skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the most trivial consequences like being banned from a private platform

You say these consequences are trivial, but they may not be trivial for every individual. A number of individuals have been banned from multiple platforms, including their revenue streams and parts of the financial system, seriously damaging them financially. Even when I disagree with the individuals being banned, something about this strikes me as wrong. It should not be possible to mount a coordinated attack on an individual's financial stability like this. The boogeyman of the moment is the right, but this will surely be turned against individuals on the left the next time we go to war, or perhaps the next time left-populism seems to be gaining serious ground.
WheelTug: Driving a 737 Without the Engines
Milieu is made of people. You can improve your milieu by being a leader, not a follower.
Last I heard, nim was planning on removing the garbage collector and replacing it with a lifetime system, but I don't see anything about that in the release notes. Does that mean that 1.0 of nim will include a garbage collector?
Elastic to Acquire Endpoint Security Firm Endgame for $243M
Man and I've never found much to like with the layout of Medium. The text is nice and big and that's about it. It gets as messy as any personal blog IMO.
To be honest it would probably be better to add a progressively increasing tax on non-electric car fares - so first year it is announced, second year it's 5% of the fare, third it's 10%, fourth 15%, fifth 20%, etc.

And use that tax pool to create programs for acquiring EVs (business or otherwise).

You can even add an exemption to offset the start period by a year or two for cars bought within a year to avoid screwing over people who just invested in a new car for this purpose.
I'm all for supporting the things that are good. But at what point do we say "enough!"? All of these subscription services start to add up, going from free to 5 USD a month is a bigger jump than I'm willing to take. Why aren't there any services out there that offer 1 USD/EUR plans?
Joyent really doesn’t have a great track record on shutting down services... That said my view on the company is very much tainted by what happened many years ago when they where a different type of company all together. I personally purchased a few of their ‘VC’ plans before they when all enterprise.
Only wealthy people have a hard time figuring out what the correct measurement is for rich. It’s a total lack of perspective.

It’s always laughable to me what rich people consider “middle”. It’s like the word has a different meaning. Middle, to a wealthy person, extends from the middle all the way up to the top 10% by any measure. Maybe even to the top 5% of they want to talk about how expensive it is where they live, which is totally a choice they are wealthy enough to make. Poor people are treated as non existent.

This kind of tone deafness is why Trump won and why he will continue to win. The actual middle class is tired of hearing about how people making $100k+, with $750k in assets who say, “a million isn’t what it used to be” are somehow in the same socioeconomic class as the actual middle class.

I’m not sure that wealthy Americans understand just how many of their fellow countrymen are in their 30s, 40s and beyond making $20 an hour and living paycheck to paycheck. Average household income is two people working just a few dollars above minimum wage to support their kids.
>* Everyone knows Uber and Ola don't own their fleet so who'll be accountable?

Who says so? Have you read about tie-up with Tata for EV ? https://www.indiatimes.com/auto/current/tata-nano-electric-m...

Try to understand ground reality before making false claims.

Btw, elections over just ~15 days back, if this just PR stunt, it makes more sense announce it during 7 week long election not after that.
While everyone else wonders about the nature of time. I wonder about the nature of "sense." What is "sense"? How do some things 'make' sense and others don't? Is "sense" universal? If not, why?
Start a weekly or monthly investment in a Vanguard index fund of most of the extra. Leave yourself a bit, you've earned it.
while walking my dog in my neighborhood i've noticed that every house has multiple cameras monitoring entryways, and almost always pointing at the street.

everyone wants to be safe that's for sure but if you really think about the fact that someone is always watching you when you're walking through your neighborhood it's creepy.
We aren’t going anywhere. You’re going to continue to get the same product and support you are used to.
Lots of it is integrated into Maps: a good portion of the traffic/accident alerts have a "reported by Waze" line at the bottom. I wouldn't be surprised if they start sunsetting Waze once they're fully integrated and finished experimenting on it.
Note: The approach of structuring the interactions with the IO type with the functions (bindIO :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO b) and (returnIO :: a -> IO a) is still using the abstract idea of monads to organize the impure code and make it ergonomic to work with, so "monadic I/O" or "monadic state" aren't entirely misnomers. The thing I wanted to emphasize is that you don't need to know the word "monad" or understand anything in particular about the design process for the Monad typeclass in order to use these libraries.

I think focusing on the "monad" part over the "IO" part of "monadic IO" is particularly confusing to new users because the abstract idea of a monad is very general, so if you assume all places where it shows up are basically like the case of IO, you will be very confused. Further, it makes the idea of a monad seem like a Haskell-specific hack, rather than a general abstraction that can be used in any programming language you want to.

