skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is important to try and teach your kids that compromising is part of life, that you can't always get what you want, and that you should try to secure financial security before 'shooting for the stars'. But parents alone don't do everything. I feel our whole society is strangely wired to tell people to follow their dreams, not to listen to naysayers, etc. Try telling kids that they'll have to do mindnumbing tiring shit 5 days a week to be able to afford 2 days of rest where they can be 'someone they want to be' is a losing proposition.

I'd feel better as a parent if they liked a lot of stuff (manual, intellectual, artistic, helping, electronics, clothes, cooking, selling, building, repairing, teaching), had an open mind and excellent work ethic, so that when they find themselves doing any job, they'll try to excel, find something in it, and 'be who they want to be' in their job too. Office politics, the way you treat others, helping colleagues, improving your skills, taking responsibilities, being a responsible and helpful member of a team or a society, keeping ethics standards high... You name it. They can also be achieved through work, while not really being fond of what you're doing. CPA, blue collar jobs (or plumber for you) don't seem to be dream careers, but there's many opportunities to be a productive, impactful, helpful and happy member of society while working those.
Zach Holman one of the first github employees didn't get to exercise any of his options for the aforementioned reasons. When they tell you to throw your life away to believe in the vision, nobody tells that 24 y/o to get a lawyer to understand what that actually means.

He compiled a list of startups with sane exercise windows:

https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
It’s a bigger issue with fishing than other industries. The slave boats stay in international waters indefinitely, and they hand the fish off to other boats to bring it into port.

Some clothing is sewn in route in international waters, but I get the impression it’s less feasible to transfer the contents of container vessels in open water. Also, it’s harder to conceal the slave labor on those boats: You’d need to make the paperwork match on both sides of the journey if you left with a “skeleton crew” and a load of textiles, and arrived with products ready to sell. There’s no source port for the fish, so that problem becomes easier. You just need to conceal one way shipments of supplies into the ocean.

Clothing manufacturing is also an abusive industry, but I get the impression that fishing wins out in terms of absolute number of literal slaves (not “slaves”, as you put it).
It's weird reading ycombinator and the persons above you says something else.
That's excusable from his point of view because it just shows the urgency of boring more tunnel for hyperloop, and such ;->
It's only a FSM if the users litter a guard function all over the place, otherwise this is just some deeply nested non-sugar on top of useReducer.
Please don't spread false info. Andrew has never had access to the Snoonet data or servers and there has never been any logging. Anonymous "sources" for IRC drama are usually anonymous for a reason, just as your new HN account is.

Source: I help run and maintain the servers.
Hard to live on 3000EUR/month after housing?
> If that's not true, then it implies that live in a class-based system.

It really doesn’t. It does absolutely imply that the system is broken, but it most certainly doesn’t imply that it is ‘class based’ in some essential way.
Not in tech. Opportunities are abound. My parents had no assets and were rather poor. Tech has allowed me to live in a cheap area and make an extraordinary income and build up wealth for the first time in my family remotely. I work from home and have never had to commute.
That's kind of always the case, because using non-government backed currency undermines governments control of its own economy.
Why do you assume they have children? Not everyone choose to have children and frankly, that's a great decision. I'm a parent but I subscribe to the feeling that instead of assuming everyone has/wants kids, we should praise people who don't.
> I decided to move my channel, ##hntop, to Liberachat.

> This channel has moved to Liberachat, effective immediately

To be fair, this is a very gray area and is not a cut-and-dry example of abuse of power. The op did express that they were moving on to Libera. Is the expectation that someone could squat (as per the new channel description) a channel for all perpetuity, even if they no longer participate on the platform?

Conversely, rasengan really should have first had a conversation with the op, and did pull the trigger on this suspiciously quickly.
I had the same thought I think it’s super funny I’m reading about IRC drama on here in 2021
It’s interesting to me how certain design patterns get rediscovered over the years. A few years back FSM’s were a dirty word for crusty Java devs. I myself avoided them for that reason. Then one day I had a perfect use case for one and took the plunge and was amazed by how useful a pattern it is. I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to get hip to it. I’m writing a feature at my job right now that makes heavy use of FSMs. Very testable and the nature of the pattern means you can have a lot of confidence in your state being valid. I highly recommend trying it out even if you don’t adopt this hook or xstate (you can make a FSM fairly easily)
> This 19 wooden tire thumper lets you know if your tires are fully pressurized by making a thump as it hits the rubber. Just swing the thumper and listen for the sound. If your tires are low in pressure it makes a different sound. Save time checking tire pressure on your rig with this wooden tire thumper.

