skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've moved and helped friends move quite a bit, and in my anecdotal experience, the only way a geographical change helps if either if you just can't do what you need to do in your home town (like moving to SV or NYC for work) or if your home town life is absolutely toxic and you can't get away from it without leaving.

I moved across the country for no good reason except to move. Absolutely nothing was different. I was still the same person, except now without friends or family. I wasn't running from anything but everything followed me anyway. I've had half a dozen friends in the same situation. You can't run from yourself.

Meanwhile I helped a friend move about a year ago because she couldn't get away from high school drama. She was in her 30s, and still caught up in high school drama from her high school friends. She moved away and made new friends and completely cut her old friends out of her life. Massive difference. I've had friends of friends do the same thing when their family life was toxic. Big help from the sounds of it. Immigrants do it constantly, running from toxic politics to start a new life in a safer place. It works.

But if you're running from yourself? You can't run fast enough or far enough. You will always be you. Fix that before you fix your geography, or it will just be a very expensive lesson learned. It took a long time for my bank account to recover from my move and even longer for my circle of friends to recover.
I also have this intention. I am about 15-20 years from retirement but I have palpable fears that I will forsake my dreams of doing something creative, falling into the rut that I've seen my older relatives and friends follow.

You do meet the odd creative and intelligent senior but they are the minority. I hope I fall into that category when I retire!
Thank you for your helpful insight.
You listed most of the things I am getting ready to build.

Stay tuned!
> Only one country has the first amendment

Do you think other countries don't have freedom of speech or freedom of the press?
The GPL gives them a few options for how to ensure everybody can modify GPL software which you've supplied as a binary

1. Supply a preferred form for modification (e.g. a source tarball on a CD) which of course is GPL'd and so the recipient can copy it and modify it as they choose.

2. Provide a written offer, valid for at least 3 years which says you'll give ANYBODY the source code if they ask

3. Only if you got the software from somebody else and are now passing it on non-commercially (e.g. to a friend) you can pass on an offer you got under (2) so they can use it since it says ANYBODY.

You'll notice that complying is _incredibly simple_ if you actually want to. Anybody with even a halfway competent process for shipping code could add a "Make CD image of source code" feature to it in a day.

But no, there isn't any way to avoid complying, except as with anything in copyright law you could just refuse to comply and then eventually maybe you get taken to court and you pretend you just didn't understand the rules.

Unlike in the music industry it seems to be very hard in software to get judges to accept the idea that egregious and ongoing unauthorised use must result in destroying the unauthorised artefacts at the cost of the violator. e.g. if you just publish somebody else's bassline in your new single, the judge will tell you to buy back copies sold to stores, then burn them all, and eat the cost. But you can guess Tesla won't be obliged to buy back every single Tesla car sold with non-compliant software and then scrap them and go bankrupt.
Not sticking to sports is why they failed and needed new management and more invasive ads for revenue in the first place.
There haven't been any fundamentally new concepts in computing for decades
>The Dutch are not insane fitness nuts biking 25 miles to work daily. They just have a built environment where taking a bike actually makes sense because they aren't going terribly far, just far enough that the hassles involved in taking a bike (like locking it up) are worth it.

Is that the whole story though?

The Dutch are much more fit in general than the median US population (regarding obesity, etc). So them biking more is not necessarily only due to better cities.

Also, their cities are also not an accident of nature they had to make do with: they built them that way, like the US cities were built for cars. So their biking more is not a mere accident of how they cities are. Rather both their cities and their biking are intentional.

Third, even in places with similar population density and distances, the US has let bikers as several people have mentioned. So while "it's more convenient to bike" is part of the explanation, it doesn't tell the whole story.
Are there any concepts?
> IYDMMA, what's the illness and what's the cure? I am a "temporary staff" member at a state-run hospital entity, but because I'm not "full-time" (which makes no sense because I work 40 hours a week) I'm not entitled to health benefits. So I am trying to bullshit my way into other "full-time" jobs in order to get the health care I need. The state used to give me free health care, but because I make $40ishK a year, they have taken it away.

It's worth noting that this varies by state and tends to change based on the number of employees. In NJ for employers with under 50 employees, 25 hours/week is considered full time for the purpose of extending medical benefits.
Reasearch and scientific knowledge may well prove to be bottomed wells after all, from which there is only so much to draw.
I miss the "discussion" filter that Google used to have. For a while it still worked if you added a parameter to the URL. Now it's often difficult to impossible to search for stuff without 99% blog spam.
Here's the key takeaway: "automation increases the likelihood that workers will be driven away from their previous jobs at the companies—whether they’re fired, or moved to less rewarding tasks, or quit—and causes a long-term loss of wages for the employee."

