skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that he wrote this as a user of the internet for 2 decades in 1995. So between 1975 and 1995, the pace of change was just not that great. Then between say, 1995 and 2015, a lot changed indeed. Faster connections, ubiquitous wireless internet, e-readers, fast laptops, smart phones, e-commerce explosion, video portals and streaming, social media, etc.

It feels to me the pace of change has slowed though. Maybe that's the way innovation goes. Sometimes in big bursts but mostly incremental.

I agree that small group conversations are probably the next wave of social media, because you need that circle of trust to be fully expressive.

If I had to guess, I would say we will perfect VR over the next couple decades and that we will replicate some of the brick and mortar experiences that way, but it will still not ever quite replace in person interaction. There's always going to be that uncanny valley between the cyber world and the real world.
That's the problem with a vaccine as compared to a therapeutic. You need to give it to a billion people for it to do any good. Some percentage of those people will have complications and die. If they fuck up with vaccine testing (which could cause the effect opposite of what the vaccine normally does, possibly weeks or _months_ after immunization), _millions_ could die, eclipsing the loss of life from the virus itself.

Before someone attempts to read my mind: I, and everyone else in my family, am fully immunized, including some vaccines (e.g. BCG) not normally administered in the US. I also do the flu shot every year.

But I do understand the risks a rushed vaccine could pose, and so I won't be taking it until at least 6 months after the initial wave of vaccination, and a careful study of population-scale safety and efficacy.
Hmm, I guess I'd probably be in this situation. Always been far more interested in becoming the best/world class at something, and very uninterested in people or personal relationships.

However, I think the reasons for that are:

1. I've always found it tricky to form real relationships or connect with people in any emotional sense, so trying to become rich/famous/successful feels like a more easily quantifiable, practical alternative.

2. As an existentialist, I've always believed that people make their own destiny, and that people can forge their own path to success. So I've always chased success to prove that you don't have to be some gifted prodigy born with the right genetics and upbringing to do great things or innovate in any field.

And I guess the internet probably hasn't helped either. The news and social media sites are full of outliers seemingly doing amazing things, so my standards for everything have basically become 'has to match/beat the top X% of people in this fied showcasing their work online'
The recent history of executive orders in the US blatantly contradicts this. Sure, you can claim that they have to be supported by law to be put into effect, but that's not actually true: Executive orders are put into place all the time, and if you're lucky the worst ones get suspended by a judge temporarily and are eventually decided in a court hearing months or years later.

The US president can say 'we're doing X' and if the relevant agencies' personnel are willing to listen to him, it'll be in effect the next day. We've seen this with travel bans and family separations.
Years ago, there was Jini (Apache River now). It never gained much traction. But I always liked the idea of interoprable home devices announcing themselves on my network. "Hi, I'm a mass storage device. If anyone's got data they need storing, send it my way!"
Why doesn't the government pass laws preventing this, instead of banning one particular app?
I've never seen the words "wake up" used online in a way that doesn't make the commenter sound slightly deranged
What is it that can't be reached from Twilio? Carrier short codes?
Well there are a few problems with this

1. I would like you to define "most places" as for the first 35 years of my life I was a renter and in that time I only ever had to pay "First and last" in one instance. Most of the time it was The first months rent, and security deposit(which was often something small like $100 or $200), no "last months rent" so around here it was not "most places"

2. Even if you use that as a metric that is more like a down payment than a "services paid in advance", unless you are on some kind of month to month with no lease. Every lease I have ever signed shows the TOTAL of all payments which are paid in 12 installments just like a loan, if on month 6th you just move well you still owe the other 6 payments (less any down payment aka last month you prepaid)

The owner is absolutely extending you credit for the use of the property, If you sign a lease for an apartment for $1,500 a month for 12 months you are agreeing to pay $18,000 to the owner for the use of the property, you have both agreed to pay that over 12 equal payments, and in your hypothetical the owner has asked for a $3,000 down payment on that loan in exchange the owner adjusted the terms to 10 equal payments
What is pertinent to the role for which you are applying? Focus on that.
In the United States, an existing law from 2005 likely already covers these cases anyway:

> The United States, however, already has a law to exclude tort claims from products that help control a public-health crises in the form of the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness, or PREP Act.

It's also important to note that AstraZeneca has also pledged to supply the doses with no profit:

> AstraZeneca, Britain’s second-largest drugmaker, has pledged to supply a total of more than 2 billion doses at no profit in agreements with the United States, Britain and European countries, among other nations and organisations.

