skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It already is, this and Uber’s disappointing IPO.
Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
No. Its a “We” Too situation
You have to be in a thick bubble separated from all the teens in the universe to think that IRC can do even 10% of what Instagram/Snapchat/TikTok/Facebook are capable of doing.

Facebook in particular is nearly an operating system.
All three of those statements in the article included clickable links for both their "spread propaganda" claim and their "toxic to ..." claim. Did clicking those links not give some good idea of what kinds of things the author was getting at?
Well there's a clear advantage for b2b.

Say you're a pretty large company and suddenly decide you want to open a dozen 'offices' in a dozen different countries. You just have to deal with one provider, one set of infrastructure etc. Plus if you decide you then want to consolidate to half-a dozen offices, it's easier to scale some up and some down.

However companies like Regus have existed for ages - so not quite sure what WeWork brings, aside from being able spaff away profits to get you in the door.
What's the end-target state that you have in mind? Serious question.
White collar unions aren't a new phenomenon though they are less known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Engine...

Is there a precedence for contractors unionizing? I'm curious what prevents Google from simply not renewing their contract since they will presumably be requesting much higher wages.
U.N. urged to investigate organ harvesting in China
Instead of banning any advertising of prescription meds to the general public.
> The crisis comes from illegal usage and tainted substances. Sadly this is not clear from the statistics without digging into them, and few do.

The crisis was directly contributed by over-prescription ande the deliberate minimization of addiction risks. The crisis was exacerbated by then pushing these people off their legal prescription once they become addicted, forcing them into the black market.

> That prescription opioids are significantly reduced, yet the death rate continues to climb indicates the focus on the current solution is in the wrong place.

When you push more people into the black market, it is reasonable to expect that over-doses will rise.

> There are bad doctors, and other bad actors, they need dealt with of course. Not at the expense that need such medication

Yes, I agree. We are much better served by educating about and being aware of addiction risks than we are by limiting access to prescription medication because we are concerned a person is already addicted.
The government has censored public speech in various forms of media since forever, whether funded or not. It wouldn't be an issue.
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Check it out on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/coinprofile
When every little thing is a sign of our imminent descent into an Orwellian nightmare, then nothing is.
Check out Lambda School
Author is spreading anti-skub propaganda.
My classes got around this by teaching how to make a TI84 quadratic solver program a short part of the curriculum. Introduced the students to the concept of building tools to help yourself pretty well. Most people didn't get programming because it was such a shallow dip into the field, but it sparked a couple minds. I had already done that basically a year earlier, when I had my programming awakening, so I did a lot of helping and after the lesson handing out my improved version of the code, as well as a self-made game
It's not just ads in apps, it blocks tracking beacons too. If I connect my (big Chinese manufacturer's) android device to my vps which has the pihole running I can watch as one or two requests per second are blocked with no browser open.
Docker Toolbox, although less polished, is based on VirtualBox and happily runs without Hyper-V. The only thing I've found missing is the control panel GUI.

https://github.com/docker/toolbox
If you took a combination of Facebook, Nextdoor, and PBS, removed all commercial interests, made it publicly owned, and made its mission the betterment of the public good, yes, that would actually be amazing. (As a portal for government information and services)

I would start with just a very stripped-down platform, and then allow integrations, such that every government entity could use the platform to publish information and communicate. Citizens could also communicate among themselves, either in "neighborhood groups", or privately. But personal profiles should be private by default, and require strong authentication guarantees for others to view. Everyone could still comment on public content as they do today, but personal data would remain private.

As government entities integrate into the platform, they could begin publishing data that citizens could subscribe to. Community classes at the local library, parks department announcing a call for volunteers, DMV office closings, IRS filing deadlines, local civic board meeting notes, and of course, PBS content. It could be one source to consume all of the potential open data available to citizens. It could also be a portal to find the right government services, as well as pass information to it: report a crime, pothole, zoning violation, etc much like '311 apps' do today (Philadelphia 311: https://www.phila.gov/311/form/Pages/default.aspx Open Maps Philly: https://openmaps.phila.gov/ Open Data Philly: https://www.opendataphilly.org/ Philly Property History: https://li.phila.gov/ Philly Atlas: https://atlas.phila.gov/)

Right now Facebook and custom regional solutions serves much of this need, but it's also filled with a huge amount of crap that we shouldn't have to deal with just to find this information. And of course, privacy can come first on such a platform, rather than last.

