skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistically speaking we're all going to die and all your investments will go to zero then in the long run. The only thing that will then be left is the experience you had and in what direction you nudged the world.

Fall. Get back up. Fall. Get back up. That is life.
You're right that I'd classify those as artificial monopolies. Wouldn't you agree that the world would be a better place if we had less of them?

Especially for general computing devices like a phone (unlike gaming consoles and media like your examples). We already know that Apple doesn't need the App Store for iDevices to be a commercial success, just look at the Mac and macOS.
douches get downvotes

https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing...

The hard evidence that static typing is an overall-win is lacking. Period.

or, more succinctly,

https://i.imgur.com/zbU1wwH.jpg
A git submodule is almost the same thing as an svn external that's pinned to a specific revision. From that baseline, these are the differences I can think of:

* The submodules aren't automatically updated like externals are with "svn up", you need a second command.

* Adding a submodule is done with a command, not editing files/props directly.

* Any changes to the pinned revision are done inside the submodule (git pull, new commits, etc), which automatically changes the reference in the parent repo and then is committed in the parent repo.

* Removing a submodule is two commands now, not a bunch of manual work (article is out of date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26171333 ).
Forth doesn't need an abstraction for operating on threaded code; forth programmers routinely write their own words for control structures with an awareness of the internal structure of dictionary entries. You're operating on code-as-data, it's just an entirely different mechanism for doing so.

It's entirely possible to work with dynamically allocated memory in a Forth that runs on top of some other operating system, like GForth. When you're on metal, you can build whatever kind of allocator you want. The primitives "create"/"allot" are just that- primitives.

Here's a trivial example of building a cons-pair heap in Forth: https://gist.github.com/JohnEarnest/4522067
It seems to me that Facebook putting an anchor link to a website on a facebook page is materially different from child labor.

Should sites be allowed to link to other sites?

Also, every website has the power to change Google: just put the noindex tag on your pages and you'll effectively prevent links from Google to your website.

For facebook, it's trickier. One thing that might work is sharing something from your website on Facebook and then reporting it as against community standards. It seems like there are a zillion pages of people trying to get their sites UNblocked from Facebook- the cause of which frequently seems to be people flagging content.
If you have nothing better to do:

1. Get a smart ring like OMNI

2. Shove a USB hub and a contactless reader into your mouse, so if on the next poll your hand with a ring isn't on it - lock it all

Seriously though, if someone would start selling mice with contactless readers built-in, I'd buy a few.
BBC: Spy pixels in emails have become endemic
This is an incredibly naive perspective. I guess you want to ban search engines, self driving cars, automated filtering of lewd and abusive content (why do you think FB isn’t full of porn? It’s not a hand engineered algorithm), automatic speech recognition for the hearing impaired, and a vast swath of important technology I didn’t list. I don’t think you really understand the implications of what you’re asking for. Sorry - black boxes are here to stay. And they are immeasurably useful. I could spend hours listing important and crucial technologies that you want banned because you are scared of racism.
There is nobody who is saying "let's fix the grid and design a system that will be reliable" in Texas. It's just people raising money to build projects that they think can make money.

Right now, there's more and more people thinking they can make money with batteries, and fewer and fewer people thinking that gas can make money on the grid.

Which, if we are to believe the hypothesis that markets make good capital allocations decisions, says that they future of the grid is battery backup, and no more gas backup.

This is a process of transition, so pointing at the current amount and saying "that's not enough" is going to be obvious.
How Monica Lent built a thriving paid community for developers
So much of the discussion here is superfluous.

Why should the employee care about "users" if their equity doesn't increase in value based on those users?

Like--its as simple as that, don't blame the employees for being entitled here.

If my equity isn't related to my job then they're not "my users", and I'm not a true owner of the product.
It's not related to Malthus' argument and it's been updated and shown to be utterly prescient:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...

Our technologies have made extraction of resources more efficient but hasn't really fixed the limit of resources.
How much of this is cultural (e.g. valuing long-term planning / saving) versus mechanical?

EDIT: this thread has some insight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26171294
Your example is missing some key points. Imagine if instead of serving that life sentence your murderer fled the country before sentencing. Also imagine that instead of writing books by themselves all of their books are co-authored by other famous authors. Should you be spending your money on books that were written by a fugitive? Would it be wrong to judge their publishers and co-authors for collaborating with a fugitive?
Facebook blocks Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news
There's pockets in more places. A handful of countries had fixed wireless CDMA for home phones where it was difficult to install wires, and many of them have opened up regulations for those carriers to do mobile CDMA as well.
> The technical solution is straightforward: longest chain wins.

One caveat here is that "longest chain" is measured not in blocks but rather in cumulative difficulty. So the fork with more hashing power, having a higher difficulty per block, will mine a "longer" chain over the same time period.

