skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'll bookmark this whole answer as to why I think academic philosophy is now useless to people who are interested in uncovering interesting new philosophical ideas instead of pursuing a vacuous style of hermeticism.

I think I disagree with every of the statements you make. But as all I have to provide are arguments devoid of any stylistic essence, so much more embued with the properties to distinguish greats thought about philosophy, I think I'll just abstain.
> I don't think that contradicts smt88's point.

Imho it perfectly contradicts the point, because the UK isn't alone with that issue, BILD is also a tabloid, the most circulated one in Germany.

Of course, a lot of that hinges with the definition of "tabloid" [0] and how different Overton windows for these societies. For example, both UK and German tabloids heavily relied on "Page X" girls for their popularity.

While the same in the US was it's very own niche with the Playboy, as selling sexuality that openly in the mainstream was always more controversial in the US compared to Europe.

But US outlets also ain't above sensationalized headlines and leaving out a bit of context to justify them, some would argue that's something the US actually championeered with the marketing industry.

It's the same with the public shaming and privacy of people; In Europe, that's considered a very tabloid thing to do, meanwhile, in the US it's often standard to show uncensored pictures of people with their full names.

Does that really help to surface the truth? Or is it merely just another manifestation of the flaws of the "free market" at work? If the market only wants what sells best, and not what's actually true, what's the most likely outcome?

[0] https://www.agilitypr.com/resources/top-media-outlets/top-15...
Where I live (the Netherlands) that means bout 10.000 pre-tax. And that is quite a lot, it is like a group manager (i.e. 50 people to manage) in a medium to large size company. Executive level is probably more. But not a lot.
Thanks for the feedback pmoriarty!

What kind of code examples would you have liked to see?
But why would GPLv3 be a problem for Apple in this case?

Is this a more political move?
But everyone's laptop is NO public place, and this extension is installed under the endorsement and requirement of the company.

For someone who doesn't agree with her message, this is best case to shove a message down your throat, worst case a security breach to their computer.
The point is to make education not require so much intelligence. It’s a strange goal but at least people are somewhat honest about it.
This made my day to read. Thank you :)
1500 people versus 25k. A huge loss for nyc. Also lost tax revenue for nyc and the state.
For some context on Internet Shutdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701204
What is "dark money"?
> Collapse OS on a Z80 CPU

I think several cockroaches could have come up with a better decision to choose a CPU and OS that will survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

IBM ThinkPad running GNU/Hurd.
> The shields concept has this idea behind it that employees are constantly awash in opportunities, splashing away as we diligently oar toward the latest corporate goal, headhunters on the phone, friendly requests in LinkedIn, and that the shield upheld turns away these opportunities which are apparently corrosive to the body of the compan

Well, many of us are.

> This was not true for me. I went looking in the complete absence of offers. I cannot emphasize that enough.

Sorry that you find that one way offensive, but that is just one way he poses the question. He alternatively poses it as "when did you start looking".

No matter how passive or active the job search is initially, most employees tend not to do it when they're happy.

> I didn't have a shield and I have no duty to hold it up even if I had one.

No one implies you have a duty. But we are pretty adept at brushing off entreaties and avoiding spending the energy looking when we're fulfilled. That is his point, and it's a reasonable one that isn't affected at all by the semantic quibbles.
In the English languages words are understood in the context they are used. In this case it was obviously about security and privacy. So it's a nice attempt at spin but much like other attempts at defending this behaviour that's all it really is. A whole lot of spin to justify it via the ends while glossing over the completely unprofessional means.
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I think it would be a good policy to incentivize it.

I often tell my anecdotal story about working for a valley company who was 'forced' to hire some midwesterners and there was a serious bias towards valley hires for jobs that really could be done elsewhere. TL;DR Valley company thought tech support HAD to be in the valley / required some high spec resumes ... it very much did not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21746219

I do wonder if those POVs towards the existing tech centers would make any government incentives irrelevant.
Custom makefile steps that require running the compiler as root? More likely they need to run `chown` or `chmod` or something else as root -- i.e., something that has a far smaller attack surface.
I'd add: knows not to mess with your tabs in makefiles.

I generally use expandtabs in vim - but I still don't break makefiles. I suspect it's quite possible to force vim to expand tabs in makefiles.. But why would I want to?
Or consider buying a mobile home in a good community. My house was $50,000 and my rent is $600/month (I live in NJ and don't pay land taxes). The savings from not paying a mortgage or buying an expensive house means there's that much more you can put into investing for retirement (and in my case give more to cost effective charities).
The discussion isn't about Hulk Hogan v Gawker, it's Peter Thiel v Gawker, via Hulk Hogan. Thiel funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, for personal revenge.
The backlash from all that unemployment is going to crash the system at some point. The gilded, automated future is DOA. Even now, $15/hr is starvation wages, even outside of HCOL areas.
Oh wow, thanks for the tip. Gonna check it out.
> persistent messaging is built on a database. Even RabbitMQ's persistent messaging is built on a database (Mnesia).

