skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We in tech or the tech community live in a world where everything has a solid yes or no answer there are very few grays. The rest of the world is not like that. It's full of grays and they change constantly. If I can pick between a great politician or a great Techie to lead a community I will always pick the politician. They can lead a group of people. Techies can come up with the right answer given solid facts but that's not the real world.
This is a complicated issue.

Modern translations (written in the last 30 years, say) are way way better than the public domain editions, not least because they don't have puritanical Victorians editing out all the "scandalous" bits.
Amazon claims that the opaque sellers on their platforms are liable for what's sold on their platform, yet does no real verification on sellers, doesn't eliminate outright fraud, and allows known counterfeiters on their platform. Amazon provides no legal redress for harms caused by their platform and doesn't give you an address to go after since they comingled all the items that claim to be a single SKU. Amazon claims that they are completely unable to be held accountable for anything sold on their platform and has maintained this in court cases.
I understand the fear of that, but isn’t it much simpler technologically to provide pricing information to consumers? If I’m offered a product for $100 and I check some website that shows the average price is $80, I doubt I would pay the $100.
I love how customer service is quick and great when it’s combined with PR.
Wouldn't this also mean the amount of CO2 processed was also down significantly?
Your claim that high-density housing creates a higher population is exactly backwards. A high population in a small geographic area is what creates the necessity of high-density housing.

The population of Singapore even 70 years ago was higher than San Francisco county's population is today. San Francisco also has a nation's worth of external support, Singapore only has its trade deals.

I think Singaporeans know how to run Singapore better than you do.
Sure, it’s not impossible. It’s actually my preferred way of meeting women. But it can be a huge hurdle, especially if you have not been initiated.

It’s perfectly alright to meet people on dating apps, especially if you don’t have much experience dating. At the end of the day all dating advice is spurious IMO, you have to experience it in order to truly understand it.
Perfect addition to ublock origin.
Survival of the Friendliest (2017)
wildlife will do very well, maybe not the charismatic stuff, but overall.
Just because he worked there, doesn't mean he understands the economics of the business.

A premium account is $10/mo.. or $30/quarter. Pandora is part of sirius now.. but spotify has revenue of about 5.50/user/quarter.

Either Pandora is 6x more effective at monetization than Spotify (very unlikely), or that engineer was wrong.
You might be starting with the wrong question. You are assuming internet access is a good thing and that extending its supply will be best for everyone.
Consider the following:

- the internet makes people dumber (low attention spans, group think, advertising driven content, addictive behaviors promoted, etc)

- the internet makes us consumers instead of creators

- the internet makes people depressed and anxious

- the internet causes around 5% of global GHG emissions

- internet enhances ability for total monitoring and censoring of speech

- internet creates centralized global tech monopolies on information flow and data

- extensive global networks put society at increased risk of total collapse

What are the benefits and do they really outweigh the negatives? Can the benefits be accomplished through other means? Just make sure you're comfortable with possibly making people's lives worse.
> They could have built it much less dense than they did.

Only if they don't want any economic future. You're not thinking long term.
According to legend, when the king of Qin wanted to conquer Shu (which occupied an enviable defensive position behind two mountain ranges), he offered Shu's king a diplomatic gift, five large stone statues.

Given the obvious impossibility of taking the statues across the mountains on foot, he also offered to construct a road from Qin into Shu at his own expense.

The king of Shu accepted, the road was built, and the statues arrived. The armies of Qin followed shortly thereafter.
Amazon is both a bookseller and a book publishing platform. Those should be split. Just because it's inconvenient for Amazon doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. That's kind of the whole point of antitrust law. The market is not necessarily better when it's efficient because it's controlled by a single entity. Do you all imagine yourselves as future robber barons with mustaches to twirl?
Hey - good point! What does that even mean?

I think, from reading that abstract, that they’re claiming it causes drug prices to rise and lower the overall rate of drug use. If they don’t mean that, then I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.
the YIMBYism, the pro-tech business mentality, the emphasis on growth, the anti regulation perspective -- all these things make me think a little bit of Houston Texas or Ronald Reagan or the Chamber of Commerce or something.
>I, personally, believe that the whole point of ads is to manipulate you into making purchasing decisions that are irrational,[...]. Therefore I think all ads are unethical.

If I invent something I truly believe will improve the lives of others that they might pay for, how would I let the world know about it other than ads?

Examples...

I'm wearing $350 noise-isolating earphones at this moment because I learned about the product from an ad 20 years ago. There was nothing else on the market that combined audiophile sound quality with 25+ dB ambient noise reduction. (It was a small company that specialized in hearing aids that expanded their product line into consumer hifi.) I wouldn't have learned about them through "word of mouth" because nobody I knew had them. I loved them so much that I've bought 3 replacement pairs over the last 2 decades as they've worn out. That ad for earphones saved my hearing and sanity at noisy offices.

