skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't assume where you are from but, as a non-American who lived in distinct parts of the US, I can tell you a bit about why a car is essential for living to many Americans.

Firstly, the US is different from many parts of the world. Not only it's massive, but swaths of American urbanization are shaped around cars as a basic necessity, especially with the adoption of suburbs. Most of the US outside of big cities are car-first towns both in infrastructure, planning, and services.

In turn, having a car for many Americans is more than an efficient way to get around, it is the only way to move safely and reliably.

Many parts of the US have no public transportation, no reliable ride-sharing, no safe way to bike (both the roads and the culture are hostile towards cyclists).

For more information, I'd suggest reading on the phenomena called "Automotive city" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city
Why do certain days seem better suited to doing good work?

Most days, I feel like doing nothing. But some days, the computer calls to me, and it would be foolish to ignore it. If I’ve done anything impressive, it’s during those days.

But why? And can those days be maximized? Is it strictly a product of one’s environment? It can’t be; the institute for advanced study showed that you can have a perfect environment but make no progress.
> The fact that people are conditioned to get married, not to mention the tax benefits, is pretty fucking weird if you stop and think about it.

You might be interested in the concept of the relationship escalator, then.

https://solopoly.net/2012/11/29/riding-the-relationship-esca...

(Disclaimer: I'm not poly, but I really like how poly folk interrogate relationship norms. Don't be scared off by the poly blog!)
> In some places (eg netherlands)

That's because Netherlands changed the country to not rely on cars. It used to rely on cars, just like most countries. It's still far from perfect; there's still loads of places where there are not enough options.

Car-only places is considered restrictive. Similarly, kids should be able to do things on their own. Seems nowadays kids rely on their parents to move them around. That's pretty crazy IMO.

Any other country could do the same. Also people in Netherlands complained that "government is going after cars", etc.
Nubank is also pretty big (clj/cljs/datomic).

There's also Exoscale using clojure(script) extensively. Funding Circle and CircleCI also use it but I think "only" on the backend.
Why do we care that people are working? There are many reasons, probably, which is why there are different measures. I do think most of these measures (incorrectly) presume that having a job means you have a living wage, or at least at some level, that if you have a job you generally don't need so much assistance.

Maybe that was true at some point in history, but it is not today. Most minimum wages across the US are not a living wage. Many necessary benefits are tied to full time employment only. Unemployment rates with no context attached don't have such a strong meaning.
You magnificent beast, I nearly spewed my tea halfway across the room. That is just chef’s kiss perfection.
Ok, he resented being the pity party and instead of finding a sympathetic reporter to give some anonymous background or quotes to, he goes cross-country, leaves a laptop in a tiny repair shop, and crosses his fingers that it somehow comes out without making him look like a dick? I mean, this is sillier than the current explanation.
> What's surprising to me is how un-monopolistic Google's share of the Cloud + AI market is under its control, considering how many of the techniques were invented there. I'd put it at under 25%.

I don't find that surprising because Google is a mess. They're a very poorly run organization, making decisions that make no sense at times. Their inefficiency and/or incompetence is probably the only reason why they haven't wreaked havoc on all of the markets they have their hand in. And the various monopolies they do have are, as monopolies usually are, immune to stupid decisions that would kill most other companies.

I think it might be because their corporate culture of being the good guy/"don't be evil" is incompatible with the reality of their situation. Like cognitive dissonance at a corporate level. I wonder how many of their employees in positions of power are still living in that fantasy, and making decisions based on it?
For anyone that's expecting all those fancy animations that you see in this post and on the landing pages: They are not really in the product.
I don’t see how your anecdotal data can be counted as more valuable than BLS data backed by payroll, benefits, and subsidy data from employers and providers.
FWIW, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that 150k of small business revenue is less than a salary wage of 60k.

Revenue needs expenses taken out, and double taxation. Not to mention her role now includes managing a small business rather than just being a doctor.
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> I quite honestly wonder sometimes why Rust excited me so much when I first started using it, but I do not get such excitement from Zig.

Good! Maybe you can actually get something done using it then, instead of getting lost in mastering lots of concepts just for the sake of it.
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>when he was complaining that one of his gaming groups was falling apart.

Speaking of this, I think Discord also conquered one more application in relative secrecy, and that's the gaming community forum. reddit took on regular forums, but for smaller communities I think reddit fails at this.