Good point that any system that is "persistent" has a data store by definition. The real question is that if it's a good fit to a SQL relational database.
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee announces visit to eight states in 2020
Workers need to be willing to break the law in order to win victories against the people that make the laws. Employers aren't even the law, this is such a small thing and is defensible. I don't see a reason to side with Google at all, if they really vociferously disagreed, they could ask her to remove the notification.
Salaries in “the heartland” have gone up quite a bit in recent years. Have seen this first hand as a startup hiring locally in a smaller college town in this region. I think remote work has had a big impact on forcing local companies to be competitive. It’s a net positive
So if wages are flat or lower after inflation and cost of living adjustments, while profits are increasing, it's because women are working? That sounds unlikely.
Way too stingy. Engineers here make $14,000 - $33,000 / month, average is closer to the bottom of that though. Those engineers have executives too.
Partially true, her code reviewers should have said, 'hey - that popup isn't the point of the . tool' and nixed it there.

She was a member of the group maintaining that toola and abused her authority for a personal crusade; hence terminated.
Unpacking the No Deal Not a Trade War Trade War Deal
The government shouldn't invest billions in proping up existing or new cities.. it should spend time reversing ISP regional monopolies and giving citizens choice on internet access.

The barrier to entry of a high tech job sector is primarily internet connectivity. You can't run a web server out of your house if your ISP doesn't allow it.. or if the top speed is 3Mbps. Sure, you could push stuff to a third party, but that increases development costs (in dollars and knowledge). And if you're doing a lot of data pushes, a 256Kb upload speed will be painful if you're pushing a 90MB container up to the cloud.

IT people flock to areas that have internet. It was a requirement both times I moved that there's >25Mbps high-cap wired internet. I would NEVER move to a place with less. I would be eager to move to a place that offers gigabit fiber that I could run a server behind (I mostly do cloud work, but I do enjoy having some at-home services).
Show me the chicken that's unhappy in a $750/mo 750sqft apartment? The only reason that doesn't exist in CA is because of NIMBYs and their ridiculous zoning policies.
Yeah I bought my television some years ago through their warehouse deals for around 40% off. It was seemingly entirely unused, whoever had purchased it previously had gone through the effort of partially attaching (or removing) the included vesa mount. Everything else was flawless; remote control, batteries and 3d glasses all still in their sealed packaging.

I personally haven’t used Amazon much in the last 2-3 years which for me is because I find it so difficult to wade through all the noise in the search results.
Move along now, nothing to see here. Just another unhappy passenger sitting in first class being called out by a German train service.
All countries except Africa and some in the Middle East have fertility rates below replacement rate.
My guess is that it would be almost impossible to save 1K/month if your take home pay is only $2K/month.
There are minimum requirements for food, shelter, transportation, etc.

A pre-tax yearly salary living wage to cover the minimum in the US would be $45K - $68K depending on location.
Let's look at a low end, low cost of living state. $45K pre-tax translates to about $3K per month take home pay.
Which means that if you had $3K per month take home, you would just be covering the basics for a family.
If you are trying to get by on $2K per month, you're already making some difficult trade-offs to survive.

So, I don't think it's realistic to say someone with $2K per month take home pay can save $1K per month.
which part? everything? doesn't seem too far off from what i've heard
> The analogy to a poster in a cafeteria, which is explicitly protected by federal law, passes a first-order smell test.

This doesn't feel like the right analogy. She (ab)used her access after all. A better one IMO would be a cafeteria worker sneaking in a leaflet among the napkins. Definitely feels less innocent.
Are you sure that’s not partly confirmation bias’ fault?
> but what other option does a company have, when someone makes it clear that they refuse to behave properly?

You could tell them to stop instead of firing them after the first offense.
> The Milankovitch cycles have crested since that warming. Without the CO2 we would be cooling.

This is not a fact, this is a theory. This is common in 'science' that scientists believing something 'should be happening' and then attempt to pencil in details after-the-fact to explain something that doesn't fit their preconceived model.

> Citation needed.

From [1]:

> Since 1750, the average amount of energy coming from the Sun either remained constant or increased slightly.

