skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for writing this; it matches an undescribed feeling that I've experienced for a few codebases.

What I'd add in response is that this "change request load" is much easier to manage for small, well-maintained projects with fewer quirks.

And if the entire project architecture can fit within your mental buffer space at one time, then it's much easier and faster to parry those incoming change requests and pull requests into clear, effective feedback and code.
> kidnapping target.

Or a target for scamming.

Seems privacy nightmare too. I hope there is an opt out where you don't ask and yours is private.
You need to find the person whose KPI would be effected by you leaving as a customer.

Go find them on LinkedIn, message your experience and statement that you're leaving.

When corporations put up higher and higher walls around their official channels of communication, you either need to get louder or go around the wall.

I am working for a big e-commerce corp., we are made to read/go-through customer feedback occasionally. That is just to find a %1~ of potential conversion improvement we can make.

Companies do care about conversion/retention. Problem is only the communication between the customer and the right team of people inside.
Society wide experiment in ubiquitous porn has been run; what are the findings?
iirc, they did. But it wasn't opensourced.
Due process is also important. A balance is needed.
EG: https://twitter.com/justinprojects/status/140235911874525184...
Writing a program for Haiku, the timing had to be very precise. The code work fine most of the time abut about one in a million runs (the code was in a tight loop) there would be a mis-timing. I went over the code time over time and could not find a problem.

Finally, I added a timing counter to see what happened and then filter for the mis-timings.

Turns out there were multiple interrupts happening, and each interrupt was short enough that it did not interfere with my program. But every now and then multiple interrupts occurred at the same time, and by the time they all got serviced the timing was way off.

Solution, re-code the loop to be an interrupt too.
will send when we've got some data. Had been wanting to reach out to you about an idea for an automated check anyway.
Yes is use a proprietary messaging platform when i send an internal (on the same server) mail to another user...

mail root

subject: restart server

blabla

ctrl D
Maybe we shouldn't be letting this gaggle of loss leaders distort the market in their respective verticals.
>There's no such thing as a noose that's unrelated to death.

There's no such thing as a skeleton that's unrelated to death.

>That's what they're for. The puzzle may not be related to death, but the noose is.

That's what they're there for. The puzzle may not be related to death, but the skeleton is.

>And in the US there's no such thing as a noose that's unrelated to race. They are being used, today, as racist threats.

Maybe if you suffer from American Exceptionalism, but nooses and lynchings transcend the US and specific races. The largest lynchings in the US were targeted against Chinese and Italians as an example.
> to be some low level worker and have some bullshit from a CEO cause you to immediately lose your job

Possibly, but this government action could automatically trigger unemployment benefits (paid for by all the money the government just seized from corporate coffers), the vacuum created would probably quickly be filled by expanding competitors who would hire people from the executed company, and considering the intersection of "companies that commit mass abuses" and "companies that treat their low level employees like garbage", it's likely that the low level employees would come out ahead.

If say, Amazon disappeared today, people's desire for stuff would not disappear, and other companies would have to hire to fill that void. (After probably buying the warehouses and trucks at auction.) Most of those companies don't have employees peeing in bottles.

> Perhaps a complete replacement of all upper level management over 6 months and possibly a moratorium on board involvement for a time period for board members if it was bad enough would be sufficient?

But a huge part of the issue is also regarding public companies, shares, and stock value:

A big issue I have is with founders. Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, are all de facto still in control of their companies, even in the cases where they've "stepped back", because of their shareholder power (and dual-class shares, which I am still shocked is legal). And they're still wildly rich because of it. The C-level folks we're talking about, generally all hold a ton of company stock. If we accept that a given company has committed mass harm, and that the founders and C-level folks were complicit and knowing, their stock values need to be literally zeroed out.

The effect of this issue applies to stockholders too: They'll happily keep investing in bad companies because those bad companies make money and don't see any meaningful penalties. We have to destroy bad companies, make their stock worthless, so that the risk of that is factored properly into stock values.
Due to the step-up-basis law, the government does not collect any capital gains not realized prior to death. So if you make 10 million in capital gains on a lucky early stage $5,000 investment, and die without any other assets, the (US federal) government will collect zero in taxes from you, your estate or your heirs.
iPhone X

Safari

I’m a fan of web interfaces.
There is only one Google/YouTube. Water is plentiful.
I don't want more utilities, I want more competition, failure, and new players to fill spaces where old players died. Crony protectionism, and lax acquisition constraints are why we have a lot of these companies at where they are.