Discord gives you multiple channels to talk in, which allows conversation grouping like sub-forums, and extensive chat histories with search, removing the non-permanence of other chat options.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I'm just glad that Hynix is still intact.
You can still have multiple accounts on Discord to achieve the same separation if you want.
Alas, just the one account and doubly alas, no pay check from Russia. Pretty sure their rates for being controlled opposition on HN wouldn't really cover my needs.
I like the concept but how do you manage malicious users though?
I feel like most of us were wise to the fact that this was a terrible idea on day one. It was funny to watch MBAs try to cash in on the "next big thing" in tech, though.
>But all these statistics are proxies for how citizens are doing. In general, hardships increase as unemployment goes up, whatever way you measure it. It's usually better to look at all of them jointly, and focus on differences instead of the absolute rates.

Well stated.

We see the same issues with GDP; people claiming it doesn't capture a country's well-being. This is not surprising, since it's a measure of economic output. But we know there's a correlation between economic output and societal quality-of-life.

In general, more GDP > less GDP. If you find anomalies that raise interesting questions (ie Canada vs US) you can compare other measures.
Sorry I can only read Dutch to the degree that it is superficially similar to German/North-German but I thought it's only NOS who're victim to this. I found it shocking, and immediately thought there's some polarising propaganda being cooked in NL on social media. In Germany, there seem to be more and more people being subjected to radical propaganda with a hidden agenda as well, calling regular journalism "mainstream media" and "Lügenpresse."
That's one way of looking at it, but that I'm shopping for a C++ replacement doesn't mean I'll necessarily like another C++-like language. C++ is my primary language, and if I replace it -- given that switching a new language is very costly no matter which new language I pick -- I might as well wait for a more revolutionary replacement, that fixes all/most problems I have with it, rather than just a few. I don't know if Zig is that thing just yet, but it looks more promising -- to me, given my particular taste -- than Rust. But, TBF, I was very excited about Rust at first, so my excitement for Zig might wane as well.
Selling out your non-profit hospital to an investment firm that turns around, sells out the physical property the hospitals are in for 1 billion+ and signs a 30 year lease on said properly. Firm banks the profit from the real estate deal, then resells the business that's now saddled with way more debt than it ever had in the form of leases back to the CEO they bought it from to begin with for peanuts. It's really the fleecing of America. Sure someone made a ton of money but now the once "community" hospitals are left in horrible shape.
Remember Hacker NewS forbids saying anything against the R Party, remember to to use code words next time.

For example: "Zuckerberg is cozy with conservative interests" is fine, but using the R word angers people members of the R party.
The BLS reports 6 different unemployment metrics. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

Several of them do measure underemployment.
This would be great if I can upload & select my own fonts, or to have other fonts than Roboto. That would truly allow multiple character-favicon variants from one site, which would be very useful.
Mysterious 'Robin Hood' hackers donating stolen money
There should be a law that says that any "bot" should be identifiable as such by the user.
This was an entertaining read. I'm probably more of an adherent of the worst than then best. The ideal is probably somewhere in the middle as it usually is. I bought my kid a cheap bike and it fell apart while he was riding it. So then I bought him a more expensive bike.

I've bought a lot of junk and I've spent more time trying to fix the junk or replace it than I'd like to admit and I'd rather spend the upfront time finding the stuff that's not junk in the future so I can spend more time with my family and less time running to the store for a new toaster after mine blows up. just my 2 cents.
Absolutely love the product, and the team :)

No more screenshot —> slack —> edit workflows anymore!
Not realistic, and set too far in the future.
Neither should Chapter 7 mean discontinuity for operations.

Pre-packing can be as easily applied to Ch. 7 as 12, if the insolvency court agrees.

But there's no management continuity or parachute in Chapter 7.

I nearly added union agreementd to the sacrifices of Ch. 7, but I'm really not sure if you can be so cavalier with well written agreements like union concessions made in order to enable management to work thru difficulties. At least instinctively I believe that creates a equitable interest.

Which makes me wonder if working out the union position in Chapter 7 wouldn't put the necessary fire under complacent managers.
Going to try this out!

Screenshots are a chore and am relying on google docs instead.

Loving the company name too!
But they get millions of dollars in donations every year.
I think that's a good idea and user friendly.

In short my opinion on app notifications is that they need to be killed with fire. Then burned again just to be certain.

The only notifications I have enabled are the ones where timely information is important, e.g. gate changes for flights. Anything else gets shut off because it just NEVER is interesting and only succeeds in interrupting me. Call it the worst aspect of the attention economy.

If your app would ever interrupt me for anything that is not absolutely important, it would get uninstalled faster than I can swipe away the notification.

But well, I might not be your target audience (most probably am not actually)
>They're a very poorly run organization, making decisions that make no sense at times.

How many messaging apps have they launched and killed?
I guess we'll see if this hurt Trump in 2 weeks, but wasn't this thing part of why Scott Walker lost his reelection in 2018?
Except the salesman turns out to be a bot with the IQ of a three year old.
> With another platform, it becomes person expresses interest, we give person a form to create an account.

