skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... @MikeGravel had already established that Mike Gravel was not just an individual but also a kind of group project. Strangely enough, this had opened up a loophole that allowed him to talk like an actual person — and somehow it seemed as if this person mattered least. I found myself imagining a candidateless campaign — fronted by a hologram of George Washington, or “freedom,” or Apple ...

There's an old saying to the effect that:

1. FDR proved that a person can be president forever;

2. Nixon proved that anyone can become president; and

3. Regan proved that nobody need be president at all.

There's a case to be made that a good chunk of the current president's success stems from the fact that his administration/campaign appears to be so tightly controlled by the man himself. Like him or loathe him, with this president, what you see is what you get, and he has gone to the mat repeatedly to make good on his campaign promises no matter how misguided.

So the mental model of a presidential campaign being run by a bunch of kids wrapped in a trench coat is fascinating. As the article points out, the Gravel campaign's uniqueness stems from the fact of how open it is about this:

> In an online world where everything is understood to be a performance, @MikeGravel looks us squarely in the eye and admits, “Every politician is just a bunch of kids in a trench coat — so why not make them actual kids?”

It's also not outside the realm of technical feasibility that an AI could make a viable presidential candidate. Whether or not the necessary legislation would ever come to pass is another question, but I sometimes wonder whether this might be the ultimate legacy of Corporate Personhood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
If we’re writing HTML like 1999 then where’s my <blink> tag?
In the US, it is illegal for an employer or health insurance company to discriminate based on genetics [0]. But if you fail to receive a promotion because your employer found out about your genetic disease, how would you know?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.“
If 6 day work weeks are common, you would be making the exact same bogus argument.
I'm using 67 and it works fine for me. What doesn't work for you?
Two problems: I can't afford a 1967 size small home anywhere near me, nor can I also support 3 kids and a non working spouse.
Sounds pretty awesome. I'd especially love it if frameworks like Spring offered releases via this channel.

I'd be curious to see how composability works with this, too: if for instance I wanted to make a React+Rails boilerplate, it'd be awesome if users could cherry-pick a commit to use it with their Bugsnag+Rails boilerplate.
It's not clear why you wrote this

You just took the worst source for an English definition, felt compelled to actually include the source as if to dispel unproductive skeptical responses, and then explained what the slang version was in response to a comment telling you both the actual and slang definitions, who had asked when the slang definition will be upgraded for inclusion in the best sources for English definitions
Just look into the FIRE community. Many people are opting out of blatant consumerist attitudes because they realize compulsive frugality is a means of prioritizing what you want.
I've long argued for a 4-day 6-hour-day work week. I've even questioned a few potential employers about it, citing research: I've even offered to take a pay cut (per hour, i.e. hourly rate was cheaper than for 5-day 8-hour day weeks), but nobody was interested.

They would frequently say how they are not interested in "part time" work. I'd counter that this is full time work, with efficiency higher than the full time work, because people can focus on intellectually hard problems only for a short while sustainably. Sure, I can put in a couple of weeks of 12h days, but after that, I'd struggle to put in 4h days of quality, focused work (well known as burnout). Similarly, 8h days are not sustainable either, though it takes longer to burn out.

As people have noted, the extra time I get would not be spent in pyjamas watching netflix: it would be quality time with my family, working on projects and research, etc (if it wasn't for miserable pay and state of academia, I'd probably be doing research exclusively). Civilization as a whole would benefit as a result if there were more people putting their brains to problems they think matter. And as stated numerous times, even employeers would benefit.

But alas, when there's the next guy willing to submit to the "norm", it's hard to get the ball rolling.
Do you mind me asking what part of California you're in? Did you end up buying a home here?
Run in the rat race for a decade or two and report back.
This isn't a complete picture. If you are in the need for a product, you will be more comfortable with a product if it feels familiar. This is true whether that familiarity comes from having used it before, because you've seen others use it before, _or_ if you've simply seen the name a lot before.

Brand recognition has impact.

You might still go read reviews of the product first, but they still need you to seek it out to do that. That's where advertising comes in.
So you point is since programmers can negotiate preferable working conditions (which include both salaries and work schedule most of blue-collar workers can only dream of) they need unions to negotiate for them because otherwise they can't get working conditions they'd prefer, even though there's evidence they're already getting it. I think you broke my logic parser.
If you're arguing that MCAS was "properly designed and vetted," you're the only voice crying in that particular wilderness.

Boeing's implementation will be a mainstay in engineering ethics classes for the next 100 years, right next to the Therac-25 and the Kansas City Hyatt.
A bit simplistic, no? There is more than one important factor.
I think all you grumpy commenters in here are nostalgic af! I hated radio in my youth. It was 20 minutes of the same songs followed by another 20 minutes of commercials. The same playlists over and over, and really the only value-add were the DJs talking to you. Then once radio stations caught on to that, they shifted to shock-jocks that really went overboard. I mean look at Howard Stern, he grew out of that shift.

