skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have a good enough idea for a project, I just kinda start making it. No plan. Just trial and error, trying to get what's in my head on to the screen.

This is generally an extremely inefficient way of making a project since planning is usually a good idea, but it's just the way I do things, so I've embraced just starting and seeing where it goes.

I work on projects every day after work for about 2 hours a night, and on weekends for about 4 hours a day. Many times I don't feel like working on my project but I'll still work on it anyways. Nothing better to do.

I always try to make the absolute simplest product I can get away with as I have lots of things I want to make, and after months and months of working on a project I get bored. But... I make sure to always finish what I start.
Watch out for feature creep! Good ideas are a trap!
I agree. Defense contractors.
No, in fact prices for raw logs haven't moved at all. The US government subsidized the planting of trees on farm land in the 80's to boost the price of corn and soybeans and there is an over supply of trees. Supposedly the shortage is all due to mill capacity.
UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low
Wellyou shoul be paying them for the oxygen you consume. It's an externality and if it's not moetised it won't get protected within a market capitalist framework.
Please don’t spread this sort of FUD. I’ve had cleared colleagues who had nuanced opinions on which pot or acid to use, or who were draft dodgers from their home countries, or who were flamingly out with any kink you could care to name.

They care about blackmail material, oaths to other governments, felonies, and not a lot else.
When it comes to marketablity it can go over the top too. Safemoon for example seems to imply that it will go to the moon safely and to me it is a huge turn off. Another one was Cumrocket that is surprisingly not doing too badly but which I’d be super hesitant with for possibly soiling my portfolio
I think this class of issues partly comes from that sales people have much relaxed, politics focused cognition compared to engineers, and are in disregard of non-human entities. They don’t have distinction between MUST or SHALL or SHOULD, everything is MAY or at best RECOMMENDED, and everything you may say or do must be attributed to a person.

So when told there is this thing which must be done by sales that prevents machines doing what that affects customers, it’s interpreted as either an IT guy is making incomprehensibles or hypotheticals because machines cannot be subject of a sentence, and as an empty demand with no return because neither party gains credits from the conversation.

And we’ll end up in “I told you! You had to!” “Told you what? You didn’t say anything”.
Creekstone specifically argued for its use for marketing purposes:[0]

> Creekstone claims to have suffered $200,000 per day in lost revenue as a result of the diminished export market. Stewart Decl. ¶ 17. Moreover, in markets where U.S. beef is available, Creekstone contends that consumer fears about BSE have diminished its sales. See Id. ¶¶ 4, 5 (discussing market surveys in Japan and U.S.). To allay the concerns of consumers and importers, in 2004 Creekstone made a “business decision” to perform the rapid BSE test on each cow it slaughters. ... USDA memorialized its decision to deny Creekstone permission to purchase rapid BSE test kits from Bio-Rad in a June 1, 2004 letter, concluding that “allowing a company to use a BSE test in a private marketing program is inconsistent with USDA's mandate to ensure effective, scientifically sound testing for significant animal diseases and maintain domestic and international confidence in U.S. cattle and beef products.”

Anyway, at the time of the decision, Japan was allowing US exports of beef (this was argued by the USDA in the district court, which they did not pursue on appeal), so their effort was purely a marketing one. For the record, Japan would subsequently go on to ban American beef again, before allowing imports of American beef once more in 2019, after they themselves had scaled back their BSE testing in 2017 to only symptomatic cows.

Would the USDA have allowed Creekstone to use the test if they had said they were going to use it as part of an animal health monitoring measure, which is what the USDA's program is? Maybe, but obviously Creekstone wasn't using it for that purpose if they were wanting to test every cow, including cows for which the test could not possibly detect BSE even if they had it.