> Let’s build one.

Fuck it, yeah, let's. Where do I sign up?
As a recruiter, there's an interesting relationship, whereby people use funding raised as a positive metric (oh yes, they raised $200m, this must be a good company!)

Even though the less they have raised, the more valuable your equity is likely to be. It's fascinating to watch.
Renewables would be ahead on cost down to USD 9-10/barrel:

https://investors-corner.bnpparibas-am.com/investment-themes...
I think it was The Learning Channel, before it went to complete TLC shit with incipid "reality" drama all day.
I'm one of the maintainers of the curriculum.

> I have kind of grown to dislike a lot of these "learn programming on your own!" things/bootcamps/courses.

I somewhat agree, though I don't really see the problem with "learn to code" style programs if learning to code is precisely your goal. What I don't like is the seemingly widespread belief that learning to code is equivalent to learning computer science, when computer science doesn't even have anything to do with computers (as specific pieces of hardware). OSSU/CS is not a "learn to code" program; it mixes coding with computer science, and it's expected that it would take years for someone to get through the whole list of resources.

The second thing I believe I agree with you about is that we reject "learn programming on your own". While many people are interesting in starting to learn something on their own, drop off rates are extremely high for MOOCs. Most people cannot learn things on their own, and most MOOCs fail to provide the support needed by students. That's why OSSU is a community of learners that support each other, not just a curriculum.

> a lot of the "extra" classes you're required to take actually do inform your perspective on a lot of career stuff. For example, I hated taking philosophy classes and thought they were "pointless", but I recently realized how much they have helped me with logical thinking, and being able to justify decisions I'm forced to make.

I totally agree with this, except for the fact that I loved my philosophy courses in college :-)

OSSU/CS, at least in its current state, is not a replacement for a well-rounded education. Since we are not an institution, we do not have any general education requirements. It would be better to think of OSSU/CS as a resource that someone with a bachelor's degree outside of CS might use before applying to grad school in CS, particularly to avoid taking expensive remedial classes. That is exactly how I'm using it myself. We also have people already enrolled in a CS program at a formal institution, but still using OSSU/CS to get a different perspective on the same topics.
It never occurred to me just how pretentious/bad the name 'We' is until reading that article...

>We will now need additional capital from the private markets, who are no longer under the influence

>We has gone from unicorn to distressed asset in 30 days.

>In just seven days, We lost more value than the three biggest losers in the S&P 500 have lost in the last year combined: Macy's, Nektar Therapeutics, and Kraft Heinz.

I have to pause each time and re-engage my brain to realize he is talking about the company and not himself.

I'm significantly enjoying the level to which this fiasco has made investors look like dolts. One can only hope that it does something to pierce the narrative about the possession of capital making people visionary
>journalists should have spent their free time self learning their way to a medical degree?

Maybe. There are journalists with technical backgrounds. But let's leave that aside.

Are you telling me you can't find experts to explain the nuances of the particular policies? Take the example of Theranos. While the company was getting fawning press coverage, there were many specialists that were calling bullshit on their claims, from medical professional, university professors, to even competitors.
That's great, but I struggle to see the relevance to how many people per million commit suicide.
As someone without any context,
1. Why they are unionizing?
2. Why are they joining a union from a completely different industry? What would this achieve?
I was an dropout studying Economics who made the transition into data science / data analysis fairly smoothly. I'd recommend doing so. Many programmers are jealous of quantitative analysts' salaries inside tech companies.

EDIT: I guess I should add I really did not care for the work and stopped after 2-3 years to start my own company. I do a lot of the same work today, but as the Founder, I obviously control the company and my workload.
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All it means is that the software engineering sector is more open to applicants with varying backgrounds. This shouldn't come as a surprise, given how relatively young and innovative the tech industry is.

There's nothing stopping someone from getting textbooks and learning the fundamentals to be a mathematician or economist, what stops that from getting them a job is the industry not being open to that.

The differentiator between "trade" and "profession" has traditionally been physical work vs intellectual work, not how tightly controlled the training is. For someone to describe something as complex as machine learning or building Netflix's backend as "a trade not a profession" is just absolutely absurd.
So it will be a "submerged nation" in about 900 years. Which would explain ... "The threat of climate change to the islands is not a dominant motivation for migration as Tuvaluans appear to prefer to continue living in Tuvalu for reasons of lifestyle, culture and identity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Tuvalu
Thanks! That's very informative!

