skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eugh.

Every time these vim distributions get mentioned I shiver.

Have a read of: https://old.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/92a9y0/whats_your_hone... for some context.

In all seriousness though they tend to cause more problems than what it's worth.

They are aimed at users who don't know anything about vim, which is also their caveat, they're not only learning vim, but also the distribution of it.

Then when a plugin doesn't work properly, there's even more work to try to figure out why. For inexperienced users this is a terrible combination.

Often the choices made by vim distributions end up getting "outdated" meaning you may start with accepting the plugins dished up to you, but then might discover some new cool plugin that conflicts with something already in your distribution.

Rule of thumb, perhaps install some of the plugins these distributions use.

You're better off with a decent dotfile manager like https://yadm.io and then considering a modular approach http://branliu.com/blog/2012/05/14/organizing-your-vimrc/

much less headaches in the end.
Everyone's kids are (statistically) paying for everyone's freedom in blood - for example your freedom to drive a car, use encryption and speak in public places could be used to run them over, exchange child porn, and teach them swear words respectively.
A Visual Introduction to Morse Theory
Is this company for real?

Lots of executives. Lots of advisors. High powered board. No demo. First prototype due this month.

Uh oh.

The Lincoln Labs group didn't get very far. They could image a single mannequin at close range in a controlled environment. Whether this will work in a cluttered environment is an open question.

It might work for sports stadiums, which heavily restrict what you can bring in.
We could limit max interest rates. If that had been in place, your loan would have been denied. Would that have been better for you? Might you have then chosen to get an illegal loan at an even higher interest rate from organized crime, with a risk of violence for non-payment?
> The 40th percentile household income is $50k.

This mostly depends on where you live.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately. Continuing like this will not only get this account banned, but your main account as well.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended instead, we'd be grateful.
We Can't Solve Climate Change Without Nuclear Power
Yes. Glendale is West.
In my experience (author of "technical" book about digital strategy), you need publishers for two things: 1) there's still some kudos in having something commissioned, edited and published by a known entity and 2) the imposition of a hard deadline.

If you can cope on your own without either of these, sure, self publish.

It is a hard slog, and as others say here, it's unlikely to earn you a reasonable wage - but it's hugely satisfying to see it through knowing how much discipline it takes.
The way I always thought of it is that Apple designs for as little window micromanagement as possible. When using macOS I’ve found myself most productive when I just kind of forget about precisely controlling windows and just let them exist wherever.
At the time of Aurelius, I'm not so sure that's an accurate description. The only non-adopted sons given power from Julius through Marcus were those of Vespasian (though a lot of adoptions were of extended family members).

Of course, to not hand power to Commodus would have meant his death. I'm not judging him for his decision, but given his absolute power and obvious clarity of thought, it was a conscious decision to choose his son's life over the good of the empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_emperors
We've asked you repeatedly to stop doing ideological flamewar on HN. A crazy number of times actually. Would you please really stop now so we don't have to ban you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm just like you. It's not that I don't like other people or hate them (that would be too draining anyways).

I have ADD and interacting with people is draining... I have to focus on the conversation and most people don't understand that sometimes they say something that gets my imagination going, which makes me lose my focus so I miss some parts of what they say. Until I notice it and zoom in on the conversation again. Which in turn makes me sometimes miss some crucial points. Even when they know I have ADD it still might upset them, even though I do my best. And that is just one example of what makes it hard for me to interact face to face. I prefer writing.

At my worst I even forget what I wanted to say mid sentence! Or I have to blurt it out and interrupt people...
Would you please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that.

Instead, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here. We'd appreciate it very much.
> Your computer has a sysadmin account for the company, and probably not a sysadmin account for you.

I know that's the case some places, but I've never worked anywhere where that was the case. And that includes a company with 10k employees. It's nowhere near universal.

That is also much less of a restriction than it used to be: Most of us have personal computers on our body most of the time, as you point out.

But expectation of privacy is largely down to how you choose your society to be. Many countries have restrictions on what employers are legally able to do with that access for that reason. E.g. Norway has strict limitations on to what extent employers can even look at your corporate e-mail account without your consent because there is considered to be an extent of expectation of privacy there too, and tries to strike a balance between protecting that and protecting the needs of the employer.

A lot of Norwegian labour law around privacy boils down to whether employees have a legitimate reason for reducing the expectation of privacy, and how to minimize that invasion, rather than accepting that "you already have little expectation of privacy at work" is a valid excuse for eroding it further. Part of the rationale here is that people spend sufficient time at work that it is unrealistic to expect there to be no co-mingling of personal life and work, and so there is a need to create limited spheres of privacy even at work, and it is rare that this conflicts with legitimate employer concerns (and "you should spend 100% of your time exclusively on work tasks" is not considered legitimate) in ways that can't be reasonably resolved.

