skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"If I'm rooting for a football team here, it would be the team of nuance in political discussions, rather than labeling people "convicted terrorist" and "convicted for ... bombing[s]" when they literally are not. "

What bugs me the most about this is that someone out there was trying to raise awareness about this person's background. But apparently, they made the fatal mistake of using the word "convicted" and now everyone is fixating on that as the linchpin of the argument. Not only does it feel like misdirection, it feels like missing the forest for the trees.
I had some years ago great success with IMAP migration (downloaded all my emails to home computer from old GMail and then uploaded them back to my new GMail account). All my old emails are indexed and I can search them just like before, they just show the old From/To address.

I also used a label to mark those uploaded emails, so if things would go awry along the way I could always nuke those migrated old emails.
Did Instagram avoid that fate by never allowing porn in the first place?
The phrase I would use, myself, is "abolish the police". "Defund the police" also adequately captures my view: "reform the police" does not. I do not want "proper reform."

There is clearly a need for some governmental mechanism for public safety: it's also clear that the police, as we know it are the wrong starting point, and if at all the existence of the police prevents crime, it's by coincidence.

(I also have no problem being partisan about my political views. They're political views! If you could get everyone of every political view to agree on something, it's probably ineffective. Standing up for specific strong viewpoints is a good thing.)
It would be cheaper to go with iCloud+ service which offers custom email domains. I am now considering that after being on the free legacy plan for all of these years.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-a-custom-domain-m...
I got this:

Q: What's a good startup idea?

A: A good startup idea is one that has a good chance of being a startup.
boredhoard.com is a good option
Heh. This reminds me, way back like 11 years ago I started trying to reimplement pg as a bot using AIML. It was really just a joke so I didn't go very far with it, but if anybody's interested...

https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot
Take it seriously. Take a break, at least a month, preferably 2 or 3. I lost my best DBA 3 months ago due to burnout and I was on the verge of burning out myself, then I jumped out to an extended vacation. So far (4 weeks later) it did not do wonders, but it helps.
It depends on the relation you have with your manager, but if you got burned out it usually means you don't have a good one (he does not care enough). If you continue working there is very little chance to improve anything, but try to work just 8 hours a day and disconnect the rest of the day and the entire weekend; I was working more than 80 hours a week, but my DBA was doing just 40 and the extra stress of these times hit him harder. Find a hobby that is relaxing and spend time doing that, but make sure it is relaxing.
Media reporting is the literal worst way to learn about scientific reporting and studies
Was the Viral Metaverse Rave Fun? An Investigation
I immediately read this as "deathpass".
They aren't selling a bike. They are selling an exercise lifestyle/club. It has nothing to do with the cost of parts of the bike.

I know that sounds silly, but what you are really paying for are the daily feed of multiple live classes hosted by your choice of personality type. Do you identify with a 25 year old into trendy music and partying? Do you identify with a 35-40 year old who listens to early 90s rock? Do you identify with a mom who is in great shape and loves ABBA? They have all those choices, mixed in with special "events" to get you excited to join the classes regularly. They want you to feel like you are joining a social club and you have found your niche/identity. That's something that another exercise bike vendor can't really compete with. And they've really nailed the whole Apple-like experience where everything just works (assuming your bike isn't defective or whatever).

The bike is just one way to sell that exercise club to people who want to jump into a class with zero setup. They also have a whole platform for normal exercise classes, yoga, etc and lot of people without the bike or treadmill subscribe to that package. My LG TV even has it built-in now where I can turn on any number of live Peloton classes whenever I want.

I'm not suggesting that they aren't massively overvalued or that the equipment doesn't have issues. But the actual quality of the classes is pretty good and is a really impressive product if you are into that. The bike itself isn't the point other than as a vehicle into their platform.
It launched August 28 2006. I'd say it's reasonable to call it fifteen years. This is tech.
Show HN: Get latest replies to an HN user
Hi HN,

I hacked a simple service for gathering HN replies and organizing them by the parent's username.

The main idea is to be able to efficiently get the latest replies to an HN user. For example, you can use this service to send yourself notifications when some replies to you on HN.

The service queries the official HN API and can be self-hosted. It is basically ~30 lines of Bash script. I made this mostly for educational purposes -- thought you might find it useful for something.

Cheers!

Edit: for example, here are the latest replies to me [0]. It includes only recent replies, since I started the service just yesterday and it hasn't observed older replies.

[0] https://hnreplies.ggerganov.com/?u=ggerganov
Your expressions are not equivalent
This should be one of the options for google maps routing. A "Avoid Overpoliced Municipalities" toggle.
This got nothing to do with the memory but to the fact how CPU works with the integers. This means that (low-level) programming language fundamentally cannot solve this problem but only alleviate it either by:

1. Changing the semantics of integer arithmetic (e.g. saturate on overflow)

2. Keeping the semantics but babysit the computation during runtime so that the overflow/underflow can never happen (expensive)
I recently listened to an interview with Igor, Angular’s inventor.

