skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A different take on this approach is by Cisco: They spin off products, fund the team, and later acquire them. An instance: https://www.businessinsider.in/Why-Cisco-Has-Showered-These-...
I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to simplify web development but none that do it how I wanted them to. I don’t want a drag-and-drop builder and I don’t want a command line only interface (although we offer one - the key is choices). I want to be able to easily code right inside my browser.
Thank you for sharing your story! I believe that is what love is as well.

Love is when you see a very flawed individual and someone with a bad past and behaviors. And you are hopeful for them because of their potential and changed outlook.

Love is seeing them with a significant other and knowing that you have zero chance of ever being with them, because of circumstances or past events, and yet would do anything and everything for that person. And you have done that, giving up all money/time, and taking in personal pains, just so you can see a smile, or knowing they are in a better place.

Love is for an individual totally unrelated to you, isn’t an obligation (family members) or part of lust.

Love is knowing that they will be alright at the end of the day. And you shared something special with them. And if you don’t see them for the next 50 years, you would hope for their happiness every day.
Yes erlang does. Unless you try hard and work against the language erlang systems are written differently than ruby/rails program.

I used "system" and "program" there specifically. One of the key things erlang "forces".

Languages do matter.
Several years ago, I did a short contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering. They build all the software and systems that are used to communicate between Retail HQ and the stores, handle all training, etc.... Apple employees know that they’re not allowed to even acknowledge the existence of this software, unless you’re in a secure location, like the store back-of-house. More than a few times, I would go into a store for personal reasons, and as part of the regular chit-chat they would ask where I worked, and I would tell them. They would smile at me and maybe a little wink, but that was always as far as it went.

My first task was to automate the build process for all their iOS and macOS front-end software, as well as the Linux-based back-end support systems. They didn’t want their Engineers to have their laptops taken over for thirty minutes to an hour or more, every time they did a build.

So, I delivered a Jenkins CI/CD system for them. And although I’m not a developer, I was able to find and fix the problems in their code base that kept it from building in a server environment instead of on their laptops. I also added a lot of static code analysis tools, and they developed a lot more regression suite tests, once the builds were automated on the server.

And then I found out I had automated myself out of a job, and my contract ended. I was a DevOps Engineer, with a heavy emphasis on the Ops side of the house, and because I wasn’t a Developer, they didn’t have any more work for me.

After finding out that my contract would be ending, the first thing I did was to call my wife and tell her the good news — I would be moving back to Austin, and I would be there in time for Christmas.

As a contractor, I had a high hourly pay rate, which meant I was just barely able to afford to get a 1BR apartment in the Cupertino/San Jose area. But if they had offered me a full-time position, they would have had to offer to pay me at least $250k-$350k per year, for me to be able to afford to keep that same apartment. And that doesn’t include what they would have had to pay me to be able to afford to have anything remotely like our house here in Austin.

I really enjoyed most aspects of working there, and it was a really good experience, but I do feel like I really dodged a bullet there. Or maybe it was a grenade.
And? If there's an asymmetry in the risk, that means you should account for the asymmetry.

Over the years I've noticed some people seem to think that merely categorizing an argument is enough to refute it, but you need to explain why arguments in a particular category are bad.

(Yes, I am aware this post may be perceived as an example of the bad argument I just mentioned, though I did justify it.)
One of the many excellent things about Ink was how it forced audiences to revise - rapidly - their notions of Murdoch, even if after the play, we were left to reflect on the corrupting effects of power.
Same experience. Loved going to "The Mall" as a teen for all the usual reasons. It was also a great place for cultural discovery in the pre-internet era. Cheap music samplers at Hot Topic probably changed my life. Heck, I first tasted lamb at a food court gyro stand.

And teens need brick and mortar clothing stores because their bodies, clothing needs and tastes are changing.

As a man in my 30s, malls just don't have much to offer. Certainly I'm not going to go to socialize. I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online. I have better ways to find books and music. And a lot of mall clothes seem geared to teens, logically enough, so just not very useful to me.
There's actually a separate program to help low-income homeowners who are excessively burdened by increasing property taxes: https://www.sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html

It's even got the limits you suggest baked in - only residential, only primary residences, requires high equity ratio, etc.
Another way of putting this is: there's lots of cheap housing where there's only cheap jobs to match.

It's a pick your poison situation, and it doesn't have to be. Singapore and Vienna are good examples of public housing programs, Tokyo is a good example of the market providing reasonable rent relative to how desirable/big/rich the area is.
I think your beef is with those partnering sites and Facebook, not Facebook alone.

