skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I only ever created an account on Twitter because I thought "maybe I should have one", but never felt compelled to do anything with it in the end. I mean, I sometimes read some Twitter thread that is posted here on HN, but even then still just plain can't understand the thing's appeal. I'm quite curious what's the underlying difference between me (plus any other people who apparently don't get it too), and those who are there and enjoy using it.
That depends on your definition of good money.

I've heard Ben Finegold say that 30 years ago only about top-30 could make anything resembling a decent living in a developed nation, while nowadays, even adjusted for inflation, the prize pools are much bigger and one of the biggest chess channels on YouTube is a player who's not even a GM.
Have you had a look at ZoneFS? It exposes pretty much exactly that model to userspace: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/zonefs.ht...

It does need support from the storage device though.
Certainly it’s system right? High performance -> happiness -> high performance.
I’ve lived in both. I’m not sure they fit within the same category as they face a different set of challenges and opportunities. However, they are both wonderful and vibrant places.
Flutter is shit for web stuff. Makes all non-Western language speakers 2nd class citizens and sucks for accessibility. It also sucks for extensions including language extensions and accessibility extensions. I can't believe it's gotten this far with it's stupid "ignore the browser and render everything to a canvas" BS. It's it's like literally a FUCK YOU to the a 1/3 of the world
What alternatives do you recommend? As far as I can tell none of the major video conferencing solutions are made by companies I think are any more trustworthy than Zoom at this point. Plus Google and others ran a focused assassination campaign against Zoom at the start of the pandemic to claw some of their market share.
>The lawsuit aims to stop the longstanding and widespread library practice of Controlled Digital Lending, which would stop the hundreds of libraries using that system, including the Internet Archive, from providing their patrons with digital books.

I could of swore the entire reason IA got in trouble is they decided to lend out unlimited copies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/books/internet-archive-na...

Common sense dictates you don't do this. Don't poke the bear. A blatant violation of copyright law isn't a good way to stay afloat.

It would be nice for IA to come to a settlement. Stop offering books period. We have Libby which does this with local libraries.
Thanks for sharing. I love the design and how this app feels. Did you use any existing CSS library/framework or is everything “hand crafted”?
I have always been surprised by how little Twitter interests me. I'm often linked to interesting things there. There are all kinds of interesting little communities (for instance, lots of scientists spend a lot of time there). Yet, I rarely stay long (even before the current prompts to sign in). I was certainly a great checker of Facebook for a long time, so I'm not immune to the charms of endless scrolling, yet somehow Twitter never draws me in more.
Yeah I think what a lot of people mess up on Twitter is not curating their list either through people or block words. You can drastically change your experience of twitter by carefully choosing who and what to follow and by judiciously pruning anything that you don't want to see.

The one major gap in that is I'd love to be able to follow or add to a list just an accounts tweets but not their retweets, there are some people I follow that I love their work but they retweet to boost a lot of random chaff I don't really want, so I can't follow or add them to a list because they just dominate/pollute the feed.

Lists in particular are a good tool because you can quasi-follow someone on a private list where a) it doesn't show up in your follows if they're someone/thing you don't want showing up in your follows and b) you choose when to go see those things so you can self regulate easier if it's not something you can/should see all the time.
The more structural obstacles there are to pushing out patches, the fewer patches will be pushed out. The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the patches before sending them out.

Currently, with OTA patches, you can throw out any patch you want because it's self-serve. But if customers were inconvenienced by having to go to a service center for an update, Tesla would have a larger incentive to get things right the first time. It would damage their brand reputation if a customer had to go to a service center for a patch and then turn around and schedule two more appointments to download bugfix patches.
> If no data about user A is allowed to be stored in the USA, the server in the USA can not know who A is

IANAL, but to my best knowledge, holding one-off data in memory is repeatedly defended in European courts as not storing data. This is from the top of my head, so treat it as "probably wrong".

All in all, the whole thing is a bit of a circus, really.
> I don't think I'll ever find the position where I feel I belong

I had this same feeling (including the despairing tone), until I changed where I work. Perhaps you can find a job in a meaningful industry (public transport, charity, a utility, etc) so that you can be certain you have a material positive impact on other people's lives. This impression helps a lot with work enjoyment.
The data structures used for text editing are important but only a very small part of what makes ST fast. It's the native, gc-less code, the custom UI toolkit and constant attention to performance that pull that weight.
It's Cat Day in Japan
Yeah, my non-SSO accounts seem fine.
"Some users":

Every single person on my team and at my company.
Genuine question for those running self hosted tools like Jitsi: how often are your outages? How quickly do you repair them?
It also recommends using DuckDuckGo ... the "private" search engine hosted on US Microsoft servers.
I would think this would violate the interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
I work in infosec department. No we are not, well some are talking about it but that's just silly unless your company 's compromise and resulting loss of reputation somehow benefits the russians, you do business with US gov or have presence in Ukraine.

