skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bugs me is that so many people always jump straight to the most base and rudimentary catch phrase arguments on the topic. It's always "private companies != free speech for others, just for them" or the opposite "we should be able to say whatever whenever", inevitably followed up by a "but you don't have a right to consequence/response free speech"... it's tiring and shallow thinking on the subject.

I just ctrl+f'd for "public forum" and yours was the first hit. One thing in particular I would like to comment on is that post-Trump's election I started listening to some of my SO's legal field podcasts because I wanted less sensational analysis. I very distinctly remember a series on the Opening Arguments one where they went into some depth about why Twitter should be legally considered a limited public-forum (this was in response to some other Trump-Twitter hubbub at the time).

So, just granting that, how does potentially being a "limited public forum" change it's rights and responsibilities to it's users? What about the heavy US government involvement in these companies, how could that change the analysis? What about the fact that dominate platforms are able to control the narrative due to that domination? Doesn't that completely fuck up the free speech concept? "Everyone uses X, but you can't because we don't like you, so you can have your free speech over there in that corner where nobody is." What kind of dangers in the long run does this present? Why do these companies so easily fall into models of censorship, and what kind of future would that mean for the public? (not looking to actually get into the convo necessarily, I'm commenting on the meta of the discussion and wish these kinds of questions were being asked more)

I personally hate youtubes banner for controversial shit. It always links to some shitty ass Wikipedia thats been heavily controlled/edited. Wikipedia is just not a good source of info on controversial topics, (though looking through revision history certainly can add context of what is "missing").
That's "conventional wisdom"? It sounds like a pretty implausible proposition to me.
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I'm confused.
Can you delay the launch window 90 minutes until the next ISS orbit? Maybe you then run into the next on the long list of reasons.
Sure, but that doesn't imply that the means by which it happens is what Dawkins says.
Another definition:

A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.
What if I introduce security bugs only to be paid bounty on them later
> HackerOne is proud to announce that hackers have earned $100 Million in bug bounties by hacking for good on our platform.

(Tangent) Can anyone recommend a coherent interpretation of that statement?

I know what it means for an individual person to be proud. And I could see an argument for extending that notion to a group of persons if every person in the organization was proud.

But I assume HackerOne has had employees / members come and go over time. And I also assume that some of the past or current members don't share that feeling of pride for this particular milestone.

So the only interpretation I can think of is that the person writing the PR was being sleazily vague. I.e., trying to get the audience to take a sentiment that's only meaningfully applied to individual humans / animals, and getting them to unwittingly apply it to a brand name instead.

Is there a better explanation that eludes me?
Mhm.

Also missing from the parts of the discussion i've yet read, is the question of what sort of software we're using.

At the risk of using a buzzword, decentralized comms could reduce the risks of constitutional shutdown. And maybe even be better.
Saying "MSI's is better" is not objective. If your objective reasoning for a device being better is "But this one goes to 11", then I'm not sure we're on the same page.
> even if you own a million dollars of Apple shares, that's only 0.00007% of the company. Not exactly enough to force through a motion on your own.

And it shouldn't be. The board has only 24 hours in a day, not remotely enough time to debate every motion from every shareholder.

However, as a shareholder, you can dump your stock, which does send a message when many shareholders do this.
It makes a lot of sense IMO. They can immediately make more money in the short term, and after their competing product is ready they can negotiate more favorable terms with Hulu or not renew their agreement, which will direct a portion of people that discovered their content through Hulu to their own platform.
iOS having better privacy is a myth. iOS sends your location to Apple every time any the GPS is used, and you can't turn it off. You cannot install apps on your phone without telling Apple which apps they are, and if you want to develop your own apps for your device without having to reinstall weekly, you have to hand over payment information.

Stock Android devices from nearly any vendor do not suffer from these problems, and reputable vendors do even better (like in this case, where even voice transcription does not send data off device).
DDOS? It would be much simpler: a few people with guns.
Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon experience, you are not alone.

