skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author references Quiet, which is a great read but it doesn’t seem like they understood it at all.
I am astounded by how you continue to insist that the book doesn't teach anyone anything, when I have already stated that I learned something from it! And of course the book has equations in it. What did you expect?
Sure, but for me, personally, if you need proprietary things to have 2/3/4G etc is not freedom, no matter where you put it.

That said, Librem5 is still ahead compared to any Android phone regarding freedom and especially privacy part.
Title is misleading--it doesn't look at your profile and just generates random titles.
The Pundit Class’s Knives Come Out for Andrew Yang – Market Mad House
So why not elect good CEOs? Why do we have to let the wall street hacks pick our CEOs?
Now not only do you have a less effective developer who takes time to ramp up, you’re also taking time from senior developers.

I’m not saying this is always the right course and of course this doesn’t scale to larger companies, but my first project at my current company a week in was to develop a feature from scratch which ended up involving coding an API for the front end developers, writing an ETL process that used both Redshift (AWS OLAP database), and MySQL designing the schemas, configuring the AWS resources with CloudFormation, setting up queues, messages, lambdas, dealing with the vendor we were integrating with and learning the business vertical. How much longer would it have taken if instead of already knowing their stack - C# WebAPI, MySQL, and AWS - I came from a Java/Mongo/GCP background?

They needed someone useful now to get a feature out that they wanted to charge customers for.
Asbestos mining is banned in Canada, as of Jan. of this year, so we're not exporting it anymore.
> I work on a team of 50 employees. For those 50 people, there are two managers. 1 out of 25 isn’t great odds of being accidentally promoted into management without your consent.

Where I work it's about 8/50.

But I don't have to worry about being a manager - because they only get hired from outside.
Brain Implant Enables Thought Control, Mobilizes Tetraplegic
> Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns.

Hilariously, Imgur itself followed this trajectory: it started out as a super-simple image hosting site whose creator was fed up with all the nonsense that other image-hosting sites did[1]. Now, though, Imgur has become the website everyone complains about!

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit...
7 days each way. ie. multi-week round trip.
Sure, but it is absolutely not helpful to reframe it in a negative way. Coca-Cola is fighting bottle deposits. And they're not evenfighting battle deposits, they are fighting the reduced sales that will result from bottle deposits. They aren't fighting recycling.

If you are somebody who wants recycling that is a very useful distinction because it gives you a place to find common ground. There is room for recycling advocates and Coca-Cola to work together, whereas if Coca-Cola were just opposed to recycling there would not be.
Automation will disproportionately affect African Americans by 2030
> Also, the prices for AirBNB's were significantly more varied.

As expected, since complying with fire and other safety codes, taxes, zoning rules, brand standards, and other business costs exist.

Kitchens are offered in various brands by Hilton/Marriott/IHG. I haven’t had Airport hotel land issues in big cities, but most other places restrict hotels from being in areas by restricting zoning... since residents in these places don’t want to be near hotels.

My point though, was that the hotel market seems to be operating pretty efficiently, with plenty of good choices available for consumers. Price might be higher, but most societies have decided it’s worth it to enforce certain standards upon them. This is different from how the taxi market was, where online booking, payment, and rating vastly raised the standards for everyone.
One filmmaker is using AI to uncover surveillance of her Muslim community
Yes actually, my mistake.
Show HN: Opal implementation of a simple server with Express and Socket.io
I think these types of conversations are setting the stage to "scuttle the ship" of political discourse. Stop making excuses for the Liberal party. They lost the plot and are going to lose seats because of it.
Show HN: A rap song about tech interviews
There is no scientific foundation for it. Jung dreamt it up with an extremely literary approach. Then the swindlers Briggs and Myers popularised it with their 20th century astrology.
Yes, they can. The most pernicious version literally sends compressed screenshots to their data-harvesting services. Compression can be pretty aggressive, since they only really want to figure out what you’re watching, and they have a full database. This process is essentially a hash-table of screen content; they can use compression on screenshots because that hardware codec is heavily optimized and quite cheap (witness mobile streaming video usage).

I have no idea which vendors/models currently do this, but several have been caught doing it in the wild; it’s not just theoretical. Things like pi-holes and avoiding ever ‘activating’ your smart tv can help stop it, but if you want to use the built-in Netflix (etc) app, or look for firmware updates, or use a built in Roku or similar, then you’re usually either doing something complicated (routing rules, pi-hole, etc) or giving in to your tv collecting data on you.
Including passengers?
> It really bugs me the media's trying to get Canadians to play the same stupid political games as America.