If Live Nation and CBS radio didn't buy up all the radio stations in the 90s, they probably would have vanished one by one as people moved on to iPods and CDs for consumption.

Both Apple Music and Spotify have playlists of every conceivable genre and of every mood you could possibly be in. Want to listen to bad elevator cover songs? You can find it! There shouldn't be any problem with music discovery at this point. I'm constantly finding new music from all kinds of artists.

For everything else, DJs in the morning, shock-jocks, talk radio, those are served by Podcasts. Once again, every possible genre, from murder mysteries, to local news, it's all there. Maybe your small community doesn't have a replacement podcast yet, but that doesn't mean it can't exist. The barrier to entry is so low that I imagine it's only a matter of time.
I'm not sure doing anything different or better would have a material difference in how much a breach will cost let alone the need to have insurance companies to cover them. Yes it's a lot of buggyman auditing and such, but in the end a breach is a breach and companies will do anything they can do downplay the cost. At least with the rules there is a workflow and process to go through when the breach happens.

When all is said and done it's really the organization. I don't know how many bigcorps I've been at that were just totally inept. The existence or not of HIPAA would not change their ineptness.
Your proposed solution may sound unorthodox, but it's an interesting view on how to solve the problem in the long term. Although I don't think it will be viable politically nor socially accepted.
I think too many people are willing to take a pay cut to do this. If you believe you will be as or more productive, or that your skills and knowledge are more valuable than just your raw time, you should consider negotiating a 4 day week with no pay cut.
Show HN: The Cyber”- a curated multireddit for busy folks (sort by “top”)
Maybe it's because in reality cashless is easy compared to clean water and no pollution for masses?
I think part of the problem is "protected classes". I learned the other day that if you're over 40 you're a protected class for engineering in California.

If you're a protected class and you have a job, that's great! It will help you a lot. But the unintended consequence is that companies are more reluctant to hire someone in a protected class, because if they are legitimately bad at their job, they are harder to get rid of.

I still think we should have protected classes, but the protection needs to reach into hiring too. Maybe make companies have to submit written justification for not hiring someone in a protected class? I don't know I'm just spitballing here.
Who cares if a couple of athletes need to fulfill their university requirements and get an inflated grade in whatever mickey mouse degree they are taking? This isn't a battle worth fighting over.

The real issue is that nowadays there's a substantial contingent of nursing school aspirants who have no clue about 8th grade math and who think the general education requirements are just an impediment on their way towards a well-paying career. In my experience, it's usually students from a disadvantaged background. You fail them, then they march off to administration and get their passing grade.

It's a public safety issue, nurses who can't calculate dosages. Reddit has a discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/b8sx90/nursingc...
One of the standard seemingly-counterintuitive examples of uses of advertising is car ads. Very few people see TV ads for a Mercedes and walk into a dealership and buy one. So why does Mercedes-Benz run TV ads? The standard explanation is, MB's ads are for the end of the month, when you see (1) your car payment and (2) Toyota's ads claiming a car payment 1/3 what you're paying.

So the ads are intended to help you avoid post-purchase guilt. Hence their emotional appeal: you're a certain kind of person etc. That keeps you buying MBs on a scale of decades, rather than jump ship to a lower prestige, lower cost brand.

The larger point is there are many reasons to run ads, not just to attract leads.
> Content being heavily reliant on JavaScript “injection”

Salient point right here. Being served a blank white page (when JS is disabled) can deter a person from ever visiting a site again. Some peope out there want to vet a site before allowing it to run arbitrary code on their machine.
> Also will the pay be the same ?

Historically, no, in the 70s a 3 day week came with a 3 day pay.
I was hoping it was a Metal Gear solid reference.

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Zanzibar_Land
and many of those reviews will be paid, just another form of advertising, even more fraudant in my opinion.
I don't know, the attention is also advertisement for himself. And HNs front page is pretty good. People say his code base is not bad, so if I would need contracting in the field right now, I would check this guy out.
It's red scare 2.0 with you people.
I had read the term "winklepicker" a few times in the past, with no photo or description, and just assumed it was the snappy British equivalent of the American "clamdigger" -- a sort of short pants you'd wear collecting mollusks.

A classic example of "what you know that just ain't so."
Possibly, but there are a lot of people unlike yourself that don’t feel a major pressure to work, some might continue but there would be more currently employed people that would choose not to work as much, than currently unemployed people that would choose to start work under a big net IMHO.

