skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing a lot of headlines on HN I finally understood that WeWork is a company and not some sort of US institution or some communist worker union (no pun intended, we have those in Europe).
What are the rules if a drone crashes in my garden. Is it mine? Do I have to spend time and energy giving it back?
That is hostile to the user. Wow.
Fitting user name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON.
No worse than crashing into another car, I would think.
Clickbait misrepresentation of a study on worms, which reinforces dubious and harmful stereotypes.

I wish it was just an issue of terrible journalism on epic levels, but it looks like the the studies Co-Author may be onboard the "I'm terrible at/to science" train :

"Although we have not looked in humans, it is plausible that the male human brain has types of neurons that the female brain doesn't, and vice versa. This may change how the two sexes perceive the world and their behavioural priorities."

This truly is a prime example of a dumpster fire of shame, career limiting laziness, and self destructive behavior.
SICP in PDF at an easy-to-remember URL – git.io/sicp.pdf
I don't believe raw material usage is a problem so much as environmental pollution.
Taxing material use and refunding at material recovery is not totally unreasonable, but it ignores the energy that goes into both processing steps and the people required to do labor. Repair is totally compatible with this, since it reduces waste of all of material, energy, and labor. It’s also something consumers can readily participate in and influence, unlike tax policy.
This is absolutely superb - just brilliant.

This is a personal reflection on the way it's presented. I'm sure that there are people who already know some of the content, and I found myself skimming over things, nodding, and thinking "Nothing new here." Then realised that there was something I missed, or an explanation that was especially nice, and I had to go back and re-read, wondering what else I might have missed.

So I found it all very smooth, clean, informative, but there was no story, no arc, no narrative, nothing to make me want to sit with a coffee (or other beverage of choice) and simply read like a novel. There wasn't the "Hook; Narrative; Reveal" structure that keeps the reader involved.

Which is a bit of a shame, because the bits I did take time over are really, really nice.

It's really nice.
Good question. I haven't found a way around, so I've stopped visiting. Presumably one day they'll get a kicking from a GDPR regulator - but they have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
You forgot autonomous vehicles, which double as a high capacity sensor platform connected to the mother hive. On which you can keep piling more and more intrusive sensors in the name of safety. If you ever wondered why Google of all companies is in the forefront of that technology.
Maybe you should read at least the first sentence of articles, and not just the headline, before commenting?

It isn't a race.
Oh.

My interpretation was more-or-less diametrically opposite; I took it that he was a committed mechanist, arguing that the mind is a machine (he's a neurologist); and trying to deal with the (personal and unverifiable) experience of being conscious and having what seems to be will.
I wonder how much pollution will this new process of recycling plastic bring. There is so much unnecessary plastic going around in our society, let's start there first.

On my local supermarket, to buy 4 peaches they come in a plastic container fully covered with plastic sheet, I'm not kidding.
I don't see it as a problem because of this line: "Those companies are ASKING shareholders..."

Don't invest in companies that are making dumb decisions, or divest from companies that are making changes you feel are dumb.
This is also an interesting one:

>WSJ: WeWork Founder Mixed Spiritual Group With Business

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-founder-mixed-spiritual-...
I don’t think it’s a common abbreviation for Windows developers. Process Explorer calls that “working set” instead.
Another example is the Wool series by Hugh Howey. That was one of the first big self-publishing success stories.

The books are incredibly entertaining and actually spawned a number of short stories and novels by other self-publishing authors set in the same universe.
I don't think those food delivery apps are a good comparison because a few of them actually survived and the market consolidated around them. The service they offer is clearly valuable for many people. I don't think it qualifies as a proper bubble.
https://archive.is/ supports IPV6

Whenever possible everyone should be archiving to both anyway.
> We value your privacy

> [...]

> You don't have a choice to not be tracked, consent now.

Apart from being a prime reason why the GDPR was a good idea, it's also one of those things that make me insta-kill a tab. Sorry, I still haven't found any content on the web that is unique enough to let myself be disrespected in this kind of way.
Can we get a hyphen or removal of a space in the title please? “Iceland Grey” sounds like a real noun.
Very much like a Jobs, Musk, or Holmes styled persona. They have a very peciliar way to cultivate their image among very trusting people.

Just have a conversation with a kid working for a client about all those guys. In conversation about Mr. Musk: "If somebody gives you $1.8B credit in cash, and you still manage to screw up, you must have been doing something wrong"

How do you call them in America? "New ageians?"
Ahh shhgit Real-Time detection of credentials leaked in Git commits
It's a short video. Everyone should watch it. Not necessarily for the walker, which is somewhat primitive, though probably state-of-the-art for its time. Watch the video for the accompanying commentary.

Ivan has such a simple, elegant way of explaining things. In just a few sentences he clearly explained all the key elements of the walker.

