skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you cyb_ for posting this. What a well-written, beautifully-worded article. This is what makes HN special: this piece of writing wouldn't show up anywhere else.

Speaking of HN and Silicon Valley, I see parallels. There are people who worked at creating the site and using it as a source of bright, idealistic young minds whom they could profit off of. They continue to work on keeping the site a good place to 'live in'. Did HN grow by happenstance and 'nature'? You bet. But you can't deny the unseen hands of the many people who keep HN habitable.

Likewise, Silicon Valley is also no accident, although it has benefited greatly from happenstance and nature. Before SV, there was Lockheed Martin, and NASA, and further down south, Douglas Aircraft. Even today, the benefactors of Lockheed and co. indirectly fund Stanford, Berkeley, and many other places that continue to draw people from all over the world.

But I strongly feel that if it takes hold, the current trend of (some) technology workers' activism will be the coup de grace that finishes SV off for good.
Thanks for posting this. From the wiki page:

> an increase in CO2 results in a decrease in blood pH,[2] resulting in hemoglobin proteins releasing their load of oxygen. Conversely, a decrease in carbon dioxide provokes an increase in pH, which results in hemoglobin picking up more oxygen.

So lowering carbon dioxide concentration (through an activity like hyperventilation) will cause hemoglobin to pick up more oxygen molecules. And increasing carbon dioxide levels will release those molecules. Fascinating.
I definitely recommend reading the sequences. More than anything, it's about recognizing cognitive biases. Altruism is where money comes in, but I would classify that as the Effective Altruism movement.
That's all definitely true. I think the cloud is a terrible value proposition for anything that's not a startup, for instance: You will safe a crud-ton of money paying your own IT staff instead of paying Amazon's IT staff, provided you have a stable business with relatively predictable needs.

Arguably, once you are a big player in a space, you should ideally have the clout to negotiate a better deal too.
You're... very incorrect.

Tinnitus can be caused by a neurological disease

Tinnitus can also be caused by incredibly tight/weak neck muscles such as the scalenes/SCM

Tinnitus can also be caused by high blood pressure - literally from hearing the blood.

Tinnitus can also be caused by compression of blood vessels - such as the subclavian artery (subclavian bruit) - often due to induced turbulent flow through the area.

Tinnitus can also be caused by something such as a cerebrospinal fluid leak.

Educate yourself.

Many people cured of CSF leaks or something like Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in which a scalene muscle is cut report decades of tinnitus being somewhat or completely relieved after surgery.

Tinnitus is caused by many, many things - some of which are cured from random things that people don't realize is going to have effect.

However, if you do have one of few neurological disease causes/damaged hairs, that shit definitely sucks and I don't think there's much hope yet aside from earbuds playing a matched frequency. I've actually heard of a good amount of success for some with supposed damaged hairs in that line of treatment - have you ever attempted to try it?

Not my intent to sound like a dick. I've had pretty severe tinnitus for now half of my life and I'm quite young. Shit sucks.
Oh, thank goodness.

Whenever I have difficulty using a piece of corporate infrastructure, the Gary Owens voice from Space Quest IV says in my head: "Oh, by the way, you're about to be fired." So the first thing I do is check to see if it's just me. If others, or in this case the whole freakin' world, experience the same outage issues I breathe a bit easier.
I can understand why it feels "too perfect" for an October surprise, sure, but then how did they get the pictures of Hunter sleeping with a meth pipe? I ran them through the tools on hackerfactor.com and I see no obvious fakery.

I've heard rumors that Hunter was allegedly hacked to get them, but I have yet to see media reports of this from prior to this story breaking. If you can provide some, please do!

Right now, my take is that, at best, this is an elaborate cover story for releasing real dirt and at worst, it's legit, like the time Hunter returned a rental car with a crack pipe in it. We'll need to dig into it further, though, I want to see if the emails have DKIM validation with a body hash parameter, etc.
Of course the have the ability and the right to host and moderate your own content! You just do it without Section 230 protection.

That means you have a responsibility for that content; the same legal liability that newspapers and magazines have when publishing articles and editorials.
What licence did you use?
Is this written manually or ran through some sort of converter from English?
> Enthusiasm, flexibility, humility, and open-mindedness were the currency; not rote and bluster.

This is key. And I understand that not every industry, company or team can hire with the goal of keeping people around for decades, but I can't think of a better place to work or hire people for.
That’s one theory, but it doesn’t explain why private high school tuition has also spiked. Vermont’s average is up at $31,532 per year. In reality there are a host of social, economic, and political forces in play.
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The best part is most open source developers were convinced that "APL" or "MIT" is the best license for their software.

Why?

