skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty to choose from.

It helps to rmember that as a rule, all but one mass-market social networking platform will fail. "Success" means "claiming the most mindshare". And if you're in the mass market, that means there's only one brass ring.

Any roadblocks or injuries, self-inflicted or otherwise, toward attaining that goal will not help you. Google+ certainly had much help inside and out in failing to attain that mark.

Paradoxically, this is why aiming for a specific niche can be a success, at least on its own terms. Reddit, Twitter, and Hacker News qualify on this basis.

Facebook is now actively competing against not only other comers, but itself (WhatsApp, etc.) in various guises. A battle it will all but certainly, eventually, lose.
I will have to give NFM another chance. The Clive IA store was a sleepy, underwhelming selection, and staff either missing or unable to help. We kept trying to buy blinds. After the 3rd try stopping by to talk to an expert we just ended up ordering online from justblinds.

They have moved to a new location in Clive or Urbandale. I haven't stopped in, but it feels like the parking lot is never too full.
The anchors might lease, but it's essentially just them mitigating their risk at the expense of WeWork though, right? If Facebook leases an entire building via WeWork rather than doing it themselves (and they definitely have the capacity to do it themselves), it's because they've decided there's a good chance they'll vacate the space in a short period of time and they'd rather sign a short term contract with WeWork than deal with a 15 year lease. That's not great for WeWork though.
even Fedora doesn't use systemd-resolvd, so NOTHING was forced
I like how people are being trained Pavlovian style to go after tech companies that provide services to alphabet agencies with this administration. Did people complain with the last administration? Will people complain with the next administration?

Whether you agree or not with the current administration, the government still needs to operate and keep in line with technology. If you are angry with how DHS and ICE operate, what do you propose? Jeopardize the safety Americans for what benefit?
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Proxy war? I can use my wallet, my voice, and my labor power as I please including strikes and boycotts. Isn't that how the "free market" is supposed to work?

This is the 2nd time in 24 hrs that someone has made your argument, where is it coming from?
You would love Eliade’s The Sacred and Profane.

This also is a good prerequisite to understand Girard’s work.
Great. Glad American software companies are working with our government to help enforce our laws!
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> My point was that many who tried to avoid systemd found it to be very difficult

Avoiding systemd is not difficult, it is just that using systemd makes things easier. You have one codebase shared between multiple distros where most of your init logic is, instead of having to maintain your own init scripts somewhere by yourself.

> because it will become a dependency of systemd, or vice versa.

This is not true. I don't know many things that are dependend of systemd running as a init system.
Made a feature request: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/issues/472
I moved to Japan when I was 39 and because I decided to stay here, it basically meant losing all my close friends (well, they are still friends, of course -- but it's not a "Let's hang out on a Wednesday night" type of friendship anymore).

When I first moved to Japan, I spent a lot of time trying to make friends. Because there are a lot of lonely expats, I found it easy to do. However, there was one thing that I didn't really take into account: the main thing we had in common was loneliness.

Over time, the relationships didn't work out. I even had some really bizarre (and extremely troubling) experiences with people denouncing and shunning me because I decided to adopt Japanese culture (apparently a betrayal of my original culture and appropriation of my adopted culture -- some people really are seriously screwed up.... :-( ).

What I realised was that when I was young, because the population of potential friends is large, I could choose friends who liked me for who I was. When I moved to this new population, the only potential friends I had (especially with my lack of Japanese language skill at the time) were being picked out of a population of lonely people. Most of them didn't care about me. Some of them even hated me (even the idea of me was repugnant to them). It is seriously weird to have "friends" that hate you.

Being alone is definitely better than being in an abusive relationship, IMHO (though it takes quite a lot of effort to see this). I realised that it was virtually impossible for me to find real friends the way I had been approaching it. It was best to just hang out with people I enjoyed and to stay away from people I didn't enjoy -- even if that meant being alone.

It can be tough, but really I think the secret is to just fill your life with activities that you enjoy and that bring you closer to other people with similar interests. Eventually you will happen to meet someone who is in a similar place to you. But if not, at least you are having a good time in the process.
> Nitpicks aside... if you're considering this: Why aren't you using a language that better supports your use case?

What other languages would you suggest that supports the use-case that this is aimed at?

> Protothreads are extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems, such as small embedded systems or wireless sensor network nodes.
Someone above posted this: https://github.com/google/python-fire

seems you could generate something with fire tool and then parse it dynamically with Gooey.
I grew up in Omaha and there was a time when most of my parents' furniture came from NFM. I remember walking through as a kid, testing out bunk beds and dining room sets. When my dad told me about the other Omaha legend, Warren Buffett, he made it relatable by explaining he had so much money he could afford to buy NFM. That was my introduction to Warren Buffett.
I don't think it's silly. I don't boycott companies -- that is, I don't stop doing business with companies in an attempt at getting them to change their behavior.

