skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is just one of their finest ideas. /s

Not sure about the /s on the end there. This was the finest idea they could come up with as evidenced by them running with it and distributing this leaflet. Presumably there were worse ideas they considered and rejected leaving this as their finest idea. Not a good idea but the best they could come up with.
The only issue that killed Usenet was the illegal content, namely MP3s and child pornography. Back in the early 90s, I knew people that were using Usenet for regular porn (not kiddie porn).

But it was the MP3s once music piracy got big that became huge. The weight of all those binary posts, plus the risk of housing child pornography is why most ISPs shut off access to Usenet.

Reddit is an excellent upgrade on Usenet. If you have a specific interest, it's usually well-maintained by a moderator or the subreddit dies. And unlike Usenet, the best comments usually bubble to the top, so you don't have to read every single comment, the voting mechanism works on well-run subreddits.
It is always sad when you see people not understanding humor.
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The Radio Shack 50-in-1 electronics kit was also my onramp to technology, and I too landed in programming rather than, e.g. electrical engineering. I recognize the loss you describe... and I'm really grateful, all the same, for the door it opened into the future. Glad to see you found an alternate on-ramp.
Here's how I'm going to use your technology:

I am going to resell it to small businesses so that they can publish a neverending stream of nonsense keyword-laden articles to improve their SEO. Hotels, restaurants, medical practices. Anyone with cash really.

That's what this is going to be used for.
Facebook doesn't care about enjoyment. They want to maximize eyes on the screen time and sell that for maximum ad revenue. If you are someone who would like to spend 5 minutes a week on Facebook catching up with friends they do not care about you.
> There has been no updates since first release as far as I can tell.

Their Android has had a few updates, when I started using it, it didn't have a sleep timer or speed setting. Not sure if it had "trim silence", but I never use that anyways.
So you want people to start having to worry about what other people think of their work habits? And you'll reward people for tattling on their peers by giving them internet points that can be traded for your marketing materials (swag).

This is wrong on so many levels.
> What are they going to do, let you call without giving a name and then pay in cash?

I mean, this is how it works when you call a plumber, electrician or whomever when they’re a part of a bigger org.

Even taxis pay a monthly “radio fee” to get fares that are sent from people that call in. They could also not pay and just pickup street fares.
> Where is the content hosted once the build has been finished?

There's services like INFURA [0] and Pinata [1] that will pin content for free. It's as simple as using ipfs-deploy [2] to publish the build directory to one of those IPFS pinning services.

[0] https://infura.io/docs/ipfs/get/pin_add

[1] https://pinata.cloud/

[2] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy
Amazon is indeed an existential threat to Wayfair. However, while Amazon is an incredible company, it might become a victim of the future as much as it is the winner of the present. Self-driving trucks, advanced robotics, and automated, turnkey warehouses will trivialize supply chain superiority. In that version of the world, shared warehouses (enabled by automation) will be even more cost-effective than Amazon's proprietary warehouses. Logistics will be disintermediated, and the value of Amazon.com will be reduced to that of its front-end interface and first-party products.

We don't just visit Amazon because it's a one-stop shop. Humans aren't that lazy. We visit it for the whole package:

- fast shipping

- reliable pricing

- Prime lock-in (I paid $100 for this, I better use it)

- habit

- and variety.

Habit and variety are redundant. We have the habit of visiting Amazon because of the first three factors that I mentioned. The variety is present because the first three factors attract/retain customers, who in turn have the habit of shopping on Amazon, who in turn attract third party vendors. Amazon can get away with a lot (rising prices, first-party substitution, sub-optimal interface) because of logistical barriers to entry and the current necessity for a vertically integrated intermediary. When those factors disappear, Prime will be commoditized. Warehouses and delivery networks will be commoditized. Amazon's moat in third-party online shopping will diminish.

Amazon must continue to grow away from its core platform business. Whole Foods was a smart acquisition, Amazon Go is the future of low/mid-end retail, and AWS is a profitable act of genius (high margin, uncorrelated with the rest of the business). That will not change the fact that specialty websites will become more serious competitors in the future. In 10-15 years, there will be plenty of room for focused retail sites like Wayfair.com. The question is: can they survive until then? Probably, but it will be a rough ride.
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It is worthwhile to note that Slack's very recently departed chief architect had previously helped start the HHVM project.
It would be possible with some questions that the answer between 0 to 1 is more meaningful than the answer between 1 and 10. For example, "How many tires have you slashed?"

0 to 1 is much more of a jump than 1 to 10. If this was being used to rank some underlying characteristic, 0 would be low while 1-10 would be high.

