skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this a few years ago when I found myself at a party, looking through my feed, and it made me start questioning what the hell was wrong with me.

Eliminating the feed entirely was fantastic. Soon I stopped checking my notifications (if I'm not seeing things on the feed, I'm not reacting or commenting, and not getting feedback.) Thus the only people I cared to check in on were literally the people I cared about. As a result, I grew much closer with those individuals.

Then messenger slowly started being useless, as all previously mentioned good friends were already either on hangouts/discord and preferred those (Mileage will obviously vary on this one.) I can still keep it around for my weekly check to make sure no-one is desperately trying to get a hold of me. And if they do, I immediately direct them to my chat platform of choice.

Events is still pretty handy, unfortunately, but not something I need to check in on often at all.

Honestly, I don't miss it at all, and I haven't really lost any value. I'm about as social as I was when I stopped, and in fact I consider the friendships I've had in my post-social media era to be stronger than ever.

The only people I have followed right now is a friend currently trying to break out as a social media author presence, in which case following her actually matters, and a band that one of my childhood friends is in, who I'm supporting for the same reason. (Though I often give them engagement elsewhere when I can.)
A different view:
I'm a contract dev at a very small company (20 all up, 2.5 devs, all contractors). The bosses are owners, and work _crazy_ hours. Occasionally they'll give out $100 supermarket vouchers, with a hand-written Thank You message, when we've hit some milestone. It's worth barely more than an hour's work, but I still appreciate it.
I'm pretty well paid there, and to give a cash bonus that would be significant on top would be a big dent for them, so I mentally fall back on the 'It's the thought that counts', and the hand-written cards give a genuine feeling of being appreciated
Believe you are thinking of solar wind? That might counteract another source, but don't believe light radiation would be affected.
"Sounds like he had a windfall, but working on commission can very easily go the opposite direction"

Well, I'm a bit skeptical. Someone who makes $500K unexpectedly isn't going to lose $500K unexpectedly.
It looks to me like it puts a lot of new metal and glass right behind the driver's and passenger's heads.
No, I think you misunderstood the parent because I've encountered the pattern EXACTLY as he described it. I have one device that I use for insecure stuff like FB Messenger and I have to go use it whenever I want to see new messages and I don't have access to a desktop.
And on the Japanese version of Windows, the yen symbol was the path separator, right? I vaguely remember this:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051014-20/?p=33...
Jesus Christ, what is it with people acting like companies having lots of high-paying jobs is some kind of economic pox? Don't we want companies to be successful and pay their employees well? Why get in the way of that, instead of supporting that and helping as many people share in the success as possible?
Maybe the effect is countered by the relative autonomy of US states and perhaps money does indeed make happy:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/articles/news-and...

But nevertheless I think that distributed and subsidiary governance is at least less less efficient.

That said, I would instantly exchange my government for the united federation of planets.
Y Combinator Gave Us $10k for Our Mobile App: “Uber for Photographers”
Oh God I forgot about that place. I went there once after hearing about the hype from a coworker ("Dude, great selection and cheap as hell!").

The place was miserable. Dirty clothing strewn all over the place. I bought a couple shirts for like $8 each. Neither of them fit all that well. They disintegrated after one wash. One was cut crooked.

Seems like the whole company was a thin (and I mean thin) quick fashion veneer over sweatshop labor?
I Was a Squatter, Reveals German Chancellor Merkel (2008)
> Our future descendants will heap scorn and curses on our generation, and we deserve every bit of it.

They won't. They'll be dead.
Libra will also be controlled by Facebook. This is a private blockchain. They can block your account no matter what your wallet is.
There's various reasons for why people are NIMBYs, sure. But that's still the single biggest proximate cause of the housing crisis, by far.

I mean, you could also say, "those tech companies created too many high-paying jobs!!" but last I checked, that's generally what we wanted companies to do, so getting mad at them for it seems pretty weird.
I was at a city council meeting for my specific city and that requirement for parking spaces per unit does not fully support all tenants. So street parking goes way up on a traditionally quiet street. It happening more and more as they start erecting these new "luxury" apartments.
One job presented me with a Kindle after passing probation, it was still in the box so straight into eBay to get money for something I actually wanted. Same place rewarded a risky project we completed blazingly fast (the new VP, when reviewing it, said it looked good for three quarters of work and we had to correct him to say we’d started 3 months ago) with an Italian meal and a promotion for the lead dev. The rest of us were on pitiful salaries and all but one quit in the next three months.

