skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting the data might not be illegal, but storing it without a direct reason or permission would be illegal
I was 17 when I chose my undergrad. I got a degree in a field I didn't care about for the sole purpose of being employable. Then the 2008 recession wiped out entry-level mining and then oil sector jobs (my field). I jumped into software development, which I've been doing since. I don't have a degree in it but I make a good living.

If your argument about a generation-wide problem involves blaming individuals, instead of looking at the wider factors that caused this outcome to be predictable, you're missing an opportunity to improve matters.
This is really big in the WiFi space. Aruba, Cisco, etc all market services to public places like malls where you throw in a huge public wifi network, and regardless of whether you connect or not, they can see phones looking for known network and track traffic patterns.

Malls can then see which stores have highest foot traffic on what days, etc.
It's actually one of the things that justifies the expense for huge, expensive free wifi deployments. And it is used to more accurately price locations around malls.

The other alternatives to getting the same kind of data is security camera analytics. Sometimes literally someone just watching footage and taking notes on who they see and what kind of demographics, etc. Which is problematic in it's own right.
Maybe go to community college for a bit as an alternative and figure out if it's right for you before taking out a large loan.
everybody always seems to ignore the most advanced and general purpose visual programming language/environment, that being labview. i suppose it is probably because it sits behind an expensive license.
I don't understand how they thought this business model would ever work.

Have they patented the idea of using english words to encode numbers? Because I've seen patterns of 2-3 english words used in the past to communicate things like keys and confirmation codes.
Yes, but at the credit level of a student getting $50,000 in loans, a credit card company would give a $1,000 limited cards
Activists don't deplatform anyone; the platform owners do. Activists merely use their Free Speech to lobby

Really, that makes no difference to the effect on Free Speech.

much like the ones being deplatformed are generally doing for their own ideas.

Which is an activity which is enshrined and constitutionally protected. Really, any website which claims to be a "platform" and enjoy the protections of that status needs to be called to account. If they are going to act as publishers with editorial input, they should be held to account for that as well.
(a) This tool does make it significantly easier to make explorable explanations, and in particular facilitates sharing / re-using code and ideas.

(b) This tool is useful in a wide variety of fields that are not statistics- or data-visualization-adjacent.

Personally I find it to be the best (most reader friendly) available platform for most types of code documentation and learning materials, as long as the code involved happens to be Javascript. I would also love to see more research papers published as notebooks.
When I was 15/16 years old I was promised by adults I trusted (teachers, principal, parents, family members, speakers at my school) that if I got a college degree I would be guaranteed a good paying job when I got done. At 15/16/17 years old, you are a child and you follow the advice and leadership of adults. In my senior year of high school, my parents started taking out loans in my name (called a Parent Plus loan) to pay for my college. Could I have refused? Yes, but remember I had been promised by every adult that I needed this to get a job. "A bachelor's degree is the new high school diploma" I remember being told over and over [1] [2]. If you don't want to work at McDonalds, you have to get a degree.

So yeah, no one put a gun to my head and forced me to take on student loan debt. Instead they put poverty to my head and threatened that I would sleep in my car and work for minimum wage if I didn't.

When you are a child and the adults tell you this is what you need to do for your future, you listen. What you're doing is blaming children for the bad advice their parents and mentors gave them.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-th...

[2] http://www.msnbc.com/jansing-co/college-degrees-are-becoming...
and you created that account just to say that 18 minutes ago.

some sockpuppets ITT
> but kids (yes, kids) that are age 17

"Kids" have been making this decision for decades. Kids also chose to serve in each of the World Wars at younger ages. Kids at a younger age can also get married in most states.

45-55% of the (albeit distant by social class) peers of college freshman are NOT going to college, but working jobs that don't require degrees. Not going to higher ed is as much of an adult decision as taking a loan.
I wish the public domain were the least restrictive license, but unfortunately that's just not true globally. In many jurisdictions, notably Germany, there is no public domain or the concept of a public domain doesn't match with common law countries. MIT/BSD or another permissive license is a much better choice if you value openness. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain_software
> Mom-and-pop shops are probably the only way to go to avoid being targeted now.

Yeah, and pay cash before they get rid of it and make us all pay for everything with wechat bucks or whatever.
If you don't give students tens of thousands of dollars in credit, schools can't charge tens of thousands of dollars per year. Prices rise to capture available revenue.
This is not even remotely a concern for any enterprise that would use this. Fretting over this is like fretting over the gas left in the nozzle when you fill your car.
At what APR though? 30-40% for someone with no credit history? And how much? Maybe $1K on a prepaid card at first.