Now, does that apply to these questions? I don't think so. Theoretically I can see valid cases where answering anything above 0 goes straight from low to high.
Discrimination is the key, discrimination, hierarchy, an elite, but an elite drawn from the mass. I wrote a little on this within the context of LinkedIn a while ago myself: https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin
I didn't read that it was suggesting these things are wrong, but that the police (who I would and it seems here that they are) are educated on the topic, and can provide advice and materials to potentially prevent wrongdoing here.
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I think of myself as hard-nosed, but I don't think I could be this cruel to someone.
GPT-2 is getting better and better, this is very impressive.
Well, I could live with either taking the surplus from that specific program and investing it in the best possible way to cover for well-known coming shortfalls, or saying that it is a generic tax like any other tax. Then at least people would know where it stands.

Instead we have a weird situation where the tax specifically calls out social security, but in reality gets spent on a bunch of unrelated things, with a thin veneer of technicality to make it all hold together.
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I think that burnout has more to do with existential questions and less to do with labor questions. If you don't have a good answer to "why am I doing this job?" then it doesn't matter if you work 40 hours and have excellent healthcare.
I know this is the internet echo chamber, but the police in my community, and everywhere I have lived, provide a lot of outreach opportunities to under-educated and under-privileged (east coast, USA, for reference).
> The company claims the evaluation process contained “unmistakable bias” and has since asked the court for permission to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The war between Bezos and Trump is fascinating to watch play out in front of us.
I think Amazon will lose this case. It will be impossible to prove that Donald Trump's public attacks on Jeff Bezos influenced the decision of the Department of Defense to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft. Amazon wants to depose Donald Trump, SecDef Mark Esper, and former SecDef James Mattis. I don't see Donald Trump willingly testifying to a court under oath. If Esper and Mattis have to testify, they will say that the contract was awarded fairly and based on a neutral and thorough review of both proposals, and that Microsoft's offer fulfilled the needs of the DoD better. The SecDef, being the most important individual in the DoD, is in the best position to determine the department's needs. While this doesn't mean that corruption of the decision making process is impossible, these contracts have a paper trail and review/counter-review processes by a multitude of procurement officers and committees, and a federal judge unilaterally deciding the winners of military contracts would set a terrible precedent. At worst the contract could be voided and the competition restarted, but the final decision would most likely be the same.
Shhh... let's just continue to self-diagnose traumatic childhoods when there are many potential confounding variables
I'm considering quitting Facebook, and am currently using their feature that lets you temporarily deactivate your account. I'm trying it out for a few days to see how comfortable I am living without it. So far, no downsides. I'm going to keep using this feature until I am ready to pull the plug for good.
I guess they resolved the heating issue with an even more American institution. Stepping into Aeon Mall Rycom is a like a localized version of my youth in New Jersey.
I'm fairly well convinced that I'm going to quit FB soon'ish. The main thing stopping me is that either A. the replacement "thing" I want doesn't exist yet, or B. it does, and I'm just not aware of it.

Given that I have some pretty specific ideas in mind regarding what I want to use instead of FB (think "self hosted blog" but with some very particular details) I don't know that the exact thing I want exists yet, and I don't really have time to create it myself. At least not unless it just natively "falls out" of work I'm doing anyway, which it may well do. I just don't know when that'll be.
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Wow! That's a clever solution.

I can see it only working when users don't know it exists.

But when secret, I imagine this would be INCREDIBLY effective, as they'll blame the experience on the software, not their behavior.
Sounds like a problem with your family and not Facebook. But quitting Facebook will indeed help you distance yourself from all of that, so, I guess, it is still a net benefit.
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Hmm. Are there any VPN providers there? :-)
I am never sure about what a burnout really is. It is not in the DSM yet, but that doesn't really say anything. It shares a lot of properties with depression. Weird stuff.

Test is bogus of course. With nine questiI got a high risk, because I scored a bit high on cynicism. But hey, I work in the advertisement business. I am not kidding myself that I add any value to this world at all.
To put this in context, while I've never written a program in Common Lisp, ZetaLisp, Clojure, or Scheme as anything other than an exercise, I've been writing elisp for a quarter century (though casually, never having written a new major mode), I've written a self-compiling compiler in a subset Scheme targeting i386 assembler and a raytracer in Clojure. I've used Python and JS on a daily basis for about 20 years.

So, does that make me an "actual Lisp user" or not? I think so, although clearly if you don't think Python and JS are Lisps, the case is weaker. I feel like probably anyone who's written a self-compiling compiler in Scheme qualifies as an "actual Lisp user", though. Of course, there are people who debate whether Scheme is really a Lisp, but I think that's a sufficiently fringe viewpoint that we can simply ignore it.
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Well there's at least one positive outcome from this whole debacle so far with Oracle's lawsuit being heavily undercut by the award to MS.
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As a test, I answered 0 for most choices. 1 for like two or so.