Makes me appreciate the current role more, which has 4 office events a year, a kids Christmas party where the parent-provided presents are reimbursed, and a standard formula for a leaving drinks budget (roughly enough for one drink per employee per year of employment). People still talk about when a 5- and 7-year veteran both finished up in the same week.
The system in the US before the creation of the Fed wasn't free banking; after the civil war, the National Banking Acts of 1863-64 created a network of chartered national banks with a single currency backed by the US Treasury. Then in 1879, the US went back to the gold standard, so you're on (1), not (2a).
> there is little the average person can do in their daily life to inhibit climate change.

Don't have children.
No, no, no. You have to move the chapters around, renumber the sections, change the order of the questions at the back, and introduce a couple of new typos.

Otherwise how are you going to force the students to buy the new edition?
I chuckled, but I have to say that the word "Googley" used to mean something when I was there. It was exemplified by, among others, Claire Stapleton, who would post incredible little stories to go along with TGIF announcements. Retaliating against her for organizing a walkout is one of the most un-Googley things you can imagine. Now that she's left, if someone uses the word "Googley" unironically, you can laugh in their face and tell them I gave you permission.

ETA: I found that Claire has posted a sampling of these on her site: http://cargocollective.com/clairest/Miscellaneous
Looks useful!

FYI, Your Java install example points to a broken link (no version specified)

$ curl https://download.sqreen.com/java/sqreen-.jar -o sqreen.jar
I'm surprised this seems to work so well for you. I've had colleagues do similar things and it pretty much always resulted in them being "managed out", outright fired, or mysteriously lumped into a round of layoffs that otherwise didn't affect their department.
California recently passed several laws to make it easier for the market to provide housing.

However, local governments are still the ultimate deciders and many of them are opposed to new housing, such as in the SF Peninsula.

Other parts of CA are less resistant to new housing. In LA's downtown, for example, almost 50,000 units of new housing are being brought online between 2016-2021. In both Korea Town and Hollywood, more than 5,000 new units have come online in the past 3 years (and they're already the densest neighborhoods). In Marina Del Rey and Playa Del Rey, roughly 2500 new units have opened/will open up in 2018 and 2019. Along the Metro Expo Line, more than 25,000 residential units within 4 blocks of a station are planned or already under construction. Inglewood will see somewhere between 500 and 2500 new apartments in the neighborhood around the Sofi Stadium, not including other residential development. Even Santa Monica will see roughly 2000 new apartments over the next 2 years.

Edit: these are just the developments that I'm aware of. There are plenty more. If you're interested in following LA-area development, there are several Facebook groups devoted to this subject.
Houston still has minimum parking requirements, plus local/state road development patterns incentivized car-friendly buildings.

It's harder to build denser if you have very little good public transit (or walk/bike infra) to speak of. Density doesn't exist in a vacuum.

I mean, Houston is the principal city of a metro area of 7 million people, and has no subway, no mass transit that's separated grade whatsoever. That's not a setup that's going to easily support higher population densities.

Meanwhile, you look at a city like Munich that's in a smaller metro area, and it has several subway lines, plus several hybrid commuter/mass transit lines that are separated-grade at least within the city proper. They're steadily building yet more, and Munich residents don't even consider their transit to be all that great! (lots of complaints about the S-Bahn, for sure)
For now. but they said the same thing when they bought WhatsApp -- that it would remain separate from messenger. Now they're merging the two. So, I wouldn't necessarily trust that what Facebook says will stay true forever. It will stay true just long enough for most people to have forgotten that promise.
Sqreen is awesome we have been using it for over a year and have loved all the new features they have put out!
I read the situation as being worse for Linux (3 CVEs, including one remotely-inducable kernel panic, spanning many versions) than for FreeBSD (1 CVE that can be exploited to slow down a target system in the latest major version).

But even granting that both affected OS flavors have serious DoS issues, a service that used a mix of OS flavors in its servers would be more resistant (not impervious) to attacks based on these TCP problems than a service using only one flavor. So do you really count this as a failure of N-version programming? (Honest question! This is not my area of expertise.)
In other words: Those who can destroy a thing, control a thing.
It seems to me that Stockholm is even worse and has been for quite some time.
I think there is much to be learned by comparing databases and filesystems.

One thing I think that filesystems can learn from databases is the notion of a compound primary key. It would be neat if app-files were identified by an (app, type, id) tuple. This would bring the advantages of both the posix and the windows filesystem layouts.

For instance if we had(app=firefox, type=/usr/bin, id=main). Then we could easily find all firefox files by querying by app. Or we could easily find all binaries in PATH by querying by type.

ps. I think this would work better than the overly general tag-based filesystem people sometimes propose.
Agreed. I'm still shocked about how pervasive it is. New York, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Vancouver, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw. It seems like a complete binary: cities are either dying or in the midst of a "housing crisis".
Considering climate lag (see below) it's almost certain most glaciers on Earth will be gone in 30 years.

