skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read Why Nations Fail as a comparison. It's an incredible book. It starts off mentioning GGS with the gist being not that Diamond is wrong per-se, but "it's a little bit more complicated than that". The authors then proceed to put forward a thesis centering around how political institutions define economic institutions which define what opportunities the people have available to them and that massively affects outcomes. Fittingly the book is basically about how the Anna Karerina Principle played out throughout history during every political regime change. Most were simply that. Change. It was the confluence of a number of unique and necessary things all in the same place and same time that finally gave birth to a democratic society.

Really incredible book.

I need to get around to reading my copy of GGS. I think the geography hypothesis has some degree of validity to it, but certainly not a complete explanation.
Meanwhile, this is actually fast:

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Found here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699
Look just tell them what they want to hear. Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. They're probably not even listening.

They want to know if you're interested in self-improvement, and how well you get along with people.

> "what's the worst thing your previous manager would say about you"

I have too much free time because I get things done so fast, I am always asking for more work, or making code comments and improvements.

> "tell me about a time when you failed"

I was building a notification system for my previous company, and began using RabbitMQ. After my last manager realized what I was building he moved me on to the team to build out a core internal event driven architecture.
You just repeated that dude's last comment. I think you need to read it again.
AirPods as well: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-trag...
There is a security version which is the inverse of that!

Security is fundamentally asymmetric as you have to make 0 mistakes and the attacker only has to find one.
Ask HN: Anyone try a 2-way coding interview?
Would it be fair in a coding interview for the interviewer to be asked by the interviewee to solve similar problems? Such that the interview process is 2-way: if you ask me to solve a problem, then I get to ask you to do the same. So we both come prepared to a coding interview as both interviewee and interviewer. If we're going to work together, I'm just as interested in your abilities as you are in mine. Seems fair no?
Most of these examples seem to be failing in mobile Safari.
Jack's account is self-hosted on a website he runs. It just happens to be Twitter dot com.
A competitor who finds a way to deal with copyright better, has a sane advertising policy that doesn't randomly demonetizes people, with a patreon system built in, and has a modern UI (YouTube has a lot of room for improvement) it could possibly compete with YouTube.

A whole lot of major YouTube channels who are constantly attacked by false copyright claims or have to push product placements due to no ads would love to push users to a better platform. So marketing wouldn't be impossible.

They could also push privacy and fine tuned data controls which helps with kids.

There's enough of a market for two to exist.

Maybe with some type of semi decentralized platform approach so individual hosts who deal with copyright poorly can take the hit, making the system more resilient. Chrome style apps and mobile clients could be the interface and the ad/patreon system is controlled by the primary software developer but the rest is an open protocol with a linear license for non commercial stuff (at least non commercial as far as not competing with the monetization platform). The network effects of managing the ad buyers, subscriber accounts with credit cards and one click subs could stave off the competition without fully controlling the full video network and hosts.
> so little

Nature took 85 million years to perfect the hand, and dexterous use takes 1-2 years of training for babies. Interpreting the hands of other takes longer.
This was the original use case of Twitter, to allow social media from dumb phones.
Finally, a CSS only solution to:hover on touchscreens
Add this to the list for Elizabeth Warren to bust big tech's balls for...

Others within last 30 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20632119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20814135
How to immigrate to Canada when your CRS score is below than required level to get an invitation?
The article called it a threaded interpreter, the answer to this question explains what that usually means and why it it faster: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848343/decode-and-dispa...

I found the explanation of what they're doing a little unclear though and it seems they might not be doing exactly what is described in the answer above.
Overthinking.
The introverts' nightmare. :(
usually these are controlled via an api of some sort. depending on the distributed system. another popular solution is hola which offers basically the same thing, albeit I think worse prices when I was using it than this one...
Well, he's already cheerfully posting photos of classified satellite Intel, so how bad can it be?
That's a gross exaggeration
This analysis suggests it was a particular spook satellite.

https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nah...
I find it concerning that a money-grubbing Perl script, which basically just reinvents `xargs -P`, would be allowed to become an official GNU project. It reflects poorly on GNU. It undermines trust in the Free Software movement. It erases the contributions of folks like Larry Wall, along with the other unsung heroes in open source, whose good works made it possible for this misguided author to print a message pleading for citations.
My son explained it to me (11 year old) - Basically if you are "default" you suck. I have 20+ gamedev experience, and I didn't know what it means. Basically if you have the "default" skins you suck. You need to get shiny new outfit, that would cost some v-bucks.
I'm not even a senior engineer, but I always like to do planning and get an idea of how I should go about a project before doing it.