When the seeming majority of exit plans for companies is an acquisition by a larger existing entity you have a problem. If our laws were better, people would be able to compete against <FAANG HERE> because they wouldn't have a hand in a crazy amount of markets and able to easily fend off good newcomers without a good amount of resources being expended. I heavily disagree with making things like Google a utility when the reason they're where they are today is largely artificial. They are not a natural monopoly they just took advantage of a weak government and pulled up the ladder behind themselves.
Google, Apple and Telegram block German conspiracy channels
According to several German news media sources, channels by the infamous German conspiracy theoris Atilla Hildmann have been blocked for users of Telegram Apps downloaded through Apple or Android app stores. According to users access to the channels through browsers is not possible too.

https://www.t-online.de/digital/internet/id_90182384/telegram-kanaele-dicht-hetze-von-attila-hildmann-fuer-apple-und-android-gesperrt-.html

https://www.mimikama.at/aktuelles/attila-hildmanns-telegram-kanal-mit-ueber-100-000-abonnenten-gesperrt/
I’m assuming good faith on ProPublica’s part, that a reasonable amount of the data was private and that it was truly private. If I didn’t trust them I wouldn’t read their reporting.
If I give money to the NRA, the EFF or NARAL it's all tax deductible. That's what all the people mentioned are doing.
> The long-wished-for Libertarian paradise where barbers don't have licenses and you can marry an 8-year-old is going to have to be brought about on dry land.

This barb has me chuckling.
I mean, that's really on the user for not setting up more than one 2FA method for their highly critical accounts
Senator Herb Kohl: But you do recognize that in the words that are used and antitrust kind of oversight, your market share constitutes monopoly, dominant -- special power dominant for a monopoly firm. You recognize you're in that area?

Eric Shmidt: I would agree, sir, that we’re in that area....I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of monopoly findings is this is a judicial process.

From: https://www.businessinsider.com/is-google-a-monopoly-were-in...

Also, the FTC's initial memo from 2012 that somebody higher up in the food chain quashed is pretty interesting: http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/

In short, dominant market share in web search. Though I think you could argue other things, like dominance in affordable smart phones. Android is effectively a monopoly for people that can't afford an iPhone.
I don't think it's that clear cut, you can define all sorts of behavior with both HTML and CSS, and there's no semantic meaning in `<div>`, which itself changes page style due to its layout properties. I don't know what goalposts are being moved, React/css-in-js have never violated separation of concerns. After all, css-in-js produces CSS, and React produces HTML. Separation of technologies isn't a principle, but DSLs are a well established pattern.
Just to be precise, aren't the taxes approved by the taxing authority allocated proportionally based on the total value of the real estate in the jurisdiction? In other words if all real estate values go up, your taxes should remaing constant?

Maybe in different parts of the US this varies, but should the taxing authorities get more money because the real estate market is hot and do they take less when real estate values are down?
Who are these jerk users? I'm going to give them a noogie!

In all seriousness, I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. That's not what we want the React community to be. Next time, feel free to tag me or someone else on the core team and we'll tell them to cut it out.
Maybe break ads up into two or three businesses then break the loss leaders up into a dozen different companies. You don't have to own the ad company to sell advertising, let them place ads from google or whomever else just like everybody else on the Internet, alternatively let them start leaning more on paid services instead of customer-as-product.
GSuite/Gmail, YouTube, Search, Android, Google Shopping, Google Maps -- all of these could become separate software companies. Not saying they would enjoy that, of course, but those are some of the divisions that immediately jump to mind.
So what would the public record for Musk be? The number reporting usually quotes? Or a much smaller one? (Still large, of course.)
Indeed. Worth noting that classnames is a tiny library.
The last time I asked about how the memory management would work, the conversation was quickly shut down by a vlang dev (not Alex) who grilled on me on why I wanted to know how the language worked. I've seen this same reaction to other newcomers who dare to ask reasonable questions instead of simply drinking the Kool aide.
You clearly don’t want to have to worry about this lol. Your first response is that it is illegal (so is speeding).

Second seems to be that the tech is uncommon and has poor resolution.

^ this is true with the first digital cameras as well.

As the MIT researchers first publishing their work on this know, the minimumly viable tech needed to use wifi to passively see observe each breath someone takes is 5% hardware and 95% software. We aren’t talking about cutting edge tech. We are taking about commonly available tech that is just used to observe distortions in the 3d radio propagation geometries.

The actual hardware required to see exactly where someone is behind walls and what their hands are doing costs less than $300. Most of it is software needed to reconstruct the geometry from the signals. Software like this is notorious for being randomly and abruptly open sourced.
You got my star! Next time I will try to use Google Docs as Markdown generator.
Yeah, that's bizarre.
A house's capital gains actually have special treatment. But in some states property values for taxes do rise by huge amounts.
I think the suggestion is breaking up alphabet, which is quite literally loads of companies.

YouTube, Google search, deep mind, Google fiber, waymo, Fitbit etc

Seems pretty easy to break up if you want to.
Perhaps you can say this already, but please make sure you have some moderation capabilities. As a teacher, there are occasional jokesters/pranksters to take negative advantage of screen sharing, chat, etc.