> The real issue is a social one: how do you deal with finding out that the last N months worth of transactions are just gone?

If the transactions are still valid (i.e. the inputs haven't been spent in diverging transactions on both chains) then they can be reintegrated into new blocks on the winning fork after the partition heals.

The real problems come from double-spends, whether deliberate or accidental; if funds were moved from TxA to InB in one chain and from TxA to InC in the other then only one of these can be retained, and all transactions downstream from the losing version will be nullified.

In general, to create such a situation a client would need to be aware of both forks and sign conflicting transactions for the same unspent output. There is one major exception, however, which is that the coinbase transactions introducing new block rewards on the losing fork can never be valid inputs for transactions on the winning fork. Ergo, any transaction which depends on recently mined coins is ineligible for reintegration.
Just not a valid concern in 2021
Why is it white supremacy and not Japanese supremacy, since Japanese have the highest average IQ in studies I've seen? White countries all lag behind east Asia.

It is really weird that Scott would be called a racial supremacist for exposing data that puts his race squarely in the middle of the pack.
That is a clearly a semantic simplification. All rights are conditional, the "right to one's own work" is conditional on the "right of others work not to impede on one's own work". From this alone you can see the contradiction and realise that rights are a compromise of different interests. From there we're just arguing about who can wield what force to enforce what rights. Perhaps it's not in my best interest not to be the sole source of force in the world but it's certainly in others.
>it's a bit arrogant that you would try to assert that "old" people are not capable of forming their own opinions or seeking out others. There will come a point in time where applying labels where they don't belong will no longer work to silence opposing views that you don't like.

It's a fact that older people tend to fall victim to false information disproportionately at higher rates than younger people.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/10/scams-and-older-co...

>Your quote from Rush is actually one of the few things that I actually agree with. The better response to this would have been to do absolutely nothing at all

Ironic given the above, because now you're saying it's worth killing a lot of old people for some economic gain, not to mention hospitals getting overloaded resulting in deaths of younger people from road accidents and other treatable illnesses etc.
> Google can afford to pay for the right to link to publishers. New startups can't.

The law specifically only targets Google and Facebook due to their monopoly power. New startups are not affected.
I made 30k in ETH this year and cashed out at $1275. "Lost" $13k by not waiting longer. Do I regret? I had no way of knowing. I just pulled the trigger, with my guts telling me "this is probably ripe for a blow up now". There's no way of knowing what the "collective mind" decides once the big players start selling off.
I'd say both. He took prevailing conservative groupthink of the Lee Atwater school and weaponized it to become one of the OG alt-reich trolls[1], to quote somebody who apparently plays too many JRPGs.

> The man was a fucking demagogue. He made his fortune peddling cryptofascist propaganda while calling himself a “conservative”. He helped set the stage for the resurgence of right-wing authoritarianism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism in the United States. He was the OG alt-reich troll, and his grave should have a pay toilet in place of a headstone.

[1]: https://demifiend.org/articles/good-riddance-rush-limbaugh.h...
Most of our savings are in 401K and bonds but we diversified a bit and bought a condo in a stable neighborhood for our own weekend use and now contemplating rental property. I'm about 10 yrs from retirement so not really looking for high-growth investments at this point.

On the other end of the risk scale I buy a couple Powerball tickets each time it goes over 500M$
Says somewhere that traction for Bel would be 20 users. Early traction.
It won't be an option.

It will be install Epic store if you want Epic games.

Install uPlay if you want Ubisoft games.

And so on. Oh, and none of those will provide information about tracking and privacy breaches, because that's part of the business model.
I'm sure you know the old saying... "anyone can make money in a bull market."
And here is the proof https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-19/robinhood...

I'm sorry I don't want to sound rude but those 100% don't sound that impressive to me right now.
-- it is selectively enforced depending on what side someone is on -- especially with regards to forgiveness of something which happened some time ago.

-- Context is irrelevant. People are being canceled for using the wrong word when enumerating words which cannot be said. again, some people can say them, some can't.

-- it is completely out of proportion to things which do actual damage. This really bothers me. Someone saying something really bad means less to me than even the mildest act of violence

-- some places are upping the ante to claim that speech is actual violence and that if certain people aren't fired, then the workplace is unsafe
arguably that was iraq/afghanistan, but yeah much smaller scale than ww1
Whenever discussing Polanski's late career and the acclaim or scorn he has received, it must be mentioned that the girl in question has (later, when she grew up) expressed that she does not wish that Polanski be prosecuted or further punished by the industry.
I suspect the author regards "nerds and weirdos" as positive things.
Approaches to Exploring Codebases
> In Facebook's case it is even worse because they are not the ones creating the links - their users are.