That's a wonderful pedagogical talent. Another person with such a talent was Richard Feynman.
Disable all js, and you don't get the popup. I use umatrix to disable js on these sites (medium is another one that is a lot better without js).
Wonderful. Thanks.
The plastic is not sufficiently concentrated. Would have to scrape the whole ocean and at various depths.
Golay Codes
I wish mobile OSs had an implementation of this or similar.
The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack
Show HN: XSpotify: A Modified Spotify Client
Make me your daily fun
Really interesting project with lots of potential. Printed corals should decrease survival of the fishes (they arent corals and will be colonised by algae), but some fish refuges is better than none even if non perfect.
Prof Daniel Cohen gives a Ted talk that I haven't watched but which, based on write ups, gives a nice antidote to this. Simply adopt the attitude that "losing" an argument is a good thing because you come away with a more refined view of the world. the real winner is the person that makes cognitive gains.
As 2008 demonstrated so painfully. Iceland is extremely vunerable to misconduct in its financial sector.

A population of just 350,000 people; a free floating currency, outside the EU. Main industries are fishing and a tourist boom driven by a single TV show.

How big is the Icelandic financial sector? Compromising Ministry of finance, the central bank and the private banks. A thousand people? How do you have proper checks and balances in an environment like that? How do you prevent nepotism or outright corruption?
Interesting how pets.com is so ridiculed but something like a books.com (amazon) became the one of most valuable companies in the world.
No wonder with Amazon taking 70% of the sales price if the e-book goes even one cent above $9.99. If the e-book is sold below that it's "only" 30% - those are absolutely exploitative conditions!

I'm glad that more books are being self-published, I don't trust publishers. I don't know how many times I was aproached on Linkedin and invited to write a book on a topic, just because I've listed it on my profile.

If that's how a lot of technical authors are chosen, that could explain a lot about the quality of a lot of books.

I also don't like the page quotas that publishers have, like it has to be at least 400 pages. Well, what if there is only relevant information for 300? I would rather spare myself the time of reading 100 useless fluff pages.

Also, a lot of potentially good authors get rejected by publishers or not even invited, as publishers have no idea who to ask to write a book to.

The publishers take a premium cut and leave the authors with minimal royalties, meaning that most authors can't make a living from their books, meaning that less books get written.

Allowing authors to self publish lets more authors have a bigger share of the sales, allowing them to continue to write and everyone benefits.

I don't think that the odd quality author that writes a crap self-published book is a good enough of a reason for introducing a middleman, let the market decide. If the book is crap, no one will buy it and it will show. You can only fool the internet for so long.
Staggering impact of IT systems gone wrong
SpaceX plans to put more than 40k satellites in space
I liked reading HPMOR and it's certainly among the best fan fictions I've read, but in my opinion it has all the usual benefits and shortcomings of fanfics: It's based on fascinating ideas and a new perspective on the known world and characters, it has an unconventional story that the author obviously tells in the way he wants.

On the other hand it shows a lack of editing. There are whole chapters that don't move the story forward (like a third of the book is dedicated to student battles that just seem like a filler before the author decided how to end the story). I feel like those would all get significantly shortened if this would be a published book with an editor.

Anyway, I like reading fanfiction, but I think it stands on its own and it's hard to compare it with conventional published literature.
I added LeanPub (a self-publishing platform) support to my technical writing tool Helpinator a while ago, but did not see any significant interest in this feature. May be I am experiencing a kind ob bias in this case, authors of technical books are exceptional people at most :)
Agreed.

And for the second question: if that is possible, this would prevent the "headless" entity to use the words and symbols signifying the brand. If the majority of possible consumers of the brand disagrees that the owner of the trademark really owns the brand, this would destroy or at least diminish the value of the brand.

A brand is more than the words and symbols used to signify the brand and therefore the brand itself can't be trademarked, only those words and symbols. It's like the word "apple" is not itself an apple.
The garbage gyres are quite concentrated.
How little we expect from our computers. "help <command>" should be the first thing you expect to work.
Something that really stuck out to me in Japan was seeing the bananas at the supermarket wrapped in plastic. If only bananas had some NATURAL WAY of protecting themselves from the elements...
> having a private vehicle is an expensive hobby for the rich.

Having a car is not a hobby when you live outside of a very dense city center. That's just the tool that enables you to live.
A Vim user here! I do most of my programming in Vim. I think the only exception is IntelliJ for Java. IntelliJ for Java is pretty good because it really understands the Java language. But for everything else, I think the ergonomics of Vim is unbeatable.

There are times when I write a lot of new code and there are times when I move code around. The two activities rarely happen at the same time. The normal mode of Vim is the best I have seen so far to move code around.