In it he talked about how Angular 2 pushed decorators in to TS. And to this day, Angular is the only major JS thing that I can think of that uses decorators.

Creating that ng-abomination was not enough. No. Google also had to poison a perfectly fine language.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/q31Xz
Very confident:

Q: Arc or Clojure?

A: Arc.
Do these children's family members, their teachers and school administrators get any consideration? They can still die from the covid infections they catch while interacting with students, correct? Is this news to people?

Searching for Laura Fagan brings up all kinds of other silliness. Her links are misleading when you go to the source if they're not straight up opinion pieces from other kooks. This lady seems like a pro-covid Karen in all the worst ways.
>> "The names of the officers were not listed on the tickets in secretive Brookside."

I mean, don't we have a right to face our accuser in court? Can't do that if their name is not on the ticket.
What is a y combinator?

A y combinator is a tool that lets you write code that is guaranteed to generate the same output every time you run it.

What is y combinator?

Y combinator is a company that helps companies get started.
> How would you explain the fact that people paid for cable and premium cable channels (e.g. HBO) in the past when free network TV has always been an option?

The issue you're failing to separate out is that you're talking about entertainment with television. Websites are largely not comparable in entertainment value, and most are not entertaining at all. People will pay a lot for entertainment. That's why blogs are worth $... today and Netflix is worth $226 billion. If people would pay so much for eg blogs (or, again, any other comparable content), there'd be a $100 billion company extracting that monthly payment for producing volumes of written content on websites. Some blog network would have actually succeeded and become a global content juggernaut.

Most of the content online is not of high quality and people will not pay for it, or they'll pay so little for it as to be a sad joke.

Which website compares to the joy and value people extracted from Friends, Seinfeld, MASH, Fresh Prince, I Love Lucy, and dozens of other prominent TV shows from the past ~50 years. Much less the even higher production shows like Sopranos or Game of Thrones. There may be a select few and they're billion dollar services like Reddit with huge volumes of low value content. Do millions of people still talk lovingly about some websites from 2006 like they do decades later about I Love Lucy? Hell no they don't, only a tiny niche group of people does that.

People go back and watch movies over and over again for decades. They listen to the same songs/bands/albums regularly for decades.

Does the average person go back and dig up long dead websites and go through them start to finish on Archive.org, like they do old TV shows they enjoyed (Quantum Leap, ALF, Golden Girls, whatever). Hell no they don't, again, only a very very tiny group of people would do such a thing.

Most online text content is not very entertaining, even in the best case scenarios, that's the difference between the concepts.

Is there lots of funny, amusing, entertaining text content on eg Reddit? You bet. And people will pay pennies for it - if at all - because it's of low value compared to high quality, higher production value entertainment. They'll pay what it's worth, a pittance.
> Advertisers don't own your computer desktop and have no real right to dictate what happens on it --- much to their chagrin.

Windows 10/11 would like a word.

Honestly I think they're going to fight this again because the user's computer is just too valuable to not be able to leverage. We're seeing everything software move toward "as a service" pricing, and not ownership.
The time stamps are the key here, not the question of formality.

I really appreciate a “Good morning” if chatting before working hours.

Still, the question can be added in the same message to cut down on the wait time for an answer.
It is not free with Prime, just $2 cheaper ($8 vs $10/mo).

I think what is driving Amazon Music subscriptions is the proliferation of Echo devices. It is easy to auto-subscribe from the speaker itself (sometimes too easy, to the point of being accidental), e.g. when you ask it to play a song.
There is no correlation between those laws and voter fraud, which makes you wonder why people pretend there is...
Interesting. A friend of mine is dyslexic and has expressed a strong preference for ligatured fonts for programming for the opposite reason. I guess the lesson is to leave people alone with their preferences...
[dupe]

Main discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432
You have a favorite Airline? I view them all with contempt given their poor business practices. Who's your favorite serial killer?
I mean, you can go all the way to the deep end, but like any tool, there are good reasons to be pragmatic, and avoid just using a tool for its own sake. Sure, you can get lost in
fantasy land[0] algebras if you really want to, but generally I see it as a pyramid of usage (i.e. a small number of people that care about the mathematics, a slightly larger group of library authors that use fantasy land and friends to inform API design decisions, and a larger portion of library consumers that benefit from the academic roots of those design decisions.)

