skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also rotate periodically, partially to evade bans from moderators, and I’ve only run into trouble with IP bans on account creation.

If you create the account from a clean IP you’re usually good, even if you use the banned IP later on.

Reddit is ripe to be picked off by a more agile competitor, if someone could innovate in moderation. Monetization would also be a lot easier for a smaller startup, as Reddit more or less paved the way for a few different paths there that users now find acceptable.

They abandoned the idea of making reddit gold a cryptocurrency, but it’s perfectly memey and would blow up a valuation if someone else could get it right.
I got into the exact same problem a few years ago. So, I wrote email backup app: https://thehorcrux.com/why-i-built-horcrux-app/

I still use Google Apps at this point as it's pretty convenient compared to standing up my own server. However, I make sure my email address is on my own domain. https://thehorcrux.com/about/
People used to say the same thing about JavaScript, now it runs most of the internet.

No reason EVM can't evolve to be less cumbersome
100%. I remember in the 2000s I went to a small gathering where a successful (at the time) start-up founder was speaking. Since it was so small I was able to ask real questions. What I asked was effectively "I'd like to do a startup also, but if I fail, I'll have a high risk of being homeless, and failure seems to be the most likely scenario. How do you mitigate that risk?"

In so many hums and haws he admitted he got money from his family. Looked it up, his dad was mega rich. That's defined my perspective of the entire "start-up" world ever since.
I use Pocketsmith to track expenses, assets, liabilities, make financial projections, etc. I have a sub-category of "Misc" called "Digital Subscriptions" that I put all subscriptions under regardless of whether or not they are cloud services, media streaming services, apps, or other. I view them as a kind of virus that will grow if left unchecked. Every so often my wife and I go and see if we're paying more than we think is necessary for digital subscriptions. Then we cancel. This way we've hit a kind of stasis.
We do have the Associated Press (AP), which seems similar to what you describe. That said, even such sources can be guilty of ideological bias if they choose to report certain facts and not others. In practice, I think AP is pretty even-handed, but I think that is as much a result of their editorial process as it is of their focus on factual reporting over opinion/analysis.
The article didn’t make any arguments about increased productivity, it was suggesting that better work-life balance was healthier and helps parents with children.

What evidence is there for an increase in productivity when moving from 40 to 32 hours/week? I believe productivity increases have been demonstrated in some cases for hourly reductions when moving from overtime (say, 60 hours/week) down to 40. This is grounded in two parts - the diminishing returns of working more than 40 hours/week, and the fact that above 50 or 60 people start getting too tired and too focused on narrow tasks to make good long-term judgements. But I haven’t seen studies showing what you’re suggesting, which is a complete 100% reversal of productivity from 32 to 40 hours/week.

The logical extension, of course, doesn’t work. It’s not possible to work 100% less and therefore be 100% more productive or happier. (I mean, maybe happier, but not more productive, right? ;)) And we already know the delta change in productivity for a given delta change in hours depends heavily on how many absolute hours we’re starting with, and also depends heavily on the job at hand. So is the question about what number of hours gives people peak productivity for a given job? Or peak happiness? Or is this just about making sure employment has reasonable limits, and not even trying to optimize productivity?

* Edit: I googled it, and found the story about Microsoft Japan and it’s 4 day work week. I totally remember reading about this a few years ago. Lots of commentary on HN. The claim is a 40% increase when going to a 4 day week. It was measured for only 1 month, and they changed many other aspects (notably, they capped meeting times). Many people pointing out this is likely Hawthorne Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect). Personally, 40% seems completely implausible, which is why I wrote it off and forgot about it. It seems obvious that if that’s true, it means something was going terribly wrong with their 5 day week. Or that this effect isn’t measuring the change in hours at all.
On a project we had to deal with some properietary software that was highly optimized for its CPU-bound steady-state workload but suffered from terrible startup times due to single-threaded, blocking IO to EFS. Part of the workaround was a wrapper that preopened files on multiple threads, issued readaheads and then rewrote the data to point to /proc/<pid>/fd/<number> paths instead of the paths on EFS. That alone already cut load times from 6 minutes to < 30 seconds.

