skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is a bit semantic, because in general I agree with you, but:

> It's rarely said that marriage, kids, job, degree, a house, car, and most physical things are not missions.

No, they are missions. Anyone without them who wants them views each of these as a major milestone in their life. However, like you said, you need to find another mission after completing these.

These things are kind of a like a "life plan starter pack", to give you a framework for what many people view as a set of good missions for your life. But many unhappy people who have these things have failed to continue to pursue missions after attaining them. I think this is why it's easy (but wrong) to say that they "aren't missions".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

But it is intriguing.
Research -> Information -> Strategy.

No one can build your strategy for you-- you'll want one suited for you, and no one knows you better than yourself. Although I am sure certain folks can help: Life Coaches, Counselors, Psychologists, etc.

Find resources on:
- Skills that BOTH interest you, and are economically in demand
- Geographical areas where those skills have a competitive advantage and are in demand

i.e. bureau of labor statistics

[1] Visualize it: Wages and projected openings by occupation
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...

[2] Fastest growing occupations: 20 occupations with the highest percent change of employment between 2018-28.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm

[3] You can find entire libraries of skills at sites like Lynda.com and Udemy.com

I am an web app developer. No tech degree.

How? Built my skills. And strategically: I am creative, interested in business & entrepreneurship, interested in freedom, technology, and building things. And, I want to make good income so I can support a community where I help people grow.

Looking at those desires... it fits well with a Web App Developer career.

Likewise, you need to determine:

A. What do you want ("Goal". Not having a goal is like having a map without a destination: Going nowhere)

B. What you're willing to get what you want ("How badly do you _want_ to reach your goal? Do you really _want_ it? Again-- how badly? Are you willing to take 6 months off from work to grow your own skillset, full time, via project-based work, in order to leapfrog yourself into a new career?)

Just some ideas. It's not tough. Just ask a search engine the right questions. And know yourself.

Go through trials, tribulations, challenges-- One doesn't get to know their self by living an easy, meandering life. We get to know our self and what we're capable of by going through significant challenges-- By testing ourselves.
Mutable Strings in Go (2019)
Someone decided to drink the kool-aid the PM is selling. While business is business and we are not family. We are deeply human, don't ever refer to people as a resource if you want a more healthy working environment.. that goes for any industry or company.
Halloween Masks and Deindividuation (1979)
What are they going to do with the email addresses of the retweeters? Send a strongly worded email?
Disney finally gave up that fight. Barring a last minute lobbying effort, Steamboat Willie will be in the public domain on 1 January 2023. Of course the trademarks on Mickey Mouse will be valid in perpetuity.
Yeah, food coops but strictly limited to a residents of neighborhood would be close to what I had in mind.

I wonder if you could put in the association bylaws that it must remain free of profits/margins/“arbitrage” to mitigate against something like this.

I haven’t looked into it closely though since I ultimately have a strong distaste for home owners associations anyway.
You could probably make a bookmarklet to pull the stylesheet from github and add it to the document stylesheets. Maybe using the new Stylesheet constructor?
The author doesn't quite put it in one sentence, perhaps because they feel that it would commit them to a side, but I notice that they lay out all the ingredients for the thesis that one side of the culture wars is fueled by a desire to impose Christian moral authority upon the USA. Such authority has been undermined by a pair of understandable happenstances: It happens that empiricism and the scientific method are simply better at making predictions about the world than priestly divination, and it also happens that the abuses and frauds committed behind church doors keep coming to light.

I wonder to what degree some participants in the culture war are trying to simply communicate the idea that we do not need a deity to deliver unto us tablets of moral rules, and running up against folks who cannot imagine existence without Jehovah.
How about people who work with expensive equipment? Obviously not HN people who all work on MacBooks, but biotech people, etc.
Mixed use neighborhoods of the past generally offer business diversity and lots of mom-and-pops.

A lot of the new mixed use developments where I live in Seattle are basically malls in how sterile and unvaried the commercial bits are. (New American upscale brunch restaurant? Check. Fad group fitness club? Check. Bank and starbucks? Check.)
I have mostly found the software I needed in the package manager, or wrote it by myself; occasionally I find other software but it isn't what I want (regardless where I looked). I wrote my own software too and wanted to see who else is interested in it too, though. I don't know if you are representative or not, and I don't know if I am, but nevertheless you can mention it, and I mention my stuff too.
Right, which is why commercial lending is a farce in my opinion. It's more or less built on wishful thinking of future gains, leading to a lot of vacancy.
You were referring to (1) of the op was refering to (2). IANAL but I think that's what he was describing and makes his point true.

Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material

(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liabilityNo provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

This is section 230 verbatim. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Microsoft dynamics nav implementation provider
Win98 did though.
If you remove that protection then the owners respond by doing zero moderation so they’ll be classified as distributors (since the alternative of moderating and being legally liable for all user content is not survivable).

230 was created to allow them to moderate their platforms. The context in my post (and the history described in that stratechery link) are critical to fully understand the issue.

What you’re suggesting would lead to the opposite of what you want - it would force them to not moderate at all.

Facebook being legally responsible for the random musings of two billion Facebook users and a magazine being responsible for the ads it runs are not equivalent.
I can only give you the reasons why I picked canvas. So here you go.

1. Scroll performance is much better than HTML

2. Drawing on canvas is cheap compared to modifying DOM or attributes

3. Streaming updates are much smoother in canvas as drawing is quick. I had used Canvas as an interface for high-frequency trading

4. Canvas is easy to work with. And with Konva - https://github.com/konvajs/react-konva/, any React developer will find it at home

5. No Browser bugs :)

6. Performance tuning is quicker with Canvas

7. In the future, we can decide to use WebGL (using PixiJS)

Some problems with canvas IMO

1. There is no relative positioning :(. It sounds silly, but coming from HTML, any element can be positioned relative to its parent.

2. Styling/Pixel ratio/Stroke - can be hard to figure out first. And the 0.5px crisp stroke workaround on DPR 1 devices. Took me a long time to figure out

There are pros and cons for both, I guess it all comes down to your personal preference and picking the right tools for the task in hand.
That is the authors's interpretation of the events.

What was the real story? Who knows.

Need I say it's not good to jump to conclusions.
>Russia tested a satellite-to-satellite weapon which is completely unprecedented militarization of space.

No, it's not unprecedented.

Reality: The public is obviously not privy to the the 100% truth of geopolitical conflicts.

Based on what a source told me (son of a state department employee), US and China have both shot down each others satellites-- back around 2007 or 2008.

Back when the US claimed it was testing out the ability to shoot down its own satellite... Yep, that's what they told the public.

The reality? Let's just say it's a bit different from what the government releases to the public. ... as in... The US shot down a Chinese satellite after they shot down one of the US'.
I'll build something and then after it's done think "why did I do that?" But I guess it was fun during the process/before it existed.

Lately though I've been thinking something isn't a waste of time if it makes money.
IA is being "bullied" under the letter - and likely spirit - of the law. They are the ones that did not do their due diligence and put themselves at risk. The publishers are no saints, but IA opened themselves up to this kind of legal liability.
The housewives aspect of it is a strange thing to focus on - this is a relic of a time when most people did not drive, i.e. this style of living was natural to everyone, housewife or no, prior to Eisenhower-era financial incentives to build highways everywhere[1], and especially in areas of "urban blight," which, of course, were also usually the densest parts of neighborhoods/cities since the poor did not have cars. Some cities, e.g. New York, succeeded in preventing the demolishing of some of their most historic places in the name of "cleaning up." Most other places were not as successful, though many tried[2]. Chicago's aptly named Eisenhower Expressway is a great example of activist efforts often not being enough[3].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs#Struggle_for_Green...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Urba...

3 - https://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/eisenhower/
France never returned back to monarchy, and Russia never reinstated the empire after the revolutions. Yes some awful people used the political turmoil to seize power in both cases—and similar thing would probably happen if Americans started chopping the heads of the rich—but in both cases the revolutions left a lasting mark, and both France and Russia are more democratic then they were during monarchy (although Russia is in serious regression at the moment).

This is not necessary the case though, as seen after the Cuban or the Zapatista revolution in Chiapas, Mexico.

At some point revolution becomes necessary, and if democratic means remain unavailable, this revolution will be violent. Horrible people using the political turmoil will become a risk people are willing to take in this growing frustration.
> More simply, public schools and Youtube would break this sort of conditioning in short order.

Ehh? I've been exposed to decades of stimuli and yet I still have feelings and emotions that were created in my childhood, and it is difficult trying to unlearn them.

> even if you view numbed anger as benefit (which I also don't).

I know someone whose parents are unable to control their irritation, they are in their 50s and 60s and they will spend 5 - 10 minutes shouting at the tablet simply because it is slow, etc. I and their other friends agree that their parents are essentially emotional children in the ways that they present. It's not a happy situation for anyone in the vicinity. Part of living in this world is learning to control some of your reactions and find more beneficial and productive ways of dealing with your feelings that satisfy you, and do not hurt other people in your surroundings.

