skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no more right of access to a privately-owned live-streaming platform with an audience in the millions than he had right of access to a broadcast TV network

If the government now has the right to say, "piece of content X -- not allowed" arbitrarily and with no process and rational standard, then Free Speech is simply broken. An event of that magnitude is now history. A free society should not be rewriting history. People are still free to not-view and not-read. That right can't practically be infringed. What can be infringed is the right to view and the right to read.

You can tease apart the right to say something with the right to have it signal-boosted along the way

As the internet is currently formulated, "signal boost" is equivalent to discovery. Being able to manipulate discovery for 90% of the population is tantamount to the power of censorship.

if you want to save Free Speech you're going to have to in case we throw the baby out with the bathwater here

In a fair system which truly supports Free Speech, in the end, signal boosting a bad message becomes a good thing. If it's really bad and full of nonsense, then there will be a reaction and backlash which will bury the bad message. What we have in the years leading up to 2019, is a small group of activists supported by a cultural minority (academia+media+tech) who signal boosted messages, including those of bad actors who hijacked activist messages. Then, when the backlash came against the bad actors, there was an artificial campaign of suppression, which encouraged more backlash against the suppression.

Now, we are in a vicious cycle of censorship/suppression supported by government and corporate power versus the backlash to that suppression. If we want it to end, then we can let Free Speech do what it's supposed to, so the backlash can go to where it belongs: Against bad actors hijacking good messages and bad actors with really bad messages.
> - In Dired, the 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files.

Dired is so handy, but it does so much. Unless I were to use this feature often enough I fear I would never remember it was there and just break out to a terminal and `tar -zcf` manually.

I feel like something already exists for this, but it would be cool if there was a "Random Mode Tip of The Day" that one could invoke for discovery and practice of things like this.
Bye lands orders for nearly 300 electric planes
As someone who recently saw the light, and converted to Emacs (spacemacs), I am absolutely delighted that its going strong.

Emacs is the most delightful software I have ever used. I could evolve a flexible todo management productivity workflow, start writing a journal and start writing new posts in a distraction free environment all using Org Mode in just two days. A complete win for someone who went back to paper (rather unsuccessfully) to organize to-dos after finding digital tools inflexible.

And for python development on remote machine, I get editing and autocomplete on remote systems out of the box (spacemacs) due to Tramp. I was like wtf, why didn't I start using this beautiful piece of software years back.

The way Emacs is a programmable platform really changes how I view what a good software should be.
For instance, I was documenting a machine learning experiment in org mode file. I wanted to mention a metrics result generated as json by my machine learning code. I could just embed sh into the org file, execute it (on the remote machine without friction) and print result directly into the org file. I can trivially compare results in two files and record it back into org mode easily, even on a remote system.

It has made me think that we need more software which erases distinction of programming as something distinct from using software.
When would they be able to book the monthly lease, and the subsequent sale to their bottom line? It seems like a lease wouldn’t be the best method to help the short term finances.
First job I got out of school was with a large DoD contractor. You have very likely heard of them. I was in the enhanced engineering department, up there with the rest of the smarties, not really knowing what they saw in me.

There was one guy, Bill, who was an 'engineer emeritus' and an old Cold Warrior. The guy, no joke, was a genius. He was the only person in The West that knew about ablative nose-cone chemistry for ICBMs and the like. He's tell us junior engineers great stories. There was the one period of time where he'd get briefcases filled with empty steel bottles and was asked to analyze what was in them. No telling where they were from or if any of the stuff was radioactive or anything.

He taught me a great lesson in engineering management. He technically had an email address, but it just auto responded that he never checked it, call him [0] or walk on over for a chat. I remember thinking: "What a proud, old, stupid man. How regressive!". How dare he say these things! You have to respond to emails.

Well, just that little bit of friction was enough to stop all the nonsense in his product group. Just the act of having to dial in the numbers and wait, just the act of having to get up out of the seat and then go actually talk to Bill, it was enough to have most people sit and think about what they were going to ask him. Most of the time, they really didn't need to say anything at him. If it was actually important, then yes, you'd get up and talk to him or give him the files he needed or whatever.

When it came to our DoD work, friction ended up being a good thing actually. It made you think just a half-step more about what you were doing, if it really was anything.

[0] The phone number was for the bar down the street, where Bill spent many of his days. Honest to God. You'd call, a barback would answer, and then he'd yell at Bill to amble over and take the phone.
It’s not a format I’ve seen used either, but it isn’t as if the Japanese perfectly retained Chinese conventions for ideograph usage either. They derived Katakana from Kanji, Hiragana from Katakana, integrated them all into a cohesive written Japanese grammar, formalized the stroke order into a strict system propagated through their school system and from that, developed the SKIP dictionary lookup method which is the only lookup system for Kanji that ever made sense to my foreign brain.

