skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, since it seems like you stating that illegal immigration disproportionately hurts the working class comes across as a right wing talking point - and I thought so too for the longest. My mind was changed by NPR of all things....

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/632/transcript

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/633/transcript

Companies do in fact discriminate against Americans for low wage workers because they can pay them less and some companies do skirt worker verification requirements when hiring low skilled workers.

Of course seeing that I am a minority, I don’t approve of the demonization of foreigners. They are using the same tactics that use to be called the Southern Strategy.
For most of us here, probably not. For shift workers or those who otherwise work a strict schedule, it at least requires a fair bit of advance planning if not close to impossible.
That was too bad. I know many people who have been to the seminars (myself included) and from that I concluded that they are "uneven" which is to say sometimes they are better than other times. I didn't pursue finding the correlations which might illuminate why they varied, some suggestions were how tired Tufte was, or how rushed.

The one I went to was held at Stanford and we had a lunch afterwards where questions and discussions were entertained. The questions definitely broke down into the three classes of 'fan', 'learner', and 'skeptic'. I was fairly put off by the treatment of skeptics, in that the answers or discussion they received were of the form, "hey you paid to be here, if you don't like it just leave." Which doesn't really help.

Personally I got a lot of out both the seminar and the books. I certainly approach the development of infographics in my presentations differently than I did before being exposed to his material. I try to have graphics that convey the primary point easily (for people skimming), supporting data (for people who are trying to understand the point), and other related correlations (for skeptics who want to dispute the point). It takes more time, but it gives you something much more substantive to have up on the screen while you are discussing the point in a group.
Building the Mirrorworld
An unemployed person wannabe-immigrant on the far side of the
border is still suffering. They don't pop into existence when they immigrate.
It'a great that it works, but it's not a new thing AFAIK.

Google had this kind of barbers in Mountain View a long time ago in its parking lot if I recall correctly.
For many the commute more than hits your daily stress quota, even before work contributes. So you can end up starting your day stressed, be that public transport sardines and delays or playing car upon roads so gridlocked that the terminology car park seems more apt.

This to reach an office at some arbitrary time everybody seems to follow of the 8/9am start. Hence you have this sudden rush into cities around that time and again with the bulk leaving home in the early evening.

Travel outside those hours or against the commuter grain are such a joy, that the contrast is huge.

Whilst many companies offer flexible hours, they are still the exception and until more flexibility becomes more widespread along with home working or local hub/satellite office working. Such stress will play more and more a factor.

I'd dare say that having a stressful commute alone can on many levels kill of your entire morning productivity. Then you have the costs, adding more stress. Again costs that would be much cheaper (public transport trains here in the UK) if you travel outside peak hours. But then, roads much more pleasant off peak.

But a 4 day week can sure make a difference over a 5 day one. Working longer hours for 4 days, avoiding some of that peak commute stress and focusing on work, for those days and giving yourself 3 days of freedom. It is a fine balance over having 5 days of self imposed stress if your late home and the impact upon a social life. Which means you end up with a less quality social life and/or work life and by this approach you get quality time with both. Though not always suitable for all, it's more palatable for companies who are less flexible. At least what I've found. Though again, depends upon your job.
Only up to the limit of their buying power. As the CEO of WalMart says, "our customers are spent out". They watch weekly same-store sales decline each month until payday.
> People are violent. . . people are hurtful. . .

And so on. The steady stream of negative over-generalizations about "people" that can exist in the mind of a severely depressed is the real lesson of this article.

> My psychiatrist doesn’t want to help me or support me in any way to kill myself. People are unsupportive.

I've been fairly severely depressed myself, several decades ago. The first thing my psychiatrist did was address the collection of negative cognitive biases that I'd managed to collect - much like this author - regarding myself, other people, the structure of society, etc. And in my own case, that initial reinterpretation of my attitudes was very helpful. I recovered and - aside from pretty low-key "winter blues" - haven't been depressed since then.

I do wonder why the author's cognitive biases seem so resistant to treatment.

Moe Reza, if you're reading this, I just want to tell you that recovery is possible, and that life can absolutely be worth living. But you've got the difficult task of recognizing this collection of negative attitudes as the main cause of your sadness and hopelessness, not as any kind of accurate reflection of reality that justifies suicide.
I like this idea, but this specific aspect seems somewhat troubling:

> "We let candidates do this work on their own time, from their own home, whenever they wanted to"

I'm curious -- how do you control for someone who successfully accomplishes the coding talk, but needed 40 hours to do the work which you expected to take 4 hours?
In 6 years of working in sf tech I can’t say I’ve had a good manager yet. It’s maddening.
Was the doctor able to tell over the phone you lost a tooth?
Ask HN: How does one find contract work in data science/analytics?
My wife is looking for work in data science, on a contract basis in the $50-100/hr range. She has a PhD in biology with a data-analysis approach and has worked in the industry for two years. Are there good sites to look for work that aren’t polluted with spam?
Huh? In Firefox you'd visit a webpage and if RSS feeds were available you'd be able to subscribe to them, IIRC.