Having experienced the ergonomics and composability of Vim commands I have a hard time understanding why more and more developers prefer Visual Studio Code these days. What are some of the good things about Visual Studio that makes it worth trying?
I've come across the term Hegelian dialectic and tried to read up on it many times before but it wasn't until your comparison with steel-manning that I feel like I've started to make headway with understanding it. Thanks!
Just buy Zigbee and ZWave based home automation products. People are hyperfocused on Wifi products that end up spying on you because that's all they know. Zigbee and Zwave products have no capability to connect to the internet. They must go to a zigbee/zwave router of some sorts. There's a few vendors selling them that definitely aren't Amazon or Google and some that even run entirely internal to your network and some that are cloud based.
We (Novel)
Well 'bubble' is not defined by whether the industry's products are valuable (or we would never have a 'housing bubble')—I would base it on whether investors were putting too much money into a type of business. There were so many Uber-for-X startups going under that former YC President Sam Altman wrote this post on unit economics: https://blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics
How to Apply for Google Adsense and Get Approved
A question to HN: reading this and other discussions, it seems to me that "craftsmen" are being rated by how good a business they run (or are contributing to). Similarly with the word "professional". I'd like to ask, what then would be the word for a "craftsmen" by rated how good the work is at its purpose (and without the usual cop-out of redefining "good" as value in dollars)?

Optimization for "good work" is only partially aligned with "good business"; frequently, the two are at odds. A good product, in my view, is one that lets the user achieve their goals as efficiently as possible, endures for as long these goals need to be achieved (often lifetime or more), and - after meeting these constraints - is also optimized to minimize the price and use of materials. It's the kind of product that you buy once, are happy about it, and when you no longer need it, give or sell to someone else. It's your grandfather's watch, passed on to you by your parents, and who you'll one day pass on to your kid. It's the furniture you've inherited with the house that remembers World War II, but is still almost as good as new. It's the forever repairable Soviet-era sound amplifiers or irons for clothes. It's the web page your bank had three redesigns and two SPA frameworks ago.

A good "professional" would take a look at one of such products and declare them bad. Overengineered. Because what's "professional", what's good for business, are products that break fast (ensuring recurring revenue) and are as cheap as possible to make. Do they solve 100% of the problems it was supposed to? Doesn't have to, customers don't know that when buying, and when they figure it out, it'll be easier for them to learn to deal with missing part of functionality, or learn to be extra careful around the product, than it'll be for them to spend money on something else. Whatever other defects there may be, we can cheaply cover for with sales&marketing. What a "professional" does is ensures their work makes them (or their employer) maximum amount of money for minimum amount of effort.

So, HN, I'm looking for a word that describes the person, the art, of doing good work and good products, as defined above, in contrast to being a "professional", which I increasingly despise of.
It'd just cause a panic and stop that particular goroutine. To properly handle it, it needs to be passed back into a results channel or something. Generally we don't intentionally cause panics in go code as a matter of style.

You can insert a `defer log.Println(err)` if you want to handle that particular error but I didn't bother.
> at various depths.

This could be an advantage in fact in my opinion. The same type of plastic have similar densities so water layers in the ocean could act as a plastic classificator.

Is just a theory. I could be wrong and can be impractical if the plastic is tainted with biofouling.
It seems juvenile.
Jesus, why would you waste Tor's limited bandwidth on personal cameras. Throw it behind a VPN and that's it.
It's like trying to record your camera footage in blockchain bad.
The remote access comes with it. The footage is stored locally and their remote access acts as a proxy.
What drew me to software development was the desire to make things. It's not possible to make software worthy of today's audience without front-end, back-end and release engineering.

So if this person is saying "you can't make anything yourself[1]", that would be a sad situation.

For me, and I know this is common, my backstory goes like this: HTML -> PC building -> Photoshop -> graphic design -> web design -> CSS -> PHP -> JS & jQuery -> Node.js -> Mongo/Postgres -> Angular -> React -> React Native -> Heroku -> Docker -> Gitlab/CI/tests -> ArangoDB -> Kubernetes -> CDNs and lots more

I simply do what I need to do to make stuff. I've made back-end REST+WebSocket frameworks, cross-platform front-end component libraries, database ORMs and query builders, mobile apps published on the App Store, built CI pipelines for test and release, and configured containers, orchestrators and CDNs (which I programmed) for max availability. And I've lead teams in doing all these things.

Are my experiences "mythical"? No--but if you set your own standards or definitions when defining something you oppose, you'll often prove yourself right. While I've made route-finding systems and address search services, I honestly don't know some of the algebra about sorting algorithms. I learned as I went; and while I probably need more study and a little more time on new tasks than those who focus on a narrow aspect, I'm eager to do it.

In my pursuit of making stuff, what's expressed in this article won't stop me.

