skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
honestly don't mind this one, worth it for the fairly awesome meta footnote
New American Interfaces (Outline 1) (2019)
> I wonder how this argument would be applied to police murders of innocents. How do we deal with that?

Realistically I think you'd have to drastically lower the perceived risk of a public interaction to the police. As long as they think they are going to get hurt, they'll feel the need to get in front of the problem.
Irish cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free
While I agree with you seems like this was a sketchy case to go forward with the execution, like me, you already had a strong opinion about capital punishment before you read the article.
glibc makes this extremely difficult, and has a tendency to break in unexpected ways when you try.

But... They could have used a different libc, like musl which is designed for static linking.
It would be great for my piano playing. Ascending and descending scales would easily sound exactly the same.
In good faith, is the proposal here that long lines at food banks morally justify stealing?
Arguably $30k isn't a meaningful wage increase to the people surveyed on Blind — especially if the users are heavily weighted towards the FAANG / SV / SF crowd with high housing / cost of living expenses.
It's a shame abusive operators have taken over Freenode... /s
I have both my father and my uncle who became dirt poor just by making terribly poor life choices so I've got a very different take on this. They had good jobs but couldn't help screwing it up by: gambling, buying sportcars, overall trying to bite more than they could swallow (houses too big, with monthly mortgage too expensive), etc.

In both cases it ended up with foreclosures / lawyers etc. My brother and I are now sending monthly money to our father because of his bad lifechoices.

And by poor I mean: living in a rusty, broken, RV hidden behind trees, illegally hooked up to electricity (not paying for it) and dumpster diving to find food for his dogs (because of course he was dirt poor but he had to have dogs and rabbits).

I've got friends who have serious issues meeting month's ends yet they buy 5x what I buy online. Every single time I arrive at their home they've got new pointless gadgets bought on Amazon.

There are people spending a fortune, compared to what they make, on packs of cigarettes and daily booze.

When you don't have enough money you don't have a ghetto dog, you don't buy cheap gadgets on Amazon, you don't drink your daily bottle of vodka/whiskey/packs of beer, you don't smoke a pack a day. You don't take a mortgage on a car from a category you can't afford just to keep up with the Joneses when a smaller car would do.

Well, you can... But there are choices and I refuse to accept that there are zero choices. You'll simply never convince me because I've seen it firsthand.

Now I don't tell those around me how they should handle their personal finances but I cannot but think about the many poor decisions I see being made.

And I'm not saying everybody has lots of room: but there are many poor people out there who are poor simply because of their dumb life choices (like my father).
Notice the words "pass to useEffect" in the parent comment, and the code snippet in the grandparent they are commenting on. The type of the callback function that useEffect accepts is () => void rather than () => Promise<unknown>. What's not true about that?
This comment feels doxxy.
I agree. Codenames were originally internal names for products, to be used to keep the actual product secret. Then the stupid "cool factor" won the marketers, and for 20+ years we get these ridiculous, meaningless names for products.

Yes, "xyz v2.1" is boring, but you know that it's the version after 2.0. That's more meaningful than "oh, 'purple tiger' is the new version, are you still using 'rainforest dragon'?"
I’m also candid about my current lifestyle being based on taking things from people against their will.

Their will probably was not to pick strawberries in a foreign nation or clean beers spilled surfaces at 11pm or not being able to breastfeed their infant because they need to go slap hamburgers together for $15 an hour.

I assume not all of those people willingly got drunk and high and got caught engaging in crime in their teens and 20s and willingly threw away their economic opportunities.
Oh I'm sure it's just rupturing the whole ecosystem! No it's not you pedantic fuck. Literally nobody cares if you donated, not one person.
No mention about what happens when China lets Iran purchase oil using their Chia crypto. Interesting omission.
The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
> Crypto assets can have utily for trading among enemies or situations where normal fiat currency cannot be used.

Maybe crypto will get there eventually, like tech crashed in 2000-2001 (AMZN down 90%) and things have 'stabilized' now, but it's been over ten years already since Satoshi published and this is where we are:

> So. Bitcoin fell 53% in five weeks, and then it rallied 35% in four hours. Two observations for now: 1) Nobody in their [right] mind would enter into a transaction denominated in bitcoin; 2) It's too early to say the bubble's burst (or to say this is a new bull market).

* https://twitter.com/johnauthers/status/1395067576334655489

When your currency (?) is more volatile than the goods/services you're using to it buy, I'm not sure how useful of a 'currency' it is. Or a store of value, or a unit of account.