I find it troublesome how many people don't even question whether or not this kind of erosion of privacy serves legitimate purposes.

> At most places, coworkers can see what you're doing in person.

There is a very different dynamic there, though, which you can easily test: People have different levels of awareness of a person looking in their direction vs. a camera. If I had a manager standing behind me all the time, I'd quit.

A camera is better in some respects (you don't have someone standing there) and worse in some respects (it is actually there all the time and you don't know when someone is looking)

Whether or not it's truly invasive largely boils down to how it is handled. Active monitoring is very different from knowing someone might look at the recordings to look for evidence for in the case of specific types of events, for example.
Here is how Medium looks without CSS:

https://i.imgur.com/MAalREE.png

If you find that more legible then all power to you, but nobody browses like that.
> The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy.

They didn't even have TLS in the early versions...

https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235136/http://www.yourda...
> That is almost certainly not what happened. It is more likely a system of procedures and policies which failed. The company should take the hit, but unless an investigation reveals otherwise, I see no reason a single individual should take the blame for all of this.

Aren't the insane compensations of executives justified by their "great responsibility"? So I think it makes them eventually responsible for what their companies do.
> Straight up she was asked about her plans to start a family. They didn't want to hire someone who might cost them maternity pay down the line

In France, you can lie to that question without legal repercussions, even when currently pregnant, and refusing to hire someone for the reason you stated (and a long list of other reasons) would be illegal.

Does this kind of thing exist in the US, even if only in some states ?
I don't think we have any idea if WikiLeaks is actually non-profit and not manipulated at the whims of government.

I think PBS and NPR do an excellent job as non-profit orgs fundes by private and public money. And they have audited financial statements to show they are truly non-profit.
Tesla Model S caught fire while charging (Belgium)
What you describe is chain-of-trust model and is very slippery slope. Twitter uses similar model (less emphasis on content, more emphasis on who says it). The result is that when a famous person tweets that he sneezed in the morning, that tweet will get thousand likes and probaby get viral. On the other hand, some nameless person tweets that he found astroid that will hit earth in next 10 hours, no one will notice. In my opinion, one the biggest short term application of AI/NLP would be to rank-by-content and moving away from variants of page-rank.
That would be really stupid of me, yeah. It's their site and they can do it however they want. I wouldn't yell at someone for writing a book in Spanish just because I can't read it. Aside from that, almost every site I actually visit gets put on my whitelist. It's the ones accessed through ads that're dangerous. If I didn't regularly run into ads that make it past adblock I wouldn't bother blocking JS at all.
In this context of using them in public spaces it’s the false positive that matters most. The complaint is that the machines basically always alarm, which means the only thing they can be used for is making up a bogus excuse to manually search / harass someone based on no real suspicion.
"Fewer Americans are moving for work than ever"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moving-for-work-getting-increas...
Human capital manifests statistically as employment. It’s not a complete measure of labour but it is very convenient for measuring the natural value of a degree.
I absolutely recommend all of these. And of course Reynolds's "House of Suns", which sort of takes the "lighthugger" concept up to eleven.
Well they are definitely talked about. But that's not what glorified means.

They are villified (rightfully so). But perhaps being famous for any reason is their goal.
Would you please stop posting nationalistic flamebait to HN? You've done it repeatedly already. It's not what this site is for.

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Perhaps?

How do US universities work with regards to this? In the UK you don't really need to pass anything to graduate. I've got a BA (Hons), the BA I got for showing up, the (Hons) indicates I actually passed something.

Second I would guess the vast majority of drop outs are within the first 6 months? How many people are going to waste 6 years for nothing?
SECD is _not_ a quite efficient abstract machine, by a long shot. Something a lot closer to the state of the art would be Leroy's modern version of his Zinc or, far more extreme, GRIN by Boquist (there are several implementation and a new one under way).
A house is absolutely an asset, otherwise you couldn't leverage a house's equity as liquid capital, while you also continue to live in the house.
Gig economy is a capitalisam at it’s worst.
And who do you think you are to dictate to others what something as deeply personal as their goals should be?

This must be one of the most arrogant things I've read on HN.
The stealth bomber has the same maximum altitude as a B-52 from the 1960s
I love to read the historical stoics. But there is the good old traditional Stoicism and this new "self-help" stoicism trend that isn't the same at all.
Please examine the post to which I replied.

