skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth of the matter is that, from my perspective, LWN is you. You're a brilliant writer. You've chosen to devote your life to documenting the Linux kernel project. That's an important piece of world history. There are auxiliary folks around you, but crediting them is a little like taking R.R. Martin or JR Tolkien, and saying there's a team, since you need:

- script writers for the movies;

- editors of the books;

- typesetters; or

- whoever makes trinkets from their worlds for Amazon.

Yes, they're all important, but they're not all equally important.

At the heart of it, what you've given us is:

- Documentation of a history of brilliant technical insight and work by other folks

- Documentation of the growth and evolution of one of the first and most successful open communities.

It's a gift to the world.

Thank you for that.

My hope is that whenever you retire -- and ideally before -- there's a plan for /deeply/ archiving LWN. For example, printing out a few hundred copies, and having them archived in secure places, and making it into a book in print. Tossing it onto archive.org. Etc.

My other hope is also that it will eventually all be open-licensed in some way, shape, or form, once the economic value is more limited.
Org is pretty rich. Folks often pick and choose different bits. There's a great writeup that gives a fairly extensive tour: Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
That’s even easier. Contact Apple and ask for a refund.
You've obviously not yet worked for a company that's fucked you, and others you work with, over for profit.

Buying in to the vision can blind you to what's really going on
What is a git checkin? Sounds like a shiny new time-tracking feature :p
which company? I've had friends get promoted at then Facebook and Amazon and not receive a 50% increase with EE/S let alone double. I doubt it happens very often even for top people unless they were underpaid.
"Oops the algorithm did it" cannot be an excuse for everything. Oh the algorithm did it? Then hold the people who developed/pushed for it responsible then.

Oh it's hard to make algorithms that don't make terrible decisions? Maybe then you should remove those algorithms and, say, have an ad review team.
I'm on the fence on this one. Maybe running a freelancer business? Dunno. The thing is boosttraping a decent SaaS is pretty hard tho.
Yeah, it will inevitably be changed to be allowed only on idle, like you can't pair a bluetooth device when you're rolling. It's actually annoying when the copilot wants to play his music.
Not to mention the incredibly fake content that gets heaps of upvotes and attention. Which encourages the next fake to one up and so on.
Their crime is being Uyghurs.

The people convicted of crimes in the US are not inherently worse people than their counterparts in other countries. We have more crime because we have chosen to have more crime, blamed them, and incarcerated them because we have chosen to have that. In other countries people have made better choices, with a better outcome.
I have this too; mostly, you just have to train yourself to stay seated for a couple seconds after laying down.

My doctor said the way you die is peeing. You wake up at night, have to pee, make it to the bathroom before getting dizzy, keel over, and hit your head.
No, you’re in fact the one whose incorrect. Buying a share of GOOG in no way gives you rights to their trademarks or other IP.

In fact you don’t even get voting rights, unlike traditional stock. GOOG is the one that’s been “hollowed out “.

Likewise, owning a share of GOOG in no way gives you access to their cash.

There is one and only one thing you can do with a share of GOOG - hope to sell it to someone else for more money.

On the flip side, owning ETH gives you a stake which actually does give you governance rights, either via your own validator or a staking pool. And it gives you access to many other ways to participate in the network such as DeFi.
> problem blocking gratuitous nudity/violence from making it on their platform. But that's a very wide distinction from political/religious messaging.

It absolutely isn't! This famous Vietnam photo got banned at one point: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42864421 .. because it shows violence. Is the famous "Piss Christ" photo obscene, political, religious, or all of those? https://creativetimereports.org/2015/01/30/free-speech-piss-... - so controversial it began the Republican movement to defund the arts, as if to prevent it ever having been made.

Wherever you have a boundary, you can have a controversy.
`pd.DataFrame.from_records(mylist).groupby(['thing']).sum().to_records()`

you can learn a thing or two. people are genuinely here to teach.
let's build a new SO because it's owned by china now.
I see no reason to believe trust comes from scale. Trust comes from the rule of law. And rule of law requires institutions, and ultimately a central authority, that must be able to use coercive force to maintain law and order and to enforce private contracts. A decentralised system is incompatible with that.
this happens when you ride along rather than drive the meetings and schedules. if you stay ahead you have control. it's when deadlines become an issue that other people start acting out of line with your predicted work windows.
Silicon Valley is insane, but that's nothing new, when I look at the money offered elsewhere, I really regret not trying harder to move there in my 20s.
I started an OSS project to enable me and my team to receive webhooks at a big co where Ngrok was banned and so was SSH. It works over an HTTP proxy using websockets. One of the requirements I had was for 1st class container support - so it could be run inside a K8s pod and support LoadBalancers for TCP traffic as well as HTTPS. The OSS project was very popular, but drew very little sponsorship. I then pivoted to a commercial license and got some more sign-ups, but not as many as I wanted - companies were happy to pay up front for a one year static license, but individuals and home users were not.

