skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you benefit from something doesn't imply you are responsible for it. I benefit from some evolutionary advantages, but I am not responsible for entropy. There's a lot of noise in the world, and several layers of indirection is more than enough to mitigate some responsibility.
Best coffee in santa cruz IMO, also have an incredibly popular podcast https://catandcloud.com/pages/podcast . Their sister bakery "companion" has best croissants I've had outside of europe.
> They make other people money, generally at your expense.

Sure, sometimes (as a matter of probability). But are you really claiming that all data collection is a zero-sum game wherein only the collectors can possibly win?
I quite liked Arena and Chimera (the Xaw one, not the predecessor of Camino) in my early Linux days. Although Netscape 2/3 quickly took over.
They weren't pirates. The Barbary traders were responding to the European inquisition that saw pogroms all over Europe that slaughtered and tortured Muslims and Jews alike. And the attacks and conquest by Christians against Andalusia. There was also a sense of containing European expansion after the crusades. For instance, many of the Jews that settled in North Africa were Iberian refugees rescued by those "pirates".
I don't think the color grading is uniform. The left/right or top/down split of blue/red in some images seems implausible at the source.
I get that this is HN, and "tech" is the solution to everything, but an android app or consumer router setting are not going to protect your kids from: predatory YouTube content (we all remember the epidemic of Spiderman humping Elsa, right?) or excessive advertising on YouTube that their brains aren't even capable of recognizing/processing (we all know about Logan Paul content that is basically a 20 minute ad being targetted at pre-teen kids, at-one-time available on YT Kids app, right?).

It's not going to protect them from being pressured for nudes. It's not going to stop them from committing felonies and producing and transmitting underage pornography. It's not going to stop rumors and gossip and drama from spreading across Facebook even if your router is off for the night.

My brother is a middle school math teacher. Find the nearest middle school teacher you know and ask them how pervasive these issues are. Just from their small middle school, they had dozens and dozens of students disciplined, just for nudes. One was supposedly going to be charged after the 6th+ time of soliciting nudes from a fellow student and then sharing them. The quiet nerdy kid built a categorized Dropbox collection from the entire school and was quietly sharing it. It means so little to them.

I'm actually sort of getting worked up here thinking about this. If you've sat on your hands until your kid is 12, you have no trust or dialog with them, god bless your hearts for thinking a firewall or Android app is going to help a single ounce. All you've done is setup a tiny puzzle. Most of us likely know the workarounds, they will figure it out, just like I did 15 years ago.

Of course, I think "tech" is probably an invaluable tool for setting time limits and helping with screen addiction, but it's not going to fix any of the other psychologically damaging aspects of youth+tech.

EDIT: I really appreciate and would like to echo jedberg and ziddoap's comments here as well.
Not as many as you would think. The market has a tendency to only price in risks that are easy to derive from market and industry data, which excludes many material risks and even then is only approximate. As more of the market engages in risk-oblivious portfolio selection e.g. indexing, both the number and size of available arbitrage opportunities has been growing in practice.

I've built my portfolios exclusively on mis-/un-priced risk for a very long time, which has always performed well, but in my experience it is easier to find these opportunities today than it was many years ago, likely due to a combination of factors.

There are also cultural and social elements. The pendulum has swung so far toward indexing being the "correct" way to invest that there is a bizarre amount of hostility out in the world toward people who assert it is possible to have consistently great performance without index investing.
Our parents warn us to not stand too close to the tv, never met online people in IRL, and never ride in a stranger's car.

Now we have Oculus, Tinder, and Uber.

I am sure whatever we are worrying now will be as irrelevant.
Teal and Orange
Something I struggle with, and need to do a better job of, myself: Set a good example for them of not being addicted to screens.
> the computer doesn't duplicate the proximity once found in the physical card catalog.

I can't think of any technical reason why an online card catalog cannot have proximity, too. In fact, if the card catalog was literally just scanned in, you'd have the same proximity.
Chat apps encrypt the messages as they are sent over the network preventing you from monitoring them.
> The illusion of the rule of law

Rule of law has always been national. International politics are anarchic. Huawei quite clearly broke the laws of the United States (e.g. with respect to Iran), repeatedly and wilfully.
Ask HN: What businesses started by software developers do you know?
I don't mean technical co-founders, but businesses where developers actually took their idea and executed it.
>Until China fixes their government, they will never be taken seriously on the same level of other "first world" countries

This is hubris. It won't matter how seriously they are taken if they become the dominant power.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/03/01/how-the-west-go...

Meanwhile, the US is leaving a power vacuum and can't be taken seriously either.
I was thinking 5-10 year old kids, not 19. At that point I’m not too concerned with keeping them safe on the Internet.