Is Bitcoin or other crypto more or less volatile than the price of a barrel of oil or frozen concentrated orange juice futures?
The people protesting for religious reasons, who do they think gave the scientists the brains to be able to make the vaccine?
It's kind of the "American dream" that if you're responsible and work hard, then anybody can achieve a reasonable level of success. There's an appeal to believing being wealthy is a choice, then you can believe the people at the "top tiers" of society earned their positions and deserve all that power and influence.

If that's not true, then it implies that live in a class-based system. Wealthy people are the ones making the decisions at the national level, they own the media by just about any objective measurement, and even though the billionaires "earned" their billions, they were still born into wealthy, well-connected families who have direct control over the systems in which they "earned" their billions.

99.9% of the population has no chance of every achieving the level of success that a small portion of the population was born into. We live in an aristocracy, and yet both the wealthy and the poor are in denial. You can believe the system is moral though the "choice mindset", then it's not a class-based society. Then there's still freedom, equality, a representative government and a healthy American dream. Especially with the conservatives, it's blasphemous and "un-American" to suggest otherwise, to say that we're ruled by aristocrats who were born into their positions and don't represent us.

It odd, because I feel like I'm the one who's being the most American, the most patriotic, and yet I hate to brag about it because I think Nationalism is a kind of poison. I believe in American ideals though, let me remind you of them. You're entitled to a respect, dignity and success regardless of your social status, race, sex, the nationality you were born into, and your profession, chosen and otherwise. You're entitled to a government that represents you, and if it doesn't then it damn well better. It's up to "the people" to enforce a representative government (the opposite of an aristocracy) by any means necessary, including violent overthrow*. These are American ideals, ideals the country was founded upon. These are the beautiful American dreams, and we Americans call them dreams because we're still working towards them. They hide some truly ugly nightmares of things like slavery and how we got the land we live upon.

*Disclaimer: I seemingly called for violence, but violence is an evil thing and a last resort, something I don't encourage. When "the people" truly reject their government, even the police and military are on the side of "the people" because they're people too. Easy way to distinguish terrorism for a truly populist movement.
this is what twitch has become RIP, https://www.twitch.tv/exohydrax
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> That military protects more than the dollar. It also protects all the real resources that give the USD value.

That's really no different than bitcoin. With USD a ton of energy is used to protect what backs it, which is physical resources. With BTC a ton of energy is used to protect what backs it, which is the chain.

Military also protects against external threats (like other countries). Mining also protects against external threats (like bad actors).
Only if renters are allowed to pay rent out of pre-tax income.
Presumably restrictive zoning policies that make it incredibly difficult to build the amount of additional housing that is needed in many areas.
Ok, so by that measure of "travel or not" I should avoid all the top countries on the incarcerated per capita list[1][2]?

China comes in at 129th. The US is number 1. While Black people only make up 10% of the population, they make up over 50% of prisoners, 4/5ths of people in American prisons haven't even been convicted of a crime.

Should I avoid the United States because of this? Have you not travelled to the United States or purchased products from them because of this stance? Honest question?

It seems to be something well out of my control and I'm accepting of that fact.

Other countries include Turkmenistan, El Salvador, Rwanda, Cuba. I'm highly interested in what places you have visited with these personal requirements before travelling. Never visited Russia, Eastern Europe or South East Asia?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
This is what twitch has become RIP. https://www.twitch.tv/exohydrax
Furthermore, consider the view of repentance. Let's say that you are at least willing to admit the possibility there is an afterlife with judgement. Having a defined date when you will die means you are more likely to repent than when you die of old age 60 years from now at some undefined time.

Also, have you investigated how much it costs the US Taxpayer to house a prisoner in a Supermax prison? If it was income, that prisoner would be making money in the upper 5%. It's also perverse to make the taxpayer pay so much to house a prisoner, who committed atrocious crimes normally worthy of death, for so long.
Also, although managers appear to work for a team or specific area, they usually interface across many or all in a department. The self organizing team will usually do so as if they are completely independent which is rarely true, so they need to organize within constraints of which they are totally unaware. Example: getting a different team to priortize work upon which your team depends will involve larger development plans, product management and the "politics" you reference. I've never met a technical lead who wants to do this and few who are good at it. This is a good thing.
Wittgenstein's take:

>I was walking about in Cambridge and passed a bookshop, and in the window were portraits of Russell, Freud and Einstein. A little further on, in a music shop, I saw portraits of Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. Comparing these portraits I felt intensely the terrible degeneration that had come over the human spirit in the course of only a hundred years.
Why doesn't the DA pursue these cases? San Francisco elects their DA. One could even imagine starting a recall campaign over a refusal to prosecute misdemeanors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_San_Francisco_District_At...
Ha, your technique worked! It didn't taste like anything - one of those characteristics of non-reactive chemicals. It did get stuck in my throat on the first try, so I got it down with water like a pill. (It was one of those short/round/1-studded pieces.)
This also sounds like Scientology or at the very least a high pressure religion.

