skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other side of the coin, I'm in an area with NO zoning restrictions at all (other than a homophobic county-wide prohibition on pornographic bookstores). The town planning board has no power to disallow any type of building or business as long as it passes a very basic environmental survey. There's been a lot of bad feeling lately about a proposed motocross track/RV park in what is a very quiet farming community. I pity the neighbors who will have to suffer it, but there's hardly anything that can be done to stop it. I guess that's the price a community pays for constantly voting against zoning ordinances.
Some call it tech neofeudalism and the more I study it the more it makes sense to describe this kind of situations.

Kings used to own the land and serfs work it with no rights.

Platforms as Youtube own a new kind of land and Youtubers work on it with no rights.
> Keep in mind that it's not "Here's some money, please let us roll out an evil update to your extension," it's "Our company loves your extension and would like to acquire it."

I get messages like this every now and then for mobile apps and browser extensions I manage and they're painfully obvious to spot.

They're often from sketchy looking generic email addresses, have no information about the buying company, don't even attempt to demonstrate knowledge of the app, and most importantly mention nothing about how they plan to grow the app.

It's always just "would you like to sell?" and "how many users do you have?".

A recent one:

> From: *@gmail.com

> My name is John.

> I have noticed your google extension "https://checkbot.io/ Checkbot: SEO, Web Speed &amp; Security Tester ", its looks interesting would you considering to sell it?

> Best regards

I've had more elaborate ones but they're always generic with no obvious business interest in the specific app they're asking to buy.
Why? After 40 your body starts to decline and your mortality stares you in the face. If you aren't already running a successful business or an executive then your career is either stalling or in decline. If you haven't been planning for retirement then you're running out of options.

45-54 seems like the age group that's burdened most with their future and the consequences of their life choices catching up to them.
Why stop with older people? Why not simply allow anyone who wants to off themselves to get on with it safely? After all, we wouldn't want young people to think that being useless is something you have to suffer with for years.

To take it a bit farther, why wait for them to decide to go themselves - some of these people don't have a lot of get-up-and-go in the first place, maybe they just need a little helping hand. Why not off those who are _demonstrably_ providing little value to {others, the state, the corporation}?

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In case you don't do sarcasm, this is how we wound up with Nazi Germany's death camps. They were (from the Nazi's perspective) humane solutions to the problems of untermensch polluting the gene pool. s/gene pool/society's emotive context/g.

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Life is worth living. No matter how worthless you feel, no matter how how alone you seem. You are not alone. You are not worthless. You Are Loved. [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Left-Tell-Discovering-Rwandan-Holocau...
The copyright problem isn't just on Google's end - copyright complaints should be required to be human generated as well. Otherwise anyone can be de-platformed/DDOS someone with bogus automated copyright complaints.

> they just need to bite the bullet and hire a whole bunch of people.

This issue is not specific to Youtube but to all platforms where users can post. I don't see how Facebook or Twitter or Reddit can hire enough people to review their communities.
Imagine we managed to be better than the fire and touch an international community faster, then its smoke will did, could such a level of attention change the situation and and push government(s) to use some kind of aviation to extinguish the fire?

The rain is the only hope...
readme files might be the natural place for them but in practice readme files sort of tell you about the project, the author, the purpose, examples of what it can do and maybe how to install it.

It rarely gives you what is in each folder, and what part of the functionality each folder handles, although perhaps we should try to change the conventions of readme files to include file structure.

edit: I mean the root readme might contain what is in each folder so you don't have to click on each one to see which one you want to start with.
Thank you for taking your time to read my comment and then responding to it!

I completely understand and agree with the spirit of your response but here's my pedantic take on the specific ways you put it because I have heard it many times before and I do feel being pedantic about these will force you to introspect further.

I feel deeply about this and have seen not only people's life change for the better when they go down this path of introspection, but people around them, so bear with me.

> If I understand you correctly, we don't have our priorities straight.

We are all very smart people. We do have our priorities straight.

The issue seems to be that these are extremely short term priorities that are, most of the time counter productive for the wellbeing of a person over a span of 50 or so years.

Its like getting really good and efficient at digging your own grave.

You see, you're going to die eventually, so why not work hard at ensuring that your final resting place is as nice and comfortable as you can possibly make it?

> Money and consumption is put above relationships and growth

Of course and it's good for the economy. Think about it - without money and consumption, we would be in deep recession!