The Google (new) meeting moderation abilities are a good starting point.
They’re in Portland. You just described Portland.
I don't have a great answer for you, but I have another question: if Google isn't different than a phone book in 1990, why were phone books never a top 10 business in the United States?
No, but Google holds monopoly over that email address that you've been using and passing around for years, and all the data associated to it. Losing access to it can prove to be a major issue.

Of course this is nowhere near as critical as water, food, or shelter. But in the modern world losing access to your long time email address, like a phone number, will cause some pain. I see no reason not to put such a responsibility on Google or companies of similar size which are so tightly integrated with the critical modern infrastructure.

I think we need to look at the utility of the service in the world and society we live in. Things change, 400 years ago a mill was the first utility in the US. That doesn't quite fit the definition anymore these days.
How the DOJ might have seized the ransomware bitcoin
True true, I'm from the UK and so I see us as complicit in some of this but yes the US seems to have a pretty good go at being awful to fellow humans.
Try to get people to use your software, or read your books, or buy your merchandise, etc. without using Google.

They own the highway, the restaurants along the way, the billboards and even the car most people drive.
Finally, Alex Jones is coming back
>For $179 + shipping

How much should it be?
I'm only vaguely familiar with the seasteading idea in general, but this page was a whole other level of confusing. Is it some sort of role playing scenario to test the viability of different forms of governance at sea? Is it for fun? Science? Profit?
There is some limited evidence that a lot of close focusing (e.g. reading) may contribute to myopia, but it's hardly conclusive, and certainly at that magnitude is unlikely to be a single cause.
is our non-browser (that happens to piggyback on 80 & 443) a single-purpose application?
What are the presumed security vulnerabilities of a bespoke non-browser that happens to listen on 2 ports, and either negotiate a transfer from http(s) to our kustom-protocol or utilize existing protocols starting from http(s) (any version of your choice...)

I'm saying that we cannot presume the insecurity of a general purpose browser in a custom application that just happens to take advantage of open ports and an existing distribution network (upgrading/crossgrading connection or not...)

How uncommon is it to open a Zoom link from a browser source into the Zoom app, and countless other examples... not presuming any particular tech stack, which would imply it's own particular vulnerabilities or advantages...

Just curious...I think the "cram it all into a megabrowser from a megacorp and make it run" approach is rather 2021, is all, not necessarily the way of the still as yet undetermined future.
YouTube is hardly profitable. They would barely be able to afford their own infrastructure under their current revenue.

They would immediately be acquired by a competitor or declare bankruptcy.
Wanting to homeschool you kids but not being willing to give up easy access to legal prostitution is a very strange hill to die on.

I get what you are saying but Libertarians seem to ignore elementary freedoms in favor of picking really weird fights.

What elementary freedoms? Not having to starve to death. Not being bankrupted by health care costs. Not having to fear for my live. No having to live in a society where people lack basic education. Enjoying well maintained public roads. Being taking care of when getting old.

They have some weird ultra-naive definitions of freedom that only seems to include absence of rules. Like they see not being able to vacuum on a Sunday, not the freedom to enjoy a quiet Sunday. (Well at least I can dream about, it is not as enforced as people here probably believe.)

Everything is give and take. Societies thrive when people are willing to compromise.
MoviePass Changed Some Passwords
Google controls the vast majority of the web search market. More than 90%. What exactly a monopoly constitutes is something that people can disagree about, but "has 90% market share" is not by any means a crazy definition of a monopoly.
> Games are great because they are terrible propaganda tools.

c.f. "Monopoly" (originally Georgist propaganda iirc)
Which accomplishes what, exactly?

Perhaps Google Search, Chrome, and the advertising business could be split. Or Google Search could be split into Google Search 1 and Google Search 2.
I am not a contractor but I do find myself needing to get some lumber, a few sheets of plywood, some mulch, etc. fairly often to maintain my home and/or to do small projects. This thing would be perfect for this and would be a real improvement over having to rip everything out of my wife's minivan once a week to knock out our projects. Annoyingly I cannot use the hose to spray all the dirt/sawdust/bugs out the minivan when I am done, so that somewhat limits what I am able to do with that car.

It would also be pretty convenient for when I want to toss a few bikes in the back and go explore some trails with the kids without having to strap a bike rack to back of one of our existing vehicles.