My point? Writing systems are flexible, and more so the more semantic notations you can integrate and propagate through society. You would never see 4月12日2019年 today, but hypothetically it wouldn’t matter if you did because it is inherently unambiguous so long as you understand the meaning of the Kanji involved.

Besides that, while you won’t see 4月12日2019年, you still might see 4月12日.
We have a product that can be customized in a particular way. After quoting several custom orders, I created a Jupyter notebook that automates my computations for both the quoting process, and ultimately for manufacturing if an order comes through.

Then I taught my colleague how to use the tool.
Is this something you’ve opened sourced or are charging for? Very interested either way!
Wind only really makes sense offshore/on the Western coast of the island, and in a few other limited places. They stuck a turbine on the top of Grousse mountain (a PR stunt for the Olympics), and it barely moved.

Solar can work in the interior, but isn't much use on the coast.

Hydro is the main renewable source of energy out here. It has it's issues of course, but it does provide a lot of cheap, reasonably-green energy.
> Presumably the spoken Japanese language predates the writing system

Its roots do, naturally, but the kanji compounds I mentioned don't. They're words made from kanji, not words that kanji were created to write down.

It's a hugely messy topic and I'm no expert, but the broad strokes are that Japanese derives from an "original" language (which had no writing system), which was greatly affected by multiple waves of Chinese influence over many centuries, and much of what seems complex in Japanese is the result. Anyway suffice to say that my comment was about Japanese today, not 1500 years ago before there was a writing system ;)
I completely agree, but I don't think that means we should ignore or withhold criticism when a company like Slack has immense power over how other companies operate. We should be scrutinizing the decisions they make because it does affect us.

Many of these decisions you refer to are not made by the individual employee, but by the team lead, PM, or the executives, who are not always very connected to how those decisions affect developer happiness. So getting control of your personal digital life often has no bearing once you enter the workplace with an entirely different set of expectations.

Slack being a public company worries me even more, because there is now an even greater drive for them to make ever-increasing revenue/profits, which usually means keeping people on Slack and active within the client and increasing daily active user / engagement metrics. In many ways there isn't great alignment between a company being productive and Slack's financials; Slack is incentivized to boost revenue even more now, likely at the expense of end-user productivity.
I wish I had an answer for you. The best I have is weak sauce -- I just remember two things: this too shall pass, and we have been in worse places than we are now, numerous times, and came out better in the end. I have to trust that the pattern repeats.
I was alternating between a Windows desktop gaming PC and a Mac laptop for work since 2001 or so, with periodic hardware upgrades along the way. Finally gave up on the Mac laptop about 3 years ago and haven't been back.
Nice feature for emacs home screen or scratch buffer to display a tip of the day ..
You can't replace something that is dead.
HN seems to have an unfortunate problem where any time women are promoted in tech it creates incredibly toxic threads with lots of thrashing and gnashing about how unfair it is.

One needs to just look at another large thread that generated controversy to get an idea of the growing trend [1].

Which means one has to ask themselves: Is HN cultivating an environment that's only going to get worse? And personally, I think the answer would be yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464269
As I read it specifically doesn't cover things which are not economic activities and not professional activities. You running a website yourself and not as business may or may not fall into that. It is not necessarily the colloquial definition of personal.

A personal website may have donations, may have ads, may act as advertising for your professional career, may be used to find jobs for yourself, may be used by people to trade items to each other, etc, etc. Those may be covered by GDPR and without a lawyer (ie: money) I have no idea.
I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.
Okay, that is the proposal I've seen, and IMO it has a huge number of flaws.

- There are going to be certain places where you can't dig a tunnel for geological reasons. For example, half the population of Florida lives less than 4 feet above sea level.

- Even if you increase the speed you can dig a tunnel and lower the cost, it's still cheaper to pave a road above ground.

- There are plenty of places where NIMBY folks just wont let you dig a tunnel (looking at you LA purple line extension).

Ignoring all that though, even if you can build an entry point every half mile, you still run into the issue of needing to drive the car that last stretch, which means you need to either solve the problem of self-driving on complicated roads, or force the driver to take over. The tunnel system shortens the amount of time you would spend on small roads, but it doesn't eliminate it.
From an outsider perspective, Patagonia appears to care about the environment. https://www.patagonia.com/the-activist-company.html
On this note, I'm surprised there's still no de facto standard for having web UI issues associated with a repo actually be powered off text files committed in a subfolder.
It's absolutely challenging when you're mentoring people and work starts to look like a revolving door. I've learned over time to reframe my thinking around mentoring and I believe that it has led me to a better place (or, I'm perfectly willing to accept that perhaps I've just deluded myself).