Where in Thunderbird do you find feeds to subscribe to?
> which are actuakly very liberal interpretations of XML

This does sound painful, unlike parsing ordinary XML.
Isn't this effectively a more limited reimplementation of a shell?
Doesn't really apply because you need a good physical condition to be better at sports (besides knowing how the sports work), an ethicist doesn't need anything to be more ethical.
For one thing, highly popular languages tend to have communities which are flooded by people who can't use those languages, can't describe the problems they are solving, or can't understand basic programming concepts.

Like, it wouldn't even matter to me if PHP is a good language if I have to sift through thousands of comments of "I did this and it worked" without any description of why it worked, why it is better than other ideas, or what problem it is even meant to solve.
Man, I yearn for a return to computers we could trust - or at least, had the tools onboard to establish, easily, whether that trust was warranted or not - i.e. compiler, dev tools, open access, and so on.

The more I think about where we've arrived after the last 20 years the more I realise the OS vendors betrayed us.

We got fat on the sugarcandy of framework-obsession - they got rich on the meat of our data.

If only there were OS vendors out there who wanted to really innovate again and bring the power back to the users...
I agree with the OP. This has been called the Lisp Curse elsewhere. Over time, your codebase becomes so high-level, full of advanced, domain-centric abstractions that basically alienates everyone else from effectively working on the project.

If you have a small, stable team that such issue might be relatively easy to overcome. But with bigger teams, with higher turnover, than it might totally cancel out any technical advantage gained from using such non-mainstream programming languages.
So the master password is not used to encrypt the password database? What is it used for then?
Was just coming to ask the same question. Last I remember fountain codes were pretty locked down.
I just enjoy vim, and I enjoy customizing vim. Customization is a hobby I do on my own time, so I don't need any of these "you get slowed down having to customize" arguments.

I work mostly in ruby and the vim ruby experience is great. I have spent a year watching coworkers work in RubyMine and there isn't much it provides that I can't do (literally) just as well in vim. In fact the navigation tools are superior in vim as far as I'm concerned. RubyMine does have better project wide refactoring support, but with ruby being a dynamic language, you still have to go and check every file that changed to make sure it did the right thing anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps
No, but taking a few hours off is annoying if it means you have to reschedule a bunch of things. I would much rather run “errand” type things like this in the early morning before work.
This might get down-voted, and I don't mean to sound mean-spirited, only to spark a conversation.

I have a problem with the recent influx of (what should we call it?) "depression porn" -- where this kind of mental suffering is weirdly lauded and shared, authors are "brave" for writing it, and so on. Obviously some people have crippling depression; some people also have life-altering injuries, stage 4 cancer, dying children, etc.

Further, can a random internet reader truly be insightful regarding anyone's personal struggles? Other than meaningless platitudes ("You got this!"), what can the internet truly offer? It seems like OP has given up on life -- which is a real shame, considering he's only 32 (incidentally, my age) -- but there's nothing anyone can realistically do.
Pro tip: Find out where retirees hang out and then park your van there. Better still, do house calls for those who have difficulty leaving the house.

Getting my parents to the hair cutter takes planning, etc. It's a much bigger deal than most people (with younger more able parents) realize.
> Apply these proposals at your own risk and do not expect that they will help you remain secret or untracked online.

Agree. I think I did mention "some semblance of privacy..."

I've pointed to people (who I consider not tech-savvy enough) to install Intra and setup adguard-dns, and they were able to do so. This helps them get around not only internet-censorship, but also thwart ISPs/MNOs from snooping on DNS queries and building a profile on them, or worse, selling it to advertisers.

Folks were able to install exodus-privacy and read through the reports, to find out if an app was tracking them mercilessly.

They were able to use Glasswire, and firewall apps they thought were going overboard (but couldn't uninstall/disable) from accessing the internet.

Its my belief that the steps I listed down are basic enough that it helps folks go a long way in taking back some control of their privacy. Once they are fully committed, of course, they'd know they are better off installing LineageOS with no GoogleApps on them, or buying a Librem phone, or getting burner phones, or not using smart-phones at all and so on... Most aren't there yet.