I’m not sure how a five year old could not share passwords, much less remember.
Or is there a way for you to work from home some days? Then you can save on the commute and have more time for yourself.
> Well, interestingly if the concept became popular it would
> bankrupt itself through an oversupply of taxis.

I'm not sure that'd be the outcome? If many/most people who own a vehicle make it available for shared use, then I guess there'd be price competition. If willingness to offer your vehicle was (a) motivated by price and (b) varied in its degree, you'd presumably hit a point where some people couldn't be bothered, and would withdraw from the system, reducing supply again.

There's no real downside to the service provider of having more vehicles available, assuming their systems scale with minimal cost.

I guess the question is whether the price point at which people become unwilling to share their vehicles is higher or lower than the cost of capital and maintenance for a dedicated taxi service.

Which seems like it's a sufficiently difficult thing to predict that testing it in the market is probably the right answer :-)

> As for AirBnB, it's mostly a platform for dedicated
> rentals these days...

That's my impression too. Which is a data point kinda in favour of the "dedicated" model.

I'm not sure how the "tool sharing" businesses are going -- they might be another useful input?
University grants long-delayed doctoral degree to Cheryl Sundari Dembe
Someone [1] might instead ask "why is stalking illegal if you're not doing anything that causes an [deleterious] effect on the person".

I mean MI5 might be tracking me right now, but it doesn't make any difference whatsoever until the point at which they take action.

[1] but not me!
Well, "Japan"—it's all Tokyo, from what I can tell; and a fairly typical depiction of it as well. The photographs are nice, and some of the shots are really stunning, but there's so much more magic in the nights of Japan than just in Tokyo.

In cities like Fukuoka, and Sapporo, as the sky darkens, a warmish glow rises from the central and side streets. The polished office towers and department stores that grab your eyes during the day fade alongside the sun, and, soon enough, it's the tiny izakaya and restaurants, nestled in side-streets or sandwiched between larger buildings, that become the centre of attention. All around, people in suits and shirts alike stumble across and through the streets with little order or care. For many of them, it seems as though this is the only time in the day when they're not going somewhere.

In contrast, smaller places like Hakodate, or Fukushima, and even much of Tokyo, lose their bustle entirely. There might be the occasional young man or woman, standing outside a izakaya, trying to entice the last few wandering gaggles of businessmen in, but otherwise, it's as though the entire city has shut down. There are few stray lights in any of the surrounding buildings, and while the periodic street-lamps keep the path ahead visible, they do little to relieve the sleepy calmness that seems to permeate everything. The parks are empty; spots in parking lots are only filled sporadically; and even the bicycles, that are usually littered across Japanese sidewalks, largely disappear.

And there are many, many more varieties still, in different cities and different regions. I find it unfortunate that there are so few photographs of these scenes of Japan—so much focus is put on certain unique things: sakura, Fuji, the Tokyo Metropolis and the like, that the smaller deviations on more familiar things are ignored. If one only looks at these photographs, they may get the sense that Japan is much more different than it may actually be, especially if one's from North America or Europe.
If you have digestive problems, some of these are good and some can be very bad (e.g. asparagus if you have any restrictions).
They do grok it, they just don't trust that specific small group of people.
> So they're confirming that the images are customer data, which makes them authentic. If they weren't authentic then they wouldn't be customer information, no?

I don't think that assumption works. Reuters asked for specific customer information: in particular, whether the records were valid. Answering in the affirmative or negative is divulging customer data, and FedEx would be wise to avoid doing so whether or not it's valid.
Don't get why everyone's so down on these photos. I enjoyed them. I've spent time over there and they made me nostalgic for travelling there.
> they're being threatened with the loss of federal government business

Criminal penalties for their executives are the real stick.
You're lucky, the site is completely toxic with popups and bogus virus alerts.
> executing on the roadmap and pivot if the feature fails

You answered your own question. Are they smart enough to make a solid plan and execute it? Are they smart enough to not miss a beat when their solid plan inevitably goes off the rails? Is the leadership humble enough to behave like this? Are they confident enough to be transparent about it? These are my personal metrics. There is no predicting the future, so I assess how the leadership handles making mistakes. The rest is just market statistics.
These are all solvable technical issues.

For example, I use Foxit for looking at PDFs. Maddeningly, I cannot view two PDFs at the same time in different windows. There is no technical reason for this limitation, in fact, the limitation was deliberately programmed into it.

I'm pretty sure the people who program PDF readers have never actually used them. (There are a number of bizarre and trivial limitations to them that are trivially fixed. For example, many readers can only remember the last page read for the most recently read PDF. So if you open another PDF, your earlier place vanishes.)
I've also used the aversion to regret to make several big decisions. When I explain this to people, the reaction I sometimes get is pity. Having ones life dictated by the fear of regret seems repulsive to some people. I don't really understand that perspective myself, but it may be one to consider.
That's irrelevant; Jung is making no claim about himself there.