I applied to the high-paying job that paid for my house because of an ad the company ran looking for my particular technical skills.

I went to performances of classical symphonies and piano recitals because of ads highlighting the local orchestra and the upcoming season's schedule. I also went on memorable helicopter tours because of ads.

Yes, _most_ ads (including most Youtube ads) are harmful/intrusive/irrelevant but saying _all_ ads manipulate you against your best interest can't be right.

>in theory an ad could be designed to be genuinely useful

It's not theory though. In my case, my earphones/job/concerts were genuinely useful to me. Unfortunately, it's the minority of cases where ads connect me to products that improve my life. Therefore, I do block all ads at the DNS level but I'm still receptive to ads relevant to my interests like 3d printing, home building & construction, aviation, etc.
And also suspend pretty basic rights, and deal with all the outcomes from people being institutionalized for not so well meaning reasons?
True that, but, really, wouldn't 1:1 ratio of consuming to creating be sufficient consumption?
In my experience managing a college newspaper, ad revenue was a big plus when it was coming in, but the baseline budget was funded by the university, even as an "independent" paper. This is the case at many college papers.
Keep a list of small features/tweaks to the side and use them as jumping off points. Takes a little bit of forethought, but I keep a txt file in the repo with a list of things like class implementation tweaks or ui changes that I know are 15-30 minute tasks. I reserve these for when I'm having trouble ramping up.

Or failing that, 15 minutes of cranking out garbage code that I know I'll revert helps get back into flow state too, but it's demoralizing deleting work.
What is the difference between what you're talking about and Steam?
Trump situation. Not Trump. I am not sure what the context of the discussion was, but I am sure a Project Veritas video doesn't give the whole context. It could be referencing something unrelated to the election. Maybe it was about Net Neutrality or some other anti big tech signaling. Large companies have more sway than smaller ones. The fact that you go from one no-context quote to "silencing conservative perspectives" is not good. Please keep thinking critically.
I wear one too, one of perhaps 25 I've owned since it came out in 1989. I have 7 or 8 of them scattered around my house. I love the fact that the one you buy today is identical to the first one. Very few products go 30 years unchanged.
in retrospect, i wonder if you're proposing an alternative (lazy) language on the ghc runtime with the ghc calling convention, that can share types and code, so you effectively have a lazy java-like language with ghc interop?
This is a different thing than copyright and is ironically far shorter in time limited for anyone to use.
Trusted to advance his employer's interests, do you mean?
Number of employees was 107,646 as of June 30, 2019.
The war on drug users -very profitable for private jailers - certainly failed society. A real 'war on drugs' would mean serious jailtime and fines for kingpins up the supply ladder. Until that becomes palatable, it makes little sense to ruin the lives of their victims.

A recent story in WaPo suggests that ball may be rolling. Author interviewed here:

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
https://www.cdc.gov/od/science/wewerethere/diacetyl/index.ht...
Psychological differences between sexes have been known to humanity since before language was invented, are you seriously claiming they do not exist?
I thought my point was obvious, but I suppose you need to meet your audience half way.

I suspect people want to discuss politics at work if they feel their politics matches the politics around them. What they really want is a bit of a circlejerk or (at worst) a mild debate within narrow confines of what they consider acceptable.

If they thought most people disagreed with them, or that they were a political minority, they'd want politics off the table.

In a post above you said

"Keep politics out of $thing" is the purest expression of privilege.

You could not be more wrong. "Let me discuss politics in $thing" is the privilege of someone who wants to ruin apolitical situations for the people that disagree with them - who they suspect are in a minority.
rumors of this were spread in certain environmentalist communities in the late 1980s, with less certainty, and were widely accompanied by dread, sorrow and a feeling of being overwhelmed. The gut-sense was that toxics, plastics, human activity and at that time, missing ozone layer, had broken or was about to break, some balance point in the top few feet of saltwater, where a huge amount of the vital activity lie.

Now, thirty years later, the ability to measure and predict is much greater, such that science literature can put a finer point on things. Yet the overall pollution activity (minus the success of the ozone layer repletion, worse with single-use plastics) continues.

Like the therapist says, you own your reaction to this.. hard to dismiss...
I think the OP was focusing on Santa Clara the city/county not the university. Either way my understanding is that the aerospace industry was the root of the tech industry and was based out of the South Bay, notably Moffett field. I wonder if land was also not just insanely cheap in the South Bay in the 60’s when all this got going.

Also Fairchild semiconductor was in Sunnyvale and was a hub for a lot of the following Silicon Valley development. Finally William Shockley moved to Mountain View to be closer to his ailing mother and founded Shockley semiconductor.