Result: .6 of 6, "high" burnout risk.
> At worst the contract could be voided and the competition restarted, but the final decision would most likely be the same.

Assuming Trump interfered, a rebid is the best possible outcome. It took well over a year for that bid to be completed, meaning by the time this matter is adjudicated, we'll know whether or not Trump is on his way to a second term.

And if not, then there's no way the JEDI contract re-bid will be completed before he's out on Jan 20, 2021.
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The major part of burnout is thus caused by HR. HR directs that the way teams are evaluated is that they are compared to one another, and it is mandatory that one team be rated over another team which creates an us vs them mentality. Then members of the team must be evaluated against one another again with one person rated above another which creates a me vs them mentality. If you are rated down, your going to believe that the person doing the rating either can't see that you or your team is working smarter and harder than the rest. They got rated up because they somehow cheated the system and the person who rated them is as stupid as they are. If you or your team are rated first, then obviously they don't work as hard or as smart as you.
It was definitely satire. Adequacy.org as a whole was generally in that vein. It caught a lot of bait on the Lunix article though :-)
Here is a long list of clients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

And you can get free access to the text groups (no alt.binaries.*) from, at least, either of:

Eternal September:

https://www.eternal-september.org/

or

AIOE

https://www.aioe.org/
Psychotherapy isn't a real cure for unexplained medical symptoms
Kinda funny that they market their enterprise plan to startups.
> Reddit with 150ms latency feels like cocaine: Reddit with 8000ms latency feels like coffee.

Reddit with Spectrum internet latency feels like water.
I broadly agree that infinite perfect archival, and searchability of that archive, make an online discussion effectively public forever, subject to broadcast forever.

But, even if you disable search, disable history, there's the fundamental fact that _anyone_ can record everything they see, easily and silently. You can't just have a private authenticated space, you need to be able to personally trust every single person you let in that space.

At that point, the features around archiving or search are a bit moot.
I have given this some consideration, and what I ended up with is super low tech: require a user registration where users can't just sign up for N accounts and limit all accounts to 10 MB a day. Too little to share any meaningful binary data and way more than a person can type in a day.
You can get the professional subscription for 99 USD.

https://services.acm.org/public/qj/profqj/qjprof_control.cfm...
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> A ketogenic diet -- which provides 99 percent of calories from fat and only 1 percent from carbohydrates

Uh...People on keto don't get 99% of calories from fat. There's a significant amount of protein mixed in there.

I don't even know how I would get 99% of my calories from fat without eating a diet of pure butter and animal fat.
This is what the cynic in me is worried about. As somebody who grew up with parents who had no idea what I was doing on the computer (no fault of their own, they just didn't have access to the tools I did growing up), I can see them being worried. Providing advice and materials is exactly what I would hope the police would provide to them (which is in-line with what this brochure says).

I acknowledge that this brochure _might_ represent fear-mongering, but based on what's actually written in the brochure, it doesn't sound like the police are looking to put kids on a list.
I think nowadays you might catch on because the culpit might not be identified to your site with both their phone and their PC or something among these lines.
I meant more along the lines of a country that has a good pension for everyone like in Scandinavian countries.
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In my experience teaching 14 year olds, that is precisely the kind of thing they first want to build: the things they know and use everyday (in 2020 it’s more likely to be Snapchat/Instagram/TikTok than Facebook, but the point remains).

And indeed, with a batteries included kind of solution like PHP/MySQL, one can build a basic Facebook like in a week long workshop or so. You won’t understand everything that’s going on under the hood of course, but the fact remains that it’s way more accessible than the webpack/Babel/react.js/etc stacks that web devs push these days (waiting for the inevitable “oh no one uses webpack anymore, it’s all about ChirpChirp.js these days!” :)
Ironically, if a child is seen to be using Windows 10, Android, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, then their parents and guardians need to ensure that the children understand that such software and online services are a danger to their privacy and mental health, and should warn them of how advertising will manipulate them and cyberbullying harm them. That these entities do not care about them or reducing any potential harm.

Our governments need to be curating or writing guides to help parents and guardians teach children about these dangers and how to avoid them. Open source software and online services that respect the user are entities to cherish and encourage, rather than treat like a boogeyman who's earned the title without any material evidence.
Also the title sounds funny, "What is on a child's computer?"

As well as the very 1984 like, "engage them into positive diversions." Great copy!
I have... never met anyone in real life who doesn't like slack. I only hear negative opinions about it here.
I don't get how alcohol quitters experience more life satisfaction, less depression, and anxiety.