That's not quite right; the Conservative party is copying Republican tactics wholesale, the media didn't make them do that. Canada isn't broken, but the Conservative party definitely is.
Maybe “mouse acceleration” is the wrong term? Turning it on means there’s no 1:1 relationship between mouse and cursor movement. Quickly moving it across the entire screen? 2cm might equal 1000px. Slowly nudging a Rider toolbar to the correct position? 2cm now becomes 1px.

I can see how it doesn’t work with gaming but for OS use it’s great. And it works slightly better on macOS. It’s subtle, but it’s there.
It's not pseudoscience if there has been an empirical study, almost by definition. You're right that the value of self-reports is pretty low, but there have been plenty of studies done similar to this, this is not a new concept.
I'm not sure the two can be cleanly separated. At least in some cases, being housed seems to be a radically more effective "treatment" than anything a mental health professional can offer [1]. This shouldn't be entirely shocking, since chronic homelessness tends to come with a number of things that can exacerbate mental illness (disrupted sleep, irregular diet, chronic feelings of threat/insecurity, difficulty maintaining personal hygiene, etc.).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/04...
Real Estate Virtual Assistants
How does BART compare?
This reads like a jumble of fragmented maybes.

The first thing that bugs me is the casual spelling of "extravert," where "extrovert" is the common spelling unless you're referring specifically to the Jungian interpretation of the trait(s).

The second thing that bugs me is the "acts like" construction. The students in the experiment were indeed acting when they explicitly adopted traits they don't usually express for a period of time, but to also use "acting" throughout the rest of the essay as a fundamental organizing principle is to assume a person's motivations absent evidence, vs. sometihng like "appears to," which maintains the relationship that a person's motivations are a matter of interpretation by the observer.

He gives a nod to neuroplasticity toward the end, which...fine, but it appears to be a euphemism for "nobody is really anything" when balanced against the rest of the text.
I remember that. That was emulation and it was not usable the way a 75 MHz Z80 could be, running code directly on the CPU (even if it is an FPGA).
So I'm completely with you on the author's total misunderstanding, but I'm curious on this:

> And no, you can't be "a little bit of both"

1. Would you agree that introversion/extroversion is a spectrum? At what point is someone "on the line" basically a bit of both, so to speak? Is there anyone in true neutral?

2. Why do you think it's so static as to never change? I feel like I have certainly seen people go through very slow/steady shifts before.
> I think the whole comparison of imgur with a blank page with an image is a bit silly. It's not just the image, its a whole application with comments,image galeries, video playing ability, and of course a ton of iframes with ads which load a lot of content (more images etc.)

This is precisely the reason it's a good comparison...
I think it's because in the U.S absolutely anyone can tie up this stuff in the court systems for years. There are a lot of environmentalists who have been working overtime to stop this thing. For example: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/10/24/high-speed-rail-l... . There are seven environmental lawsuits against this thing. How much do you think the legal bills are? There will likely be many more.

Edit: There are a couple of regularly glitchy things about how American government works. They are:

#1 : Public Employees Unions who negotiate with themselves for sweet pension deals.

#2 : Suits against various government agencies by individuals that wind up being paid for by taxpayers. For example, school districts getting sued for something a janitor did and then taxpayers having to pay for it as if they were a private business and the taxpayer is the owner.

#3 : Environmental lawsuits to stop government infrastructure projects.
Why do people like overseas vacations, when an hour's drive would easily get them to a town they've never visited?
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It would be interesting to see an estimation of how many humans/human hours have worked on this problem.
What an atrocious article, exemplifying and worsening the problem it claims to discuss.

It starts out with a bit about the importance of dialogue and how bad polarization is.

Then immediately switches to automatically, and totally assuming that anyone who opposes current immigration levels is simply a "racist". No discussion.

Clearly the author thinks the problem isn't polarization. The author thinks the problem is the other side, and uses words literally synonymous with evil to refer to them.

This kind of journalism isn't discussing the problem; it is the problem.
My favorite lately is iA Writer Mono: https://ia.net/writer/blog/a-typographic-christmas
Whatever automation you can do in the US you can also do in China but with lower regulation. Whatever labor costs left over are also cheaper. What I mean is that automation is not an inherent advantage of the US.
The goal isn’t adding privacy on enterprise networks. Enterprise networks should already be accounting for the existence of HTTPS, and either allowing, blocking, or proxying employee/device connections based on their threat model.

The goal for DoH is to improve privacy for individual humans, and it does that.
If I were to produce a movie with the tag "based on true incidents", this will be it - connects almost every one in my network. Thanks a ton for drafting that.
First off I suppose it's easier to pick a dynamically typed target. Is there a particular reason it be a VM rather than just picking a language to generate (e.g. JavaScript, PHP, Perl)? Do you have any requirements for performance or parallelism?
There aren't yet, but Iosevka now has an experimental proportional version. It does not seem to have ligatures yet, however that might just be a question of time.
> I just need time to recharge by myself afterwards

Yes!