[0] https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land
A few months after I left a company, I got an email from their attorney telling me to sign an invention assignment form. No other information, so I asked to see the provisional patent that I was asked to assign to the employer -- after some back and forth they forwarded it to me. The provisional broadly described an entire academic domain with no specifics whatsoever. Imagine something like "you can use data to recommend things to medical patients." No specifics about what the "data" or "recommend" or further defining which patients.

A long time ago, a former employer sued me for stealing their trade secrets but wouldn't tell me what trade secrets I stole were. After a few rounds of litigation, the employer admitted the "trade secret" was a literally a section of HIPAA. Shortly thereafter, the case was dismissed with prejudice and the former employer paid my legal fees (and then some for the trouble). It seemed clear they knew there was no merit to their accusations, but it was more about a vindictive smear campaign. (also, belated thanks to HN... my plea for help to this forum was met with a referral to an attorney that ended up successfully sorting this issue out for me)

That experience scarred me enough to basically refuse to sign the ambiguous invention assignment agreement from the first paragraph. You don't know how the companies will use these patents, and even if a patent isn't granted you're often still asked to assign any rights to the invention. An overly broad invention assignment form opens the possibility for organizations to come after you with meritless lawsuits claiming you're using the company's property in your future work... which, even if you know you'll eventually prevail, it's still a total disruption to your life.

This whole system is broken.
You will need to switch if you use a grandfathered G Suite "legacy" free account, as of May, if you wish to continue to use it.

A free @gmail.com? Nothing to do with it.
Same here, what a royal PITA, personally I could migrate pretty easily, but the rest of the family that is not tech-savvy won't be a walk in the part.
> Sorry to say but who ever decided that the phrase "defund the police" is good or smart made a huge mistake.

Yet we're here talking about it, repeating the phrase. So I disagree.
It's not so much the MBA itself as it is what it represents. An MBA refers to an individual who is a general manager and typically come from sales or finance organization. They generally aren't concerned too much with research and development except they view them as cost centers to be optimized. They tend to be hyperfocused on the bottom line and will do anything needed to maximize profits, even at the expense of the product.
Would you prefer that only rich people could buy things? Without price discrimination, the market clearing price is higher.
Earmarking revenue to a "noble cause" is a great way to protect the thing that is generating that revenue. It becomes a "you don't like firefighters/children/etc" argument whenever you want to remove or reform the thing that is providing that earmarked revenue.
I believe the submitter was expecting their support in a culture war because of their geographic location, and is surprised that they're not.
I do not know why but this game makes the winning font look much better than it is when I use my code.

Whenever I try the winning font (b612, fira mono), I always go back to Liberation Mono.
Given the timestamps on the messages, I strongly suspect the site author agrees with you.
If you signed up for G-Suite yes. If you were using a non @gmail.com domain then you were most likely on free G-Suite tier.
> The non paying customers become much less valuable to advertisers

I can see this being true, but I'm curious why. Is this because the advertisers know the paying customers have the cash to pay for the service?
If you use GSuite Legacy for personal email, you would have the choice of switching to a paid plan, or migrating your email to a personal account (or any other email hosting provider.)

If you use a personal GMail account, there is no change here that applies to you.
Some notes from a Pinephone owner:

Wondering if the thoughts in this thread factor in the Pinephone Pro yet or no? I am looking to get one of those eventually. I think it just started doing pre-orders.

I got a second basic text/call line for my Pinephone but I don't use it as a phone right now. The modem is finicky when it works, seems to need a certain battery charge (like near full). I also have to restart it several times to get the modem to work. I'm using Mobian/Phosh. I'm not 100% a fan of the Phosh look/how it works multi-task wise but it does work out of the box more than a couple other "front ends" I tried. KDE Plasma was pretty but I couldn't just plug in an external monitor and have it work. Overall I like the idea of the phone/want to learn to develop for it. Unfortunately my screen is falling apart/peeling near the top edges. Also the battery even in airplane mode will die within a day or so.

What was neat was running ARM VS Code but it was slow as hell eg. 5 second click lag.

Old screenshot https://i.imgur.com/a7OHjcZ.png
No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component based on the same technology, but it’s not Gmail.

If your address is somebody@gmail.com, you are not affected.
The problem with advertising is that the price of an ad view directly correlates with how wealthy the viewer is. Being able to opt-out would essentially make the advertising platform worthless as the only audience would be broke people who can't afford to pay to opt-out and are thus very unlikely to be able to afford your product.

The only way would be if regulation either mandates a reasonably-priced ad-free tier (priced at the average revenue from an ad-viewing user) or other restrictions (GDPR but actually enforced, the website being liable for the ads it shows, etc) that would make advertising completely unprofitable.

> The apps described in the article are effectively recognizing this consumer surplus/need and acting on it.

