skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't arbitrarily destroy it, and other media companies are generally not in danger of the same fate as Gawker.

Gawker was exceptionally stupid both in their reporting and in court, joking (so they say) that they would post a sex tape of a child as long as it was over the age of four. That doesn't play well with jurors. They had no respect for any concept of personal privacy. We are absolutely better off as a society without them, and without any other media companies that behave in a similar shitty manner.

Being a media company is not and should not be a shield from civil lawsuits or prosecution. Media companies should be in danger of being sued to death if they behave as badly as Gawker did.
Last decade we woke up to climate change. This one we will wake up to positive reinforcement. The warming is not even in all the world, is getting concentrated near the poles, where you have a lot of frozen buried/sunk methane ready to be released into the atmosphere.

If you think that things were going fast, wait till it press the accelerator.
Awesome! Will look forward to it!
Past discussion on HN from user "arcfide":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797
Any good resources you have for beginners in biotech?
No, it's compatible with libertarianism. I'd also remove unmarried men and Rolex owners from the eligibility list, myself.
What does it mean for inequality to "tear a community apart"? That feels like emotional hyperbole. I also don't think reducing wealth inequality is a foregone goal that takes priority over other criteria. A progressive income tax also reduces the incentive to create economic value. And most of the time, the increased tax revenue is not managed efficiently - for example, California doesn't have "better communities" or improved services for all the tax it collects.
If you have a browser that has flash, then http://www.zombo.com is a good one.
> If someone answers the question with a mainstream view, it’s possible that they just aren’t self-aware enough to know a view is well-held. To be self-aware means you ask questions of yourself, such as “how many other people also have this view that I think I alone hold?”

Is this really a characteristic of self awareness? Seems more like awareness of thoughts, trends, and opinions of others/society.

It's almost like the ability to answer this question perfectly, requires intimate knowledge of widely held beliefs/trends which may in turn have the opposite effect of selecting for people hyper aware of trends and others' ideas rather than those more deeply immersed in their own individual work, ideas and experience.
Yeah Linus is correct here, he's just not directly addressing why it works on some other schedulers.
All you did was quote a subset of what I quoted.

To add to it, the thesis, so you can see the context.

> I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

He's obviously pro freedom in his essay; his whole essay is on why the reduction of democracy is important, specifically calling out women's suffrage.
You find meaning outside work.
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This is a great book, but it's not a book on SQL.
Interesting that, almost by definition, most of the top HN comments on this article are very critical of the idea. As if proving what the article claims: most people do not push the intellectual boundaries of their social environment.

Not to say that some of the comments are completely unfounded -- for example, this question requires a special interviewer, too, who must be able to contain their biases against the potentially very unique (supposedly good) responses they will receive, which may be diametrically opposed to their own views.
Yeah, I agree with the idea that if you trudge through radioactive ideas you'll find some diamonds in the rough. But you'll have to really dig through some radioactive crap for it; a lot of what's outside the Overton Window is there for a reason. The fashions of an era aren't entirely arbitrary.
> Auth is very hard to get right with all corner cases considered

What's wrong with an x509 client certificate?
Almost everyone supports taxes on OTHER people.
> Meeting CO2 goals requires removing carbon actively from the atmosphere, and drastically reducing our use of CO2-producing energy sources.

No. Either one could be sufficient alone, just as you can lose weight either by exercising more or eating less alone, though generally the combination is better.

For removing carbon from the atmosphere we could dump olivine sand into coastal waters where it would sequester carbon as it was weathered. If we want to reduce our use of CO2 producing energy sources without massive declines in quality of life or vast environmental damage there’s only one choice, nuclear.
It's kind of an old-school tool, but Enterprise Architect is a tool that does just this. It's also a completely overwrought model-based engineering thing but ignore that and it's a useful systems/data architecture model database tool.

https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/
His thesis is

> Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

It's pretty clear what he's saying.
I love all kinds of weird humor but I could never get into POSTMODERN ZANINESS! a la Pynchon or David Foster Wallace. It's too all-over-the-place for me, and it honestly strikes me as mean-spirited.

I also like writing that is clean, pure, poetic and emotionally authentic. I feel like some of those authors (I'm looking at you, Wallace) are outsiders sniping at mainstream culture with hipster snobbishness. I used to sorta be that way, but I can't relate to that anymore.
That’s why, as far as I’ve seen - it’s typically called UI/UX?

They certainly go hand in hand but IMHO good UX is much more important than the way the UI is displayed, which I think can honesty be more influenced by aesthetic and personal preference.
I’m also not convinced it’s a useful interview question because of the issue you raise, but thinking your mainstream views are heretical extends far beyond job interviews.

