skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like we're the same person. I'm on the utilities board for my city and am pushing for the same thing. I meet monthly with a group organized under the Fiber Broadband Association that is focused on municipal broadband. We have quite a few members and most either have some form of municipal broadband or are in the process of getting it. If you shoot me an email (see my bio) I'd be happy to connect you. Everyone is eager to help and many of them just went through this process in the past couple years. I think that's the best route forward as they've already gone through this and can share what they know.
You made an assertion with zero proof. Do you think that dictating what businesses can do in terms of hiring has zero costs? That it won’t have a chilling effect on people establishing businesses in the area?
I am not factually wrong.

Here is what I said: “The US is not lacking in either press or economic freedom compared to ‘peer’ nations.”

Whether or not there are countries who have better ratings, any honest reading of the list sees that the US ratings are similar to peers.

When you consider how large and diverse the US is compared to most countries on the list, the ranking becomes more impressive.

The first list puts the US above all of Europe except Switzerland, and above all of Scandinavia, and Canada and Australia.

The second list puts the US above Sweden, Germany, and Japan for example.

The third, doesn’t have ranks, but places US in the ‘satisfactory’ category along with most of Europe, Canada, and Australia.

The fourth, is the only one in which the US does a little worse on their points scale, however *it is back in the top tier described as ‘free’ alongside all its peers, and above the UK, France and Japan in the ranking.

It’s just bullshit to claim these lists indicate that the US is lacking compared to peers.
This is one of the saddest comments I've read on this matter. What progress was ever made from taking the stance that "that's just how things are"?
If there were 486 toddler gun deaths, then on average, those occurred 1.33 times per day. The frequency of gun-related toddler deaths is literally "every day".
Super follows brings in additional revenue streams. Paying to remove ads reduces one stream to create a second one generating possibly minimal or even negative growth.
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That is such an empowering statement.

I've said before on HN that fear of what may happen stops many people from experimenting with computers, coupled with locking everything down and hiding the non-consumer-friendly aspects out of site.

Starting with a blinking cursor, the worst you could do was format a floppy disk with your work on it - or blow a fuse because you were tinkering with the internals.
Nope not at all. Learning Lisp/Common Lisp/Scheme was easy for me. However learning Haskell was hard. Things are hard to learn when you have to change how you think to understand it. I know people who are good at Haskell but crap at writing C. It has nothing to do with IQ.
It's just another beauty contest.
Would it? The broad strokes of the spying is pretty well established at this point so I'm not sure what new is actually gained in this hypothetical.
There's a little-known .au TLD just for this purpose- .id.au, and I've found it's still quite easy to snag a ${name}.id.au (No ABN required, AFAIK).
There were many 3rd party add-on keyboards for the 16K/48K Spectrum. I got the Saga 1 Emperor keyboard the Christmas after I got my 48K. You opened the case of the Spectrum, removed the ribbon connectors from the board and then attached the new keyboard and screwed the bottom plus board to it.

There was some magical feeling back then that I think is hard to capture now. The manuals were really good for teaching you - I learned sine and cosine from the diagrams in the manual years before we covered them in maths. The memory layout and system variables were documented, as were all the Z80 opcodes. The first time I used LDIR to transfer data to screen from off screen memory was magical.

You really could master the whole machine and I feel that the limitations actually helped. I would spend summers writing large assembly language programs. Before I had an assembler (HiSoft DevPac) I would hand assemble programs by writing them out on paper and then figuring out the opcodes and calculate the jump relative offsets.
Be careful about getting life lessons from movie scripts :-/

But people do often unwittingly telegraph that they are untrustworthy. One of the obvious tells starts with "You can trust me!" In isolation, it doesn't mean the person is untrustworthy, but it is a warning beep.
people need to trust science because the average person doesn't have the scientific background necessary, much less the time, to evaluate the accuracy of everything scientific they deal with - especially in the realm of medicine

like it's great you want to make things accessible and help people take charge of more things in life, but I don't think most people want that - and even of those who do say they want that, few will still take the time necessary to actually understand stuff correctly

which leads to the related issue that caused all the regulations and regulators we have today, people falling prey to snake oil salesman and downright harmful products in the marketplace. just look at the state of "nutritional supplaments" today

to me, I think people should just be more aware of the limitations of what they can really learn given the constraints of day to day life and accept that specialization is necessary to making modern society function - thus putting their trust in the appropriate authorities when necessary

but even that is a idealistic goal so idk
"Angola is better at 4.85"

Do you really think Angola's homicide rate is under 5 per 100k? Half the worldwide average? This is a pretty wild claim, knowing Angolan society.

