skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> has little first-order impact on their lives

I'm inclined to agree with you on this point.

But I wonder why/how the group feels so passionate about these first order impacts and coordinate acts and values, if the individuals see little first-order impacts on their lives (and are just acting socially as you describe)

Somehow the group is perceiving effects differently than individuals then
I don't think it is. Hire a good software developer that match these criteria:

- is not a freelancer

- but is willing to do it in their free time

- genuine believes your idea is worth pursuing

- is interested in learning more about the tech that they will use for the MVP

Make this proposal: freelance paid by the hour as trial to become CTO/co-founder.

Pay the average market rate (more than the cheapest from Upwork, less than the experienced ones that freelance to big companies).

This way you attract someone interested in your success, that will create software of good quality and still will get a good deal even if your startup fails ( some money and learning).

I did this and was able to find very good developers. The startup failed on the business side, but it was a fair trade.

Ultimametly though I learned to code and I am bootstrapping a web app that I build on my own. I recommend this above all. But I understand it is not for everyone.

The problem with professional freelancers is that they can not be interested in your startup's success. You need a developer thinking about the product, not just the code. Or you can get a "tricky genius" kind of dev. That realizes your wishes exactly according to your specifications, but still manage to not create what you want. They just take the shortest path to their payment. I got burned a whole $20,000 once like this.
From the readme,

"This is not a prodution worthy piece of software,it is only meant for demo purposes"
I often wonder how blind people deal with PDF's in general, and scientific articles (sometimes scanned, or pixel rendered) in specific? Or are they effectively locked out from reading scientific papers?
The Permissive License Proprietization Curse (2012)
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You might enjoy this from a while back - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/
I agree with you. Maybe what you need is to accept that other people will often be jerks when they can. It's like bad weather - you suffer the consequences but you can't change it. So why be resentful at something that is like the weather? That's what I am telling myself, to keep calm.
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What's the split between your site and your Udemy courses? Udemy seems tempting due to reach and discovery, but their eternal $10 "sale" doesn't give me an encouraging feeling about the cost/benefit.
I'm not sure I understand, they are all paid an MP's salary which is something like £75k per year. So I'm not sure that their government jobs are all that valuable compared to the amount of money that could be made by gaming a whole economy. Unless you mean civil servants? There are some retired civil servants that have come out as anti Brexit but the civil service will need to expand post Brexit so I'm not sure what they would have to gain personally from taking this position? If anything, and in common with a lot of other middle class Londoners, they are probably afraid of the value of their houses and investments dropping.
How lies become truth in online America
Control and monitoring turns easily into oppression and stagnation, and there is many blooded pages in history to describe that outcome. We might say that this time it will be different, that we are just removing the bad actors and obvious bad behavior, and to put our trust in those that sit at the control. To that I quote: "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."

On the other end we have the open town square where the loudest speakers and richest will overpower all other voices until none can hear anything and chaos pours forth.

From both we see people flee into isolated subgroups with perfect echo chamber where the oppressed be free from the loud and censors, with the eventual result of polarization where those outside turns in their eyes into less and less human. From there hate and violence ensures and we go back and ask our self, did we want the censors or loudest to rule.
I was unclear, I guess. I do agree that Synanon is more extreme than AA, on the whole. But AA is still extreme and fringe, all by itself.

I disagree that AA is a "movement with a spiritual basis." It's not. To quote Orange, AA began as a branch of a cult religion invented by an evil fascist renegade Lutheran minister named Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who actually admired Adolf Hitler and praised the Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler as a "wonderful lad." It's not at all "mainstream."

So I guess the comparison for me is, AA is the Nazi party, Synanon is the SS. Neither is acceptable, though one is perhaps more obviously unacceptable on its face. So the Synanon members who hang out at AA meetings are like SS members hanging out at boring party meetings since they can't any longer go out and do the 'more exciting' things they used to do.
In many cases the question mark operator can propagate errors for you. It is both explicit and non-verbose.
I second this. Sam Harris’s books and videos on YouTube are great but in his wakingup app he talks way too much.
Enough - I had enough to drink and then drove home.

Too many - I had too many drinks and killed someone as I drove home.
Flashback to "Surviving Edged Weapons"

https://youtu.be/p1sxc3V0lzQ?t=1897

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vix6-afHzMg
“Oh, my God. Using an Android phone is like paying for dinner with a Discover card. It’s like saying, “Don’t have sex with me.” It’s the ultimate prophylactic that says “I should be ...”

Oh, Scott. Once again.

”I should be screened out of the gene pool.” If you use an Android phone or have a Discover card, your family tree should come to an end.”