Unfortunately, my friend's parents were traumatised early in life by their own parents, and never sought help. Never saw a therapist that would help them to deal with this stress in non-harmful ways.

Anger isn't necessarily a bad thing, for example in a revolutionary sense it has been vastly productive, but when you're screaming about throwing a computer through a screen because you misclicked something or because it is slow to load, then it is childish and should be controlled, because it is unpleasant for everyone.
It’s unfortunate the author didn’t call out the company by name but I guess I get it. If they did it may elicit some stronger push for change.

Unfortunately, anonymity can breed some distrust in the content. By calling out the company by name, it may cause others who experienced the same to speak out too.
I’m skeptical that taxes themselves can resolve the problem. The people who engage in these tactics are already quite good at gaming them. Housing would have to revert to circumstances like Japan, where homes are largely a depreciating asset.
The premise is that this would be pasted in its entirety into a reply to a usenet or listserv post, with the text of the appropriate line- or lines- modified from "( )" to "(x)".

The implication is that amateur calendarists, who do not fully grasp the enormity of the task, frequently post to this list with proposals for a new calendar. The regular contributors to this list see so many ill-conceived proposals that they have prepared a post with all of the common mistakes and oversights so they may shoot the theory down without having to type them all over again.

In reality this list is prepared and posted as a joke for the members of the community and a deterrent to posting calendar proposals at all, at least those that do not consider all of these common errors ahead of time.
I'm going to say that's probably a hard no. If you're not cleared then certain documents will just not exist or would come back saying that some information has been redacted for national security reasons. You can see some examples of such requests here if you search hard enough https://www.muckrock.com
In an ideal world, world leaders would all have restrained enough Twitter habits such that anything that inflammatory would be seen as an obvious signal that their account was compromised.
Thanks for sharing this, I took a look and Materialize seems to be really good.!
https://youtu.be/pc9bPycuEc4
Awesome work, and good luck!

Some questions:

1. Is commercial pricing (USD 199) per developer or per application?

2. Is there a different license needed for SaaS products? handsontable needs something like that.

3. `fast-formula-parser` looks great. How do you plan to handle writing complex formulas on the front-end?
I'm kind of surprised by these scams. If you're savvy enough to know how to buy cryptocurrency in the first place, how can you get duped by these kinds of scams?
To do this for Chrome, all you need is the popular Stylus extension [1] and OP can upload it to userstyles.org [2] for even more convenience (don't need to download a CSS file).

Also to be even more Windows 95-ey I recommend making the top links (new, past, etc.) look like a tab bar! (I really like the way the footer links look like a status bar.)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

[2] https://userstyles.org/
My favorite calendar disaster was the Swedish calendar[1] between 1700 and 1753.

They had a somewhat (?) reasonable plan:

In November 1699, the Government of Sweden decided that, rather than adopt the Gregorian calendar outright, it would gradually approach it over a 40-year period. The plan was to skip all leap days in the period 1700 to 1740. Every fourth year, the gap between the Swedish calendar and the Gregorian would reduce by one day, until they finally lined up in 1740. In the meantime, this calendar would not be in line with either of the major alternative calendars and the differences would change every four years.

Then war started and they stopped, after starting the process, so they were on their own calendar that no one else in the world used.

Then the king decided it was a bad idea, so reverted to the Julian calendar. Then they decided to jump to the Gregorian outright.

There's a bunch of other details, like Easter being calculated by one calendar but Easter Sunday by the other.

Oh yeah, and they had February 30 one year[2] (which was Feb 29 in a Julian calendar or March 11 Gregorian).

And in 1753 they finally sorted it all out by skipping all the days between February 17 and March 1.

Good luck writing billing software for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#Swe...
There are a few chrome extensions for adding custom CSS. Try "stylebot" or "User javascript and css", they both works ok.
I don't think Reddit and Candy Crush are of same category.
> Over 130 libraries endorsed lending books from our collections, and we used Controlled Digital Lending technology to do it in a controlled, respectful way

Respect to whom? Not to authors! Most of the value of a book is in the first reading and if people can read it for free why buy it? And no, lending out unlimited copies is not what libraries do.

Yes, this is artificial scarcity. Tearing down the Berne Convention, however can not be done this way and also calling heaping additional stress on authors during COVID "respectful" is a slap in the face.

