skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their sales teams are ridiculously aggressive. I've received 9+ calls from them this month, have told them that my org isn't interested, and won't be revisiting the decision for a few years. It's soured me on them altogether.
I'm advocating that tech, as a collection of individuals, get involved in the social structures that can influence policy and politics. We've sat on the sidelines getting blamed for things for too long.
Seems legit to me. Kids can go from 25 cents to 50 cents quite easy by selling a second lemonade. The needle is much tougher to move with bigger costs and bigger amounts.
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Many of the ex-SFers/ex-NYCers are the ones trying to escape the madness in these woke cities.

Texas is a far more sane place than these cities.
Google shouldn't even have to say this to a bunch of grown ups. You don't talk about Politics, Religion, Sex, Health and Wealth with strangers.
Since his camp was isolated (not in a tent city) I figured he would have to stick around all day to prevent the theft of things like his generator. Or, maybe homeless don't steal from each other?

Also, I guess he could be a remote SWE for google or something like that.

But you are right, I am making an assumption.
All VPN's are basically illegal there, so its luck of the draw. All of the big providers get blocked pretty fast and I've heard stories about China blocking swaths of AWS too...
Apparently the best bet is to get a US SIM with data roaming to China...
Ah, shoot. I knew I forgot something.
>…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

- torvalds
It's super weird for a "developer" to demand assistance from another developer, just because they wrote and published the code, regardless of license.
I have no recent information, but about 10 years ago FreeBSD maintainers were telling people not to rely on jails for security.
Where do you go for official sources when the entire modern media establishment has an undeniable (and rather open) liberal bias?

Ignoring bias, do you believe that every given situation that some group may identify as a problem is guaranteed to have a reputable source reporting on it?

I'd love to find a more reputable source, but one is not currently available, and I'm not in a position to create one. That does not imply that the problem being reported on is illegitimate. You should be able to assess the contents of the video with PV's bias in mind - and most of the content really does stand on its own, especially in the context of relevant quotes from employees in OPs article.

There was also a massive trove[1] of internal Google documents dumped on PV related to, among other things, AI development and arguably politically motivated guidance by internal definitions of "fairness", designed to shape search results. Should these documents also be ignored because they're only being hosted by Project Veritas? You can see them yourself...

Ironically, this is the danger of trusting only select biased organizations with curating the flow of information - as you suggest, to most people, if a "reputable" source hasn't reported about it, it doesn't exist. How many years has 4chan been screaming about epstein, as another example, without major media investigation?

The bottom line is that no entity that acts as the front page to the internet should be curating information flow without a massive, blinking disclaimer.

1.https://www.projectveritas.com/google-document-dump/
> And the solution? It's just build more houses, so the rents go down

Right, but the problem is that it's largely illegal to actually build more houses in San Francisco.
I'm not terribly surprised macro economic number don't show a strong correlation to crime. We're already talking about a group on the margins generally when we're looking at small property crimes and top line numbers like unemployment don't capture people who aren't even looking for work anymore (eg drug addicts).
Do you have any recommendations or resources on this topic?
As I wrote in the previous HN thread:

>If you're wondering about some weird social ill plaguing society from the tech industry, 99% of the time the root cause of it is Section 230.

Which is also relevant to the big WSJ story today about Amazon's problem with fakes and unsafe products.
Third parties get access to Amazon's robots when they warehouse their product at Amazon. And access to prime shipping, etc..
I run our customer success group at Datadog and that doesn’t sound right - let me follow up with the team and look into this for you!
Doh, what a stupid error. 8% seems significantly more meaningful, but I would still be curious exactly how that positive 20b is spent.
>...it emerged in SF...

It didn't emerge in SF. Quite the contrary, virtually all tech startups for most of the Bay Area's history were no farther north than Menlo Park, and often much farther south (Netflix was founded in Scotts Valley). That's why YC was headquartered in Mountain View until recently.

SF only became a startup hub within the last decade, IMHO in response to the desire of Millenials to live in urban environments.
Hence the statistics I presented below that, showing that the poverty rate went down dramatically over that period.
step one is definitely to get off chrome

cli or FFX + ublock origin, ABP, FB container
Property crime is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. Consider this: wage theft results in over double the losses of all other property crimes COMBINED, yet we don't throw bosses who rob their workers of earned pay in jail.
You fail to address my points. It is you who are baiting.
We need... And what exactly is the chance that we will?