Stopped reading after this.
Withdrawl would require politicians admitting they were duped. In NY, Democrats have a monopoly on power so they have no need to be responsive to voters.
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I see any advantage over dragging movable/resizable components from a toolbar, but there are several obvious disadvantages.
What's the technical problem in measuring a differential signal at a 1000 samples/sec, plus removing noise and amplifying it ? It's a common analog electronics problem.

And if it's not technically complicated, why does nobody do this ?
Can anyone comment on how Cycle.js compares to other frontend FRP frameworks like ClojureScript's re-frame[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
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I heard brand talk about his 2009 book Whole Earth Discipline. He surprised me as not being a rabid environmentalism but what he called a pragmatic environmentalism supporting urbanization, nuclear and genetic engineering as a way to improve humanities environmental footprint. Take the first for example: until then I hand realized that dense Manhattan has one of the lowest per capita carbon footprints in the developed world. Density reduces transportation and building interior cost.
Not true, only a portion is tied to job creation goals
If you are going to start a software company, you need a good software development team, and a team that consists only of a nontechnical entrepreneur and freelancers has an obvious leadership disadvantage compared to a team in which top management has a good grasp of what they are doing.

Are you sure that your business/product idea is sufficiently aligned with your skills and knowledge? If not, why do you expect to be able to compete with experts?
>Also yes, Genocide is terrible. But the amount of people that cigarettes kill every year is orders of magnitudes more than this.

Many people are dead, the number comparisons don't really matter. They're both evil, that's really it.
Easy & FUN to use!
> Sure you can't be arguing that?

You're right, I wasn't.
As one example, you might use a tablet and tablet pen to draw up a few alternative sketches for the same UI, each of which might have tens of UI elements. With that input mechanism, it seems a bit tedious to have to tell the computer "this is a text box" for each text box, especially when a human (or smart algorithm) looking at the drawing can see that pretty clearly.
My parents immigrated here. Is it hypocritical for me to be upset about this?

Also my interpretation of the parent post is that we should not attribute China’s success to their authoritarian government without considering IP theft as a major factor.
For suggested reading, I recommend reading about the Arab Spring, where social networks were linked to populist overthrow of dictators in the middle east and northern Africa. I also suggest reading about Whatsapp killings in India.

The evidence out there suggests that social networks are being used to great effect to mobilize revolutions, mobs, and other "populist" movements, for better or worse. These days, it seems like largely "worse".

The same way that "flash mobs" were a funny joke in the early 2000's, and then were used as methods to commit mass-anonymous crime. The social cost of being able to organize large groups of people (many of which may not realize they are being used) is going to be a theme for the next decade.
People will call you racist, but you aren't wrong.
Don't give them any information you don't want them to have.

I only keep the account to log in into various services.
I attended a 10 day course earlier this year. Before I went, I had read these stories, and admittedly, I was afraid I'd, at the very least, be terrified by what came up in my mind. But that's not what happened. Following their simple instructions, my mind became quieter, calmer, and sharper. I had more control over my fear response. It ended up being a great experience, and I'd recommend anyone interested in one of these courses to go for it.

I was also concerned about the environment. I was thousands of miles away from anyone I knew in a strange place and different country. We were asked to hand over our phones, reading material, journals. We were asked not to speak to anyone and to avoid any form of communication. But this was all to benefit our meditation. We were given a space for several days to really focus on ourselves without external distractions. The day our silence was lifted, you really got to experience just how much talking to another person can disturb/distract your mind.
If you're using a smart phone, and it works, you're using code blind people wrote. I worked with many very excellent software engineers back in my days of writing network infrastructure code. Some just happened to be blind.

Code is plain text, and development environments can be navigated with keyboards. If I were to suggest that a blind developer needed my help, I would have something thrown at me. Luckily, the aim is not so good.
looking through the links and experience from forum posters is scary, vipassana and similarly intense experiences like high dose psychedelic induced ego death can have similar results. the minds of mindfulness beginners when in next level introspection are scary
I'd say CBT does what you say and more. It teaches you how to recognise and cancel destructive thoughts. It's a skill you can train.
The code looks a bit messy to be honest, maybe it's just the variable naming. `const input$ = sources.DOM.select('.field').events('input')` Why not name it the same as the DOM function `querySelector` ? `const name$ = input$.map(ev => ev.target.value).startWith('')` Wouldn't in this case `name$` be a boolean, but then `map` is called on a boolean. I just find the syntax very confusing.
Because for keeping in touch with people and being aware of events, there isn't a better alternative.
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>> Throughout a bidding process that saw dozens of cities vie to be the next location of a proposed hydra-headquarters, there were murmurs that Amazon might really just be looking for a regular office, and rebranding it a “headquarters” to corner those tax breaks.