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Edit: sorry I see that you did. Thanks
Consider offices of thousands of people who often work past midnight for weeks on end. My ex worked at a top-10 lawfirm - their IT and building support teams worked in shifts so that you could get food brought or documents printed 24/7. In many of these firms, people have little to no life outside the office. My ex told me one of the female partners had talked to her about how it worked quite well to mix with family: she said good night to her children every night, by video call.

In an environment like that when you have thousands of people who often find themselves working late and having no other outlet, of course stuff goes on in the office.

While she was there a partner was caught on camera with one of his secretaries in the company pool.
> I began my Reddit career on some of the site's true crime communities

What is fascinating that there are exactly zero advantage of having large karma racked up on reddit (or HN). Most likely this would in fact work against you. However, still, brain is wired up the maximize any social recognition it sees regardless of its usefulness or "realness". This is in same class as a drug addition where brain can't prevent itself from doing things even when it understands its not good for the being.
Did you not read the part about the government owning the physical infrastructure?
While I respect your personal taste and a wish for additional perceived safety there, the data says it‘s probably a bad idea. Just carrying a gun will make you 4.46 times as likely to get shot [1] and increase the likelyhood of all loved ones around you to get hurt as well.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
Small note, but can't you block Google Analytics with something like Privacy Badger? Google Payments and Google registry services seem near impossible to avoid though. Not to mention the near requirement to use certain Google products in certain lines of work.
> Buying is not a guaranteed win.

It usually is in the long term: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-21/buy-a-...
A common expectation may well be unreasonable.

In my opinion it is unreasonable to expect friends not to share private information about you. And I see a lot of evidence, both in my life and from observation of other people, that people consistently underestimate the probability of friends breaking that trust.
Don't forget about GMail. Everytime you send a mail to somebody on GMail, which might not be obvious with custom domains, your mail will be analyzed by Google. And your email address serves as the perfect ID.
It’s not just the inside that molds, but the outside. Going to an even more humid place like Hong Kong or Taiwan, you’ll see most buildings, bridges, signs, and virtually everything covered in a permanent cake of black mold.

It’s bad around the US south, but it’s really far worse in Asia. Few structures are considered permanent.
Not quite true. A high false positive rate leads the people running the machines to stop reacting seriously to alerts, which means that they don’t do the manual checks with as much care. This is even more of an issue when everyone in line knows they are bullshit and has no respect for the people running them.
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They do, because X Windows System was the winner of the UNIX UI wars, there were plenty of more interesting UIs, even on UNIX world, like SunView.
There are nearly 1000 high schools in California, few students will ever be in the gentrified schools you speak of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_Califo...

45% of students in California are poor or slightly above poor: https://www.ppic.org/publication/child-poverty-in-california...
The one exception are SE sites, where a certain number of fake internet points is required to fully use the site. It's harder to game the system there, though.

Speaking of which, could someone with enough internet points on Math SE ask this guy https://math.stackexchange.com/a/35238 how does he deal with carries during multiplication? I made an account specifically to ask this, but I'm not a mathematician and don't have enough expertise to answer questions asked there (or perhaps I'm too lazy to hunt for questions that I could answer).
I am concerned we are missing the forest for the trees when we worry about ownership. The issue of wealth concentration is caused by a lack of competition in the market - what we need is less focus on billionaires and more on trust busting. In a market with strong competition you don't get billionaires.
Austerity to blame for 130k ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report
For something as important as an election, it should be simple enough for people to understand the process and believe in the result.

Another solution to adding more trust into the elections: People could be able to annotate their physical ballot with a token, each vote with each token is then published and people can see for themselves that their vote has been taken into account.
You forgot to turn off the images. When you do, you'll see how readable and blazing fast the website is.
they were not safe, and they were only approved because the research that said they were safe was done by the manufacturers themselves. They were taken away once academics and other experts showed that the risks were way too high using them
It compares a bit closer to the Carolinas I think. However, Japan has a rainy season as well (usually about mid June to end of July) where it's very humid. It usually dries out a bit in summer (August to mid October) because the temperature goes up.

I remember the first year I was in Japan trying to dry my shirts on the line in the rainy season. All of my clothing was cotton based and quite a lot of it got moldy on the line! Most Japanese clothes these days have at least some synthetics in it so that it dries quicker.
There is maladjustment as in individual sickness. And then there are value systems, beliefs and philosophies that leads to or enable bad behavior or bad actors.