It might take a while for me to come up with a design I like and it could bug me for days, but once I come up with something, even if it isn't "proper", the project moves along fast.

I always like to write on a whiteboard and draw out visual representations of each component I would need
Really lucky almost to lucky... problematic but intriguing nonethless. Oh fuck yes come on!!! I like a challenge but rather do grunt work. Wazzup dog
The protestors aren't using the encryption features. They just don't want their phone numbers to be revealed as being associated with the groups used to coordinate the demonstrations.
How does the presidential twitter account work?

It seems like Donald just logs in on his laptop, or iphone, and posts what's on his mind.

Surely it should go through a bunch of advisors, and then a communications secretary makes the actual post?

That should be enforced protocol for Presidents, and CEO's, at least.
doesn't Facebook do that?
Kinda puts the old religous flood stories in a different context eh? There were almost certainly costal communities who were consumed by rising sea levels the world over. Recent global flooding.
I pulled the ripcord, sold my house, and moved to SE Asia in 2015. My biggest expenses by far were flights back to the US to pick up meds not available in asia, said meds, and Western insurance that would cover me abroad (which means non-ACA, thus no med/pre-existing coverage).

By 2017 I needed a job as much for the money as for sanity. Now I have a fully remote one. I still hop back and forth between VN and the US.

I keep thinking I should pick a place and settle down, but I think in doing so I would feel suffocated. When I feel stress about the pollution and corruption in VN, I comfort myself with the thought that Americans have done enough “good” in VN, and I should leave it be. When I feel stress about Trump’s judicial appointments or our fractured culture, I think, “Welp, I’ll be leaving soon. So long and thanks for all the cheese.” (In Asia, I do miss good cheese.)

I worry that this detachment will isolate me over time. I work hard to stay in touch with friends. I often reroute to cities to which my friends have themselves scattered.

My expenses, aside from flights and meds, plummeted. When everything must fit in your suitcase, a purchase must be evaluated in terms of what similarly-sized item you can lose. Only in the past few months did I finally take a one year lease in Saigon. It is cheaper than 5 months of short-term rental. It is nice to finally be able to buy a desk and a proper monitor. But I hurt a little giving up the satisfaction, maybe sense of superiority, in being self-contained.

I don’t know what is next for me. Maybe that is what I like about my lifestyle. But I take comfort in knowing that I have come by it honestly.
> the fine could have been exponentially larger.

200,000,000^2 is 4e16, which is more wealth than exists in the entire world. Which exponent did you mean?
Shadowbanned from life.
I see Mr. Desiato is back from his year dead for tax reasons.
That's ok, just fit a bigger engine and AC.
Because every other website uses that or the down arrow. It can be not only objects seen in real life but also icons consistent with other sites.

Anecdotally I’ve never seen a floppy disk in real life.
I remember, being 6.4”, having to have my head tilted in the back seat as the roof slopes severely to the trunk.
Just thought it was so silly, and felt that this, this has to be one of the most pointless vehicles made in the most recent times. It’s just a SUV for the people in front.
Such a weird life-style mobile, but as you say - to each their own.
With computers
I’m a bit surprised at the answers you are getting here. I think this touches on two subjects so I’ll try to give two answers.

First of all, when asked about a time when, it’s perfectly normal to spend some time to think about it. I always give them a truthful answer and God knows I have a lot previous fails and / or managerial arguments on my plate.

Seriously, “my old manager thought I was a dumb idiot with attitude issues” (hint: not true! or maybe it is).

What does this even tell them? That you’re honest (probably) and either you’re a dumb idiot with attitude issues or your manager was not a nice person.

Do they act on the assumption that your manager was right? This says a lot more about them than about you.

Remember, it’s a two sided interview. If you can’t be honest, if they rush to conclusions, if they put you on the spot, you’ll be in for a frustrating employment.

Secondly, about your dealing with the awfulnes of past deeds, I’ll just copy paste a nice little story here:

> A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her cross to the other side.