[0]: https://www.animallaw.info/case/creekstone-farms-premium-bee...
Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry
Man did you notice how close on of the legs came to missing the concrete pad and ending up in the dirt? It looked like just a couple feet to me. It would have probably tipped over.
The last time i played that it turned into a second job for a few days
Xonsh Shell Tutorial
Internal emails reveal how Apple wanted to keep Netflix using in-app purchases
LiveLeak team moved to develop ItemFix - https://www.itemfix.com/

kinda interesting, almost like they are trying to create meme videos. Currently, I don't think it's very good, but generally could become a thing I supposed.
> The public internet probably isn't it.

If it's not available to the public internet, what's the point? If you just make a "upload your video and we'll archive it" site, it probably won't gain any traction as people can't link to it and thus your site doesn't gain the mindshare that LiveLeak had. And I don't think people are going to start sending SD cards to a random PO box.
Was any person or institution archiving liveleak videos? Even just for the sake of law enforcement or journalistic documentation, I hope there is a way of accessing this content. I'm sure there's a lot of unprocessed history in those shut down servers.
It has had a few times where it’s been meta in niche situations even in later iterations of CS
If you share walls with neighbors? Sometimes though modern buildings no. Gaps and other engineered voids cut that out. I had more issues in Singapore with concrete construction and noise than with a modern townhome and shared walls.
Nixcloud.io
read Steve Dalton's "2 hour job search" (abridged version: http://career-prospectors.com/pdf/CP-Part2-2HJS-28Jul2020.pd...)

This lays out a process which works counter to the conventional wisdom of applying to open positions on job boards (a "Satisficing" approach). I'm trying it now, because I'm in a similar position.
Hehe, nope! We'd discussed it a few times, but never got around to it :)
SC1 and AOE2, have more streamers and events than 3-5 years ago from my Twitch browsing. Both games that are more than two decades old. Really shows the staying power of the RTS genre IMO, sure it's some nostalgia, but there have been remakes and an upcoming AOE4 sequel too.
The world is a scary and violent place. Without Liveleak, you might never feel it. Until you see the actual violence and gore, it doesn't mean anything, it's just empty words. I didn't care at all about wars in the middle east until I saw the reality on Liveleak. Seeing dead children and people with their legs blown off made all the commentary on CNN and Fox seem so understated.

A lot is said about desensitization as a result of seeing horrible things on the internet, but in my experience, only the opposite was true. Seeing violence online when I was in my late teens sensitized me and made the stories on the TV real. Frankly, I owe a lot of my political beliefs (especially on foreign policy) to horrible realities I saw on Liveleak.
(The parent comment is a joke.)
Absolutely not.

So much of their content goes against the TOS of the major advertisers that no one wants to work with them.
Fearless and Fearful Psychology
you've got it wrong. I read more sci fi than you.
Foozles: A retrospective – or Anatomy of a programming language fad [pdf]
Another part is how expensive it is to make masonry buildings safe in earthquakes.
Millions at security risk from old routers, provided by EE, Sky and Virgin
i always understood that liveleak and dailymotion were the same site, and liveleak was just the branding for their less-respectable content.

but this article doesn't make any mention of that, and i can't find any other discussion online of a relationship between the two brands. is this something i just invented in my head?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/what-elon-musks-early-mornin...

All hand meeting Sunday 1 AM.
* Million Dollar Consulting

* Value-Based Fees

* Million Dollar Consulting Proposals

Any one of those will have bits of the other two in it. MDC establishes the mindset, the other two are deep dives into setting fees & drafting proposals the learnings in both of which served me very well.
Car Crash Detection saved me hours of suffering
Why couldn't they make enough money to stay in business?
I’m wondering if the “justified font” selection was chosen by a human or AI…
You should diversify your skillset instead.
I used to work for AEPCO a federal contractor. It was US Army contract work at an Army base for logistics. It was 1996 and they used all kinds of legacy systems. I was in the US Army ROTC which helped learn military terms. But I upsized databases from DBase Lotus 123 Clipper to MS Access and SQL Server and Oracle PL SQL. This skill of converting data from legacy systems to modern ones pays a lot.
It’s not what “the people say they want”. It’s what a few wealthy corporations/individuals can fund signature gathering to put on the ballot, advertise the shit out of, and then trick people into voting for without understanding the implications.