Couldn't you create the account for them ?
It's different, but I don't think it's as different as you say. It's still a two stage process, and the primaries are generally open to anybody.

The pressure to rile up voters exists either way. You saw this in the UK recently, where there are plenty of parties, and the election was incredibly awful. The winner of the election was, as usual, the one that had eliminated the second, third, and fourth parties that split the vote.

I'm not saying there aren't differences, but I think it might help Americans to think of it as if it were more similar. They cast one vote, and if their candidate lost, they get to vote for their second favorite. It's not identical to a runoff election, but there are enough similarities to make me believe that a change to true runoff elections would not alter how people perceive the result.
> "ohmygod I need one extra K of unfragmented low memory, time to tinker with config.sys again"

i know a lot of ppl went deep down the rabbit hole of computers because of this.

thou the period _was_ short because memory got bigger/cheaper and then win95 came along with 32bit and virtual memory.
List of deprecated features in latest Google Groups
> People (including journalists, politicians... high stakes stuff) assume that unemployment captures most unemployment. They don't consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted

Would not "high stakes" non-dilettante observers know about, and review trends in, the labor participation rate and other metrics?
Governments often fiddle with the definition or use other benefits to hide the true rate - in the UK there was pressure in the (1980's) for NHS GP's to put older unemployed people on disability to reduce the headline unemployment rate.
Are those USB 3 ports? or USB 2? Do they belong to any particular node?
Hey, live like there's no tomorrow, isn't that part of the American Dream? :D
I hate Trump but here his admin is right to rush things. Unless the issue is put on the books before November, chances are that a Dem administration will quietly scrap it (possibly in exchange for concessions on the surveillance side, considering who represents California...).

Obviously this should have been done sooner, but it’s Trump we’re talking about, it’s half a miracle if it gets done at all.
The beginning of the end of all these free notebook services scare me. I haven't found any good alternative to Google Colab that allows private notebooks.
You have to realize, using miles to convey the "sense of scale" to non-Americans is ironic because... we can't be bothered to understand how much 10000 square "miles" actually is.
A Faster CPython
The gist:

>> Global warming and ocean acidification associated with the immense volcanic CO2 injection to the atmosphere was already fatal and led to the extinction of marine calcifying organisms right at the onset of the extinction. However, the CO2 release also brought further consequences; with increased global temperatures caused by the greenhouse effect, chemical weathering on land also increased.

>> Over thousands of years, increasing amounts of nutrients reached the oceans via rivers and coasts, which then became over-fertilized. The result was a large-scale oxygen depletion and the alteration of entire elemental cycles.
Women worked in all countries in the Soviet block, as the communist ideology was generally anti-family, so anything that weakened family ties was seen as positive. Also, of course by having two people per family working for the state (and there were hardly any private jobs, state was the main employer), the state can squeeze more value out of them.
You can manipulate it by deciding what's included and by using reduction in costs of say big flat screen TV's over time.
Why Are There So Many Data Breaches?
Frankly I’m surprised to see that they’re going after Google first. Amazon and/or Facebook are much more vulnerable to an anti-trust lawsuit, and just based on some of the public information that we already have they have likely engaged in anticompetitive behavior. I fully expect that antitrust action against FB/Amazon will continue regardless of who wins the election.
Factor – a concatenative, stack-based practical programming language
I've always been a bit bewildered by notifications. I've had so many websites encourage me to sign up -- appealing to my fear that someone, somewhere, might write a blog post and I wouldn't know it right away.

I couldn't find any way to turn off all notifications on my MacBook, but I noticed you can set a "Do Not Disturb" time. I set it for 10:00 pm until 9:59 pm the following day, daily.

All this said, I am very much not the typical user.
> Well, in most places in the US you literally can't go without a vehicle if you want employment and food.

That's due to zoning laws being the way that they are. If you'd change the way you'd build up and zone things it would be possible.

The YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes" goes into this in various videos. I couldn't find the exact video that explained the zoning laws, did find another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98 (kids in Netherlands go to school on their own).

Despite Netherlands being considered great for cyclists there's loads to improve. The channel goes into that detail as well, e.g. that major roads are being closed. See e.g. this video of a big road being closed in Utrecht: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePpwYCs_JM (different channel)
>Watershed moment in how we "price" monopolistic power. It's not "market share" or "barriers to entry" or even engaging in "anti-competitive behavior" anymore. But more about how corporations can control the free flow of information

Once the lawsuit drops I doubt this is the argument they are going to make.