It's also a cheap shot, unless you have some special ability to read the inner state of another person.
Education and monitoring aren’t exclusive. If you’ve ever been a sysadmin, it’s kind of the same. There’s tons of training and you don’t livestream what the kids doing, but you want some auditing and reporting when stuff breaks and you need to track it down.

I think it’s valuable to get insight from kids and ex-kids, but I think it’s more important to get insight from parents and now you can even get insight from parents who were once digital kids.
My gut is telling me to quit my job and work for my products.

The best advice I ever got from my mentor: "Listen to your gut!" Passing it on...

I have enough savings to survive for five years.

What?!? Are you fucking crazy?!? What are you waiting for?!?

My biggest fears are: - To not stick to a schedule/routine once I am solo.

How will you know until you try? More to the point: how will you know how important "sticking to a schedule/routine" is until you try? (Probably not nearly as much as you think.)

- People's and family opinion.

Fuck. That. Shit. The first thing anyone must do when embarking on a new journey is to focus on the issues and ignore the pointless details. I can't imagine anything more pointless than "people's and family opinion".

- Failing and losing motivation.
Why lump these 2 together? In my experience, failing is the best way to learn and learning is the best way to get more motivation.

Should I quit my job and work on my stuff or search for another position that would give more motivation?

YES! YES! YES! Do something, anything different! The worst thing you can do at this point in you life is stay the course. You'll just get older and more bitter. And posting the same thing on hacker news 2 years from now.

You can recapture money. You can recapture relationships. You can recapture your health. You can recapture almost anything, except for time.

Please don't make the same mistake I made by getting started in your 40's. Because you were too timid and pissed away too much of your life on what you know is the wrong thing.

I've responded to many similar questions over the years here on hn, but yours may be the clearest of them all: You already know what you must do but came here for confirmation. Now you have it. Take the next right step for yourself and please, keep us posted.

Best wishes and respect!
The parent comment I replied to was about blocking, not monitoring.

Monitoring is a whole other matter.
Short video documentary on the Hotel 22 bus:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opin...
> I remember the first time I saw Mosaic...

Likewise. I remember vividly seeing Mosaic for the first time, running on a SPARCstation workstation at university, circa 93. I had been using gopher and lynx for a few months (and BBSes for years before that), but seeing a browser loading a page - with graphics and colors! - was a pivotal experience for me.

(I know, "graphics" is an overstatement, given it meant gimmicky static images at the time, at best. I don't think even tables were available yet)
AT&T’s website account pages only serve static html. But they are rendered by js and I have to wait looking at a loader after every click.

Why is that?

Why do so many static websites and blogs use SPA technology for all their pages?

It can’t be that it’s just to make me mad (although it works). Are people insane? How does spending 10x the $ and effort for a worse result make sense?
If US intelligence wanted it, it would simply get put on hold at some foreign facility while agents go through it there (or use that transparent paper spray). Nothing different would be noticed.
I usually prefer http://needsmorejpeg.com/ it really gets the size down.
They say:
"Could anybody imagine a $54 billion machinery company coming after a coffee company? I don't think that's even in the cards," said Truby. "The first biggest thing they want us to do is not print the name Cat and Cloud on anything again. I think that is unbelievable. I don't think that's going to hold up."

Caterpillar says:
Caterpillar Inc. says its only concern is over apparel, providing Action News with this statement:

"Caterpillar serves customers around the world, many of whom earn their livelihood with one or two machines and often a good pair of work boots. We value all of them and strive to provide exceptional products and services. This means we have a responsibility to protect and maintain the brand they love and rely on every day - including our existing trademarks.

"We are not suing Cat & Cloud, not targeting a small business and not focused on Cat & Cloud's primary interest: coffee. We've simply asked the U.S. Trademark Office to remove Cat & Cloud's trademark registration on footwear and apparel only, products for which Caterpillar has longstanding trademarks and a considerable business. We hope to resolve this issue quickly."

It would seem they are entering the same industry, thus the action by caterpillar seems warranted. Caterpillar is not just a heavy machinery company, and it would seem Cat and Cloud is not selling just coffee.
I was in the same position a couple of years ago. I quit and have never looked back!
This is your only life, take some risks and get more out of it.
Ok. I don't think a value investor would see generally more or less opportunities than now. If the index/market is over bought then there will be less opportunities, and in a selloff, more opportunities.

It's worth pointing out that vanguard at least do a Value tracker. I suppose theres discussion to be had over whether it's 'passive' but I guess it's included in these figures.

Short selling tends to be a losers game, stocks go up more than they go down, so I wouldn't recommend that, but yes they aren't value stocks. but then my moneys in index funds, so what do I know.
I know many kids who went on birth control the minute parents discovered sexual activity or interest. So pregnancy was definitely prevented by monitoring.