If every shop on your street had a security camera, and all cameras were run by a single company, the fact that you explicitly don’t want to be recorded would be much more about the shops on your street, and much less about the company selling security cameras. (Or, in the case of Facebook, perhaps paying the shopowners to install security cameras?)
Own VPN server for 3€/month with built-in iOS and macOS support
I haven't personally used it, so I don't know its limits, but Netlify offers an OSS CMS tool that you have to setup and configure yourself on your own static site.

https://www.netlifycms.org/
I think Facebook chat had a very similar experience. The first version was written by someone who liked Erlang. Later on, when some performance issues came up (probably related to GC), no one knew Erlang, and all the high performance backend code in the company was in C++. So it made sense to rewrite the thing.
Things I love about this:

I would have given my left ear to have a similar service growing up. There were a billion "free hosting" sites that let you throw PHP scripts up on them, and "free mysql" hosts that let you have a couple of free tables of X rows, which give a 12yo an incredible head start when it came to web-dev. The downside is that those sites were trying to push scuzzy gambling sites or were soft targets for hackers. This feels like a clean, modern reincarnation of that!

No, this isn't posterous where your creations will live forever, this is a little playground for those who don't know how to or rather not configure a VPS for a little toy they've made.

Great job!

(EDIT: Shout-out to 2008's T35.com and CJB.net and their free php hosting and short sub-domains https://web.archive.org/web/20080617010556/http://www.t35.co... , https://web.archive.org/web/20080408210303/http://www.cjb.ne...)
8chan’s /Pol/ Board‘s Role in Radicalisation
How long until a techno-libertarian suggests that electronic or even online voting would have saved those 270 lives?
Lust is conditioned by pleasurable sensory inputs and the prospect (or consummation, if you're lucky) of the sexual encounter.
Yet. Don’t underestimate the lobbying efforts of industry.
Why don't we get training videos with such optimistic music and voices these days anymore? :)
1.7% annually does not seem particularly high. That's fairly typical in Chicago and it's suburbs. The 2% registration fee on a sale seems roughly equivalent to a transfer stamp, though that cost varies from town to town.
You don't try to out-internet the internet. You focus on your strengths - the sensory experience, retail as leisure, carefully curated selections of delightful products etc. Many retailers are in deep trouble because they've neglected the customer experience, but there's a substantial market opportunity for what one might describe as "chain boutiques".

A YouTube influencer can tell me what brand of cosmetics works for them, but they can't pick out something just for me. I can't smell a bar of soap online, I can't feel the texture of a fabric, I can't see how a watch looks on my wrist. Amazon might offer millions of books, but a lot of people prefer a choice of a few hundred books that are all excellent. Brick-and-mortar retail is qualitatively different to online retail, it satisfies different practical and emotional needs and there are still plenty of opportunities for growth.
What did you do with the passwords you captured? Sounds unethical... You'd definitely be facing criminal charges if you got caught doing this today I'd imagine.
That's a problem that may require more policy nuance, but I thought both men and women face a similar modicum of risks for waiting too long for kids, so men cannot get an advantage on women over this.
Would you please not break the HN guidelines when posting here? This comment broke at least three:

Don't be snarky.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

Blockchain startups may be tedious, but not as tedious as blockchain threads on HN. Let alone blockchain climate change threads.

Your comment probably felt like a harmless dig when you posted it, but snark and indignation get the most upvotes, so this subthread ended up sitting at the top of the page, collecting mass, emitting fumes, and generally being off topic. Had we seen it we'd have marked it off topic, but we didn't see it until 2 days later, at which point moderation makes no difference.
If by "millennials" you mean "Amazon", then sure.

Most millennials probably grew up in malls and would prefer they survived if given a choice, but it's hard to support them when they're filled with overpriced clothing stores. Maybe it's just nostalgia clouding my judgement, but I remember malls having a lot more variety in the '90s.
there are tons of cool ww2-era training films on yt, one of my favorite things to put on in the background
> Because the other theories we leave behind do not make predictions compatible with our measurements of the universe.

It's temporary. With more data, we will have more and more exceptions, which cannot be explained by patches to mainstream theory.

>> so there was no Big Bang less than nanosecond ago at Universe scale

> What is this supposed to mean?

Lifetime of larger objects usually is much larger than lifetime of smaller objects, so, as we increase scale of x,y,z, t axis should be increased proportionally.

> You mean red-shifting or something else here?

Modern version of tired light. A kind of resistance for light, which causes loss of energy proportional to light frequency. See below.

> How do you account for the CMB angular power spectrum[1][2] with your "tired light"?

I see just aged spectrum. IMHO, it's helium. :-/
Well let’s see where to start...