They hedge the risk by charging a lot more. Do you want student loans at 30-40% APR?
I was also thinking the same thing. I also think that the prior person wanting to SSH into their docker instance hasn't quite grasped that you can already do that.

I'm not sure what the value of this is.
Evil: profoundly immoral and wicked

I follow that with an interesting anecdote!

During the filming of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the actress playing Nurse Ratchett, the principle antagonist in the film, suffered a breakdown resulting from animosity built up amongst the film crew. Her mere portrayal and demonstration of wicked/evil tendencies was sufficient to taint the emotional atmosphere.

Point being:

When one is in an environment, and feels it necessary to try to say "I'm not evil! X, Y, and Z are evil! What I'm doing isn't!", it is generally a sign of cognitive dissonance being brushed up against.

There is an argument to be made, that if what the AdTech industry does is so effective at bringing up feelings of hostility, revulsion, and repugnance once properly understood, it may very well be to an extent "evil" due to a demonstrated capacity to generate widespread feelings of immorality.

It takes time, and effort to elucidate the various ways in which this industry triggers fundamental moral avoidance circuits.

AdTech violates moral principles of "being a good host", "professional discretion", "unimpositive (not imposing on one's guests or making light of imposing on or dominating their attention)", "non-intrusion", "being courteous in the immediate term", and "conservative in taking actions that could have far reaching consequences in the long term".

These are fundamental underpinnings of the fabric of positive societal interaction, and are to differing levels globally recognized.

Taking and violating such fundamental precepts, and in ways difficult to understand and extrapolate by the Common person illustrates a callous disregard for what makes society work, and implicitly sets off those alarm bells you mentioned earlier.

I'm not even being outright inflammatory; just pointing out the essential characteristics of the arrangement. If a barebones explication of what you do violates so many fundamental behavioral assumptions, and generates such animosity when brought out into the light of day, you really need to sit down and give it a long think.

Is delivering a better Ad really worth throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Is delivering a better Ad worth endangering the framework that got us this far?

If your answer is still yes after giving it intense thought, you need to spend more time amongst your detractors, because you've likely only seen one side of the matter at issue.
Play dirty right back at them.

If you get a job at Corporation-X your wages can be garnished for failure to pay a debt.
If you own your own business and a your corporation is employed by Corporation-X your business can't have it's income interfered with.

How you get paid by your corporation is not fit for discussion on this forum.

Note: This applies to Canadian tax/debt law. I don't know how well it works elsewhere.

If you know a doctor who owns their own practice ask them 'how they do it'.
Irish island of Arranmore is looking for new residents from the United States
Ask HN: Keyboard Macros
In Emacs I can use keyboard macros (F3/F4). This lets you record keystrokes and replay them.

Is this possible in other code editors, native or through plugins?
You're talking to the wrong people. A child looks to the advice of their parents, and if their parents say go to university, that's what happens.
Ironically, I read that sentence, hit the CTRL-w to nope on out of there, and then immediately had my eyes drawn to read your comment here since I'd pre-opened the comments tab. An intriguing example of me kinda agreeing with the main point in some ways but really, really hating the framing.
Mom and Pops are likely using this technology too.

Location analytics are a built-in feature of many sub-$300 access points.
This is rage inducing. I went into this article thinking "ok as long as I don't have the Target or Ikea or whatever app installed on my phone, I'm fine." While that is a primary way, this needs to be outlawed:

> These companies take their beacon tracking code and bundle it into a toolkit developers can use. The makers of many popular apps, such as those for news or weather updates, insert these toolkits into their apps. They might be paid by the beacon companies or receive other benefits...

Ban this, full stop, on both ends of this transaction. The Reveal Medias and the scummy app devs using their ~~SDKs~~ trojan horses. At the very least these apps need to be named and shamed, I find this fraudulent and extremely difficult for end users to police.

I have very minor hope that Apple at least will one day shine light on this or ban apps who are not transparent about the data they're sending and to whom, as it doesn't conflict with their business model and they seem to be moving there. For now I have to essentially disable bluetooth when I get out of my car.
Between 15-28%, although legislation is currently being sponsored to cap credit card interest rates at 15%.

I want student loans eliminated and universities to be government funded through taxpayer dollars, as was the case previously with public universities. Public university tuition has gone up because government funding for them have gone down. As usual, stealing from the future.

