skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh TheQuartering I really enjoy how he pretends that only the "left" as he calls it wants censorship.

I spent a lot of railing against censorship from the right. In recent years, there's a combination of many factors: Activists on the left who want to silence views they don't like, who also know people in tech and social media who have the power to enact it. So now most of the danger is from the left.

The media power of networked viral distribution, plus monetization is so great, it's a game changer. It's in the same class of innovations as the printing press. (Both in the potential to democratize free thought and to control ideas.) In 2019, there should be a "right of discovery" in the same way our society acknowledges "freedom of the press."

In 2019, the failure to acknowledge this new reality would mean that the public is ceding their ability to discover new information to gatekeepers enabled by mega-corporations. Indirectly through those mega corporations, the public is then ceding such power, to governments. (As is happening in China now.) It would be a kind of meta-censorship. It's not technically censorship, however it's actually more powerful.
Midwest grain farmers are super boxed in with regard to what they must sign in order to have access to the latest tractor technology for their specific crop, but that's happening within the context of the technology getting incrementally better year-by-year, i.e., continuously cheaper input costs per unit of crop yield. This is all somewhat par for the course for a highly commoditized industry.

Also, check out the comment below from the child of the Deere engineer who makes the point that "liability is the enemy of automation". If you gave farmers the ability to hack their tractors you are opening a bunch of complicated issues.
Early 90s for sure, likely cross-pollination from IRC but also brought into the popular vernacular via programs like AOHell (came out in 1994) and other GUI frontends for executing a variety of shell scripts that would modify aspects of your AOL client.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOHell

I think the author of the article is misidentifying the intent of the term though. Script kiddie has come to mean a person who is enabled by a tool or interface that allows them to carry out a dangerous or damaging attack on a computer system while having no knowledge about how to accomplish this attack via their own means.

I think in the context of the article the "original sources" are moreso espousing a bit of a programming elitism. Similar ideas but different spirits of the word.
I wonder if Snap offered him a job to take it down.
That future is not here and it's naive to think full-time and contract employees should be the ones leading the charge :).
That's the same broken logic that crackpots railing against taxation or speeding tickets or zoning law use. All state action is ultimately enforced with the threat of violence. That doesn't mean enforcing something relatively minor such as seatbelt laws is tyranny.
The fundamental question is if a product that can exist without an expensive component (lidar) will ever be of the same quality as the one with it.
Won't the privacy filterlists in uBlock Origin fix this?
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Shh, don't wake us...

This is one of the most obvious things in modern life if you look. But no one seems to be looking.

I'm not sure what life would look like if they were. Probably very different and with a very violent transition.
Self driving cars that are 99.999% safe in a human environment do not exist. Cheaping out on sensors will not improve the safety.
Unpopular opinion here but _excessive_ VC funding and valuation are against free-market and hurt the economy and most regular people in the long run.
I agree with your sentiment, although I'd be worried if my income was "diversified" by working for Amazon and Walmart.
The word "terrorism" was used by Malamud himself to describe his own actions, see [1]. The state is quoting him. The title and contents of the NYTimes article are misleading on this point.

[1] https://museum.media.org/eti/Prologue01.html
Makefiles. I always dismissed them as a C compiler thing. Something that could never be useful for Python programming. But nowadays every project I create has a Makefile to bind together all task involved on that project. From bootstrapping the dev environment, running checks/test, starting a devserver, building releases and container images. Makefiles are just such a nice place to put scripts for these common tasks compared to normal shell scripts. The functional approach and dependency resolving of Make allows you to express them with minimal boilerplate and you get tab completion for free.
Sometimes I try to take more native solutions (eg. Tox, docker) but I always end up wrapping those tools in a Makefile somewhere forthe road since there are always missing links and because Make is ubiquitous on nearly every Linux and macOS it is just all you need to get a project started.

Example: https://gitlab.com/internet-cleanup-foundation/web-security-...

Running the 'make' command in this repo will setup all requirements and then run code checks and tests. Running it again will skip the setup part unless one of the dependency files has changed (or the setup env is removed).
How much of this because we're so litigious in the US? Yes, corporations should be held accountable for their actions, but we like to sue them for disproportionate amounts for damages. They'd rather waste food than donate and risk getting sued over.
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There used to be a phone number, and the guy would tell you to wait an hour and a half, after which the cab probably never showed up. I used to drive airport shuttles (dispatched by VHF and pager!) and we sometimes rescued people who had been completely screwed over.
I'm not even sure it would reach the level of the federal government having to intervene. I imagine it would be more like:

1) Non-DRM'd tractors for this kind of thing would suddenly become valuable and used much more intensely (e.g. 24 hours a day).