[1] Of course, nothing is made ourselves, we all rely on open source code, computers and servers.
>If that's how a lot of technical authors are chosen, that could explain a lot about the quality of a lot of books.

I agree, but I don't see how self-publishing makes that problem better and not worse.

>meaning that less books get written.

I have a hard time believing this, in the age of the internet. For one, there's more content produced than ever, and it's still accelerating. Second, do we need more "books"? Why not essays and papers and blogs? Not every idea needs to fill 256 pages; most are best served with a less lengthy medium.

But yes, writing a book is a form of art, like making an album or producing a painting. It's very hard to make a living doing so.
8085 instruction set: the octal table
Ma Bell was still ridiculously powerful, but as long as it’s competing with something, we go on.

I recommend just don’t use Facebook at all.

Teach children what the fuck vanity means, and that you don’t need 1 million followers to have real friends.
It seems the latest term is "full-cycle" developer. You must know FE and/or BE, plus how to test, release, etc.
I know founders can sometimes be eccentric, but for Adam it's just delusion and that's well evident from his first venture [1].

> Working out of his Tribeca apartment, he started Krawlers, which sought to make baby clothes with knee pads to make crawling more comfortable. The slogan, he has said: “Just because they don’t tell you, doesn’t mean they don’t hurt.”

Are founders like Adam really incapable of seeing obvious holes in their ideas? Or they just conveniently ignore them?

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-not-the-way-everybody-b...
The GRE is increasingly being dropped as well. The motivation is racial diversity.

For example at Brown: https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-10-03/gre

The GRE is no longer needed for...

American Studies

Biotechnology

Biomedical Engineering

Chemistry

Comparative Literature

Computational Biology

Computer Science

Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

English

French Studies

German Studies

Hispanic Studies

Italian Studies

Mathematics

Modern Culture and Media

Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology

Neuroscience

Pathobiology

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Religious Studies

Slavic Studies

Theatre and Performance Studies
they even remove the skin?
wow. Excellent read. much respect. Labor of love.
Taxing energy also works as a proxy for taxing material - you need energy (lots of it) to mine and process raw materials, so I'd expect taxing energy use to shift the market activity towards services and reuse of already processed materials and manufactured goods.
Your words: “ If you have a conservative bone in your body, you are not welcome on the Mozilla campus.” This is wholly made up, no evidence for it as far as I can tell. Please cite anything you can adduce on this point. My exit is not on its face evidence supporting your statement. If things have changed since I left, let me know.

You also seem to have assumed that the “employees” who called for my resignation reported to me. Not so: they all worked for the smaller Mozilla Foundation, which has arms-length structure as parent non-profit to the for-profit Mozilla Corporation of which I was CEO.
Battle of the Oranges
> "Free will" is a philosophical term.

I've heard that way too many times to know that it's a convenient argument to shut down any discussion.
Idioms of Improbability
It's not the only experiment. In fact there is no experiment showing the opposite.
What if we are not? What does that change?
Also, they are becoming a danger for humans and fishes. At some point we need to pay that cost.

Maybe this particular technology is not fully applicable in oceans, but at least it's a start.
Exactly, people can start simple like reusing their plastic bags for fruits, that's what I'm telling people at the supermarket. Most of the time, I just take some cardboard boxes or sheets in the supermarket and fill it with fruits, then later throw them in the recycle bin, or nothing at all for legumes

At least, people bring their own shopping bags, because plastic ones at the checkout are not free, a good thing. There many other more or less useless products, like soap/shampoo plastic bottles, a soap bar does the job so well, for everything

Recycling comes with a cost: energy, pollution, transports
I find myself much less worried about plastic waste than about climate change.

Yet I observe on Twitter and other social media that these problems are considered equally important, sometimes people even treat them as equivalent.

Am I missing something?
Steve Jobs is turning in his grave at this and other comments on this post.
I don’t think industry-wide stats bear this out, and they may actually support the opposite conclusion: people mostly upgrade only when absolutely required to.

Dropbox’s conversion rate is 2-4% (depending on what minimum level of activity one uses for the denominator). The difference between theirs and Spotify’s is that with Spotify, all free users hear in-stream ads. With Dropbox, some % of users are satisfied-enough with the free product.

Dropbox is both more representative of typical consumer conversion rates (1-3%) and more representative of the knobs that a freemium business has. In both cases, the conclusion isn’t that people upgrade due to perceived goodwill, it’s that Spotify - and any business which people listen to constantly - has an unusually effective way to motivate users.
Tim Dodd is great! An alternative great podcast (that Todd backs) is Main Engine Cutoff (MECO). Highly recommend you give it a listen if you are interested in Space News, and thoughtful discussion on recent topics.
https://mainenginecutoff.com/
It's interesting that he takes solace in the possibility of arbitrary exercise of authority by absentee owners.