skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was not that you "must" have a job to survive. It is that for most intents and purposes, you must have a job to participate in modern society. Giving up a job in most senses means giving up a place in society. The same, at least in my opinion, is untrue of social media.

I certainly never said there were no such thing as labor laws.

I agree regarding Twitter being subject to the same rules as other media companies. I think the "editor vs platform" argument is the kind of thing lawyers love to wax on about and is otherwise sophistic nonsense. A platform under centralized power is a publication, period. Its maintainers are its editors.

I don't think Twitter is good or should even be left to its own devices necessarily. I just don't happen to think it is all that special or important. I think if we're not doing anything about traditional media conglomerates we shouldn't do anything about Twitter either.

But I don't have any problem rethinking how massive we let certain industry players grow or realizing that size itself can be a problem. As I said in another part of this thread.

> Personally, I am not opposed to restructuring the relationship of the individual to big corporate businesses. But at the same time we have to be honest about the fact that this isn't really something all that special. And if we want do this kind of restructuring to social media, we should consider those changes within an entire landscape of companies that reap all kinds of benefit from society and externalize all kinds of costs onto it.
Comparison of face-to-face and video-mediated interaction (1996)
It doesn't seem politically possible to even ask people to limit their consumption, and enforcement would be suicidal to governance. We've seen what it looks like when you try: that it was not possible to ask people just to be polite and responsible regarding the epidemic -- they were practically ready to revolt instead of observe simple precautionary measures.

Can you imagine if there were across-the-board actual enforcement in place for any of those measures, what it would have looked like? And that was an acute event, not something that's slowly boiling the frog.
He quit rather then override them. That is respect.
I was actually wondering about the same thing. I don't think you could make $1 million, but if you live on the end of a feeder street I bet there's a chance you could eventually get paid to point a couple cameras at the street.

With the way most modern neighborhoods are designed it would take very few cameras on private property to capture everyone going in/out.
What other languages/platforms do you have experience with, if any? Yeah, it sounds pretty normal to me.

Yes, storing the entire API response in a single column is an option, and yes I think you stumbled on some of what drew some people to "noSQL", which has it's own downsides, and the pendulum swings to people talking about how terrible "noSQL" is, but it can work.
This is not common, much less the norm, for programmers. It might be the case in small startups, and it might be the case in other outliers, but not in typical companies. Even the most strong referrals are at best a foot in the door and a leg up over other candidates. Referrals still have to go through the same interview process, and potentially be rejected.
I actually have started do this when I see an OSS project site that just needs some quick tweaks. It's easy to open the web editor and add missing labels or attributes or something.
FB has A LOT of old users.
Well, feel free to look down your nose at things and act immaturely.

I've built things around all kinds of ARM SoCS big and small... And AVR... and 8051 and 6502... I find things about Pi and Raspbian annoying, and sure wish there was more I/O and better graphics support...

But, how awesome is it that there's a ~$50 lego brick out there, with a ton of computation and long term support that a huge ecosystem of projects have sprouted from? And even better, we have all the boards around with less traction (Beagle*, oDroid, etc) to pick from. I don't see the draw in being elitist.

There's all kinds of projects I'd have had to spin a challenging-to-lay-out and expensive-to-manufacture board for before.. and now I can make a little silly Pi hat and get prototypes done in hours. This is exciting!
I'm still not understanding -- how do you calculate an 0.5 C change as a percentage?

Edit: Regarding your other point, I'm sure you agree that an 0.5 C change from -0.25 to +0.25 will have a certain obvious dramatic impact. It might seem like I picked a particularly pathological example there, but if you imagine latitude on a globe or elevation on a mountain, you'll find somewhere (like the Laptev sea) hovering at that boundary and ready to cross it.

But that's only one boundary; there are many others, where the dominant plant or insect species changes from one to another, where methane gas starts to get released faster than stored, etc. So it's rather like a staircase, and when the average shifts, there's always somewhere on the planet that goes through a confusing and dramatic transition.
This statement is bizarre. Have you seen what a sea-level rise map of Bangladesh looks like? Unless Bangladeshis start evolving gills I'm pretty sure the area where many of them currently live will no longer support humans.
I feel the same way about being 'allergic' to ads. In contrast, when my friend watches youtube on the TV, he is bombarded by ads and doesn't seem to care at all.

I don't mind the premium to pay for ad free youtube. Also the free Play Music (RIP)
Unequal iPhone 12 Volume Buttons? Does this qualify for a replacement?
> An CoC on the other hand is exclusively about removal of members to achieve additional goals set by the CoC.

Source? It seems like your assigning motives to others rather than listening to what they have to say.

