skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the premise of what you read is correct, but the conclusion you make seems different.

People aren’t killing themselves, so even if their life sucks in many ways they must have found enough good things in the world to balance them out.

The original premise somewhere further up was that poor people are never happy.

I guess I should have used a less extreme point.
brutal reality is the only weapon against mass-indoctrination.

can you even imagine if Iraq was a western country? would Syria happen if 1/100000 of Iraq was televised? would Iraq happen if child deaths under sanctions was televised? can empathy see through the fog of indoctrination/demonization/skin-color?

go ahead, shadowban again and again.
Alright I'll bite. It is lease to own, not an indefinite subscription.

First off the device itself is completely optional to use, and infact millions of people don't use or have this device. They operate their motorcycles every day just fine. So it isn't really a life or death situation. It isn't a pacemaker or medical device where the user dies if it is turned off. So let's not be so dramatic.

Yes it might improve your chances of survival if you get into an accident. But you know what will improve your odds significantly? Not riding a motorcycle in the first place.

A user would also know ahead of time if the device is active or not. It might be a different story if it suddenly stopped working with the user unaware. It is up to the user whether or not to risk using a motorcycle without the device.

Let's take this same scenario and change the product in question and still see if it is so horrible.

If you own a SAAS business and a client stops paying. Do you continue to provide the service? Probably not.

If you are a car rental company, and a customer stops paying. Do you continue to let them use the vehicle? Again no.
I'm merely explaining how it got to the current situation from my own point of view. There is no money in showing the real consequences of people's actions. People pay to be coddled and have their biases confirmed. Without any money you cannot maintain a considerable online presence (especially content hosting).
I have no idea if it has corner-case failure modes, it probably does, like all products including your car. However, the product page for the vest mentions it has adventure mode, which means the rider is expected to be out of range of cell service for periods of time, so it seems evident that they might have thought about microcontroller reboots, since the device is going to be powered on and off out of range anyway.

I don’t understand why there is a flood of pure speculation in this comment section assuming that the design must be worst-case and trash. There’s no reason to jump to that unfounded conclusion.
Depression affects everyone differently. But it does not mean a constant unending, it can come and go and those peaks and valleys lead to what I'm talking about.
And the site seems to be written with Scribble[0], so that's at least two interesting choices of tools.

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
hackernews feature request: spoiler tags. :)
I think that using a better datastructure is often better than normalizing in tests: if order doesn’t matter, use a bag or set instead of arrays. I’ve generally found that this sort of thinking reduces boilerplate across the board.
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> more information should always be better

It's not, though. There's a cost to collecting the information, it's not always actionable, and it can be wrong. On the human side, there's a reason they say "ignorance is bliss."
How is protecting your borders petty?

The UK decided to leave the EU, this seems like an entirely expected consequence.
For solar that would be at least $7b every 25-30 years, no?
Ive been giving out 1.1.1990 for years now. Makes it easy to remember even after a long time
In the app I host on Azure I am using 16 different services offered by Azure. One (1) of them is running VMs. Cloud is so much more that just running virtual machines.
You don't have to write a test for "if this underlying call throws an exception, that same exception is propagated up to me," which is about 80% of the test cases I write for Go.

You do have to test cases where exceptions are supposed to be caught and handled/eaten, which I agree is meaningful and relevant in all languages.
> downplaying

In what world do you live where you call the year long constant fear mongering "downplaying"?
Never give anyone your real DOB without a proven need to know.

The key to using a fake DOB is consistency. Use some simple formula to be able to reproduce your fake DOB on demand. If you can't do this, if you use different DOBs, Google will obviously know your date is fake.

As an example, here is what I do to create a consistent DOB for my fake online persona.

Swap month and day (instead of May 10th, I use Oct. 5th) then reverse the last 2 digits of year. My formula obviously won't work for you if the resulting date is invalid so develop your own. For example, you could subtract X from year, month and day. Or use your mother/wife's month and day with your year. Anything will work as long as you can remember and reproduce it.

My online persona also uses a different spelling variation of my name.

Once again, consistency is the key to not eventually being rejected or banned.
It is indeed the FTCs official option: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...
In my experience with buying from china, it can be described in a saying that is making rounds especially in marketing gadgets market:

You can pay more, and get 100% of your order QA checked and certain to work. Or you can pay less, and at best you will get 130% of your order because that will statistically ensure there's enough of your order done right in the package, but you sort it yourself.
I know it uses JS but the customValidity stuff is pretty cool too!
Agree with this entirely. So much is never said or seen on commercial media. It’s easy it’s shrug off a censored report and carry on with your day.