The way I've started explaining this to people is it's like going to the gym: I like going to the gym. I make sure to go to the gym regularly. But I can't spend all day at the gym, and if I spend many hours at the gym I'm going to be very sore and tired and need a day or two off.
They are different, but I don’t think networking is one of the major differences.

Website backends often have significant dependence on other services that can be down. Further standalone apps can have zero network dependence or a lot. So having written both, and similar code for each, I don’t feel the networking side is all that different.

If anything networking is probably the largest similarly between them.

PS: I did some iOS development in my spare time even worked with some old J2ME, so I assume Android is fairly similar.
Ask HN: What terminal aliases do you use?
And in what file do you keep them?
Thanks for that info. I don’t understand why those are allowed to exist, and more importantly, why people buy them.
I don't think that's correct. I mean nobody can predict it with 100% accuracy. but as I pointed out, Netflix spends 10 times the amount HBO does on content and gets less from it.

HBO is batting at least .700, and Netflix is not even batting .100. That's not randomness. I don't know nearly enough about the industry to know why.

but what I do know is that Netflix has probably spent more money on content in The last two years then HBO has spent in its entire history, and HBO's library is significantly more valuable.

I was in the valley during the time the music industry was being gangbanges by technology and I have a good guess as to why. Tech people often make the mistake of thinking non-tech people are stupid. Pure speculation on my part, but I would guess that Netflix thought they could solve the problem by throwing money and technology at it, and the people who have been making good content for 20 years were just better.
That would be true. But like the commenter recommending an HNL two/three day break between LAX and somewhere in AUS, if I don't have to there tomorrow, I am otherwise required to be here. (For arbitrary values of here and there).
This is a huge part of the problem. I've been researching the history of US housing for at least two decades at this point and I feel clear that this is a consequence of WW2, post-war prosperity and the existence of the Baby Boom generation that mostly grew up with unprecedented wealth, didn't need cheap housing and essentially imposed it's ideas of "minimal, acceptable housing" on the nation as a whole.

Then demographic and economic reality changed, but we've been both reluctant to rebuild the cheaper accommodations that got demolished and we face serious logistical barriers to recreating such. Cheap housing tends to be older housing. New construction is generally built for the middle class or the wealthy. Poor people don't finance new construction.

So we currently have a huge shortage of housing that works for lower income people. It's not just a factor of rent price per se. We also have created a situation where most Americans cannot live without a car, which is de facto another substantial financial burden and logistical barrier for anyone with physical barriers to being able to drive. On top of that, we just straight up do not have a lot of decent housing options for anyone who prefers a smaller home for some reason.

I'm still trying to figure out out how to document and communicate the shape and extent of the housing problem. Using the term "affordable housing" fails to be helpful in talking about the issue. In fact, it's counterproductive.

But the huge loss of entry-level housing is a large part of this problem space and the period of its active destruction coincides with the findings by dredmorbius that at some point our terminology changed in a way that suggests the issue of homelessness fundamentally changed such that it is inherently more serious, problematic, chronic and long term.
I think average person does read a lot more than they used to, IMO the problem seems to be the content.

I’d like to mention that I’m utterly out of my depth here, I dont even know what the field of study is called that tries to understand this phenomena.
This is also a big area where I think there may genuinely be discrimination in the workplace. Employers try to conflate introversion with shyness because they can more easily defend the idea that outgoing behavior is required for adequate performance of a role. If they can systematically avoid hiring introverted people because “they’re shy” then they are less likely to be forced to make workplace concessions that allow introverts the mental bandwidth needed to recharge and engage in outgoing behavior (which they may be quite good at).

For example, I think this is a major contributor to the perpetuation of open-plan office layouts, which are quite actively harmful to introverts.
So, I'm usually the curmudgeon that advocates for portability, slowness of change, etc. Only in the past couple years did I move from C99 to really employ C11/C18 features in most code. This, in particular, though, I think has been safe for a couple decades.

What's "everywhere", anyways? We'll have a hard time even finding a system this won't work on.

Especially in the context of FPGA tools that will only run on modern Linux, anyways...
> You don't vote for the prime minister. You vote for the party representative in your area.

The MPP in my riding gave that line when she came by. We got Ford, and this particular MPP is the least responsive in the entire provincial parliament. Whatever sympathy I had for that line of reasoning is now lost, the fact is your MP or MPP has very little individual power. Much less than a representative has in the USA.
It doesn't exist in 99% of California by area
The snake game bundled with DOS 5 let you play with two snakes. It was very difficult to play solo. IIRC the intent was two players on the same keyboard.
Is there some implication here that the media was not always "taken over" by some group or other? It's a reasonable assumption that all mass media has been exploited to push people to take one path or another for the benefit of the publisher, sponsors, etc.