It seems like whenever I hear people talk about politics, they speak as though they’re persecuted lone wolves going against the current, but they tend to have opinions that something like half the country holds, which I would define as very mainstream.

I also think this occurs with myths that have been “busted,” someone will go around for years thinking that everyone else is sheep for still believing in the myth, when the reality is everyone else read the same article and no one really believes the myth anymore.

And then there are the countless posts on Reddit or Tumblr or Imgur or Facebook where someone dramatically makes a stand, admitting that they will be burned at the stake for their position, to the great applause of everyone watching.
When your company is a monopoly that has a printing press for money, the normal competitive pressures don't apply. There's no need to aggressively cut head count because employee salaries are such a small percentage of their expenses relative to other companies of similar size.

Google is like an ivy league school: the hard part is getting in.
Ok, explain to me in what way an unmoderated forum is non-neutral.
How does laptop-mode compare to tlp? Doe it try to to the same thing or are they compatible with each other?
I have no problem speaking up when I think something needs to be said (if anything, I have the opposite problem), but I would not be comfortable answering this question in an interview.
Ah roaming profiles, one of the best worse ideas in the MS world

Better if you can replace it with a CIFS mount
We have copious experience with this exact business model going back decades over several economic sectors and it's not hard to see where the structural cost advantages come from. If you are, eg, properly accounting for below-market loans as income (on either side), or rigorously following overtime requirements, or equal opportunity laws, your cost advantages rapidly go away. "Maybe we make the stores nice" is not some groundbreaking innovation.
https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/
The information is right there in the documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/critical...

The paragraph about InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount and SetCriticalSectionSpinCount describe the behavior. IIRC, the default spin count used to be pretty high (1000 loops or so). Not sure if that was changed.
Why make such blatantly false statements?

In that article, Bill Gates said that he has paid 10% of his wealth in taxes, and proposed paying 10% more, but expressed concern about paying 90%.

I applaud you for having the chutzpah to link to a source you brazenly misquote.
If you're using windows I think you need to setup a pin or the hello auth method.
Once windows has a quick way to authenticate you it'll offer that when you register
I understand the point of having the file every time I switch the FF version or the machine I'm running it in. It's portable and keeps me away from having to get near the teeth-grindingly awkward 'about:config' interface.

"checking for this file needlessly causes additional IO early on startup" is probably the lamest reason to get rid of it.
Funny though, it may not be the pumps. That just might be an expression of their strict cleanliness. It maybe some other aspect that actually brings in customers. Or possibly the sum totality of 'clean' and not any one thing.

Assuming it's not product or price, it's interesting to note how a professional appearance makes the difference.
Proprietary trading: truth and fiction [pdf]
Looks like that may be it, but shouldn't they be able to fix that? Locking an account seems a bit extreme for something like this.
FWIW, the reMarkable tablet handles PDFs considerably better than my Kindle.
What you say is true.

The main point I was trying to make was that given a speculative post of such breadth, which touches on such difficult issues as AGI, how the brain works and perhaps even the nature of conscious experience, and which makes some claims that are at least interesting, I think it's quite presumptuous to assert that these ideas are all nonsense without a deeper exploration of them. I certainly would not want to make such an assertion, despite being troubled by what I think are some inaccuracies in the author's description of certain physical concepts.

Now a secondary issue is that it is true that as far as I'm aware major scientific discoveries have typically been initially published in much more developed form and have thus been the work of a single individual or of a relatively small group of closely affiliated individuals. I'm not convinced however that this historical model of very small scale scientific collaboration is necessarily the only one nor the best one in light of modern means of communication.

It seems at least conceivable to me that there is a possible future in which the following hold:

* There is some kernel of validity in this author's ideas.

* A small number of other people find them intriguing and choose to collaborate with the author to further elaborate them.

* This collaboration leads to major progress in our understanding of one or more of the areas mentioned above.

For me the, admittedly very small, likelihood of such an outcome, justifies the author's post and its appearance on HN.
Why your Uber ride can cost as much as a plane ticket
I believe it is worth looking beyond just Hyperledger.

There are good arguments (I believe) why a public mainnet like Ethereum, not consortium networks, will see the biggest growth (eg consider https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QAmNjJRtLGo which contains fantastic examples of enterprises using a public mainnet).

The Ethereum “1 million devs” initiative suggests that things like developer tooling and education could be lucrative, see more ideas here: https://seelemons.com/2019/12/08/30-ways-to-1-million-devs/
I personally agree with the 'idlewords view on Gawker.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apinboard%20gawker&src=ty...

They did call out that Clinton and Dershowitz went on the jet that Epstein used to let powerful men have sex with underage women in 2015, and that alone is worth quite a bit. Probably more than any slight against Thiel.