"Joe is an evil person who will introduce you to evil things! We do not speak of him here."

"Are you a true believer or not?"

"We can tell you're not a devoted Scientologist."

"Fall in line, or we'll bully and ostracize you."
No, I mean the people who identify as a letter and scald you if you don't know what their letter means. I have no idea what half of those letters mean or whether it means gay or straight (the T could definitely be straight, I know that much). I've also known plenty of gay people over the years who haven't ever mentioned these letters so it's nothing to do with that.
I'm always amazed at the amount of drama in communities like this, given that the absolute value of these channels tends to be so low.

I mean, we're not talking about someone hijacking an ad-rich youtube channel here. This is the "##hntop" channel. It reposts top news from... this very site. It's something anyone reading this comment can get for free by pressing the back button on their browser.

And yet someone still decides it's worth their effort to kick an admin (or I guess in this case force the channel registration) and steal it? Good grief.
Ask HN: What is the worst code you have seen at work?
I wrote a simple game for CS project last year, and it was pretty bad. All logic was opaque, and there were tonnes of global variables!
Why are sanctions on Iran immoral?

Sanctions seem like the least harmful way to deal with bad actors at the nation state level like Iran, North Korea, and Russia. This is the equivalent of not playing with the kid who can't play fair or follow the rules. Replace playing with trading.

You might say Iran is not a bad actor, but that's not a winnable position to take.

Would you prefer military intervention over sanctions? What else can you do in these kinds of situations?
I'm curious - where do you pay tax on options before they have been exercised?? Every country whose tax system I'm familiar with treats receiving an option as a tax neutral event, but exercising them is taxed as per the country's capital gains legislation.
I don’t like seeing direct links to profiles in threads like this; I always worry that the comment section will turn into a stalking mob.
https://www.cnet.com/news/bank-robber-hires-decoys-on-craigs...
Almost everything mentioned about startups here has an equivalent trade off at large companies. It’s particularly amusing that he mentions Facebook towards the end as a potential place to work, given the pockets of high stress and long hours that I’ve heard about from folks who have worked there. Most of FAANG is no different. In comparison, most startups that I’ve worked at valued work life balance highly.

Every workplace has trade offs, it’s the nature of the thing. The compensation imbalances at large companies are bad as well, for example, it’s just that the total increase in company income allows for much more competitive packages overall.

Really this is more of a question of: what do you want out of a job and career? If you want to maximize compensation, go for that BigCo job. But that isn’t the only valid thing to maximize for, which the snark about “higher callings” towards the end misses. Higher autonomy, less complex organizational politics, More ownership of big problems, potential for better alignment between your values and the companies mission, etc. etc.
Literally nobody in the FOSS community cares about these events, wakeup.
Similar thread in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637
The "fake news" problem on Social Media is a huge problem. I'm not talking about arguable differences of opinion, I'm talking about baldfaced lies. Objectively "fake" news.

For example reverse-image searches of bombed out buildings or dead children that purport to be from a conflict yesterday were revealed to be from the Syrian Civil War from 6 years ago. And these images were re-tweeted by Americans, some in positions of responsibility. I'm all for free speech, but I feel that people and platforms should be held accountable for actions like this, when they involve objectively false news. False by anyone's definition of false.
> cryptocurrency defeats current international sanction tools

Yes, exactly. They (in part) defeat an act of unilateral violence, one that is very cheap for the perpetrator, from one country against another. Which seems a very good thing.
>! You must know that Joe Rogan is a polarizing figure and posting him in any but a right-wing community is going to be a troll for reactions

My PhD work was on Signal. I work in security. I literally just wanted to talk about Signal, man. It was actually pretty disappointing to me people talked about how problematic Joe Rogan is instead.

> you should reflect upon your reaction if a podcast from a thinker you despised was posted.

I just said I have a gazillion stories about how it’s better to keep silent in San Francisco than voice your opinion. Trust me, I wouldn’t react the same way.

I definitely don’t want to #csncel e.g. John Oliver just because he said some shit I disagreed with once. I hate that culture. In fact, I’d probably share him if he happened to be saying something I thought was interesting at the time. I think I have before when he was talking about Apple privacy or blockchains actually. So no, I wouldn’t react the same way.
Meaning they had lots of them?

Trump finances were really bad in 2000 and then the financial crisis hit.