It’s a horrible way to make public policy because it is typically based on an oversimplified model of the world, can be worded vaguely/sloppily, often takes no design input from experts, is almost entirely unresponsive to real-world problems that arise afterwards, generally does not effectively empower lasting institutions to administer the policy and make sure it works as intended, and forces additional complexity, confusion, and legal ambiguity when the state legislature or local governments try to work around it with kludgy patches.
I would honestly hope it could be hosted and paid by an academia organisation, as the motives to drive profit behind this type of platform are so insidious - I fear we'll likely see darknet style actors step in (that is, if we haven't already - I try not to read too much about that side of the internet, having listened to some podcasts that explain just how bad it can get).
Neat! I have been using Bootstrap for several years at work and for personal projects. It allows non-ux folks like me to build useable apps quickly. So thank you!
Having never heard of bitchute, I just checked it out. It’s basically just right wing nut job stuff. I think LiveLeak at least was a little more “balanced”, in that it was about entertaining content, regardless of the political ideology.
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315k to 800k is 2.53x, not 3.5x. That would represent a 7.1% annual increase in 13 years. If housing is 33% of the average person's budget, and all other costs increased by 3% annually, that'd be 4.3% annual inflation. Nowhere near double digits.

(That's of course assuming a very large home price increase like you see in a few Canadian metro areas, which is way out of line with the vast majority of the US)
Just looking at the front page of BitChute it seems more conspiracy crazy than just recordings of crazy things happening.
Twitter Is Acquiring Scroll
EU did a 300 m dose purchase agreement with Pfizer with a big up front down payment at about the same time the US and UK deals were being made.
Giving 2 Doses of Different Covid-19 Vaccines Could Boost Immune Response
people often actually click the right buttons to start the VC even when they aren't expecting VC guests

In at least one Google building I worked in, for a while conference rooms were in such short supply that if you didn't start the VC, after a few minutes some calendar bot would decide that the room wasn't being used, remove your reservation from the room, and five minutes later someone else would show up and try to kick you out.
Agree. I was never that cognizant of what ISIS/ISIL/Daesh were capable of until I saw videos on LiveLeak that made it all very real. You won’t find those anywhere else, but I dare say that the emotions those stir in the viewer create political clarities that are razor sharp, in a way you can’t get through overly academic and stoic news articles.
Yes. After the Vietnam war, real footage of violence left the public zeitgeist. Liveleak hosted videos that showed what life was really like when you listened to the guy who was trying to recruit you into the U.S. Army.
IBM Cloud has Lite accounts, which are quite limited but always free.
Turning a 3D printer into an electrochemical CNC machine
And reddit as far as I know
Back in 1969 I was taking a number theory class, and I remember being taught that it was the purest of pure math subjects with (essentially) no application. It was simply a subject with beautiful results and beautiful proofs—good training for a budding mathematician.

Ironically, now the results of number theory are an important foundation for essential computer science.
War and terrorism was definitely made “more real” on LiveLeak than what you’d experience via the media or YouTube.

I also found a real appreciation for other things: driving safely, worker protections, fire safety. These “boring” things take on more importance when you can see what happens when you ignore them.

I don't think people should dwell on these morbid things. But seeing just one or two videos of, for example, a bad car crash, can really give you a healthy fear of these dangers.
Ask HN: Why is silent coworking/ networking a thing?
I notice for a while that silent networking was a thing on audio-only apps and now I also notice that silent coworking is also a thing on online meetings. What's the psychology behind silent coworking/ networking?
Mixed feelings from me. I remember the Hussein video. I never believed in the vision, but they hosted important events I simply could not see from other sites.