Thiel being poked in a way that paints him as a hypocrite is constructive, all things considered. Seeing billionaires as "regular Joes" is something that probably needs to stop for the long-term viability of the American experiment.

Thiel, a conservative who's been donating thousands a year to Republican politicians since at least 2000 (this is all public record; it's worth a glance if you're interested), who recognize the people in the sexual demographic that Thiel belongs to as degenerate, is in fact one of the people they hate.

This is important for the public to know for a few reasons.

An obvious reason, of course, is "Hey look, you don't matter at all to the types that have millions of dollars!" is an important thing for LGBT people who don't have that. Highlighting Thiel as a man who adheres to "Got mine" philosophy is really good, because it allows everyone else to know that once you get to a certain level of protection, solidarity doesn't really exist.

Politics are war, and when you have a person regularly dropping $4,000,000 a year on political donations to causes that are directly harmful to you, it makes sense to combat them.

I'm close to the same side as Thiel politically, but even I can't say that Gawker doing that was a bad thing. That Thiel doesn't believe in freedom of speech is ridiculous, given the views he claims to espouse. But if you see it for what it is (a billionaire wanting free speech for himself, but not caring whether it's a thing for others), it makes sense.
Almost Everything Wall Street Expects in 2020
It should be noted that Parcel was created in house at Adobe and then open sourced.

I think it's always nice to call out the contributions certain corps are making to the OSS world.
I agree with everything except "Bill hourly".
A client wants a benefit, not x lines of code. Charge them for the value you deliver.

The few hourly projects I agreed to when I first started were always a challenge because I had an incentive to not go full speed which then ended up killing the enjoyment of loving what I do.
Are you sure?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylton_v._United_States
I don't have too much experience with the Windows scheduler, either. I've written most of my multithreaded code exclusively for Linux.
Stop Anytime Multiplicative Weights
> it services ~110 million people annually

The word “transit hub” tips me off, as a New Yorker, to the statistic including freight. Perhaps they’re counting tonnage or the total number of trains?
This presentation will answer all your questions.

https://youtu.be/0cLIhoXjgDE

I love Postgres.
The Roadmap to Become Front-End/Back-End/DevOps (2020 Edition)
I loved how plain and to the point Magic's original landing page (2015) was:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150313215658/https://getmagicn...

Now it's been redesigned of course:

https://getmagic.com/

But I still prefer the original.
If you have a criticism make it.
My grandmother fought against leaving her house for a retirement home for a long time. When she was about 85 she finally gave in and was surprised to find out she loved it there.

In her home she mostly passed the time watching TV and knitting. In the retirement home, she joined a choir, she ate with friends every day, she took advantage of regular trips to restaurants and shopping malls, and she was constantly playing cards.

Having friends around and things to do with them was huge for her happiness.
> Thiel is, in fact, literally arguing that democracy is bad because it gives people with critiques of capitalism a say in the way their country is run.

Kind of. He is saying democracy is bad because it inherently leads to limits on 'freedom' imposed by the state. The state being the key point here. I read his views as much more in line with a trend towards anarcho-capitialism than with fascism.
I've seen several decent implementations based on https://json-schema.org/implementations.html#web-ui-generati...

Json schema also has many tools for validation, which is nice if you're passing the form data around.
fungal computer:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.201...
If only we could combine the two for a wealth-based income tax. If you're already worth 20M, should you be paying a higher rate on your 500k in interest than if you just sold your first company for 500k and previously had nothing? I think that's a reasonable way to address income inequality in the long run without forcing people to liquidate assets, especially those like Elon Musk who have most of their wealth tied into companies they actively manage or people whose entire net worth is tied up in historical family properties.
"there's no real way (unless in a realtime scheduler) to find what to yield to without instigating complexity"

What about just temporarily increasing the process' nice value?

That should be simple to do, and the scheduler already knows how to yield to processes with lower nice values.
Running Racket on iOS
But Thiel in this essay argues that "capitalist democracy" as seen in 1920s should exist, just that women shouldn't be allowed to participate.
WA has high sales tax. Poor people pay a larger portion of taxes in WA compared to elsewhere.
Look at general measures to improve mental health and stress tolerance.

Soldiers in combat try to fit 1 to 2 hours of cardio into their busy days. Weight training is more important for general health, but intense exercise is the best medicine for stress tolerance.

If that sounds impossible, then start with some realistic like 1/2 hour, walking, biking to work, moving boxes, and work up from there.

Overreaction to small upsets is a symptom of depression and it is one that SNRI or SSRI drugs such as Vanlafaxine and Sertraline are effective for. Generics are very cheap even if you don't have health insurance, and your primary care practitioner is trained to prescribe them.

