skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
weechat has a plugin called wee-slack that I've been using every day for over a year https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
>> I see very little representation of issues affecting men and a lot of demonization of perceived wrongs that men do.

Well, we have had it good for basically the entire course of human history. I personally don’t mind taking a backseat and allowing society to focus on issues affecting women now.
I am curious as to what an art critic's view of such abstract paintings are. Like, in what way is Number 17a worth 200 million?

To me all I see is squiggly lines and random colors.

I do enjoy art, but mostly old school art, say Van Gogh. Paintings that depict expressions, humans, situations, etc.
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Eventually, all startups will be acquired into the FAANG companies, no matter whatever their "mission statement" is,
just like Matryoshka dolls.

Pebble -> Fitbit -> Google.

I am sure there are more examples.
"Society doesn’t care about men’s issues."

Please. My wife recently had some health issues due to a condition that primarily affects women, and I went with her to her medical appointments. The level of casual dismissal I saw regarding pain and symptoms from numerous (male and female) doctors was absolutely shocking. While I've certainly had doctors fail to resolve a medical condition before, nothing like the lack of respect I saw had ever accompanied my interactions at a doctor's office. If you genuinely believe that "society doesn't care about men's issues", at least compared to women's issues, you're living in an absolute fantasy world.
Yes, as I said in my last sentence:

> Others are more difficult, because communication is inherent to the service, and centralization is the simplest and most obvious choice when being provided by a coorporation, so an infamous "decentralised" solution is needed, which are more difficult to create, organise and promote.

I think the only way a decentralised social network replacement will win out facebook is with a universal but progressive/gracefully degrading protocol is created as the single way lots of different clients/federated servers etc communicate, a protocol that also allows greater level of control over where your data goes... i.e email but better.

As i said these problems are the most difficult, but there are a lot of thing being "clouded" at the moment that have no need, those are the low hanging fruit.

Note that I am suggesting FOSS is the preferred option to obfuscating, rather than the only option... some services will always be centralised not only because it's simpler but because it's about/for a central authority... for those obfuscation is the only way.
That’s exactly the fib I’ve been telling myself about my husband's gliding hobby: “Less dangerous than the drive to the airfield and far safer than a motorcycle!”

But I’ll never ask him to stop - it makes him too happy.

Didn’t realize how incredibly safe my own bit of winter danger (downhill skiing, in bounds) was... even a bit safer than my summer hobby: cycling.
> Radical opinions pop up every once in a while

Is it just me, or are they becoming more common. I could have sworn when I browsed HN several years back there was next to non of it, but theres a good chance I'm just remembering incorrectly
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Yes, but you have to consider that the homeless aren't fixed to a certain place. A place that's more generous to the homeless will inevitably get more homeless people. Because why wouldn't you go to somewhere that treats you better, rather than the place that treats you like garbage?

This means there's a financial incentive for any given city to treat the homeless like shit. Classic free rider problem; why not let other cities deal with helping them?

If you look at the countries where they do a better job, what you largely see is not a handful of metros doing their part, while other cities and the national government completely shunt the responsibility. The whole country contributes, is at least sort of on the same page. At least, that's been my experience living in Germany and reading about other places.

So in my opinion, what we'd need to see is a federal mandate that doesn't let some cities mooch off of others' charity. But short of Bernie storming the white House and the Dems getting an overwhelming majority in both halves of Congress, it's hard to see that happening.

Anyway, I don't disagree that more liberal cities could do more, but at the same time I don't think the problem is solvable without national involvement.
> I did notice the inclusion of billing code, is the plan to commercialize the application?

I don't know. Bumped into the project and thought the concept really cool, especially with security uncertainties you hear about with whatsapp and signal, etc.
'uncontrolled and irrational' is only a bad thing in the context of human rationality and self control. plants obviously do not have such a thing--all their actions are primal and unmoderated. So panic for a plant would probably mean something like an immediate response to adverse stimuli, with an immediate and short-term goal of self-preservation.
FYI: Who was Bayard Rustin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
It's a silly play on words celebrating one of the very great heroes of 20th Century America
Return error like C and Go is best practice for C++
Exceptions is good only for hi level languages like Java
Hi, is it possible to make it compatible with firefox?
Norman Borlaug man.
Forming an Effective Technical Debt Strategy
How my idea for taming messy hair made six-figures in 6 months
And it proved he’s not a UI designer.
What about Joe Average User who downloaded an extension from me? I can understand wanting to prevent third-party software from injecting extensions behind users' backs, but can these users still install extensions directly, from a file, regardless of how that file found its way to their hard drives?
I love to see exactly those articles you hate, and I hate all those articles that used to define very early HN, namely all this startup and investing in startups stuff.
Just, Devil's Advocate - but what happens if you allow such a program to go forward, and no one outside the usual suspects objects? How would you reign it back in?