It is much worse than that. The publishers themselves often share the links on Facebook themselves.
The current grid took a looot longer than 2-4 years to build, and that 17GW/50GWh is just 2-4 years of replacement equipment at the very beginning of a transition. So I'm not sure why this amount of batteries needs to power the entire grid, or how that's a helpful or even interesting comparison.
The role where you're still hands-on on a team is sometimes called a Tech Lead Manager, and there is a ceiling to this role. The next step up is true Engineering Manager where you have to be able to talk to engineers on other teams and gather information without being familiar with their code. If you rely on direct knowledge of code in all circumstances you won't be able to effectively operate in an organization with thousands of engineers and millions of lines of code. This is super hard, and relies on deep experience in the trenches (preferably 10 years+), but it is the only way to solve broader organizational problems that cause projects to fail, and many eng months or years to be shitcanned.
I get the sense that biometrics are not very future proof. People leave fingerprints and DNA on everything they touch and faces and eyes are seen by cameras all the time. Biometrics work now, but in the near future I suspect the technology to take images of peoples faces/fingerprints and reproduce their likeness to fool a biometric sensor will be a commodity. Once that happens biometrics will be near useless because you essentially have no way to respond to leaked biometric data, it can't be changed.
I have no advice but want to send some empathy. I also typically get through work with curiosity and my own motivation, and less by discipline.

It's a constant battle to refocus on critical business objectives and not to get distracted by the hundred other interesting rabbit holes.

I know I've given too much time and too much of myself to work, but still feel a bit of shame and stress about falling behind.

I've always heard the advice to do work by discipline and not motivation but 30 years and I haven't figured it out yet :)
I see, that makes sense.

I’m still curious if me choosing to not watch films with problematic individuals in them would be considered cancelling or a boycott?
Whilst Google is trying to make things work, Facebook has removed all news - interesting that both parties have taken different courses. Could this open up the opportunity for an alternative to Facebook in Australia?
Boycott - don't attend talk. Cancel culture - you may not give talk.
Interesting point of view, but where would you set the threshold: a challenge trial for a cancer drug by injecting a carcinogen to cause tumor growth?
What about viral diseases that are much more devastating, e.g. a challenge study for an ebola vaccine?
> or flooding the market with people who can suddenly no longer afford their homes.

Most mortgages don't have an adjustable rate. They're fixed for the duration.

Regardless, small interest rate increases wouldn't suddenly make variable rate mortgage owners homeless. Gradual rate increases would provide more pressure for overextended individuals to move to housing they can actually afford, though.
But that's my point -- the contrast for regular black and white text is so much worse with color eInk than it is for regular black-and-white eInk.

It seems like a terrible tradeoff to make, for colors that are still terrible.

Reading a graphic novel on a color e-ink reader will be so washed out... if you really want the color, it seems like you still have to just read it on an iPad etc.
A Ffuf Primer
Right, like I said, credibility is a different problem. But at this point, we don't even get a lie from them, we get nothing. At least a lie can be checked and examined. There's nothing available at all currently.
There are two main issues (speaking as someone who has looked at e-ink for products):

- e-ink is optimizing for maximum profits, using classic monopoly pricing

- because they are optimizing for profits, their volumes are necessarily small, so their per-unit costs are actually relatively high
it had huge natural overlap with hypersonic maneuverable reentry vehicle R&D which has been all the rage, at least in the Russian weapon program, in the last couple decades, so a lot of Kliper programs would be highly classified.

Also, while being no weapons by design, there are several USSR satellites in the parking orbits carrying tens of kg of highly enriched uranium.
Every Superhero Movie Is a Policy Failure
My bad I didn’t express myself completely. I enjoy the fact that I have one account and I know EXACTLY when I’m making a payment.

When I get presented with the price and checkout in an in-app purchase I’m sure that’s everything I’m paying, there are no hidden fees, it’s secure and there is no way for someone to steal my details. And it’s the same flow to make the payment: double tap the side button and scan my face. This is the parallel with Apple Pay. Plus I think the backend on in-app and in-store payments are the same so it would be ApplePay.
With an absence of evidence of wrongdoing, I assume innocence by default. Perhaps this is where we differ.

By all means, the SEC will look into this (as they should), but I’d wager that DFV is not going to be found guilty.
This isn't exactly what you proposed, but if a sender did include the list-unsubscribe header and you click "Report Spam" instead, Gmail will ask you if you want to unsubscribe as well.
My thoughts are that I'd be in a lot bigger trouble if that happened. If I can't earn dollars, civilization is likely at the point where owning my house wouldn't even matter.
Unexpected consequences, Zoom/niece edition
Study shows that federated learning can lead to reduced carbon emissions
You should consider rewriting that post with FB substituted by 'social media'.
We use the AnyConnect VPN client which allows for a password & 2nd password field for yubikey, same concept. Agree that it works nicely
Just throw it in the alt text
> You can directly observe performance!