APL, MIT , BSD allows companies fork a project without acknowledgement or contributing back.
We won't know the actual exposure until it ends up in the courts. Remember, we're talking about removing the good faith liability protections. Maybe a few thousand views of a libelous comment is enough, even if it was eventually removed. Either way, someone has to hire lawyers to go defend this, so it's not free.

We should also expect new bad actors to take advantage of this. As long as they can spam libel faster than moderators can delete it, they can force the site to shut down or risk the lawsuits. While I'm sure YC has its share of enemies deserved or not, even perfectly innocent people are attacked online every day for no reason at all.
I know a lot of folks that have rented victorian living rooms, sometimes even with a curtain to divide it in two. There just isn't that much else.
The audience is on Twitter. More likely to get engagement from tweets than via a blog post; because it's off platform, most people won't click it. There's also virality on Twitter from sharing specific parts of a thread in the form of retweeting and liking.
A ball has to one of the top 10 human inventions of all time along with speech, wheals, wall and garment.
> a lot more complicated in real life compared to the block diagram

Sure, jet engines are like that, too. Steam locomotives, too, they are festooned with pipes and things. I once spent some time at a museum tracing the tubes trying to discern their purpose. (I've seen many engines in a museum, simply none of them had any sort of detailed explanation of what you're looking at. Too bad, so sad. Just a couple sentences "This is an XYX motor from a GHZ." Making it boring.)

It would be fun to see what all the tubes on the raptor engine are for.
I think it could be done with a constraint solver, with a lot fewer cycles.
Without privacy, do we want a digital dollar?
I'm having a moment here where I am considering this from another viewpoint. While I hate the idea of siding with Ted Cruz on literally anything I want to take a moment to really consider something.

Section 230 makes sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Instagram and even Hacker News possible. Revoking Section 230 could expose those platforms to the possibility of liability for content posted on them. This might cause a re-shaping of the Internet in general.

Part of me seriously wonders - would that necessarily be a bad thing? I am not convinced, by any stretch of the imagination, that these social media opinion aggregation platforms are universally positive. Everyone keeps acting like the existence of Facebook somehow democratizes content publishing for the masses, even when we are faced with clear evidence that this isn't the case. The centralized nature of Facebook actually allows for larger scale manipulation of the narrative.

And how would this affect Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, Netflix and other sites? I suppose opening them up to liability for negative reviews could be a problem.

I'm thinking on the fly here, but if Facebook just disappeared off of the Internet tomorrow - I'm not really sure I would mourn that. And if new Internet companies were burdened with stricter moderation requirements (or the need to stand behind every piece of content posted onto their site), maybe that would actually be good? Maybe that would drive people to create their own websites once again.

I'm sure I haven't thought deeply enough on this but I definitely feel the tide here is a knee-jerk protection of Section 230. Yet the companies it protects the most are the ones I feel are the worst.
Is this LIDAR and the LIDAR in self-driving cars same? If they are, why can't elon put it in a car when Apple put it in a phone?
What you're describing is attachment to the perceived self. Congrats, you are now enlightened.
Then you have a different understanding on what "works" means.

In many languages, standardisation means that the language actually survives because without it loses its utility and will replaced by a dominant language.

Not an expert in that matter, I only try to replicate what I've heard.

Basque did standardise quite late. To my understanding, people had difficulty to understand one another when they came from another valley. That limited the utility and Castilian (aka Spanish) was often used which put pressure on the language. And what words do you learn then at school? And what do teachers learn? And what is used at the university?
And all the media, in which form will it be?

Romansh didn't standardise (or better said the standardisation didn't took hold) and faces that difficulty.

I bet you'll find a similar story in Irish Gaelic.
Programming is, in many ways, applied logic. Understanding logic leads to much cleaner code. People who don't understand logic make the code I've had to clean up. Things like taking a > 500 line function with a complex set of nested conditionals, pulling them all out, and realizing that it could be < 100 lines with no nesting or only one level below the top by properly placing guards at the top of the function.

I have worked with programmers who have no understanding of logic, I never want to work on their code again. It's a remarkably simple skill to develop and should be part of every CS students' curriculum.
If the Ebola epidemic killed 200,000 people in the United States, due to a completely bungled response by the CDC, you could bet that the supporters of the administration in power at the time would be burning effigies of the WHO.
You are misreading my comment. My comment is with respect to Abrahmic creed offering "bliss in after life". Indian Dharmic traditions doesn't claim to give you "bliss in after life". They help you lead a blissful life in this world and leave the world fully satisfied.