> Instead they exercised the power granted by the CoC.
If you actually read the parent you'd know they explicitly did not follow the CoC. The CoC sets out a process very much like the one you described in which the enforcement team is actually supposed to have a discussion with everyone involved and get all accounts of what happened. The fact they ignored the CoC isn't a problem with the CoC, it's a problem with the human beings not following the process.

Dang could start banning people at random, that wouldn't mean the HN guidelines are bad, it would mean dang decided not to follow the rules and has the power to do so.
> A VPN that grows by underselling itself all over youtube

You're avoiding a service because it sponsors content you enjoy?
You know, punched cards and/or pianola rolls was the first thing I thought of watching you piano video when you mentioned wanting to record it. (my second thought was one of those cylindrical hand wound chimey music box things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#/media/File:Music_bo... )
>Yeah, you should avoid needing that but it is certainly not impossible given high enough tech level & in-space infrastructure. Launch loops and orbital elevators should have more than enough capacity to enable that.

I think you're underestimating the effort, resources and logistics something like this would require.

In 2016, there were ~256 live births per minute[0]. That works out to ~369,000/day.

Even multiple space elevators couldn't hope to come anywhere close to that, but perhaps with launch loops as well we might be able to approach that.

But even if we could, how much of global production of, well everything, would need to be dedicated to getting even 350,000 people and the stuff they need off the earth every single day?

>Much bigger problem actually is where to put those billions once you have to move them in a hurry off a planet.

An excellent point. Even if you didn't need to hurry, the resources required just to stage such a migration are staggering and would likely exceed the production capabilities of the planet.

But as you point out, we don't really have any place to send all those "colonists" so the point is moot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate
Why is it a garbage story?

Would it be a garbage story if the photos/sex vids were Trump's? The mainstream media wouldn't call it a "garbage story" they'd call it some kitchsy bullshit thing like "crisis of democracy" or "bombshell"...

You get the idea. You're assuming the quality of the journalism in direct contradiction to the images/videos/SMS that's already in the wild.
I would recommend Firefox focus for mobile. When navigating to the YouTube site I experience no ads.
There is AdonisJS which is a Laravel clone but in JS. I'm not sure about TS support, though.
Segger makes high quality stuff, but they’re expensive and their business model is “anti-modern”. The cost to use emCompress is $2500 USD.

Also, they specify that SMASH gets a worse compression ratio than LZMA but is an “order of magnitude less complex measured in lines of code”.

I’m not convinced that fewer lines of code means better performance on embedded systems. If anything, embedded code that has several thousand lines of code typically means there are hundreds of preprocessor macros that enable/disable certain paths depending on your architecture for performance.
Pivotal expects this as a matter of course.

The interview involves full-time pairing for a day, and you (probably) won't know one of the programming languages.

Pivotal does full-time pairing, and an experienced pairs should expected to pick up languages from new teams on-the-fly. After all, the rest of the team knows the language, and you'll get constant real-time mentorship as part of daily rotations.

This is perhaps the thing that sold me on full-time pairing: you can join a team, not even know the programming language, and contribute value to your team from day one.
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The FBI just confirmed there is an actual investigation which was started in 2019. How is that not worth reporting?
You know I had actually considered this exact thing you want a while back as a way to move forward once I had the program working. You could design all the graphs, logical connections on the computer then load them and just snap all the parts together. The main drawback I encountered then was how to implement the wagon since it can move in an arbitrary track path circuit. I'm not sure how that could be done. Another idea that's a little out there is that if someone could implement the basic building blocks using molecular parts, then maybe that's how we build molecular machines!
https://youtu.be/gwf5mAlI7Ug?t=697

https://youtu.be/gwf5mAlI7Ug?t=521

Mechanical algebraic computers for aiming systems
Right before a new generation comes out?
It's not an improvement over $999, it's an improvement over ($999 + $1999) = $2998 because it has PICe and USB and so forth all on one SoC and board.

That's a 4.5x price reduction (or 77.8% off if you prefer) in three years.

The price/performance increase should be bigger than that because of the ~50% increase in IPC and also hopefully a ~33% increase in clock speed (they don't seem to have announced that but it should be around 2 GHz)

Also it's a just a little unrealistic to expect something that will have taped out 6 to 9 months ago to have extensions that aren't even at draft 1.0 status yet, let alone ratified. Any chip with those is going to be 18 to 24 months away.
How do you handle browsing? Does Cohere only work with SPAs? Do you inject turbolinks or something similar to prevent resets of the execution environment when users navigate between pages?
"Compared to current law, 5 percent of taxpayers would pay more tax in 2018, 9 percent in 2025, and 53 percent in 2027."