This is similar to my own thoughts on automation - it doesn't have to directly destroy a single job to lead to huge adverse impacts on our modern economics systems. Automation just has to be available and capitalism will take care of the rest over time.
So much this. Unfortunately post google reader I never found an rss reader that really clicked with me as much. Part of it is because I followed a mix of text and just pure image sites, and par of it is the sites come and go and I haven’t found new sites. RIP ffffound and the like...
Could they have meant exponentially with respect to using binary search? That is, using linear search is exponentially worse than using binary search on a sorted data set.
Being able to automate forms can absolutely revolutionize some businesses. Many business owners have no idea the extent to which automation is feasible here. I have seen fully manual paper process (printers/scanners/pen & ink/shredders/etc.) go into 100% digital realm and the impact it had on the business. It really is incredible the difference it makes. The most interesting factor was the fact that now that the inputs are captured in a computer, we can run business rules against those inputs computationally. I.e., prevent generation of forms you would have to otherwise manually revise and resubmit after the fact. Then someone figured out you could start plugging in other business systems to your rules engine and tracking state...

I think it is a fun and compelling challenge to see just how much of the business you can put "on rails" with computers and various integrations. I have some background in semiconductor manufacturing, and the degree of automation I witnessed there got to me in a really deep way. Experiencing a massive factory that can literally run for hours-to-days without a single human inside is something else. I feel a lot of businesses can strive towards similar goals. Being able to fully-automate manufacturing of silicon chips is an incredibly opulent affair, but if you can simply automate a paper-bound business process that is on a hot-path (I.e. used many times a day), it could potentially save a struggling business.
"binary judgement of truth"

I think people should be more comfortable with non-binary truth, based on the likelihood that something is a lie or not based on historical record. I would put more trust in a statement from someone with a record of telling unbiased truth versus someone with a record of frequently spewing lies or having ingrained bias.

Otherwise, if you don't make these types of initial simplifications, it becomes too complicated to start evaluating the truth of any statement, including scientific ones. And it's okay to be make a mistaken evaluation, just reevaluate and adjust the simplified "truth" assessment model based on more recent data.

There is a danger in deferring a "truth" assessment: a community loses a sense of shared truth leading to polarization, doubt, confusion. And a so-called "neutral" person is, by not taking action, implicitly supporting the dominant narrative, which may be a lie after all.
Trying to make a slippery slope argument about a private corporations private, for-profit website is hilarious.

Twitter will do whatever the hell it wants on its own property and has no obligation to listen to anyone except the voice of 51% of its shareholders.

If you don't want your communications to be under the total absolute control of a corporate entity you have no influence over, you might want to pack your bags and get off for profit social media.

You don't need to have an "argument" about "policy" on your own Mastodon instance. If upstream does something you don't like, you fork it. If another instance does something you don't like, you block it. Because thats actually your platform then.
In fact, we are told that one of his interviewees fainted from a lack of food during spring break.

I had that happen to me once.
> As soon as you bring HTML and JS in, projects choke and die.

True! I wonder whether making JS event handler in little textarea boxes would actually help. Select “Even handler for field ‘Name’ on ‘click’”, then program your event. Obviously the end result is a js file, but they user is guided...^W prevented from doing something else than modifying output before submission.
Apple mice only had 1 button because they said they didn't want to confuse people. And nowadays? Multi fingered gestures, long presses, etc. What a shit show!
Anything that builds the UI at runtime is silly. Your UI isn't going to change at runtime (other than in a few predictable spots), why would you waste processing time dynamically calculating it.
Add to that getting additional software installed.

In most large organisations non IT users have very limited permissions, even to their own machine.
Do you have any evidence for that claim?
>You expect regular people to ride 1-2 hours to work each day?

Don't know about you, but I have friends who cycled around 30-40 mins to work each day and back (so 1 hour total), and they were regular people (not even particularly young, like 30+).

And my city is anything but bike friendly...
More precisely, as the sample size approaches the total population size, the mean of any trait in the sample approaches the mean of that trait in the total population.

Specifically, the subset of the population that was on the early Internet had much higher average cognitive ability and creativity than the total population. Now the two groups are virtually identical.
Of course just dismiss my actual experiences because it doesn't match your political bias. I had a hiring manager LITERALLY say he liked me but has to hire a woman to balance out the team.

I was LITERALLY told to give minority candidates 5 extra points on CV scoring when I was a senior manager at Deloitte.