Is this some kind of nonsense to avoid marketing it as a weapon, or do people really use these to check tyre pressures instead of… looking at or kicking the tyre? Or even a tyre pressure gauge?
Didn't Moz fire all the people who worked on this, and they have started their own project now?
Freenode broke their own policies to do this: https://freenode.net/policies

>Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for the channel has joined it.

##hntop is a topical channel, since it begins with ##.
This is essentially talking about the same findings from The Monopoly experiment (https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-talk-monopoly-makes-peop...)

In that experiment, one of the players would get more initial money and two dice rolls per turn (instead of one). Then, even though it was clear that the game was rigged in their favor, they would act as if it was their own superior game skills that allowed them to win, mocking the other players at the same time.
for clarification, as you know for sure, but others maybe don't: ... and keeping all the settings on the USB drive too.

//edit: typo
Getting Unity Builds with GitHub Actions
[EN] https://bariscanyilmaz.hashnode.dev/getting-unity-builds-with-github-actions

[TR] https://medium.com/bursa-i-o/github-actions-ile-unity-build-18ed88a692aa
Great detective work, thanks.

This doesn't really help me understand what the hell is going on though. At this point I think I'm just gonna chalk it up to "IRC Drama" and call it a day.
The problem of lifetime state issued punishments that are designed to make people feel really bad is their economic insanity. Applying the death penalty in the US involves spending millions in legal and incarceration fees. It also seems to have no deterrence effect on mass murderers, which the US has a high concentration of.

The cost of lifetime imprisonment or execution is outright massive, in the millions over the lifetime of imprisonment. When you look at it in terms of economic output, these sentences are a calamity. For $2m USD spent on achieving a death penalty outcome, you could buy over 600k healthy school lunches for $3 each or pay the salary for one extra school teacher per year over a lifetime.
TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is promoting homophobia and antitrans violence
Not just the seller, workers at the manufacturing plant, and any person who walked in the shop and asked to hold it.
The article is quite comprehensive and well written. There's also a lot of assumptions and false alternatives, like that people work to maximize financial outcome or that there's an equalprobable choice between working for startup or for FAANG.

My opinion is to try working for early stage startups while one is young and idealistic, choosing it by heart, thus maximizing its chances to success. Getting familiar with different techs and stacks. Getting a good networking while
visiting meetups and hackathons. Even if the startup won't fly, it will help to get much more interesting position in established company later.
Anyone want to summarize the argument of these 14 states that isn't "Yes, we as a society locked up an innocent for 30 years, but now that they're free we don't owe them anything"..?
The thing is, it's all luck.

Policies are made with the idea that someone like you must have somehow "earned" it, and you may believe it yourself, but no one chooses to be poor. You were lucky enough to get a good job, lucky enough to be able to work so much without burning out, lucky to be born smart, or a man, or white. It all adds up and it's all luck. You always made the most optimal choice you thought possible, as anyone would.

Yet the pervasive idea that one can "earn it" and become rich through sheer willpower has the unfortunate implication that those who are "still" poor must somehow deserve it. If some can grit their teeth through their misfortune and achieve upward social mobility, why can't they all? This is of course absurd of the face of it because your gain was someone else's loss, we can't all be "rich" as it is inherently relative. But also because any given poor person generally has the goal if not the priority of becoming less poor. Having grown up poor, no one wants to believe it's a permanent state of affairs.

Generally speaking, everyone works hard and no one wants to be poor. Yet modern capitalism (even our Canadian version) is largely engineered to punish the poor for being so, even though in the end, it's all luck.

Edit: Here's an interesting paper on the topic of misattribution of success: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaau1156.full
More logical solution would be for Medium, Financial times etc. disable their paywall when the source is HN, Reddit etc. like they do for Social Media.

Perhaps there's a need gap for 3rd party service which can work out a deal between news websites and submission forums.
For people new to the topic, here’s a comment that tries to summarize recent Freenode events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27237202
I wouldn't be surprised to find gene expressions making Western-style education and standardized tests sub-optimal for whole swaths of people (hypothesis). Imagine if your very makeup go against what you're told should be just routine, but it goes against your innate body-mind preferences. Imagine that for whole tribes of people, and that maybe there are better paths more optimized to grow and educate different populations. Being able to communicate the gap or avoid misgivings, would be next to impossible.

A discussion of such would be less about identity, and more about who-we-shall-become, the evolving versions of ourselves, though also respecting heritage.