But surely: Even if a system is not specifically aiming to comply with the requirements of any specific jurisdiction, there are cryptographic things that could be done that don't cost much and are always preferable to pure security-by-obscurity. -- Just, whenever you append to the ledger, take a checksum of the ledger, append the checksum, get the checksum timestamped by a secure timestamping server (like DigiStamp or Germany's D-Trust), append the signed timestamp, and reiterate the next time you append.

That way you can guarantee that you can only ever erase the ledger in its entirety, not tamper with any single records, and even when you do erase an entire ledger, there is a record of it, if the timestamping server does that kind of journalling. -- No need to rely on any security by obscurity there.

That seems way more secure, and costs next to nothing. You don't even need to be online all the time, you can just fetch the signatures when online, and work in offline mode when there is no connection. You can even retrofit that ability when your system works with files, by putting the files under version control, and making the version control system do that. (Personally, I have my version control server rigged to do just that, in case I ever need to prove in a court of law the date when a piece of code was written etc).
According to Wikipedia's definition , psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not. Speaking as someone who has taken a very large dose of LSD, the boundary between alerted consciousness(or consciousness at all) and psychosis is very blurry. All of human experience is merely an interpretation of our stimuli, and one person's perception of reality is likely to be quite different from other people.

A key difference between LSD-indused psychosis and schizophrenia is timespan. For most people, the psychosis fades and they just become normal people again. (some people do trigger schizophrenia that persists after their trips, though it's rare)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis?wprov=sfla1
From the article lol:

Further undercutting his position: eccentric behavior that was detailed in a Journal articlelast week, such as a party-heavy lifestyle that included marijuana use in an airplane and unpredictable management decisions.
> you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up

I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???
Yes, I do define it like that, there is always a stop, even pauseless collectors actually do have a stop, even if a few microns.

Doing it in some local context is a way to minimize overall process impact.

Just like reference counting as GC algorithm does introduce pauses, specially if implemented in a naive way. More advanced ones end up being a mini tracing GC algorithm.

Regardless, having any form of automatic memory management in system languages is something that should have already become standard by now.
I do want to say I met Matt Oehrlein at a maker-space in Ferndale, MI before he went on to create MegaBots. The guy is crazy talented with his hands, as well as a super personable and kind person.

I'm sure he'll have some more cool and fun endeavors in the future. Will be keeping a lookout for his name!
It may also work and decrease the probability that they follow through. Every strategy has its successes and its failures. If that were a reason not to do something, you'd never do anything.
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Strange that they have to have such a non-standard license, when they go out of their way to mention Apache 2 several times:
https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Contrast that with Orient, who also have an Enterprise version, and they just straight-up say "Apache 2, no drama" https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/blob/develop/l...

We had an absolutely miserable experience trying to get Janus to behave rationally, and thus far have had zero drama with Orient; we skipped dgraph because it does not appear to work with Gremlin, meaning one must use vendor-specific APIs to use dgraph.

Their client reminds me of the days before ORM: write a big string literal and send it to the server: https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph4j#running-a-query
Once the OS updates stop, App updates follow shortly after. And once developers stop updating their apps, they become unusable over time, especially when they cannot communicate with server side API. My first iPad lasted about a year after the OS updates stopped.
He wasn't asking about gdp. He wants to know the suicide rate per 100,000 people and see if farmers are outliers.
What kind of advances do we need to make for robots of this size to have the kind mobility that people would generally expect?
Adblockers can block specific paths/URLs, where Pi-Hole is DNS level only.
I joined my current employer a couple days pre-IPO, was given stock options and told they might be worth a lot. Despite my insistence, I wasn't told the exercise price, nor how many shares were outstanding, nor any other relevant information, so (sensibly?) valued the options at around zero. They turned out to be worth more than my base salary.
I appreciate the simplicity of abduco when saving sessions of already TUI-intensive programs like MUD or IRC clients.
Relevant (https://www.stilldrinking.org/nobody-understands-punctuation)
Right, I get it. It's the same reason nobody believes you when you point out the glaring similarities between Trump and Hitler. Because on the Internet, everyone is Hitler. We're failing ourselves.
> since energy is a huge component in their cost

I want to see some data to back up this claim.

> It's pretty much a wash.