So I introduced a personal tier that was covered for commercial use - inspired by Jetbrains and added a monthly subscription option for it. Both of those actions helped increase usage and signups with personal users. Companies still tend to want to pay for a year.

Even though this is completely self-hosted software, developers seem to like paying for tools monthly. Some abuse this by cancelling the subscription in the months they don't expect to use a tunnel, or opening the software then cancelling the subscription and waiting until the process has to restart before re-subscribing. Not much I can do about this side of it.

If people are interested, the product is called inlets and is easy to find on the Internet. I also write about my OSS and independent business work each week in a subscription newsletter using GitHub Sponsors (another side project, if you like)

Books I could recommend: Monetizing innovation, Obviously Awesome, 1-Page Marketing Plan & Minimalist Entrepreneur. I'm not affiliated with any of these titles, but consider them core reading for indie devs and for side gigs.
I hate to break it to you, but, most people in general have N "jobs that are purely about money in equals time out," where N is small. Most jobs are not inspiring, they don't make any visible difference in the world (until people stop doing them), and nobody in them is inspired by the work they're doing.
Yes, but it is almost happenstance that the SEC gets a say on these at all.

The US stock markets are largely permissionless from the regulatory perspective. The SEC is not in place to make a judgement on the merit of an asset. But when you operate a fund, with a fund manager, that takes custody of retail assets, now they are in a gatekeeping position. Its a combination of Acts that never envisioned “ETFs” at all, let alone “digital asset commodity exchange traded products”

So the laws have to be updated to get them back out the way. The SEC itself had a comment period on this but it was largely missed.
2^(11/4) = 6.7x you might want to check the math there :)

I guess you could have meant by "more than doubled" as 2.75x, that would work out. Pretty impressive.
> I was told that the vent made the N95 ineffective. Obviously wrong, I was certainly protected...

You were protected, but the people around you weren't.

The vent is a one-way valve. It blocks air from coming in, so it has to filter through the mask material. It allows air to go out freely with no filtering.

So a vented N95 mask protects the wearer from external particles, but it does not protect others from particles exhaled by the wearer.

Vented N95 masks are meant for places like construction sites that may have dust and toxic particles in the air. They protect you when you breathe in, but let you breathe out freely.

They are not suited for preventing the spread of disease.
Within a single company? If so, thats pretty neat.
It’s a super scary noise and says calmly over the top “地震です” over and over again.

Definitely had my fair scare of shares when visiting Tokyo.
Heh, not having heard the term hippie speedball before, I would have assumed weed and nitrous (hippie crack), not caffeine.
its happenstance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666409#29667640
> Here's an easy answer: Hard work is not racist.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture disagrees. They also say that promptness is also racist.

It's not hard to find people who argue that math is racist...

> If you are now wealthy, you are less oppressed than an equally wealthy black man in America.

Malia Obama is far wealthier than I am, so these programs teach that I'm more oppressed than she is, right? (We both know that they don't.)

> If so, why can charter schools like Kipp get their black students to perform exactly the same as their white students, who also perform better than they do in public schools?

Because public schools suck.

Now - who runs public schools? Hint - it's the same answer as who runs public and (most) private universities. Also, most urban regions (including their police departments). This is not a new phenomena - it's been true for decades.

Given that those folks have failed so badly, should they get more or less power?

BTW - While black parents are very strongly in favor of vouchers for private schools, who opposes them?
Very interesting.

Key takeaway for the next few Ruby v3.x the focus will be very much on increasing performance over and above much language improvement, which admittedly is already pretty great.

Matz also framed the idea of the Ruby UX, which has historically come from language design, but for which the future is in supporting tools.

Specifically adding static typing to Ruby, they have been very intentional to keep things DRY and to add this through smart support of tooling for text editors / IDE’s and this is set to continue. He also implied the approach of using a separate file to add static typing can enable backward comparability potentially back to Ruby 2.6 .

Ruby grants as well as a community challenge called “Shootout”; to encourage the community to help with improving fundamental speed of the language.
> I have a sinking feeling that something horrible is going to hit China in, say, the next two-three decades.

Welcome to the club, have a seat: https://preview.redd.it/1fq4rrk5ih921.jpg?width=800&auto=web...

> , but I think the way they're structured once it starts to falter it's going to explode in a really unpleasant way. Like exceeding Mao-level deaths.

A wish is not an adecuate tool to forecast the future.

> The West is messier, in a lot of ways, but I think they're more fault-tolerant.