However, there are companies that engage in activities that I find objectionable enough that I simply don't want to help fund them. So I don't buy from those companies. Nothing silly about it.
No one is leasing WeWork as the long-term plan.

That's kinda the point of WeWork: flexibility.
My wife and I listened to and got a lot out of the Great Course "Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids who Thrive". He cites studies for all his tips, and is very careful about recommending only things that have been thoroughly researched, with replication.

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Secrets-Raising-Kids-Thriv...
I much prefer my system with systemd, because it's less opaque than when i started using Linux in 1998 (attempted earlier, but failed).
This is the left talking to the left. To get better coverage, use fewer words (because the right is dumb but equal).
Yes, this is exactly what i'll use it for.
There's nothing wrong with holding a moral lens to all entities, government and private.
nothing precludes a reasonable shell library from making initscripts 10 lines long:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/cron?rev=1....

this does not require systemd cruft and all of it's over-opinionated facebook-youth narcissistic my-use-case is all that matters tentacles.
Analyse LastPass. Even without ML it's clearly saying they spy on everything you do and share it with anyone they want. I'm surprised they get recommended so often given their privacy policy.

https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy
Come on. Let's take the definition of mental illness in this article:

"declining communities must respond to drug abuse, homelessness, and antisocial behavior"

A significant cause of drug abuse is chronic untreated pain, another significant cause is addiction CAUSED by medical treatment (the so-called opioid crisis), and of course neither homelessness nor antisocial behavior are even remotely mental problems. In short, VERY few of these people have mental illnesses other than being poor.

In other words what this article is complaining about are ... economic problems that cause people to become more desperate, less willing to compromise and all of those economic problems must of course be mental illnesses. Futurama put it best:

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ec2178ed-acf0-4aab-9141-2c17d11...

All of this of course means that the vast majority of "mentally ill" do not have any problem responding rationally. Their rational responses are simply not what the clinic and/or other people want to see. For example panicked responses to not receiving treatment for a child because they have no alternative. The article reports that ERs let some people wait for weeks before any actual medical care was provided, then complain these people protest, and at some point protest strongly, even violently.
Pros with rail
* smooth
* quiet

Cons
* fixed infrastructure - one breakdown or labour strike will bring the whole thing to grinding halt. You can't just simply move a lot of carriages to other places easily in response to demand
* expensive

We'd be much better off with better (bigger, electric/hybrid) buses.
There is a pretty steep cliff in offices too.

Even in modern Outlook on the Web, resource booking is buried in the UI — people don’t do it.
Selection, IME.

We purchased couches and a desk chair from them. There tends to be three grades: entry, mid, affluent. Their entry are 2X Ikea and maybe 3X the quality of most of what I've seen from Ikea. Mid prices tend to be better than smaller furniture stores, and I can't really comment on affluent.
Can they compete against Ikea?
With pop music, it arguably has been for some time.
I live in an apartment complex and park my car on the premises. I'm not allowed to change my oil on the property due to the landlord's fear of oil left on the parking surface, don't have anywhere to safely store tools or jacks to change a brake pad, and have no where to keep a half-used container of washer fluid outside of my living space (and I'd rather not keep it in my living space).

That said, I know how to do all of these things, I actually service my car and a motorcycle myself despite the apartment complex's "rules", but I think for a lot of car owners they're not in "safe" space to do their own maintenance. There's also the up front cost of buying tools. I think a lot of car owners in similar situations are relegated to taking the car to a shop for simple repairs as a result. Any advice?
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I think it really depends on what "fragmentatation" is. I think people think different libcs, compilers, DEs are mostly good.

I definitely think it is ridiculous though, that I couldn't use something seemingly fundamental like an init script across distros.
Someone please send this to the Duggers. I lost count after 18.
The post is about chasing the long tail of latency risk. A high -- even very high -- probability of not acquiring a lock is not good enough. Investigating libmalloc and discovering that somehow it had strictly bounded, suitable execution time wouldn't be good enough either, because it could plausibly change without notice.
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Huh? I ssh into my laptops all the time...
Hero. Too many vanity talkers today, not enough doers.
In my experience, master-master replication with Galera is more troublesome than its worth. It's better to use the simple master-standby solution with automated fail-over.
This call-out quote hits very close to home for me:

You are in a mature industry that is no longer innovative; it’s a commodity business. The last great innovation capable of driving major growth in aviation was the jet engine back in the 1950s, and every technological advance since has been incremental. And so the emphasis of the business is going to switch away from engineering and toward supply-chain management. Because every mature company has to isolate which parts of its business add value, and delegate the more commoditylike things to the supply chain. The more you look to the market for pricing signals, the more the role of the engineer will shrink.
I think it's just a way to segment people who can afford to lose more. The government wants to protect people from getting screwed out of their money, but can't strictly define "this is good, this is bad." So they just say "okay, you can afford to lose more, so you're (relatively) on your own. Go ahead and invest in those crazy schemes if you really think it's a good idea."
Yeah, TCP socket timeouts can be an issue.

I recall developing a embedded product that was to interact with a Microsoft music server to retrieve and playback music from it (sorry, this was many years ago and the details are hazy). We had a problem with our embedded TCP/IP stack running out of TCP connections (it was limited due to memory considerations) when skipping songs on the server and it was due to the server keeping TCP connections open even after we had indicated we wanted to close it and open a new one (for the next song). Eventually, we had to 'break' with the TCP/IP spec and force a TCP reset on our end to close the port and reclaim the memory.
Nice if you’re s smart watch sort of person, I guess?
You don't understand what racism is.
I'll repeat and extend what I've said in several other Media Lab posts. The lab has over its lifetime been a place where the creative arts, computer science, and popular culture have come together. Have there been demos of ideas that didn't, or possibly even couldn't, work? Yes. Has the placed helped shape the connected world we live in? Yes. Has real stuff come out of it? Yes.

Semour Papert and Mitchel Resnick are luminaries who helped define the landscape of computation and play for kids. E Ink came out of the lab. Todd Machover has been influential in shaping technology in music (Guitar Hero was developed by some of his students). Professors Muriel Cooper and John Maeda have had similar impact in technology and graphics arts and design.

Steve Benton's Spatial Imaging Group and its student diaspora had a huge influence on the holography and 3D display world. We developed full color reflection holography, the first holographic video system, and the first image predistortion algorithms for light fields. Our 1 meter sq. hologram was at the time the world's largest computer generated 3D display. Unfortunately, Steve died pre-Google, and his contributions are not fully recognized.

I was at the lab a long time ago (from its opening in 1985 until 1997). What made it unique at the time was breaking down the barriers between computation, technology, creative arts, and popular culture in a way that seems so natural now. On a campus where hundreds of other PhD students seemed to be working on amazing research on very detailed topics, we were building pieces of the future and demoing them daily to industry and lay people alike. That wasn't considered hard science at a place like MIT, but the ultimate impact on society was huge.

One other area of huge but unsung impact was speech technology. Chris Schmandt's Speech Research Group group envisioned and developed audio assistants that paved the way for Siri and Alexa. His students and research have also helped shape an entire field.

As for Nicolas Negroponte, he started the lab understanding that corporations were going to drive the computation and Internet revolution, while the rest of MIT was primarily government/defense funded. I have no doubt that that insight accelerated bringing technologies to market that we now consider ubiquitous.

The current funding controversy was long after my time, as is the current work of the lab. There's just plenty of innovation in the history of the lab.
Article mentions the paper has been taken down. Has anyone found a copy? Search turns up zilch.
Uh, no, not British. Nor do I really know what your background is? Are you British?

I’ll confess I was kind of trolling in asking you what pundit you get your stuff from, but I’ll be really frank here. Your post reads as sort of obsessive and out of touch. You’re bringing in talking points to support your anger but they’re really not related. You’ve taken a very benign issue and reframed it as a huge deal. Then you went very aggressive in what seems to be some sort of anti-British worldview.

You’re trying to position yourself as a better intellectual but it really, really doesn’t appear that way to others.

Saying things like I can’t argue, reason, and am unwilling to put up an argument is a really aggressive thing to say, and I’m not sure if you understand that you’ve set up a really tiresome premise for having a conversation.
The average mentally ill person does not attack staff. Clearly i was refering to a subset, the violent mentally ill for who rational debate is not a strong point.
That seems like a pretty dismissive response: are European cities laid out like that as a response to light rail? If so, what's to say that North American cities won't also adapt to the presence of light rail?

And it's not just European cities; Japan has an excellent subway system, and I've heard China's very new one is good as well. This feels like the learned-helplessness counterpart to American exceptionalism: what's so special about North America? Other cities adopted rail and adapted; the article doesn't address why North American cities couldn't as well. And in places with a good subway, buses are despised — they're slower, overstuffed (a single subway station can accommodate hundreds or thousands during commute hours; a single bus stop would have lines hours long at that rate), less comfortable... Buses can't move people in a dense area at the volume a subway can.