Lower latency storage helps, but applications not doing things the most naive way possible would be great too. Spawn a few threads if you have thousands of files to open. Issueing IO operations in batches to io_uring would help too but libraries need to catch up first.
GP said:

> Commercial companies like SpaceX on the other hand, who are spending their own money

If there's a lie here (and I'm not saying it is a lie), that would be it. SpaceX being cheaper (and maybe better) than the alternatives doesn't change the fact that they are not "spending their own money" exclusively (or even majority).
This is literally how DNS works. Get your own domain and you can forward mail anywhere in the world.
OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

1:27 - Lab leak

1:00:01 - Gain-of-function research

1:09:32 - Anthony Fauci

1:19:14 - Francis Collins

1:23:56 - Joe Rogan, Brett Weinstein, and Sam Harris

1:53:53 - Xi Jinping

2:08:24 - Patient Zero

2:21:38 - WHO

2:45:28 - Government transparency

3:07:28 - Likelihood of a cover-up

3:09:16 - Future of reproduction

3:44:55 - Jon Stewart

3:50:14 - Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta

4:15:19 - Ultramarathons

4:25:21 - Chocolate

4:33:34 - One Shared World

4:48:37 - Hope for the future

Ongoing Research...."Origins of SARS-CoV-2":

https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
Yes indeed, I can relate to. But just out of curiosity, if we get used to a 4 day week, will Thursday become the new Friday?

(genuine question plz, I have no clue either way)
I would agree with this.

Your first goal absolutely has to be that you successfully complete your degree. I know a person who failed to do this, and the results are bad. Finish! However -- most people do. So if you're reasonably conscientious you'll be fine.

After that: Work to get an internship every semester you have off (maybe unless you're traveling abroad, as recommended next). You'll make some money; you'll try different things; you'll add to your resume.

I would strongly advise against heading off to do a startup immediately. You will be clueless and will not know that you are clueless. Almost nobody should be an entrepreneur. I'm not; you probably shouldn't be. But if you do think that's something you might do, even then -- work in the field first. People like to go "I'm my own boss", but that's a liability. Have some bosses who'll tell you what to do for a few years.

Also, consider some study-abroad, as others have suggested.

But my final piece of advice would be: Really value the people you meet there. There's a tendency to lose touch with people, to just move on with your life. A tendency to end relationships, to not solve the "two body problem". That's all a serious mistake. If by the end of college you've found someone you really like, marry them.
In this case, the person DID have something to hide: The property crime she committed.
Maybe don't send spam?

Here's what you should do when you spam: Ignore it. A reply only lets the spammer know there's a live account at the other end.

Next time, do a whois on the domain the email came from, see if there's an abuse contact and forward them the email, letting them know there's malicious actors on their system.
From the title I was expecting an article about Bezos... :)
There is a middle ground between going above and beyond and being difficult to work with.

I tend to have no problem saying no to things that I think are bullshit, I have no problem skipping out on extra "team building" efforts or declining to attend the happy hour. I let my work speak for itself and I figure companies keep me around for that, and coworkers know they can come to me with any issues they might be having.

But I have never purposefully taken a coworker out to lunch or asked about their life outside of work (except for when we're on a call before anyone else and they start the conversation), and yet I've had just as much success as people who I've watched do that.

That's not to say that I don't get to know my coworkers I just let it happen organically as we're building things and solving problems together rather than going out of my way to make it happen.
One solution is to have the key on paper in a safe, and then let the lawyer know the key is in the safe. If you die they can drill the safe. The nature of the private key makes digital solutions possible, but they aren't necessary. It doesn't have to be handled differently from any highly valuable small object.
The practice of excluding by race is not actually illegal.

Think about fraternities. Think about ethnic centers.

People have an expectation that because it's immoral in the obvious case, it's illegal.

It's actually not. Nothing stops anyone from making a group for, say, Chinese American newspaper reporters, or Lebanese car mechanics.

What's actually illegal is turning people down for jobs or housing over race.

The law would only be interested if the website was the only way to get to protected topics like a job board
This is such a cool idea and it looks great. You both did a really good job with this.

On a side note, I miss how creative people used to be with their personal websites. I'm guilty of it too, but everyone's blog is so similar these days. Apart from slight variants in page width and typeface there really isn't much creativity on the web these days. It's nice to see something different.
Most people don't trust their adult children with access to their wealth, and yet they leave it as an inheritance to them when they die. Often even accompanied by a will
Yes and no, I would divide the news consumer between TV and written/paper/internet, Berlusconi is an issue because he controls a big chunk of TV easily accessible news content, but I am not sure how would you solve that, if a person wants to go to see news that match its point of view, then you can't force him not to, and if a TV has a lot of reality shows and entertainment and it mixes all of that with "news" program, then yeah he can kind of decide the weather, but yeah if you want un-opinionated news source you can at least have that, for what it's worth

But the scope of my reply was about "who owns the truth?" and yeah you need a place where people can go and check facts that are checked by peers of other point of view

I would tell you about my literature professor, he would walk around with multiple newspapers under his armpit and suggest that "If you want to try to get the truth you need to get the same fact from multiple point of view and try to get it in the middle"
Yeah, I think that's basically what the FBI agent they interviewed said. There's nothing for him to do and it would be entirely up to prosecutors to do anything. Part of the wrench is that kik can show that they do some sort of things that possibly qualify as "moderation" under the law. Things like auto-banning bots. So in court has apparently successfully kik has made the claim that they do moderate based on things like this so that checks the safe harbor requirement apparently.