As shown by the COVID crisis

Great, high quality, intellectually estimulating conversation in this thread.
I edited my comment but will reply here to for clarity.

It’s not the initial promo that necessarily gives you doubling. It’s the wider compensation bands the promotion opens up. Sustained performance can have high upside in a 2-4 year time horizon for high performers.
I use git and Mercurial (command hg). If you don't know Mercurial, it is a SCM/VCS written in Python.[1] You can install it with

python3 -m pip install mercurial

In addition to all the virtues of version control, Mercurial can also be run with an HTTP interface that is rather good.

Thus, you could have a main box at home with a main Mercurial repository and run the daemon in the root of the repository:

hg serve -d --config web.push_ssl=No --config "web.allow_push=*" -A hg-access.log -E hg-errors.log

Your laptop would also have Mercurial installed. You would clone from and push to the server. You could view the server content from any client using a browser.

I do not ask for any kingdom, but a good friendship is always welcome. ^_^

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
No, the SEC generally tries to limit the blast radius of things. Most people are not day-trading penny stocks. And other tools like accredited investor status are also used to (bluntly) limit the blast radius of risky actions.

Poorly regulated derivatives were what caused the last financial crisis.
Some random niche waffle iron company just saw a spike in online sales. They have got to be wondering what just happened. You’ve been “hacker news hugged” would probably just confuse them.
Also it seems to be fundamentally unsound, the borrow checker isn't limited to making memory is freed correctly and safe multi-threading. But also affects assembly generation! (And is used to makes sure that all kinds of thinks work correctly, even without multi-threading).

The library seem to allow creating multiple mutable refs, which is instant UB in rust. I.e. having two mutable refs is already UB even if you only use one at a time. While this is just a PoC it means you can't implement it as a library! Only as a compiler extension which furthermore means a lot of optimizations must behave different if the extension used.. which is quite painful to maintain and prone to introduce compiler bugs.
> one pill does nothing, the next one kills you.

Users really should crush all the pills and mix the powder thoroughly so one unit of powder always contains the same amount of active compound.
The proven best way to reduce deaths is to get people vaccinated. The vast majority of deaths are now from the unvaccinated.

So the one single thing that makes a difference is the one these two administrations differ the most on, the previous administration and its party are the anti-vax party. The current one is pushing for people to get vaccinated including pushing for politically dangerous mandates.
Without delving into this hot mess of a conversation, I'd like to point out that linking to a google search for political news is completely absurd. Google shows people what they want to see, and what people near them have clicked on. I don't use google very often so most of the hits are his official stuff; pretty bland. If you want to show folks whatever dirt you're trying to show (and, I feel the need to say, you're deep in flamebait here and I don't recommend it) you need to post a link to the actual content.
Yeah, Rose seems like he is vectored onto the right flight path and has great situational awareness. Wish him the best of luck.

Don’t know how helpful the actual article will be for him, though. There is an element of emotional pornography associated with detachedly reading about the struggles of others, especially those who are the “flavor of the month”.

“While he’s revising for his A-levels, ask yourself two questions: how Great can Britain be, if a boy counts himself lucky just to survive here? And what is the value of a childhood home if you’re constantly taught you must leave it behind?”

OK

1. Comparing his opportunities in GB v. any other country in which he may have found himself, pretty Great. He got a spread in the Guardian for a start.

And how do you think he, or you, define “survival”?

There is no evidence he suffered/suffers childhood stunting from malnutrition, something that one third of children in India (1.4B population) experience.

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/india.html

There is no evidence he is part of the 40M who live in slavery in 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

No evidence he served in the military or lived in an active war zone. Sounds like he lived in a high personal crime area, by UK standards at least. So there is that.

I think there is a difference between the actual physical “survival” that hundred of millions of actual physical people worry about, and the poetic use of the word “survival” in this article. I don’t argue poetry.

2. Leaving his childhood home?

Is he being forcibly displaced as 80M people can claim to be in the year 2021?

https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/

Or just one of the 200M international migrants every year?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/iom-global-migration-...

Or will he be one of the 763M internal migrants?

https://www.iom.sk/en/migration/migration-in-the-world.html

Leaving your hometown sets a very low threshold for “cruelty”. I’d prefer to save that word for, say, actual atrocities. The author is free to choose from any one of several categories of atrocities, freely available with a simple web search. We don’t need to expand the definition…there is plenty of actual cruelty to address. Look forward to the author actually doing that in the future.
The modern building codes are derived from a 9.0 subduction zone model. I've heard people say that building standards derived from this model should work for just about any type of earthquake up to around 8.0-8.5 even if not specifically modeled; I have no idea how true that is but it seems plausible. Building codes are not defined just by the strength of the earthquake but also the earthquake type, depth, soil etc. It isn't the strength that is the problem so much as the kinds of loads different earthquakes put on structures.