There is a delay of a couple of decades between emissions and effects on the climate. This means we are now seeing the effects from the emissions from the 70s and early 80s.

The problem is that we have emitted more GHG in the last 40 years than the previous 150 years since the industrial revolution started. We have a huge climate bill to pay even if we magically stopped all emissions today.
"Can do" attitude is a good selling point. "Better than you" is not.
They may have gotten a BH T-Shirt even though they worked for somebody else.
Sure, so it's the same for the kids. We never expect a 7-yrs old mature enough to make such judgement. But the choice is still there with their parents. Does that choice exist for these folks in Xinjiang Uyghur regions? Is it free to join/leave or is it forced?
Correct, its not enabled by default.
The solution is to build houses,

It's one option among many.

And by itself -- most likely not a sufficient solution (or any kind of a game changer).

I just don't understand this stance at all.

Basically the main reason this "stance" is that the locals know better: that simply allowing newer (unregulated) construction isn't going to bring their rents down -- or that is to say: do something about availability in their income brackets, and not just yours and mine -- anytime soon.
Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels
Previous HN discussion of the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205566
This level of bullshit has PWC written all over it.
In this case we (Timescale) are your main line of support. Our job is for you to have a 100% positive experience on Timescale Cloud. The buck, as it were, stops with us.
That's especially true for automotive SW and interfaces, which raise dreck to a whole 'nother level. For a whole lot of reasons, I don't expect to ever buy a car much newer than about 2010 for the rest of my life. Avoiding (ob)noxious systems and interfaces is a large part of that reason.
It's not that I'm sceptical of climate science, it's just that the discussion is now... entrenched. The random person will not debate the wisdom of human-induced changes to the weather, but also will probably not understand the Milankovitch cycles, or know the ocean water levels rise and fall on geological timescales by about 130 meters?, that we know this because (IIRC) of Wallace (I think, in tandem with Darwin?) who also noted that the divergence between different variants of the same species across the islands of an an archipelago varied more with the depth of the water between islands, than with just the distance. What about the PET (Paleocene-Eocene transition)?
I'm sure that climate scientists are doing their jobs, but that doesn't mean that there aren't many (including "activists") who are willing to debate the matter without this key. Why doesn't this ever come up? (both the cycles, and the lack of depth in the discussions)
If it's as dire as some seem to imply, we should all switch to nuclear right now.
And personally, I am even more sceptical when I hear talk of climate justice, but that is an entirely different issue.
Just the typical music events (not the small solo musicians but when there is an actual show) they hold every now and then, or when the flea market gets pretty crazy can definitely make it hard to watch TV even with windows closed in my experience.
Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs
I bought a home last year and had to do none of that, although I will say I had to share some PII (SSN in particular) through email. They claimed that email was “SECURE” several times, but without an explanation of what security measures they take and given that I used my normal mail client to send an unencrypted message, I’m assuming my data is just sitting around undeleted on someone’s mailbox.
HA! Go to reddit sub section assistance and you will see plenty of 'panhandling' And it has been going on there for years.
For 2010, that’s pretty ahead of the curve.

Did they give you a couple Bitcoin in 2011?
I don’t know what the point of this fact is. Architects and engineers mostly work from offices, which are usually located so that there is a good pool of potential employees around.
Small biotech cofounder here - curious how you think about lab supplies and interactions with other of your customers. One thing that is curious is that you have a list of your life-science customers, but that's also a list of clients/suppliers for other of your clients. Is there any (potential) interaction in that regard between your clients? That seems to be one of the 'perks' in the generic tech industry - trading services between horizontal players. That might be a useful strategy here too. Even more than I want Uber rides, I want DNA, RNA, and other biotech services & products (that might be provided by these other clients).

Also curious about your interaction with CLSA - they're a pretty cool group that, as you mention, serves as a node or hub in the community. What does your interaction with them look like? To some extent they already provide some portal into the larger lab suppliers. It's not on the payment side, but more on the buying power itself.

Helping comply with government-approved accounting would also be a very nice feature for those of us that make use of SBIR-type grants. Though I suspect that that would mostly be true for much smaller biotech startups.
I think it would be good to try something different. First I would get them good at typing code. This way they will not have to think about typing and thinking, they can just think. Second I would figure out a way to get them used to the concepts of programing, like for loops, variables, ect.. by doing other tasks. For example run a soccer drill like a for loop so they are learning secondly. I think this might help with some kids giving up early since its hard. It should be a little easier since they will have some experience with the concepts since they have run the drill before. Hope this makes sense, good luck!
> That's kind of the definition of FUD spreading, isn't it? How is anyone supposed to defend themselves against accusations like that?