I guess you'd need energy to make up >90% of the cost to make it "pretty much a wash"?
You're putting words in my mouth. Clearly Brexit is a huge change so brexiteers are clearly not against it. I also don't know where you get the "fear of the unknown" from, you're building a strawman. Brexit is the unknown and Remainers seem to fear that a whole lot.

If you were to find something unifying the Brexit mindset, something that would unify Brexiteers as a whole, what would it be?

"Pro-independance" doesn't work because that's simply too vague. As we've seen over the past couple of years there's no agreement on what an independent UK would look like. What unifies the Brexiteers is the rejection of the European Union, they don't seem to adhere to any constructive project as a whole. And to be clear that's not to say that they're not individually constructive, just that there's no constructive consensus among this majority.
There's a common argument that the purpose of language is communication, that mistakes don't matter if the desired information is communicated, and that prescriptive rules for punctuation and grammar are merely pedantry.

However, that argument is self-defeating. The purpose of language is obviously communication, yes. Mistakes might not hinder communication in some cases, sure. The rules of grammar have changed throughout history and are somewhat arbitrary, granted.

However, as the ideas one wishes to communicate become more complex, abandoning the greater set of grammatical tools makes ones sentences more difficult to read. I see this all the time in professional environments of all places. I frequently have to reread communications because someone was too lazy to proofread.

And as for language changing through time? It does. But that's not carte blanche for making whatever changes one wishes. Language change has to come about by collective agreement, not by some cowboy who doesn't like grammatical rules.
In hindsight maybe the "performers" table would be better named "resultVars", as that's what it really represents.
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> it ok for a 70 year old man in a position of power to (hypothetically) have sex with a 17 year old girl. Erm, no. Can sex in such circumstances be fully consensual? No, it can’t

I provided an example with a government minister in Norway already... The minister in question remains in the government (the allegations are unproven but would easily be enough to destroy a British politician). Clearly two very similar western countries have very different moral stances on sex between consenting adults!

With regards most of the rest of your post we are largely in agreement.

Except regarding your misunderstanding of RMS's position. I invite you to read what he wrote yourself and revert if you think that is what he actually meant to say! Or to edit your post.
The replacement for IRC these days is discord. It's not like we can't do IRC again, it just isn't as visible for people who's only experience with installing a program is through an app store.
>Are you telling me you can't find experts to explain the nuances of the particular policies?

Would those experts be... medical professionals?
The article answers all these questions.
Though to be honest Word is likely to be around forever as well - insofar as "forever" means current computing equipment. In a world where you can't open a Word document is probably a world where we aren't able to read plain text documents either.

After all, Word documents are "just" a series of compressed xml files. Even the open source alternatives will allow you to recover text in the event you lose access to Microsoft products.
The point is that it is not the concept of social media that is problematic, it is that what is now available and popular is beholden to corporate interests, which tend to be in conflict with user interests.

Just like commercial TV and radio.

Hence the proposal of the article.
With caveat: enabling it requires enabling notification spam.

Android really should not let applications detect if their notifications are enabled or not.
When OPEC sets production targets they all haggle with each other over what they'll each produce. This is based on things like percentages of reserves, percentages of capacity, percentages of historical rates, percentages of historical revenues, etc. Over the course of decades and dozens of iterations of negotiations the underlying numbers have become, lets just say, very very loosely coupled with reality. They are mostly produced by literal monarchies (I'll never get over this) or military dictatorships with no third party verification. So in addition to being part of an economic/revenue negotiation, they are also part of a regime-stability bluff.

That is why, as a general rule, every year they "discover" approximately the same amount of oil they produced/delivered that year.
What originally led you to believe that an economics degree would result in well-paying jobs?
Those calculators were much more expensive than the already crazy expensive TI-84 that I had. When I got to college/calculus and actually started struggling with math a bit, I learned how to use the ability of calculators to check work or solve the end product to re-derive a method or otherwise help guide me. It didn't always work, but once or twice it was the key to helping me get an answer and process
Is it under the Tips app? If it is, that’s probably where they expect people to find it.
Surveillance capitalism is going to get a lot more scary
There is ton of demand for what they provide, but what they provide can easily be copied, and the copycats will not have a mountain of debt/investment caused by irrational drive for growth at any price that they need to pay back.

Right now, no-one is competing against We because they are selling a dollar at 60 cents to their customers. The second they stop doing that, there will be a dozen clones. We is worthless.