This is interesting strategic intel but everyday is a day a Russian or some other therest actor is trying to hack us. We operate assuming a breach, if that isn't just b.s. corporate speak then not much has changed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democrats-slam-cruz-nord...

It was 55 to 44. As some Republicans like Rand Paul always vote against sanctions, there were at least 6-7 democrats in favor.

In any case, it was merely stating AGAIN what had ALREADY been legislated before (and Biden simply refuse to execute what the Constitution demands)
Yes physical is one of the things I glossed over and generalized, and of course there is real physical decline that is inevitable. However most people are not genetically destined to be saddled w/ medical bills immediately following their peak, and with basic self-care can maintain general freedom to adapt and move about several decades beyond yours (seems about 60s or so is where you'll likely experience issues of some sort even if you're in exceptional health).

Of course again the trend is that many people don't exert said self-care and fall subject to ailments much earlier (or just have bad luck w/ a host of varying types of environmental/genetic circumstances), and just generally use getting older as an excuse to withhold themselves from a great many things. This again is not destiny, merely a trendline that can be changed.
accessibility is not a behavior that "people liked". It is enshrined in law in so many countries that they _have_ to be at the lowest level of the system.
Yep. Especially if your development flow has integrated Slack alerts.

Coupled with COVID work-from-home constraints, there's no practical way right now to get code reviewed for merge into the main codebase 'round these parts.
> It used to be the case when I was a student capable of living on a shoestring budget.

It blows me away how easy it is to grow your expenses right along with your income. I started in this industry making like $60k/yr and somehow managed to live and go on trips. Now that I’m older I make substantially more than that but somehow my expenses grew right along side. Car payment, expensive apartment, Uber eats, fancier groceries, lavish travel, expensive hobby stuff… shit adds up. Not to mention I’ve got graduate level student loans, maxed retirement, etc…

I dunno… I know for sure if push came to shove I could do away with a large portion of that. But man can your expenses blow up so easily if you don’t pay attention to them.
Worth mentioning here: If you are falling, let go of your poles. The most common ski injury is the thumb, caused when you keep a death-grip on your pole as you go down. You can easily generate enough torque on the pole to dislocate or even break your thumb. Children are often not given poles at all, and this is one of a few reasons for that (the other main one being that it's thought a child can learn better balance that way).
Don't know what a million-dollar SAN is. Everybody's data is worth a million to them.

But any consumer-grade redundancy scheme (mirror, raid set, automatic backup) is likely useless.
The whole data is publicly available here: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange and presumably already downloaded by many.

Also, there are literally hundreds of SEO-ptimized copycats built from those data dumps: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/blob/mai....
Government filters in Flint are failing and people are still poisoned by water
I would love to be able to filter results to remove articles written purely for affiliate links - if I'm looking for a new washing machine, I want an impartial article from someone with industry knowledge, not someone who has taken the five most popular machines from amazon to post with Amazon Associates links
I love this comment. For example, I have yet to find a tool that helps teams manage worker leave (medical, parental, mental health, etc.). A way to quickly get a co-worker up-to-speed on your projects before you take leave; a place to document the calls, check-ins, etc. while you are out; and board to manage tasks upon your return.
Hockey has proven somewhat stubborn. Coaches will pull the goalie earlier now, and there is more of an emphasis on skilled players rather than nasty players, but I'm not convinced the latter wouldn't have happened in the absence of analytics. There was a wave of excitement when Kyle Dubas and a few other young GMs started hyping up analytics and new stats like expected goals and possession metrics and stuff, but as far as I can tell, it hasn't had a huge impact on the game.
Gonna play the devil's advocate here, but in my experience it's not easy to chip off paint from phones.
The cool thing about Slack (and Discord for that matter) is that it's essentially federated on a technical level. SlackHQ controls all the instances, but the UX is very achievable by an open source alternative. I'm bullish on federated chat in the next few years.

It would be awesome to have essentially the same experience as using Slack, but also a server running on our lab's hardware that we can reboot/debug ourselves.
Mattermost has replaced Slack here and I don't miss it at all. Jitsi Meet is pretty good for a/v
> Drivers would just have to either go to a service center or leave the state to install them.

Tesla service centers are not a "new motor vehicle dealer", you would need to leave the state to install updates

> Except for experimental low-volume not-for-retail sale vehicles, cause warranty and recall repair work to be performed by any entity other than a new motor vehicle dealer
I think it is important to mention that managers also don't pick what they want to work on. Often times they are "managing" teams of just a few people. A better term for some of these people would be performance reviewers.
Exactly, FANG-like have done a lot of work to move definitions around to make it seem like "principal engineer" was still an IC position, but all good principal engineer I've interacted with were basically managers with a different name.