The exemption from liability claims is a function of the massive scale, the rushed timeline, and the lack of profit to defend claims in court.

When you're supplying a vaccine at the scale of billions of people, it's inevitable that many people will convince themselves that the vaccine is the cause of unrelated medical issues. Even if the vaccine turns out to be just as benign as every other vaccine out there, having tens or hundreds of thousands of people attempt to sue these companies under the mistaken notion that the vaccine caused their problems could be extremely costly.

The alternative would be a much more expensive vaccine (profit margins to buffer against potential losses) delivered much later (additional years of safety testing and R&D).
Can you please tone down the inflammatory rhetoric, in general? I used to like reading your blog but it's getting really tiring to see every technical discussion you make sidetracked by a rant against someone or something.
Most of my students are in high school (9-12 grade, age 14-18) during the school year. In the summer, I see more 1st and 2nd year college students since a lot of summer classes are at 2x speed and right now they're predominantly online.

Many high school students have access to CollegeBoard's AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A programs, which expose students to fundamentals of computing and Java respectively (Principles is more focused on the _concepts_ of programming–sequential instructions, working in teams, etc., while CS A is focused on writing working Java). I've worked with students who do not have access to these classes at their school as well, working with them through a self-study curriculum.

Occasionally, I'll also see middle school students (6-8 grade, age 11-14) who have (or whose parents have) expressed interest in learning to code. I usually work with these students in Scratch then Python, depending on their skill levels, as some schools are even teaching programming classes.

I also get some requests from elementary students, but generally decline those.
Move away and fix things: a guy's page about his upcoming deletion of FB profile
A lot of us still think GWB was a uniquely bad president.
> It's also possible to express yourself without fearing criticism. I wonder what the next 30 years will be like.

I hope that change is coming. Hope aside… I expect that, to riff on the quote, in the future, everyone will be globally infamous for 15 minutes.
So I take it you'd be fine if, e.g. Yandex (the "Russian Google") entered the market then? Good to know. Or is that different somehow, in your mind?
If country B does nothing, it would be pure stupidity. The US was already late on taking actions.
No, I'm sorry, I didn't get your pun and thought you were alluding to the spelling in GP's post.

I didn't mean to bother you, I've been pedantic, thanks for pointing it out.
Rule of law is not conditional on reciprocity, societies strive to give due process even to literal murderers.

The US should respect it's own laws and deal with chinese companies fairly. The actions of the chinese government should have no bearing on this.
This is just wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Transaction_flow

Card processes transactions internally, tracks usage limits for offline, etc. Other way you couldn't read transaction history with these android apps. (but I think history access is now restricted and can't be read from new cards)
>In the first case the go-import meta tag is totally unnecessary. The go tool and module proxy can discover git repos from an import path just fine. It’s only required for “custom” import paths where the path is some domain but the code lives somewhere else, like github.

The relevant docs are here:

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths

You can explicitly put ".git" into your import path, but no one does this and it's not explained to new users. In order to have predictable import paths like people have been trained to use, you need go-import tags.

>In the latter case the decision to use go-source was actually made by the original author of godoc.org, not a google employee, and was done in coordination with another non-google initiative (gopkg.in) to make their source links work. So nothing to do with the go team really, sorry.

And yet, godoc.org is what you're replacing. Not taking into consideration is how you end up with what you've got: regression. And this only further betrays Google's warped worldview of "us and only us": this person has made an amazing contribution to Go and yet you consider them an other and don't take their design into account.

>If pkg.go.dev isn’t respecting go-source meta tags then that should probably be fixed. It would also imo be worth considering devising a more general, well-known mechanism for doing this. Worth proposing I think!

No, it's not worth proposing: it's worth doing, and should have been done in the first place. It should not take an outsider - it should happen naturally from a good engineering ethos. Playing well with others is your burden, not everyone else's.
Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels
Why would six years as an individual contributor be enough to make sweeping assertions about an entire company when two years is not?

googthrowaway's experience more closely matches my experience at Google, fwiw, but it's certainly the case that your experience depends on which org you're in. My org had a notoriously incompetent VP running things and it hemorrhaged staff to companies like Apple and Microsoft.
Well, This is what HN posters want. As evidence by the numerous downvotes I get about not wanting the government involvement in tech. Even after the dog and pony show with the CEO’s last week where one representative grilled Zuckerberg about Twitter’s treatment of Don Jr.
Rules are only good if most countries follow them.