If you set parental limits in settings. Those limits are supported by Chrome. But, if you are trying to limit what sites your kids can browse to, why would you allow them to install the third party browser in the first place? You can set up Family sharing to notify you and when your child tries to install an app and you can approve or reject the approval from your phone.

And if you are that concerned about your child’s well being, why would you install VPN software on their phone that allows a third party to track and record all of the internet activity from your child’s phone?

A VPN app cant block content on a level of granularity that blocks certain videos or twitter accounts.. But if you’re counting on software to block Youtube videos and Twitter, you’re doing it wrong.
Why would non-people people get a benefit, but real flesh people not?
I might be reaching here, but it's interesting that the largely Baby Boomer owners of physical retail use language like "millennials killed the mall".

Almost as if their business model is entitled to succeed forever, and millennials are these antagonists hell-bent on destroying it, when in reality they're simply choosing the commerce experience most convenient.

It just continues the narrative that the Boomer generation only loves the free market when it benefits them. I wonder if the silent generation wrote articles claiming the baby boomers are killing public transit by preferring cars/highways.
What's the technical solution to Facebook creating shadow profiles of non-users based on data collected from users (friends/family/associates), data brokers, public records, etc?
I read it and agree that sometimes it goes too fast and other times too slow (do I need to know the geographical history of New Jersey?), but so many good nuggets in this book.

I’ve been trying to read the great books on computing history, if you know of others let me know. I’ve been retelling bits of the story and linking to great books at https://buriedreads.com/engineering-newsletter-issues/
Bang a drum about China over taking the US and making it into a third world country. That's how Nasa got funded.
Even though I’ve spent more time on the subject than I wished, thank you for the continued discussion.

I appreciate that Stallman is human and has had to deal with ill-intentioned people over the years, which could be the reason he’s less willing to be flexible on certain matters these days. But I see that as less of a reason to ignore said inflexibility and more of a reason to question if he’s the best person to continue to carry his message.

He may be tired of fielding the same questions over and over, but every day there is someone else hearing his message for the first time as he continues to present it. As long as he keeps on introducing his views to new people, he should be responding to their concerns as coming from individuals thinking about them for the first time (because that’s what they are), not as questions he’s tired of addressing.

If our combined hypothesis are that Stallman has a good message but he’s harming it with his delivery, he should consider passing the baton to someone with more patience, if lack of it is indeed the reason for his attitude (a word I use with neutral meaning).

> Anyway, thank you for your patience here

You as well. I feel this was a healthy and respectful way to disagree and discuss a point at length. Thank you.
Boils down to the same answer as GitHub+Hugo argument. No installation required to use 1MB
He forgot to mention paradoxical. Which it so is.
So my first reaction was "Jesus, that's like the equivalent of the Sri Lanka bombings!"

But then I read the article, and it said there were 7 million people counting votes. If those deaths were over the period of about 10 days since the election, that works out to an annualized death rate of about 0.14%. I don't know what a "baseline" death rate would be for this population, but it at least adds some context.
It is very, very easy to just stumble upon stormfrontesque content on reddit. Reddit tries to keep it off the default frontpage and /r/all these days but they're not entirely successful, and it's not unheard of for the comments on a picture of a cute bunny to turn into a conversation about how people of some race are responsible for all of the problems in the world.
DHCP already has support for providing an NTP server IP; there has been at least one proposal[1] to also provide a DHCP option specifying the "rough current time", so that devices have at least _something_ to start with. As for trust, you're already going to be trusting DHCP to give you an IP address, you could also trust it for this (with some safeguard in place to catch known-wrong values).

This kindof reinforces how having an 'IoT Gateway' would be a good idea: The gateway can provide DHCP, and rough time, and (S)NTP, and DNS, and can also act as a proxy to the outside.

[1]: http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/idref/draft-ogud-dhc-udp-time-op...
Which is more likely, that you'll be able to convince a true believer to convert, or that a true believer well be able to convince someone on the fence?

Putting racists on open platforms stops the second, and if you're so interested in changing their minds, nothing is stopping you from searching them out to do so.

Daryl Davis went I to people's homes and met them in person to befriend and sometimes "convert" them. It wasn't accidental cross pollination. He explicitly reached out.
WTF.... Who the hell would watch murder clips at work and how would management be okay with this, let alone on company time?? Unbelievable....
I already explained it. Noone implements memory barriers in its safe variants, only compiler barriers.
And the trivial variants work byte-wise, not word-wise, which is usually 8x slower.
Neat! This actually sounds too narrow though, especially the income limit (35k is comically low for coastal California homes).

I think a simpler solution would just be: you may choose to lock in a lower/earlier assessed property value for the purposes of property taxes, with the caveat that the state gets right of first refusal at the assessed value when you decide to sell.