> The two monks glanced at one another because they had taken vows not to touch a woman.

> Then, without a word, the older monk picked up the woman, carried her across the river, placed her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey.

> The younger monk couldn’t believe what had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was speechless, and an hour passed without a word between them.

> Two more hours passed, then three, finally the younger monk could contain himself any longer, and blurted out “As monks, we are not permitted a woman, how could you then carry that woman on your shoulders?”

> The older monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you still carrying her?”
Then perhaps check out the references the Wikipedia gives?
Creating something, and exploiting it is simple...when multiple solutions are found to make the entirity believe more than the other you win. You dont need to win but make them respect you
I logged into an old hotmail email to recover a related account, and it had deleted all my messages because I hadn't been active for 12 months.

The more I think about it, we really do need a more distributed architecture. The whole concept of "the cloud" really sucks
There are some other similarly nice keyboard switches from the 1980s and early 90s (and some nicer ones from the 70s; keyboards have generally been on a steady decline for the past 40–50 years, as cost cutting dominated other considerations). None still sold in large numbers today.

Cherry MX are much less pleasant, IMO, and also not nearly so electrically reliable. (The Alps SKCM contact mechanism is much more complicated and better sealed. They have an extremely clean electrical signal.)

There was a much bigger variety of available keyboard switches in the 1980s than today.
I think you are unusual.

Even if you don't personally use it, a tunnel in your city will affect the lives of the people you know. It will affect the traffic patterns of you and your friends and family and coworkers. The tunnel as an idea will enter the discourse of your circles. Farm subsidies are far more abstract. The real effects of those are barely felt by urbanites, let alone the people in your specific city.
Ive devised multiple apps and been lucky to laugh at rest
Despite the saying, not all publicity is good publicity. Lots of people who'd never heard of Anish Kapoor now know him solely as "that douchebag who copyrighted* a color."

*sic.
If you're talking wood and clay and stone, I think your supposition is potentially reasonable for some very narrow definition of civilization. Perhaps two digits worth of humans.

Surviving artifacts of the metal ages are very much the norm though, so I wouldn't expect early human villages to have gone beyond the stone age. And with coastal weathering it would be hard to identify any stone tooling from that long ago.
Why in the hell are you being downvoted for saying YouTube targets children?
You misunderstand the point I'm making. After GDPR, investments in early stage startups dropped by almost 50% in the EU. If you cut investment in half, you're going to cause some startups to fail that otherwise would have succeeded. Startups are a "hits" enterprise. Most fail. Some are mildly successful. A few are responsible for almost all of the upside. Cutting investment by 50% means that instead of getting a Dropbox and a Spotify, you'll only get a Dropbox. That missing upside is bad for the economy.

I'm saying that you can have GDPR or you can have a thriving startup ecosystem. The data shows that you can't have both.

Personally, I think the GDPR is a colossal waste of time that only benefits incumbents. I've had to help implement GDPR compliance at a company and it did absolutely nothing to protect the privacy of customers. However it did cost several hundred thousand dollars.
Exponentially larger on a per user basis
That’s when you realize that every insignificant feature Signal was working on is actually freaking useful in real life.

Btw why all these apps require a phone #? Is it required by the gov?
Seems this comment thread got posted to some internal YouTube discussion forum.
It appears you are correct. Now I wonder if that's changed recently or age is catching up with me. I've not used it in over a year, but what you said is definitely the case now.
Is it me, or is there a refection of the photographer's head in the image - it looks like they snapped a glossy photograph from an iphone.

Is it Donald? If so it looks like he just whipped his iphone out during the debriefing and twittered the photo.

Perhaps it's just desert coloration from the blast
re-natal does this and it works as advertised. Zero reloading, full repl connection to running program. There is no competition, and won't be.
Sound genuine. Or better yet be genuine. Share openly. Everybody has setbacks at some point, so don't get defensive about it.

Remember in the long run, the hard times are best because that's when you grow.
His discussion of New Guineans is used to directly refute the claim that Eurasians were more advanced due to intelligence - New Guineans are just as intelligent (or more intelligent in his opinion) as Europeans, but did not develop advanced technology, thus intelligence cannot be the determining factor in technological development. He rejects intelligence as a determining factor, and spends the rest of the book after the preface explaining how influence of geography is much more convincing causal factor.