"Compared to current law, taxes would fall for all income groups on average in 2018, increasing overall average after-tax income by 2.2percent."

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/distributional-...
> At what point do you need that? What percentage of users do?

In my experience, rather a lot.
If someone feels that HN's moderation policy is such a social ill as to warrant YCombinator's destruction, do I still have to abide by it when replying to them?

Put another way, why are you discussing this here and not on 4chan?
Waiting for incompetent and self-aggrandizing "governments" to save us is a recipe for failure. Corruption is not a problem "legislation" can solve. Instead, we should all take responsibility and act together to make society a better place. Grab the bull by the horns. The buck stops here, with us. We should all stand strong as individuals, together. Sign our own executive orders. Hold our own hearings and make decisions for ourselves. Don't let the Zuckerbergs and the Dorseys trample over your privacy and your sanity. Take charge of your life. Whip it good!
But they never advertised being fast in terms of performance. More like fast in terms of development
Accept that I am going to be complicit and have to engage in things that are structurally problematic.

The same way I buy gasoline, knowing that I am indirectly complicit in resource dispossession just by participating in that market.

> actually accept liability

My end goal is not in making HN liable for comments here, but I do think platform regulation is needed and if 230 has to be used as the "stick" to incentivize compliance, that might be necessary.
I don’t follow your example. Heads of state and media weren’t dependent on “nose-ring kids” working on social media before and they certainly aren’t now just because Trump has shown a proclivity to communicate via Tweet. It’d be ridiculous to ossify twitter as a government communication platform through regulation, instead of continuing to invest in existing government-owned communication channels.

Re: the change in reach that happens, I don’t see how this is different from a television network canceling a host.
directory-local variables in emacs? thank you! I will look at that.
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In order to make it fully accessible you might want to start from scratch and make a more traditional site that's not doing so much with JS to manage what content is on screen. Which might be more than you have time to deal with. But generally, when showing/hiding/navigating with JS, you are short-circuiting a lot of stuff you get for free with the browser (focus reset, announcing of changes etc.) and you have to reimplement a bunch of stuff in JS to get the same effect.

Sometimes it's worth it if what you are doing with JS is highly interactive & there's a payoff. But in this case, each thing of content could be its own page, and that plus a little more semantic HTML would do wonders.
I have one of these and can confirm it's pretty good.

Don't expect a smooth out-of-the-box experience (things like the pin numbers don't match in different versions) but the hardware works and the software works enough to be able to use it.
The FBI just confirmed an active investigation started in 2019. They just interviewed Bobulinsky as a witness.
That could just be an ad inventory thing. If YT doesn't have a targeted/discrete audience large enough within a campaign window to fill out impressions then they likely widen the net to complete the run.
How would they exclude spambots they aren’t detecting?
> I don't agree that dense code is easier to understand at all.

I think we just have a different definition of dense code. Here is an example that shows my view on it.

Dense:
adult_users = users.filter(it.isAdult)
Not dense:
adult_users = list.empty
for(i = 0; i < users.length; i ++) {
maybe_adult_user = users.get(i)
if(maybe_adult_user.isAdult) adult_users += maybe_adult_user
}

The first example is not only just "less" code in the sense that the filter function was also defined somewhere before and then just used. No, it is more dense code because it reduces subjective complexity by shifting some of the complexity to existing code _with which the developer hopefully is familiar with_. If the developer is not familiar with it, then the code is actually _more complicated_.

The same thing happens to language features, not only to code reuse. Some languages have generics, some don't. Without understanding and familiarity with generics, they will make everything more difficult. Once they are understood, the developer has a productivity advantage (assuming that generics are helpful).

However, gaining this initial knowledge and familiarity is very hard, hence not so many people use Haskell or similar languages and many more people use javascript and python and php, so you see more large-scale apps written in them. But we also see that all big companies eventually struggle with the not-dense-enough code and build on top of these languages. Facebook with php->hack, stripe with their own version of Ruby, ...
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Wow, exactly what I was thinking but probably more articulate than I could have put it. That there are a lot of people building a journalistic career on being anti-establishment, saying that the "mainstream media" et al are lying to us and censoring us and are crooked...and gaining followers as a result. Often telling us to not trust groups A-Y, and only trusting them, the Z.

At the end of the day, I have to trust someone to be doing the legwork, research, investigation to verify the stories and to report it to me as honestly as they can.

For me, I mostly trust the vast majority of professional journalists and institutions to do that work together, to check and balance each other most of the time to make sure something is as true as it can be, and feel skeptical when someone tells me to distrust them so strongly.

(I worry that sometimes I post things that may be too charged or opinionated or just inappropriate for HN, so if you think this is, I'd be grateful if you let me know why in a reply)
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If every manual laborer had an engineering degree I bet a ton of it will get automated really quickly.