(Also, why does this article only address Toronto? NYC is a pretty strong retort to the idea that subways can't work in North America.)
an acreddited investor loses some judicial privileges (e.g., they are assumed to be sophisticated enough to understand the prospectus and/or can pay to have it explaine to them).

The gov't will not protect accredited investors the same way they do the general public. Therefore, firms only need to ask on their forms, and no need to actually verify imho.
When using Asian here, are you referring to Indians or Chinese? As a black engineer, I have also experienced the same discrimination from Indians.
Generally that 6.5% of unbanked persons tend not to vote for less healthcare and more tax breaks for the rich.

Instituting the voter ID law makes it harder for 6.5% of people that rarely vote for Republicans to vote to prevent 0.000X% of votes cast fraudulently each election.

Do you get it now?
Major label guy here. Not quite. While this isn’t as important for a lot of artists, on the top (like megastar-level: Drake, Post Malone, etc.), it’s still a huge money maker. More tracks means more streams which means more revenue.
The waterfall is effective, but the album is still important. Especially in the release week.
Previous discussion here (7 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20976567
> . but I'd say the same thing about Postgres recommending against use of NOT IN, which is a common construct and more readable than an anti-join.

The recommendation against that is due to the semantics defined in the standard. If there is any NULL in the list matched against, the entire a NOT IN (...) expression also has to evaluate to NULL. Which is extremely confusing to most people (and has some consequences in how efficient things can be executed).
"We needs more investor money"

I read this and heard Gollum saying "We wants it. We needs it."
I have heard it all the time for median. Average height, average wealth, ect.
Even as a non-parent her work is fascinating. I really enjoyed her interview on the Ezra Klein podcast (https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast)
By using racist hiring policies, OP is perpetuating the same "racist baggage" we have worked so hard to cast off.
I doubt anyone would identify a population as the “top one-tenth of the tenth percentile” rather than simplifying that to a single percentile. That leads me to conclude that 0.001% was said and intended.
Not OP, but curious, are those quotes actually from privacy policies or just hypotheticals?
> Why does systemd need a subsystem that touches /home?

because they haven't written one that touches home yet?
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The real question is what is the endgame for our current worldwide incredibly loose monetary policy and deep wealth inequality. Literally nothing good comes to my mind, at best we'll get a slow return to a few % interest rates on major 10yr notes, which means a decade of garbage returns on pretty much any asset class, problems with pension funds, general malaise. At worst, well, last time we had this setup was 1930s and the various world govt stimulus went towards war efforts ...
I think by most standards Snapchat’s UX would be judged pretty harshly. But it has a strong following because at its core it’s a power user app. Making features/actions discoverable takes up UI space that Snapchat almost entirely hides behind swipes or unlabeled buttons.

Snapchat’s philosophy is interesting because it’s designed for people who already know how to use Snapchat. It actually increased the social aspect a bit because most everyone probably has a story or two of being shown how to do something by someone else.
I would say you're the biological anomaly. Humans are social creatures. Much or our society is defined by our achievements as a group then individually. I would say the op very accurately describes a general problem.
Still stands for the proposition that directors have a fiduciary duty to shareholders which is subject to judicial scrutiny in the face of self dealing.
I don't want to be a downer, and this is definitely a very cool product indeed, but doesn't converting command line tools into GUI apps sort of rob them of a lot of their usefulness? The reason I prefer to use the CLI (besides ergonomic reasons and having a horrific $5 mouse) is that I have a consistent interface which can be manipulated (pipes, redirection) and also are scriptable and repeatable. These GUI versions dont have any of that?
In humans, harsh sounds enhance aversion through neural synchronisation
Seth, as a person that has learned a lot from you over the years and benefited from your work while at Chef, Hashicorp, and Google Cloud, this act has only increased my respect for you. Thank you for taking a stand against oppression and injustice.
Yes, if you are looking for something that is not particle board.
> You're not going to actually engage with what I have to say?

There are well-intentioned people with opinions similar to yours, and I'm happy to engage with those people, because we want the same things--our disagreement is about how to get those things.

But you aren't well-intentioned. You said, "In general I don't give a rat's ass about the greater good." There isn't any logic that's going to make you care about something you don't care about. You're beyond reasoning with. So no, I'm not going to engage what you've said.

> I'm not sure, but the fact that you're left doing another ad homenim and appeal to emotion leaves me thinking that I might have won this argument...

If quoting you makes you look so bad that you consider quoting you to be an ad hominem attack, maybe say better things?
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