Bam! One and done. Grants flexibility, too; each household can decide whether to treat their house as an investment or as a home, but not both.
1. given that it doesn't change the amount of property, how does it provide anything at all?

2. The stock market is exactly people trying to get rich without adding any value to the world.
I'd also argue that even parental love and the love for the offspring is not unconditional either: you love them because they are your parents, or your children.

Yes. An expectation of unconditional love is often abusive. It often boils down to expecting slavery and servitude from another person.

I was a full-time mom for nearly two decades. A lot of people seem to expect unconditional motherly love from me while they don't give a rat's ass about my welfare or do a fucking thing for me. My actual biological children treat me very well.

I think of actual love as symbiotic. It enhances the lived of both parties. This is a highly conditional definition.
Some things are timeless. 8 year old articles on tech stacks maybe not so much.
Why Investors Don’t Care That Snap and Lyft Are Hemorrhaging Money
Hah, yeah, that was a silly thing to say :)
You are technically correct, but it is the worst kind of correct. Because you are arguing a losing case with a valid point. That most of the time they will mostly only harm themselves does not actually make the law breaking excusable.

Contrast this to speeding. Speed limits by law should be set to the 85th percentile speed, based on the evidence backed notion that drivers will predominantly pick a speed which is safe based on the road conditions, and that it’s most safe when drivers are all proceeding at the same speed.

The vast majority of every day speeding that I witness, and that I participate in, is of the kind where the limit is set illegally low due to political pressure or other factors, and the predominant and safest speed is higher than the limit. This is true, for example, for many highways in MA which have limits of 55 mph.

That’s not to say that I never truly speed, which I shouldn’t do, and is entirely unjustified.
The circuits aren't all that different than they were 20 years ago, so the lectures are still valid :-). A good linear circuits text book will cover the basics of oscillators, filters, and amplifiers. Pretty much standard EE curriculum for undergraduates. The application for Music is somewhat incidental to their design.
Or which 6 don't have data? Would be nice if they were listed with a little more info, otherwise looks like we need to figure out which 6 are missing from the select options.
You can probably guess who in the comments is a millennial by the level of bitching about sensitivity and labels.

Both of my kids are teenagers. They and most of their peers see the hyper sensitivity in millennials as something strangely fascinating.
I dont need access to every book. I want to know what the best books are. Amazon initially did great at this. But now there is so much crap it is becoming difficult to tell what is good.

If a store can actually develop expertise in its inventory and make suggestions that are actually good, and create a great experience around its merchandise then they can thrive.

I doubt most will be able to execute on this.
I don't know if I believe that. I see a surprising number of adults making out in public commercial establishments (stores, not bars), let alone teens, without anyone doing anything.
I don't get the feeling there were 7 million people counting ballots.. at least not under equal conditions.

If everyone in the country submitted a ballot that would be less than 30 per person to check.

This doesn't seem to match the terrible conditions described in the article.
I've heard poor things about Goodwell's Deep Learning book as well, what is a good alternative?
How do you simultaneously believe that close proximity weakens this stuff, but that you can't accidentally stumble onto it? Make the proximity close enough, and it becomes mainstream content, which you appear to view as a bad thing.

Those appear contradictory.
Once more unto the breach, dear millennials, once more.
This coming Generation would sweep away our victory,
should we relent in commercial battle.

In your shopping bags, take only free samples.
The blood of mall retailers is necessary to refresh the gears of war.

What baby boomers boomed, we will destroy.
The way of the millennial is economic savagery.

As long as there is one American Mall left standing, there can be no mercy, no patronage to the culture that we inherited.
Property taxes can be viewed as a form of feudalism. You never outright own your property, and if you're not productive enough (can't pay your property tax) your feudal lord (the government) will throw you out and find someone else who is more productive.

You can sensibly critique Proposition 13, but calling it "feudalism" is nonsense. It's the opposite, it's basically carving out a limited exemption in a partially feudal system for some citizens over others. Is it dumb? Sure, unequal? Definitely. But it's not "feudal", it's making the system less so.
> Please don't do this.

Was this advice intended for me? I don't run red lights or stop signs, and am particularly careful in pedestrian heavy areas.

Cyclists have killed pedestrians before, e.g., Chris Bucchere: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Bicy...
I was excited to see this profile on HN, it was always fun seeing your posts on HH (and elsewhere ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ ) when I was using Facebook.

Congratulations, fellow traveller.
Thanks for that, I’ll check out the Bratton(2015) reference.
You cannot use driver behavior in the absence of an accident to infer the emotional impact of killing someone...