> such as blogs that get posted to HN without https breaking HTTPS Everywhere, or sites whose CSP cannot be patched properly for Decentralize

Yes, you're right. More often than not, I simply do not look at websites that break. If I must, then I either use brow.sh, or outline.com, or startpage.com anonymous-proxy.
Look at the graph in [1]. Huge drop in the 2018 crash. Slow linear recovery since then. Not back to pre-crash level yet.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
Mobile prostitution on wheels is probably a money maker idea. Illegal you say? Disrupt!
Not for the hn user base maybe, but for a lot of people it is. I worked part time out of college, only job I could find, worked 36 hours a week, anymore and they'd would have to give me benefits. If I had to take time off that came out of my pocket. This is a reality for a lot of people.
James Boswell Finds His Voice
Definitely something you want in a resume if you wanna work high pay shady jobs ;)
Did Travis (uber) go to one of those places?
If I were a young turk looking to get started in a life of crime, I could do worse than to get a job washing cars at a high-end dealership. Never mind the customer cars, the various telematics memories in the service loaners are always fun to surf through.

When I take my car in for service, they get the address of a gas station down the street.
Haha no. I broke my front tooth only 1/2 way. I was talking normally. In fact, I wasn't even going to see a dentist that night, as I had dinner plans, but my wife insisted I fix it that night. Ended up making dinner anyway since people eat really late in NYC.
This is because at one point the Tasmanian devil population completely crashed and much of the genetic variation in their population was lost. This is literally a textbook example of something called the "founder effect." The result is that the Tasmanian devils alive today are genetically close enough for their immune systems not to reject each other's cancer.
That's a privilege of our industry. Regular people in regular jobs have to take days off their paid leave to run errands.
Heavy metal is the thinking person’s music
The language one uses when writing, while not perfectly accurate, is a good indicator of how one carries themselves in real conversation with strangers. Repeated usage of phrases like "Google Spy Device" isn't indicative of someone who's assertive or "resolute", it's indicative of someone who is being emotional. If you're a regular here and part of the author's target audience, you know how awful Google is with regards to the user privacy sphere. You don't want to hear someone whinge about it every some-odd lines of a tutorial.
Bollocks. It takes amazing amounts of oil to get the cheap stuff to the cities. The only reason these are more 'efficient' is because of arbitrary pricing - if we placed a higher value on oil-consumption, in terms of cost to the Earth, the cheap plastic junk wouldn't be being subsidised by our childrens future.

I know its not a popular opinion, but the things that take so much oil to make and transport and deliver to the people, are there so that city people can live another day without pitching into the abyss.

Rural living is better for the Earth. If I can walk to my neighbour and get butter, instead of driving to a shopping mall (air conditions) to buy it from a source originally half a country away, please explain to me how this is 'more energy efficient'. It makes no sense whatsoever, unless one is simply so enamoured by the luxuries of city life that one can't see the forest for the trees.

Cities are expensive to build, maintain, and they are destroying our future. Abandon!
I certainly have no idea how to predict if a programming project will stay small, but maybe people who do that kind of thing for a living have some idea?

Also, I'm skeptical about this scaling limit business, but if it's true, call the first program a prototype or proof of concept and then rewrite in a "scalable" language when necessary. "Plan to throw one away, you will anyway."
Languages like С allow you to control more (low-level) aspects of a program than languages like Ruby. Ruby is only concise because it handles tons of things for you, the way it sees fit.

You can make C++ quite concise, or quite verbose, depending on the level of detail you can hide under layers of abstractions.

It's much like the framework vs set of libraries: a framework allows you to write very little and produce a lot when all you're doing is wiring together existing pieces and write business logic code it the slots provided for that. Similarly Ruby allows you to write much lass than C if all you're doing is wiring together hashtables of hastables of hashtables, and rely on garbage collection.
Kuiper Belt Objects Are as Mysterious as They Are Distant
Asdf-VM – Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool
There is no direct profit in Operating Systems now. I blame it squarely on MS for it's corporate practices; and the rise of linux, which negated any motivation to build other oses for profit like in BeOS and Amiga days.
Tools for Learning about New Tech Communities
The point of this article was more about writing DSLs than just conciseness.
It does, but! I really want Thunderbird to be good, but the web feed experience is infuriating. If you don't care about open source or you just care plenty about UX, you wouldn't use it for feed reading. (I got started on a list, but it's more like the whole concept needs to be rewritten.)
Ctrl+D skips that boot screen and beep, so at least it's less annoying.