However the comments section was nasty. There are a lot of really not very right people out there waiting to have their world view and prejudices legitimized. And that’s quite worrying.
I remember they used to show bad car crashes as part of the training you could take to reduce the number of penalty points (Polish road code, accumulate 24, lose your driving license). My colleague, who was a bit of a petrolhead, took it. It made him drive safe(r) at least for a few weeks.
Took 30 seconds to find it on Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bread-and-media-circuses/
The rot is also behind the scenes.

The "Anti Evil Ops" team are also full of braindead morons who do not distinguish between context and targeted harassment.

In a private sub (A PRIVATE SUB, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!), I quoted what a cop said to me when I went to report an assault and I got permanently suspended. (Cop said I was "probably being a [bundle of sticks].") The suspension reason? "Hateful speech."

Someone randomly posted a single word post ("N-hard-r!") in response to someone in a public sub. The post was still there one month later despite being reported by multiple people. Based on the user's posting activity, was not suspended for the slur, either.

There are people in trans subs who have been given suspensions for openly talking about the kind of harassment they've received and the things that have been said to them. Some of it instantaneous based on keywords. Some of the people I know who have appealed have had their appeals denied.

But apparently someone using a racial slur in a post all by itself with absolutely zero context for it is somehow acceptable in comparison.

Reddit had gone down some really questionable paths before, arguably tacitly allowing criminal behaviour on the site until it was noticed by the media... and then they draw the line at queer or trans people talking about their own experiences.

At this point I can only say "Everything." if someone were to ask me what is wrong with Reddit... and this is coming from someone who had a 14 year account on that site.
I left programming for about six years to do grad school in Classics. I came back because programming was way more fun. The writing was on the wall when I started writing scripts to scan dactylic hexameter and convert L'Année philologique entries to bibtex. :-)

I spent six months doing a (failed) startup with a student from the biz school, and then I started taking freelance gigs. I got a few job offers, but I was enjoying self-employment so much, I wound up just sticking with freelancing. Today I'm making more than I would as a non-FAANG employee. I'm 44 and haven't felt any age discrimination.

Ironically, getting contract work is way easier than getting an FTE offer. You have a 30-minute call with one programmer and another with the owner/manager, and you're hired. No leetcode, day-long on-site visits away from home, or unpaid trial projects.

While your rates are still low, you can also find a lot of work by reaching out to web design firms and presenting yourself as an expert in X. For example if they mostly have PHP employees but you do Rails or D3, they will be happy to bring you on. Even with expensive rates, I still get subcontracting work when people need a Postgres expert.

In my case I was still very comfortable building web applications,
but the six months at my own startup let me learn Rails & Heroku and gain confidence that I could still get things done. If she can also spend half a year learning and building something that proves her skills, I think she will de-risk herself for lots of employers.

Or she may be able to find a lot of Cobol opportunities immediately. I know someone who was at a bank doing sales, and they gave him paid on-the-job training to switch to Cobol work. (I'm happy to talk with her and make a connection if she is interested.) Now he's applying at IBM. So it seems like there is plenty of work out there still.
Theres literally a million sketchy ad companies out there that would be happy to buy that traffic
I have been collecting new shell ideas here:

http://evmar.github.io/smash/related.html
I understand why you would choose Heroku for a small personal project, but can anyone help me understand why a company would choose to use it for core infra?

It seems outrageously overpriced.
Focusing all your might on a single platform can give you reliability and even better performance, and is less work.

Focusing on portability gives you a set of abstractions to build upon, that will take your time, reduce performance often, and limit your capabilities. But... it can also make you have a better mental problem of the problem you're solving, and allow you to move faster when underlying details change.

Like everything, it has ups and downs, I think.
What is your experience or could you link to a study that confirms your point of view?
What law requires Google/an email company to know your exact DoB?
Good username. Legitster is legit.

||...But please don't tell me to Jet off Alone...||
RemoteHub in VS Code – work on repos without cloning
Maybe they should build some large reinforced concrete buildings that can act as tsunami shelters and also fulfil a secondary function such as public library (do they still have those) or offices/shops or whatever. Maybe 100 ft high would be enough, but design it so that people can survive inside it even if it is temporarily overrun by the tsunami.

Or you could build a larger number of small reinforced shelters that would be designed to be overrun but would keep people alive until the tsunami retreats.
also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27055671
The reason I put Atos on my blacklist is experiencing a case where their contracted support was so bad, I had to do things twice - first I had to do what they should do, then design a step-by-step document that graphically showed each button to click (essentially "programming the person") and send that to them...