So what exactly are we missing?

> to justify shallow, expensive pursuits like traveling so they can show off how great their lives are

Travelling is extremely valuable and educational. It also means different things to different people.

However, I believe, the mainstream interpretation of travelling seems to be a vacuous method of distraction from the emptiness of the regular grind.

Now, at best, I think that's extremely sad and at worst, can force someone deeper into depression.

> Instead of leaning on relationships to provide for each other, and enduring hardships together, we want to individually achieve for ourselves, and remove any sense of inconvenience or boredom from our lives.

Sorry this comment is already very large but without being more pedantic, you have made excellent points.

The last bit is simply brilliant.

Inconvenience is such a great teacher and enabler!

You're either a successful entrepreneur or well on your way to being one. I really enjoyed this discussion and you have added a lot for me to think about.

Thank you!
Thanks for this. Astonishing report.
Why is that? Just curious.

When I proposed to my wife I went with a Sapphire as the main stone, mostly because I personally find clear rocks boring to look at (and my wife generally agrees).
Xcelerate wrote: "Why aren't people more worried about these kinds of things?"

You replied: "We've been hearing since WW2 ... If we are right this time, why worry about it? If we are wrong this time -- as we have been for the past 70 years -- why worry about it?"

This "we" is a general "we", not a personal comment as it's unlikely that you are that old.

If your answer doesn't reflect something about 'the minds of most people' then who is the "we" who you are saying "are right"?
This I really hate. People make fun of participation awards but that's what it's all about...you tried, you participated...Ok that's fantastic.

Pressure that if you're not worth 7 figures or famous is poisonous...
They asked him if he had moral standards.
What part? That cardboard can be easily recycled (true), that most consumers probably won't bother with a recycling process that isn't curbside (seems likely), or that the company representative recognizes that the difficulty of recycling their product is a problem (I'll take FC's word for it)?
That is sort of the problem though. Climate change arguably wouldn't have been much of a challenge for western countries if we had continued to evolve our cities, infrastructure and applicable technologies. Instead our economies are mostly paper based so we can't make real world changes without affecting someone's contract, mortgage or stock value. Therefor we are left changing our papers around, which of course upsets anyone who need the improvements.
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at least in firefox, updates typically roll out immediately while any manual review happens asynchronously
I do mean this completely naively, as I was not even aware that "exchanging knowledge for money" required a license before this, but why do you feel this way?

I'm so shocked that this isn't simply about certification (aka, you can't give out some sort of officially accepted slip of paper without a license, which I would at least be able to come up with arguments for), that I am really curious as to how this is an issue.

In particular:

1. It seems you can exchange knowledge for money as long as you don't have a physical presence in the state. Do you think this is an unfortunate loophole that in an ideal world would be "fixed"? If I create a new framework or technology and live in Bolivia, do you believe that ideally before I can offer a course on it online that accepts payments I should first be licensed in the state of the person taking the course? Should random people who happen to live in the state have a leg up on me teaching the technology I invented simply since they live there already and it is probably easier/in-their-means to get registered?

2. It doesn't seem to have anything in particular to do with "bad knowledge", as there are plenty of people willing to teach bad things for free (you can define bad however you want here). And separately, as far as I can tell, no one is really checking the courses are good or anything. Using the example above, would California have the capability to know that my React course is up to snuff?

So what is the registration for? Why is the sale of knowledge different than the sale of t-shirts?

1. Is the only goal to have these places on file for easier class-action lawsuits later? That might make sense?

2. Is it because tuition is particularly expensive, so it is known to attract more scams? So, merely a consequential result and not anything inherent to knowledge itself.

3. Is it because this sort of "institution" qualifies for government assisted funding/scholarships? In that case I could certainly understand it.

Any of those reasons could make sense, but none lead me to the feeling that the sale of knowledge, of all things, should of course necessarily be licensed/registered outside any other variables.
That RAM costs both in terms of space and power/heat. Especially high-speed cache RAM. That would make the SoCs huge and expensive for no particularly good reasons.

Also large caches need a lot of logic to ensure coherency between multiple cores - with a small cache the probability of conflict isn't that big, so you can afford to keep it simple. With a huge cache such conflicts between cores would be pretty much assured and you would have to dedicate a lot of silicon just for managing access.
The platform you speak of did not add more DRM - the third-party (Bethesda) that developed the software did. I accept Nintendo's DRM because every single console ever within recent times has some form of DRM, be it hardware or software-based.