I mean, Europe needed to settle 2 million refugees from Syria and how exactly did that turn out for everyone?
lol he's escalated; before he just had text complaining about brogrammers at HN. I've wondered for years what the original beef was.
The limiting nature of functional languages tends to force people into looking for cleaner problems.
> So all you have to do is click that link, and it will prepopulate the Hacker News submit page with everything

> My outsourcing team, in combination with @trypigeon is trained to click that link whenever they see that email.

> And that's how I hit the front page without knowing!

https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708761136553985

And you bragged about being called out in another tweet, which doesn't feel very repentant.

Regardless, this discussion thread is guaranteed to be linked to in all of your future HN submissions that hit the front page and consequently flagged to death, so I hope it was worth it.
Yeah, the risks inherent in a radical departure without a plan are more or less why I'm hanging around.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I really do love programming, and I have to imagine there are ways to exploit that skill that are a bit less soul crushing even if the money isn't quite as good. E.g. Korean baking. I should get off my ass and go looking.
I’m a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?
Depending on what's inside the walls, it may be possible to spray in foam insulation by drilling holes behind the baseboard.
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The hidden camera captured an interview with Jen Gennai, Head of Responsible Innovation, Global Affairs at Google. You could at least watch the video and find out for yourself.

I think the real problem here is that people are aware of Google's bias and OK with it, but unwilling to admit as much.
Don't feel bad. I've learned a lesson; never enter an open source discussion with GPL developers.
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They really buried the lede.

"Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one."

If we could just build more houses by saying that we decree them into existence, we wouldn't have this problem. The author proposes some ways to bolster the pro-housing community and get tech voters involved in local politics (including joining https://yimbyaction.org/), and here we are still wondering whether we want to have lower rents or not.
As someone who lived in the Bay Area and worked in SF for a while but moved out because I didn't like the mono-culture forming from being surrounded by virtually nothing but my own kind -- cry me a river VCs and early-stage startups.

Maybe spread-out beyond SF & the Valley? There's a whole big world out here.

I'm not a huge fan of excessive NIBMYism, but the industry's inability to take advantage of the entire rest of the world seems like a much easier problem to solve on all fronts, and yet everyone takes it as a first principle that everything must be done in this one place.
The agglomerative effects of cities are real and extremely positive, both in terms of technological innovation and cultural progress. Cities tend towards liberalism and breed new ideas. Advocating that we collectively abandon the Bay Area and try again someplace new would result in a massive destruction of wealth and human potential.

There is no universe where bootstrapping a brand new region with world class universities and infrastructure is cheaper than just fixing a broken bureaucracy.
I am not associated with any of the following, but there are organizations attempting to build devices that will bring colder, nutrient rich waters to the surface to cause phytoplankton blooms (or use the same nutrients for seaweed farming):

1) ocean-based.com
2) http://www.climatefoundation.org/

We should of course do everything we can to stop emitting carbon. But projects like these may an important part in our future.
If Amazon the marketplace was solely responsible for the upkeep of the marketplace, they'd be more inclined to actually maintain it in a working manner. Not to mention it'd be easier for publishers to sue them to compel compliance.
For mobile I use https://blockerdns.com/ (full disclaimer: that's my creation). It's ad blocking through DNS-over-TLS on Android 9 and above.

For home I just run my own bind DNS servers internally. And then for friends and family I have them set their routers to a couple bind DNS servers (same config as my internal ones) in the cloud.

For all of the above I use the same block list. It currently has about 25k entries, and is built with some data from a few of the well known public lists. But I augment that with domains I find by regularly auditing specific websites that are particularly aggressive with ads and specifically trackers.

But with that said, since I've got friends, family and paying users working from that list, I do actively try to prevent the breaking of popular sites and services. For example, personally I'd outright block anything related to Facebook since I quit them years ago, but too many people still use it, so for my list I try to keep a good balance by blocking their pixel and stuff like that, while allowing the resources absolutely necessary for the site.
Good point. And, this victim was not a city worker, but a civil rights attorney at a large well-connected law firm.