If every paper pusher had a computer science degree I bet a ton of it would get automated really quickly as well.

When liberal arts majors do low skill work they start clamoring for low skill immigration so they get people they can manage.
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Soylent is full of sugar (which will cause your insulin levels to spike) and has crappy fat in it from stuff like canola oil. It's objectively a terribly unhealthy beverage.

A much better alternative is Orgain, which uses monkfruit for sweetener (which won't affect your insulin if you are diabetic), and has a bunch of vegetables in it, plus protein from peas.
I just read through the story, and not quite - he got the catheter started partway, and then the nurse who he'd tricked into thinking she would be the test subject (he needed her to get supplies) walked him to radiology so he see what he was doing when he got to the tricky parts.
> with each step it goes towards 0.124999999999

Also known as .125.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
24% seems to be the top 0.01% of taxpayers federal tax burden, not the average and it does not include state and local taxes or property taxes.

> According to this data, in 2017, the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an average federal income tax rate of 26.76 percent. The bottom 99 percent, or all the rest of the taxpayers, paid an average rate of 11.4 percent. If we look at just the bottom 50 percent, the average rate paid by these taxpayers is even lower, at 4 percent.

> At the very top end of the AGI distribution, we see average rates decrease slightly, but remain significantly higher than the average rates paid by those lower on the income distribution: 25 percent for the top 0.01 percent and 24 percent for the top 0.001 percent.

https://taxfoundation.org/average-federal-income-tax-rates-2....
Palemoon was last updated ~2,280 times more recently than IE6, and UXP is a Free and open platform used by more than one browser.
Does this allow code to be decompressed while the code is executing? See [1] for one such example.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-8798-7_...
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The day keeps getting better and better.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-...
Would you say Rspec is better than the Python equivalents like behave or pytest-BDD? Curious as I've never worked with Ruby/Rails but I'm aware there are some things that are way ahead of other toolchains (and others that are way behind as you've noted).
I suspect the real problem is that we have no property rights online. If channels, accounts, online storefronts, followings and content were recognized as belonging to users, it would substantially change the dynamics around deplatforming, as well as anti-competitive activity by the majors.
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> Gray's view is not that there is no progress but that the idea of natural progression, unstoppable, inevitable progress is wrong and dangerous.

What I mean to say is that his view is that there really is no progress. Scientifically, sure, but morally we've been the same for thousands of years. He has quite a nihilistic view that leads to political indifference. Here's a talk of his that explains his position in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRBHCclzZk

In short, however:

e.g. "Gray does not deny the reality of scientific, technological, and material improvements. He only insists that the things we mean when we call such improvements “progress”—that gains, once made, are not lost but built upon, that setbacks are rare and temporary—has no analogy in morality or human affairs: “Knowledge increases at an accelerating rate, but human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been.” - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/21/john-gray-atheis...
Hey, I accidentally added you on LinkedIn (I wanted to add a but couldn’t on the phone). I’d like to hear more about this as some of my social skills could really improve. I also like learning about it.

Let me know if you’re up for a chat :) if not, then thanks for the comment! :D
Waiting on incompetent and self-aggrandizing “ourselves” to save us is a recipe for disaster. Corruption is not a problem “we” can solve.
git-ssb has interesting properties.

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro
Or if you use systemd you can use Timers
Well, business don't jump on the latest version right away for many reasons (stability, bugs, upgrade woes...) Maturity is closely correlated to how long things have been around. Just because multiple database support was officially added on August 2019 it doesn't make it mature after that date. It takes a long time to achieve maturity - people to adopt and improve on that functionality without breaking things. We have been using multiple databases for years as well, done our own way, which will now have to be re-done in the upgrade to Rails 6. It's obviously not a plug-and-play replacement.

It's never clear how long gems will be maintaned for, and when a new gem (like multiverse, which is the multi-database gem I suppose others are referring to) comes out, it doesn't mean that businesses are going to jump on it right away. It needs to be around for some time so that support and its reputation start to build up a case to use it in production.

That's why having it in core is important.
Thanks, we do :). From now on what the program can do depends on what people build, the library machines they create so that other people can use them as parts and so on.
> The whole reason they have this protection is so they CAN let anyone post without fear of litigation.

No, the reason they have it is so that they can moderate without fear of litigation; before 230 unmoderated content generally did not expose companies to liability unless they knew of unlawful content (distributor model), but any attempt at moderation made them liable for everything on the site, whether or not they had specific knowledge (publisher model); 230 specifically was passed to negate liability as a publisher for user submitted content even if the platform engage in moderation.