OSAC notes that "A large percentage of street crime goes unreported and does not appear in official police statistics" -- it seems much more likely that this low number is a function of limited police reporting and data collection, rather than actual safety.

https://www.osac.gov/Country/Angola/Content/Detail/Report/d5...
I deliberately set GMail to the lowest level of spam filtering they'll allow, and still only receive a couple of spam messages per month at most. They need to adjust their levels.
> If they decide to sacrifice quality for speed that's their problem/decision. [...] Then watch it blow up, or maybe it will actually be good enough.

You apparently have never been sued for your managers decisions.

Here is how that was for me:

My manager released something I worked on, despite me saying that it would need a few more months of work. Apparently that would have made this unprofitable, so he disregarded my advice and they released it anyways. I joined the company when this project was already a Year late. So it was not surprising that this project was close to costing more than the customer would pay.

Except for a few interns, I was the newest dev in the company, so I didn't push super hard for more work on this project. However I was the most experienced dev on the team, so I should have pushed more.

Or should have at least got it in writing that they decided against my recommendation.

When it eventually crashed and caused a 30 minutes outage I was fired.

Why? Because it was my code that was the problem of course. Never mind the fact that I told them it is not ready and that the error wasn't even code that I WROTE. Some intern wrote that part. I wasn't a lead or manager and had nothing to do with it.

They then tried to sue me for more money then they ever paid me. 30 minutes of factory outage can be very expensive which they of course tried to recuperate out of my bank account.

I was very lucky that I had a good lawyer. Actually I could only afford a very junior lawyer, but he was sick on the day of trial and asked his professor to go instead. I was probably super lucky with that one.
A sad day indeed. A true democratising force in computing, without his work I wouldn't have ever thought someone like me could write software. Even If I was too young to write at the time, the ZX Spectrum was my first/only video game experience, small games made by one or two people that my family could afford or borrow.

This led me into making indie games and software dev, it gave me the idea of 'why not me?', the ZX Spectrum might not have been the door, but is sure was the key into a much wider world for me.

It also led me to recreate my favorite thing about the ZX Spectrum, the loading sounds as a musical instrument. The ZX Plectrum.
Then discussion of any form of civil disobedience should be banned. All of it is by nature illegal. A sit in is a mass trespassing event. A march illegally shuts down traffic and critical infrastructure.

Having a loose association with groups that promote civil disobedience, or even directly promoting it is clearly not the reason that Facebook is banning these accounts. Because Facebook doesn’t do this with any other cause that promotes or associates with the promoters of civil disobedience (in democratic jurisdictions at least).

You also can’t make the case that civil disobedience during the pandemic is disallowed. Because the promotion of civil disobedience and mass gatherings was very clearly allowed, depending on the cause that was being promoted.

I also find the suggestion that one of the least trusted companies in the world should be entrusted with the authority to police “false information” to be completely laughable. Your own interpretation of what constitutes “false information” is clearly rather inadequate. I made the claim that people who would not have otherwise committed suicide did as a result of the lockdown. Something I know for a fact to be true. Your claim is that this is not true because you claim that the total number of suicides hasn’t changed. Which, even if true, doesn’t refute my point in any way. Which demonstrates perfectly why preserving democratic principles is so important.
Clojure is a thin layer on top of Java. So you have to constantly deal with both languages and how to map between them. So much for “simplicity”.
> Guns are for hunting and sport that's it.

I'm not sure your source but you should double-check it; it's entirely incorrect.

> There also has never been an idea that guns are for defending yourself against your own government here.

Says who? Are you Swiss?
Privacy and security regulation, nor antitrust regulation, are viable means to stop tech companies from creating problems. The way to stop them is to regulate online advertising. Tech companies have no other way to make money. Ignoring this is like trying to fight a war without ever trying to interfere with the enemy's supply chains.

The constant focus on the majority of web users, i.e., "the average user", is misplaced and suffers from an incorrect assumption. Namely, that a majority of the public needs to support some law before it can be passed by a legislature.

Most legislation does not come from mass outpouring of support by the public, like the kind "HN/Reddit/other tech/Geek forum" comments call for. It comes from lobbying, usually professional, and sometimes community activism. The same "niche" groups that people in the these forums like to downplay are not necessarily much smaller and may even be larger than groups who have successfully gotten laws passed at state and federal levels. What is necessary is some number of people who do understand the issues to initiate the lobbying and campaigning; the awareness and support of the "average constituent" is never a prerequisite. Nor is it true that every law passed serves an enormous number of constituents, i.e., "the average constituent". Sometimes laws only serve small groups of people who have special needs (or wants).

The notion of the "average user" really has no bearing on whether legislation is passed or not. What matters is the small group of people who are driving the campaign to have legislation passed. That group is unlikely to comprise the "average user", its going to be people who understand the issues to which the proposed law is targeted and can articulate them to people who know how to work the system to get laws passed.