By not being an incredibly shady company in the first place? Am I just supposed to disregard everything FB is notorious for, just in case any concerns I raise might be FUD?
Any money spent by Niantic to stop the “cheaters” is on their own shoulders. There was no need for them to have their employees waste their time on it.
I dunno, the Nordic countries are seeming fabulous right now.
'Steak dinner' is an American English idiom for 'a nice meal'. And it isn't culturally sensitive to assume that a group of Indians are vegans.
Sure, but that's not the point. The point is whether you're likely to find a group where everybody is fine with beef (or pork, or any meat at all).

Also, not all Indians are fine with the Indians who are fine with steak. Significant conflict over that sort of thing sometimes makes the news outside the country.
Why do we need to expend our energies to debate? Facebook cannot be trusted. Facebook should not be allowed anywhere near our finances. This is a nightmare in the making. Gullible public will start using it in the name of convenience and it might suddenly become ubiquitous.
I only really have 1 question about this payment system they're setting up. Will transaction fees be flat rate, or will they be percentage-based? I have never understood why society tolerates percent-based charges on payment processing. It does not cost more in any way to transfer a larger number over a wire. If the costs to provide the service don't scale, then the price to use it shouldn't either. I find it hard to believe that Visa and Mastercard would sign on unless they got to maintain their ability to levy taxes on the majority of the economy.... but there's a chance they might. They've been very scared of WePay and AliPay in the East. The idea of that kind of payment system terrifies them in their bones. This cryptocurrency might be seen for them as last-ditch insurance from getting cut out of the picture entirely. Or... they'll just drive things such that they can maintain the same profit level while acting as an oligarchical 'reseller'.

I'm just wondering at what point does the whole 'only the federal reserve is legally permitted to mint currency' thing kick in. With Bitcoin you can make an argument that it's too different... but with this, they're literally setting up a reserve banking system but putting gigacorps in the place of Congress in terms of deciding fiscal policy.
he was talking about an aspiring manager and here you assume he passed a leetcode interview. ive never known an autism spectrum leetcoder type to tell someone to smile more.
Wal-Mart also wants to be the new Amazon

https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/amazon-walmart-top-e...
It works fairly well in NYC, too.

Not without tradeoffs, mind you. But it does basically work.
“Sign-in with Facebook” is all it takes to lose your right to privacy though.

It’s pretty clear this is an attempt to take advantage of network effects and dominate the market early.

There is also no guarantee that while FB will be one many validators, I dont see any hard limit on the number of validators required for the network to be operable. So over time a single validators could take over. No one will bother changing coins in this case though as it will be too inconvenient.
The results may be slightly skewed towards the languages/market segments their tools target. I have been an embedded developer since the late 90's and have a CLion license, but since they don't fully support Make files out of the box this tool doesn't fit within my development flow. One of the problems with CLion is its steadfast reliance on the output of the build to support CTAGS/Intellisense (sorry, I forget their specific terminology).
No, switches (even good ones), are cheaper than touchscreens that can handle automotive heat and vibration. It hardly matters which you use anymore, since pretty much all control heads are going to be networked onto a CAN bus or the like these days. Touchscreens are a bad idea for cars though, and I applaud Mazda for being the first to try to deliberately kick the damn things back to desks, pockets, and walls, where they belong.
Really unhappy with Mozilla. Does this effect all versions of Firefox? Quantum only? The bug report itself is not viewable publicly either.
It results in rents which are equal to what the open market price would have been.

This is a pretty strong claim to make. Can you provide data to substantiate?
False equivalence? Research about things which happened in the past are empirical, and it matters little who discovered them. Predictions about future events are not empirical, since they have not happened.
Doesn't it depend on the browser? Does Google Chrome still do that thing where if you fire the browser up and then type www.google.com in it, it actually searches Google for that string and returns a results page, instead of just browsing there?
This is spot-on. Completely agree. Tokyo is an incredibly comfortable, quiet city. Preparing for a three-week trip, I expected it to be like New York — crowded, expensive, uncomfortable — but it completely blew my mind. I had never thought that the constellation of density, quiet, reasonable rent, and a first-class city were collectively possible.
I don't agree. The ant looks much distant to us.

There are colonization tendencies in every living being, I think. Ants are not the only one. A wolf pack hangs together, so do a bunch of chimpanzees and zebras. The difference is in the way this tendency is expressed and the author fails to draw comparisons appropriately.

Just my opinion!
The notion that Kotti or Alex are dangerous by any coherent metric can only be understood as satirical.
I worked for a "huge well-known bank" as a data center engineer. Unfortunately, they had converted all the FTE positions to contractor. As a contractor, you had as much job security as a slab of meat. All new contractor hires were given a copy of "Who Moved My Cheese" to read. In 32 years of working, I've never seen a place with a higher turnover rate. It was sad because the job itself was pretty nice, just nothing else about it was.