This isn't a plug, it is something I am passionate about. The company I co-founded (restless.co.uk) is working really hard to change perception and age discrimination across the entire employment market in the UK. Many of our members have similar stories to yours, although we are largely aimed at 50+, we hear the same from 45+ too. Sadly I don't think this is something that will change overnight, changing societal opinions is never easy and takes persistence, which we are committed to. We are engaging with our membership base and listening to their experiences in order to better educate employers on the importance of an age-diverse workforce and how to ensure that's happening for them. We are making an impact but as you have seen there is a long way to go!

I know that doesn't help you right now, I'm sorry. However, we do write a lot of content in this space that may help, restless.co.uk/career-advice/. We're always keen to hear feedback, so drop us an email if you have any. Incidentally, I am the CTO at Rest Less, and my first hire was a 58-year-old software engineer so I hope that gives you a boost. Although we're not looking for someone in your specific area of expertise at the moment I'd be interested in having a conversation, please reach out if that's something you'd be interested in doing.

Personally, and this is obviously my own opinion, I don't think you should be looking to change career if it's something you enjoy.

Best of luck.
Why is checking my email more secure than paying for something online? Why are we still using usernames (credit card numbers) and maybe a 14 bit password (pin)? The merchant should give the user a signed request for money, which the user's account signs and the money is transferred.
This is a great article, the kind of stuff I find interesting on HN.

Some of the "old school" web style clashes with my aesthetic sensibilities these days -- a lot of words to say I find it somewhat ugly! -- but I miss its hobbyist, non-commercial aspect. A lot of hobby style content I find interesting has moved to YouTube or Facebook these days, and everyone who's been reading HN is aware of the lack of control authors have over those platforms...

I found myself nodding in agreement to a lot of what the author was saying.

I don't miss the "geocities look" though!
Wow, that does sound great! Are they doing that in store only (like separate bins?), online, or both?
In this case, sanctioning Hong Kong is part of sanctioning China, because it hinders technology transfer (eg to Huawei) and finance transfer (Hong Kong was previously not affected by trade tariffs on China, and has a huge stock market).

It remains to be seen if sanctioning China (partially) could bring about political change, as CCP is endorsed within China mostly for economic growth in the past three decades.
There are several other important price inputs to this market, including scanning services (thousands quarterly) and consulting penetration testing (tens of thousands annually). Most companies that offer bounties have also had pentests done; nobody believes that pentesters are underpaid (though maybe they should).

The reality is probably that 80% of the vulnerabilities disclosed on bounty platforms just aren't worth that much. Certainly: companies that lack security expertise but manage bounties tend to radically overpay bounties; I'd of course be curious to see a breakdown of that $100MM by bug class.
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Can+Someone+realy+go+From+Zero+to+Millionaire+in+45+Days?
I hear what you're saying but you can't tell someone's day-to-day soft skills from an interview. They're either on their best behavior or nervous and/or trying to impress you with their skills within a limited timeframe. This does not inform how they will be able to use their professional relationships that they develop within your organization (over the course of months and years) to get the job done.

For that you'd have to look at their past work and their references. Neither of which were even checked during multiple interviews during my last job hunt in 2018.
All these people who bought iphones for the curated app store talking about how Twitter shouldn't be allowed to curate their product. Perhaps Twitter is big _because_ it curates its product. That's what people want.

The threat to force private entities to toe the line is the only speech issue here. If you think people want unedited speech then I believe Gab could use some of your money.
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Also pure speculation - Hong Kong really loses tons of face for China. It's a foreign concession that retains lots of British character, its economy is good, its media is excellent, and Chinese citizens envy HK standards of living. Tons of mainlanders commute over the border to work, play, and buy baby formula that won't poison their kids. Taiwan also loses face, but much less because it's not British and because it has less quotidian utility to mainlanders.

So, it's basically a question of when and how to push HK reunification. Now seems like a pretty good time. If China's economy is already going down the tubes and international sentiment is already turning against PRC over coronavirus, genocide, etc., then the marginal impact of bad things happening in HK is small. It also gives face to PRC government in a time when national unity might be wavering due to declining standards of living.
Haha, wow. I read bash.org in my youth, and this exchange (among others) have stuck with me, such that I'd remember if someone pointed it out. I'm sure the quote has idly flowed through my head at some point too, when I've been on a random walk philosophizing or something. Clame to fame indeed :D

Funny seeing you here more than a decade later. Wonder how many other of those random encounters could happen with the people on HN. I remember stumbling across Brian Lozier from The Massassi Temple here last year, for instance.
My mistake on GDP number.

