skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the best things the U.S. government could do would be to buy and nationalize 1password and give everyone a license. Canadians too, since it was one of your companies :-)

I am being intentionally outrageous but do genuinely feel that a good password manager is foundational to good digital security and I find it baffling that it does not come bundled with operating systems or in some other way offered for free. It's such a basic thing that could be done to increase collective resilience to digital attacks.

(And if 1password doesn't want to sell there should be funding for an open source equivalent with a default server hosted by either the government or a trusted nonprofit.)
I believe it.

For myself, I love developing software. The design, problem-solving, coding, testing, but, most importantly, seeing folks use it, and knowing that my software is A Good Thing.

For most of my career, I was a manager in my "day job," which meant that my tech chops were barely exercised.

My company didn't have a "shower clause" in their employment contract, so I could work my own gig. I deliberately avoided making money, and I also deliberately avoided writing anything that could compete with my company, or make them look bad (Which I easily could have). It was a matter of Respect (for me).

So I did open-source stuff, for over twenty years. I developed a fairly robust system that has become the de facto world standard for a particular demographic, and a few apps and whatnot, around it.

I have also developed a whole slew of SPM modules, which are really high-Quality. I use most of them, myself (eat my own dog food), so their Quality needs to be "top shelf."

I wrote and released over 20 iOS (and Watch, Mac, and TV) apps, since 2012, but I'm down to just a couple, nowadays.

I'm writing a fairly ambitious native iOS app, right now. It's the frontend for a fairly intense set of servers. I've been working on it for a year (and an additional seven months, writing one of the servers, and the other server is the one I mentioned previously -I've worked on that for over ten years). I feel that it is just getting to the point where we can start refining the UX. I have been establishing the infrastructure, to this point.

That's where my heart lies. I'm actually a very good manager, but I don't love it, and don't miss it.
When "and did not own a car and took public transit" is part of that story not against it, this country will be a lot better.
So, maybe? But these products already exist. Your company doesn't need to pay Microsoft to get that data, they can install stuff on your work machine and get all that info right now.
I'd vastly prefer to be able to do 'bring your own storage' but for that price I don't really see a problem with that being a "you can do that, but you pay the same subscription price anyway" feature.
> how it can't be so overt if you want it to be the SV of X.

This anecdote could happen precisely anywhere in the world with N=1...
This seems to be an amazing quality. Would you say that his work is sharable across users or are they too specifically tailored for himself (maybe a bit too "write only") or very specific to a task?
By the same reasoning, since we're talking about data collection, and that data doesn't just disappear in most cases, consider the MS, FB and Google of 15 years in the future. Given the changes already mentioned, what can we reliably say about them, other than that massive change is at least possible, and possibly even likely?

This is why I don't like Google collecting data on me now. Not because I don't trust them now, I for the most part still think them trustworthy, but 15 years is a long time and there's no way I can intelligently trust that they will act in a certain way 15 years from now, given the available information at my disposal.

And that's with a company that I think is heavily incentivized monetarily and has a strong employee culture of keeping data private and in-house. Until there are better laws protecting my data or a clear legal relationship with me and an entity with regards to my data, I think the only prudent course of action is to keep as much information about me as possible out of their and others hands.
Just to add to what you said:

>The shorter length of the medium encourages sensationalized media rather than longer, more reasoned takes.

This is changing. Most videos I see are 1 minute long, many of them sped up 2x (perfect format for me). And you can upload videos up to 3 minutes long now - which is good enough for a lightning talk.

And the time limitation is what has forced people to state their points very coherently, be laconic, speak fast (or speed up videos), add subtitles and text overlays - all the things that I want (and that some successful YouTubers, like Vi Hart, already do, but most don't).

I believe there is a place for a platform with the creative limitation of short time length.

>I have been incredibly disappointed by the queer presence on TikTok. Most of the people who I watched seemed misinformed, or were trying to sell me something.

That wasn't my experience, but it's hard to say which one is representative. FWIW, the neurodivergent community there is great and well-connected.

Is TikTok good for everyone else? I don't know, but that's one subset of people for whom it seems to work really well now.

As you said, I hope the future brings us a less-centralized TikTok not controlled by an oppressive regime. But who would want to build something that (if you read the comments here!) is only seen with scorn?

Yes, using TikTok is selling your soul to the devil kind of deal. Let's figure out what people get from the devil that made TikTok the #1 app globally.
You're forced to be in the Either monad to use your `abort` though, which kinda beats the point (you could just use the Maybe monad...). It is refreshing to be able to just throw an abort literally anywhere in your code, and get rid of a `Maybe` without changing the structure of your code, resting assured that the `none` case is dealt with properly.
Star Trek is certainly very limited. There is a reason that reboots have been a bit lacking. The things that made Star Trek great weren't the technology and action so much as the philosophy and how people reacted to it. For instance: the rights of androids, teleportation, non-human intelligence, religion, animal rights, racism, xenophobia, and environmentalism.