I mentor the juniors and intermediates on my team (and others in the company), but I also consider the activity to be a sort of mentorship for myself, in an abstract way. By mentoring, I'm frequently discovering better ways to teach and better ways to learn. I also seek their feedback about designs and code on the spot and those conversations that I have, with people who aren't encumbered by a lengthy career in technology, help me keep a sort of "beginner's mind," as it were.

The primary motivators that most people appear to have when they talk about mentorship, i.e., tangible benefits to the company, on-boarding, leveling up juniors, etc... are the side-effects to me. The primary motivator that I have when I mentor others is instead the learning and growth, career and otherwise, that I get to experience that would otherwise be off limits to me.

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Suppressing Free Speech creates more radicalization. If certain radicals are really bad, then more Free Speech ultimately gets rid of them. Suppression just gives them more ammunition. This is the lesson from across just about all of history.

In 2019, governments and big tech have essentially been tricked into replacing societal backlash against nonsense with societal backlash against suppression. What governments and big tech should be doing is protecting the integrity of speech. On a level playing field, Bad Actors will reveal themselves. It's on a tilted playing field where things dysfunction, and the crowd cries foul and declares the game invalid.

In short, in 2019, for governments and big tech to have the Bad Actors fail, they need to stop doing end-runs around the law and principles of Human Rights. They need to stop giving ammunition to Bad Actors by being bad actors themselves.
Put yourself in the shoes of the board of directors and you'll find they too don't want to overpay for CEOs. But paychecks are market driven, and lowering the pay means you'll end up with a less experienced or worse CEO.
They need a 6-pager czar who has the power to send back to editing any paper that's not readable enough.
I personally am not in that situation, but people who haul diesel & other fuels out into the backwoods do exist. Batteries aren't quite as viable for that because they're way less energy dense and in general less environmentally stable.
Eventually, those terms of service will cover not-so-outrageous things. If it happens in media and corporate comms, it's only a matter of time before it trickles down into software. As more and more, cueing my inner George Carlin here, self-indignant, self-righteous SJW pricks (that is, distinguishing between real social justice inclined folk, not those who are mad their college micro-triggered them by having a Westboro baptist guy on campus, or Ben Shapiro) make it into these companies, you will see more draconian measures being taken to police thought. It's not a slippery slope if it is actually happening.

My personal opinion we do ourselves a huge disservice by filtering out these things. You should display its grotesqueness. Display the horrors of humanity. Teach people life isn't snowflakes and rainbows and that there actually are terrible, evil people out there, not a sea of undiscovered victims. Evil exists as a virtue in of it self, if not to simply show you what the opposite of evil is. Maybe you don't know what good is, but know that it isn't "that"
This is a great way to find ideas for a startup btw... the classic one is finding out what tedious stuff people do in Excel all day then simplify and automate.

I will say for me I spend probably too long opening a series of programs and getting set up before I can work. I believe there is software for this, but my dream is to have it simple and customizable by project. I would love to be able to open everything to the right directory and the right apps for working on different projects, or adjust the ones I need at any time based on being at a different point in the project.

All told this is just a few minutes every morning, but always a minor annoyance.
Ok, I understand - thanks :)
To be fair they had milestones in between now and 2040.
Kind of agree (as a developer who appreciates art) - right now we're constraining ourselves to grid-based layouts. Having been in web professionally for 15 years and recreationally for 25 years, I've seen UI conventions change a lot as technology, form factors and global design trends change.

So modern tools like sketch work for grids, mobile responsive, yada yada which is much better than using photoshop as the design sits closer to the canvas it will be rendered on. As a developer, yay that works great for me! And also it's a huge middle finger to those designers who just built stupid impossible pointless UIs in the 90s and 2000s.

But it's also very constraining for the designer, especially given how far standards have come, and it's almost a given that someone is going to come along and Bauhaus the shit out of UI.

I really enjoyed the challenge of implementing a truly creative design on the web, but there has been a general convergence towards a convenient middle point where the designs are constrained by development requirements, at least in the way the tools are geared.

That's not to say a great artist can't create something amazing but if we have to teach all our creatives that they must conform to this particular way of thinking, then we're cutting the industry short in a bad way I think.

