skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I suppose you think this comment it clever do you? Adds 0 value to what? What's he trying to 'add value' to? This site? Your life? The post has a lot of personal truth and insight in it, maybe you should read it again. This person used to use it did they not? They have something to say. Whether you agree or not is up to you - but zero value? What are you on dude?
One reddit thread suggests it is already heading that way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/h077uv/raz_simone_...
This is exactly what I'm covering with my Semicolon&Sons screencasts.

Basically I've run a profitable production web app for 10 years (~14k LOC, 200k monthlies, revenue higher than any day-job I could get) as well as a few Android/IOS apps.

Now I'm creating videos where I show various real-world aspects of writing software in the context of my own production code - e.g.

- architecture

- rapid response systems to production errors

- dependency choices

- data integrity guarantees

- integration testing systems

- softer stuff, like optimizing for SEO and on-page conversion.

There's not enough non-beginner material out there and I hope to help fill that gap in resources.

They're all available here: https://www.semicolonandsons.com/series/Inside-The-Muse
Incident report: https://www.scribd.com/document/465105285/Breonna-Taylor-Inc...
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Hi Matthias!! Huge admirer here in Providence, RI. Your site is extremely helpful, but would you recommend seeking a master to learn from? I feel I'd progress faster as an apprentice than as a YouTube learner. My goal is to do dining tables, bed headboards, fancy boxes, currently I'm just doing picture frames.

Also, that pantarouter is incredible, kudos! When you routed 3 dowels I was very impressed. How did you envision the machine?
> They finish a project using React, then ask to be put on a Vue or Angular one next so they can 'widen their skillset'.

Seems like reasonable behaviour. When looking for your next job, the first question asked is "Do you know tech stack X?" People are always going to optimize for market demand. When companies stop caring about your familiarity with specific technologies, people will stop seeing learning specific technologies as an end goal.

> If you want to distinguish yourself from the crowd, learn a boring technology in an area that you're not as proficient in.

I'm not sure I agree. I've spent an inordinate amount of time learning about concepts, which can be applied using either boring or exciting tech stacks, that have never successfully caught on outside. To stand out, my time would have been better spent focusing on one thing and becoming more familiar with the equivalents of React, Angular, and Vue around that thing.

For personal growth I don't regret spending that time. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to expand my horizons. But in terms of standing out among others, it hasn't proven to be useful. Knowing both React and Vue is much more eye-catching.
The "I deleted my [Facebook, Twitter, Medium, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok] account and this is why" is a genre in itself. They rarely say anything new.

Social media is a waste of time, the news feed is enraging, people put on a fake perfect persona, FOMO, insecurity, inauthentic connection, signaling, controversy, drama, dopamine, addiction. Unplug yourself, use analog tools, read books, have real life fun and deep bonding with your partner, friends and family etc.

It's all true, but we've heard it countless times and read it in the lifestyle columns of magazines all the time.

Indeed I think this is the next generation of self promotion and branding. You are above the plebs and the uniform little boxes that people package themselves into. You cannot be represented as a row in a database table, you are unique and special, you think outside the box, you go your own way, know what you want, think critically and independently and can refuse lowly temptations. You are not under the powers of the corporate machine. You delete your social media.
Interesting question and answer, thanks for the link. To save others a click / searching for the relevant parts, these seem to be it:

> since it's not copyright infringement for you to apply a patch, it's also not copyright infringement for someone to give you a patch.

> For example, Galoob's Game Genie, which patches the software in Nintendo cartridges, does not infringe Nintendo's copyrights. ``Having paid Nintendo a fair return, the consumer may experiment with the product and create new variations of play, for personal enjoyment, without creating a derivative work.''

For the EU, merely this is said:

> The European Software Directive (adopted by the UK in 1992) gives users the freedom to copy, run, modify, and reverse-engineer lawfully acquired programs.

Given the reasoning "if it's not copyright infringement to patch, it's also not infringement to give you a patch", which I honestly don't quite follow, this ought to mean that the law works the same way in the EU. (The reason I don't follow that logic is that copyright doesn't dictate what I can do with information I already have: it's about distribution as far as I know. So of course it's okay for me to apply a patch when not considering any law other than copyright (at least from my not-a-lawyer and European perspective), but that doesn't mean I can make what might perhaps be argued to be a derivative work and spread that around.)
Alternative article : landlord wants to quick families out during covid19 crisis so he can buy a new SUV.
Pretty much. Though one factor is in the US there's really dumb zoning concepts that basically led to longer drives to get to business areas. This is why bicycles never really caught on as a major mode of transport in the US, a 5 minute bike ride is one thing to get lunch, a 20 minute ride without any dedicated paths and often restaurants being placed in a shopping hub like area designed around highway access is a different story. It's all a sort of hassle so many people may prefer just ordering in, but yeah otherwise we are pretty lazy lol. Also, on 'doing the right thing'.