(Also, worst Oxford comma ever...)
Reading said comments may convince you otherwise.
Have you considered just using FB messenger @ messenger.com? You can log in with your email address instead of your Facebook account. You can also use it while your Facebook account is deactivated (I deactivated mine). No news feed, no ads, just conversations.

Not associated with Facebook, just a happy Messenger user.
Quick, someone purchase ycobinator.com and make it redirect to the real site only with a 3-25 second delay!
Cool kids use Black Arch Linux.
You can charge a company with RICO? Maybe we can charge a political party then.
Part of this is seeing if people understand jokes.

We thought about the companies where we hated working and the bad things about their cultures- our snitch/informant bot symbolizes the worst of it.
Is this something they can not yet get with Sharepoint?
Added phonetic pronunciation into https://github.com/ShioharaCMS/shiohara/blob/master/README.m...
Lunch in middle school was absolutely the worst part of my life ... reading this article, I'm amazed that I didn't grow up to be a serial-killer. My family also relocated for my eighth-grade year and, returning in ninth grade was especially horrible. I like like the tag-line of the Mortified podcast - "We are freaks, we are fragile ... and we all survived". Now I'm wondering how many of my misfit acquaintances didn't actually survive.
"In December, Amazon filed a challenge to the deal in federal court, saying that Mr. Trump used “improper pressure” on the Pentagon at its expense."

"Microsoft said Amazon “only provided the speculation of bias, with nothing approaching the ‘hard facts’ necessary” to demand them."

He may have applied improper pressure but I wasn't able to find where they presented any evidence to support this accusation. Was there any evidence or is the point of the court process to get some?
Agreed. They might be able to turn up some emails discussing Trump's pressure but I think those emails (unless truly damning)won't be able to meet the bar.
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Sounds like confirmation bias to me.
This is only true if you quit all social media. I started using Twitter for 1 specific topic and now it’s all back.
There's an alternative approach that I think would feel more valuable and worth paying for.

Think about how Apple Pay solves this problem: they give a unique email address to every site. People who have their own domains, or who trust the base+suffix@domain approach and don't think sites will strip off the +suffix, do something similar manually.

You could provide a similar service for sites that don't accept Apple Pay.

Provide an automatic email address (no per-site setup required) for people who expect a few transactional mails ("here's your shipment tracking number"), track (across customers) whether those email addresses get sold to spam lists, flag companies that get caught selling email addresses.

If you're providing the insulating layer on email, you're providing more obvious value to your customers.
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Some feedback you probably won't hear from the HN crowd:

Give more context to the site for initial visitors. Its going to be more obvious to those who visited from HN but not to those who stumbled upon it somehow. A little blurb at the top saying this is a reference site for bash scripting syntax and maybe why you saw the need for such a thing would do ease people into the site a bit.

I hate the popup at the bottom, I will hesitate to use the site again because of that (just like many of us avoid news sites with pesky popups), Its a major turn-off. Probably an unpopular opinion around here, but just maybe make a note at the bottom regarding the privacy stuff unless there are legal reasons not to (I'm not up on all the regulations) If you can't avoid it, make it way less intrusive.

Overall its really nice and I love to see better documentation made around old-school linux/bash tools and syntax as I often feel the documentation can be unwieldy with a lot of knowledge assumed. +1 to examples as others have said. Keep it up! :)
Both OpenGL shader code and on-device ML can be done in React Native. However, you likely won't reach full native performance today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYnrdKEVMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbcuLfrt8XA
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/image-classification-on-react-nat...

You're right there will always be a very high demand for native engineers to build the underlying bridge code to back these capabilities. As cross-platform tools gain new bridged capabilities and become faster (https://engineering.fb.com/android/hermes/), as they have been slowly, I think the use-cases where using something like React Native or Flutter is possible and makes sense will grow.
This sounds a lot like what Apple slowly does to iOS to make you buy a new phone...
For those, like me, who didn't know about Letelier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier
Also, I'd say that "Sony's generally better at the tech" has basically come true. But Nintendo adapted into its current position, which is a pretty nice position to be in. Had they taken the deal, it's possible they could have gotten complacent and gotten sidetracked away from focusing on game quality.
I am reminded of the “Free Personality Test”s which inevitably shows you have some grave personal problems which can only be helped by Scientology (and certainly not by those evil, evil psychologists).
Quitters of just about _any_ harmful habit will report all that. This doesn't mean that FB is harmful to everyone or even to a substantial fraction of its users. It's just that people who feel it is harmful for them are much more likely to "quit" it, and report improvement when they do. I bet people who just started to use FB also report more life satisfaction and less depression and anxiety. They made a change they felt they needed to make, in both cases.
Alternate solution: downgrade to a dial-up ISP.