skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I only use the mobile version, it's so much more readable.

Same. Once I discovered that, and that the mobile site didn't have the random stalls from loading login.wikimedia.org, I started using it exclusively. The hardest part was retraining my muscle memory to type !wm instead of !wiki when searching for something.
is it time to drone-bomb the coal plants?
I forgot to add that logseq is open source, the file encryption feature is built-in (you can opt-in or opt-out) and all the documents are saved locally in md files.
> a human verifying the images would dismiss the false positive

How is a human supposed to distinguish that a visual derivative (a low res sobel filtered image, presumably) of ordinary, lawful, adult pornography isn't child porn when the system has already identified it as such?

I agree that using real child porn is an attack too, but at least in that case you could say the system was doing as designed (even though what its doing shouldn't be something that we want) ... but it's not even guaranteed to do as designed.
Ha. That's what I thought but the comment's dead status swayed my outlook and made me search for another meaning :O
When I'm feeling generous, I would guess the company doesn't want to spend the money required to compensate people with that level of experience.
Honestly the swollen battery made me fear for my life any time I used it. On planes it would swell so much (even when turned off) that the keyboard almost popped out.
Yes, this kind of thing must require some preconditions. Among them, I expect, a lack of reliable ID among the poor. Look at it from the government official's point of view: Someone claims to be a person declared dead, because that person owned land. What proof can they offer?
Hamster[1] has GNOME shell integration, making it relatively easy to use from a Linux-based desktop.

It has a few quirks and could do with some UI improvements, but it's nice to be able to switch task (with some basic autosuggestion and categorization) using a text input in the system tray.

[1] - https://github.com/projecthamster
This isn't how any of my workplaces have worked. When someone leaves, they or their boss sends an email announcing the role changes. Which companies practice the role@ method?
I imagine this simply would not work for someone with multiple offers though, which could act as a pretty severe filter of talent.
I'm a parent that just taught my 4yo preschooler to read. So I'm not really your target user, but I watched the walkthrough and read the website, and here are my reactions. Hopefully something here is useful for you:

- I'm honestly baffled by spending so much time on one book (program?) in a classroom context. I imagine some kids won't be interested in the particular story, but it will go on for an entire month. I could see this damaging interest.

- The pace seems incredibly slow. To learn to read, you need to read a lot. But this is one book per month?

- The more stories a child is exposed to, the more chances there are to encounter something especially captivating for that child, and to spark an interest.

- It's hard to believe how much participation there will be without seeing an example class and interactions between the students & actor. The videos on the site make it seem like a completely passive experience.

- Craft activities seem like a distraction from reading unless the activities are grounded in literacy (e.g. letter/word games or creations). Even then I'm kind of skeptical.

- I predict you'll end up changing the name "litnerd". Being a nerd is cool on HN, but elsewhere?

All that said, I'm a fan of your mission and understand that learning to read in a classroom is going to look a lot different than learning 1:1. But I wonder if you could leave the group instruction to teachers and go direct to kids with a more Duolingo ABC-like experience, but include live instructors/actors. It'd be sort of like reading with a remote parent. Instructors could act out the story as you're doing with litnerd, but also unstick kids with reading help and mini-lessons. Basically, build a literacy-specific Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from A Diamond Age with gig economy ractors.
Other good qualities of your ad: it is clearly written and provides an idea of what the position involves. I wish more companies took this approach while advertising openings.
Why does your preference for en.wikipedia.org and old.reddit.com take precedence over my preference for en.m.wikipedia.org and old.reddit.com ?
>I think it's a fascinating idea, operating a team on the basis of permanent remote work with occasional team work "retreats" when periods of heavy innovation and interaction are needed.

This is how Automattic did it before the pandemic[1]. It works because they're clear during the hiring process that this sort of travel will be expected. I've always found it very valuable for getting everyone on the same page and for team morale/cohesion.

[1] https://automattic.com/how-we-work/
There are different types of note taking. For random items, I use lists like Trello. For lots of non-transferrable knowledge, I use a wiki like Notion.

I haven't liked the note taking tools for learning, so I've been building a prototype to do it better. It's like Roam, but is planned to be crowd sourced and self organizing.
https://www.conceptionary.app/
> age correlates with inflated expectations: salary, paid vacation, benefits, etc. This alone has been our hurdle to hiring people 40+.

I am curious why you wouldn't offer market-rate salary with paid vacation and benefits to all employees. What does age have to do with it?
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This kind of emergent behavior reminds me of my time in high school. My friends and I eventually developed a small patois through tons of inside jokes that fed on themselves and morphed into inside jokes of their own. None of this was intentional—it was just copying things that were funny and changing them slightly in more hilarious ways. We could basically freely utter nonsense that would otherwise get us detention.

I feel like this is similar, where one behavior is seen, then altered by someone else, etc. It’s like an in-group signifier that you understand it, and that you can modify it in a meaningful way.
> From the authors own viewpoint, he would want us to investigate that for ourselves.

That is not what his book said. It said nothing about having kids or anyone investigate independently.

The book listed multiple ways in which textbooks mislead, leave important parts of story put or even directly lie. The book claims these have consequences (to large extend in making history boring and unreal).
I use Spitbol every day. A problem with it is that it allows godawful code like that example. Here's fizzbuzz in Spitbol:
loop a = lt(a,100) a + 1 :f(end)
output = eq(remdr(a,15),0) 'fizzbuzz' :s(loop)
output = eq(remdr(a,3),0) 'fizz' :s(loop)
output = eq(remdr(a,5),0) 'buzz' :s(loop)
output = a :(loop)
end

Even shorter:
loop a = lt(a,100) a + 1 :f(end)
output = (eq(remdr(a,15),0) 'fizzbuzz',(eq(remdr(a,3),0) 'fizz', (eq(remdr(a,5),0) 'buzz')),a) :(loop)
end
Back in the day, when I was working at a PC repair shop, you'd see every kind of laptop come in. People would bring in Mac laptops, and then just open the lid up on the service desk and it would wake up immediately like it was still running! After all my experience with Windows PCs, I would be shocked that people would just shut the lid and put them away.

We all knew that you'd never just suspend or sleep a PC laptop and put it in your bag. It would always wake up, or not go completely to sleep, and you'd end up with a toasted laptop.

Meanwhile, every single Mac brought in had no trouble sleeping. They never overheated in a bag. The Mac owners never powered them off, always just shut the lid and put them in the bag. I'd never seen one overheat in a bag. Tons of Macs would come across the service desk, and never one overheated. Nobody ever shut them down to transport them either. They would reliably suspend / sleep every time you shut the lid.

Lately though, and I don't even work in a repair shop, I see Macs overheating in in other people's bags. I hear the fans soaring on them constantly. Mine doesn't suspend / resume properly either. They really aren't built as well as they used to be, IMO. I don't trust it to just sleep properly when I shut the lid, so it always gets powered off before it gets put away in a bag.
Is it possible for the courts to use this system to search a defendant's phone for leaked documents say? Like if NSA learns that one of a small group leaked document X, can they get a court to force Apple to add the hash of Document X to the database on that group of people's phones? If so, I bet this becomes the new norm for investigating leaks.
The fact that offering gig work to FT employees could have legal repercussions sounds off alarm bells about the US's unhealthy attitude towards employees. It's unfathomable to me that corporations can have so much power over one's time outside of work.
I see a lot of that sort of development too. Old rotting 2br bungalow converted to a three story home that consumes almost all available space on the lot and looks like a modern refrigerator. I'm not sure why that is allowed but a three story apartment complex of the same exact dimensions is illegal.
Yep. I also wouldn't care at all if "forcing" reader mode like this would most certainly break some pages. I wouldn't want to stay on pages like that anyway, so I would lose nothing.
Kubernetes did it first.
Sure, it would work with the spouse I have now, but I would have been mortified bringing my ex with me. There are good reasons I left him, and having to watch over him at inappropriate times was part of it.

Not all families are wonderful.
Agism is so bad in this industry. Thanks for writing that ad, it's brilliantly worded!
Maybe I'm being a cynic, but why wait until the age of 30 to sue.

It's more likely that Corona has taken a large chunk out of the cash flow, and now it would be nice with a boost of the finances.
Oh yeah, I absolutely love talking with the oldest possible people I work with. I'm not being sarcastic or anything. The older colleagues always have unbelievably awesome insight and interesting stories, and really wise advice. In a purely selfish way I'm always disappointed when someone retires because I know what kind of knowledge and wisdom is walking out the door. I always hope to be this type of person for those around me, sharing knowledge/experience to those who are up-and-coming in the career/industry. :)
It would be absurd to suggest that America created the people who became taliban - obviously their parents did. I doubt any of them are americans. I guess that part of obvious, and i am sorry that i didn't make it clear. What I meant was that it was US with their attack dogs in the area, ie pakistan, who gave money, training and weapons to them.

There are complexities to every situation anywhere.

PS: America created Taliban. ISIS too.
> Robot warfare is a logical endpoint of such development

Robot vs. Robot is unlikely to settle wars - we may as well play chess rather than wage war and humans have too much bloodlust to solve differences that way. What is likely to happen is having country A's robots in country B's homeland killing humans, while battling country B's robots in A's homeland. What constitutes a "war front" will be really confusing when the next war between great powers comes.
> A recruiter from a prominent SF / Silicon Valley tech headhunting firm once told me that 40 is the cutoff for individual contributors.

That fits perfectly because 40 is when age discrimination becomes illegal: https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination

You should report that headhunting firm.
Turning off the internet and finding your tribe in person.
That's not really a surprise.

YC companies can post job adds here, others can't. So you have to be clickbaity to get your add on the front page. And it's a pretty good place to post an add, signal to noise ratio wise.
I've spent the better part of a decade thinking about this question, and I've settled on one answer: if the objective was to erase the theocracy and install a western-style or western-aligned government, we should've treated Afghanistan like an Imperial colony. Fully erase all traces of how Afghans managed themselves, force them to pay taxes to the US government for providing security and administering their government, and hand off administration of that government in pieces over the course of a generation as the civil infrastructure matures.

I think this is a stupid objective, however. It would be astronomically expensive, it would've cost untold amounts of blood, and "doing Colonialism" in the 21st century is frowned upon for good reason. What would we gain? What would the Afghans gain? Money from mineral extraction? In the end, we did psuedo-colonialism anyway, and it got us nothing but dead Americans and dead Afghans.
> recipe on the net for making a true Pizza Napoletana

So, we are going to read and follow the recipe of endemic Naples, Italy pizza by some talented chef from New York? I don't get it, what's the point? Can we please have one from Naples, Italy chef?
I have a large family, and while I wouldn’t spend two full consecutive weeks away ever, I could probably do 4-6 weeks a year, fly out Sunday, fly back Friday evening. Except this last year cuz my wife was homeschooling the kids and she would’ve gone insane, but they’ll be back in school this year so I could imagine it happening. Even two weeks straight is fine if I was flown back on the weekend.
Overview of Rust's Cryptography Ecosystem
We do this at Gumroad. Works great; will never go back.
I worked at an electric autonomous car company in the Bay Area (not that one) that was crawling with 22 year olds slinging code every which way. Periodically a bug emerge that the younger generation couldn't get their head around. Invariably one of the older guys (in his 50's or 60's) would spend an afternoon looking at it, fix it, and then yell at all the kids in the room. I was somewhere between the two age groups and it was hilarious to watch.
I don't think it's entirely false. NCMEC is not a regular non-profit. They have special clearance to do things that regular citizens and non-profits are not allowed to do.
This is the threat model I am looking at. It is number one with a bullet. We have already had a court case where an adult actress had to show up in court and prove that she was adult when experts testified that the images were of a non-adult woman.

Baby in the sink? No. But a bunch of the aforementioned? Yeah.
Sure, it feels like that to the victim of the forgery. But, the state isn't denying [0] that some human is alive. The evidence available to it asserts that the human is an impostor attempting to adopt an indefensible identity, as in the article. Presumably, the human would need to provide evidence that discredits the forgery underlying the state's belief (ex dental records, genetic evidence).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
Or that programmers who'd rather focus on things like "minimum viable products" and "just get something down" rather than "designing maintainable systems" and "avoiding sources of tech debt" skew young/inexperienced.
Here is the quote I replied to:

> The idea of taking the team out to an airbnb (or some other communal living arrangement) in the woods or by the beach for a week or two to launch a new major initiative 1-4 times a year

Note that "week or two" and "1-4 times a year". It isn't a strawman, it is literally the topic.

As for
> Why are you acting like you're going to be told on Thursday that you have to get on a flight across the country Sunday night?

I don't believe I ever expressed that the trips are surprises. It isn't a matter of planning, it is a matter of the duration being a burden.
What kind of trouble did it almost get you in?
Thank you for sharing your story, I love webdev and development in general, but burning out in corporate culture. Maybe I should slowly move into indie development.
They think they've outsmarted the law on that one. The system is setup to generate a bunch of false positives on its own, so a "match" which is below threshold may not actually be a match-- apple can plausibly deny it.

It's unclear if their claimed threshold of 30 is before or after the false positives they intentionally introduce. I'm going to guess it's before.
That's not the US military's position and the linked article doesn't even make that claim.

(Had to wait since I was silently barred from posting due to 'karma'/downvotes. Not a great algo for public discussion imo, although I acknowledge this thread is now in the weeds. At the very least it should be made public and obvious that I cannot reply.)
Also not to mention that Obsidian, which is made by 2 bootstrappers is giving a 200 million dollar valued VC funded company a run for it's money.
If that's the motivation, it's pretty misguided, since it is a completely different motivation to buy. I buy (or pirate if I can't) the old games for nostalgia fun, not so much for the gameplay or graphics. I then also buy the new game for the modern experience & gameplay.
Until then, archive.org has lots playable in-browser.

e.g.
https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

https://archive.org/details/sega_genesis_library

https://archive.org/details/atari_8bit_library_games
Loved the read. I read enough dry stuff all day so this was a nice break :)
I love HBO's selections, often I'll see content advertised as available on HBO and its def something I want to watch, so I'll go pick it up somewhere. Very good selections.

Haven't actually tried the service though.
Probably not a bad idea, I guess I just think writing a JSON parser in JavaScript is an inherently silly task if not done for learning/fun/demonstration, so I wanted to emphasize the latter aspect :)
I meant general liability insurance for the LLC.

I think we would need to know specifics to really weigh in. I still think if you look up multiple resources for the topic you want to cover, then you can get sufficient advice. Most things can be covered in a license/eula and if structured right, will give you a lot of protection. This shouldn't be very expensive to have a lawyer set up if you can't find one of the standard ones that work for you. If you're really that concerned with the minor details and edge cases, then I assume you also have retained a personal lawyer for all the legal risks you face as a regular citizen. If you haven't, then try to apply that same logic here - that you aren't doing anything that risky and can follow basic advice or best practices. You probably aren't a high risk target (personally or company) unless you are doing sketchy things, pissing people off, or are high profile wealthy.
In the EU, there's a _seller_ obligation for 2 years for items in the same class as laptop to ensure they are free from defects and fit for purpose. It won't help you if _you_ break your laptop, and after 6 months the burden of proof in the event of a dispute switches from the seller to the buyer, but I feel like pretty much all the issues the OP encountered would be covered under this.

A lot of add on warranties don't cover much more than this anyway, which makes them much harder to justify here.
I mean, we've seen conclusively with leaks like Collateral Murder -- there are no winners in war.
You're right, it wasn't built for everyone. and the kind of people it WAS designed for don't even blink at $10k
This seems strange to me, it seems these people would continue adjusting salary and benefits exceptions downward until they found a job, or they would find a company that is paying what they are looking for. I know it is a lucrative field, but is every software developer 40+ financially established enough to be that picky?

Side note: paid vacations seem like pretty low exceptions, maybe you are taking advantage of inexperienced developers, maybe you meant amount they expect too much time off.
The Relaunch of a Once Promising Crypto Token Brings New Life and a New Kind
As newly revived LifeCrypto prepares its launch on exchanges,
The fact that this even went anywhere is indicative of some serious, serious disconnect between the decision-makers and the reality of the situation.
Same with me. I'm to the point that I'm going to create an alternate resume that only lists experience of less than 8 years, instead of 30+, and use a very old photo of myself on socials.
I'm 47 and strongly considering jumping from marketing to front-end dev. I have experience with development so I'm not starting from scratch, but I'm definitely not a pro level developer. I'm fine with a drop in salary, but your comment sure worries me about finding ANY job.

That being said, it has been my dream to be a developer for years. I even studied Math, CS and Mech Eng in college. But, sometimes life takes you in unexpected directions. No gain with no risk, I guess...
techmoan is great for retrotech. also in the same vein, but more focused on retro compute is 8-Bit Guy, and then for just retrotech of all sorts, Technology Connections has to be one of the most well-researched and entertainingly presented channels on YouTube.
I'm genuinely surprised that people still think "do more NGO investment" would've worked. What do you think we did for 20 years there? I walked I don't know how many patrols where we went to hand out money to Afghan "contractors" for building a road, and they'd just disappear after they got paid.

>That investment gradually leads to deradicalization, both because people become better educated and happier, but also because they start to see the US as a legitimate friend.

Nope. They see us as rubes.
Yep, I've definitely thought about it. There's only one other company in the UK that does this. They supply their feed/API as a service to nearly all the big comparison sites.
Porto Alegre map reminds me of GTA: San Andreas map
> I know plenty of over-40 (and older!) wise software engineers working for places like Google.

yes, but at what age were they hired? and at what level are they working?
It's questionable whether online 'influencers' actually influence anyone beyond getting them to watch or listen to their show. What they definitely have is an audience, and that is valuable to the advertisers and marketers who do influence people, as well as prospective guests who want to promote themselves or a cause. I think influencers' main value for advertisers is acting as a magnet for certain demographics, providing another way to do targeted marketing.
My macbook air died one month out of the yearlong warranty. In their troubleshooting at the apple store they managed to wipe the device and still couldn't breath life into it or figure out what happened. >$400 flat rate repair and they didn't even offer me a loaner in the mean time while the computer was mailed off. I would think apple could compete on customer service with the shade tree mechanic and their loaner car but I guess not.
Is this universally true? In the US it appears that it just means there's more restrictions to what types of jobs you can/can't do and the hours you're allowed to work, but AFAIK it's not actually illegal to work as a child.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/YouthRules/young-workers/no...
It's named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard Note that shepherd is spelled differently.

It's pretty clear that you're only seeing your own biases here.
nice to see nitter popping up now after having ran into it what seems like just yesterday here
So what I'm hearing is you don't actually believe in any rights. If someone can do something and someone else is not able to stop them that's acceptable because it's a failure to defend themselves. You don't even actually need a right to a gun because if you get one then you can enforce that you have one. Might makes right(s).
The items you list are precisely what I implied they could seek through reinventing renewables as a world industry to compete in.
They have to treat older people with respect, and pay them accordingly. Apparently, they don't want to.