinterest, Twitch, Quora, TikTok, Snapchat, you name it, I'd have it. If it has millions of users per month and is a social media platform where discussions and opinions occur *or might occur in the future (new potential features on places like Snapchat), you better believe I'd have accounts on it.
A note for people who want to go faster than Steam/Proton certification - in Steam settings you can turn on Proton for all Windows games, not just the ones that are certified by Valve. So far I haven't run into any problems running non-certified Windows games under Proton.
So we'll need 3 servers instead of 1 just for serving HTTP?
If you want your comments to be taken seriously, don't end them with uneducated and uninformed attacks.
This book has been my own personal technical revolution over the past few months. I've been programming professionally for 7 years now, so while I'm not the most experienced I'm certainly no one new either. Some takeaways from how it changed my flow:

1. It gave me specific goals in terms of my own improvement, and the chapter titles did a good job of being a stand-in for challenging my own intuition.

2. In mentoring other developers, those I shared some of the lessons in the book with saw huge improvement literally week over week. I saw, personally, one of my mentees go from producing code that was hard for me to step through without bringing up half a dozen issues, to producing code where my largest criticisms were ecosystem dependent.

3. It created common language for discussing with teammates why certain code felt wrong.

4. It significantly reduced time spent refactoring later. The subtleties in some of the points make a re-read valuable as well. One of the better examples of this, was "Make code just a little generic"- often, we attempt to code things as generic as possible, and end up making what is effectively code soup that doesn't help accomplish the problem. Instead, building specifically for this problem, but trying to spot places it can be made just a little bit more generic, has altogether eliminated times I know I would've had to refactor again later if I hadn't been thinking of it.

5. The book knows what it isn't. He even says right in the forward and on the related Google Talk[1], that this first version is probably not the most value it can produce, but that hopefully by version 3 it'll be there.

For my time and energy, it's been more influential on how I develop software than anything else I've read. Furthermore, despite coding in primarily functional and/or dynamic languages, the examples used never made that a problem despite always being based on C. I recommend it highly.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY
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>for example, the person who thinks that someone with depression is just “being lazy” or needs to “snap out of it”.

I do this internally (not quite to that extent, but along a similar line of reasoning) all the time and feel a little bad about it, yet even as I type this I can't help but feel it's true in many cases. I have a low tolerance for people that abuse medical diagnosis as a certified scapegoat (a static, unchanging one at that), and most of the depressed people I've known don't eat well, exercise regularly, try to sleep better (get off your phone/laptop at least an hour before bed, for example), or perform any other anti-depression-101 tactics. I have pretty severe bouts of apathy at times, and I feel that depression is often a case of simply indulging this apathy a little excessively, while postponing the work involved in constructively and pragmatically working one's self out of it.

On the flipside, I tend to agree with the idea that our current model of society and the direction it's going is incompatible with a happy life for a lot of people, and it's perhaps no more fair to blame them for this then it is to blame a square for not fitting into a circular hole. But, if you dull your corners enough, you may just fit right in.

At any rate, this was largely tangential and irrevelant, I'm not intending to dispute milestone #2 in a general sense and thanks for the link - it's a good read.
It's their kitchen.
I eat a low carb diet. I don’t think ketogenic is a good idea due to liver and kidney damage. I do intermittent fasting everyday. I keep meaning to go on a longer fast every now and then...

I recently got food stamps so I’ve been enjoying food more :)
Sorry, I thought you mistook it for the person talking about /r/politics.

I agree that a direct comparison of activity levels isn't all that sensible. I was just surprised that TD has lost nearly 50% of its activity while the rest of Reddit has grown, even growing in the subject area TD is a part of.
I had an experience recently where Twitter failed me on every level and so have been staying off of it:

1. Someone I don't normally interact with was algorithmically pushed into the timeline.

2. The topic was a sensitive, negative topic(workplace abuses) and involved a personal story I was tangentially involved in.

3. I opted to share my part of the story in a reply but the small size of tweets forced me to split it into two parts, awkwardly crammed together.

4. Since notifications appear in reverse order the second part is easy to read out of context. It became the subject of a quote-retweet saying that I was, in essence, doing harm, which garnered 10 likes.

5. I apologized and then a day later they apologized too, saying, "I didn't see this earlier".

In essence, what Twitter has is a product that cannot be relied upon for anything remotely important. If high engagement is happening because of miscommunication, you've made a platform which is basically only useful for sports and celebrity trash talk, and bland business PR and announcement type services. But this setup has been awkwardly adapted into a universal discussion platform suitable for news, politics, creative conversations, personal thoughts, etc. It constantly breaks down when it goes outside its wheelhouse.
The problem here is the "it costs more to do the right thing" is a bad argument.

If you have a serial harasser, who is just paid off to leave quietly, then you just ensure that he gets to go off and do the same thing again. And be richer.

How about instead of giving him $90 million, you give that to his victims in exchange for them not making claims against him? The result is approximately the same, but at least you're giving money to the victim rather than the criminal.
As they say: is that a lot?
I think the idea was/is that government should be as small and powerless as possible so one does not even have to really worry about it much. Why worry about politics if politicians don't have any power. People in the US are doing things to improve the world they live in constantly but in spheres of voluntary cooperation outside of politics. Many/Most? don't want the government to try and do too much, just stay out of the way.
Furthermore, correct me if I misread, but what he did wrong was have consensual sexual relations with a subordinate, right? And then he was fired for it (which he should be). And they protected him how? Paying him the severance package he was owed?

I'm not following if that's all correct.
1. They probably just don't realize Instagram is Facebook and even worse.

2. Who needs the app anyway? Facebook apps had always been ridiculous - outrageously heavyweight, coming with extra surveillance built-in and hardly doing anything the website can't.
Apparently China's figured this one out
I don't think OWS reached anywhere close to the level
of influence that the WUO/SDS movement had.
Well, by that logic Nickelodeon should be run by kids, for kids.
No. They say they do, but neither me not any of the team that tried it was able to complete a single test of the ReCAPTCHA accessible fallbacks. 0%. This was a couple of years ago, but at that point at least putting ReCAPTCHA into a site was putting a fixed roadblock in for people with visual impairments strong enough to force them down their audio route.
I'd be surprised if recaptcha uses IP reputation. That being said, a classifier is not "broken" for introducing false-positives. If you read the post, you see that's one of the issues v3 tries to address.
> Sure, but you also wouldn't care that π is defined as an equivalence class of cauchy sequences if you're treating (R, +) as a group. In fact, one does not care at all about the particular details of a group being a set-- one treats groups up to isomorphism.

You don't care at that point, but you don't destroy the information either. You know that (R, +) forms a group and you might use that group structure to, say, efficiently sum a list of reals - but you know that the answer is a real and not just a "group element", and you would go back to doing real-specific operations on your total. So it's more about parameterisation than about outright hiding information.

> But of course, I was talking about abstraction in programming.

What's the difference? If you don't mean the normal kind of abstraction then what's the definition of the thing that you're talking about?
I think the space is their market, in which they set the rules and may want to tip things one way or another to prevent starvation and entire dependence on external parties.

In the general case, it's once thing to let an industry shrink because they are out-competed, it's another entirely to let them shrink to the point where recovery is extremely hard or event nearly impossible because of the loss of domain knowledge.

In addition, there's also first mover advantage, and in some industries that can mean the first mover dominates to such a degree that fair competition (market information is distorted) is hard. There's nothing inherently wrong with trying to alter the market, it all depends on the goal and methods. If this were applied towards bolstering competition by incentivizing Europeans offerings, that might benefit everyone eventually.