I mean, if we're going to get into "who runs the media" conspiracy theories, well, most people know what kind of dialogue that's going to lead to. Whether there's anything at the bottom that's worth delving down to is a good question, but ultimately the solution is to decentralize the control of media by personally moving away from the consumption of mass media entirely, ideally replacing it with a balanced consumption of voices that allow us to synthesize our own conclusions.
When the 737 was first created, iterating a known type of aircraft was much less of a concern. It was not a key design constraint.

As time went by and we learned more and the good idea faeries had time to think about things, we now have all kinds of regulation that makes the cost of making a new plane much higher if it is not an iteration on an existing design.

This sort of regulatory pressure has a tendency to nix innovation in favor of stability, and that's what we see here.
Worth noting that some apps un-minimize themselves.
Spotify is one.
Nothing requires malware to pick a “strange” port. It could just shove its data into ICMP, or make it look like an SSH connection on 22, or anything else.
Military used to be a plumb deal, growing up I knew families where mom and dad were both in the National Guard, they did their one weekend a month, and easily doubled their income. But then the first Iraq war happened, and they started deploying the National Guard, and suddenly kids were left alone with both parents in active war zones, and that killed the deal.
What Happen If Forests' Carbon Sink Tapers Off?
I have no idea if pets.com was actually a good comparison. Maybe there were others that raised far more?

Here's an article listing some of the failures from the late 90s:

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/06/stock-crash-the-...

Looks like eToys was close to $8B valuation around the time of its IPO. Although that doesn't mean they raised anywhere near that.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB927219879724795777

So, WeWork may have gotten 100x more investment, but its valuation is more like double or less.
That reminds me of an article I read about the new Toyota Supra and Toyota & BMW's collaboration to create it and (either the Z4 or an M-car? Sorry, I don't remember).

Anywho, the thing that was interesting to me was how much Toyota and BMW were willing to invest in what is more or less an engineer's bootcamp- like baseball teams playing out-of-league teams in practice to get better- and that that was seen as a worthy investment by the engineering team's superiors.

Some companies still value engineers. That's where I want to be.
Maybe what you've seen is due to where you are, as it certainly doesn't match what I've seen. Where I live in Alberta, people have been swinging hard to the right. They've already shown they'd rather elect a highschool flunky and send their carbon taxes to Ottawa than treat people with dignity or consider alternate career paths.

Even people who were fairly reasonable before the last provincial election just lost their minds and starting parroting incoherent bullshit they heard from the radio. And it has only gotten worse with the federal election looming.
The total area of the state isn't too relevant, since California isn't exactly proposing to build HSR to Eureka or Redding.

It's true that California's project is larger-scale, but by 2x: Taiwan has a single 200-mile HSR line, and California is trying to build a single 400-mile line.
I double down on ownership. Most of the people i worked with have no concept of this. I think more managers and executives should listen more and better own decisions and consequences.
Because most people are somewhere in the middle in almost any way you define it. Most people need both time with other people and time alone. Most get tired when being with people all the time and their mental health goes down when being isolated.

Whether you derive energy from other people or whether they are draining is also dependent a lot on who those other people are and whether you have have social skills currently (e.g. how much effort it takes to you to figure out what to say).
I think it has to do with framing. Consider this from the article:

> But just how widespread is this xenophobia? A relatively encouraging picture emerges from longitudinal studies by nonprofit research groups or universities. A 2018 global study from the Pew Research Center found 74 percent of Canadians support taking in refugees—a result that seems to fit with the stories of Canadians who banded together in 2015 and 2016 to sponsor Syrian refugee families

To measure xenophobia, the author sites a study on people's attitudes towards taking in more refugees. I'm sure xenophobes would almost certainly answer that the country should not allow more refugees, but it seems many mainstream media publications completely wrote off any legitimate reasons someone may have about migrants coming in from war torn countries. It seems like a very broad brush and doesn't help the situation.
That's a nonsequitur. The California coast is pretty dense, the rest of the state has large amounts of empty space and national parks. Nobody would build a high-speed rail through Yosemite or Death Valley.
US cannot do that either (for political reasons). The optics aren't great, "murrican jobs" and all
I got bit by this bug. It’s amazing what $200 will get you! I also have a mid-2012 MBP that’s going strong. The advantage of thinkpads from that era is that their parts are generally easier to replace. The keyboards of that generation of laptop are just something else :)
Downvotes (which you shouldn't complain about) often mean disagreement.
Yes, I meant first employee, not founder. $3K/month, no equity.
Hi sc9311, I like the idea, thanks!

(I opened an issue to track it: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d/issues/11)