Just with the arithmetic of 5ish% of unemployment. People who start working under a net can only be 5% of population. People who stop working or work much less could be up to 95% of population. Much bigger percentage has possibility to work less under that system.
Wealthfront at least lets you select "my bank isn't in this list" (even if it is) and then you get the UI to enter your routing and account numbers. So no, it doesn't require your bank's user/pass.

I don't know why it isn't well-advertised, I wouldn't use it otherwise.
They're doing completely typical Twitter shitposting, on Mike Gravel's verified account. It's a funny joke, but that's all it is. You could hand over the account to anyone on lefty irony Twitter and get the exact same results.

It's been somewhat disheartening to see people take this at all seriously, to think that Mike Gravel is going to even have anything useful to say at the debates. We all (well, maybe not the teens) remember Gravel from 2008. He's not about to blow anyone's mind.
So essentially retainer billing.
Good news, except we've justed started a trade war with China.
>instead of trying to function on anti-depressants

Or amphetamines, which are very illegal in Japan.
I'm 48, on the West Coast, and recently finished interviewing, receiving multiple offers.

I did 250 Leetcode problems, practiced System Design, and Behavioral. In the end, I found doing 250 Leetcode was probably overkill, but it definitely helped.

This will probably get me severely down-voted, and I do understand the antipathy toward having to Leetcode, but the way I see it is that I'm really lucky. I get to sit on my butt, do what I love, and I get paid really well to do it. If interviewing is extremely hard and I have to study, yet again, at 48 so be it. There are plenty of people in the world who are so less fortunate than I am.

[Edit] s/250 Leetcode/250 Leetcode problems/
It’s a classic case of ease of use without experience vs speed with experience. Unfortunately, the former is the one that seems to win out with the masses.

Maybe there’s some sort of hybrid approach with keybindings for the power users and the blocky menu for more casual access.
"Typically most companies only want Jeep when looking at FCA because it’s the real money maker from what I hear"

The Ram trucks are 3rd behind Ford and Chevy in sales, but only very slightly behind Chevy. And way ahead of number 4, Toyota trucks. I imagine that's attractive also.
If you frequently get called a conspiracy theorist it's most likely because... you're a conspiracy theorist. Like, you claim in some of your posts that NPR is a mouthpiece for Lockheed Martin, and that Jeff Bezos decides what the Washington Post will print.

Now, maybe those conspiracies are real, and you're seeing something the rest of us are too blind (or too deep in the pockets of Deep Hacker) to see. But then you have to work extra hard to build the case and persuade, with a cogent narrative. That requires a lot of work! It's not very fair. But it's the only way you're going to get people to listen to you, if that is an outcome you want.
Looks like Reddit also allows you to view via RSS:

https://www.reddit.com/user/dontbenebby/m/the_cyber.rss
He who has lost honour can lose nothing more.

~ Publilius Syrus
To be fair, <blink> is more 1994: http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
Pain and misery are not the same.
I still require to work in a company where my manager/boss/CTO know much more than me. I'm almost 40. It's really hard to work for a 20-something guy who has almost no experience and is happily making all the mistakes he could read in books about.

Still, finding a job where my boss would know more is more and more problematic.

When I was 33 I was rejected by a recruiter with "you know, here I have dozens of resumes of people 10 years younger than you, who have lots of experience in managing teams. There must be something wrong with you, so I cannot pass your papers to the client."

Still, looking for a job is a very traumatic experience. The companies are looking for unicorns: young, cheap, without family (aka drinking in evenings, working on weekends), with lots of experience, and academic knowledge (which will never be used).

A couple of times I heard from guys, who would be my managers "oh, I'd love to have your experience"... the rest of the interviews went smoothly. In all the places I even didn't get to the step where they asked for the money requirements. They just didn't answer.

I'm looking for a remote job now. I even made a nicely stripped resume on one page. My normal has 3 pages. It's a very traumatic experience, especially that most of the remote companies require knowing almost only some new stuff, totally ignoring my 18 years of experience in everything else.

Btw... a surgeon of my age is usually not experienced enough to make surgeries on his/her own. A programmer of my age is usually a useless resource, which is happily replaced with someone just after the college.

All this makes me sad. The experience is not valued here. So what is? The lack of experience?
That's enough for me, I'm uninstalling the app and my Chinese friends better upgrade to WhatsApp or Telegram.
European here. This summer I'm taking all Fridays off until October (since I had too many holidays left). Yesterday was the second time, I still showed up in the office but just worked on my own projects all day (it's allowed). Once I was in the flow, I've been doing the same on Saturdays (like today) and Sundays (albeit shorter hours). I'm definitely making more progress than when I was only working on it at night, try it if you have the opportunity (and no kids/spouses of course).
You also might not want to keep your entire life savings in a single account. It's convenient, but also a single point of failure.