But... all the people they claim to have on their "Safety Board" haven't worked for kik for years and all efforts to contact anyone on twitter or anywhere fail. Even DMCA takedowns of revenge porn were being ignored now. It seems to be a dead platform that nevertheless gets app updates uploaded so something is still going on somewhere by someone.

Basically the only option they were discussing was getting the app removed from Google and Apple stores and they compared the situation to Parler where the app was pulled for failing to moderate. And yet kik seems to get a pass somehow. It's a very disturbing and frustrating episode.
Well many private businesses are already, take MSs pilot recently. Do you know how the 40 hour 5 day week was initially established in the US?

The postwar era status quo of people travelling hours each way to their job, then to spend most of it in meetings or in an open plan office (chosen for managerial oversight, not productivity, which is a clue we will come back to) with too much noise to be productive are being challenged (cv19)

The research is clear, most white collar workers report much less productive work time compared to their work hours.

Reporting and data collection in this ever increasing era of cognitively demanding work is becoming far more accurate. In previous times, people's fear of redundancy has caused false overreach of business hours, and competitive presenteeism. Between this, and micromanagerial institutions like the open plan office, there is plenty of activity that doesn't accurately report productivity up to the business. Assuming the business has perfect information here is the fault. There are forces shaping these standards that are beyond the reach of produtivity, cultural normalisation of unhealthiness is rife. Look at China.
People sometimes die pretty suddenly, with no planning for what should happen after.
What prevents someone from picking 15 different locks you put on a case?

Baggage handlers at most airports aren't going to riffle through every single case, you're just making it easier for them to choose someone else's case (and potentially saying your case has valuable stuff inside)
> Your need for success diminishes with wealth though

I'd consider that a feature, not a bug for the question of global stage level founding: the subset of rich parents offspring who goes after building something aims for building something actually big, not just for the first best thing that promises access to the world of fancy cars and being someone's boss.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with starting a business aimed at bootstrapping itself and funding a car, later a house and in the end maybe even a boat. I have much greater sympathy for those than for people aiming to be the next unicorn (that term hasn't really made the jump into this decade, or has it?). But when it does come to this scope, I'd take it for granted that the born rich run a considerably higher chance of not getting blinded by high numbers and not deluding themselves.
HN is no different and will ban Tor accounts at will. You can try and see for yourself.
Not a rocket scientist either but I agree with your comment and expand on it further.

It's worth noting that the Saturn V to this day remains the most powerful launch vehicle ever created. So why didn't we just build that again? There are lots of reasons. Materials science has changed (ie there are newer, better materials now), the F5 engine was "handcrafted" in a way that required a lot of tuning and the whole system was expensive and unlikely to scale. There's probably lost expertise as a factor too.
Most people are consumers anyway and have nothing to lose.
And achievements.

This could be a hilarious product idea: adding a leaderboard and achievements to any arbitrary site. I'm sure someone has already done it.
Yeah I'm a little confused about how that plays out exactly...
The biggest change is how aware we are of others' views. The internet thrives on showing you people who are "wrong".

I wish we would do away with public opinion polling as news. It does nothing to actually inform or help people, but it makes us obsessed with culture wars.

Only 60 something percent of Americans believed the moon landings were real the year they happened. Imagine if someone flashed on the screen to tell you "40% of Americans don't believe this happened, and here are all of their political views". That's what modern journalism feels like.
Haha well aware as a current on call SDE at one of them!
There are IP cameras with a microSD card slot. A memory card allows you to store the archive directly on the camera itself or duplicate the recording if a failure occurs in the local network. Simultaneously, many Video Management Systems , in the event of a loss of connection, can copy the missing archive from the camera memory card after restoring the network connection.
I was reluctant to get involved with Gemini initially - it seemed like Gopher had already existed and could benefit from a revival, rather than someone creating something new (after all, Gopher+ actually offers some good possibilities for doing more modern things, and TLS support is now ubiquitous in gopher even if not officially in the spec)

Upon reading some more about Gemini though - especially solderpunk's "ponderings" phlog entries (https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=zaibatsu.circumlunar....) that I grew to appreicate where gemini came from - a considered criticism of where gopher has not aged well. Gemini has grown to address some of those short comings and that is actually quite nice, and the main driving force for it came from an active user of gopher already so that seemed nice.