Yoga teaches this blissful existence so some parts of these teaching deal with physical aspects like asanas(exercises) and pranayana(breathing). However, central ideas of Yoga is called निष्काम कर्म or unattached action which simply put means hell or high water, you should stick to your duties and perform them without caring for the results. No wonder many scholars like Beethoven, Eliot, Emerson, Oppenheimer to name a few got inspired by its philosophy.[1][2]

[1] https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/first-book-yoga

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusic...
If I said this to a customer of such a company I would, almost certainly, come across as very offensive and sarcastic.

My rationale is that's it's the same type of logic I see with highly paid desk jockeys complaining about the gruff they from their grunts that make about 1/6 what they do. Or complain that they can't find people to work for 30-40k gross with mandatory ot out off cities where the cost of living for a family of three is at least triple that with amazing health insurance.

It's the they got theirs and those who didn't are obviously deadbeat junkies -- not deserving of: wages that would allow them to live reasonably close to their jobs, or have kids, or hobbies, or fun, or healthcare -- mentality.
Irvin Yalom: Retrospection- Shared screen with speaker view
Wouldn’t be a VC model but wouldn’t need to be. Interesting thought. Maybe someone with knowledge of an example will find this thread and add to it.
Very impressive article with lots of knowledge on the metal and OS. Good to know for people who want to work between the OS and the hardware.
> Please don't do that.

What do you mean? Don't do what?

Please don't make that argument your making? Please don't make your argument in that way? Please don't argue at all? Please don't ask questions?

Literally, all the comment you responded to did what ask a question to invite further discussion of an idea they were interested in.

When I hear "please don't do that" I picture kids pulling up flowers in someone's yard and they yell out "please don't do that!" It seems aggressive and unspecific for a civilized discussion among equals.
Interesting. Have you ever experienced what is sometimes called pee shivers [1]?
Since childhood I've had this sensation after urination. With time I developed an ability to trigger it. It feels like a wave of warmth spreading upwards from my spine and it also leads to the hair on my arms standing up. Does this resemble your experience with piloerection?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-micturition_convulsion_sy...
> I think hubspot is an interesting inclusion after reading the Dan Lyons books.

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369632
Comments with net negative votes get faded out. Remember that HN is just as much of a political battleground as any other forum (don't fall into the common trap of thinking that tech folks are "above politics"), and that those who benefit from the exceedingly effective propaganda mentioned in the OP aren't going to quietly yield control of the narrative.
Today no, but the gig economy is probably not sustainable without some pushback. So, not core tech workers, but the worker bees at Amazon ... ?
Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court
The San Francisco Bay is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. The tech industry might become like Detroit, the cities themselves will be fine purely because of logistical importance alone.
Tinnitus is a symptom and has several different causes. Mostly it's nerve damage and currently there's no way to fix that, but for other people it's something else, and there can be fixes.

And even when it's a symptom of nerve damage there are things that can help. My tinnitus got a lot better when I started using a hearing aid.
Probably because publishers are, by default, more liable (as liable as any other legal entity) and thus the law aims to reduce liability for the parties in question (the platform creators like twitter, facebook) so that the positive economic impact attributed to these platforms isn't burdened by the law.
Regarding your citation to the China trial, you can actually follow the link and read the primary source instead of the Wikipedia summary. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7190303/

The interpretation section states

“In this study of adult patients admitted to hospital for severe COVID-19, remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits. However, the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies.”

Later on it states “ No patients were enrolled after March 12, because of the control of the outbreak in Wuhan and on the basis of the termination criteria specified in the protocol, the data safety and monitoring board recommended that the study be terminated and data analysed on March 29.“

So that study which you are touting as proving remdesivir didn’t work was stated by its own authors to require a larger study. (China was so successful at suppressing the coronavirus using quarantine and isolation that they ran out of people to test on pretty early on during COVID as well, resulting in a low sample size for studies)
There are 4 on the website. But FYI, other types of studies besides RCTs are valuable in drawing conclusions, too.

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/vaccine-rando...
An 8,000,000:1 ratio,† for what it's worth.

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Notes:

† Roughly. Using GNU units: 45 years / 3 minutes = 7889231.5
They never said Subaru's system was as good as Comma's. They were talking about Toyota's.

It was a bit confusing because they don't own a Toyota, but they do own a Subaru.
Ah, hahaha I thought that was just a general comment about any of the others being potentially hole-ridden enough that an audit would destroy everyone but the one doing the auditing.
> crap shield

In Office Space, one thing that makes Lumbergh the manager so distasteful is you just know he would never do one thing to help anyone reporting to him.