We now have management programs and other trainings available exclusively as part of women's networks where the same training is not available to men. I know plenty of people that could do with presentation training, why did only the women get it?
FileMaker Pro?
ProtonMail iOS app goes open source
When I was in high school I had a stereotypical thought that most of the ass hole more popular guys would have shit lives after college. Historically that wasn’t true. But nowadays... it seems more valid. Most of the guy’s who followed stereotypical social strategies in high school have turned out pretty poor. The guys who have done well are the one man who were smart or kind. Your value to others should be self evident from being a person people like. People saying it’s all about work and money... sound like assholes who don’t realize it.
You are begging the question by assuming that the autobahn is valuable beyond a speed-regulated road. I will agree the autobahn has novelty value for the sake of it's own peculiarity, but that isn't something you can generalize as valuable for other roads. If going as fast as you would like was valuable for any reason beyond novelty and/or tourism, we would be doing it already.
Active user totals and engagement numbers are still a big driver in valuations so the incentives still align with not cracking down too hard (as long as legitimate users aren't pushed away by the inauthentic content).
Any good guide or recipes for hosting your own website over a major ISP (Spectrum, Comcast, etc.)? I currently host my site on GoDaddy, but I find simple things like providing https and certificate are a monthly recurring charge.
The new TLDs are very much selling as a branding thing. How business owners value marketing and branding is very hard to understand.

On a practical note, if you are gunning for a promotion, setting up "widget.new" would make for a cool demo for management.
Incumbents usually have a lot more money to spend on advertising though too. On average I doubt advertising helps challengers more than incumbents (there are always edge cases of course).
>“. . . was not really countered at all”

That was probably the only point Zuckerberg made that I agree with, though I don’t doubt that we think that way for different reasons.

If I know social networks are deleting ads or posts that are deemed untruthful then 1) how do I see who determines the truthfulness of the network’s content and 2) how can I trust that nothing else is being removed at will? It’s a classic argument.

Personally, I trust myself to filter through information and make informed decisions; more so than Facebook or Twitter. I think that many people prefer not to make informed political decisions on their own for a variety of reasons. Be it a lack of time, ambition, or research knowledge, it harms us as a whole when we allow ourselves to be told what political opinions to hold.
Is this machine-generated text? That or it's badly translated. Either way, it's strangely incoherent and subtly flawed.

Take just the first section. It talks about a bubble sort of ints. Then provides code for bubble sorting strings [1]. Then talks about "sign position in the ASCII table". "linking to the native sort function" is... not the right term (what happened to "call"?). And then we suddenly talk about "the element to be found" (weren't we just sorting?). The rest of the article is in the same vein.

I hope I'm not coming across as just picking on someone's English skills - even with perfect English I would find it hard to follow the train of thought.

[1] This is subtly different because (naive) string comparison is not constant-time, unlike comparing ints in most languages. I was half expecting the article to go there but it didn't.

PS: If not for the discussion here, I would've skipped the read because the site has no HTTPS. Please get a cert, it's free: https://letsencrypt.org/
Evergreen: Twitter is a public company.

And the grandparent just argued that we should easily be able to regulate companies. You're saying the opposite, now we can't regulate because they're quote-unquote "private"?

Well, which is it? Can we regulate for-profit companies for the good of the nation or not? If not, why not?
> There are places where there are no speed limits. The autobahn for one.

Notpick: only some portions of it don’t have speed limits. Even on those, it’s recommended to drive under the usual limit.
Valid concern. Who wants to use a product and see it be discontinued. As of right Micro CRM is a bootstrapped product and I do not have a co-founder. However as a Solo entrepreneur I am dedicated fill gaps in markets like this one.

The ideal future for me would be having a small team to work on these projects with me but as of right now it is a one man show.
https://www.imore.com/how-use-text-editing-gestures-iphone-i...

Afraid so, but there you go. Only reason I found out earlier is I lucked across it in my news feed so don't feel too bad. It's pretty obnoxious they didn't have a transition period where both sets of gestures worked.
> - [Major] I feel (but could be potentially convinced otherwise?) that there is one very deep fundamental flaw in the semantic model, and that is the fact that the identity of a commit depends on its history.

Commits whose identity does not depend on their position in history are commits that are commutative (with respect to their position in history). So you very much said so, but we obviously appear to be talking about different things. I'm at a loss as to where these things differ.
Controversial ‘gay gene’ app provokes fears of a genetic Wild West
Yes and no. Your statement is true about under-the-hood stuff, but false about user interfaces. Your phone interface is not like Windows 95, still less like a green screen terminal talking to a mainframe.
A tool that lets me do code reviews, but like really good and integrated. I use gitlab on a daily basis, but it's painstakingly slow and basically just lets me stare at text. Some of the below features may be available, but not satisfactory in my opinion:

- I want to see the changes in a directory tree that I can navigate through!

- I want to comment on any piece of code, not only changes and their surroundings!

- I want to hide things, or mark them as "seen", to be able to look at things in the order I want without any risk of losing progress!

- I want to be able to filter/sort by the "change type", e.g. Imports, renames, indentation changes etc.!

- I want the diff to be aware of programming semantics, e.g. know when a function just moved from one file to another, or I add a method overload and don't get a diff telling me I added a closing bracket and another whole method signature in the middle of the old method!

- Let me type code! I want to try out and propose changes!

- I want freedom editing my review before submitting it the way I have freedom editing my branches before committing it!

- I want to have single comments refer to ranges of changes, which aren't necessarily connected or in the same file!

- I want to easily see what happened to the changes since I reviewed them! (Not a clickable link "changed since then bla bla", show me right there!).

- And probably most important: It has to be fast! Hyperbole: Having to wait for the page to load for a minute for large diffs, and then having to wait another minute for all changes to _actually_ be visible is a no-go.

The available tooling is already very powerful, but it still frequently fails me and I believe having this be extremely polished would be a real productivity game changer. Maybe there are already some great tools? Last time I had to look over a huge amount of changes I resorted to a patch file; grepping away unnecessary changes like package renames etc and just deleting text lines I considered sufficiently reviewed.
I'm still not sure what I think about the ban, but one potential downside is it will give people with lots of organic reach, like celebrities and incumbents, a big advantage. Before you could use organic reach to combat paid reach and vice versa, but now organic reach is the only thing that counts. For example, if The Rock runs for governor of California next year, it will be very hard for his opponents to compete (at least on Twitter, and on any other platforms that follow this policy).
Ok here's a question to chew on. Why would the Epstein family pay to have a pathologist of their own be present? That has to be unusual?

Either: They want the truth or they want to distort the truth.

In the first case: Why don't they trust the state?

In the second: Why do they want to falsely make it to look like a murder?
The real and less romantic story is this: The journalists at Deadspin and its sister sites, like most journalists I know, are eager to do work that makes money; we are even willing to compromise for it, knowing that our jobs and futures rest on it. An ever-growing number of media owners, meanwhile, are so exceedingly unwilling to reckon with the particulars of their own business that they refuse to accept our eagerness to help them make money.

(...)

A metastasizing swath of media is controlled by private-equity vultures and capricious billionaires and other people who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart and that they are smart because they are rich, and that anyone less rich is by definition less smart. They know what they know, and they don’t need to know anything else.

Why don't the journalists who know how to run the business pool their resources up and start a business then? What's stopping them? What do they need those venture capital vultures for?
Those who know this are ahead of the competition
Ask HN: What are some gift ideas from an alumni to a professor?
Having graduated from university a few years ago, I feel like visiting all my professors who influenced me for the better, and I'd feel awkward if I go empty-handed.
I am not sure that getting commodity style malware onto a internet connected workstation is truly considered sophisticated, but i am on board with caution before attribution.

I have not seen any further confirmed details in this or any other articles, how do you determine the necessity of boots on the ground?
Modern blockchains don't host images and face twitter's level of traffic, either.

Bandwidth & storage isn't free. Why would anyone voluntarily just do that for Twitter? Even if it's literally entirely free to setup & host, that's still someone's time & motivation to do so. People do this for blockchain because they're trying to get rich off of it. There's no money in hosting tweets.
They didn't fail. They were doing just fine, but the private equity firm that bought them up wanted them to completely change their editorial style.
> It isn't plausible that the baseband is routinely incorporating backdoors.

Intel and AMD effectively incorporate a back door into every processor, one that they refuse to document or give the keys for (but which likely some government agencies have, whether provided willingly or not). Why is it implausible that basebands incorporate something similar?
Somehow I made it through four years of university without learning until today that "office hours" were ever anything other than (a)...
But "popularity" is determined by people, many of whom do not consider the real costs (at least not at this time).
Security Risks to 3rd-Party Genetic Genealogy Services Beyond Identity Inference
Twitter makes more from "free ads" than paid ads, and they just want an out. The out is "we aren't making money from political ads!". When you go check Trump's latest tweet (which can be full of lies) or Uncle Buck's retweet (which can be full of lies) you are also viewing ads.

Twitter stand is simply: we won't make money directly from political ads because 1 - we don't make money there anyway, and 2 - this is good PR. However we will make all the money we can off ads tied to the free for all of russian bot posts, AOC posts, Trump posts, and Uncle Buck retweets.

Anyone who thinks Jack Dorsey cares at all about democracy vs profits has blinders on.