These are all why peninsula and not Oakland, but SF vs SJ I am less clear on. When I moved to the bay about 13y ago the center of tech was on the peninsula but people were starting to look to SF. I think the refocus north is relatively more recent.
it is amazing how one simple thought escapes google execs - country is split in two halfs. google has strongly affiliated itself with one of the halfs to the point of complete alienation by other half. google would rather stick to its questionable political preferences and lose 50% of the market. sounds like a poor business decision.
I have nothing to add but a nostalgic, elegaic sigh.

I got my first real job in design at Illini Media, the then-independent and now it’s-complicated publisher at the University of Illinois. Working on a deadline, communicating with client, solving bonkers print issues, in the end I think it taught me a lot more than school itself did. (You know what I’m not nostalgic for? Newsprint dot gain. Like printing on toilet paper.)
Computer Science has very little to do with unit testing.

Look at things like theoretical computer science and category theory. The word "class" comes right out of basic category theory. (You don't need any category theory to program a computer, but it directly influenced object oriented programming.)

And, if you think programming is easy, consider yourself lucky. Take the time to learn some soft skills. Maybe you'll understand your downvotes.
re: compassion vs empathy

google is your friend here since you don't know the difference:

https://www.google.com/search?q=compassion+vs+empathy
Political discussions in the work place effectively become denial of service attacks on some co-workers. Since you have to collaborate with others at work to get your job done, anything that "DoS" your co-workers "DoS" you as well. Plus it hurts the value of the equity portion of your compensation, so it a way, it's theft too.
It's not about what's inconvenient. It's about what still makes sense as a single business...

Amazon's publishing platform is only a relatively small part of their wider business and doesn't answer any of my questions.
Kurzgesagt makes wonderful content, but this is not the first time I’ve seen them be called out for dark patterns. There was that YouTuber spat of the refugee crisis and drug addiction videos, where they were accused of covering their butts in an unethical way. Be cool, like your videos, Kurzgesagt!
Not wanting to see ads is a personal decision. It's not about a "free lunch". Video creators are free to not spend their money to make videos. We were getting along fine before YouTube, too. I'd rather we go back to the low budget home video nature of YouTube instead of today's professional you tubers recording their face with a 100k red camera setup.
How Uber Got Lost
An object pipeline is certainly interesting, and I do use PowerShell from time to time. However, there is a reason extremely simple concepts such as "everything is a file" or "input/output/error are all text" survived for this long. I will quote an answer provided in a vaguely related question [0]:

> There is no spoon^H^H^Hstructured data. There is only text.

[0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/400
In my opinion that would only be useful to help with creating partitions and file systems. The rest of the install process is basically creating your system configuration (and there's a helper tool for that), and a single command to perform the install.

What do you think a graphical installer should do for the user?
I thought a key upgrade might work if they can get the time of flight working correctly to kill of amplify attacks. But it was more an "in the mean time" fix until they release new keys with time of flight or your new service.
fantastic essay. thank you
Not really significant, compared to the impact of living. You are much better off changing your lifestyle than worrying about your coffin.
I spent a lot of time in Powershell on Windows. Almost 3-4 years. I simply could not use it as a shell.

I enjoyed converting our many build scripts into Powershell, but using it as a shell was just uncomfortable.

It's not clear to me why. If I had to guess, besides the verbosity, it was the additional "indirection". Nothing was what it appeared on the screen. It was something else.

Bash felt far more comfortable as a daily shell because what you see is what you get.

I want to try Nu because it appears to combine that WYSIWYG simplicity of bash with the Powershell quality of passing data rather than text. Maybe tables are indeed a better data structure to use than objects.
Nginx Unit 1.10.0 Released
How to become a great impostor
That seems like the best approach.

I recall reading about some large business that commissioned an office tower on a large plaza. The architect (and presumably someone with approval power) instead went with two office towers at opposite corners of the plaza, which meant visiting a coworker often meant a long journey down to the ground, across the plaza, and back up. The surrounding structures funneled powerful winds across the plaza, and this was in a cold climate.

People were unhappy, obviously. When informed, the architect was angry that they didn't appreciate his vision. I was irrationally annoyed about that. I love beautiful architecture, but if you put anything above functionality, you have no business designing functional buildings.
I'd be curious if you were commercially successful.

Do you consider being able to support my family for a couple of decades successful?
> I'm certainly one of those people. What is the boundary between "politics" and "not politics?" Who gets to decide?

It's common sense. Anything that revolves around government, elections, laws, etc.

> Your employer probably has more effect on your day to day life than your government does. Why would you be allowed to debate what the latter should do but not the former?

I meant the exact opposite (I forgot that politics could be taken to mean "office politics" or "company politics"). Getting involved in government politics or activism is your role as a private citizen, not as a company employee. Regarding "company politics" (work hours, office arrangement, project management methodology, managerial decisions, coffee machine model, etc.), I guess it's up to your employer to decide what is up for debate.
>Would you be okay with me suing you personally because one of your devices got infected with malware and slowed down my home Internet connection? Would you be okay with me suing your grandmother?