And I should have clarified that was national (government) debt.

Thanks for the perspective.
Making the SpaceX Spacesuit
Thanks! For anyone who's curious, not a fork and we wrote most of the core code from scratch.
> Gatsby can pre-emptively fetch all the linked pages, both React components and data, to give instantaneous second click page loads. That's a pretty impressive feature in the wild, the second click is neck snappingly fast.

Can't you do that much more simply with a simple static site and a service worker?
To the question in the title. I don't know how I caught it. Before the lock down I was touching doors used by thousands of people daily. Touching gas pumps, etc. I have a habit of touching my face.

Luckily I had a mild reaction, but I still feel a slight tickle/burning in the lungs 2 months into it.
> it very explicitly cares only about the short-term price.

There is no short term price in stocks. Stocks are valued at their perceived long term value. If shareholders suspect a company is sacrificing the long term for the short term, they're going to dump the stock until the price of it drops to reflect that.

This also implies that if you can reliably detect that a company is eating its seed corn before everyone else does, you can make a mint shorting it.
Anecdote, my wife's employer cut pay for employees at her level by 10% (technically in the form of her working 10% less, but her position is salaried and she's not likely to really take that time off). The exec level is taking a bigger haircut.

My own employer cut exec salary by 10% but it terminated its retirement benefits across the board (~10% of base compensation contribution). There is also normally an annual merit/COL salary adjustment this time of year, but that was skipped across the board.

Both of us work at very large, successful non-profits (she in healthcare, I in education) that otherwise are well regarded as good employers. So this isn't just some pent up excuse for a greedy corp to cut a check for the shareholders and execs at the cost of the working stiffs.

I know you're asking for more than anecdotes, but this sure smells like a broad trend (and, to be honest, a reasonable strategy) to me.
Related: The Pokémon card mosaic:
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I wouldn't say that this is still true of bicycling, at least not bicycle touring. The amount of standalone blogs in that hobby have plunged drastically now that people choose to simply upload photos to Instagram, and what few blogs exist are often buried in Google search results. One can see that standalone forums are emptying out, reduced to mainly middle-aged members, as younger generations turn to Reddit or Facebook for all their discussion of the hobby. Within the bikepacking segment, Bikepacking.com (which presents itself as a community resource but is essentially just one big advertisement for its sponsors) has a chokehold on the community.

I was fortunate to get into bicycle touring at a time when standalone blogs were easy to find, some of them were masterfully written, and there was not yet the mercenary desire to monetize one’s content and become an "influencer". The web of 2020 is very different, and because Google deranks older content, a lot of newbies in the hobby today won't even become aware of the former state of affairs even if much of that content remains just as relevant today.
>>My top choice at the moment is London as my wife has British citizenship and several of my wife's friends are in Europe;

Given the upheaval, instant support network and an inalienable right to enter and stay in the UK, I agree wholeheartedly with your top choice. It's just safer until you can circle the wagons and plan the next move.
I haven't touched analytical mathematics for a very long time, so my understanding is quite rough now. Though the solution seems obvious, I hope the proof gives more explanation.

1. Is it OK to replace 0 with a function that approaches 0 at infinity? What rules are in place for substitution?

2. Is lim f(x) * lim g(x) equal to lim f(x)*g(x) ?
How tall are you? Do the monitor and the keyboard sit on the same surface? Do you disassemble your setup and take the top table off and reassaemble it when you want to sit at the table?
Does anyone have any insights about why ASP NET Core is ranked so highly in the surveys? It doesn't get much discussion at all on HN.

Is it just popular with 9-5 big-co dev jobs and their large numbers influence the survey?
It totally is unlike every other language... I can't think of any other language that has rvalue references or move semantics or template metaprogramming or all sorts of other stuff that C++ has in order to pull off its zero-cost abstractions. For other things, like RAII and desctructors, the only language I know that has the same concepts is Rust.

I agree that Rust has some things (maybe just one thing: the ownership + borrow checking system) that are "completely unlike every other language people have been using for decades", but so does C++.
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(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322571)
As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing:

> The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use.