From my experience this can be extremely hard - to be able to know how much one employee is contributing compared to another one.
Of course you can. But the parent comment doesn’t put forward any argument for why they think that’s happening. They’re just saying Apple has a monopoly over Apple customers. Which is more of a truism rather than anything insightful.
Central banks will outlaw it because they can't control it and devalue it (either through negative interest rates or helicopter money).

Remember when the US outlawed holding gold? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Markup's part of the data. Particularly in chrismorgan's example, where it's semantic content.

As for CDATA, I think you're right that it'd work in this case (assuming that client apps cope with it there, but if the Atom equivalent works then presumably it should).

I suspect that what we're looking at here is software which is poorly generating its RSS. Probably Wordpress, since I'm at least fairly confident that it doesn't put CDATA in its item titles regardless of their content.
Facebook's statement says that news is only 4% of what is shared on their platform. I'm not sure 4% is a major hit to their platform.

On the other hand, they delivered 5.1 billion views to Australian media sites last year. That would seem to me to be a big hit to media sites.
E-ink already has authorized re-sellers who do this.
> Anyhow I think I oughta just install Factorio and check it out - but I'm deeply curious what it is that keeps bringing you back for more.

There's a demo version which gives you a pretty good idea of how Factorio feels. I forget whether the demo runs on Linux, but the full game is straightforward to run on Linux, by which I mean I forget whether you need an emulation layer.

> Would you mind sharing what it is that keeps bringing you back to play?

To be fair, I did reach the "I'm done with Factorio" point. I have one last hurrah of getting one last accomplishment in progress, and then I'm realistically done with the game.

But to answer your question: it's because Factorio's systems are extremely deep, where the nature of the puzzles and the way you think about them keep evolving. And as you solve those problems you get the satisfaction of seeing those systems working. It's the same high I get from seeing my code work, but in video game form.

> it would have to be the sort of experience that I can play for a few minutes here and there (and / or immerse myself in for several hours at a time when the opportunity arises).

Factorio isn't the type of game you can play for a few minutes at a time. For me, Factorio relies on the same kind of flow state I use for other focused work. So I play it when I opportunistically have long blocks of time. Most of my hours put into Factorio were from earlier years of my life when I had fewer responsibilities and obligations.
We had people install a thing from whichever site they found, often with a toxic payload because third-party sites gamed results to end up above a company, or via sites that started trusted but were taken over by scamware, and then never updated anything, falling prey to whatever virii were doing the rounds.
Certainly the FAANG-er needs to be in a senior role. To have a less stressful job, you need to look for senior- IC work, not management. Coming from management would be ok, but mostly companies I am talking about are looking for technical guidance or, more likely, reassurance. Publishing is helpful only if in the very specific area they are interested about.

As to how to find those positions, my recommendation would be to look for (1) high-revenue, big companies (they have the money and they have the space), (2) going through some sort of transformation (moving to the cloud, opening a new business area), and (3) need prestige, both internally and externally.

You can find those jobs in job ads, but you need to look at the ad written most of the time by a semi-clueless recruiter through the lens of points (1-3) above.
Web UI "standards" are a friggen mess. We really need to rethink it all. For one, if we had a standard state-ful GUI markup language, we wouldn't need to reinvent so many common GUI widgets and idioms using bloated libraries based on JS + DOM.

Second, if web standards allowed true absolute positioning of vectors (as an option), then the layout engines could reside on servers, allowing us to choose a layout engine that best fits domain and need.

Note that while existing web standards do have some coordinate based features, they are too inconsistent to reply upon. If they were any good, we wouldn't need PDF viewers.
Needs more room on the top end of the color code. Texas is 20x greater than Oregon, yet they’re the same color.
One thing I added that is similar to github1s was a macro to open a github repo in VSCode itself locally, not the web vscode thing. This way it also clones the repo locally on my machine too and keeps it up to date.

https://medium.com/@nikitavoloboev/insta-cloning-ff5f38eb1d3...
Yeah I didn't mean to suggest doing all 1, 2 and 3. Pick one. Do something for at least half of your idle time, and do it with purpose.

> when the tide turns, it is not that they are looking at some code review you did or improved documentation you wrote to keep you onboard.

I mostly disagree, but it depends on your employer. As a senior engineer, I very much have the opportunity to differentiate myself and protect my position longer than others. I lost my easy job to lower paid, lower skilled engineer because I chose not to put in the work which would have defined my role as a more difficult one. It was easy to replace me when the time came because I allowed the scope of my role to shrink to menial tasks which did not require much thought.
Solid book.