It sure seemed to me that after her tragic death the call for bike safety was turned up to 11.

We haven't reached that point yet re homeless/junkie assaults. It will take the right person to get killed or raped for that to happen.
How is it a betrayal of anything or anyone to vote for the better of two viable options (according to your own opinion)?
This right here. The price of housing is solely a supply-side issue, and it's all artificial constraints.

The reality is that owners are older, wealthier, stronger-rooted voters -- while renters are younger, transient and don't vote. This is the result.

Things like height restrictions, "shade" restrictions, NIMBY-ism, red-tape -- all the way down to mortgage interest tax deductions -- are to the benefit of owners and to the detriment of renters. They're all political issues that can be resolved but we choose not to.
> Now try discussing any of these in depth "without politics".

The whole point is you don't have to discuss any of those in depth.
Mario has a similar feel to this but in Python, and lets you use arbitrary code and construct your own functions in pure Python.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario

$ mario read-csv-dicts map 'x["name"]' < hackers.csv
Alice
Bob
Carol
PowerShell has an IMO good answer to this: if you run a classic CLI program, its output is interpreted as an array of strings (lines), so if you pipe the output, you have a way to process it into something object-like.

Having a toggle creates the problem that you have to write two implementations for your tools, or you end up having to memorize which commands can run in which modes. It's easier to have a consistent pattern and a way to up-convert existing CLI programs.
>Yes, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would be in the same party in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, etc.

Not surprising at all, Romney and Obama were so similar I didn't bother voting in the 2012 election.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Given the multiple years various well known routers and other small dedicated devices can go without the necessary source code appearing, getting stroppy when the Pi 4's been out barely 5 weeks (this blog entry is dated 6th Aug, Pi 4 release was 24 June) is a hell of a stretch.

I don't know how quickly Gordon put up the deb file he mentioned, but just going on Pi's release I'd call it very quickly. A week or two later is more suited to an enquiry of "Glad to see pi 4 support so fast, any idea when you might get chance to put up source code?" than "hey you're REQUIRED man, get on with it already...". Better still quietly not enquiring already but just quietly checking github over the coming weeks.
Oh lordy where to begin.
>while being almost incapable of any physicality

Only for the later (even if major) part of his life. One could argue that the physicality he was capable of in the earlier stage of his life helped him gain a solid understanding of physics on our level.

But there is a better argument to be made: Modern Physics is an entirely different beast. To understand the underlying reality you have to be, in one sense of the word, be detached from the reality. And being paralyzed can be said to be one of the many things that let him have experiences unlike that of any almost any other human being. His earlier life let him have a solid footing on the dynamics of our level, and his later life allowed him to depart from it, in a direction in which he was propelled by his intellect.

I would argue that if Stephen Hawking was a sports instructor (or even a programmer for a sport software), his lack of physicality would have worked against him. But if you showed me someone with a severe physical disability who writes great code for sport software, I would revert to my first argument.

(I just explain what's in front of me! :P)
Seems to be an unpopular opinion but I'm on board with this. I pay for YouTube premium so that I don't have to watch ads (on TV/phone) and I feel railroaded whenever somebody stops their video to talk about a product that are paying them to do so.

I manually skip these always if I'm paying attention. I hope this shows in their analytics. I include "buy my tshirt" and "look I have another channel where I interview my 5 year old" in this.
It's pretty close to Slack's revenue per employee (1,502 as of Jan 31, on $400 million estimated 2019 revenues).
Python has a similar idea with Mario. But because it's not a shell itself, it requires less of a commitment.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
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Datadog logging and Datadog APM are a huge part of our usage now.
Ahh yes. Here’s where to begin: https://xkcd.com/927/
> We are actively encouraging OOP to entry-level programmers today -- it is fair to ask whether that is the right move, because doing nothing is actually just choosing that OOP should be the default. It is totally fine to say "maybe OOP has not delivered on its promises, and while there may be useful lessons here, I think its safe to say that its probably not the tool you should choose FIRST for any given problem."

the following is my anecdotal opinion but...