This is particularly important to emphasize because the abstract idea of monads only makes the IO approach to impurity nice to use, it doesn't make it possible. Haskell had I/O (and other impure capabilities) before the monadic way of organizing impure code was introduced. The heavy lifting for IO is done by having a type system strong enough to prevent a function of type IO a -> a from being written by an end-user. If you have written a monad abstraction in a language without such a type system[0], it can still be a nice abstraction, but it doesn't guarantee that pure and impure computations can be distinguished on the type level.

[0] https://www.nurkiewicz.com/2016/06/functor-and-monad-example...
Yeah that bus ride is getting long
Any Googlers from the search team reading this:

Just downrank medium.com. This is the actual problem with Medium.

The content on medium is ok but does rarely match the search ranking it has.
The legacy_password flag can also be a text field containing a salt. If it's empty, you have a non-legacy password.
There there. This is not the place for this discussion.
Poll: Health Care Remains Burdensome for Families
Those questions can as easily be asked of proprietary software with EULAs.

And "infection" is a creepy way to write "compliance".
My parents lamented the lack of outside-school responsibilities (such as having to raise animals on a farm, both did so) as much as anything else. I think that is a far cry from "limited freedom to leave the house on my own", "digital bullying" (the personal bullying was sufficient, I'm grateful it didn't extend to my time at home), and "authoritative surveillance".

The scope of changes between pre-tech childhood and post-tech is simply huge. Quite possibly unprecedented in history.
the VR world where everything is HR enough that you can go to work inside the simulation. Like in various Sci-fi movies.
so, you are saying you are going to change the world by imitating Google? Good luck with that.

Besides the opaque sign-up scheme and a total disregard for standards (your calendar/contacts "sync" integrates with which clients?), even today your project is much less than Nextcloud...
Square, not Stripe.
I have been a fan of Joyent's tech for several years now. This change seems like a scary one. Wishing them luck.
That makes rich relative though?

If you're into fast cars and faster women but you're only earning $1million a year you aren't rich, whereas if you live like me, you're rich because you have $1million in the bank.

While I don't think your definition is bad per se, if you start mixing with people who define wealth as $10 in the bank, you aren't going to have a very useful conversation, so I think you at least need a different term.

BTW this guy spent nearly £10million in 4 years, I don't think he could ever be rich by your definition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_(lottery_win...

Edit:
Also this only takes account of assets, not income. If you're earning $1million a year in a safe steady job you are rich, even if you don't yet have enough to retire.
We are. We are building metros in n>10 cities now.
A real whiteboard with video feed? Or do you mean for collaboration?
"2x" is the same thinking behind "if you don't have a backup for it, you only have it temporarily" , for anything "it" may be.

The thread starter is ambiguous about whether "secure" means "secure in what you currently temporarily have" vs "secure to have a reasonably acceptable life".
UPDATE: It turns out that in the VERY early days of QM, some researchers (notably Niels Bohr) thought that quantum jumps were instantaneous. But it has been known and universally accepted that they are not for decades now.
details: http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190214e_Experiment/
No. Medium does not have a community. Medium does absolutely nothing for generating views for 99% of bloggers.

My blog had a few hundred thousand views on Medium. Almost all of them came from HN or Reddit.
I travel a lot for work and hardly ever rent a car, and I'm always appalled by the state of walking in areas around hotels. There may be plenty of restaurants within half a mile, but it's almost impossible to walk to them from your hotel. No sidewalks, no crosswalks, parking lots separated by huge ditches. I've actually ordered Uber Eats from a place less than half a mile away because there was no safe way to walk there.

And right now we're fighting a battle in my hometown (small town) where the city and a developer wants a hotel downtown and a group of citizens are fighting that it should be 5 miles away out by the freeway where there is nothing to do and you would have to drive everywhere. For some reason people actively and loudly enjoy not being able to walk from store to store.
The Physician takes for granted that his profession has a monopoly on perscriptions and declaring medical necessity.

>Laughably some consider me rich

I know the article is supposed to hate on the 0.1%ers, but since Physicians always say this crap about their income, it's important to know Healthcare costs are terrible because he is paid so well.
Not if liked our topic and would like to do more work like that :)
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You may be right.

But my understanding is that there is a U238 shell that focuses the X-Rays like a mirror. If you've got reflection you don't necessarily need refraction. Also my understanding is that the X-Rays from the primary cause adiabatic compression (as much as possible) of the primary.

The fogbank turns to plasma but I think the action is long done by the time the plasma gets to do anything.