Presumably, AA is pissed off because the people that value their time enough and have the skills to set up and use an alternative are people they'd very much want looking at their ads, much more so than the plebs who already use the website and see the ads.
Maybe_later – get slow code out of your users' way
* Policing should be private. How can a startup ensure private policing? *

> You need to ensure that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are private, and that the police are.

I wonder what this would sound through TTS.
Not solved at compile-time, but warned at compile time?
> Universal didn't happen because conservatives in both parties refused to do anything other than say "the poor can go to emergency rooms for treatment".

"Conservatives in both parties" is a bit reductive and I'll also call out as misinformation/misrepresentation: https://ballotpedia.org/Obamacare_overview

But, what is useful here, is you've provided a fantastic example of the rhetorical devices and reduction we can expect to see.

I say that as a supporter of Universal Healthcare that both replaces and learns lessons from VA Medical.
Q: Why did I fail the onsite HN interview?

A: You failed because you didn't understand the context.

I think by 'context' he meant 'capitalism'.
The thing I'm most confused about is why Signal and Telegram are always seen as competing. WhatsApp has better encryption than Telegram, but then again, the bar is so low it's unfair.

The unfederatedness of Signal seems to be a HN phenomena. Though someone did make a feature request that could be something that's kinda middle ground and seems more in line with Signal's philosophy[0]. Personally I think Signal works so well because you don't have to worry about servers, domains, and whatever. It just works. Exactly like texting. It's for the masses, not us nerds. I want to see Matrix grow, but I don't see it being usable by the masses anytime soon.

[0] https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-airdrop/37402/8
In some cases this can cause a user to miss a reply in a discussion in which they had participated recently. Some users consider this to be a feature rather than a deficiency.

Yeah, I'm kinda glad HN doesn't have that. I think it helps avoid prolonged, drawn-out arguments that just go around in circles, generate animosity, and lead nowhere. Not getting notifications makes it easier to just let a conversation die out. I would put this in the "feature" category myself.
Second try's the charm.
I’m afraid I’m not going to be helpful here, but here’s how I quit Reddit: I simply did it. I realized I was done. I stopped believing I was getting something from it. In 2014 I quit smoking in a similar fashion. Just realized it was bad, didn’t smoke afterwards.

HN is still a great place to understand the ideology of Silicon Valley and its industry. I’ve never left Europe and this forum seems to give me an edge about what’s happening here.
Thanks, but Fastmail is $5 per user per month if you want to use your own domain. Not much less than Google's $6 per user per month. I'm going to want between 2 and 4 users, but they're not heavy users and I just know I'm going to be wondering why I'm bothering to pay when I could just create another google account, have access to docs/calendar/drive/etc which I'm apparently not going to have access to even if I am successful in doing the "update to workspace/don't pay for workspace/cancel workspace/keep the workspace accounts in a sort of zombie state" dance.
The point was the "doing something for a long time is not a good reason to view it as okay"
Yep, blurred on one of my devices.
Ask HN: Raise funds and hire salespeople, or look for third (sales) cofounder?
Background: We're a bootstrapped company with monthly revenues in the $4,000/mo. range. We want to grow, but both of us have full time jobs and cannot dedicate time to sales.

We thought of two options:

1. We can raise $200,000 from a potential investor who approached us, and that would give us the funds to hire one or more salespeople

2. We can look for a third cofounder, offer them equity (e.g. 20% ownership) and put them in charge of sales

I suppose there's a third option, which is to wait longer until we have more cash in the bank before hiring a salesperson, but we consider that the slow approach and are looking for a faster way to grow.
> Or are you saying the legal fiction of business personhood should give the business a ... vote? That just sounds like business owners (individuals) getting 2 or more votes then...

I believe the more common proposal is to resolve the contradiction the other way: remove taxes on corporations, as the individuals comprising the corporations generally already pay taxes. That would be politically quite unpopular, but there is a certain logic to it and it would also make taxes easier to administer and more difficult to avoid. And it doesn't need to be as pro-rich as it sounds - you could just replace corporation taxes with other taxes targeting wealthy individuals, such as a wealth tax or higher income taxes.
Google? You mean the billion dollar company that subverts web standards and gets away with it due to their browser monopoly? The one that nearly kills websites the second some advertiser becomes "concerned" over some content? The one that demonetizes actual creators for arbitrary reasons?

They are very much part of the problem. Google search? It's bad and gets worse every day because of advertising -- Google has stopped trying to fight SEO spammers.
Can you use it for things like e-mail if everyone doesn't use Apple stuff?
Indeed, isn't the website just satire?

>> Hello, I'm working on [something] and I'm trying to do [etc]. Please help.

>> Sure, the answer is [answer]

>> Thank you!
This is about free "business" level Google accounts.

Personal Gmail is not connected to this.