Sure they review code and still get their hands dirty from time to time on critical pieces, but there is much more value in using your experience to lead your team in the right direction.
You can ask. Disseminating intel is part of their job. For parties that have an interest. A lot of intel is TLP green or white (shareable to anyone in the company and public respectively)
Healthcare... No, just kidding. Don't do that.
“the Ukraine”

It is just Ukraine, no “the” required nor preferred.
In addition to there being archive back-ups available, there are tens (hundreds?) of sites that mirror SO questions and answers. The downside of this redundancy is that you get so many duplicates when your search terms lead to an SO result.
> No, quite the opposite. The Linux kernel project has claimed that kernel-mode symbols equivalent to the userspace ABI do not trip the GPL copyleft. That's why they have the GPL_ONLY DRM[2]; it's to distinguish between "running two programs in the same address space" and "merging a module into the same GPL program".

> Compaq didn't need to ship code that links with the IBM PC BIOS. They needed to ship code that replaced it entirely. There is a difference between replacing a program and linking with it.

Does the Linux license (with the GPL_only thing) allows you to replace open source modules with self-contained proprietary ones? For this I mean, let's say I want to build a proprietary network stack tailored for a given hardware I'm building. In such case, may I do it as long as I write it from scratch and run it in kernelspace as a module? If that's the case, why do kernel infringements occur? Why wouldn't everybody just reimplement in their own proprietary way whatever they have to? Why is closed source DRM/anticheat non-existent on Linux?
I never managed to learn how to get off the lift consistently when I was boarding a decade ago. I don't miss that embarrassment and would learn to ski if I were headed back to a mountain these days.
Yup - need the full set first, then the bounding box of the superset for "the rectangle"

Then should they be centered, left-aligned, top-left aligned...??

The fun never ends
If the sanctions were never repealed by the US Congress, the US president has no right to overrule their policy.

This has been in the US Constitution from the beginning of the country and is hardly controversial.

Interestingly, failing to uphold the Constitution and execute the laws passed by congress is serious grounds for impeachment (though it simply will not happen until at least 2023).
A lot of unexpected discussion on this one. Thanks.

Some more details: Setting was evening/night at an european university college dorm.

We were both not poor, as we could go to university , but we both had a governemental scholarship, so not rich either. We had food and a bed, but not much money for anything hobby or party related. Sometimes a side job, and that's it. Both our dads had corporate jobs, and moms at home. I'd say all of us were middle class.

He had no special connections or privileges, except what he buikt up himself in the scientific world while being there. He was average looking, not specifically beautiful or ugly. He was healthy and quite sporty. A bit lower than average height.

I don't know what's the criterium for declaring someone a genius. He was a topper in the math olympiads, while I made it rarely out of the second round. He was good at a lot of other olympiads too. He also won a frw competitive sports. But it was the generality of the interest. He could do with particle physics stuff what he did with the map. Or astronomy, physics, every hard science. Or something completely non scientific. I had to take the equations and try to calculate, slowly, while he could feel where some phusics stuff was going to end up. He'd mix knowledge, probably learn something from the map and use it in his quantum stuff. He's a professor now.

The attitude was easygoing, good natured, no bullshit, honest. He was competitive, but if he lost he had just as much fun.

He was part of a loose group of like minded people all behaving like. I'd consider most of them geniuses.

Maybe I'm idealizing, or he had other characteristics I didn't notice. He was described as genius by other people than me, and when we talked about him, similar stories pop up.

And indeed, I was humbled, not humiliated. Gratefull for the experience, but it was clearly a height I would never reach. Oh well.
I am a white male. I've seen this policy in play and it's not even new - it's been going on for decades. Here's the thing - there are N "good jobs" and the population of N doesn't reflect the population of America - namely, there's too many white males holding those jobs. If you adjust the composition of N to better reflect the population of America then that will necessarily lead to fewer white males having those "good jobs." There's no way of avoiding that. If you decide to go off "merit" - well, there are some people who were born on 2nd base and when they advance to third the claim they hit a triple. Meanwhile there's other people who weren't born anywhere close to the field, had to get the equipment to play, learn the rules of the game, and worked their butts off to hit a double. Which of these two people have shown more "merit"?