I guess the next thing will be a sass or js library called bauhaus.js. Or is that just DOM + CSS?
The sentiment is nice, but is it naive? (Even having accounts with any of the listed services feels dubious these days)

Are there (or will there be) any features/benefits for people who don't have social media accounts?
I wrote up some more thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19647192
But then you're not storing your money in a deflationary currency.
I can't see the full article so maybe this is covered, but I wonder what kind of protections they have to prevent users maliciously uploading photos featuring brands in photos the brands would rather not be associated with.
The thing that fascinates me about Spotify and other streaming services is that the people who weren't willing to fork out 15$ for a CD in the past are now willing to pay 10$ every month for... pretty much nothing at all, if you think about it?!
This is a handy site - https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

But looking up myself (and my brother) I noticed that the record date is a month or two past the actual month. So for me being born in March seeing myself listed as June and in my Brothers case seeing September listed as December. Well, makes me wonder if they had backlogs back then. But most happy it is that way, I know my actual birth certificate has the correct date (still have the original) and those are accessible in some form or another. Just mindful that not all records are that accurate.
We laugh but that is the Adblock Plus business model.
I wouldn't consider any of those tasks repetitive.

Well your first batch, you added more after I commented.
You can rely on them. I just wanted to correct what was said in that comment.
I usually give new people a task I understand fairly well myself, that they don't know much about but can easily be researched because it's well documented. So I expect someone to research the problem, develop some level of understanding and then be able to discuss options. I don't like it when people copy a piece of StackOverflow code and don't understand it.

I also prefer people who are naturally curious about tech vs people who just want to do the job. I don't like overtime but I like to discuss and try new ideas during working hours.
You twist all the words - I suspect you are not really reading, just rerunning your stereotypes in your head.

I did NOT say desiring a female role model is toxic feminism. Feminists claiming women need female role models is toxic feminism. There is a difference.

And that is what feminists claim, because they need this claim to support their victim narrative of why fewer women are in STEM.

No point commenting your other stuff, because you completely misrepresented what I said.

And by the way, you directly called ME toxic, whereas I made a general comment about feminism.
Tommy Robinson was imprisoned for contempt of court - violating a court order which prohibited filming or photographing. Essentially, he was attempting to film defendants who, at the time, had not been determined to be guilty but whose case was pending before a jury.

Relative to the "massive protests and marches", they had less to do with the perceived and perhaps actual infringement of speech and more to do with the fact that they were in support of an individual associated with the UK far right [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)
Didn't think Microsoft would move so quickly to censor Github, but alas... this is why I moved to gitlab.
I agree with the headline and not much else.

Okay. I'm fine with agreeing with the notion that good, productive engineers can result from good environments.

But that doesn't mean hiring 'broken toys' is a good idea. This article's message is 'Can't find anyone good? That's okay! Hire someone anyway and mentor them!'

Turn this stone into a diamond!' Okay. Some stones don't turn into diamonds. Gee...if only there was some sort of process that can help determine which people are capable of being a good engineer. Maybe companies can do something like asking some basic questions about a candidate's ability. Something like a filtering process.

'The pond is empty.' Pfff. No it's not. If no one's biting at the rod, it's because of shitty bait.
Klass?
You're referring to this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
not coincidentally, they’re privately held.

and chouinard is a real weird guy in all the good ways. He’s not the CEO anymore but he’s left his mark very solidly.
Yes. OP: Please add (2009) to title.
Wouldn't the JavaScript engine need to parse your long and complicated chains of `document.createTextNode(blah)` or `parent.appendChild(foo)`?
Yeah, we'll see how well that goes. I can't help but suspect that YouTube's definition of "quality" and mine are not quite the same.
Oh I'm still adding. I consider them all repetitive, but it's okay to debate some or most. The point is I'm guessing about a stranger's life and I'm bound to hit on some repetitive tasks they do.

The answer 'none' is just condescending to the point of silly and it's obviously not true. I'm hoping to illuminate how there are repetitive patterns in everyone's life. Even 'pure math researchers'.
"Someone who I know went through what I did!"

Which is what, exactly? What is so fundamental different abotu your experience? The immeasurable pain of being a minority in a group of people?
Email me (email in profile) - not open source but completely free Beta. Just trying to figure out if it's something people would be interested in. (Edit: email rather than DM)
No thanks. Forcing millions from their homes is unlikely, and you couldn't pay me 1m to live in the city. Just because mostly that same population screwed up the countryside with irresponsible energy use does not entitle them to now ask me to move.
There are non-paywalled copies around, e.g. at https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1053866-time-to-rev-up-...
the article was talking about B.C.

Why are you talking about Alberta?
https://github.com/egh/emacs-totd or https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TipOfTheDay

Could be modified to show, e.g. dired commands as well.