That is exactly what happened.
What do these 'meditators' do for a living ?

How can they afford to spend their days sitting down doing essentially nothing ?

Could they do this high-level mediation in a busy office with people on phone meetings all around them ?
Is Data Sovereignty an Enabler or Roadblock for Cloud Adoption?
No, I think Prepend is right. This is painful to read, feels disjointed at times, then ends abruptly. Good articles aren't written this way.
Make sure to read the books and maybe consider buying "Programming Rust" by Blandy & Orendorff which is easily one of the best language books I ever read, especially when combined with the free books available online.

I used this book in a Rust course and I can also recommend it. What is particularly nice about this book is that in the chapters about ownership, moves, and references (which is what most learners find the most difficult) it uses neat graphs to visualize memory layout. It also places Rust memory management a bit into context by comparing Rust's memory management to other languages that the reader might know. The largest shortcoming of the book is the lack of exercises.

That said, I don't think any of the books is as good as K&R or The Go Programming Language yet. The Kernighan books are lucid and contain a lot of small, but useful, exercises/practical examples. This gives a stronger sense of accomplishment while working through the book.
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Ask for the tex file.
To share updates with my friends and family, buy used stuff on the marketplace, get info and be helpful to townspeople on town happenings from my town group (where I've also met some nice people that I now buy beef and eggs from), etc.

Nothing in recent history has changed any of it's utility for me.
That sucks, thanks for taking one for the team to find out. I had considered doing something similar as I had read so many legends which touch on the well in some way or another.
ego death and the resulting occurrences of depersonalization and lack of training/experienced people to help deal with the trauma is dangerous
Ask HN: Writing a book on monitoring, do I need a disclaimer for 3rd party tools
I'm writing a book on monitoring: principles, theory, and practical stuff like Icinga2, Prom, Grafana, Graphite, etc. I'm also using Digital Ocean for the examples and some over paid services such as AWS.

Can I just put a disclaimer that I'm not affiliated with any of them at the start, flash the right copyright/trademark symbols, and that's that?
This monopoly on power which exists in many states across the US is IMHO very bad. I always theorize that the US would be better if the red states voted blue and the blue states voted red.
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Do you "hack" every utility you use? Is that a predicate on you using that utility? Would you not investigate a utility you like to see whether you can easily "hack" on it or not?

(I dislike the term “hack” as it denotes to me irresponsible way to throw code, rather than properly design features and implement them in a considerable manner.)

I agree with most of the things you say above, they are very important. I just don't think it should be part of the name and identity of a utility. A tool should not have to scream to the world "I am a fast tool because I was written in C++ and not JS"—that should be a given for every utility.
Every single one of your statements was also true of Java.

Go look at what the Java community is going through right now.
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What makes you guess that `name$` is a boolean?
It ain't Western civilization any more.
Cooking assistant app
you can use something like quickly flipping through some pages of what ever kind to find something, whet the page change is delayed by that much

if it's about computation you could make a bunch of objects load one after another
What kind of evidence would convince you that education results in less susceptibility to propaganda? This seems facially true to me, but if someone studied it formally would you believe the results since the researchers are educated?
Another key point is that most if not all of the replacements are done at compile time, therefore the final code only makes minimal function calls.
First of all, because it doesn't make any point.

"I am surprised that stuff like this would make it to HN front page. I have checked out the link , it is indeed great but it is not what I should expect to land here."

Why? Is it too simple for HN? Too different from what's posted here? You don't clarify, and make no real contribution to the discussion.

(Besides, you, yourself, call it "great". So why shouldn't it be here?)

Furthermore, the surprise is misplaced. This kind of post features regularly on HN, be it for Rust, Go, etc. There have been similar posts on building a shell, a basic compiler/interpreter, a simple boot loader, and tons of other things besides.

Last, but not least, your last sentence looks like a jab/snark against Rust or against HN-ers voting based on trends ("My take is that Rust is hot nowadays").