Reddit users rely on it and I knew what I was getting into if I clicked on a LiveLeak link.

Separately, being a content moderator for LL must be absolute hell. While you must filter for illegal things, you're actually expected to watch through the death and gore. That can not be healthy.
4.3% is still a shocking number; it's roughly double the number the BoC declares.
Shifting the impossible to the inevitable: a private ARPA user manual
They do moderate it though. They have spent a fair bit of time removing certain shooting videos.
Shocking news. Not as shocking as watching a video on LiveLeak, but still surprising.
> ...there needs to be at least some value proposition.

This is spot on.

I'd recommend signing up and completing a relatively well-known coding bootcamp.

Edit to add, in 20 years a lot has changed outside of just specific CS skills:

Cloud collaborative suites, conferencing systems, Slack/MSFT Teams, JIRA, git, just to name a few.

20 years ago, I was at my first role out of college--we used Outlook, MSFT VC++ 6.0, VSS, and AOL Instant Messenger.
Two birds with one stone? Unemployment in Spain is crazy high.
Wow, yeah. Reddit killed the forum. Google and silo'd social media (FB, TikTom) are eating everything else.

I just realized that I barely recognize the modern net vs. the one I grew up with.
If I could upvote this a Milllion times I would.
The irony of your post is you talk about hard work and education but in reality it was entirely luck.

If your family didn’t leave the war torn country you would’ve been screwed.

The same thing with the undocumented immigrant managing to get into the country.
Well the monthly sub is quite clear, as well as paid expansions. Which I'm a fan of (I play FFXIV a bit). Otherwise, there's no clear price signal.

In f2p or bolted on cash shops like FFXIV I'm always wondering, should I buy some mtx? I don't really want to encourage them too much. I don't know what is reasonable to spend to keep the game afloat, I don't want to feel like a leech, but I really have no interest in cosmetics. I don't know if buying or not buying sends a stronger signal to them to spend more effort on mtx rather than the game - sometimes it just seems like all roads lead that way.

FFXI is in a similar state to EQ2 I'd guess, it only has the monthly sub but a really hardcore base who's still there (or dips their toes back in like I did for a bit) after all these years. It still gets minor monthly updates and probably has a nice ROI for the effort.
This was a great story. What I see is that Kim had around five affairs at that time, all overlapping, between Dec to Feb 1984

1 11111 2
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3 3333 555

3 and 4 are Sean and Todd respectively. It's normal behavior and understandable that a woman will lie about it because of the social stigma but genetically it's biologically sensible for her to try to get as much material as she can when she's fertile. Even though she remembers this she's not going to risk her having another potential person to take care of her in her old age by telling the truth. Plus the stigma plays a part in her being reluctant to tell Emma the truth.

There's a lot of these stories out there between 10% and 25% of people globally are affected by various kinds of this genealogical bewilderment even if they don't know it or they have an established it through genetic testing.
Agree. Kayla Mueller would be alive today if she had watched some ISIS execution videos on LiveLeak.
That's basically it, this might help:
http://peeterjoot.com/2019/09/20/an-example-of-linux-glibc-s...
> in anticipation of a market correction is the wrong strategy

You still don't quite get it: you're playing the market with this statement. Unless you're a "Big Swinging Dick" (the Salomon Brother's term in Liar's Poker for people that did a million or more a day, which is peanuts today) or on the NYSE trade-floor it ain't gonna happen. The vast majority of people I've known who believed this failed to anticipate and should have just held. But don't let me stop you, go right ahead and gamble away.
> "Most new cars sold in USA have breaks that work. It doesnt make sense to test them since this would give the public a wrong impression that cars are safe".

This isn't what the argument against testing every cow is about. It is really 'You can't test every car's brakes with a test that will say the car's brakes are OK even if those brakes are bad'. If a food product had a toxic ingredient, do you think it's appropriate for a company to run a test that can detect it, say, 50% of the time, and say their product is xyz-toxin-free? What if the test is only effective 10% of the time? 1%?