The above measures are intended to build up your base so you will be resilient without trying. Spare time activities in the areas of pets (e.s.p. raising chickens), religion, volunteer activity are also helpful.

I was a long time practitioner of

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Higher-Consciousness-Ken-Key...

a self-help approach aimed at training the mind while in action. Today I think that repeating mantras and phrases fills up my mind with more junk and makes managing harder. If I repeat a mantra I won't repeat it quickly but will try to repeat it at the moment a distraction comes in.
is there something better than gulp for older projects that don't use imports? basically concatting scoped JS
Speech is not violence.

It always contains some information payload. If you felt triggered by it and failed to parse the content then maybe you're overly emotional.

For some people who aren't it's going to be useful assessment of how bad this code was.

I see this ongoing trend (Twitter) that by limiting the ways in which people can express themselves, you can in theory broaden the recipient circle (to include people who otherwise would be offended and wouldn't read).

In practice you not only limit the ways in which information can be distributed but often also barter away some people who weren't offended and would get useful information this way.

Looking at speech this way is also a bad idea because today's acceptable is tomorrow's unacceptable word and the only way to allow all information is to allow all speech.
The thesis is pretty bland: “autocrats can get things done faster”.

But the historical context and anecdotes were interesting.
> the law generally applies to them just as it does to anybody else

Indeed, but the punishment of the law is not proportionate. E.g. stealing billions and stash it, you might end up in a 27-month jail time (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19293341/ns/business-corporate_sca...) which is a very good hourly rate. Must feel like a meditative vacation after the party-hard years.
Everything Gawker did fell under the First Amendment, and so they should not be in danger of being sued to death if they behave as badly as Gawker did. The entire point of the Constitution is to protect essential liberties. Get rid of the Constitution, and we descend into an authoritarian state.
Towards fungal computer (2018)
There are still corporate business taxes in Washington, and they are revenue based instead of profit based (extremely backwards, but it certainly isn't no taxation). The primary benefit is for personal income.
Estate tax could displace lower end income tax or sales tax.
I switched from Parcel to Webpack after lots of bugs and issues. Parcel 1 had lots of tiny things that annoyed me (source maps never worked, it broke a lot when pulling from git), and the team is no longer fixing Parcel 1 issues. However, Parcel 2 literally didn't work for me:

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3690
https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3691
https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/3696

So I switched to webpack. The configuration was miserable, but after I got it working, it seems to be OK. It's actually faster than Parcel, and a lot more stable.

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/webpac...

Not to mention that I had a few issues with Parcel trying to be "too smart" for me. It would automatically try to hot reload, but my app wasn't designed for that, so it would break hard rather. The workaround was throwing an Error in the hot reload handler.
I read it alongside some page-by-page annotations, which made it fairly approachable and entertaining. These annotations, IIRC.

https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/in...

Wallace was pretty explicit about making readers of his books work for the privilege, though, which could get a bit annoying.
He's for a return to 1920s "capitalist democracy" that excludes groups that don't vote the way he'd like.
Have any hobbyists ever done something similar in a approachable manner? Obviously this could be great for some iot tasks.
Beware, actix web has been caught cheating at this benchmarck.

Cf: https://64.github.io/actix/
The horse/car example isn't really about going faster.

It's an example of hitting the limit of a certain technology, saying any further improvements are "impossible", while not recognizing that a "better horse" might just not be a horse at all.

It's not a metaphor for faster project delivery, but a meaningful technological difference that someone may not be able to see.
Objectively, heart rate, breathing volume and rate, posture, muscle tonus (relaxation), and I would expect but haven't observed directly changes in blood pressure, brain waves, etc.

Subjectively, people report a variety of sensations, warmth or coolness, tingling, a fullness or emptiness or both, etc.

edit: I forgot to mention accelerated healing (the whole point of Reiki, der! lol)
I'm a hiring manager, one of the things that's drilled into me during my trainings is to be conscious of what questions are off limits during hiring. :D
I'm quite happy since the day I left official Firefox. First I disabled auto-updates at v55.0 for some long time and then switched to Waterfox. So far the switch is a peace of mind and I don't feel disrespected when I see news like this any more.

Mozilla is unfortunately losing its meaning since they decided to follow Google closely. Firefox one day will be a marginal browser. Or maybe it already is?
It would have been great if he went into details on how to close those “loopholes”. Most the “loopholes” are on purpose to stimulate business growth and support legitimate charities. The advantage of wealthier people is that they can structure their assets as businesses or charities so cracking down on those “loopholes” is not easy without affecting the economy.

If he is serious he should advocate for a wealth tax. That is one of the best ways to close the “loopholes”. But for now it seems he tries to keep out of that discussion.
I fail to see how giving some the vote but not others based on whether you think they'll agree with you or not is a libertarian position.