Rust is indeed hot, but you can find similar posts all the time on HN for all kinds of languages.
This is interesting, and maybe hackathons are becoming overused, but I think the article missed something. The artificial constraints imposed by a hackathon have the effect of forcing participants to think in different ways about solving their problems, and the time constraint forces them to think creatively for a project that fits the time scale. This type of thing can create opportunities for ideas and creativity that wouldn't easily be possible outside of such constraints. Think of the examples from successful videogames, unexpected hits that rake in the revenue. Then their next project is so over-resourced it ends up a mediocre flop, partly because (I believe) that lack of constraints limits the ability to creatively overcome roadblocks. I'm not saying this is always the case, but plenty of my own best work that I'm most proud of comes from challenges where I had to "make do" and I nonetheless figured out how to get the job done. Hackathons are a way to manufacture that sort of work environment. Like anything, there should be a balance, but demonizing the whole endeavor seems too extreme.
another issue I have is with the claim from the article that they constantly have to produce new batches because the old product expires. but with such a small group, it would seem better to first make a comprehensive list of LPLD sufferers, then make a single batch for all of them, and repeat every say 5 years as new cases are found... yeah on average a patient waits 2.5 years...

If there is a long list of rare diseases, a company could specialise in manufacturing doses for rare diseases outside of the classical "order a dose (from continuous production) as a patient is discovered". So they might make a specific rare drug once every X years, but with enough rare drugs they might fill the rest of those years with preparing for and then making and testing single batches of other rare drugs...
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Look for a problem which is a pain in the ass for you (if you're not too weird, this may apply to others) and tackle it.
Poppycock. One of the top stories from this election is how establishment NY Dems are facing a challenge from the left, e.g. Ocasio-Cortez who is critical of the Amazon deal.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ama...
"probably anywhere from $10 to $10,000, if you're some exceptional research resource,"

As someone who has tried to sell things which actually functions to genomics and drug companies, this is ... optimistic. Ridiculous is probably a better word. There's probably something else going on here.
Democracy has always been fragile and built on the blood of patriots willing to fight against tyranny. A look at WW2 should remind everyone how quickly dictators can erase that if we are not prepared.
For the nation as a whole it's a bad deal, in a prisoner's dilemma if everyone cooperates the payoff matrix is globally optimal. But for New York City it's a good deal, and those claiming otherwise refuse to look at the math and instead want to go with how the deal makes them feel.

$150,000 x 25,000 = $3.75B/year. At NYS + NYC effective tax rate of around 9.25% at that income level that's around 350MM in income tax alone. That doesn't include the taxes that Amazon itself will eventually pay, nor any of the knock on economic effects of injecting all that extra money into the local economy. For NYS and NYC this deal is a no brainer.

The federal government is supposed to be the mechanism whereby coordination problems like this are solved. But the federal government (for a long time now, this isn't specifically about the current administration) if anything seems to want to encourage this kind of thing, not discourage them.

So here we are. You can rant and rave about the perfidy of actors acting rationally or you can work to change the rules of the game so as to produce an outcome you think more desirable. I know which one I think is more productive.
Perhaps you were thinking of “name?” Because there is nothing about “$name” that implies it’s a Boolean
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Old link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15462092
> Why do so many modern projects feel the need to include the language and/or the tech stack used as part of the project name?

It's advertising or propaganda for the language.

Whenever a language is "hot" and going through a full scale PR campaign, you see something like "[fill in the blank] written in Rust/Go/Ruby/etc" over and over again.

No different than all the current "facebook is evil" spam or the "bitcoin is great" spam of a few years ago.
It sounds like orange has a small axe to grind... that's a very uncharitable description. Like saying christianity was started by a Jewish criminal who was condemned and executed at the insistence of his own community.

I don't argue with fanatics. You're arguing the and hominem fallacy, at any rate. Whatever the case may be you seem to have very strong feelings about aa and let's not waste any more time on it.
I'm not an expert on meditation but I have a few thoughts on it. There is meditation where you sit down, become aware of the breath, body scan, etc, and that's fine and dandy but I don't find that's necessary. Rather one should remain with the bare self-conscious sense of ‘I am’ and just be. That's it! It's something like what Wu Hsin once wrote: "Wear the world like you would a loose-fitting shirt and don’t let it bind you" but also knowing "effort takes one nowhere". I feel light thinking about it. I don't know.
you don't need that much research to invest in index fund
I think the world is too complex now to think in such absolute terms. Scale matters a lot. Yes we should try to avoid anyone dying and even a single death is too many. But as evil grows more indirect and subtle, you have to be aware of the details and the scale to pay attention to the right thing. Especially when the role of Facebook in this was more indirect (how much is the Genocide attributable to the Myanmar government and the existence of the internet vs. Facebook?)

The role of Tobacco companies is much more direct (well established link between cigarettes and death), and the scale is far greater.
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> I'd like to NYC mayor call out Amazon instead of allowing the good people of NYC to be railroaded.

The announcement goosed property values in Brooklyn and Queens. I wouldn't be on a call out anytime soon.