> configuration galley

I like that. "Ramming speed."
You could pre-soak the wood so it's less buoyant, and hold a barge in place with ropes to the riverbanks. I'm not saying that's how they did it, but that's what I would try if I were them. You'd also want to pick the right season when the water flow was the least. You might even be able to dredge a channel so that the water is directed away from the position of the supports. I doubt they had a means of controlling the river flow back then, so I doubt they could have redirected the river into a temporary side channel, but that could also help if possible.
Except that's exactly how most masks people wear do NOT work; they serve simply to prevent large particles (spittle) to move too far from their origin. Yeah there are better masks/SCBAs, but even common use and enforcement of something that actually stops a virus is impossible so long as people keep chanting the "empathy" mantra.
Yes, you should smile behind your mask. Here’s why
The irony of the travel ban, of course, is that currently, travel from countries that have much lower rates of community spread of the virus is still banned.

This leads some credence to the theory that the various restrictions on travel were, and continue to be more politically, than medically motivated.
If you can't change the default because of backwards compatibility and inertia, you can at least provide a well-documented, recommended, easy way of fixing the default.

Is there official documentation that tells users to set the default bind address as a best practice?

I wasn't thinking so much of just changing one setting, but rather having a way to easily reconfigure an installation to set multiple settings to improve security.

In addition, elevating this to the status of a command and documenting it as a best practice helps spread awareness.
There is no difference between a "publisher" and a "platform" under section 230.
Also they wonder why they all forget all the things they said in their 20 important meetings a day.
> That feeling could be the difference between over-eating (going back for another helping), and mindful eating (stopping because you are full).

IIRC, a yoga book I read said that you should stop eating when you still feel slightly hungry - a point that I've anecdotally found makes sense, because if you wait a bit more, that slight hunger disappears.

Also, it says that at end of a meal, your stomach should be half full of food, quarter of water, and quarter of air. Gives better digestion. Also seems to make sense.
Most private high schools are using a roll-your-own-FAFSA version of price discrimination. Additionally, private high schools have quite a different distribution of attendees (by parental income) than colleges do.
There's a difference between what is legally required and the greater good. Obviously, no one involved in this post is guilty of any literal crime. As you're suggesting, the license is the license.

But OSS is a fragile and wonderful thing, and an entity with the resources and clout of AWS would (at least in my opinion) do well to tend that garden rather than strip it bare.
Does anyone know the exact details of what Redis is using to prevent something like this?

I think they have a clause saying you can't provide Redis as a Service without paying royalty.

It does feel like we go in circles sometimes in tech, all these license discussions, closed v/s open v/s closed.

I really hope AWS does the decent thing and acknowledges and maybe even donates to the project.

This whole bit reeks of mercenary behaviour. Sure, the license allows it, but AWS still can afford to be a better citizen.
I disagree. I think we need to put the paddle to the metal and take this baby for a spin. I do think the analogy needs a tune up. Web browsers are not the "automobiles of the information superhighway" because while they let you go forward or go back, they don't let you turn left or right. So clearly, web browsers must be the trains of the industrial revolution, riding on the coast-to-coast rail network which was built in Dot Com Boom and Bust fashion [1]. So I think Silicon Valley will chug along for many years to come. Of course, there's a chance this gravy train could be derailed. Owning all of the train stations has something to do with Monopoly. I'm running out of steam... need more analogies and puns to shovel into the furnace..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
Kana are (mostly) syllabaries, which should make them a lot easier for dyslexics.
But that isn’t an American problem.

Infrastructure buildout in AZ is done in an incredibly efficient and cost effective manner.

Dallas is similar.

Utah’s buildout for the Winter Olympics was amazing and inexpensive.

Cali/NY/MA? Not so much.
I know opportunity costs are a thing but a lawfirm seems like the one of the worst possible targets for a lawsuit even without attorney-client priveledge complicating matters. Barring smoking gun damning evidence (which they would be skilled at knowing how to avoid both in terms of not doing it and not getting caught).

I would have guessed it as more a result of billable hour basis means it is practically "pure per person labor" dependent even with structures of management, less experienced lawyers and paralegals to effectively transmute the less experienced working hours into more experienced hours by them reviewing and signing off on the work of underlings.

Without the head partner you have 400 billable hours of junior lawyer and paralegal work. With one you effectively have 410 hours of partner legal work and they have staked their reputation and used their expertise on it to verify it. If the partner spent those 10 hours day drinking and signing off without reading it turns out to be 400 hours of soverign citizen tier pseudolegal nonsense arguments is their head essentially.
I believe that the debate around Section 230 is a sign of the growing consensus among the ruling class that Project Internet is complete, that it's successfully deployed a world wide surveillance framework, and that no further growth for the sake of the growth, which could destabilize the said framework, is needed, and thus it's time to close the gates and fortify the site from competitors. One fact supporting this stance is the rapidly growing popularity of the so called "end-to-end encryption" idea, that could crack the foundation of surveillance, unless hard measures are taken right now.