How you reach the conclusion that this reinforces racist thinking, particularly when he explicitly states that the geographic explanation he offers in Guns, Germs, and Steel is meant as a refutation to race-based explanations, is beyond me.
It's a chicken and egg problem: users won't switch platforms until their favorite creators switch over, and the creators won't switch over if nobody's there to watch their videos.
There's enough pressure on men socially, I don't see how that helps anyone besides being vindictive.

These are psychological problems not cultural. It's not a problem for the vast majority of people, otherwise they would have done something about it.

People aren't just empty vessels moving around aimlessly until some greater power pushes them in some direction.
Try drawing hands. (If you're a non-artist like myself.) It's impressively hard --- they are complex artefacts we can't quite see clearly because we are so used to them. There are a lot of, as it were, polygons.

If, after staring at these things for several decades, I still can't draw them with my eyes closed, I will assume that an AI would not find it easy to think about them either.
I get that Stallman wants to make a point, but in my opinion calling the Kindle a Swindle harms his credibility in the same way that using Micro$oft does.
How? I just tried it and you need to add your phone number in order to enable the 2fa. After you setup the app 2fa, and go the the phone tab and hit delete number it will also remove the 2fa. Also it allows this without entering password or 2fa which is bizarre
The reason the later pyramids had to be smaller, is that there isn’t enough space on the plateau for more, larger pyramids. They were constrained by the geology, and you cant build a pyramid on sand.
Alps SKCM switches have not been used in anything new in the past 2.5 decades.
We have a couple of mechanisms in place for this.

Users who have earned a certain amount of the token by being good citizens of the network will have to vote in new users. These users also moderate content, where offenders get some of their token taken away. Furthermore, network operators (validators) can vote to remove malicious content and users. And as with most crypto networks, a small fee (gas) is charged for usage.
It happens (a few times?) in this fun podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/

Admins at game companies used the same password for their remote access to their game company data as they did on some other compromised site, so attackers were able to easily break into the company.
I guess it's because first world middle/upper-middle class are the most anxious of all social strata, because they have to constantly struggle with maintaining their social standings and that their children would not fall down, which is extremely hard, mostly because in first world middle/upper middle class kids have to compete with all other children in the same or lesser social standings and they usually don't have competitive edge.
If u.s. society is a caste system, where upper middle class kids don't have to compete with middle class kids, and middle class kids don't have to compete with middle lower class people, where each class has its cultural/religious/socioeconomic/political moat to keep lower class people from getting in, people in general would not feel that level of anxiousness.
Agree, except for Bitcoin (or rather, have Bitcoin but Stripe and other options as well.)
That makes no difference from a privacy point of view but would be more respectful of people’s bandwidth limits.
They don't. The program runs in your browser. It isn't their problem if it contains an infinite loop. If the page stops responding, you simply reload the page.

Programming contests use a check program that has a time limit on program execution.
Isn't there a YouTube kids version? I'm not a parent so I've never used it and I've been curious since I also see that Netflix had a cordoned off sections for kids too. I'm not sure if these are sufficient content and feature wise?

Also is there any parental consent thing going on here as well with how YouTube words it?

I remember seeing plenty of adult ads as a kid watching TV at night time watching with my parents. The morning kids shows and kids channels always had ads for children of course. Id imagine it's in YouTubes interest not to show kids adult ads as well, most adults probably aren't sitting around watching the same shows with them to make the adult ads useful.
I'm sure everyone is different, but it's worth saying that I find myself spending more time in the writing code phase with dynamically typed languages than statically typed languages.
Wow this looks awesome! I've been using Alpaca.js [1] at FormAPI [2], which is also a JSON Schema form builder. This looks much better, and much easier to customize, since I already use React / Redux / React DnD for other parts of the application. I was also looking at react-jsonschema-form, but agree with all the downsides they mentioned in the talk (hard to customize, requires Bootstrap, hard to use with Redux, etc.)

So I think I will definitely switch to ShapeForm in the future, and I was actually planning to build something like this myself. I'm definitely looking forward to the TypeScript support.

[1] http://www.alpacajs.org

[2] http://formapi.io