EDIT: I'm okay with raising taxes to pay for education instead of the broken student loan system, forcing universities to limit what they charge, and democratic socialism as a whole. Societal utilities (healthcare, education) are not a free market. Never have been, never will be.
I actually believe that society today has enough wealth that we can allow people to pursue both their vocation and their interests - I don't think people need to go to college to learn their trade (out of a few specific fields). Instead they benefit from that learning by living a more fulfilling life - and, sneakily, they also end up developing their soft skills quite a bit and soft skill proficiency is classically what has allowed American labour to retain it's value.
This is the first I've heard of Observable and I loved this. It was a great introduction for me--practical and immediately obvious.
I agree, ads should go to wrist, not to phone.
I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum. I work for small companies mostly and I’ve conducted interviews for small companies. We have a limited budget for a limited number of positions. One developer can be working on a project that can individually move the needle. We need to hire “engineers” in the truest sense of the word not “coders”.

For instance, currently my title is “senior software engineer”. But I am the “Directly Responsible Individual” for a project that one of our clients is paying for. It will be added to our core product.

This means that I’m expected to interact with the client and BA to come up with the SOW, work with the product manager/UX person to design the interface, do some of the web work, write the backend using one of our approved languages (C#, Javascript, Python) , design the database schema, do all of the CI/CD setup and to know the AWS fiddly bits and know which services are appropriate for the asynchronous processing requirements.

I’m no special snowflake, this is life in small companies since my first job 20 years ago.

I don’t interview candidates for algorithms. I interview them to know whether they can hit the ground running on as much of our (industry standard) technology stack as possible, will they make good architectural decisions, can they ship a feature across the finish line, how fast they pick up new frameworks and will they embarrass us with customers and senior management.

LeetCode ability does us no good. I want to know whether you can translate real world business requirements into a working system - including knowing which questions to ask when customers/product managers come to you with “XY Problems”.
>no sane institution would give out student loans

Then maybe the whole concept of student loans is ridiculous to begin with.
In quantities of a few million. If you discount any development costs.
This book https://www.amazon.com/Aisles-Have-Eyes-Retailers-Shopping/d... goes into quite a bit of detail about various techniques retailers use to track customers.
I'm not sure I follow. What is negative 1 plus positive 5 plus urgative 3?
please check edit.
Not just because I can - interviews are always time limited, and technical conversations always (pleasantly) meander across many topics, usually the strengths of the people talking. It's easy to for someone to spend an hour talking about their strengths - interviews usually need some sort of direction to get useful information.

And it would be manipulative if there were some answer I was going for that wasn't true - I'm trying to elicit an honest response.
You still have the Dockerfile and the required files in a VCS, but now what you have running is a full VM instead of a somewhat isolated process sharing kernel with other containers.

So far so good, for individual/standalone containers. But if you need thightly integrated containers (sharing networks, volumes, ports and so on) things may be a bit more complicated. And not sure about Kubernetes. YMMV
Lobbying and bribery. Check out who is using them, its quite unnatural.
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You might enjoy one of these as a starting place:

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/five-minute-introduct...

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introduction-to-noteb...

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/why-observable
You realize that hate crimes have gone up the past few years? The far right are committing crimes, and Ben Shapiro's rhetoric (along with other far right commentators) is not helping.

You're tying to equivocate throwing a milkshake at a politician with actual violence.

>https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/apr/03...
Sure. Just as long as you agree that the loans should be dischargable in bankruptcy. The lenders here should also bear the consequences of making a poorly thought out contract.
Not all employment is the same, especially the type that makes people feel like a cog in a machine, and pays similarly with poor future prospects.
Yeah, it would be interesting if she had worn her Fitbit during the lab study, and we knew whether the Fitbit score during that time was the same or different. Otherwise it's kind of a meaningless anecdote. Maybe there's additional relevant detail that was not included in the article.
I find highly relevant advertisements creepy. A sort of advertising uncanny valley. I'll take the minor annoyance of a garbage ad bombardment any day over, what is to me, the much more concerning feeling of being surveilled.
> doesn't depend on lat/lon (because that has inherent error margins in it).

What do you mean by that?
The most precise measurement I know of is the frequency of a laser-cooled Rb 87 standard 6,834,682,610.904333 which is handled with full precision by 64-bit floating point.

If you think this isn't precise enough for you, maybe you don't really understand your precision needs.
The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX?
The Ruthless Reality of Amazon's One-Day Shipping
Female Toronto rapper/producer releases FOSS mixtape on GitHub
No need to be abrasive, many companies offer things "in your browser" yet they merely send you the frontend and instruct your browser to connect to their backend.

Such as gaming SaaS thingies.
Also if all those English degrees went and got comp sci degrees, those comp sci degrees wouldn't be worth nearly as much in the market.
I'm pretty sure there have been mass shootings committed by MLK fans, too. What's your point?
True, False, and Null are legitimate. >3-valued logic systems tend to be invalid/can be condensed into 3-values.
I'm just curious what you feel about Java, .Net, Python and Ruby? Ruby is a hair smaller, but the others are actually bigger than the NodeJS runtime, with .Net and Java being significantly bigger.