Dealing with thought only in abstract often ignores real world consequences of that thought system. It makes sense to ask what part of that thought lead to different behavior in real world.
https://github.com/timbertson/shellshape was a good tiling extension for Gnome. Sadly it's no longer under active development & doesn't work on recent GNOME versions.

EDIT: but the author has developed the simpler https://github.com/timbertson/slinger
Visited a friend that lived in a building like that.

For the elevators, I just followed someone out from the nearest level above, and took the stairs down.

Fire code designated their (all?) level as a “crossover” and required it to allow entry from the stairwell.

Makes sense: you could enter a stairwell, but be unable to exit through that one.
You could either keep a blanket rule of 50% coverage excempted from such cases, or you could only mandate 50% coverage rules on particular settings/events, such as Presidential election main-line coverage.
Dual-licensing is an option too: you can either have AGPL or pay for some other license that allows commercial use without the need to open source everything else.
Almost everywhere, including as far as I know in France, such limitations tends to disappear for anyone who can control their own working hours to at least a certain extent (whether or not that control is genuine is often a matter of contention) to make up for it.
Think speak in the article :"Tokyo reformed its green belt twice" in fact Tokyo did not reform its green belt, it abandoned it.

Also, yes, it is good if single people can make the choice to live independently, but a far larger problem in my mind is that families are driven either into poverty or out of London. The reform that I would seek is that apartments should have three bedrooms, this would create desirable family homes as well as flexible share candidates.
Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement
34% is a lot of a avocado toast.

I suspect there are other economic forces at work to cause such a drop. I just can’t think of what they might be.
Well, the US is a primitive country for worker's rights, so I might be wrong when I say that if they had a job they would have had benefits. And by benefits I don't mean free gym memberships, I mean guaranteed vacation days, protection from being fired at anybody's whim, etc.

Regardless, other countries have these worker protections and benefits for all jobs and Uber drivers don't have them. So Uber is a worse employer than most.

And still, people chose them you would say. Well, the problem with that is that there will always be people desperate enough, or naive enough or greedy enough to jump on opportunities. At the beginning, Uber was paying its drivers more and there were also fewer drivers.

Currently it's a predatory company. And society shouldn't tolerate such companies.
I’d be interested in what percentage of gun homicides they are where the victim had no other contact with guns. That said, it doesn’t matter if the link is zero - anything that the majority of the population feels strongly about can become politically impossible to compromise on, so the relevant factor here is whether mass shootings make people more willing to accept these privacy intrusions.
I wish we had a [Contributor] tag for Forbes.

Does Forbes even have self-produced content?
I heard somewhere that Amazon did try to do a deal with Elastic and didn't like the price?
Hey I'd comment on your stuff but those are completely out of domain of knowledge. And on big popular sites, getting attention to your content is mostly a matter of luck. Or if you care enough you can see the relation between votes and time of the day etc and use this knowledge to your advantage.
But they don't always alarm according to the number that was presented. It alarms twice as many times as it should. That's not good and I certainly wouldn't want these in public spaces.

But you can't just look at the false positive rate and how much more work and unpleasant/unnecessary searches they cause. You have to take into account the false negative rate to get a complete picture. Manufacturers and the people who want these machines will always err on the side of too many false positives than too many false negatives.

Again, I personally think that these machines have no place in public spaces, no matter their hit/miss-rate.
I'm sure they think that they liberated Crimeea and Donbass as opposed to occupying parts of Ukraine. No wonder the accepted line of thought in Russia is still that the USSR has liberated all these ungrateful nations.
I don't think fines about selling data can be enforced without explicit contracts about keeping data confidential. Such contracts don't exist for information Facebook gathers from your data, even if a lot of that data is indeed non-public.

In the case of privacy-endangering malpractice like unencrypted passwords, that is already happening through GDPR for example. It is also, however, affected by the contract the individual has with the company.

I don't think that social media interactions, especially on facebook, fall under that umbrella, in general. Private chats, maybe. But even there you know that friends may share the texts or get hacked, and the facebook system monitors such communication for certain things like child pornography, possibly resulting in Human operators reading your communication.

Much of what facebook does, and what we actually want it to do for us, is not possible with a reasonable expectation of privacy. If I put a photo on facebook, I know that the whole world has access.
The camera bit in that case doesn't seem so bad to me - as long as he'd do it two way, and it was positioned so that it wasn't much different from a "portal" to someones desk, and audio similarly calibrates so he wouldn't hear muted conversations at other peoples desks. From the "trello constantly open" bit it sounds like he had something more excessive in mind though.