Have you seen who we picked as president?
Predicting what Amazon's customers will need tomorrow, next week, and beyond
If Aboriginals have land rights on the basis that they lived there for thousands of years, and are then restricted from changing anything that has thousands of years of history, what have they actually been given? It sounds like a sham ownership of the land.

They are totally ordinary people. They should have the right - indeed the expectation - to change their surroundings in ways that are to their material benefit. The fact that they lived there for thousands of years can't be the starting point of an argument that they have to sit there living with pre-1900s style infrastructure and no money.
I noticed this as well and consider such practice a dark pattern. Unable to update exsisting information without providing new information.
This seems ideal.. protests on the east coast result in getting shot with rubber bullets and tear gased by incompetent politicians.
You don't need a 3D-Scanner for that, just a moving head and some minutes/seconds of video-material.
There was never an underperforming employee of failed project on Linked-In.

That said, it got me two jobs, so it's not ALL bad.
"Within the self governed blocks you can find food vendors, daily marches, public film screenings and community councils hosted throughout the day".

Performance Art, I guess. Reads like a story of children building a treehouse/fort.
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A Surprise Discovery Points to the Source of Fast Radio Bursts
The only place I've lived where refrigerators weren't the norm in a unit was Los Angeles.
I'm not saying things other than land have no value/costs (I think that's what you were implying?). Setting aside the long-term "everything on this planet is finite" and the even less useful "the universe is infinite" arguments, as none of them operate on a time scale that's relevant to an individual today, land is finite in a way that very few things are.

All the land there is already belongs to someone. The only way to get land, is to buy/take it from someone else. We can't make more, even with immense resources (no, artificial islands and reclaiming oceans aren't viable enough to matter yet). Someone can single-handedly destroy the supply with a one-time cost.

Fridges aren't finite in the same way, as we can always make more, as long as we have the resources. If we run out of resources, we may be able to figure out how to make them out of different resources. If we run out of those, we have a much bigger problem than fridges and no time to talk about economics. As it stands now, if someone wants to destroy the supply of fridges, they would have to keep buying them as they are made almost indefinitely (i.e. NOT a one-time cost).

Once we run out of all the base materials to construct fridges with and the "fridge economy" is based entirely on trading working fridges and recycling old ones for material to make more, then you can start to compare the two.
I'd say entertainment and it wasn't even very good at that right?
This is ultimately why I stopped using Facebook. One day, I sat down for two hours to systematically unfriend, unfollow, and click “I don’t want to see stuff like this” on all of the memes, politics, and other crap. I’d unfollow friends who exclusively shared this stuff, and tried to train the algorithm to avoid cat videos and memes.

Something amazing happened in the middle. I started seeing engagement photos and wedding announcements and baby shower invites, from the three months prior. All things that I would have loved to know about at the time, but that were systematically suppressed in my feed because they didn’t drive as much “engagement”. For a brief moment I thought I had saved my Facebook.

But then, I refreshed my page and the tide of low quality humor, cat pictures, and political memes came back in. I remember I kept trying to tell Facebook not to show me anything from LadBible, but no matter how many times I clicked “never show me content from this page”, literally the same videos came back. A week later I came back, and the feed was again overgrown with the stuff, like poison ivy.

These feeds do not exist to inform you, they exist to keep a death grip on your attention and they cannot be redeemed. At least, I couldn’t redeem mine.
His threat to use the Insurrection Act last week was one of the most unpopular acts of his entire presidency, and directly led to the major rebukes from people like Mattis. So I doubt it.
Why Are So Many N.Y.P.D. Officers Refusing to Wear Masks at Protests?
I feel like this could've been a README.md in a github repo.. awesome list style
Some companies require engagement with social media as a requirement for advancement. So you are not wrong about the wannabe thought leaders. This is where they go. Nobody will make negative comments on these posts- it's like making a negative comment about your boss in public.
Show HN: Socca – A virtual café to share ideas and challenge your beliefs
It's time to carefully consider whether using Zoom is safe.
Seattle police vacated the east precinct, fully expecting protesters to burn it down. Instead, the protesters set up an open zone, compiled a set of demands, and from all accounts set up something cool and unique.