Seattle has a couple ~7.0 earthquakes every century, so the city has experience with strong earthquakes and everything old that is still standing has at least some ability to resist earthquakes (survivor bias). The last big earthquake was in 2001 (magnitude 6.8).
I've been through tons of different file sync/backup solutions but once I landed on seafile I haven't looked back. Truly awesome software, does one thing really well, upgrades are a breeze, I can run it in a container that bind mounts zfs volumes for storage and MySQL database so I can even snapshot those. Love it!
I accidently opened a second copy of todo.txt and made edits and I didn't have a good way to merge the changes across both so I just saved the second one as todo2.txt and now everything is fucked and I'm just sitting here waiting for the singularity to arrive and kill us all. wasabi.
Agreed. I was a software engineer in New York, not SF (where salaries a _little_ higher), but salaries were nothing like this unless maybe you worked at a top-end hedge fund. The myth that every other random software engineer has this kind of pay is harmful.
Great I also know Elon
Addressing just that last point: all of our content is CC-BY 4.0 now, with the sole exception of the handful of articles behind the paywall at any given time.

Thanks for the kind words!
With or without section 230, platforms that don't make any editorial decisions aren't liable.

Section 230 was specifically crafted to allowed platforms to make editorial decisions while retaining good faith protections.

Section 230 doesn't actually make any distinction between a platform and a publisher. It makes a distinction between first and third party content. And it protects sites from 3rd party content liability, but not first party. So a "publisher" like the NYT can be liable for an article, but not for the comments on that article. And a "platform" like Facebook or Twitter can be liable for their own official posts, but not for user's replies.
You'd have to go worse than lowest common denominator. To have active-active replication you need to take the cost of latency between the different DCs of the various providers, and this thing will kill performance.
I want to think of what a bring your own fob system would look like.

Remote start (and entry) was a relatively common aftermarket option long before most people had Internet access, and you can probably still get such systems today.
Apple Maps designers walked us through the latest update
> The past 100 years of wars and military conflicts have shown that military logistics can overcome great distances if needed.

> Great distances and economic consequences did not stop past wars.

Yeah, the wars of German invasion of North America -- sub-theaters of WW1 and WW2 -- were over so quickly hardly anyone even noticed them.
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...

Explore this site, it'll open up a whole new world of SDE pay at unicorns / startups / FANGMULA. I'd look at the entry level positions for maybe ... Dropbox or something, or Stripe. Those two off the top of my head get pretty close to 300k for "junior" engineer - SWE I.
No, that's not what democratised trust looks like. This is what freedom to accept or reject a token looks like. Nothing to do with trust.
If corporations are people as the Supreme Court would have us believe, they are most certainly psychopaths. Natural people need to be clear-eyed about this. Don’t look to corporations as moral leaders. They will fail almost any moral test you can throw at them.
how do you know some other company is any better? so just switching jobs maybe works, maybe doesn't.
This attack is full of inventions. “Wilfully ignoring” the legal issues, and didn’t read the article. False. “Claiming LendUp did nothing wrong”. Seriously, where? “Perpetuating and defending the idea that YC can do no wrong”. Again, where, aside from pointing out that nobody has been able to provide any evidence that YC did wrong in this case?

The claim I’m disputing is that the original founders, when founding the company ten years ago, set out with malicious intentions to defraud people, and that YC and other investors knew and supported this.

(Others have later claimed that this wasn’t the allegation, and it was rather that YC made a mistake to invest in this company, in which case, fine, I have no major quarrel with that - most of YC’s investments turn out to be mistakes, that’s how their model works.)

But for those who insist that the original founders’ intentions from the start were nefarious and that YC was aware and complicit, this needs to be pushed back on, hard, as there’s no evidence for it and it makes no sense as you can’t build a successful business that way.

That the founders had high-minded ambitions that later turned out to be unachievable is the simplest explanation. Legal issues several years later, or examples of different companies doing different things to what the founders set out to do are not proof of malice on the part of the founders or YC, or of my dishonesty, and further wordy and aggressive replies from you won’t change that.

Seriously, the legal process has worked and the company has been shut down. Put away the pitchforks and torches.
> Nobody is making $300k as a junior engineer. And certainly not getting promoted to senior engineer within a year on top of that. Stop talking out of your ass.

>>Well I do know someone who pulls that as a junior but he also has a PhD in inverse kinematics simulation and that job was really needed.

This is the problem with using words like nobody, always, etc. Someone will usually (see what I did there?) come along with one single piece of anecdata and think the original statement is invalid.
Would you also defend Facebook's right to delete content related to Black Lives Matter, and argue that any discussion of such is a waste of time because they're a private corporation and can do what they want?