I have been pirating software 1985-2004, I have been a columnist in the 1990s and learned about the new copyright law from the Hungarian copyright collecting agency and explained it to the whole country. I have been on both side of this fence for an extremely long time and I can't imagine what the IA was thinking. Risking the Wayback Machine with this is :(
IA clearly believed this was fair use and I’m sure can demonstrate reasonable grounds for that belief. Even if the plaintiff’s lawyers can make a stronger argument for it not being fair use (they probably can), that doesn’t negate the existence of IA’s grounds.

Here’s a story about weak but reasonable grounds: Say I think it rained last night because I glanced out the window in the morning and saw the street was wet. You say it didn’t because you got up earlier than me, saw everything was dry, and you saw a street cleaner come through, making the street wet. Clearly you’re right but before I had this information, I had reasonable grounds for my belief.
> Rearing children with the goal of making them read at 2 years old. Then with the goal of learning calculus at 10.

Hol up. A little off topic, but a better goal is to be a supportive and loving parent. Don't have kids with a goal to have them do X by Y. Children are there own person. Guide them, direct them, support them, teach them, but their goals should be their own.
As someone who started with Rails in 2010, rode the JS/Node hype train for 5 years, and now working with Rails again:

I was one of those guys that blamed Rails hard for encouraging bad code. But now that I'm a much better software developer, I've discovered Rails is actually fantastic for writing highly maintainable code. This is thanks to several things:

[A] Standard patterns. Yes, "The Rails Way" may seem to encourage bad code at first glance. But that's because it doesn't hand-hold you in your software design decisions. It's a solid foundation that 1. Takes care of the most common stuff so you don't have to reinvent the same crap over and over again, and 2. Leaves room to extend with an architecture (in plain old Ruby code) that fits your app's specific needs.

[B] Testing. A lot of people opt to use Rspec, but Rails's built-in testing is actually really great. My absolute favorite is their "Fast Integration Tests", which lets you write a few lines of code to test a big chunk of your app in a single test case.

[C] Ruby. Yes, it's actually a good language. But man, is it a double-edge sword. Used well, you can write some of the most simple, elegant, and maintainable code in your career, while only mildly pushing the boundaries of The Rails Way.

[D] Everything your app needs. So much stuff is built-in, and stays out of your way until you need it. And the fewer gems you need to install, the more maintainable your code tends to be.

Indeed, Rails is not legacy at all. Well, maybe if you think monoliths are legacy :) But it keeps up with the good trends. Version 5 introduced webpack, so now you can build your fancy JS frontends... without configuring webpack! Or be like me and only use JS as a last resort :)

To be honest, the only framework I can see doing better than Rails is Phoenix. At the moment it doesn't have everything Rails has to offer, but it does have (IMO) a superior foundation that has great potential to supersede. Until then though, I'll keep pumping out projects using the best tool on the market.
Who will enforce this? The police? There's nobody interested in enforcing such an order.
“Karen’s on the central planning committee”

cries in San Francisco

So apt.
Lol, can’t talk about the NY subway with my New Yorker wife. “I mean, I guess if you consider it compared to the rest of the US, it’s a good system…”
What supports that proposition? Plenty supports the opposite, such as Intel causing massive problems for several years e.g. to the MacBook Pro line, with overheating and thermal issues. They've been failing to innovate at the speed Apple would otherwise be able to, for a long time now.
Yeh! Bring back freecorns!
Works well. What are the use cases for this library? Why use it over Google Sheets?
Harbian-qa: State-based target directed fuzzer based on syzkaller
He makes mention of 2,300 Datomic databases. Can anyone shed some light on how a company maintains (or requires?)... 2,300 databases? What business needs lead to something like this? What kind of reporting pipeline possibly could pull so many dbs with cross concerns together under one roof?
At least in residential lending the problem is that the FHA has specific rules on what it will and will not guarantee, distorting the market in favor of mostly single-use residential.

Really we should pull that and the mortgage deduction, because at this point both distort the market in favor of people who can afford to own property.
Why not name names? it is likely either Cisco or Nutanix
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-allen-a2082721/
This is unrelated to 230.

230 is specifically about giving protection to sites so they can moderate their content without being legally responsible for every thing users post.

It’s an update to older law that was written pre-internet for older style publishers (where they had more editorial control over what was published because the content wasn’t user generated).

It doesn’t have to do with recommendation algorithms.

Killing 230 would force YouTube to have zero content moderation beyond removing illegal content. It would be a bad outcome (which is why 230 was created).
It's not obvious why you have to call out the nationality of the investor.