Much more of a problem for me personally is that I've spent several hours trying to follow the guides to recompile the kernel I already have, so I can try to modify it, and it comes out grossly wrong and unbootable. It's doing a very bad job of handling open source.
The real job of the f-35 is to project power.
strongmen stubbornly refusing to abdicate their office would however be very much in the spirit of modern times.
Anyone know if there's been any work to support libsixel in libvte?
Cameras and image sensors.
> "I always found it strange that services like doctors, dentists, barbers, etc. are generally open the same hours as the majority of their customer base (9-5ers)."

In find this true for nearly all mom & pop doing retail. At least be open a little later a couple evenings a week so those who want to support SMB's can. I mean, you can't scream "Support us" and then be closed when I get off work. It's bad enough most towns have parking meters.

The mall / strip mall is open later and there's no charge for parking.

Obviously, the internet is even better in terms of convenience.
It kind of is, especially if you're imapired by not owning a car/driving license.

I usually have to take time off work or at least make my time up if I need to visit one of those places as it's an hour + half train journey after to get back to work.

My work starts at 8:45am and those places open at 9am usually too so I can't just pop in before work etc.
Nonsense. Factor in all the oil that was used to build the resources the city dweller depends on, and to maintain those resources. Factor in the sheer energy waste of cities.

An honest appraisal cannot lead to the conclusion that cities are good for us, energy-wise.
> making employees lives miserable to reduce the need of planning

such a great point. we seem to live in a zero-planning world now.

i'm surprised at how often, at least in app programming projects, i go to great lengths to show a manager how the app is progressing and where it's ultimately heading, and get no meaningful course correction or even a "that looks great"

then, the other shoe drops: after the app is complete and ready (or even after it's gone live) -- only then -- do they take the time to actually look at it and demand a change. and they don't care that it's harder to accomplish at that late stage, or that it damages programmer morale. they actually consider that to be a valid process.
Jesus (unwittingly) had armies killing and subjugating people in his name to spread his influence, and promising impossible rewards. Jesus isn't popular because people lived his practice.
A guy I was working with in San Diego was doing this 5 years ago. In the office we used to make fun of the idea because we thought it was terrible: Who wants to get a haircut in the parking lot and then go back into the office with little bits of hair all over your head and neck?
>Because they have immense numbers of people living in them?

Because those people do less to support their own survival locally, and therefore cities require immense intake of energy and resources every day, in order to maintain that lifestyle.
>find out which phones pinged the phone tower near each of the locations at each of the relevant times

I don't know that that is actually possible. The police can access the records for any one number, but accessing all the records for a set of towers in a given time window is a different matter. I would actually love to know if this is within their capabilities.
What companies does Google own?
It occurs to me that what made my phone fall off the sweet spot wasn't actually me bumping it, it was vibrations from notifications received during the night.
I really like the :Plug model with Vim.

Nothing updates unless you do it, but then once the update is done you can optionally go through the commit log of each plugin and even revert back specific commits if you don't like what you see.

To me that's a much better model than "hi, I see you opened your code editor, let me auto-update these 10 plugins for you. Hopefully things work out for you!".

IMO the user (you) should be in total control over when things get updated. This goes for the editor itself and your OS too. Otherwise you have no idea what the state of your system will be the next day.
Often I'll buy a non fiction book solely so I can evangelize some best practice or methodology by sharing the book around.

I still buy physical non fiction books because physical ones are just so much more easier to share without worrying about copyright infringement.

Barring physical, I'd use Amazon precisely because it's easier to "lend" someone a book if you're both on the same platform.
They dont work for you, but they work for others. For me blocking few sites and sertting pomodoro is enough. I am not lured by stackoverflow questions on the right that much and can switch context easily between code and SO
There is a story from my home town Vienna that a certain celebrity would come to the phone shop ever 2 weeks buying a new battery. That continued for a few months until some clerk asked her what she did with all of those and she was thus introduced to charging.

I know what you are thinking now. The battery lasted 2 weeks!!!
Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)
I mean the "eye contact yields right of way to the vehicle". In my experience as a pedestrian any time I make eye contact with a vehicle they wave me through, even if my intention was to let them go first.
In the US there is https://www.getshortcut.co/ - which has a slightly different model. They'll come into your house with a setup to cut your hair, clean up, etc.

IIRC their prices are significantly higher ($50-$75) but they pitch themselves more for the "you have a big presentation tomorrow at 9am and we'll come to your house tonight at 10pm" crowd.
True West: Searching for the Familiar in Early Photos of L.A. and San Francisco
Solving the Fermi paradox without assumptions