I believe it would be best not to allow such a program in the first place, because counting on the population to be opposed to it is, well, let's just label it "unwise".
I did that during the Kavanaugh circus. definitely feel much better as a result. Despite enjoying it a lot more now, my overall engagement in social media is down as well. Probably cofactors in how much better I feel.
Hierarchical organization of cortical &thalamic connectivity (Allen Institute)
Yesterday I was reading the Google Graveyard https://killedbygoogle.com/ so my first reaction on seeing this headline was to think it meant Google is killing Fitbit.
Yeah, downhill skiing fatalities are rare, but plenty of serious injuries.
Named after Bayard Rustin??
As explained in the article, there's no perfect measure for this. Hour of activity is very relative, but I agree that it's probably the safer bet.

In contrast, the only other remotely decent timeframe I could think is per-day of activity since that'd account for a more down-to-earth top of the head calculation. I'd be interested in e.g. what is the probability of dying on 1 day of skiing (3-4h) vs 1 day of skydiving (1 jump).
Shocking as it may sound, modern feminism is cancerous to the normal function of society and the mental health and wellbeing of both its male and female participants.
For the most part like a less dynamic modem. Less EEEE-OOOO-SCRSHHHH and more EEE-EEE-EEE it had a base tone of something middle-c like (can't recall, it was 20 years ago now) add just added the byte value with a modifier on top of the base. So for long stretches of it it was just to my ear pretty much the same sound, especially when transmitting ascii text.
That's a few autocratic countries. Such a statement is obviously not true in general. For starters you have dictatorships which have been based upon absurd and shameless lies. North Korea currently, Haiti under Papa Doc, Turkmenistan under Niyazov. In addition I'd imagine hiding news is the first line of defense, but if that fails none of these autocratic governments are not above lying (and I'd bet you find the dictators of those countries have lied many times when it suited them, if evidence is available).
There are company press releases here all the time. There's nothing wrong with this one, and it's informative enough.

I am glad this is up here. I think your proposal is inappropriate, everyone is perfectly capable of upvoting it or not themselves.
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That is a fine idea. We can make Firefox as safe as they want at startup. Just keep it as a default option -- something power users can turn off and do not make this a hardcoded choice "because those users turning it off may not know what are they doing". Inform, not restrict. My 2c.
> All the really awesome open source projects have people who are good at those things at their core.

Nope, the really awesome open source projects have one or two people who dedicate large amounts of personal time and resources to the project for no reward.

Thats the foundation of open source so many are ignorant of. It's not about community, fame or fortune open source is about people sacrificing a huge part of their life for no reward or acknowledgement, only criticism when it doesn't live up to a paid service provided by a team of professionals.
I still have the original Kickstarter pebble. Other than my email address and the apps I installed, I can't think of any data at risk.
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that in opposition to you -- it was more of a preemptive explanation of why those came to exist, since on HN there seems to be a lot of opposition to freedom-restraining laws (like compelling business owners to serve members of a historically disadvantaged class), even when there's a (to me) clear social benefit and historical reasoning behind those laws.
Google has a long and successful history of acquisitions, as also a long history of lack of direction and headless actions even in their youth days. It's probably just natural for a company with too much money to invest that way.
More commentary on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418232 (mostly) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418271
More commentary on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418232 (mostly) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418277
You could get these things by running a Phabricator istance - not much reason to pay for GitLab self-hosted version unless you really care about the support aspect and some of tgeir enterprise-focused niche features.
Exactly. I saw where this was going a few years ago and started using Pale Moon.
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growth != success

edit: not saying it didn't used to be, up to the 20th century it certainly was.
Git is the simplest, low friction, low cost, low everything above file storage. How can there be something simpler atop an existing file system (I know there are some versioning file systems but I've never used them). I use git for practically anything I do. I to git init and I have my project versioned and I can but don't have to even add messages to each of my versions. You don't have to use anything else if you don't want to but you have so many options if you need them. You don't have to even use git on line if you don't want but if you do there are multiple (even open source) git repositories with free private repos. What is there not to like?
I like the idea but I was skeptical as to how well it works and noticed the video on the main page of your website which scans coinmarketcap seems to be wrong. It gets 200 cryptocurrency names but only 100 prices which means only the first result is correct.