The more middlemen people accept when using the internet, the more parties that can be subpoenaed. Those are the consequences of "cloud computing" and "SaaS". But to think that no law can be passed to address the harms that "tech" companies present, because the "average user" does not understand these problems, makes no sense. Stop focusing on "the average user". Thats for the "tech" companies to do. For the non-average users, its a waste of time.
> "my house will go up in value if I restrict all other building" is more accurate.

This was also a reason used to keep blacks and minorities out of predominately white neighborhoods. Many people believed that bringing blacks into a neighborhood would devalue their homes. Once a black person moved into your neighborhood - "there goes the neighborhood".

It was a self-fulfilling prophesy because once blacks moved into a neighborhood, all the white families would move out ( white flight ) which caused housing values to collapse since there were so many more sellers than buyers.

On the flip side, it's why gentrification increases home values. As blacks/minorities are kicked out of the neighborhood and it becomes more white, it attracts more whites to move in. More buyers than sellers. Gentrification is the exact opposite of the white flight phenomenon in america.
A fair point.

I reread, and his claims were more specific than I allowed: brain-teaser-style questions have no predictive value; neither do "unstructured interviews", because the interviewers generally form an impression in the first ten seconds, that impression has no predictive value, and the interviewers then generally spend the rest of the interview confirming that initial impression.

However, structured interviews--interviews that consist of standardized domain-specific questions about relevant skills--do have predictive value. The problem with them is that interviewers don't like doing them.

I conflated the specific kinds of interviewing he deprecated with "the technical interview", I assume because those are the kinds of technical interviews I've seen. In thirty years or so, I've never seen the kind of structured interview Bock praised. Still, conflating the different things was my mistake. Thanks for correcting me.
>that I'm in shock

You're in shock of the attitude that hackers should stay off mainstream commercial platforms and avoid pandering to a generic audience? You do realize why we're having this conversation on HN and not on Facebook right?

The 2% of the young adults who are genuinely interested in science and tech and DIY maker culture will find him regardless where he is. That's how it always works when people actually care, it's a good filter.

I'm not paternalistic, I'm opposed to grifters and attention-seeking. There has always been a barrier to entry in hacker culture because getting past it signals that you have some commitment and degree of willingness to learn, which is particularly important when we're talking about gene-editing yourself
> "You cannot harm the computer in this way."

I've long suspected that Star Trek trained people to be fearful of pressing the wrong key, as it would always send a huge electric shock through the hapless keyboardist and send him flying across the bridge.
> The US has the gun fetish because it has a perpetual racialized underclass, among other reasons. You're right the violence is tied to its history. But so are the guns. You cannot separate the two.

The American gun fetish dates back to the earliest arrivals in the New World, in all areas of the country, both initial northern states, and later southern states, and the West. If you haven't spent enough time in the wild to encounter a grizzly, a 300 pound boar, a wolf pack, a coyote pack, or a solitary mountain lion intent upon considering you as a food source - consider yourself lucky.

> As others have pointed out; personal firearms are pretty useless as a vehicle for resisting state oppression and tyranny. But they're useful for stopping slave revolts or, more contemporarily, guarding your McMansion.

Au Contraire

The Taliban, freedom fighters, or Terrorists, perhaps both, just seized pretty much the entirety of Afghanistan with roughly ~70k light infantry, against a force roughly 4x their numbers with much heavier armament. [1] This, after having fought to a standstill one of the nations with the best fighting force in a long guerilla warfare, vs airpower, advanced weaponry, drones, armor, you name it.

Because they had willpower.

> The problem in the US isn't the right to bear arms. It's that the wrong people are bearing them. The militia types are the authoritarian aggressors that they themselves fantasize about resisting.

Flyover country has neither the presidency, the House, or the Senate, but the US wants not for authoritarianism.

The unfortunate, and tragic fact is that the vast majority of the gun violence in the US happens in inner cities [2], typically with repressive gun laws. Sure, there will be the occasional red state nutjob too.

If you truly and deeply cared about the horrible gun violence, you might ask why, where, for what reason, who, and why don't we know more about it? [3]

You might seek to grasp a true understanding of the culture involved, the economics, education, or lack thereof, opportunities denied, the crime involved, or not, and to paint us a full picture.

But you don't.

Instead you leave us with a shallow political attack on others. Demonizing, rather the engaging in a civic manner. Pontificating, rather than questioning. Politicizing, rather than conversing.

Take a break from the keyboard and have a socially-distant coffee with others. Your others. Have two.

We're all human.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/world/asia/taliban-victor...

[2] https://www.thetrace.org/2020/09/mass-shootings-2020-gun-vio...