Or, do you only run software hand crafted in assembly?
I just wanted to say I appreciate the imagery preceeding you paper, as I think it captures the struggle of FPP conversion perfectly. As my office's unofficial, "FPP expert" I sympathize the struggle. You've done an excellent job crafting a paper that not only captures your work, but you've managed to articulate the FPP problem so accessibly. Anybody that cares to consider your paper can gain insight into the true nature of the dragon.
Nobody is forcing you to take a loan out. I studied and worked at the same time. Paid for my 4-year NJ college with cash.
>The people who use the "no freedom from consequences" language are intentionally vague about what form those consequences take, and often, those "consequences" are including violent reactions

Different speech has radically different consequences. Are you saying zero speech should be met with violence?
Agreed. The best way to interview is to simply have a joint discussion about their past projects (from resume). There is no value in whiteboard puzzles. It is easy to gauge who is competent and who didn't do or didn't understand the work they claim on the resume.

In over 25 years of interviewing candidates, this approach has never failed me. I've never asked for whiteboard coding. Whiteboarding architectural concepts, sure.

The only caveat is the interviewer needs to have substantial experience in the same field to spot the wheat from the chaff in a casual conversation. If the interviewer is very junior, I can see how this might not work. Solution: don't have your most junior people run the interviews.
This is a catch-22 though, if you are ignorant enough to not realize it is irresponsible, you are not the person who is going to be waiting a few years to research the market and make an informed decision. The people whose job it is to stop semi-ignorant people from making a poor uninformed decisions, are the same loan officers rubber stamping loans.

Not everyone can magically be smart enough to truly understand what they are getting into, and what ramifications it will have on their later economic life. What is your advice for the people who aren't doing more research ahead of time? "just get smarter dummy" ?
Listen here:
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I daydream sometimes about having a browser where tabs behave more like buffers in vim or emacs - that is, with no tab bar or particular ordering on open pages, but with them just hidden in the background, with some kind of about:pages interface (like emacs ibuffer-mode) where I could sort/filter them and bring individual ones back to the foreground.

(Split panel view would be nice, while we're at it.)
Neat! Anyone with more understanding can point out differences with statebox[1]? Both seem to be:

- visual and textual

- purely functional

- dataflow-like

I get the feeling that statebox might not be turing complete (guaranteed termination) and have a stronger focus on formal verification. Also, it doesn't seem to have a visual editor yet.

[1]: https://statebox.org/what-is/
UK Adults' media use and attitudes report 2019
It's possible to have a fork where both sides of the fork remain compatible. A hostile fork will lose this property by one or both sides of the fork causing divergence on purpose (generally the incumbent side) to make it difficult for the other side (generally the parasitic side). This is certainly a real phenomenon, regardless of whether the software is free or proprietary.
Can slim be used to create an iso? So:

Dockerfile > slim > iso
Most middle class kids coming out of school see college as an extension of the education required to compete in the market - they're also told that trade schools are a rip off and community college is for underachievers, so they end up diving into university before giving that option any real critical examination.

I imagine upper class kids just get their education bank-rolled by their parents so who cares. And I didn't live the life of a lower class kid (my family was middle or lower middle) so I can't speak to their experience - but that middle class suburbanite definitely isn't going to get a check from their parents to cover their full schooling.
I didn't know South Africa had a nuclear plant! Cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_energy_in_South_Africa
I never called him alt-right.

Thanks for that.

he's engaged in hate speech several times - some nice examples here:

>If you wear your pants below your butt, don't bend the brim of your cap, and have an EBT card, 0% chance you will ever be a success in life.

>Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock

Thanks for the examples! The 1st is a criticism and throwing shade at particular behaviors. I had a colleague who did that with his pants. Who was from rural Michigan, BTW. Might I ask what your justification for saying it's "hate speech?" Are you by any chance trading in racial stereotypes? (This is a danger of ideologies like Intersectionality which obsess over identities like race.)

The 2nd is nationalism. Sure, you can criticize him for that, but it's not "hate speech."

Thanks for the examples of how arbitrary "hate speech" can be.
>Location marketing aims to understand “online-offline attribution.” If a Starbucks coffee ad is sent to your email, for example, marketers want to know if you actually went there and bought a coffee. The only way to know is to monitor your online and offline habits at all times.

Make no mistake: the purpose of marketing is to maximize information asymmetry. The natural end point is totalitarian: they know everything about you, and you know nothing at all, blindly obeying.