that is mostly an economic effect caused by the java “pop culture” and education being seen as a way to “get a job” which is then self-reinforcing (more educated in java, bigger talent pool, increase in default job requirements, more educators by default choose java

economics is a huge factor in this “i hate oop” bandwagon because java isn’t even “good oop” (again my admitted bias) and people dislike being toldwhat tools to use, either by educators and employers when they can see much better ways to do things than DataManagerFatoryFactoryInjectionContainer<T>...
I've generally found you can get most of what you need done with head, tail, grep, cut, paste, sed and tr (and maybe a couple others I'm missing). Oh, and test (both bash's and coreutil's). It can be a little hacky, but once you realize the crazy output you sometimes have to parse from third party programs, you realize that the ability to handle any free form text is pretty essential.

That said, since I'm a Perl developer, I'll generally just go straight to perl's inlined implicit loop mode (-p or -n) if I need to use more than a couple of those utils, unless I want it to be portable with a minimum of requirements (as even though more binaries are used in the shell version, they're all essentially guaranteed to exist on a Linux/Unix).
PowerShell has some great ideas, but I can think of quite a few things that can be improved in (or over) PowerShell: its abysmal speed, its verbose syntax, verb-noun structure which is much less useful than noun-verb would have been...
Sure they do, Amazon fulfillment is a giant business.

https://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.h...
Why start with the students, instead of the 9/10 schools that lack internet access?

(From your website: "In the poorest countries, only 1 out of every 10 students has Internet access at school.")
Sorry if I came of suggesting that. At least in my case the only people demanding support were end-users of applications I didn't write but did use my code. Developers that contacted me were always understanding, with a rare exception, that free stuff got free support.
This is true, but zoning laws are ultimately determined by who owns land. Landlords and landowners are incentivized to increase the value of their property at the expense of everyone else. They use zoning laws to do this, which they indirectly control by being active in political lobbying.
I honestly get relatively little site breakage; so I'm just fine with that. But if you're having issues I would suggest reek anti-adblock killer.
Starting a sentence with conjunction is not grammatically incorrect. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-to-not-b...
I agree with you, but I also find it to be confusing. These same companies, when they do open offices in "2nd tier" cities, they offer "2nd tier" salaries. If you go to Houston and offer something close to SF salary, you will be over-run with great talent. I feel like there's some social status or something that comes from paying the higher salaries in places like the valley that just aren't attainable by attracting talent in other cities.
> This article makes it seem like debating politics is a good practices in workplace. It is NOT!

This seems very straight forward and clear cut - one question though: can you define "politics"?
Yes, but only as a very small part of a much larger portrait. Cookies, tracking pixels, and browser fingerprinting are much more reliable, especially given that a lot of ISPs don't even assign most of their customers static IPs. Mine changes about once a week.
I like this a lot but why does this have to be a completely new shell? Couldn't this also just be a set of tools that I can use in an existing shell and get the best of both worlds?
You can also just use PowerShell. Its chief crime is its verbosity in naming, but it has the "universally available consistent structured output for the CLI" you're asking for.
I'd be fine with them simply being made directly liable for all piracy and counterfeiting on any of their platforms.
Could someone explain this to me in a nushell?
Mario gives a lot of the benefits of using objects instead of text, but since it doesn't control the whole shell it's less of a commitment.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
By "tech" is meant "the community." You can't get policy change without enough people getting involved and supporting that change. Do you want to fix this?

Join YIMBY Action. Support pro-housing candidates at the polls. Tell your friends.
>I think this concept could eventually be a success just because it has the potential to be a lot cheaper than a fully automated/mechanized solution.

It's already a success, it's just priced beyond the reach of consumers by a couple of orders of magnitude. Creaform are the market leaders in a very competitive field.

https://www.aniwaa.com/best-handheld-and-portable-3d-scanner...
I’m digging this, and up you a graph database, But how would you handle “small-file” cruft? Still have optional “folder” rows?
> full disclaimer: that's my creation

Small observation: when you disclose something, it's a disclosure.
Now all you've got to do is to convince those ten families who enjoy having a backyard for their kids and dog to give it up for a vague "better good"
No disagreements there.

Per the parent comment, the prescribed solution is to eliminate (or heavily curtail) such zoning laws. In other words: “deregulate housing”.