Here's hoping it sustains itself for a while.
I had a real laugh when Dara Khosrowshahi tried to argue that the "market" uber eats is competing in should include home grocery shopping so that he could claim that they're competing against Amazon and Walmart, despite Amazon and Walmart literally not offering a competitive alternative to 99% of Uber Eats business.
Those are very good subreddits (/r/nosleep is another strongly curated, excellent one with a different purpose) but I don't think that can stand up as a general rule at all. /r/NoStupidQuestions, /r/CrazyIdeas, /r/LearnPython...
A blotter/desk pad is a great solution to this problem. I built my wife a pandemic desk, and pine was what I could get locally. I have no illusions that it'll hold up as well as, say, oak or ash, but it's done alright over the last couple of months.

She also prefers rollerball or gel ink pens to regular ballpoints. As they require less pressure, that's likely helping.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SeZtpDdJK/
LinkedIn has their own job platform with the “Easy apply” feature, but also seems to scrape job ads from a lot of third-party sites.

The scraped ones are the bad ones. Bad formatting and categorisation, not kept up to date (the job might be expired on the original site but still displayed on LinkedIn) and you have to register and apply on an external site.

It’s quite ironic that LinkedIn is so against scraping despite doing it themselves.
It’s really hard to imagine who could disagree with this. Devils advocate anyone?
The issue with this is there's no data consistency in the static files.
It's probably possible, but I'd say it might be slightly easier to remove the 5th floor. After which the 3rd & 4th could be.. you know.. evolved.

I've also more often seen space in buildings moved horizontally rather than vertically.
It was handled that way only after first handling it incredlby, horrendously badly. They were dragged kicking and screaming by their entire staff into handling it correctly only after a week of absolutely bungling it.
The value of LinkedIn is getting contacted by clueless recruiters and "wealth managers" /s
OK, good points, but my argument stands in most cases: It doesn't matter how experienced a developer is. You'll rarely see anyone as pedantic as I am when it comes to conventions, structure or organization, but there have been multiple instances when I've had to cut corners to meet some deadline. I work on an enormous projects with few developers. Say we all decide to go full Eric Cartman tomorrow and call it quits. Guess how long it's going to take someone else to work their way through 8 years of development without a single comment? My bet - they would keep hitting rocks day in and day out.

In the case of thousands, the likelihood of everyone leaving at the same time is much lower, but I'll go back to my postgres example, which I genuinely use as a benchmark as far as code goes. If everyone abandons it today for some reason, everything is so well thought out, well structured and documented that new people can jump in right away and the development won't be slowed down dramatically, granted that the new developers follow the current process.
I thought you meant the US in general. Because that checks out. It has a Bill of Rights. And the Police has another, better Bill of Rights. Some animals are more equal than others.
> Creation must act like an investment, not a product.

This is exactly how it works today, and then the investors (people who either gave money or time) hope to get their investment back plus some profit through distribution.
Even if true, maybe I liked those features (not advertising) and wanted to have them?
I worked in consumer, industrial and medical device testing industry for several years. When working with device manufacturers in the consumer space, for most of them most of the time cost of the device is the primary and overriding concern for the product.

Cost mattered for industrial too, but it was balanced by performance and other considerations. For consumer, it's just cost. Anything that pushed the bill of materials up = bad, not at all win-win in their mind. "Grandpa buys bad electronic devices all the time and will keep doing so, why throw our money away for no reason?" would be a summery of their argument/thought process.

Medical devices are a whole different beast and money was far less of a consideration, or rather, they are far less worried about the cost because it's far easier to recoup the cost of the device.
>Sounds like this could have been solved with a couple of internal emails

This is actually what I'd least like to see Github become i.e. takedowns based on an internal bigcorp emails, with a pristine PR message sent out only if people complain.

It's much nicer that it's out in the open as it is.
Libraries, frameworks, and even languages are just implementation details. (If they were half as good as they purported to be, would they need to be pushed so hard? Food for thought.) Benefit of experience is that you start to see that every new shiny thing that comes out teaches you so _little_ compared to diving deep into different domains of programming.

It's fine to immerse yourself in learning a platform and different libraries really well. But when it starts to feel too same-y, that's your cue to branch out.

One problem is that devs focus far too much on their own perceived "employability," optimizing for jamming every single library on their resume, rather than learning to convey that they could spin up on a tech stack in a reasonable amount of time in a new gig.
I understand that the vast majority of reviewers on the internet, and certainly the sites that come up first in search engine results, are compensated by the manufacturers via kickbacks.

I believe it's colloquially known as a "racket."
I like Unplugged Woodworking. I think he is also from the British isles. Found him when I was googling for Roman workbenches; he built one.

YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcO75TzblV9-_WqgXX1mNxg/vid...