I play games while on the go and lugging around a gaming PC and only playing GOG games is a little unfeasible, don't you think? Also, the bus driver gets pretty upset when I ask for a plug for my monitor and desktop.
I guess I should have qualified that as "since Mao" ;)
1. First see if you can get the use cases, I.e. what are the requirements for the system.
2. Choose 1-3 core use cases. Analyse those use cases - Data in / Processing / Data out.
3. Draw UML diagram of the components in the systems.
4. Trace each use case end to end with either a debugger or just code reading.
5. Along the way, draw UML diagram of the class / data structure.
6. For each class add the core methods where all the business logic resides.

BTW thousands line of code is NOT a big code base.
Brilliant asymmetric response.
I suppose what I’m really saying is that dying of natural causes and living in the frailty of old age really sucks. I’m not advocating for unhappy to kill themselves. I’m saying making an informed decision about when you’d like to die is ideal regardless of your emotional state. It makes sense for happy people to do this too. And maybe the answer is as long as possible, but I doubt it for most cases.
There's a bunch of extremely valuable progress in less glamorous areas, like data center operations:

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/google-s...
What are you talking about? Italians score higher than northern Europe in all IQ tests. Maybe you have northern Europe ancestry and can't accept you're not the best white super advanced human? :(
The solar panel market is dominated by cheap silicon wafer based production from China. This research involves uses of higher efficiency PV in other markets. Thermophotovoltaics have applications in hybrid cars, drones, and cogeneration of electricity. In the conclusion of this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxJsa8miNQ&feature=youtu.be...) Eli Yablonovitch says the automotive market is ten times larger than the solar panel market and is something that higher efficiency PV can target in the near term. Drones are a niche market that Alta Devices is already working in.
Yep. For some of the larger projects that I've worked on, I've gotten into the habit of adding folder level READMEs. I don't know if anyone else has benefited from them, but I certainly have myself when I need to remind myself of some context or pitfalls.

Having a sensible folder structure and good folder names is nice, but taking a few minutes to write individual READMEs can make a repo even easier to understand.
Too many questions might get you tagged as an Urban Naxal :D
From the article:

> A Guardian investigation reveals that cities around the country are no longer recycling many types of plastic dropped into recycling bins

So I am suggesting, on the premise that there is a system in place to separate trash, but it is being sent to landfill - to keep it separate WITHIN the landfill, so that a future us can potentially mine it once we have efficient recycling tech.
>I think trying to debunk the current utility of IQ by invoking its original goal is almost a sleight of hand.

I wasn't trying to pull a fast one against anyone. The specific line was a response to OP who stated: "It (IQ) is designed by someone to figure out if someone else is worthy in a certain way". I meant to convey that IQ was neither designed initially for that purpose, nor is it solely used for this purpose today. The metric is used in all kinds of studies for all kinds of reasons, and yes, it probably is used in admissions as well.

By the way, I wasn't making a case for the utility of IQ at all. I just hated OPs characterization of IQ being a nefarious tool of some power hierarchy. That is not the right way to look at it.
Youtube is a monumental money-making machine for Google because of the large amount of ads. Creative content is only incidental, it is not the primary purpose of Youtube to foster creation, only to gather ad revenue. It shows in the way they treat creators and viewers vs advertisers and rights holding companies. So this backlash is justified, but for what, TikTok, another closed garden controlled by another media comany ?

I'd personally want to see rise an alternative made of peertube and micro donations, where users would chose to pay for infrastructure and content creation, but I don't know how to make this happen.
In the past, I've asked for a 100% refund of fees before filing a complaint with the association and have received back 50%. You may want to go that route.

Literally just one fax. They want to avoid any complaints on their record, especially valid ones.
I am very open to the idea that Lambda school sucks, or is overhyped. Many SV things are.

However, literally nothing in that linked twitter thread, or the one it in turn links to, do a single thing to demonstrate that at all. The people who posted both have no first hand experience at all and there's no data or details or facts to support their arguments. It’s just someone reading the website and posting reaction gifs.
I mean, is a university education not a sort of scam? They are giving people degrees that cost far too much to justify the kind of job you'll get coming out.
Right up until they pull a <insert-social-giant> with their API access.
Unless you used to have a serious meth or heroine problem I'd say you're fine. ;)

I was pretty honest about my drug use. The way they phrase the questions sometimes leaves you with a bit of doubt, though. Like, "How many times did you use this drug?" I'm not sure who keeps a really diligent record of how many times they do drugs at parties.