This is only possible with trust and common ground.
1997 IRC drama was resolved on IRC. This drama is mostly being executed through lawyers and legal BS.
Apple would probably also prefer it if I had to use an in-app purchase to pay my rent, but luckily we live in a nation of laws, and Apple doesn't get to decide everything based on unilateral self-interest.
my bad. I was drinking and posting which probably didn't help either.
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This is a Finite State Machine meaning there are a limited set of states and state transitions allowed. useReducer doesn’t have any of the state/transition validation logic which makes it an infinite state machine. Both are very useful. Different use cases though.
This is indicative of the broader problem: whereas the former staff treated Freenode as a community resource of which they were stewards (hence also the policy around abandoned channels), the new administration is clearly treating it as their personal sandbox to play in.
Principal role = expensive lean manager. They want to help others achieve something without actually getting their hands dirty. Of all the principal engineers I’ve worked with, the vast majority behave like motivational coaches/lean managers. Examples:

- There’s an outage on a Sunday morning. A huge Slack thread starts. Devops and devs on call manage to fix the issue. Principal engineer gets involved ACKing other’s people comments, adding thumbs up emojis, and at the end says “Big thank you to all the people involved” (plus a rocket emoji)

- There’s a decision to be made regarding i18n for DB tables. Architects, senior devs and the principal engineer get together to talk about potential solutions. The principal engineer acts as a lean manager: let people talk in turns, does support good ideas (I mean, he’s not clueless ofc), does try to gather everyone in to a common solution... but never gets his hands dirty as in: “what do you think about solution X? I could work on a POC to see if it’s worth it”. If, after months, it turns out that the idea to be implemented does work, then he says “All the props to the team!” (No way, really? It’s obvious that all the props should go to the team! You, principal, did nothing!). If it turns out that the idea actually does not work, then “no one is to blame, let’s do it better the next time. Let’s get feedback and blah blah”. As I said, if something works or if something doesn’t, it’s never on the principal (but hey, he gets to make twice as much as the most senior dev in the company!)

- Microservices or modular monolith? Same as above. The principal engineer knows his stuff, but just as much as any other architect or senior dev, with the difference that the architects and senior devs are the ones who are going to do 99% of the work (both im terms of choosing the final decision and implementing them. The principal is just there to “support”... but that’s actually quite useless tbh) and they make significantly less money than the principal engineer.
>Is the expectation that someone could squat (as per the new channel description) a channel for all perpetuity, even if they no longer participate on the platform?

It's like that on some of the less-modern networks like EFnet. For a long time there were no services to automatically grant channel operator status and so folks would either amass a network of trusted humans large enough to pass the +o flag between each other as timezones awoke and went about their days, and/or they would herd large flocks of bots to perform the same.
> What has the network produced in the real economy?

Well according to this article it has allowed a nation state to avoid international controls and restrictions. Satoshi himself would be proud, it pretty much what he was imagining.
Smarter people - the type that make good engineers who’d deliver early - think critically about everything, not just their job. What you think of as “woke” is often composed of the compassionate, deeply reasoned ideology that such a smart person creates. It acts, practically, as a theodicy, something any coherent non-nihilistic worldview requires.

Similarly, many smart engineers arrive at opposing world views with less emphasis on the problem of evil and more on a pure rational understanding of the nature and history of society.

These two clever camps, admixed with America’s ideological chaos, rarely see one another clearly. The rationalists think the “woke” people are idiots for engaging with irrational intangibles of identity, and the woke people think the rationalists are cruel for refusing to admit any place for subjective experience in their expectations and understanding of the world around them.

I do think the rationalists miss rather more of reality; we are not in a Greg Egan novel. But the wokeists are ignorant of the spectre of ethnic conflict in human history, of the evil foreshadowed in glorifying identity and subjective experience.
In my mind, that would be a problem with the justice system, rather than the death penalty as a concept.

Also, as for why it seems to have no deterrence, how many people in the whole United States were killed? Only 22 in 2019, and you probably have never heard the names of even one of those people. If the fact of who was dying, for what crime, was highlighted more often in the media, the statistics may be significantly different.

Like, imagine if CNN and FOX had a simple image of who was dying each day with a two-or-three-sentence description of the crime, each time someone was put to death. To most people, that would be about every 2 weeks. Public awareness would explode. And criminals would have a far greater awareness that they could die for crimes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210514172245/https://sand.cat/...