That's definitely not the status quo, it's also a pretty extreme position.
Try thinking geopolitically, and above all, contextually.
Is it possible to upset people if you don't have social skills? Absolutely. Is is possible to have sufficient social skills to not upset people? Yup. Is it possible to improve social skills over time? It is.
Good luck proving that political differences were why you were fired.
Why would you build 250+ units on a plot of land? Because people would want to buy or rent it. Why would people want to buy or rent it? Because the location is good.

Real estate always has to do with the location.
It's fascinating to me (as someone who has written a similar system) that everybody, almost without exception, makes this leap.

If the problem is that clicking is too cumbersome, then add better keyboard support. That's the solution to the problem as stated. You don't need to throw out the whole UI for that, and there's lots of things a GUI can do that a CLI can't.

I haven't been able to determine if this is the common reaction because people simply assume a GUI can't have good keyboard support, or because they're making an excuse for some unstated other reason.
Xonsh seems like a more popular, maintained and viable approach to that:

https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/
ElectroBOOM does the absolute best segues -- makes me laugh every time!
Actually only a few companies will pay as much as Google (Google salary is low but they pay a ton of stock you can immediately sell for cash, so it’s effectively cash). Most people seem to overestimate how fun it is to work at Google but underestimate how much Google pays and how much more it is than most other companies.
Neo-Puritan Revival
No, they explicitly support it.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/05/18/beijings-office-hong-k...
Ugh as long as we’re all complaining - I HATE Linus’ thumbnails these days! The overweight man in them is intentionally photographed to make him look less presentable to attract eyeballs. Thumbnail manipulation sucks!!!
> Kids that are wanted, are much more likely to be properly brought up and not become criminals.

Adopted children (in the US) are much more prone to various failures, like becoming criminals, than are the biological children of their adoptive parents.

It seems unlikely that this is due to the adopted children being unwanted.
All art is a conversation between the artist and the viewer. I'm fairly certain that's a phrase I've heard before. If your goal is to just spew your ideas out a megaphone without any thought as to how it would be received then quality doesn't matter as your need for expression is fulfilled in the act. When you're trying to convey an idea that you think matters, that you feel is important, then you spend a lot more time in getting it as close to right as you can. This is because you're looking for a response, whether that's in words, action, or reaction. I think your comment is spot on.
I literally said "some say". Chill out. I totally agree the SCMP is biased.
> 486 EV manufacturers registered in China

That's an incredible amount. I can't imagine the complexity of managing engineering a car, manufacturing, sourcing everything needed.

That's a lot of very ambitious people.
Assuming Congress doesn’t extend copyright terms...which they repeatedly have throughout the course of history.
> Beside that, basics of category theory is far easier to grok than OOP Design patterns.

I know high-school dropouts and graduates from DeVry University who understand design patterns. Category theory--even basic category theory--isn't taught to undergraduate math majors (except maybe at MIT to honors students).

I mean, I appreciate functional programmers who want to do it because it is hardcore... but that's why they do it: because it's hardcore.
While it would be possible to do that... to be quite honest, if the current install process is enough to drive you away then you'd have a horrible time using it.

NixOS is definitely the perfect OS for fiddlers. Practically nothing is usable without at least some minor tweaks, but once you've tweaked it you won't later lose those tweaks. For anyone who stopped enjoying that after redoing the same config for the fifth time, it's great.
“Excuse me, that spicy pasta sauce (in their basket), have you tried it before, what do you think?”

If no reply, move on. If they answer sheepishly, don’t be annoying. If they react with enthusiasm...

“I love spicy”. Escalate.

@wendyshu - I feel ya trying to explain nuanced things to a crowd who take things very, literally, but good job.

Sorry, bored on a flight.
Concealed carry in WA and Seattle is just a background check and a 30-60 day wait, less rigorous than Utah and shorter wait.

But I see you're the type of person who will just shift arguments instead of having an honest discussion so I'm done with you.
There was advertising before banner ads too, so is your issue about ads on the internet?

That was a tiny web that barely anyone used and even less created for. It's really not the same. Also you don't have the same needs and wants as the billions of other people who spend time online to make a judgement that most content isn't worth paying for.
This is a very cool extension. Most sponsored content is more deceptive and time wasting than Yotube ads. Thank you for making this and hopefully I can say goodbye to all those pesky nordvpn ads!

Just a thought but anyway to see which channels / videos / ads were reported the most? No reason, just curious.
Still can't get a decent burrito in NYC.

Source: am a Brooklynite
A more provocative example is Tesla. Literally their whole car buying experience is powered by Shopify.

They did ~$21B in sales last year.