But, yeah, I tried to be as accurate as possible, modulo that doubt about how possible it is to accurately answer these questions.
The numbers have doubled since 2006. The surveys in 2010 and 2014 showed similar increases.

I am no modi bhakt or bjp supporter, but it is appalling that people will just oppose and disbelieve anything the current government does. I can claim very confidently that you would have no problem if Manmohan Singh announced this news.
It does have 4G, which I think is the same
That's totally fair. Every now and then I do see a "you're not working hard enough" flare-up on here though. But of course, the loudest voices are often minorities.

That last bit is a pretty interesting stat, though.
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Next (https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next) might be a truly hackable browser.
Well, sure during the summer. But then the fall would happen and she would have the place to herself again. The neighborhood was full of single-paycheck households and the women were almost all the same age with similarly aged kids, so the families basically all bonded through the mothers first, then the kids, and finally the fathers.

The women largely learned how to get along, the kids all did, and the fathers did to a degree but they had the largest separation in personality and past times, probably because they had the least free time / most money and wanted to make it count.
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They're not and I predict this will not get them what they want.
We are still wrestling mightily with the notion that solving a problem badly can be worse than not solving it at all.
I have known multiple people who went through investigations including polygraphs for clearances. They were all told to be 100% honest and that it wasn't violations (within reason) that would hurt them...its not displaying "integrity". Those people were screened out for admitting to minor things like marijuana use etc. One's rejection read like some self righteous admonishment and said something like "You do not display the moral quality of character we here at <insert place> are looking for. We wish you the best in your future endeavors". They were told they failed the polygraph when they were being honest. Frankly if this is the hypocritical "quality of character" those places exhibit...people are better off avoiding them. The agencies/companies prove with their behavior they do not have the honesty and integrity they claim to look for and use these tools selectively. They reward lying and manipulating the system and punish honesty.
If national service is so good, everyone should do it
>One of Go's core strengths is simplicity.

I also remember reading some one said their Software has increased complexity due to Go's Simplicity. ( Or something similar along the line )

It really is a balancing act. And it seems there is no one size fit all solution.
im an in debt, highschool dropout, unemployed, and ill biy this on credit just to take a stand. i cant wait to set my google phone on fire. will be like finally ridding myself of a disease.

get it together man. priorities. the value of an old phone stands up to forcing cash in meaningful directions? forget my wallet/welfare/bills, badd things have to stop at any cost.
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....nor regulators.
I would say the curre6 55-74 range is baby boomers who benefitted from strong growth in wages, stocks, benefits, and housing and are financially secure. Where as the 45-54 group is the first of Gen X that didn't have those benefits and are in a much worse state financially for the future.

I guess the question I have is how have suicide rates changed over the past century.
Lambda School is preparing to enter India as well right?

How is it regulated there? better or worse?
How is this not a joke?

I get the comments that it's an "enhanced interrogation technique", but it sounds like it requires the subjects to be at least a bit intimidated by it. If someone pointed a dowsing stick at you, you wouldn't be the slightest bit intimidated by it, no matter how mean looking it was.

What kind of strange culture lets a prop straight out of a 50s sci-fi flick instill respect in people? And how they do it? Surely it can't just be the Hollywood movies?

Sorry for breaking out in a bit of a rant, but I seriously can't wrap my mind around how these things could possibly be useful.
Second hand diamonds are arguably even more morally defensible.
If the phone is narrow enough, you can still operate singlehanded, with a certain amount of sliding the phone up and down.
Ugh, fell for it again.
Raymond Hill (uBlock Origin)

It's uBlock Origin because the uBlock name itself got taken over by swindlers. So even well-intentioned actors aren't immune to this kind of abuse.
People used to smoke everywhere too. IIRC the damage is about the same.
> for bad things that actually happened is just astounding.

you are not kidding.

"You mean we have to monitor for this because someone ACTUALLY tried doing that before...?"
Peter Norvig's sudoku solver (Python) is excellent. Solves every possible variant of sudoku.

https://norvig.com/sudoku.html
It's not there to dissuade you. It's there to provide a paper trail in case you do something stupid.
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