I think part of the problem we're having is we're not having the right conversation, what we should be discussing is why are there only N "good jobs." Even better, why are there any "bad jobs"? What does it mean for a job to be bad and why then would we expect, even demand, that people do such jobs? I think we'll have more meaningful and productive conversations focusing on those questions rather than focusing on race.
> I can’t imagine [...] doing all that work for an unfunded project. [...] it makes me think this person is unwell.

who really is unwell here ? humans are the only creatures on earth who accept to pay for drinking water.
Tell HN: GitHub Appears to Be Down
Github appears to be down. Unable to reach the site, perfom git operations, or even ping github.com

Statuspage shows everything as fine. Anyone else seeing this?

https://www.githubstatus.com/

Edit: My location is Colorado, US
I'm having similar experience at current company. In my case I'm still an employee and haven't said anything about leaving. Gone back and forth between 'red flag' and 'normal startup disfunction'.
coooool thank you!
See https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/flash-memory-programmi... for some of the things that can go wrong as a consequence of programming a cell in multiple passes, even without a power loss event.
I’ve seen a few of his talks, but I do not accept his position on types more generally. I wrote a rebuttal to a similar talk he gave a few years ago.

https://jezenthomas.com/rich-hickey-doesnt-know-types/
> I'd argue the biggest flaw with the web is it has a million nit-picky features when it should ONLY offer JavaScript+canvas

That would break the web, though? One of the biggest _strengths_ of the web is backwards compatibility.. I, for one, am grateful to use modern browsers to consume older content and apps.
You have the percentages wrong if you're splitting the World into Western/non-Western, I assume, based on if they use the Latin script or not.

> In July 2020, 2.6 billion people (36% of the world population) use the Latin alphabet.

If you include languages that don't use the basic Latin script (26 characters or so), it gets even worse, since 90%+ of languages that use it have extra characters.
Used MeetEdgar for 30 days = +10 TW followers
"I tried to build a following..."

Why? Fake Internet Points only matter when you have something to sell.
Apple removed the "button" with the iPhone 6 in 2014. The "button" became capacitive and I haven't heard of any those failing. So they haven't had failure-prone button for 8 years now.

Also in your previous comment you stated it required a completely new main board to fix but that is false. It did require complete disassembly, but the button was replaceable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVH-uNDiipA
https://mattermost.com
Healthcare software..
> uncomfortable truth:

> I'm in the majority that aren't exceptional.

That's fine, right? Quite simply most people aren't exceptional, so it is important to learn to be okay with it. Most likely it can benefit you for the rest of your life :)
For all its faults. There's some shining pieces of laws the EU has passed.
What is “be successful” other than being content with your life?

Dudes who make bank almost always have to work really hard to get there. Or at least make a lot of sacrifices (for example trade most of your social life / relationships / etc for work).

Personally I just want to make enough to enable me to buy shit for my hobbies and personal projects. I’d like to do that while maintaining the ability to take lots of time off. I’d trade hobby money for time off. I’d trade a lot for time off…
There is Matrix (https://matrix.org) which now integrates nicely with Jitsi (https://jitsi.org). There's also BigBlueButton (https://bigbluebutton.org).
Your argument may be valid in 30 years when the automated cars have improved, and more importantly, on roads where human driving has been outlawed.

Until then, when a semi-automated car comes to a stop sign, they should stop.
How do you think the EU can give in here? They've tried it twice and European courts have decided twice that it's impossible.
Russell Group
It seems like all the technical PM jobs require that you’ve already held that title for several years. Or maybe I take job descriptions too literally.
what a sigh of relieve.

It's a really refreshing feeling to know, that channel of communication is not available for anyone in my company.

it's like a veil has been lifted off my eyes
Thanks! All of our core UI components (e.g., buttons, text inputs, etc.) are "hand crafted". We do use https://blueprintjs.com/ for some components, but we apply our own styling on top.
It's a choice, just pick something that suits you and go for it.
For intellisense / auto-complete, that is just down to your IDE.

See here, I have autocomplete and intellisense using VSCode and Calva, but I can also hover a function and see the clojure docs for it, then copy them to my IDE, and run the example code all within my editor. Then remove it when I'm done playing. The doc examples go into a rich comment form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeNECtkJw6s
I tried to build a following, went until around 2k followers...

Why?

There are three sorts of people who have a significant Twitter following.

There are people who are famous in "real life" who people follow because they want insight into the minds of celebrities, and a little bit of access because they might get a reply. You can only join this group by doing something noteworthy offline. Your following will grow quickly as your offline life becomes more notable.

Then there are people who are subject matter experts who tweet genuinely interesting things whose followers are authentically interested in what that person says. You can join this group by being an expert in something and tweeting about it. If it's interesting the following will grow slowly.

And lastly there are people who just want a Twitter following because they think it would reflect how important they feel they are. They just haven't been noticed yet. I'm in this group. I enjoy tweeting. I often think I should be noticed more on there because I'm funny. I don't have any regrets. My followers do though.
How is my grandmother going to have a house after EU lets a Russian tank drive over it?
GitHub is up for me at present (Chicago area, US)

Bear in mind, in modern Internet, you might want to specify the local area you hail from, as these large websites may not be down for the entire planet at once.