I think that if the penalty for owning a truck is small (by making it easy to drive and park and by having it be fairly fuel efficient as this new Ford is) then the convenience factor becomes really compelling, even if you don't "need" a truck all the time per se. Even if you only needed to use the bed once a week, so long as the form-factor isn't a cost the other 6 days I would think this would be a pretty solid thing to have at your disposal. In a similar vein, most people don't "need" seating for 5 in their daily driver sedan but it is simpler to just have that extra space available at all times for the twice a week that you put the whole family in and go to a restaurant.
You can back it up to iCloud. In fact, iCloud Backup is even on by default. If you have more than 5 GB of stuff to back up (as most do), the next tier is 50 GB for a buck a month, or 200 GB for three bucks (and so on). It's very cheap insurance in case of catastrophe such as accidental deletion or a lost/stolen/damaged device (and a nice revenue source for Apple, of course, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it for a safety net for a lot of people's most important stuff nowadays).

With iCloud Backup enabled, your device automatically backs itself up overnight when the display is off and it's connected to power and Wi-Fi; manual backups can also be triggered any time — such as just before you wipe it to send it in for service.

Apple includes these instructions in their servicing kit (the box they send you to send in your phone), and also provides them in person if you drop off the phone at a store; you are specifically asked if you have a backup.
No, the top 1% of earners contribute that. Wealthy people don't have earned income. If you go to work, even as a ceo, even in the top 1% of earners, you're not wealthy.
Looks like test code, rather than something that runs when serving in production.

It fails an assert if the parse doesn't work I guess?
This was submitted already several times in the past days? Strange that this is not detected?

See: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tyranny+of+time

Most (10) comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27418889
I think Perl missed the boat... too little way way too late.

Also - they can't even get their SSL certs straight.

I loved Perl - it was certainly my gateway to coding. Regex was beautiful in perl. But I shot myself in the foot so many times with that language.
This discussion feels very meta. In the sense that Twitter is the "bad" person, and we are the actors contributing our individual outrage induced take.

Why are we so compelled to participate?
I'm afraid this is ~ 10-15 years too late.
I've used PDL somewhat in ~ 2005-2010 when python didn't have that many packages/numpy, and it did the job and could substitute IDL to some degree. But realistically, right now I don't see any reason to use PDL instead of Python.
I'm sure they can figure it out.
Yes so now 20 million people (very small amount) install these space heaters, heck install 3. Now they are at equilibrium except the mining difficulty has gone wayyy up (because 20 million ASIC miners will double the global hashrate approximately). Now mining in server racks is no longer profitable because dealing with waste heat is a major expense for them. So not only is hashing now very distributed, but also not 100% wasted.
Are Seasteaders fleeing specific laws or do they intend to just sit around contemplating their on-paper freedom?
I love not having to come up with class names. That's it.
How interesting. I’m surprised that I’d never heard of this before.
Yup, see: https://web.dev/cls-web-tooling/#rolling-out-the-windowing-a...
It's a service with which essentially every person living in present-day America needs to interact on a day-to-day basis. And yes, they need to. I think it is hugely disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

We can talk all day about how DuckDuckGo and ProtonMail exist. But for a huge, huge majority of people, Google simply is the internet.
I’ve worked where the toilet is on a different floor and that’s hell enough.
Yes, shaking my head here. If they don't have the willpower to manage Comcast, market cap ~$250B, how in the world will they be able to do anything with Google, worth ~$1600B?

I wish so much they would care about something they could actually change.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/reaper-drone-m...

Not all drones are AI, there are remote drones that are very fast and very hard to kill, pulling Gforces that would make normal pilots pass out. With the US declaration that drones are "munitions", we have effectively stated that we can launch them into the airspace of countries that we aren't technically at war with, and claim it was "border fire", like we did with Afghanistan.
Well, tough luck. Not all business plans are destined for success.
Google would argue that web search is not their market. They are in the business of online advertising in which they most definitely do not have dominant market share.
Google is not a monopoly, but it has enough market power to be a reason for concern.
I started having thoughts in my target language after I started speaking. Until then it was just words on paper or on a screen.
Correct, but it's generated only when they initiate the reset-password flow, and should be time-limited and only usable once. It's not stored in the database for long periods.
I think it could be done depending on how you slice it. For example you could definitely put YouTube as its own separate entity YouTube and google play together, as an entertainment company. Gmail plus drive and calendar as a productivivity company, web search as it’s own company. One thing that could make this easy would be to remove the google identity as a single company for SSO into all types of services. Then all the other companies could have sign in with FB Microsoft LinkedIn etc. google maps could be a standalone company. Nest/google home could easily be its own company. Especially if they spin off google identity as a separate product. Oh and google shopping could be it’s own company. Lastly all these things could still feed into google search results using APIs from all those services. I think we could benefit from a break up.
The estate tax wasn't even enacted until 1916 so there wasn't a period of time where "estates would shrink over time" (for tax reasons, at least; the two World Wars plus inflation actually existing did lead to huge changes in the wealth distribution). And by the early 20th century land was no longer the single dominant form of capital in the portfolios of the wealthiest individuals.