Had he managed to run in 2000 he'd have been a regular President. He'd have gone down as 43(D)

It's not Trump who changed from 2000 to 2016, society did and now the walk-in closet of what's socially acceptable is much smaller
Only if you reach as far as you possibly can to stretch that word.

Putting "=Username" at the end to see if the user has an account on the very site we're discussing this on is pretty far from documenting identifying information, no?
Pretty much makes it even worse.
>You forget one value in your dependency list and the weirdest things happen.

This is what I hate in angular1 , there are at least 3-4 ways you can mess up a simple data-binding and there is no error or warning to inform you that something is not right so you waste a lot of time to figure it out.

I used react a few years back but it seems that this days it got hyper complex.
Sorry, removed paywall. Didn't realize it was default.
Here's another way to look at it, we're grossing around $100k a year and only managing to save about $25k of it. I don't understand how a family that makes $60k a year (about 3 full time minimum wage jobs) manages at all. Our lifestyle is not opulent.
My understanding is that it's a reference to being easy to give advice on building wealth since it's all the same story about saving and getting a return on your savings. This is in contrast to being poor, which can involve lots of things, like bad decisions, bad luck, bad birth...
Might I ask why it is infeasible to apply for a job at a non-startup?
This was expected. After taking over Snoonet, it went to shit. According to anonymous sources they even installed extensive logging on the ircd-servers which made them be able to read alot of PRIVMSG´s. I sure wouldnt want to discuss anything important/ secret or anything with *coin on freenode as of now. ALso, whats up with all the new servers linked? Weird
To protect the capability to rehabilitate Norwegians the Norwegian people is struggling to find a way to stop this “theft tourism” as it does victimize people (private citizens through home breakins and businesses that already tax high to support socialism), and unfortunately the mitigations in some ways create a tougher society.

The solutions are tough trade offs: One of the solutions is to make deals with their country of origin to serve time in jails back home, tighter border control to stop “theft thieves” from entering and prohibiting begging again as the Eastern European mafia bring in beggars to serve as mules. Especially the one around begging feels culturally difficult and it makes people sad to have to prohibit begging again as it was legalized a couple of decades ago.
I reworded it to make it a bit more clear (at least, I thought so) — "pass an async function to useEffect", meaning the argument supplied to useEffect itself, rather than "use directly within" which is ambiguous. Re-added "directly" to hopefully make even more clear. Sorry for the confusion!
Are the odds worth it if you are a founder or cant work at a FAANG in the USA?
Commodore Amiga 1000 S-Video hack (2007)
how so? care to explain?
I think most unicorns actually have a different experience, though, in that the founders often worked on their own for less than 6 months/a year before they got some funding.

I don't have data on this but I would bet a very long lead time before getting funded is actually correlated with a worse likely outcome.
It’s worse than that with respect to (1): any process on _any_ instance which has tag setting permissions can set the tag for _any other_ instance, since conditions don’t support scoping to instance ID.

Re (2) technically you cannot have any roles attached directly, but instead attach an instance profile (the distinction is clearer via the API than the console). The shape of the API for an instance profile clearly was designed to support multiple roles, but in practice is limited to one. It’s typical to create a role with many policies attached for each functional type of instance, so in practice it does’t matter too much.
Yes you should. And you propably should avoid buying from them too. I have bought stuff from china and the USA. It's inevitable, but i am under no illusion that china is a genocidal dictatorship and the racism and structural failures in the US are so bad that my country only extradites prisoners to the US when for example the death penalty is not an option.

Living in the EU i only got on passport stamp from Ukraine which i got for visiting Chernobyl and from what i saw living in Ukraine can be absolutely horrible, the poverty is breathtaking if you are used to european standards.
I think it’s also true about the most upvoted comments. Any article you read on any forum the top comments always seem to be mistaken.
> Wow. Like, I completely fail to comprehend how it's legal in the US judiciary system to ignore any piece of available hard evidence in a case that is punishable by execution?

It wasn't "completely ignored". It was presented to the court and the test was requested, and the request was denied. Evidentiary rules are complicated and subject to abuse, yes, but they protect all of us. It's not like we'd be better off if discovery was unlimited.

Your complaint isn't about the way courts treat evidence, it's with the punishment. Death is final and not subject to appeal. And fundamentally that's an argument for why it shouldn't be available to courts at all.

But really, there's nothing especially wrong with evidentiary process in US criminal law. There are problems with it like any bureaucracy, but on the whole it does pretty well.
Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.
If your complaint is that it's too expensive and takes too long, then allowing additional appeals (once the conviction is final) isn't the answer.
Why are you acting like a mediator between two conversations you were never part of, it's like you are trying to play devils advocate. You aren't helping the discussion, if you know you know, if you don't you don't.