After escalations, they finally noticed client got angry and suddenly there was someone skilled at the other end. But I suspect it was exception and only for a short time.
Isn't the expectation at this point literally, "better than nothing"?
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This creates a surprising situation.

We have a batch process that uses S3 as a way to temporarily store some big datasets while another streams and processes then and, once complete, removes them. This takes like an hour.

So our S3 bill could be, let’s say, $10/mo. If you went and looked at your S3 bill and saw that and thought setting a $20 cap would give you reasonable headroom you’d be sorely surprised when S3 stopped accepting writes or other services started getting shut down or failing next time the batch job triggered.

Under this system, the budget and actual bill need to be off by a factor of more than 10 ($240). And this also doesn’t stop your bill being off by a factor of 10 from what you “wanted” to set your limit to. More than the $200 under discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City#/medi...

Even New York started out looking like a small town. There are lots of places that look like this in California today, and are under comparable economic pressure to grow. They're just choosing not to respond.
Very nice list. TIL amount meter and datalist. One remark, if your first point explains lazy loading, your intro does not need to explain what HTML is.
I was in a similar role about that time, I bet you had fun with msvc and manifests :)
An out-of-control Chinese rocket is hurtling back to Earth
The Opportunists
If everyone has a job except you, unemployment is a lonely and depressing endeavour. If the majority of your friend circle is unemployed, it becomes something different.

In Canada with CERB ($400/week), it's been like being a school kid on summer break all over again. You have very little money, but can spend endless days reconnecting with your friends, hiking, playing games, learning music, et cetera.

Not many people want to get a job - as it's just as fun as being the only kid in your group who got a job at 17. You might be making money, but everyone else is making out at the midnight bonfire
> You really don't think that the first desensitizes some to the point that they think the 2nd is acceptable??

No, why should it? It seems to me that the difference is extremely clear for everyone. Is there any good argument beyond "but it obviously does!" – or even better, research – which demonstrates that it does?

You are just refuting what I'm saying without any actual arguments.
I got to this part and huffed.

" to a disappointment (67.9% slower in Clay County, Missouri)."

I live in Clay County Missouri right now, it has _Google Fiber_. That's caused other broadband providers to improve service, driving up the average speed. The incumbents weren't happy about it.

I still get mad thinking about the bold faced lies the Spectrum retention specialist slovenly projected in my direction while I was switching. She told me Google Fiber was so fast that it could damage my devices, including my Smart TV! NP, I'll take that risk lady.

Despite sounding like it's in the middle of nowhere, Clay County, Missouri has some of the fastest internet in the country now.

I've been on the Starlink waiting list for another Missouri county a few hours away. The best internet speeds out there are measured in kbps. I look upon the light blue "oh this is bad" 50 Mbps map with white knuckle desire.

Email me back soon papa Elon, so I can move out to my farm at last. I doubt I'll be the only Starlink migrant in this country. If it works like I think it will, there will be some pretty weird societal changes in our near future.
How can any designer of a safety product justify it having any kind of software shutoff? Safety products must _failsafe_, especially in unexpected situations. This is just failing hard.
That sounds partial. What prevents somebody who is still relatively young and understands the current norms, and who might even have struggled through it themselves and learned their lessons, from giving out advice? AFAIK there was a book from an Asperger guy that got 1000+ upvotes here not long ago: https://www.danielwendler.com/

If your objection is that you are looking for a long-term relationship instead of pick-up skills, and you are not satisfied with the replies that state the supposed confidence boost from learning pick-up dynamics, there are also plenty of resources exclusively focusing on finding and maintaining long-term relationships, such as the one above.
It’s a lot easier for them to refund the individuals who make mistakes than deal with the fallout and bad press from the small businesses they’ve destroyed when they incorrectly enable that option.
Detecting memory management bugs with GCC 11, Part 2: Deallocation functions
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I mean it is a red state and this seems in line with Republican talking points. I am actually surprised to see it implemented because people usually just complain about "unemployed people getting help from the state" so I guess good for them for actually walking the walk (even though the policy is baseless of course). The election turnout was over 80% so there's that too.
Funky town?
It certainly was at one point, but near the end it definitely wasn't. Whether it was soft censorship, hard censorship, or a declining user base, I struggled to find videos I could sometimes even find on Twitter or Youtube. Videos whose place was obviously LiveLeak, based on their standards from 5 years ago.

As much as I lament the death of LiveLeak, it died well before today.
In the US it's long seemed obvious that cars have way too much privilege. (Just tonight I was honked at by a driver who wanted to use the intersection I was crossing.)