I have a similar idea that I'm working on, your site is definitely bookmarked and will try the extension later.
Not sure if Linux and git beat spreadsheets and Stack Overflow. But if we're measuing individual contributors and not products - then he's still probably ahead of everyone else.
In international market - Xiaomi decimated Fitbit already. High end is owned by Apple. May be a mixed bag for Google
WOW now I’m even more confused on how Latin is different from Greek.

I should not be listened to when it comes to the words.
What codetrotter and ccccc0 said, also Rust as a language and a community has a strong focus on correctness, which makes me more interested in actually using the project.

In general I think the title of a project on a news aggregator should basically be a 80 character sales pitch, " in rust" is 8 characters that signal a lot more than most 8 characters could (to me).
I'm probably just drawing a mental blank here, but what's the 'N' in FAANG? :-S
Garmin and Apple have the fitness market covered. Fitbit never had the hardcore fitness market Garmin executed into and Apple has always had a product that works well across the wearable and fitness. Between these two companies I can't imagine there's much of a niche Fitbit does better. On the extreme hardcore triathlon user even Garmin has taken a lot of market from Suunto and the like. I've owned a handful of Garmin devices over the years and have never considered Fitbit. Now that Google owns them my initial reaction is that Fitbit is going to be in a very confusing state for the next year and their products will fall further behind. Unless Google actually scraps what WearOS is today and goes back to the drawing board they've lost this war even to Garmin.
It has such minimal overhead I don't know how you could say that.
I was looking at Raspberry Pi projects for Rust. There were similar complaints on the Pi forum. Looks I’ll be using Python for my projects.
Their c++ stdlib docs used to be best in class around 2008... Maybe even later
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45281495
Fitbit really only took off after the Pebble acquisition IMHO.
I love the low ranked sites. I tend to use it regularly to search for more obscure electronics topics that are otherwise contaminated by reviews, unboxing videos and stackoverflow questions without answers. It's quite helpful to lead me to personal pages of some internet rando who provides in depth information for what I'm looking for.
"Growth" = ?
Well there's also market segmentation you know. Xiaomi is entering the Wear OS smartphone market, no reason why FitBit couldn't also. This move from Google is obviously a way for them to speed up their own watch tech so that they don't have to start from scratch. This doesn't mean there wont be these simpler dumber versions of smartwatches for the people who want exactly those
It's pretty tone-deaf of you, though, and suggests limited connection to FLOSS communities. Freenode, for example, has a policy that channels disclose in their /topic if there are public logs. Many mailing lists have the property of being viewable forever, and contributors understand that property, building discussions that last for decades and taking matters off-list when privacy is needed. This is not a new problem, and FLOSS communities tackle it already.
Other version control software has way simpler syntax and workflow. Subversion for example. The complexity of git makes total sense if you indeed have a complex, multi-HEADed project like the Linux kernel. But most software isn't Linux.
So was said about Java 20 years ago... Yet no one dares today post a "X in Java" anymore on HN.
Fuck your burn!
I agree - I even use it for tiny personal projects that I don’t even push anywhere because you can instantly get version control with a single ‘git init .’ in a directory. It’s plenty scalable and has very little overhead...
Many management boards do live on the utopia of eternal growth and and it stops, a couple of hundred thousand employees get shown the door, just because they need to collect their bonuses.
Assuming men did make more (they don't), here are some reasons you might prefer, or have to hire a man: Men do tend to work longer hours. They also tend to be willing to take on greater risk. There are some fields that are >99.9% men (Ex: garbage men). That type of sexual discrimination in hiring might be illegal.

However: Women don't actually make less than men. Old men make more than old women. Young women make more than young men. Last I looked the break even point was 35. Both times I heard about a salary adjustment with an aim to combat discrimination it benefited men more than women. That might be an availability bias though.
There are some ways easily to find remote jobs:
on LInkedIn: write "designer remote" in search line;
on job search sites (indeed, monster, and every other site you find on google): every such site has filters and remote/freelance option there
You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
But when a company becomes big, they do have to branch out and try a bit of different things right? otherwise they are just relying on a few income source, and potentially miss the opportunity of the next big hit?
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One thing that not one has brought up yet is the amazing ability for the U.S. government to mishandle data in their possession. Office of Personnel Management can't even securely handle data for government workers and contractors. Are we to believe the F.B.I. is going to be any better with data about the American public? I'm sure they'll try harder this time to keep data safe from foreign governments.
Good read, I like that he expanded on the assumptions we make when we include a dependency. However, I think his treatment of dependency upgrades is a bit confused. Of course Equifax should have upgraded their struts dependency, but that is not the result of relying on software reuse, as security vulnerabilities are found in all code. If they had built their own framework, the team that produced it could just as easily published a security patch that was ignored.
So to me the point is that important upgrades, whether proprietary or FOSS, should be made as backwardly compatible as possible. Fortunately, they usually are.

A related issue that wasn't mentioned in the article is the problem of forced upgrades. Dependencies can arbitrarily introduce incompatibilities that don't align with your own priorities, so that you end up spending a lot of time keeping current with package releases that your users really don't care about. Publicly facing services with a broad attack surface should choose their dependencies carefully, as they'll be forced to upgrade often. Services behind a secure firewall are less urgent.
A long and success history of acquisitions doesn't mean Google has any advantage of taking a poorly performing acquisition (Fitbit) and stacking it into a failing division of theirs (Wear OS). Google would be better off starting over. But Google wants data and Fitbit comes with data for cheap, IMO.
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To me the beauty of git stems from the fact that it is an implementation of a functional data structure. It‘s a tree index that is read-only, and updating it involves creating a complete copy of the tree and giving it a new name. Then the only challenge is to make that copy as cheap as possible - for which the tree lends itself, as only the nodes on the path to the root need to get updated. As a result, you get lock-free transactions (branches) and minimal overhead. And through git‘s pointer-to-parent commit you get full lineage.
It is so beautiful in fact that when I think about systems that need to maintain long-running state in concurrent environments, my first reaction is ”split up the state into files, and maintain it through git(hub)“.
Netflix!
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I would guess:

1. Narrow target

Your market is people who need scraped data to input into some kind of app/program/code, but don't have the resources/skills/time to use scrapy or whatever.

2. Sensitive to configuration

This is also the problem with visual code and ML apps, but you even a small issue with the source you are scraping from -- say, captcha, or login, or some weird format or css you did not anticipate -- makes it almost useless, whereas if you were coding up a solution you can (usually, not always) deal with it more easily.

Those are the reasons they shut down.

The reasons why they launch:

1. Many developers have this need

Many developers have built scrapers internally, and then used them so a lot of people have worked on this problem.

What follows from this is that they can productize it, see that other people have the need, imagine the market etc.
Netflix, added mostly so we don't call it FAAG

/s
My wife swears by her Fitbit... my guess is google needs their expertise to compete with Apple Watch.
Signing is only required on official release and beta builds -- users on developer edition, nightly, and unbranded builds can opt-out of the signing requirement by flipping a setting in about:config.
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Fibit should fit perfectly into the 99$ market for a zillion people that just want to track steps and sleep cycles.
Not really. Linux won because the GPL has proven to be more suitable to businesses, and especially commercial open source business models as practiced by companies such as Cygnus and Red Hat.

BSD-style licenses tend to be a better fit for business models that sell proprietary extensions to free software. These form lock-in moats that inhibits the growth of any deeper ecosystems. We've seen this over and over again with things such as graphical subsystems for non-free UNIX, but also more recent examples with firewalls and storage boxes. Those are great for what they do, but work on the free parts are seen more like a gift to the community than a money maker.

The tit-for-tat model of the GPL enables those ecosystems to form. By forcing your competitors to free their code in exchange for yours, game theory dictates that moats cannot form, and when everyone stands on other's shoulders development is faster.

I'd say that's pretty much experimentally proven by now. Of course, reality is not as black and white, especially when GPL-style companies contribute to BSD-licensed software and vice versa. Perhaps PostgreSQL is a prominent example of that. There are however traces of these patterns there too, for example in how the many proprietary clustering solutions for the longest time kept the community from focusing on a standard way.
So, the concerning thing is, if Company A has been collecting data on users but not doing much with it, then gets absorbed by Company B who is notorious for infringing on everyone's privacy, do users even get a choice to prevent their data (that was collected by Company A) from being seen/used by Company B?
andrew yang's socialist pretend "dividend" that isnt from profit it just another grifter offering you someone else's tax dollars.

It will fail abysmally or create an evil empire, like every other attempt at socialism. Both outcomes kill millions of people.

Please stop pushing your political socialism as a solution to mens problems. It's no solution to anything. Its just political promises from someone who will never have to deliver.
Acquired by who?
And Microsoft at the time wasn't serious about POSIX.
This is true we should consider everyone's plight, but no one give this same amount of thought to the issues that plague black people.

No one (nationally) talks about the impacts of high unemployment,PTSD, despair (and everything that is being mentioned in this thread) on, say, the crime rate in Chicago. It's always well black people are bad and we need to send in more police. Always. Even here.

Whenever there is a topic about crime (which is a symptom) and black people...it's always "the crime stats point out" and "disproportionate" and "so of course you need more police".

Never a peep about the underlying issues. Never a word about the plight of black people, which high crime is a symptom of the plight.
I'm talking about internal repos.