2) Food prices would go up a bit as people shift to alternatives.

3) Everyone in the US cuts back on a few low-value uses of the grain (probably marginal livestock).

4) Some politicians bluster about the need for lower food prices, but there's no real will for significant change.

Then, after all the reverse engineering happens, things go back to normal.
> The algorithms aren’t designed to find the best content, but that which aligns with Google’s goals (eg profit).

And it so turns out that finding and surfacing the best content aligns well with the number of people who link to that content, which creates a great product for Google, which aligns with Google making a profit.

You can't argue from a hypothetical where Infowars offers the best content, as Infowars doesn't offer the best content. If Infowars started offering better content than BBC, people would start linking to Infowars, and Infowars would rise in the search results. It's not Google's fault that a lot of Infowars content is low quality that people don't link to.
If you are looking to liquidate the company, then yes, the goal is to get cash when you can. But if you are looking to create a growth story to attract employees, partners, future investment, you may want people to think there is an upside to the stock.
Sure there is. If they don't do it, someone else will be able to outcompete on price, eventually at least.

And yes, most of our history is full of examples of newer technologies lowering cost, that's kind of the whole reason that or civilization is more advanced (materially) than it was in the past.
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Aren't all PS4 discs AES signed?

I believe that (barring a hacked system) there is no side loading of games that aren't Sony-blessed.
Free speech means that you won't be prosecuted/persecuted by the government, not that you're free from social or societal ramifications. Hate speech is one of the exclusions (see Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire decision, ca. 1942) of Free Speech, but again: no legal action is being taken here so this is irrelevant.
Thanks for the wonderfully detailed response and insights. I had no idea that RTL like VHDL/Verilog were FP.

Would you mind elaborating on the following which I found really interesting:

>"Oh ya, well, most programming today is akin to the macro programming that was done in the 80s in languages like Visual Basic. There is essentially no difference between that and the imperative languages like C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Swift, etc that have captured the market."

I have no experience with VisualBasic so I think an important point your making is being lost on me. How is there no difference between VisualBasic and all those other disparate languages exactly? Thanks.
Direct link to the Prologue page (inside the iframe) might be helpful: https://museum.media.org/eti/Prologue01.html
It shouldn't be surprising. Nothing about his testimony or judicial history indicated he would be particularly conservative on women's rights.
The shape of the jawline differing between men and women is not a stereotype.
Are YOU aware of this one weird blocklist? Advertisers HATE it! (may they all rot)

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Do their users know that Alibaba is MIITM'ing their browsing activity? UC Browser downloads and renders all web content on their servers, then sends a lite representation to the mobile client.

I'm personally fine with it but I think that this WSJ article would be breathless article about how Alibaba WIRETAPS YOUR WEB BROWSING if it was an American company offering the same service.
But when you ban plastic bags, people still use plastic bags. They actually buy thicker plastic bags instead of reusing the grocery bags.

"What I found was that sales of garbage bags actually skyrocketed after plastic grocery bags were banned," she says. This was particularly the case for small, 4-gallon bags, which saw a 120 percent increase in sales after bans went into effect.
"Crucially, given enough time, google will always present to every user all 1,690,000,000 instances of which it is aware."

Just on a technical basis, no, it won't: https://www.google.com/search?q=testing&start=1090: "Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1090.)"

Arguments based on that are therefore void.
Quickbooks Self Employed has been great for taxes. It has built in support for quarterly taxes, and estimates what you owe throughout the year.
any feedback is welcome
Austen, I had a question about this comment from you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16850969

Were these students allowed to look up syntax (e.g. Javascript syntax) rules from a reference manual or were they expected to do the FizzBuzz coding challenge entirely from memory? Because I don't think I can code anything without access to manpages.
If people already know the answers they seek or where to find them, then they aren't using a search engine in the first place. At a fundamental level, the purpose of a search engine it to help people find sources they don't know about.

Is Google Search used as an atlas used to navigate the Internet? Almost certainly, but it's not fit for that use case. Google knows this and steers people towards their curated experiences - Maps, News, etc.
> They’re made from buried dino bone.

No, they're not.

https://www.thoughtco.com/does-oil-come-from-dinosaurs-10920...
Right, but if the value was $42 a share at IPO and that is less than what the late stage investors expected, then why would they sign off on the IPO without extra shares being issued?
Are you trying to make an argument that regulations on carbon would pay for themselves due to decentralization? I don't think economists would agree with that.
Example A could be the author himself. And example B is already discredited. So that’s not super inspirational...
What’s your point, exactly? It’s ok to wreck human civilization because the planet will eventually be covered in forests?
Although having a very low unemployment rate is better than a high unemployment rate, it doesn't help paint the whole picture of the American workforce. The other metric that ought to be mentioned along with unemployment is the labor participation rate, which has been trending worse for a while now [1].
Considering the two together, the economy isn't as rosy as it looks. [2]

For example, if I were to be chronically unemployed and quit looking for jobs altogether, I would actually help the unemployment rate look better since I'm no longer part of that metric.