Star Trek took modern issues and juxtaposed them against an advanced society without the pressures that made them so pressing. Racism between humans seems ridiculous in the face of wars that could destroy or subjugate our entire species and unlimited resources. Taking care of a planet makes so much sense when you have nearly unlimited clean energy and the ability to destroy a solar system in a moment. Killing animals for meat seems barbaric when you can fabricate perfect facsimiles of meat without killing.

Star Trek technology inspired dreams of a better society. Not just better technology.
Firstly, I don't think the video should have been taken down. But, that is definitely not what Rand says in his original video. I cant find any mention of n95 at all, in fact.

He is being disingenuous by making that clear distinction in his follow up complaint video.

He said in his original video that we were all wasting our time because most of the masks you buy over the counter are useless. He then jumped on to his other complaints about Fauci. If he was trying to make the distinction of n95, he should have said so and said that we need to be using them instead.

It seems to me a bad faith effort to cloud the message of mask wearing when we need to be reinforcing it and educating the public to get n95 masks.

edit: I watched his original video a bit closer. He does mention n95, but in a different context and not comparing the two to say that we should use n95.
What about the job market exactly? The endless leetcode grind?
> During our 60 day experiment, inside that window of time we had a split of customers that received a video, and those that didn't.

>* - Of those that didn't receive a personalized video from me, only 3.75% purchased from us again in those 60 days.*

>* - Of those that received a personalized video from me, 7.02% purchased from us again in those 60 days.*

On one hand this is in my opinion a bit narrow-minded/short-term. Let's see what happens once people understand that the video wasn't personal (that they were tricked to think that it was?) + once a few more companies start doing the same thing.

On the other hand, I can believe that having videos which mention your name (let's be a visionary: let's imagine that e.g. Facebook's user profiles or similar stuff can be used, therefore that even some funny/happy comments can be added to the video mentioning e.g. some of your favourite things like stuff you like to eat/read/do or your favourite color etc...) can be somehow more entertaining or at least more "engaging" (as it's currently one of the most favourite buzzwords used in the Internet) compared to plain old-style videos.

But: that reminds me of the few times when I was sitting in a room (or I was in a conference call) and there was another person that had the same name as mine => each-single-time that that person's name was mentioned (same as mine) I got stressed (suddenly having to pay attention) and after 1-2 hours I was tired even if I actually didn't have to interact at all => I can think that such strategy, involving ~personalized videos, might have the same effect, meaning that people can only focus on few things that try to get their attention before starting to feel tired.

BTW.: I noticed just now, for the first time since years, that the comments-window can be resized :P I now do feel quite stupid, but I still feel like celebrating, hehe. Until today I wrote all my comments in the window having its default size, which is quite tiny... :D
Misinformation is hard to counter because ignorant are easily persuaded by what they want to hear regardless of authenticity. It’s primarily why people prefer news only from certain sources that fit their political lean or why some people prefer social media gossip over news.
> Since all advertising is the practice of psychological manipulation how is this particularly different? Is all advertising unethical?

Do you mean "is psychologically manipulating people to buy shit they neither need nor want" ethical? Because that's largely how modern advertising operates.
>What's the strategy for matching the top performers that are leaving?

You've hit on the problem with the Canadian governmental strategy that izend mentioned; those who leave aren't being replaced on a 1:1 basis in terms of quality.

In a survey of scientists from 16 countries (<http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...>), the US is the top destination from 13 of the 15 others and the #2 choice from the other two. If you are a Canadian scientist, there is a 16% chance (<https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the_...>) that you will move to the US. That's not "16% of all Canadian scientists that move out of the country move to the US". Let me repeat: *16% of all Canadian scientists move to the US.* More to the point, they're also likely to be among the top Canadian scientists, too.

By comparison, 5% of all American scientists move to another country, of which 32% go to Canada, so about 1.6-1.7% total. Since the US has nine times more people, that means that in absolute numbers the 1.7% of American scientists is about equal to the 16% of Canadian scientists, but there is no reason to think that the 1.7% makes up the top tier of American scientists; why would the best move north of the border? In other words, the US is receiving the best of Canadian scientists in exchange for an equal number of its non-best.
Netflix’s own catalog is available globally, without any regional restrictions.
You're touching on something that's boosted the progress of languages with proof capabilities such as Spark and Frama-C. They standardized around the use of why3, and use it as a lever to harness state of the art SMT engines (z3, cvc4, alt-ergo) but also advanced specific provers on specific theories (floating point in particular, I'm thinking of gappa, the amazing work of the toccata lab, and Altran UK making incredible strides in the last 5 years). As soon as a new proving tool is plugged in why, you can harness it. And they built bridges for interactive proof with coq and Isabelle, but also with static analysis tools like codepeer.

Why3 is a big success in the way you're asking. Just not adapted to pure maths proof like lean.
Plus they have a 'pay $99 once, get $150 in credit' option which makes it work out even cheaper if you're happy to do that.
While I understand your lack of success with bug reports, and I thank you for your stance on (not) closing bugs, note how the average manager got what he wanted:. A proof that reasonable effort has been made, and it's not his fault. This allows survival in a politically piosonous environment. If the bug got fixed is generally not their concern, others will have to deal with it and move on.

Besides, I once got Oracle to fix a bug. It took months and I basically had to spell the fix out to them, but it actually is possible.
Good to know. I should not have skimmed the article before replying.
I don't disagree with you and I am worried myself.

But this specific law is simply asking tech giants to comply, it is not over reaching, like the Apple new features that creates perceptual hashes on people's phones and than upload them to Apple servers, potentially forever.

Some control over content was to be expected, but until the EU mandates that every cloud provider should look for something controversial (political affiliation, controversial opinions etc. etc.) they can't be enforced and they can't be collected by companies operating in Europe or on European citizens' data.

It's a big difference IMO.
That seems like a really easy way to make $1B USD. How can anyone prove that you did your job right?
On that topic it is worth watching the TV show Dr Death. Horrible directing (Christopher Nolan-style random timeline), but good cast, amazing story and it actually happened. A neuro-surgeon as incompetent as over-confident that botched dozens of procedures, severely injured most patients, and killed some of them.
You might want to read up on them. Getting people to go 'oh its all the same' is pretty much the mission of these types of outlets. RT works by seeming like just another news source while subtly pushing the agenda on key issues of the Russian state.
Scandinavia, or at least Sweden and Norway are pretty diverse places now. Sweden's population is 20% foreign born and Norway's 17%, compared to 14% for both the US and UK. (Finland and Denmark are much lower at 7% and 8%.)
Fair enough, I can't disagree with you there.
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Not just internet communities. This applies to cities, or even countries, as well.
i did a stint in sydney and hong kong, 4 months and 1 month, respectively, about 20 years ago (so, HK before handover). and a couple weeks in ireland-type thing a few years ago.

was cool, very cool, but it was just kind of like a combined vacation/work/party thing - in part b/c those places are pretty gd cool.

i would have liked, and still might like, to go to a country where the native language is not my native tongue (English), and where there are not _too_ many expats around, else you just end up chillin with them all the time.

my teams were brits, aussies, some americans, all temp or perm expats from virginia, philly, mexico city, various places in uk and au, etc.

i was a java dev-type at the time, and in terms of work, it felt just like being in america.
Ah I see, thanks for clarifying. Is it unreasonable to expect a similar phenomenon to occur for countered information?
How does this compare to GPT-J from ElutherAI?
> and sold it for 80k profit

You seem to miss the issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch Scary guy.
Nice argument. Unrelated: what would you say about idea that Snowden never stopped working for NSA: it was inevitable that some truth will come out about the scale of surveillance and Snowden mission is to expose the info on NSA terms (intentional leak).
You only need to map the database types to the language types at worst. So int, string, timestamps, binary, maybe GUID. Or you could just use string for all data and then you're pretty much matching a dynamic language.

Results from joins between arbitrary queries are just lists of these types per field.
Dang typically posts when there's been a major or extended outage or performance degradation. HN also has a twitter feed, (https://twitter.com/hnstatus) @hnstatus, which gets information about issues.

Small hiccups like what you experienced occasionally happen but don't seem to get write-ups unless, again, it's widespread enough or long enough to have had a noticeable impact.
Very little gives me more pleasure than seeing my investments and net worth grow. Certainly very few things I could buy. The sense of peace and security it gives is worth more than any gadget.
Complete trust is impossible and systems premised on it will be fundamentally flawed, no matter how stupidly (proof of work, space probes) we attempt to avoid that conclusion.
invest in education, and give people the ability to spend 30 extra seconds critically thinking about the information they see and where it came from
>This is value, but not cash value.

I agree that then copyright on the news should expire a lot sooner, but really if people (as a general category) find value in something they (as a general rule) will pay some amount to have it. It may not be a great amount, and you may not be one of the people who will pay for it despite valuing it (many people who value music won't pay for it, but there are obviously people who do value it and will pay).

I am not arguing that there should be copyright on this media just that what the parent commenter said is correct, you can't claim that it holds some form of value without also admitting that someone will pay (another form of value) for it.

In point of fact now that I think of it I have some old hardbound police gazette collections that are republished sometime in the last 20 years from 100+ years ago. I paid for those.
You said chattel, they didn't.
Too many people just don’t understand what car ownership costs. If we had decent public transportation a lot people currently at the margins would have their lives greatly improved. Far too many people are slaves to the debt servicing their cars and the costs of gas, insurance, and maintenance.
Better lineup than Netflix.
I would suggest two avenues:

- making data easily accessible and publishing our own narratives

- building better consensus mechanisms, which can be federated in nature

One of our problems in the US is the media spreading its own misinformation — eg, hyper focusing on a few dozen wrongfully killed black men, while ignoring the thousands dead from depolicing. That kind of misinformation for the sake of narrative has literally killed thousands of Americans.

Contrarily, Russian “misinformation” tends to focus on actual but inconvenient facts — such as US institutions suppressing negative coverage of the Bidens, emphasizing Bidens racist/sexist policies, emphasizing the hypocrisy of the wealthy, etc.

We can’t fight foreign influence operations by way of selective truth telling by bolstering the domestic propaganda — as these programs tend to suggest.

We must innovate better tools for an informed citizenry.
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It's quite similar, but you're technically right according to the wiki definition. I think both evoke similar feelings in the original poster or poster's Internet social circle.
It's a long way to say P => Q is not the same as Q => P or P <=> Q.
The Valve situation sounds like they attempted to open source after the fact, which doesn’t work with large hardware projects.

The only way to really open source a hardware project of this magnitude is to set open source as a constraint from the start. If you don’t, you inevitably end up with someone licensing some code somewhere from a vendor that can’t be open sourced. It gets integrated deeply enough that the project can’t exist without that piece and it’s too late to rewrite around it so the open source commitment goes out the window.

If I had to guess, it sounds like Valve tried to work around the situation with the workshop where participants entered into some contract as part of the workshop.

And if I had to guess about the Facebook situation, it was probably decided to open source the project after the fact. I’m guessing they wrote the website copy while someone else went off to try to secure open source permission for all components involved and they never reconciled the two efforts, hence the weird dead eBay links and missing files.
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I'm one of those that save/invest 70% of their take-home income. It's not about frugality at all - I would gladly pay for an increased quality of life - but it's simply not on offer.
Past a certain threshold, a threshold well within the reach of western upper-middle-class households, the exchange rate between money and the quality of life becomes essentially zero.
What's left are pointless status seeking games, scams and useless trinkets. The Bible's Book of Ecclesiastes describes it poignantly:

> I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure[...] Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun
And interestingly none are written with web technologies —- sufficiently complex GUIs are no good fit for that.
I love how "skeptic249757" think their few hours of google searching is somehow comparable to a massive body of climate researchers that have spend decades digging into the state of our climate. It's like the time my boss told me the lump in my neck was nothing to worry about and I was wasting my time by having a doctor look at it.

But, as they say, you can't reason someone out of a position that didn't reason into in the first place.
I would frame it as, your current dev env is your specific laptop, and codespaces requires any laptop.

It's certainly reasonable to think that a SaaS can approach availability time of a single piece of hardware.

Furthermore, it appears that engineering github/github to work in codespaces helped their local provisioning as well.
Slack remains poorly written, you don't need to check. 1Password says they are taking strides to enhance performance of their apps but this isn't looking great for them: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1425490443400273921
> Or you can use cross-platform solutions which are themselves good tools

No such thing exists.

> and disregard platform-specific semantics

Again, this is a bad thing for users.
But there's a survivor bias in picking US blue chips. Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the rate of return for equity markets around the world? For example, the Japanese blue chip stock market has been stagnant.
Your class breakdown describes someone's "working life".

You wouldn't use it to ascribe class to a person aged 12 - you'd use their parents.

Likewise, it doesn't really apply after retirement (which the OP was describing). Anyone who is retired "gets all their money from investment". That doesn't make them upper class.
Empower the population to inform itself.

Right speech is a natural outcome of free speech.
Except he did not say that at all in the video that was taken down. He mentions n95 in passing later, but does not make the distinction that n95 masks do work and cloth masks don't. (which is also dubious because some protection is better than no protection and cloth masks do stop large particles that can contain coronavirus).
> High ceilings, transoms, pier foundations, tin roofs, etc.

How does a high ceiling help? Doesn't a high ceiling mean there's a larger volume of air in the room to cool? You'll also need a more powerful fan to move the extra air around.