If there was an empty space where the fogbank was and the geometry of the weapon changed during storage and delivery, that definitely would prevent the secondary from firing correctly.
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Ah Clute, Texas. Howdy from Brazosport class of 2002! This is the second article mentioning this area on HN I've seen in the last 3 years or so. The first one mentioned Brazosport as the dropout capital of the entire USA. So I doubt anyone within a 100 mile radius of there has ever heard of HN (but waiting to be proven wrong).

Edit:

I guess to add more context. This is probably an example of a small, underfunded, school district being coaxed into purchasing something it doesn't even need, or the administration doesn't even understand.
Note: moved this from thread leaf here, because it broke the page formatting.

Can't check any reference now, but I think the whole while loop is roughly:

loop:
mov eax, 1 ; "true"
; edi points to &spinlock
xchg [edi], eax
; eax is AtomicExchange retval
test eax, eax
jnz loop ; while(eax != false)
; we've acquired the lock

X86-64 version is same, except the address is probably in a 64-bit register, like RDI. Although this would also work in 64-bit mode, if the pointer just happens to be in the lower 4 GB.
> It took a 180 million mile trip to deliver this image.

Yup, and you break my ability to zoom in or right click and view image on mobile.

Welcome to the future.
Once NIM is stable it will be superior to Python in every measurable way. Is there any reason to stay with Python for new projects that don't depend on a particular Python library?
Zoroastrianism had to concept of a universe that starts with nothing and comes to an end as far back as the 6th century BCE.

But I agree, adding a concrete understanding of time really helps to cement the linear narrative.
Everyone knows Uber and Ola don't own their fleet so who'll be accountable?

The Seattle airport requires that ridershare drivers drive cars that get mileage >= 45mpg, and every Uber/Lyft car I've seen picking up at Sea-Tac is a hybrid (almost all Priuses).

So putting car requirements on Uber can be effective even though they don't own their own cars.

https://airportimprovement.com/article/sea-tac-establishes-e...
> But the ones who sent you those links would care. They want you to join the community, because of the network effects: having you there makes it more valuable to them. Each person there finds is more valuable because of the other people there, rather than just dropping by.

I'm not sure your statement is 100% accurate. I know plenty of people who share a link just because it contains content worthy of reading. Sharing that content does not mean that you want others to join the community around it.
For an eloquent companion piece, I would highly recommend this essay: http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/the-bridge-from-nowher...
Afnic reveals the results of its study of the world's domain name market in 2018
I think a massive issue in America is the growing Urban vs Rural wealth divide. Progressive tax brackets that make sense in the countryside are punitive in an urban environment.

Eg: making $150k in SF isnt "that much" yet it's taxed at a higher rate than someone making the same where housing is 50% cheaper (or more). I'm starting to think that tax brackets ought to be converted to PPP within their respective zone.
> Running a project for three years alone on the side takes a lot of discipline.

My congratulations!

I could not agree more! I also worked on a Markdown editor for many years (in my case 5). But, the unique perspective I take at this was requiring that much time. In my case, it is really an editor for developers that know their Web stack... Stylo[0] supports styling the Markdown using CSS, live. It allows to do things such as highlighting tagged text parts that we want to concentrate on among other things. Only for Mac though as I also am an independent developer and want to concentrate on features that actually matters for producing texts.

It took me every bit of discipline I had, and it continues...

[0]: https://www.textually.net
The courts think in a similar manner. When rich couples divorce, the courts mandate that the poorer parent and kids get enough from their other parent to retain the same lifestyle the were used to previously. If that means enough to maintain a private jet lifestyle, so be it.
Links for anybody who doesn't know what is being talked about here, https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Destructors,-2nd-editio... and https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/144 describes the specification for those changes.

The plan AFAIK is to ship it with v1 but it would not be default and you would need to do `--newruntime` for using these features. As they stabilize over time and things get ported to this new runtime, it would be made the default.
It varies depending on circumstances, of course, but the vast majority of homeschooled kids I've met are very well socialized, capable of reasoned debate, and quite well-rounded in their outlook on life. By contrast, in American public schools at least, I'm seeing a serious trend toward unhealthy social interactions, cyber bullying, teachers who only have time for testing, and more. If your country doesn't allow it, you may not have had the chance to observe the difference but it's pretty significant.
Hopefully Looker's viz/dashboarding functionality is quickly and tightly integrated with GCP. Data Studio is woefully under featured.
That 4% is empirically derived from data covering the 20th century and is appropriate for earlyish retirement. There's two reasons to be more conservative:

1) We may be in a low-yield world for a long time.