Yet, while we've had ideas floated for decades (e.g. limiting auto-traffic on downtown streets, as in Tokyo), it seems that not-driving keeps getting pushed away by something else. Malls disappearing? Amazon appears. (Humor: a person I knoe has been able to rebuild their only car because all the parts are being delivered - from everywhere in the country.)

Covid appears and mass-transit takes a big hit ... and Zoom appears to keep people home from work and school.

Someplace in the US has to be the first to try the Amsterdam way. But, given our habits built by 80 years of politics and conditioning (the Freeways were built under the direction of the former CEO of GM !) ... who'll be able to be the first?
So what were the reasons?
640x400, 24 FPS video on Atari 1040STF (68000 8 MHz) [video]
I've heard him described recently as a political yoda. it's apt. he's spry & sharp & listens to good smart people, and he listens to opposition, then he tries to cobble together workable good plans. he has shown good wisdom & acumen.

no idea what would give anyone a different impression right now, except for dishonest & slanted agenda-driving propoganda.
It's a what-if just like everything else. Congress could ban computers tomorrow too and we'd all be out of a job. So far they haven't and there isn't a real risk of them doing so. Even SESTA doesn't ban hosting outright, it just complicates payment for content. A treaty like you're talking about doesn't appear to be on the table, at least not soon, and probably won't be given that other countries are much more sex-positive than the US is (prostitution is legal in many places in Europe, for example).
I actually used 5 (native search) for a fully static web (non spapp) that I helped build recently:

https://beachboyslegacy.com
Whatever, the point being that this wasn't a decision from glibc developers.

As for what C version one is required to use alongside libc, UNIX is C's platform, on other OSes libc is part of the compiler not OS.

Also a post C11 compliant compiler is not required to still provide gets() in their libc for the case you use C89/C99 language mode.
When Austrians talk about inflation, they specifically mean an increase in the money supply. They also mean this today. You said in your original post that for a cryptocurrency to be inflationary/deflationary, it needs a governing body adjusting the supply - which is not correct using the original definition of inflation. And even if you use your definition (increasing price level), it is still just an effect of inflation (increase in money supply) that may or may not be caused by a governing body.
Ok, so, as both a developer and owner of a company that built a physical product (in the Cosmetic field, so no tech stack :D ) I'd say that, at least for me it all starts with scratching my own itch.

Create it for you, solve your problems, chances are you are among a group of people that share the same issues and the work will be "where do this people group together?"

Creating a company in a cosmetic field was challenging, but I do believe it's something feasable for everyone as long as you accept the fact that you must delegate part of the work.

I still think that this might be true for the dev field, so yeah, as many other pointed out: Build a decent MVP that solve a problem, share it with the people who care.

Obviously, for me, turning into a product means "making some money", otherwise you're simply testing.
So, the process to get from "I have an idea" to "I have a product" might vary a lot.

I started saying "Scratch your own itch" because if you are not solving something you care about and you are infatuated by an idea, doing the market research, finding what the ideal customer really wants is hard.
Instead, if you are the first customer of your product and use it daily it's much easier to find pitfalls, problems, defects and so on.

From there, a good advice I always found is trying to sell it to the circle of people you know even before selling online.
If none of them buy the product (note the word "Buy". don't give it away for free) there's a good chance something is off.
Yes, they might not be your target user, but I would bet that you should at least have a friend that shares part of your interests.

As for how to choose ideas: We have limited time, so I invest in the one with the higher probability of success and leave the others in a list. What happens is that, from time to time (rarely but not so much), I'll see someone else came up and made money with a similar idea.
I'll bite my finger, smile, and move on :D
Afterall what counts is not the idea alone, it's the execution. That will -always- make the difference.
> there's no sense in reducing the efficiency of in-office employees just to level the playing field.

There is no sense in not teaching high level math to gifted children, yet it is still happening in the name of equity. Just watch and see in person meeting getting banned in the name of equity as we progress from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism.
Zhihu is popular in China.
>You have very little money, but can spend endless days reconnecting with your friends, hiking, playing games, learning music, et cetera.

The horror! Sounds like these employers need to raise wages to do better than the absolute minimum. If higher paying jobs are available, people will work. And some people still won't, but those people weren't going to work much anyway.
That implies that customers who do not get support can leave. My understanding is a lot of them have their money locked up in Coinbase and can’t get it out. Not really sure why anyone would need support from them otherwise.

Coinbase is kind of like the money hole at a blackjack table in Vegas. Putting money in to get chips is never really an issue.
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations. I need more time to look into them but I just wanted to add here that the book you mentioned [1] stands out as one of the most aesthetically pleasing IT books I've seen.

[1] http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/