If you heat something, it's going to get gradually hotter. If you increase the amount of energy you use to heat it, it's going to get hotter still. If the average temperature goes about X naturally, which in turn causes increased water vapor, which in turn increases the greenhouse effect, then we have a positive feedback loop that was started by natural forces.

> if you can explain how an increase in the solar output woudl warm the arctic more than the tropics

How does one even make such a measurement? Are we talking about just the atmosphere? Or just the ocean? Or the ice masses? Or the land masses? In any case, imagine a space heater in a room. The heater will be hot, the rest of the room relatively cooler. The cooler parts of the room are going to accept the heat faster than the warmer parts of the room. Why should the planet be any different?

> Water vapor has a habit of coming down as rain.

Show me the historic atmospheric H2O levels. You can't dismiss water vapor without data showing that it was less in the past.

You can see NASA wants to talk about water vapor at [2]. Unfortunately, they still make the climate-leap-of-faith that CO2 causes the original warming, rather than the obvious fact that the increase of water vapor itself causes the warming. You can remove CO2 entirely from the equation, increased water vapor will create positive feedback.

> I challenge you to find a single temperature reading, longitude, lattitude, altitude and timestamp, and tell me when it was manipulated.

See [3]. If agencies are going revising past temperatures in new data sets, one can argue that's manipulation. Some will argue that this 'adjustment' is prudent and necessary. Others argue that it's not. There's an abundance of evidence on both sides of this particular issue. Now, you probably won't like the source of that information, and I'm sure it's all been 'debunked,' but the other side can say the exact same thing.

1: https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

2: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.htm...

3: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/04/noaancdcs-new-pause-b...
Maybe this will convince businesses to encrypt user data end-to-end.

Either lose the pennies you would've made from data mining or lose real millions from getting ransomed. Your choice.
1 line, but completely changing the point of the tool in the first place
I'm not the OP but generally I don't attach that much importance to my job. I'm very lucky to (both now and historically) have great colleagues working on interesting problems.

But in terms of 'jealousy' for those who earn more? Quite the opposite. There are plenty of companies I'd rather top myself than work for.
How a 28-Year-Old Got Fired Then Built a $500K-a-Month
> Fine granularity requires pretty much zero overhead synchronization

Yes, like a work-stealing scheduler. Many tiny tasks are fine as long as you keep them on one core. Other cores can steal a batch of them from the other end of your queue with minimal synchronisation every now and again.
Would love to talk to your brother or hear more about this tool. Fraidycat is definitely quite simple on the surface - which might be an advantage, but I am also curious what 'sophistications' could be brought in.
The 99% Invisible podcast did an interesting episode[1] on an even smaller rule change with large ramifications: the back-pass rule. The goalkeeper can no longer hold the ball if it was passed by a teammate. That meant that they had to learn stronger footwork and ended the time-wasting that they could do once their team was ahead. It keeps the game moving and forces everybody to do without the breaks that back-passes used to create regularly.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unsure-footing/
It's inflammatory for Google to retain an anti-labor union cracking firm.
It looks like you have to go up to at least a B1 app service, which at $50/month doesn't make a lot of sense for me, unless I can figure how to get my MSDN credits associated with that Azure subscription instead of one of the other two accounts I don't use, but that's a whole other can of worms...
Except they own instagram too.
Nice product! Would love to see a gist integration.
Sandboxing your build is good practice anyway, for this and many other reasons :) For bonus points, build each major component in its own sandbox and integrate them later. That allows you to tightly control your dependencies (which makes your project tidier and makes incremental builds faster), and it paves the way to reproducible builds.
that's what 'my' (as it's the same person pinging me for the past couple of years) recruiter keeps telling me. It's not a net plus considering that I can just look elsewhere in the first place. No point in taking a paycheck cut for a while to do some boring work for a company about which I have ethical concerns so that maybe when I want to change jobs I'll have a competitive edge.
> New cities, we desperately need. The entire housing fiasco is caused by an imbalance between the number of jobs and the amount of housing. all the jobs are, ironically, in places that really don't want to grow. so the logical thing to do, is to move those jobs to new places that do want to grow.

Even if this strategy did work (it doesn't), it's a terrible idea for the environment and quality of life. This is how Los Angeles got super-commutes from the never-ending sprawl of the Inland Empire.
I'm now actively looking and buying from other places unless I desperately need something in 2-days or less and know exactly what I need.

* Searching has simply becoming wading through pages and pages of Chinese junk with incorrect, misleading, or straight-up lies in the description.

* Similarly, the average quality of generic items is so poor, I'm trending back to brick-and-mortar stores. Walmart may have cheap stuff, but at least they put some effort into maintaining their brand.

* Who knows what product a review was actually written for. Lots of basic products are being sold to pump up reviews then being switched to a much more expensive item.

* I've also noticed I'll pay for many name brand items on Amazon that getting them directly from seller or another retailer.

* At least 10% of my orders from Amazon now have something wrong with them. What good is 2 day shipping if I need to return and re-order an item - taking nearly a week total.
>> It seems to me the further you get up the greasy poll the greasier it gets.

Quite the opposite: the pole is greasy at the bottom, but becomes easier to climb the more you manage to climb.

The reason it's greasy at the bottom is because there are fundamental systemic factors at play that make it very difficult for poor people from making their way up. For example, here in the USA you cannot open a bank account if you don't have a permanent address, and you're likely to work multiple jobs with constant changes in schedule, and lack of easy transportation options to travel from one to the other.

Once you reach middle class though, the relative stability it provides can allow you to make decisions to climb the ladder further, if you choose to do so.
Of course emacs did not "detect" your non-standard makefile.

It is your responsibility to let editors know that, be adding that magical first line to your make.
Everything in your comment has to do with general server maintenance, and is not specific to automating certificate renewal with certbot or a similar tool which is what is being discussed. Adding HTTPS to your site and setting up automatic renewal is literally three steps on an Ubuntu system and you can copy and paste it from the certbot documentation [1].

[1] https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-nginx
I love how these threads bring out droves of whining conservatives on HN. You guys are seriously such hyper sensitive babies.
From running a service, I assume the calculation they did was simply "number of people that whine to us because they lost their self-hosted files > number of people that whine to us because we don't allow them to self-host their files".
The Post 9/11 security theater is not a good model to follow, and to compare your plans for gun control to that in any sort of positive association is a good reason for any person who has the slightest of care toward civil liberties to just flat out ignore you.
Sure, there's a dollar amount where you literally could not live. There's even more nutso people who talk about living on $100k by retiring to some foreign country where cost of living is absurdly low, though. I don't think those people (or the 250k van people) are realistic, since obviously there's longer term problems (i.e. vans aren't going to be great for someone who is old).

I would disagree with your financial independence definition though. Basic needs threshold is much lower than 'comfortable' living. The traditional definition of financial independence is not having to work if you don't want to. What that looks like (the sacrifices you make) depends on the person. Maybe to be financially independent you are cool with a $500/mo apartment and Ramen... or maybe that means a mansion and a bunch of supercars. Either way, if you're dependent on a job or someone else, you aren't financially independent.
This is true, it's more like just political connections at this rate.
>Can't really blame the business entities themselves.

Why not? Why is it acceptable that the profit motive trump everything else? These people play a critical role in our society. Obviously they have to stay in business, but I'm not going to give them a pass on foregoing their duty just because they want to make more money.
The engineers from Amazon, Google and Microsoft should get together and make sure they're all using different metrics for success, so they can all be first at the same time. Or work out a schedule for who will be first which year.
AV1 Ecosystem Update: November 2019
Vagrants are breaking the law, by definition, because vagrancy is a crime. When someone commits a crime, we call him a criminal and remove him from society for a while. I see no reason to abandon this tradition now.
I don't disagree with your assessment of the issue, but I question the federal government as the solution. This has long felt to me like the free market not working, but I can't quite figure out why.

For decades now, I've not understood why companies don't relocate to places like Des Moines or Kansas City. Labor was cheap, land was cheap, governments are willing to give you credits to move your business there, etc. The midwest is crawling with small colleges churning out educated people. After spending a decade in Seattle I moved inland for cheaper real estate (and this was back in 2010 because I thought Seattle housing had already gone insane back then). I've been a remote worker / road warrior type since 2005, and the opportunities for remote work or to work from where you want have only gotten easier. Why would I hire the $250K+ developer in the Bay Area, have to cover office costs, etc there, when I could encourage them to live in Boise or some other lower-cost area?

So, to my thinking - employers need to get more creative and drop the industrial era mindset of control. Certainly there are jobs that require people and equipment being in one physical location. Certainly the most profitable large companies - the Googles, Microsofts, Apples, etc of the world might choose to establish centralized corporate campuses. For everybody else though, the economics make far more sense in other parts of the country.
They appear to have a general rule of never using GPLv3, even if it would be fine for some tools. (It'd be problematic for things that could also be a part of iOS, or components they'd lock down with unavoidable SIP-like mechanisms, option they likely want to keep open for parts of the system)
Once you get out of densely populated areas you soon realize the vast majority of the earth is wild nature. Humankind is only taking up a tiny fraction. As agriculture techniques continue to improve less land is needed to feed more people. Go camping in Montana.