It’s also pretty handy for improving education and conversations.
This seems to assume that the 5 Eyes alliance has backdoors in products by the competition: products by continental European companies (Ericsson, etc.) that don't have a notable history of this. That's a strong assumption to make.
Our local library gets books only slightly slower than what I can get ordered online. From the time I ask for a book, they often have it on the shelf within a few days, with an automatic reservation for me sent by SMS for pickup at the local branch just outside the door. Of course this is the socialist country of Sweden and we love our libraries... :-)

Last time I got a ZX-spectrum coding book that a friend on a forum wrote. Before that some obscure manga comic book. That one took a few months because they had a hard time to find it, it was long out of print.

They are very open to suggestions even of odd books and very curious librarians, both young and old.
Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Ethics
If you're already making revenue, it will be easier to scale up than if you had no revenue at all. So quitting your day job doesn't sound too bad, in the short-term. If your project fails, you'll have gained experience and live a few exhilarating years working for yourself, but your savings will be gone.

Taking a perspective that stretches further in time, it sounds like you're on your way to reach financial independence fairly soon, assuming you don't quit your job just yet. tldr: if you save enough money and invest it intelligently (basically in the s&p 500 or a total stock market), you should be able to live off the compounding interests of your investments. If you have 5 years of expenses already saved up, you might be a quarter/third of the way to reach your number (the amount invested for which you don't need to work anymore). Finally, having a goal laid as such might make it easier to bear your day job until you can retire in a few years.

For more info, check out the book Financial Freedom. I didn't write it but I'm in the same boat as you, so my goal is now to make and invest as much money as possible through day job and side hustles, to then be able to retire and work because I want to, rather than because I need to.

Good luck!
You don't "need" hootsuite, you can login on twitter and facebook just fine to craft your social media. Sure for professionals it helps to have your calendar of content, but tons of people get away without it. Hootsuite also kind of missed the transition to Instagram and they are left to do whatever is being allowed by the API of the social media platforms.
However, if you need any kind of design work, you absolutely need a software to do it and Canva let you do all of it, up until the final output.
Potential for growth is definitely bigger with Canva than Hootsuite.
It starts at 5.
TLDR; Most money made from advertising is still contextual, however because it's possible for G/FB to monopolize behavioral advertising and there is no regulation to prevent it, they do it anyway. Opt out is stupid: I'd like food that isn't tainted, please. Filter bubbles are bad news macro-politically. Regulation is rarely effective but still a good idea. Corporate fines should be two orders of magnitude larger. Instagram does evil things to your brain.
I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that state sponsored espionage isn’t happening. What people are sceptical of is whether the Huawei / US trade war is a credible example of that.

Half the time these stories seem about as dubious as the Bloomberg (I think it was?) Supermicro debacle.

I’m genuinely open to the possibility there is something covert going on but equally I’m also exercising some healthy scepticism about the claims that are being reported. There is always the possibility that this is literally just a trade war and nothing else; and the “espionage” angle is really just unsubstantiated FUD.

Ultimately we are never going to know the truth so the best we can do is enjoy our speculation for what it is.
Similar story here. 29, had been working at a big tech company for almost 4 years. Didn’t really enjoy the work, definitely didn’t enjoy the 1 hour commute. Tried to convince my manager to let me work remotely but was rejected, so I decided to take the leap and quit* . I didn’t have a specific plan for what I wanted to do. I just knew I wanted to do some traveling, work on passion projects, and cultivate some new hobbies.

It’s been 2 months and I have zero regrets. In that time I started and finished a video project I had put off for 8 months, started playing drums, and just finished a month of traveling the US and Europe. I still don’t know what I want to do long term, but I’ve never felt more empowered to figure it out. Do it!

* Disclaimer: I have an open offer from my old company to come back any time (same role same compensation), so that took a lot of the pressure off of the decision. You should see if you can negotiate something similar with your job.
I had to close 4 different pop-overs just to view the site on mobile.

No I don't want you to send me notifications.
No I don't want to subscribe.
Please change your social media floater so that it doesn't take up 30% of the vertical screen
Suggesting any model that’s not 100% consistent with all known information is weak clearly misses the point. Models which can be automated in a reasonable timeframe on limited hardware beat those who can’t.

The goal is to find interesting things in the data, not simply take years of data and return “everything looks normal.”
we are observing the live demolition of the world largest networking equipment maker and second largest smartphone maker (by number) in the name of trade war

Can we explore this fascinating statement further? This the narrative of whom? If this is likely, will China jump in and rescue Huawei?
For a company that has their fingers in every strip mine on the planet, this is a pretty audacious move.

I wager in a matter of days some VP will get wind of this and scream at the lawyers to slow their roll.