If you let someone get away with breaking the rule, without retaliating in kind, then you put yourself at a severe disadvantage to them.
Seems like much much longer
> Evaporation rate should be proportional to surface area, so the volume of extra water you need to add to make up for that should also be proportional to the surface area too.

This would be accurate at room temperature, but under stovetop conditions wouldn't evaporation rate be determined mostly by the amount of heat energy added to the water?
Can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpedeZopDSo (About 40 min in, can't link directly in a live stream). Not sure how much of a problem this is but if there is sensitive information on it, it should probably also not be used in view of a camera.
> I just don't get why the Peloton thing is so popular when you can get a smart trainer...

You're missing the point. It's not indoor cycling, it's more like at home spin class or soul cycle. The customer base is pretty different, and the experience is a lot of what they're looking and paying for.
> Fuck Peloton. Fuck Flywheel. Fuck all the proprietary IoT companies.

And not just in the IoT field. Pretty much every company that could use their closed software/firmware/designs plus lawyers to enforce their right to render a product useless or obsolete, or simply becoming the only authorized to repair it then refuse the repair, so the user must buy a newer one, will eventually do that if allowed by the law.

John Deere has been really hostile to their customers, for example.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farme...
True, but a lot of novices use overtraining as an excuse to just not train. Actual overtraining is pretty hard to do for a typical weekend warrior.
Everything you have said except for the last phrase “ sometimes companies are so big they influence the laws themselves“ is false. There are a fantastic amount of regulations in every western country today, many of which are applied arbitrarily or with enough discretion that they are essentially arbitrary. Even the most massive corporations market caps are dwarfed by the monthly spending of government. The only cases where corporations exert the powers if the state over detention and violence are occasions where they do so at the bidding of the state.

It is true that some corporations are so big that they influence lawmakers just as ultra wealthy people always have. Indeed, if corporations were able to do the same things governments did and with the same authority, this process of influencing the government would be unnecessary.
For python click library is fantastic and follows all the good pratice explained in the blog post.
Does this correlation still hold if you look at men below a certain age? Since prostate cancer increases with age then you could get a bias towards the more healthy as the non-prostate cancer peers die earlier of some others cause.
Canada says requirements for Huawei CFO's extradition to U.S. met
Every single piece of law granting the US government authority on national security grounds has enjoyed bipartisan support for a very long time. I'm only surprised it hasn't been used like this earlier.
Microsoft in Talks to Buy TikTok
You suggested many code hosting sites don't work, while in fact they do work except for some (IMHO minor, but we can perhaps disagree on that) features. You don't think that's not a full and accurate representation of the state of things?
What checks and balances? The Senate and the judiciary have been rubber stamping everything the President has done over the past four years.
I think that Coinbase’s Odin (https://github.com/coinbase/odin) is not the same as this person’s personal project. They’re certainly not the same repo.
In 2030?

I'd be surprised if aws was around.

If a new phone os didn't take over (at least on the android side)

I'd be surprised if the web wasn't still powered by php

I would be surprised to see rss version 23 make a come back.
Well for McD's it's getting into management and going to McD school and then getting a franchise. McD's likes to promote from within. There are quite a few millionaires who have done this. I mean I am sure you have to work hard to do this and it isn't guaranteed either. I think a lot of franchised businesses can work this way.
sigh

You're dead wrong. I don't have the energy to go into it anymore, but see my other comments on the matter if you care.
Just, whatever, you do, please please PLEASE PLEASE support `--help`. I don't mean `-h` or `-help`, I mean `--help`.

There's only one thing the long flag can possibly mean: give me the help text. I understand that your program might prefer the `-help` style, but many do not. And do you know how I figure out which style your program likes? That's right, I use `--help`. I have to use `--help` rather than just `-help` because of GNU userspace tools, among others. It seems unlikely they're going to suddenly clean up their act this decade, so I have to default to starting with `--help`.