This is going to be your run of the mill antitrust lawsuit. It's just making news because tech has avoided them for 30+ years.
They forgot https://colab.research.google.com/. :). But then again, it's a Google service with a fairly niche audience, so you know the deal...
While this may be true, the article's premise that the BLS was somehow cooked up to hide the "true" unemployment rate rings hollow, mainly because the BLS also tracks and reports tons of other labor-related statistics, including for example "discouraged" workers, those working part-time but want to work full-time, overall labor force participation rate, etc.

These days I even see mainstream media outlets report lots of different numbers beyond the "baseline" unemployment rate, so I just feel like this whole article is written from the "you're not considering my preferred statistic as the 'true' one so you're wrong" angle.
I love to go through my comments every so often and see the people who uselessly asked me questions or for more context.
Badly. I've done this twice in my life. The first time I really regretted
it, and thought, gee, I'll never do that again. But years of rancor and
resentment at my last job pushed me to consciously make the same mistake.
I moved to a cheaper rental, traded my bmw for a prius, and now live off my
savings at a far lower standard of living. Some view my untethering from the
matrix with envy. I don't.
Good on Tom Lehrer for releasing his songs to the public domain. I hope this magnanimous gesture by such a high profile person sets an example and starts a trend.

I've always been a fan of Lehrer's from the days when he was a household name, it's good he's in the spotlight yet again.
It's crabs all the way down
"Google owns or controls search distribution channels accounting for about 80% of search queries in the U.S., the officials said. That means Google’s competitors can’t get a meaningful number of search queries and build a scale needed to compete"

This doesn't seem right, technically speaking. I see estimates that globally they process 2 trillion searches per year (70,000 per second). 20% of that, 14,000 searches per second, seems a meaningful number of searches to scale to.

"The government will allege that Google uses billions of dollars collected from advertisements on its platform to pay mobile-phone manufacturers, carriers and browsers, like Apple Inc.’s Safari, to maintain Google as their preset, default search engine."

If the claim is that they are forcing people to use Google Search, reducing that 80% is going to require getting people to choose something else. The way that reducing the market share that is supposed to come from defaults has happened in the past is by forcing users choose which product to use instead. However, I posit that in this case a lot of the 20% comes from situations where there is a non-Google default. For example, one common request from people who notice is how to get Windows/Cortana to use Google instead of Bing.
https://www.howtogeek.com/226638/make-the-windows-10-start-m...

I would do some user research about what people want to use before assuming that a massive lawsuit with a remedy intended to give them a choice doesn't result in the same situation. My (small scale) research indicates that more than 80% of people want to use Google.
What a Summer of COVID19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs. Outdoor Transmission
Also, https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34389129/crab-evol...
What are some specific examples of being poorly run?
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance
What Aaron Swartz had to say about corporate censorship
They royally screw over DDG

https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-duckduckgo-...
"So if you want a better way to collect feedback on your application, spread some jam on it." - love this branding and team!
Those are nice taglines, but while Rust is a safer C++ in the sense that it is a language that espouses C++'s design philosophy and has a similar feel to it, Zig is something new altogether. The only thing that makes it more similar to C than to C++ is that C is an extremely simple language, as is Zig, while C++ is an extremely complex language. But other than that, Zig is a low-level language that is its own family, and with a design that is radically different from either C or C++; it's hard to compare it to anything, really. Zig goes well beyond C in its power of abstraction to match C++/Rust, but it does so in a very different way than C++/Rust.
First tyrannosaur embryo fossils revealed
This article reminded me of the same quote! Here's the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE
The population density in the Netherlands is one of the highest in the world, higher than any American state and 14 times higher than the US as a whole. So public transportation infrastructure that makes sense in the Netherlands isn't necessarily going to be practical elsewhere.
Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors
Not sure about Facebook, I mean there's reddit, twitter, etc. Each w/ it's own niche...but Amazon, and Apple, imho are the biggest offenders. Amazon would be first on my list.
Banks are far more exposed to climate change than they’re disclosing
Why do you think Barr pushed them against Google?
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> astonishing to me that something like this was published in print

Why?

The problem in the West is not typically printing something (at least after WWI and the end of most political censorship), but getting people (particularly influential / respected members of the elite) to read it.
From my conversations, Googlers indeed appear to earnestly argue for their company in ways that directly ignore or fail to recognize the monopoly power they wield. It absolutely feels like line employees are unable to grasp what market power is and how the company wields it.

Executive level people seem too adept at defending the company and avoiding certain phrases or concepts, I believe they all know. Things like suggesting routine conversations include a lawyer and tagging them as such to try to include more conversations in attorney/client privilege shows a desire to hide guilty actions.