What I do find a bit annoying is gemini-the-protocol vs gemini-the-philosophy. E.g. there was a client (I forget the details - sorry) that introduced the concept of a unicode "favicon" and a few people lost their shit about it. Nothing was wrong with the favicon thing - it was totally legit use of the gemini protocol but people were angry about just the concept of a client making requests that they felt did not fit their view of what gemini "means", with various threats about blocking all users/IPs that made requests for a favicon etc.

I find this viewpoint from "small internet" proponents fairly sad and annoying. If the protocol allows it, who are they to say what is right or proper and what is not? It makes me want to write a gemini client that supports styling and some sort of "GeminiObjectModel" and javascript support purely out of principle/trolling-lolz :-)
Why aren't you using Tor?
Relevant is an observation from his editor for this piece, who was in the audience for his Fall, or Dodge in Hell talk at The Long Now Foundation, responding to an earlier questioner about his editing process [1]:

I just wanted one quick comment, then
a question, but when you ask this
question about his writing style I will
tell you: I was working under Kevin at
Wired when Neil did a story of following
the fiber-optic cable around the world,
and it was a forty five thousand word
piece, and I will say when you brought
the copy in I could not improve it. As an
editor his was the cleanest copy I'd ever
worked with, ever, with any other writer,
and I actually worked with a lot of
writers. So I will say you have something going
on there about your first drafts that
are uneditable.

[1] https://youtu.be/bkxuzwCps70?t=2042
Gemini itself is quite silly though - the "tech" is just the modern equivalent of a hairshirt. You could easily have similarly lightweight sites on a modern HTTP(S)+HTML5 platform. It'd be nice if there was a social norm that all 'Gemini sites' must always be provided as both, without the user having to fiddle with proxy sites, "alternative clients" or whatever.
This is why I use a zip-tie. All the "security" of a TSA lock, but also some limited proof that your bag was tampered with (in particular if you use an uncommon color/shade).

PS - Although both are largely security theater, as you can just shove a pen into the zipper.
I care about testing and that’s why I hate to break my tests every time a refactor comes. If the behavior doesn’t change my tests shouldn’t break. Tests should meant to be there to give me confidence about the main functionality. They should tell me when my main functionality is broken or not after a change.

It’s not very useful to me if I get red tests just because the structure of my code changed. Those red tests don’t tell me if the functionality is the same or not. If my tests break every time even if the functionality is the same, then I start to ignore the warning, I just blindly make them pass. They become “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.
Misinformation is misinformation. I am certain I am misinformed about many things. The correct response to when I post misinformation is to inform.

What happened recently with the move to yellow journalism is not misinformation but rather censorship. Fact checkers end up labelling things in order to censor them.

The interesting thing on my mind in regards to Canada. Trudeau has changed. He would take on people head on at town halls and challenging questions: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trudeau-takes-questions-about-...

Today he refuses to even consider talking to these ongoing protests and is going to insane extremes to shut these peaceful protests down. The only way to look at it from his point of view. He must see these people as national security threats. He genuinely believes they are racists and white supremacists. He genuinely believes they are there to overthrow the government.

Which there's no justification for other than egregiously being misinformed.
> That is indeed rude. And it's not what I said.

This is what you wrote.

> And also, in the technology business, you are supposed to make progress happen. Sometimes, that involves making older technology obsolete. Making things obsolete is sometimes good, especially if the older thing has major problems.

Awk does not have "major problems" and I fail to see how I misrepresented you.

Aside from that, Python is newer than perl and Awk and anyone who can write perl can write Awk without too much trouble. If we apply the proliferation principle then what good does having more general purpose languages like Python do?

> I think installing Python libraries is much simpler

Than a single binary? I'm interested, how is it done?

> Why not just use libraries and abbreviate them for command line use?

Chesterton's fence comes to mind. Because they're reliable, quick, are usually preinstalled or easily installed if not, lightweight, well known, and don't require learning a particular programming language nor the install of its comparably giant ecosystem.
Hadn't considered the possibility of people using these locks elsewhere.
Ah yeah I forgot that AP is American, it's my go-to place for non-italian news, yeah ok nevermind my reply then.. interesting the point you make about their bias, not being there and following the scenarios in person I can only read it from across the ocean so I didn't know that...
I've had this happen. The top post on /r/worldnews was an Israeli "attack on Gaza", with no mention of the rocket attack on Israel an hour prior. I posted a link to a site - an English-language Arabic news site, mind you - that stated that the Israeli "attack on Gaza" was a precision strike against the military target that fired rockets at Israel earlier in the day.

My submission was deleted, my account was banned from the sub.