Part of the problem can be attributed to automation in jobs and job duties, thus requiring a smaller labor force. For those who were laid off by automation in manufacturing or other sectors, many would likely have a hard time finding a job in their established career. Expecting most of such workers to get a job an an on demand skill like maintaining machinery or software development is a herculean task. Most likely they are the ones who fall prey to the poor labor participation metric.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061515/what-key-dif...
[2] http://www.startribune.com/even-with-unemployment-at-50-year...
Contrarian (and biased) point of view based on our current success serving Fortune 500 customers - automation in warehouses is not a near-term solution, and acquiring and retaining talent is still a huge pain.

Reuters only 12 days ago published, "Amazon dismisses idea automation will eliminate all its warehouse jobs soon." [1]

Automation will continue to increase, but we're still seeing numerous job openings in warehousing. [2]

For now, it looks like robots in warehouses are displacing work, not replacing jobs. We do believe that automation and robots will eventually lead to the creation of more stable jobs with less turnover.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-warehouse/amaz...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
I hear my partner is not the only one that worries? :)

I’m constantly playing the “no ones died yet on my watch” card.

It somehow doesn’t make her feel any better.
At least someone on the team should know where the landmines and Booby traps are in the language before you plan a big project on it.

If you find out how many and what kind they are after you have gotten half way to the goal then you might have to start over.
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Personally, I think far more important than having or removing the electoral college is getting rid of the notion that it matters who is president. Our country makes the president a king. I think it's time we switch our tax structure around to make states fucking rich and make the federal system more of a communication network for the states. States would collect taxes only, and donate to the feds for a national military. The donation amount is optional.
It's a shame it got deleted. From the web archive, it looks like an interesting, in-depth exploration of the filter.
> you're (ostensibly) supposed to be objective and unbiased

Nobody is objective and unbiased.

If your goal is to report the truth, pretending you're unbiased just makes it more difficult to separate facts from ideology.

It's better to acknowledge beliefs and biases, and critically examine how they affect what is reported.

So I'd argue that fairness and accuracy in journalism is improved when people talk about their beliefs, not when they hide them.
First time in human history: CO2 levels breached 415 ppm
That's an interesting anti-union strategy.
Amazon is essentially AliExpress with a 50-500% markup. Especially if you live in a country nearly nobody delivers to. Like Switzerland.
Why would it recover?
The reason people talk about working on older cars/trucks/tractors as easier, isn't because they are to incompetent to work with the electronics, it's because for the most part they are a black box.
Usually people take 20-30 mg pills. This happens anywhere after 10mg. I see lots of sleepless dudes in tech industry. All angry and intolerant :)
It's great. Incredibly dense with useful information and it just blows my mind how much knowledge Martin has about the topic. I recommend watching this talk from him to give a little glimpse of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZjhNTM8XU8
This is just about a little part of one of the chapters.
The problem with not using free time wisely is that there is usually supply and fragmentation issues -- not enough free time (or at least feels like it) and chunks that feel small enough that you have trouble fitting anything significant in before you have to drop everything and go make another buck. So the time is spent on useless things that are easy to pick up.

For example, unless currently possessed by a Strange Mood (in Dwarf Fortress artifact making sense), it takes me 4 free days to even start (or resume) something productive more complex than general housework stuff. That excludes most of weekends out, since they are too short.

People who would have trouble finding valuable (to them) things to do under UBI regime, have even more trouble now, unless they lucked out and consider the job they must do now to be more valuable than the money it brings. And not a soul sucking waste of time that doesn't leave enough time and energy to even realize something fulfilling can be done.
That's the thing. This big iron equipment doesn't just quit working and fall apart after a few years. It's expensive enough that you rebuild engines, weld up parts that break, redo seals in the transmission, etc, and keep it going for decades.

I've driven Cat D6 bulldozers that were older than I was when I was in college, and they are still going, a decade later.

Particularly the stuff that is built for heavy usage has to be used hard, patched together with limited repair facilities in remote places, and handled by inexpert operators.
> You can only buy the new Jordan's from X stores, only available on PS4, exclusively at Target, etc.