And if your life savings gets big enough, it might exceed the account balances that are protected by FDIC ($250K) or SIPC ($500K, I think).
dictionary.com (I always thought they ran on M-W's wordlists?) is ahead of you:

PORN - Sometimes por·no [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/. pornography;

1 sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.

2 television shows, articles, photographs, etc., thought to cater to an excessive, irresistible desire for or interest in something:

edit: This seems to be based on the Cambridge dictionary (which is generally more commonly used in the UK outside of higher-level academia and journalism than the OED)
Rft Ably
Cringely – The Future of Television
The project uses plaid. The pass is entered into plaid widget and never sent to me. I only get a key for reading user data through plaid. Payments are done by adding Dwolla to plaid. Also pretty secure and what i believe venmo uses
Using WhatsApp just shares the raw phone number. None of those other details leave your phone.

(Of course sharing /w the Facebook app is probably a completely different story.)
A paid service has to serve my interests for me to pay for it. A paid tool with ads will not succeed unless it’s absolutely necessary to the user and there’s no way around.

People tolerate Facebook & their ads, dark patterns to get users addicted, etc when it’s free, but very few people would pay for that.

Also, traditional magazines’ ads is something I personally value. It’s a safe way to discover new trends/products that have been somewhat vetted by the magazine (you won’t find any malware or scams on a full-page ad in a magazine, and if you did the reputation of that magazine would be severely damaged) without being stalked and seeing the same product everywhere for months just because you happened to check one out.
In a system where money is debt, money under the mattress means someone else is in debt. That is someone that has to be more risk averse. Normally this is balanced by someone who can take more risk because they have more money. If hoarding money under your mattress becomes a movement then it may be that it tilts society to unhealthily risk averse and no one is in a position to try ambitious investments.

I haven't fully thought this through so please poke holes in the argument if you can :)
> run arbitrary code on their machine

That's a bit of an exaggeration. JavaScript is strongly sandboxed and has a pretty good permissions system. The only malicious things it can really do are 1) based on cookies or 2) crypto mining.

Personally I think it's unreasonable to expect today's sites to work without JavaScript completely. The real benefits of using it sparingly are:

- Pages load faster

- Pages are more responsive

- Applications are less stateful and call out to systems that have a larger number of eyes on them, making them less fragile and lowering maintenance complexity

Minimalism is a virtue in any programming context
> You just took the worst source for an English definition

I'll agree to disagree with you on that one.

As for my point. My point is that the word porn/porno/pornography doesn't mean what you said it does for Wikipedia. Which suggests for a large population of the world (including myself). That it has that meaning on Reddit or amongst youth is just cargo culture.
I disagree with this cynical take. A Dell computer ad may exist to drive sales but that isnt exclusive to informing people of features and benefits of the machine. The purpose of a good ad should be to inform the viewer/listener of how what and why the product offers. Many do exactly that.
Ask HN: Looking for a specific website about physics
Some months ago, I found a website about physics, and I didn't bookmark it at the time, and now I am unable to find it.

Sadly, I don't remember its name.

I hope someone might know that website, so let me describe what I remember of it:

- It had an old style (like from the 90s/2000s);
- It had an orange/brown background;
- It had some sorts of tables, with different parts (momentum conservation, energy conservation, etc.);
- It might have pros and cons of each (not sure);

That's about it.

If you think you recognise this website, please share its url :)
I looked at your problem page and it's not true that Google Analytics bounce rate is not useful for single-page applications.

You can trigger events with JavaScript and choose whether they affect bounce rate, so you can manually trigger an event when the user scrolls down, clicks something, spends a few minutes on the site, etc. So your problems with the bounce rate metrics are just not true.

Also I saw you mention it doesn't track returning users, that's not true either. I can actually see insights into how many users return month after month, and it'll tell me what my activity is per channel and if one channel outperformed others, so it's pretty powerful in this regard for a free platform.

I skimmed it but from just reading those it sounds like you should try to get better familiarity with Google Analytics and talk to users to see what their main pain points with existing platforms are, as well as establish more concrete value propositions. Google Analytics is free after all, I'm not convinced yet to move to a paid platform that tries to address problems I'm not experiencing.
Good luck getting an insurance when they got your DNA
This shows that the Twitter verified accounts system/blue checkmarks are pretty worthless. Gravel may have handed his password over to the kids, but other “individual” accounts are run by multiple admins using Twitter’s built-in features, and some politicians have the disclaimer “tweets by me have my initials”.

Twitter should restrict verified individual accounts to a single user (the actual person who owns the account) and remove the check mark from people who violate those rules. There are also individual accounts that seem to be selling access to their followers by giving admin rights to others.

Accounts that have multiple admins should have this explicitly called out in the profile/name (“Office of XYZ”) , and which admin posted the Tweet needs to be made explicit.