So it's very frustrating when the response to `program --help` is "Argument --help not understood, try -help for help." This is then often followed by me saying indecent things about the stupid program.
The beautiful thing of environment variables is that you can read them whenever you actually need them in your program. They pierce a hole through your call stack to the point that you need them. On the contrary, for command line arguments, you need to pass their values from the main function through whatever deep of the call stack you need them.
Does any company make $500,000,000 a year?
Trump's wish to ban it has nothing to do with China and everything to do with his Tulsa rally. Gov agencies have already put internal bans in place to prevent it being used as for data gathering tool which is appropriate and legal. The users will find something else and move on, but this is a bad precedent for an open democracy.
Banning TikTok may be a violation of the principle of free trade, however that is not an American right.

Many economists have successfully argued that free trade is overall a net gain, even if other countries do enact free trade themselves.

The problem with TikTok and China in general is it's not just about free trade. The Chinese government owns a significant part of each company and uses those companies/apps to gather intelligence. They also often do not enforce IP, which blurs the line between trade and theft.
Where do you find them? I’ve been looking in my area and there are a few I’ve spoken with that don’t seem to be in tune with 2020 or my personal philosophies.
The level of care is independent of your payment, if you're unemployed you're still covered without payment, students are covered for free until they're 27 (there are ways to loose coverage, but just being unemployed is not one). Like the sibling comment pointed out: if you're living of savings, there's a minimum payment.

The cap is per wage, so every person earning a wage gets the same cap applied to their individual income. (one of the ways that households with a single high earner profit, while two people earning a moderate wage have less). No bonus for kids here, buy if you're member of the public health insurance, your kid is covered for free.
>Not sure why you got involved if you don't want to have that discussion.

The main issue is that it looks like you're attempting to do a motte and bailey. You start off by making a bold claim (the bailey) of "Banning TikTok violates the rights of Americans" (which is commonly understood by most people to mean it violates the constitution/legal rights of Americans). A few comments later, you retreat back to the motte by saying that what you meant by "violates the rights of Americans" is "harms Americans".

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey

Also, regarding your other comment

> You added more to your post after I responded, so here is my new response to the new content.

It probably makes more sense to edit your existing comment and delete that one rather than starting two comment trees.
I'd expand upon the emergency fund. I always feel when someone just says "put X in an emergency fund" and leaves it at that, they're missing the big picture of emergency planning. Emergencies can be long, slow burns, they can be short and acute, they can involve lack of access to financial institutions. I like to keep different tranches of emergency assets set aside for different kinds emergencies:

1. Something like Series I bonds for long-term future economic downturns or inflation

2. A CD ladder or money market for temporary job loss

3. Cash in a mattress and food/water for natural disasters

4. Guns, ammo, and containers of gasoline for the zombie apocalypse.

Weight each tranche by your assessment of each event's probability. You diversify the rest of your portfolio, why not diversify your emergency fund?
the only time i've appreciated conda is on windows systems. recently I've been playing with pystan, which - after hours of trial and error - im not even sure is possible to install correctly without conda.

but otherwise, i agree entirely
Politics moves slowly. 10 years is barely more than 1 presidency.

China bans Facebook despite the company offering to comply with censorship/propaganda rules (and Zuckerberg even offering Xi to name his child). The ban is unambiguously due to strategic concerns over a foreign company having access to user data. The change in US policy towards Chinese apps is not retaliation, it's just the US coming to the same conclusion as China that letting rivals foreign powers control media companies is unwise.
You missed the point: I didn’t make any sweeping generalizations. I’m advocating against that. The only generalization I made is that the existing generalization about anti-engineering is hooey.

And I don’t know why you’re assuming I’m an IC; I didn’t say that either.

I don’t have any problems with people sharing their specific personal experience. I have a problem when people start claiming good engineers are “rare” — you’re just insinuating bad things about tens of thousands of people you have never even met.
>they do work except

Except being the key word here. My commentary is on the quality of their engineering approach and I have demonstrated that their approach is flawed. Their approach is wrong.
> And this only further betrays Google's warped worldview of "us and only us": this person has made an amazing contribution to Go and yet you consider them an other and don't take their design into account.

I don’t even know where to begin with addressing this criticism. To say that you have a warped view of the situation is putting it mildly. I’m just going to back out of this conversation while the going is good.
The government dictating how businesses are allowed to interact with its citizens is a statement that equally applies to both the US banning TikTok and GDPR.
> This is NOT for professional videos.

Marketers will still try. They'll figure out how to get an ROI out of efforts on the platform and then push that as far as they can. Or they'll find it's not possible and give up.

Note: I have spent maybe 10 minutes in TikTok. I don't trust the platform.