When this matters is when you have a dominant market position. Target doesn't have to sell Nike because you can reasonably buy them at Walmart. Nike doesn't have to sell to Target because Target can reasonably buy from Reebok, which is a reasonable substitute.

The issue here is that there is no reasonable substitute for Apple's App Store, because they have made it that way on purpose. You can't sell your iOS app through Walmart or Google Play or Amazon. You can't download it from the developer's website. And you can't run Android apps on iOS devices. So Apple has a dominant position in iOS app distribution, and with that comes the antitrust restrictions that don't apply to competitive markets.
Any favorite examples to link? Sounds interesting.
It depends on what you want to achieve. I can tell you to read about security but that is only relevant if you want to secure your software. I can tell you about pub/sub, but that is only relevant when you need it.

The things you’ve learned were mostly covered in my computer science curriculum. So I am going to second Robin_messsage his message.

Skim through a CS curriculum.
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I know there isn't exactly much to hit around there but I am still surprised that sort of distracted operation is safe - beyond say Pandora or podcasts.
Uber doesn't work. Lyft doesn't work. Airbnb doesn't work.

Why would it work for delivery?
My experience is that employees who are underwater get demotivated and eventually just quit. That is why companies are switching to RSUs.

However for AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) purposes, the price as of your IPO is money you earned, even if you couldn't sell. Which during the dot com crash lead to a lot of people owing more in tax than they made, and with shares that couldn't be sold to cover it. I personally knew several who didn't have to pay taxes for several years afterwards because they were able to carry forward the losses from that disaster.
There are companies that will sell you an entire diesel-electric hybrid drivetrain to retrofit into old tractors, and autosteer systems to go with it. It is not cheap though.
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Maybe. Or maybe they'll be just like regular tractors with a side module for your AI of choosing.

In which case you still won't be locked out of your machine, in the sense that you can choose the company with the best farming AI.

The only way for a quick automation scenario is to make crops a lot more predictable. In our days, this means linearly sown and harvested, artifact free crops.

If we choose a more hands-on approach to farming (and food production in general for that matter), then automation ceases to be as interesting.
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The real problem I see for modestly sized farms's is they are massively underserved by modern tractors. They are over complicated and over priced. Most of the farmers I know still use tractors from the 1950s-1970s as their primary workhorses because they're simple and reliable. No one builds tractors like that anymore, in part due to the shrinking demands and in part due to regulation.

Why would I pay $50k+ for a new tractor that does way more than I really need, breaks down often and I can't service when I can get an old but just as useful tractor for $3-5k.

The companies that have sprung up to build parts for these ancient tractors is absolutely fascinating. Outside of perhaps some of the larger cast pieces, you can replace almost everything with new parts.
> Are you revering to the stock market?

What else would I be referring to?

> Just because half of adults own stock doesnt mean they own a good portion of these companies

Most people invest in mutual funds, which do own a significant portion of the largest corporations. This is fine; most communist systems in practice allow for private ownership of smaller businesses.

> Remember the richest 1% own 35% of the wealth.

This is true, but communism refers to the communal ownership of the means of production. In practice, communist societies typically end up with some small group of people having an outsized influence on the means of production. Although nominally, they own an equal share of them, this is in name only. By all metrics of control, they own a larger share. My guess is that the US (and free market systems in general with widespread ownership) is probably more egalitarian in that regard.
I setup Wireguard and was pleased with the setup. Unfortunately I tried to use it over the next week only to quickly realize I should have kept my OpenVPN install instead.

Outbound port filtering is incredibly common on public and guest wifi networks and I found three use cases in my first week where OpenVPN on 443/tcp would have worked fine. The inability to use Wireguard over TCP and bypass most outbound port filtering by using tcp 443/etal makes it unusable in my daily life. I can understand why TCP isn't performant but my choice isn't performance vs non-performant. It's works somewhat vs GFY.

And yes I've seen the udp over tcp forwarding hacks. They don't work on iOS and some look outright dangerous (hello open proxy).

Hopefully this can be addressed before Wireguard hits 1.0.
It is what we want it to be, even if it may take 100 more years to get there.
This is really good advice.

Also, if you'll be sending out 1099s to contractors (and a 1096 to the IRS), put a link to https://www.irs.gov/businesses/online-ordering-for-informati... in your calendar/reminder for January 2nd, so you can order the printed forms by mail, fill them out, and get them out to your employees by January 31st. (Move the reminder to December if you might need a bit more time.)
Will a perception that IPOs are now quite risky cause VCs to push for earlier or later IPOs?

I can't figure out if it's in their interests to keep funding these companies privately for a longer period, or bite the bullet and push for an IPO sooner.