2) Those studies were based on earlier retirement, not on people leaving the workforce in their 20s and 30s, the way that some very lucky HN readers may do.
Medium peaked a couple years ago, with many startups leveraging the audience and using it as a blog. I suppose their pivot into aggressive growth + monetization has lost them some really important publications. Arguably, hackernoon and freecodecamp were some of the most popular publications.

By removing the 'free' aspect of the content, medium effectively put itself in the same bucket as other platforms.

I also don't like medium's UX, especially the highlighting feature. It is really distracting.

It'd be cool to have a central store where users can publish content without worrying about uptime, paywalls or anything as such.
I think Medium is great.

I pitched an article to an online magazine, about UBI. They said they ran one too recently, so I figured I'd self publish. I could have put it on my site, read by zero people, but I figured a medium.com URL would get farther wherever I submitted it.

I was right, but not only that, the Medium twitter account tweeted my article, and Medium asked if they could edit it and make an audio version.

Many interesting things came of this signal boosting. People started emailing me from weird places, like economics professors and government researchers, including one guy at the World Bank. I was invited into a secret slack that I'm still part of today (unfortunately most of the good internet is going the way of non-public places, but that's another topic). The net result of one article they boosted has been meeting a lot of people who are now my friends, two years on. Kind of amazing in retrospect. Medium's boosting also allowed me to gather enough Twitter followers to feel like its a useful platform, in a sense unlocking "my own" audience.

None of this would have happened if I self hosted. About these issues of canonical URL, why would I care? If I self hosted almost no one would have read it. I am more interested in reading and writing than I am in canonical URLs or a small bar on my screen. I suppose its unfortunate if it annoys 90% of my readers, but that's a lot better than no readers.

So thanks Medium.

(my only nit is that their editors changed some of my language to be more snarky, so I would not let them edit again)
Was anyone else surprised that Dinesh D’Souza defines anyone who earns up to $15 million as "Upper Middle"? That can't be correct, can it?
It's true, Medium sucks. What is more pathetic is that we are even here with a Medium to complain about. What part of the 1995 World Wide Web tech is insufficient to deliver a page of legible text and possibly some images? Why on earth is there even a gatekeeper on such? Hosting costs for such are as low as it can get. We have digressed to a level of decadence Geocities could never even hope to achieve. This is MySpace 2.0 dumb. What the actual heck?
Firefox's reader mode does exactly what you looking for.
Gaming in the Cloud: A Technical Deep Dive
OT: I am huge fan of whitespace-sensitive languages.[0] This is alone a reason why I wish nim all the best for its future!

[0] If a language is not whitespace-sensitive I prefer curly brackets as block markers.
Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by the NPM security team
Also a link to the non mobile site please
This answer is nonsensical. Yes there are vast swaths of people who are living in areas that are much poorer than the US. But that doesn't mean we need to measure ourselves based on the poorest of the world.

Does that mean that we should ignore the demands of workers who want a liveable wage of $15/hr in the US? Should we tell them "you're rich compared to most of the people in the world"?

The fact is that we measure "richness" by our immediate surroundings. If we have $50k in savings and we could move to Madagascar and live like a king doesn't mean we're rich, not even in the slightest sense.
That covers one segment of the conversation, but
"move to Europe" isn't a solution for most people not in Europe.
The publisher/platform thing is also a false dilemma that keeps getting repeated even though it has no basis in the reality of the law. U.S.C 230 explicitly states:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

The same law also states:

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

So this idea that these platforms are de-facto publishers because they decided to curate their platform is explicitly incorrect as stated by the law.
Unfortunately, it's pick one.

Either:

1. Allow for potential bullying and sexual harassment and other things kids put each other through.

2. Monitor every single thing they do and police them at all times.

We as a society need to make a choice. You cannot have a perfectly safe and positive environment at all times for children(and adults) without constant and detailed monitoring.

My guess is that the correct answer lies somewhere in the middle. Ignoring that reality and avoiding handling this at the regulatory level will result in groups going either all the way to one side or all the way to the other.

Edit: I'm shocked how insane and unrealistic the people downvoting this are. I feel so unbelievably bad if any of you have children or vote on any policy that has to do with children. Awful people. Just awful.
Sounds fascinating, got a source for that? Seems to dovetail with the research re: happiness and net worth not being correlated after a point.
We let people choose the government, but we don't let them make important decisions (except in rare cases when the government is foolish enough to hold a referendum).

The whole point of representative democracy is to put a firewall between the "the masses" and decision-making, while allowing them some influence.

Historically, party and other elites have also largely controlled who was in a position to become a representative in the first place, although that stops working when the elites become completely out-of-touch with the electorate (hence Trump).
But what about having an angle to create some fake outrage...