Blog: http://www.unpluggedwoodworking.com/
Auto garage hacked into Tesla Model 3 car software and selling it for discount
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> He made it very clear he was talking about rioters and looters, not protestors

People actually killing protesters always, without fail, claim to be trying to stop "rioters and looters". This is not a phrase to be taken at face value, ever.
In America, yes. See the "one-drop rule". But it's ridiculous. I know black people. I've been to Africa and met black people as well as having black friends in the UK. This guy is white. He's as white as Obama.
x86-64 core patents expire in 2023.
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The "verified" badge on there is a good heuristic for who not to follow (if not outright block them) because those are not people anymore, but marketing/PR operations.

LinkedIn desperately tries to get me to “follow” the people you mentioned which I always ignore however not following them still doesn’t isolate you from the noise.

It seems like everyone on LinkedIn is trying to be an “influencer” or wannabe thought leader posting bullshit motivational content or presenting obvious facts as something groundbreaking.
Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation
The plaintiff would have seven years in which to have the court claw back the transferred assets and, as there's no way that it would come close to looking like an ordinary course-of-business transfer, it would not only make them more likely to lose the suit (by making them look even more like law-flouting criminals), but it would likely add a criminal charge to the mix (bankruptcy fraud).
They've done this before, and that's exactly what they did.
Paul Marino, The ICU Book.

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Almost all general purpose microcontrollers with "readout protection" are vulnerable to glitching attacks like this one.

...and even if they aren't, you can find companies that will read out protected MCUs for a few k$. Keywords are "MCU break". (Whose Google results are currently flooded with other things.)
> but I just can't imagine the thought process behind 'and the bullets avoid white / asian NYT reporters and crew members and specifically target the ones with melanin above a certain level'.

Bullets don't fly on their own accord. Someone aims them.
Many universities (at least in Europe) still teach some C in introductory level courses to build basic terminal apps with file I/O, string manipulation and pointers. One of my exams was to build a basic address book with fseek or draw a tic-tac-toe board form a struct.

When I see C on a resume with 0 industry experience I'm 99% sure it's that knowledge level of C which is nearly useless in real world.
Seattle doesn't want to be beaten by Minneapolis to becoming the next Detroit
$100k a year is peanuts; Fortune 500 boards often go way higher. And board members usually sit on multiple boards, so that's more like 500k/yr, plus tiny stipends for sitting on the local YMCA board and the committee of the local orchestra.

From posts further down:

> For example, here is the one Alphabet published recently for 2020: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020_alphabet_proxy_stat....

and then a follow-up to that post where they pull out data from that link:

> And then they have a table with concrete values for each director, on page 38. The median for 2019 is $428,298.
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> What other employment requires you to front the boss $25k for the privilege of earning starvation wages?

Well, traditional taxi driver, for one.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Brazil currently losing huge tracts of protected rainforest in those areas, just because of Bolsonaro's politics? How is he managing to undermine these protections so totally?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/world/americas/brazil-def...
Well, this is part of the problem. It gets very difficult to state facts like "Indigenous communities have huge problems with alcohol and domestic violence" without sounding racist. But without being able to state the problem, it gets very hard to solve it.
That's not what HRs responsibility is.
> How can your statement be largely true (90%) with all large companies having _dedicated_ HR departments with staff whose sole responsibility is to find the _best_ employees?

HRs responsibility is to protect the company from liability in hiring, firing, promotion, retention, labor relations, wage/hour rules, etc.

To the extent that part of their public statement of purpose is helping hiring managers find the best employees, that's mostly bureaucratic euphemism for “preventing hiring managers from indulging their own conscious or unconscious racial, sexual, age-related, etc., biases in a way which creates legal problems for the company.”

Cookie cutter approaches where everyone goes through the same checkpoints and they are weighed the same way, including cookie cutter technical interviews rather than a nuanced consideration of other factors that determines the need and coverage of a technical interview, is exactly what having a significant HR department encourages.
I wondered if it's inspired by Christiania?

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

It's been a thing half a century now.
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I think it is your reasoning that is naive. Of course there are people using IA to access a book that, were it not free, would not buy the book. These people are neither plus nor minus in terms of revenue. But for your point to hold, everyone who downloaded the content would have to fall into this category. Almost certainly a large number of users would be those who might potentially buy the book but will simply download it if its free. These people would be lost revenue.

You can argue about the size of this group, but the counter argument would be that there is a valid fear that if it is normalized and allowed to continue, this group will grow larger and larger over time. You can argue by trying to compare this to libraries, but libraries still buy their copies of the book, and checking a book out from a library comes with restrictions that don't exist here. There really isn't a way to spin this where it doesn't result in some amount of lost royalties for the author.