[3] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/roseburg-attack-...
If someone smokes close to you, it does affect you in about the same way as someone with COVID. Likewise, someone with COVID far away affects you about as much as someone smoking far from you.
Unless a union is involved, firms do not enact policies that make them less money. Unlimited PTO removes a liability.

If there are specific policies that demarcate how an employee uses PTO to the degree specified in this blog post, I would argue that the firm does not have "unlimited PTO" and in fact accrues a vacation balance.

Awaiting the class action in CA.
I interpret it as a pre-defensiveness. Whereas some people admit they wouldn't have the guts but respect people that do, others are trying to convince themselves that the choice they'd make would be the right one.
It's a new feature (few months old). Look for the + icon in top nav. https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1408068652495097862/p...
Yeah, it makes their books look better as well. No PTO in the liabilities column
How do phishing emails sent from“ noreply.link” get through email spam filters?
Every couple of days, I will get an email from the "@noreply.link" domain, like "github@noreply.link" or "google@noreply.link" or some other address.

This domain must be caught countless number of times already, so why can't Gmail or outlook or anything just block these obvious spam attempts? They probably are catching many, but how do some get through? What kind of spoofing are they doing?

Thanks!
This is awesome, not sure if this this is already possible with other tools but I’m excited by the ability to package CSS in a registry alongside ES Modules this seems to provide.
It's a shame AMD never kept up making its own "Seattle" ARM chips. They looked very promising (and, in theory quite cheap!)

They even had relatively quick full upstream kernel support, absolutely unheard of in the ARM world
Rails hasn't had any interesting updates since version 4, and arguably introduced a few regressions IMHO (I'm looking at you, active storage and action cable)

Ruby hasn't evolved much either.

Rails only scales so far and then scaling gets really challenging, obviously the named companies have figured it out, but its not easy. For example, rails due to the high coupling between models and the database, rspec test get very contrived trying to setup the db state for each test run. Compared to other languages like Python or golang where the sql-layer is abstracted from the model layer.

Compared to languages like Python which provide very similar developer experiences but also the power of ML modeling, ruby is falling behind.
You just need to spam people then.

Heck - the original fake news phenomenon was Macedonians (?) making websites that looked like news sites to earn click through money.

People could just do that - “spam from the poisoned well”
Yep I agree that it isn’t fair to compare the two languages. C/C++ is the language that runs the world. Including the OS you are using right now. CL is a niche language that close to nobody use in production. It’s like comparing a container ship with a paper drawing of a ship. No comparison.
Seeing neighbors with signs like that make me feel more welcome, not less.
Ask HN: Things you like or dislike about using AWS
Hello HN,

I would love to hear your experience regarding aws and what are something you hate or like about when it comes to using AWS
In my comment below I liked to a WP article the gives a rate of 15 per year (almost all self-shootings) Once per day would be 24.33 times as frequent.

Your method of "extrapolating" is innumerate.
If you've got a tool you're used to, it's probably best to stick to it.

That being said, Bitwig does support Jack, so routing should be pretty open ended.

And there's this linux project (https://pipewire.org/) that's been doing really, really well. It (sorta) combines all the different audio servers into one.
" if Brazil and Mexico are our points of comparison"

Almost half of all US homicides are drug/gang related, so obviously there will be links to south american countries where these enterprises also operate.

If you want to avoid high crime, move north. Northern states have a homicide rate roughly half the national average.
The anecdotal content you cited is irrelevant because your falsifiable statement (that I quoted) is false - unless you feel like only the black people interviewed on that channel matter.

Additional facts, independent to the alleged opinions of the interviewees: NYPD's Stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional[1] as it violated the 4th amendment.In 1999 9 out of 10 people who were stopped were completely innocent. 84% of those stopped were black or latino[1] (yet they were only 50% of the population on New York then). Both percentages slid down a little over the years, but in each subsequent year, the majority of stopped people were innocent, and black & latinos were consistently over-represented (against relative populations size).

1. https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/nypds-infamous-stop-...
Agreed about Reddit. Maybe it's just my specific age (almost 30), but I detest the UX of old mailing list software that shows one email per page. The only thing worse is something like IRC, where you have to hope someone is in the channel with an answer at the exact moment you ask your question, and the logs aren't very practical as a store of knowledge because they're so conversational. Despite a significant interest in retrocomputing, I've never once used Usenet and would actually have to read up on how to start. I think most people my age or younger would be in the same boat with that.

The sweet spot for me would be something like Discourse or even an old-school PHPBB. Slack has a similar problem to IRC - it's ephemeral and the answers don't show up on Google.
320 opcodes? We can golf that down to 300 for sure!
Fired from Google after productivity plummeted
Can the sub lots be subdivided recursively as long as they’re above the minimum 800 sqft dwelling size?