I would interpret this to mean that I as a developer can not use this to exercise the "trade" of software development. That would in turn mean that I can not use this to make notes of stuff I learn on my own time, if it is related to software development.

I would imagine most people not caring about this kind of license limitation, but it would be interesting if it was intended this way, or if this is just me being bad at licenses.
Most (all?) of that exclusive content only gets produced because of exclusivity, I’d think. I.e. we get a greater number of shows because of exclusivity.
The fact that the modern day economy is based on usury (aka interest) seems not to be brought up by either the left or right, even though eliminating it would provide huge value for everyone (except the few at the top). It's a form of slavery, but it does the job for those at the top of the hierarchy, so it remains the way it is. That, coupled with a backward and extremely intrusive tax system which also benefits the same group of people, and you see why there's vested interest in keeping the status quo. This combination forms the basis for the fragility of the present day economic system.
> It could be that they read it, said "fuck that", and did ...

Exactly. You wonder what else they said "fuck that" to because they don't care or think it's not necessary.

An even better case to catch.
It's basically React-like components, but implements everything to target Skia rather than native or web. It's big interesting feature (to me) is that they added a native compiler so they can run on iOS (which forbids JITs).

As a language though, Dart is MUCH better than Typescript. If you're going to go all-in on types, at least go with a decent type system rather than one who's core objectives explicitly do NOT include soundness.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
The financiers, not the accountants. To wit, Boeing was doing stock buybacks while also "cutting costs" and shaking govts down for more cheddar.

It's received wisdom that MD did a reverse takeover of Boeing, that Condit got snookered by Stonecipher.

Have many friends, family, neighbors who've worked at Boeing, from 1960s thru this year. This version of the post mortem is a good starting point.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

Hutzpah is begging the court's leniency, claiming to be an orphan, after murdering one's parents. Or eating the seed corn and then being surprised by the famine.

You get the idea.

I have zero sympathy for the wrecking crew who destroyed an American icon and rage on behalf of all the workers, families, and taxpayers who paid the price.
It doesn't have to be a black and white a binary choice as you suggest. Maybe that's what you'd like because it makes the rule easier to grasp but it's possible to allow a threshold on how much they can interfere before things get to a point where a heavy handed solution like government involvement is needed to regulate them.
Will give it a try, thanks for the example post!
Obviously there's a way to make the market more efficient, let black hats compete to purchase exploits on the same platforms .... of course that's likely illegal, for good reason. Instead we have two markets with only a few people playing in both so price signals are likely weak
Why tax those other things? Is there a moral reason to do so?

I'd say there's a moral reason not to!

Is there a practical reason to tax those things? Not if the goal is to maximize government revenue!

If you tax land as high as possible -- at 100% of rent -- then it's not usually possible to increase revenues by taxing the stuff you mentioned. Doing so would almost invariably decrease the revenue the LVT raises by more than the revenue your proposed taxes would raise.

There are exceptions.

1) Certain non-traditional land like radio spectrum, minerals, pollution rights, parking, space on a congested highway, etc can and should be taxed.

2) Some luxury goods could be taxed. Whether or not they should probably depends on the situation and opinion. (By luxury goods, I mean goods that are valuable in part because other people don't have them. A cell phone is thus not a luxury good, for example, because the more people have cell phones the more useful your phone is. Luxury goods in the sense I mean are not merely "expensive" or "for rich people," though most luxury goods are.)

See ATCOR: http://www.wealthandwant.com/themes/ATCOR.html
The orbit moves because the earth is moving, so it will not be in the same trajectory as planned. This requires a change in fuel requirements as well as programming
I thought I wanted to live in a City but quarantine has made me realize I actually want to live in a small town/countryside.
Hey that's very kind of you j-b

I'm trying court controversy as you might be able to tell

I've toyed with the idea of starting a blog but I suffer in that I can't write unless it's to someone.. Whenever I try writing for writing's sake it simply dries up I can't explain it

Do you feel like having a virtual cup of coffee or tea one of these days? I'd be very interested to learn your story and compare battle scars so to speak

I'm actually trying to write a book that captures the entire human condition with respect to corporacy and software professionalism but so far all I really have is a cover page