The USDA didn't decide not to perform no tests for BSE tests at all. They decided to perform tests specifically for those cases where, if the cow had BSE, the test could actually catch it. Again, I don't entirely agree with the USDA's approach, but it isn't unreasonable.
Not sure if this is what they're referring to, but in the downtown area I-5 traces the original shoreline. Everything to the west is fill from Seattle's many regrades. https://youtu.be/oSSxdogrv1s?t=519
In a sense I am biased, because I do like Reddit.

But in the last year every time I've needed to find real reviews about something it's the only search results that weren't bot spam or obviously copy and pasted product descriptions from someone that hadn't ever touched the product.

It could be that I'm just searching for different things, but I'm not the only one that has noticed. I've seen the "add reddit" suggestion from a bunch of unconnected people on Twitter as well, one of whom started off with "I hate reddit, but..."
I agree in many cases, but remember that this is a double-edged sword. Being exposed to horrible things can also make people support unreasonable policies and seed hatred. This principle is why the family of victims aren't put on the jury.
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Cobol&l=New+York%2C+NY
That's only brick though. Concrete does not have that problem AFAIK.
What Is a Tree?
If you don't get promotions you lose certain stock grants which greatly reduces your pay

The entire system is a scam and built specifically to keep you at google and drinking the kool aid
> (If you would like to hire such a worker in the NY area or remotely, PM me!)

Your profile is empty and Hacker News doesn't have a native PM function.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186475
Seeing a child trying to gather the pieces of his mother after getting shredded by an Apache gunship undermines government propaganda. If something makes you realize you're probably not always the good guy bringing democracy then that something is quite dangerous and it should be removed.
> Yes, it will, as in the sheer volume of passed legislation.

But that wasn’t the claim. How do we see it is mostly ill conceived? Or indeed notable compared to similar populations ?

I’m not saying you are wrong. I’m saying it doesn’t seem at all obvious.
Is she a disabled Veteran? Because if so, she might be able to apply for a non-competitive job appointment in the Federal government
Honestly LiveLeak got pretty soft over time. Final years were nothing like its former years.
"Surplus men"...? So they should just give up and quietly accept their lot in life? That just doesn't seem right.
I think your understanding of the law is more strict than it actually is. The text of 17602(c) reads:

> In addition to the requirements of subdivision (b), a consumer who accepts an automatic renewal or continuous service offer online shall be allowed to terminate the automatic renewal or continuous service exclusively online, which may include a termination email formatted and provided by the business that a consumer can send to the business without additional information.

Since you can cancel your NYTimes subscription via chat, that seems to satisfy the "exclusively online" requirement.
I don't feel like posting the alternative, but there is a much more extreme alternative to LiveLeak that makes LiveLeak look like eye bleach and I suspect much of LiveLeak's users moved over to it.

LiveLeak was in a weird position because it allowed full on gore but it also kind of tried to pretend to be a serious site reporting actual events. I suspect most people going to LiveLeak were not interested in seeing a legit gore site pretending to be news and just wanted the most hardcore gore they could find, and well the alternative to LiveLeak is exactly that.
I notice Ogrish.com redirects to this new vanilla site as well. What a relic from the turn of the century Internet.
I happen to think a lot of the pandemic denial and downplaying had to do with the media's refusal (for valid privacy reasons) to show what was actually going on in ICUs everywhere. The lack of graphic coverage kept the pandemic's worst effects out of sight, out of mind for a lot of people, allowing them to focus on and rage against the less important side-issues like how awful masks are and how upset it made them to not be able to drink at bars for a while. Just like honest, graphic war reporting helped to end Vietnam, honest, graphic COVID reporting could have helped shock people into doing their part to end the pandemic.
*libwebrtc is also planning to stop using usrsctp soon
It Began as an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker