skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually can't remember the details. I believe we were talking about Babel...so, technically, a transpiler. Or it actually could have been one of those code bundlers (I seem to remember they were using browserify...this was a while ago but I believe most people were already using webpack then...JS...what a mess).

Actually can't find him at the company anymore. But the company isn't doing too well (although they seem to have moved into a nicer office). Revenue down 50% last year (from a small number to an even smaller number), costs up 60%, losing substantially more money than they have revenue, the operations guy who did my interview isn't there anymore either...true "tech company things". I didn't the impression that the company was that bad, they were more "much steam, no fire".
I'm just saying bud, you're voicing some really black-and-white views that paint in broad strokes and are pulling together some pretty disparate things under an oversimplified umbrella. Good as your intentions may be, extremes and dogmas rarely help anyone to be happier or more resilient, especially children.

I'd advise you to take a step back and unpack the baggage you clearly have around this stuff. Not just for your own sake.
There's a joke somewhere about Elon Musk's anti-police agenda.

Where's the moral line between something like Signal's "we might put spyware bait on your device" and the theoretical capability Musk has to make the Tesla fleet target police for elimination?
You've been hellbanned. Any comment you make is invisible to users who haven't set "showdead" to on.

From the rules https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

You can create a new account, but if you use that new account for further ideological battle, it will also pick up flags from other users until it gets banned.
Actually preliminary studies with UBI seem to show that only a small percentage actually quit working.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots

UBI is survival money. It's meant as a social safety net. It's not 'thrive' money.

But people want to thrive. So the theory is that people will continue to want jobs to advance themselves and their families.

Just with UBI the absence of a job is way less brutal.

It's also shrinks the government and allows companies to do layoffs with less brutal consequences to the people being laid off, which allows companies to adjust to economic conditions a lot more easily.

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Also, just like hunter gathering and farming ways of life were made obsolete by technology, this concept of a 'job' will potentially be made obsolete by technology in the future.

As automation and globalization increases and the number of jobs declines exponentially in the US and also around the world...the same value is being generated but the gains are only going to a few people.

Were going to have to figure out what to do with a ton of people who want to work but no jobs are available due to this legacy system.
A few of the more recent comments in your history contain insults, so I guess earlier ones will look no different. That's a sure way to get into trouble here and you seem to be shadow-banned by now. That means that all of your comments are invisible to (most) other users from the beginning, unless someone actually deems on one of them good enough and vouches for it. Vouching makes the comment show for all users again.

On the other hand you seemed to be making good points from time to time, at which point someone vouched for your comment and discussion followed. This seems to be what you are rather looking for, so maybe refrain from low effort posts and insults in the future and the mods might give you another chance? You can check the guidelines and FAQ (look for the links in the footer of the frontpage) if you are unsure what's OK and what's not.
Ah. Well, they're all the same person. Or rather... the same persona. So we know they're a unique person... or persona. But what is identity anyway?

What do I mean? Richard David James went by several different aliases. They're all the same person. But not the same persona? Maybe.

Couldn't Pac-Mac by Power Pill just be considered Aphex Twin's work? I'd argue, sure.

But Brad Strider's work, which is really just Richard again, is in my opinion significant enough from the rest of his work, can you group them together? Discogs still does, and that makes sense to me.
I suspect (as some have indicated), this is a very centric version of the history, but that does not mean it is incorrect.
It's not ineffective in all situations. A single soldier, isolated from his group, fighting 10 seniors or children simultaneously, is not going to do well. Plenty of people are killed in the Middle-East from rock throwing.
Why Data Science Is Important for All Developers
there's a lot of variety out there. you can spend your entire ticket dorking out on digital modes (esp if you go for general+ and have access to lower bands) like FT8, FT4, Olivia, WSPR [0] to see how far out you can get on as little power as possible and so on.

Or if you want to ease into it, you can get a ham radio w/o a license, or cheap SDR and try to receive and decode weather sats, etc [1]

making tiny WSPR boards and things like APRS [2] interest me more than ragchewing or nets on 40 or 80 meters most of the time

forgot my favorite, amateur SSTV (analog baby!) - can see some analog and hybrid (easylink over internet.. cheating) http://www.g0hwc.com/

0 - http://wsprd.vk7jj.com/ (click search then map to get an idea)

1 https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-50-lines-of-python-code-to-dec...

2 https://aprs.fi/
this is a really cool idea!
Do you have any links to posts/videos that further describe, analyse, etc this trick?
I would say in both cases it's the government exhibiting control over its citizens lives under the notion that it's for their own protection. I think everyone has a point at which government control becomes tyranny. For some it's lockdowns during a pandemic, for others it's time-limits on video games. Seems like all apples, to me.
I was not aware of the association with African-American culture either. I always associated it with spending time in the military. My grandfathers knew how to play from their service in WW2.
Yes, using evil mode in emacs puts you in the weird position of being scoffed at by both vim users and emacs users ;)

> The most common mistake I make is having caps lock on and hitting J a bunch which merges all the lines together.

Oh that happened to me as well one day, it was catastrophic! I did not realize I hit J on a folded header (which joined all lines in that section) before saving and quitting at the end of the day. I only realized the mess on the next day.

I wrote a blog post [1] on how I solved it, if it sounds interesting.

[1] https://e-dorigatti.github.io/phd/2020/08/27/lost-notes.html
Yeah, that's a really good point. There is no "one-size fits all solution" to how an architecture team should be composed (if it should exist at all for a company) nor is there an easy answer for how it should operate.

I really like this though:

> software architecture is about making certain you have as few tools as possible, to do a job, with the flexibility to accommodate other tools, when necessary.

This really resonates--one thing I've noticed is a growing complexity of like-systems and finding ways to reduce unnecessary complexity seems like it could be very beneficial for any organization.
Yes but a smaller one
I think they can make an effective offline grind that credits you when you log in and still comply with the law.
A Tale of Two Wildfires: Lessons from Europe’s Blazing Summer
Interestingly in Hong Kong, they will go to hell and back to divert the conversation to English if they see you aren't a native speaker. You literally have to say "I can't speak English" if you want to keep it in Cantonese.
There is no difference; it's evil and needs to die.
Kind of taken aback by all the people saying these are just shitty photos.
I think they are gorgeous...
Do y'all think Lo-fi music is just shitty music too?

I guess its a little unsurprising coming from the usual HN crowd lmao.
Managing Oneself
>> A major thing that’s overlooked in the phone spam discussion is the fact that when people have to deal with medical issues, especially chronic/ongoing ones, they need to allow calls from unknown callers. Doctors offices often have multiple phone numbers and it’s not realistic to have them all on the allow-list. It gets worse when you realize that the people most likely to have health issues (old age) are the same ones most likely to fall for the scams.

> My doctor's office, and their whole medical network, uses MyChart. All appointments, appointment updates, notices, lab results, prescription refill requests, etc. are handled via MyChart. The doctor's office never calls.

That's wont help an old person who isn't very comfortable with computers.

It's also not much use for me, since I kinda hate fighting with everyone's stupid websites, and usually opt for phone calls and paper mail. I'd rather use natural language to relay my requests to a computer operator who's job it is to know their system (or an expert that can field my questions), than to deal with it myself.
That would be bad for the retail investor. PFOF tightens the spreads and increases speed of execution.
That is cool! We get the Apple+ bundle with everything, and the new 3D spatial sound that they support with some audio media is very nice. I hope that they release more new classical music with 3D spatial sound support.
I think you'd be surprised. For example, with the wrong hire, one person with bad behaviour could frustrate everyone else on the team to the point where no one wants to work on the project anymore. This could lead to the whole team feeling resentment for one reason or another, and eventually leaving. Now you're in need of a lot more devs.
> [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out,

He may have said that, but after reading books on Oppenheimer and other scientists at the Manhatten Project, I don't believe it is accurate
Yeah, the method is very appealing because speaking requires interaction with other people. People are very content to learn passively via watching movies because speaking does require that fearlessness.
> Still, do consider the possibility that the passion behind your response is grounded in an overinvestment in online interactions.

Oh yeah, the ability for humans to share things with each other freely & to explore each other's thoughts is deeply overrated. You're right, you're totally on-topic here.

Discussions about hosting, providers, censorship: yeah, unimportant. We can forget all the questions we face there, those were just distractions. You're totally right. Thanks for pitching in. I see much more clearly now. I was just overinvested.

And furthermore, every time we have a hard issue about online topics, we just need to keep telling ourselves: online doesn't matter. Chime in every time to berate the importance of the discussion, to make sure the real topic, how unimportant being connected is, is abundantly clear.

(I want to have good places to talk about what you want to talk about. And in spite of my frustration you have been trying to do a good job of instilling a question that ought to be there. I don't think this internet thing is the only way to go, but I want it to be an option. And I see the real world as safe & secure in it's offerings. But I see an active battle going on, I see huge questions of control happening over how & where & whether humanity connects & is allowed to express themselves online. There's a very real challenge, and I don't think outdoor-reality needs defending. And I feel like the people trying to engage & advance something that is important are beset at every turn by endless lines of questioning, about whether they have any value. Being constantly made to defend that a humanity where connection is possible has value at all, being distracted everytime we try to talk about the difficulties & problems connectability face, is something that I think needs an effective resistance to it, needs to be shut down and told to find their own forum to have that discussion in: recognize there is value, first, be willing to join in discussion of this struggle that the topic has to it, second.)
My wife is a doc. Her former employer had an EMR that would occasionally freeze and crash, causing her to lose hours of work every day. Because she cares about people, this led to her repeating the work until late at night. It eventually led her to burnout and quit.

Hospitals and insurance companies think they can get a good deal going with cheaper software, but it really does bite them in the end. Just hiring a new internist already costs well into the mid six-digits.
Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After Nearly 20 Years
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Product Engineers
"the American and British armies would have been no match for the Soviet Red Army".

U.S. , Britain, Canada and France had millions of battle hardened troops, too ... and air and sea supremacy.
Yeah I don't know how people get their news this way... It drives me insane that it'll consistently show me weather from 4 days ago but not today. NOT USEFUL.
In the beginning, iTunes never worked well once you had 10k+ songs. The user flows weren't designed to navigate large libraries, and it also slowed to a crawl.

And it always felt like straight up malware on Windows with all the QuickTime update prompts.
Are there actual cases of this on the books?

I'd be pretty surprised if a judge was like "ah yes the defendant's consultancy modified a piece of industrial control software that you haven't given a thought to in three decades to make it run on a modern computer and not require a parallel port dongle, and that's definitely a DMCA violation and you've been harmed by it and deserve all the money."
It is also the most empathetic thing you could do. Try to imagine what it would be like if someone handed over their ‘brilliant’ code to you.
I very much agree; particularly as I may wish to hear particular bassists and they are usually not listed as the band leader.
It would also be useful to able to add multiple tags, both "jazz" and "post bop", for example.
Yup. The "fatalities per mile" chart is pretty astounding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#/media/File:Fa...
I just thought about this, but do you think upgrading the OS on the VM might trigger it?
Quebec never signed off on the 1982 constitutional reform, which created a mechanism for amending the constitution and finally fully separated Canada from the UK government. Until that point, the constitution of Canada was technically part of UK law. Not entirely unlike the devolved Parliament of Scotland today. The UK Parliament could amend it, in theory unilaterally. (It was long-standing convention not to do so except when requested, by the 20th century.)

So Quebec's signature was not required, legally, for the current constitution to be imposed upon them. (Long ago, Quebec's elected delegates did approve of the original Constitution Act in 1867.) Per the amendment formula, each province including Quebec has veto power over any further amendment that requires unanimous consent (affecting distribution of government powers, etc.) Which is now something of a stand-off. Getting an amendment that triggers that clause passed, seems all but impossible in contemporary Canada politically.
Especially when "your" wealth is fairly arbitrary, and hardly democratically decided.
I agree with the first two, but for me the latter doesn't produce much.

I will literally get a shower if I'm working on a hard problem (and a walk is not convenient). So many times I solve the problem, sometimes after having sat at the computer for hours trying to solve it.
I didn't refer to voting in my own comment, but maybe it would have been better not to engage the discussion any further with the user who had been flagged, since that engaged a discussion related to how their comments were flagged.

Regardless, I am going to stop replying now - we are ourselves cluttering the discussion with a pointless quibble.

>Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.

Cheers.
Hah! You've just described my childhood, hacking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get games to work. Each game needed a different hack. Had no idea what I was doing back then, it was more a case of discovering the correct incantation until stuff worked without the graphics juddering too badly.
The right and left arrow keys scroll one card at a time.
This is ridiculous. The guy just goes around bashing everything that's not Rust as "old". He even claims Java & C "is not very suitable for cross-platform world". So obviously his conclusion is "I'll have to write something in Rust!".

Huge world of "groupware" software around. Think Zimbra. Owncloud is hardly the only choice here...
The wifi pineapple equivalent of this would be a device that records all signals sent, filters it for unlock and start car commands, and then allows you to just bulk replay each set back until cars start.

You could effectively leave it in the bushes at a work parking lot, come back the next day, and unlock + start all of the cars with keyfobs that were present the day before.
Does it only find duplicate files or will it also find duplicate directory hierarchies?

Example:

/some/location/one/January/Photos

/some/location/two/January/Photos

I need a tool that would return a match on January directory.

It would be great to be able to filter things. So for example, if I have backups of my dev folder, I want to filter out all the virtual envs (venv below):
/home/HumblyTossed/dev/venv/bin
/home/HumblyTossed/backups/dev/venv/bin
Too many modern parents are not up to being a parent unfortunately.

It’s a hard work to maintain work/life balance while at the same time be a model for your children.

It takes A LOT of discipline and we all know how much discipline most ppl have..
The correct answer is no, it'd still be a massive problem
To be fair, I don't think that link existed when Steve wrote this 24 years ago; the New Yorker set up a web site in November 01998, and the WABAC machine's first snapshots of that link are from 02014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140723205106/http://www.newyor...

Steve's a good person; I'm sure he would have linked to the article he was citing if he could.
Nice, that actually works pretty well as a social construct for government/leadership.
The Non-Fungible Aristocracy
https://archive.is/2021.08.30-204316/https://www.wsj.com/art...
And richer players have access better to cards that poorer payers can never hope to be dealt.
And despite the complaints, US pax travel (scheduled) is INSANELY safe relative to most other forms of transport.

They fly us around in tin cans at 30,000 feet without killing that many folks per year. I'd love to get status of fatalities per motorcycle mile vs airline mile. Got to be remarkably different.
+1 to SoGo
Windows 98 SE was not only quite fast but also very stable. I preferred it greatly to Windows 2k. There were unfortunately nothing to be gained in Windows ME so that's why some people were still running it in 2007 such as at the link. Speed wise Windows 2k and Linux were comparable in speed and stability in 2003 on the 90's pentium machines, but Windows 98 SE was blazing fast.
Sure, but in fairness, this thread is about bypassing the copy protection in the existing software. Which I'm also arguing is safe, but it is not as obviously safe as a clean room reverse engineering effort.
> What would drive a person to deface a memorial of a child they have no relation to?

Racism
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The difference, for me, is consumption vs production.

If you spend tons of time learning an instrument, you will probably find yourself interesting in creating music. Maybe it's not going to be playing in a band, or recording albums. It might just be playing music around the campfire. But that is an activity in which you are producing something, bringing music into the world. I feel the same about any of "the arts". You're inherently going to be engaged in the act of creating something.

With gaming, consumption is more the rule. You play a level, a campaign, a story. If you create something, bring something new into the world, it is most likely going to be external to the game (like the posters who mention that they built websites and utils for their favorite games).

There are obviously exceptions on both sides. Games like Minecraft, Factorio, etc are obviously creative. Games like Roblox or Mario Maker allow people to create content and put it into the game. Game review videos, Twitch streaming, etc, allow people to build content with games at the center. These are creative/productive pursuits, and I think they have some inherent value (even if it's kind of a bummer that these creations are largely limited to being enjoyed within the game).

As an exception on the musical side, you could, for example, learn guitar exclusively through Rocksmith, and only ever use your guitar as a controller for a game.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with using your free time to do "consumptive" stuff. I enjoy gaming here and there. I listen to music. I watch TV. But for me personally, I find that I get a lot more satisfaction out of "creative" activities.

One last point - you get good at what you spend your time doing. I tend to really enjoy games that ask a lot of skill from their players - roguelikes, tight platformers, Souls games, Doom on nightmare mode, etc. But when I finish a game, I no longer have any use for the skills I developed. Whereas skills I develop in the pursuit of something creative/productive can be used in all kinds of situations for the rest of my life.

Edit: I started rambling and forgot the point. With all of this said - I would never want the government to limit how I spend my time. That's a job for parents when you're young, and it's a job for your own sense of what makes you happy when you're an adult. These kinds of lessons aren't things that can be downloaded into you from outside. Realizations about what makes a person fulfilled tend, in my experience, to come from within.
It's pretty much the standard across all industries. It's extremely difficult to get rid of an "indefinite" employee, so most roles will start with a first fixed-term contract.

You don't really get any less security than in a country like the U.K, where you can't claim unfair dismissal under two years of service.
Having been once in a aircraft-damaging emergency landing* decades ago I am surprised lap only belts are still the norm. There's a reason the crew has four point restraints, and I'd like to have it too.

* I won't call it a crash since the aircraft made it to an airport and to a runway. We had equipment failure in flight so there was plenty of time for the flight attendants to review our crash positions, confiscate shoes, move people around etc. Everybody survived and I think everybody survived the emergency slides intact. Very exciting to mid-20s me.
If only Britain had had the balls twenty-five years ago.
For me it was getting married and having a shared account and a spouse who doesn’t have adhd impulse control. It will get better if you find someone who fills this void. Therapy is good until then, you need constant awareness of the issue to me able to throw up hurdles like blocking websites via iOS screen time functionality etc.
Not actually buried on a beach. "The waste is buried about 100ft from the shoreline", in a concrete enclosure near a defunct nuclear power plant next to the beach.
Google Dropped Title Tags Usage by 77% & Replaced Those with H1s 75% of the Time
Those are the exact rules I learned from my father as well (both of us white Americans)
I think the problem is that collapse _is actually inevitable_ if we don't solve climate change, and if you don't think humanity is capable of the coordination and sacrifice necessary to solve it, you are left with one conclusion.