> [00:59:01] <prawnsalad> also re. user data, youre forgetting that all data under snoonet is ltm data. rdv had sold all of that way beforehand. neither i, or most of you had any say in that
"You should read up on" is not a persuasive logical argument - it's a dismissive throw away line given by someone who doesn't have one.
Most addictions are seen as "poor choices" at face value, but you have to understand that unhappiness is the trigger.

They found temporary solace with those poor choices.

This is not rational, but the instinctive part of our brain is taking control when we're under threat (unhappiness is a signal)

Food addiction is very common in the US, people are not obese because of a lack of exercise or knowledge about the consequences of eating too much, and yet you'll find that happier (usually strongly related to wealth and status) people are less prone to addictions...
> Where i draw the line is when criminals get their fair day in a court

This falsely implies that laws are consistently just, strongly benefit society in evidence-based ways, aren't regularly composed by lobbyists or in response to party politics and are applied equally.
Good point! Yes, the expectation for a "portable" program is to run entirely out of its current folder, not requiring or leaving files elsewhere, my answer didn't cover that.
I would love to see more small-ish companies in a niche with a good product, and competent people that are maybe slowly growing, but not on the rocket ship ride. That kind of environment has always felt like a place where you can get good work done.
We either need agents who will negotiate on the employees behave or some kind of training that is part of a 4 year degree. Negotiations and finances are hard - this is why some people are good at selling and some are not. Engineers are usually good at their primary job and usually not that good at defending against other social engineering tactics founders use

edit: don’t want to blame founders, they also need to preserve their equity for future employees but there has to be a better balance
These couldn't be more different. Tax software choice is a private choice with no effect on the public space. Tax commercials happen for a couple months.

Car choice influence an incredible array of things up to how cities are built. Car commercial are omnipresent and include product placement in movies as well as, apparently, US presidents gunning it in a new truck, which is the topic of this whole thread.
I get you, but things are even less distributed than you'd expect. The bottom 90% (95%?) of Patreon creators can't even make minimum wage. The top 1% are reigning in FAANG salaries from the Midwest.
In engineering, its just as important to know what not to do. I am an expert at knowing how not to get rich.
Hence the reproducibility crisis.
Maybe here's an analogy:

Verisign does something that YC doesn't like, so YC decides they don't trust being on .com anymore and they should move from ycombinator.com to ycombinator.party or something. They set up a web server that redirects from news.ycombinator.com to news.ycombinator.party, so that people who were looking for the old name still find it.

Verisign decides that YC has abandoned the .com name, and points news.ycombinator.com at their own forum about news for hackers, with a target audience of fixed-point combinator enthusiasts. After all, "Y combinator" is just a term from a Haskell Curry paper.

I think the norms around IRC are very similar to the norms around domains (or Twitter accounts, or so forth) - even if you use a somewhat generic name, whoever first lays claim to the name is entitled to keep it and do as much or as little with it, unless they affirmatively release it, and using the name to point someone elsewhere is definitely not abandoning it.
>sophisticated site like HN
Like a security guard for a mall with no stores inside.
The real issue is for the people who need to or would like to live near a pharmacy/convenience store.
You’ve got some reading up to do on behavioral economics. Humans (real ones, not model economic actors) can’t and don’t make optimal decisions except in very special circumstances.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
> Because of this, adding in timing noise can only act as a mitigation, and not a particularly effective one at that.

I think the author is thinking in terms of X << t for purposes of adding random delay. If you flip this around, you get the opposite conclusion. For instance,

Crypto operation actual: 10uS
Random delay: 100-1000ms

In this arrangement, the amount of time the actual cryptographic operation takes to complete falls under the noise floor.

Isn't this essentially a big part of why PBKDF2 and friends are good at hashing passwords?
Started my life on IRC what…over 30 yrs ago on irc.eff.org using a crappy 300 bauds modem. Back in the days there were no ads or tracking cookies on gopher, and first websites, only good stuff…, IRC had no drama and such crap. It didn’t last for long though, when undernet came along, and more kids were getting modems for xmas, dramma and powertrips started. Sad to say this is nothing new, human nature, that’s all.
Yandex supports translation on images, and you can paste it straight from the clipboard. I'm assuming that MacOS has something similar to Windows' Win-Shift-S to take a screenshot a section of the screen, which makes it really fast and easy.

https://translate.yandex.com/ocr
An English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience
Except you have to pay capital gains tax when you move after 250k or 500k for married. So it's not a wash. Especially if you're talking about more expensive markets.
“We can’t afford cheap things”