skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We could just force people to do whatever we want because a majority wants it, but that's no different than mob rule.

That's not mob rule, that's simple majority rule. We have access to other forms of consensus algorithms, but so far simple-majority seems to be the most anyone can stomach. That is very unfortunate.

> would solve more issues than it causes.

That's not the metric though, right? The metric is: are things better under that system vs this one? We want to measure whether B(enefits)2 - C(osts)2 >= B1 - C1, not whether B2 - C2 >= 0.

I strongly agree with what I think you're implying, which is that we need more metropolitan areas, but I think we are not going to get very far with limits. You will get a lot more participation and a lot less tumult (not to mention orders of magnitude less bureaucratic overhead) if you offer carrots rather than sticks. People management is a real consideration: people are not identical particles subject to the continuum hypothesis.
You are starting from an assumption it is unethical barring some exceptions. That is false.
What exactly is your diagnosis? What autoimmune issues do you have?
Why will the price tank? None of this changes the value of Twitter if he walks away.
It’s discussed in the thread. At one point (and maybe it was wrong) such findings were weaponized to the detriment of the community — i.e. vaccines are dangerous.

I agree though with your point that he’s being a bit sanctimonious. It’s not just about community civility — there’s an overarching “we are doing what’s best for world” attitude that Facebook and the like are also employing.
Really? Who doesn't want more money? Also, you're not necessarily working that much harder to make a million instead of 500k. Thousands of people who read headline news are making 500k a year in the software industry. The year I made a million dollars, a lot of it in stock from a fang company, I wasn't working twice as hard as the years I made 500k.
Makes sense to me in general. We all spend much more time reading our own code and others', much more than writing code. In fact, first period a new hire is going to experience is spending a disproportionate amount of time, just getting to know the system(s) they're expected to contribute to.

I'm currently looking for someone to join our own team, I'll be taking this adjusted priority in mind.
To be clear here, you're saying that you want all writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, to just stop doing things? Would it make you happy if I just threw out my painting supplies and my clarinet?
In middle school, a buddy of mine drew a beautiful picture of a Bugatti Veyron with a silver Pilot Dr. Grip Ltd. shaker pencil and I was so enamored by his drawing and his pencil. He spent weeks getting the details just right during downtime in math class.

It got me interested in stationary ever since then, and I've always loved JetPens. I've gone through phases where I really like mechanical pencils, although I mostly write with Uni Signo UM-151 0.38mm gel pens. Super smooth with a crisp, fine line.

JetPens is a great site with a very cool niche. Check out Kinokuniya too. There's one in Little Tokyo in LA. Lots of pens, pencils, notebooks, and all sorts of books and manga.
> Is anyone interested in creating a Gmail clone service which let's you bring your own domain for free?

Assuming this is because you really like the Gmail app, you could check email from and send email as your other email accounts. Cloudflare Email Routing might be helpful for this as well: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/
Just to add an alternative point of view: startup founders are not known for doing everything perfectly "by the books" in terms of legal/accounting stuff. It could just be laziness rather than the founder trying to fuck you over.

Of course, you know them better than any of us do. If you think it's an honest mistake he may have overlooked, just have a chat and it should be sorted for you.
We did this in the first interview and they did well on that.

Then we gave an exercise* to write some code. In my opinion a junior (but not noob) programmer should be able to do it: the code should loop through a file that is too large to keep in memory and collect some statistics -- e.g. look up numbers associated with keywords and compute the average (where the keyword list is the large file; the lookup table is like ten entries).

This candidate (like the last one) instead worked around the memory constraint and just split up the file using external software such that they could fit the whole thing in memory. Not combining the partial results later or anything, no, just compute answers based on this one slice. Then in the interview afterwards, they could not describe how this could have been done differently, also not with hints (I understand they're under pressure during the interview). The code also had other problems (e.g. opening and re-reading this lookup file inline in the main loop... which runs a billion times). Even though functional (if not always giving the correct result; mistakes happen), they had neither a concept of memory complexity nor computational complexity.

So that's just anecdotal, maybe it was an outlier. From my perspective, talking about projects and code isn't always the same as them being able to work on the problems you're hiring them for.

* Note this was not entirely my choice, even though with hindsight it was a good idea we should at least have compensated their time regardless of the outcome imo.
I was born and raised devoutly Mormon, and have since left the religion. My mom and I were tight, and my dad and I butted heads, but we loved each other.

I graduated college, with their praise, I had kids, with their love and praise, but since leaving the church that they are still devout to, things fell apart.

I try to maintain a relationship, I video call once a week, text some in between, but I'm always greeted with my mom's "phone voice", which lets me know that she's not as close to me as I want to be with her.

I love the Mormon church, and it will always be part of me, but there's so much pressure on parents to have their kids remain, and I knew it would let my parents down. I disappoint my mom on a daily basis, and that's a hard bridge to cross for a relationship.
I thought they made a good point. Make your objection more substantive and I'll get rid of the downvote.
All of these problems existed before. Most of today's democracies have had rules around public gatherings and speeches. The situation with Twitter is, effectively, analogous to the invention of the printing press which started the political pamphleteering industry ("political"...the early state of that industry resembled Twitter, at least in England...lots of accusations of X public person being a secret papist or drinking children's blood...very little real discussion).

I am not sure exactly what the solution is (and you are right, that it becomes more complex on a global scale) but, as some of the comments in OP thread inadvertently allude to, a lot of today's moderation is just censorship. At no point in history has been up to companies to do this (in some countries the media is self-regulating, but that is regulation...not deciding that something shouldn't be published because it is "wrong" in some way...that is up to the courts and govt, not the press). The problem is the separation of content creation and distribution...the guy who runs the newspaper stand isn't responsible for the NY Times publishing something that is inaccurate. So I think the goal is parity with existing rules: people are responsible for what they post, not companies (and btw, this applies legally...in the UK, you can be prosecuted criminally for something you post...so quite why these companies need to stick their oar in to "protect" users is unclear).
I'm not OP, but I'll weigh in:

Google - it's a really good search engine, but obviously biased and doesn't care about your privacy. I use it on my work machine.

Brave Search - I'm not sure if another service (like Bing) powers their results, but it works pretty well for my personal use cases.
looks interesting, was just looking for npm alternatives to supabase´s new elixir realtime project good timing
If you do a simple ctrl+f on the article for "MDMA", the second result directly addresses MDMA used for PTSD[0], and the big issues surrounding clinical trials for it. Based on the treatment of participants in MAPS trials, conducted under Health Canada, I would treat anything the FDA says about psychedelics with a large amount of skepticism too.

[0] https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/psychedelics?s=r#:~:tex...
Yeah they should have called that tool yolocat
This is exactly what I started doing at my company a few years back. You are presented with a complete app written in the stack we use. This app has some bugs we will solve to get it working (nothing that's a trick... actual, commonly encountered bugs that have all the error messaging you need to solve them). Once it is working you will walk me through a particular flow of the app, explaining what is going on and why we do it this way. There are optimization opportunities (purely optional, there for you to notice), areas we can dig into if we choose (or if I feel the need to). If you tear through it we can examine a different flow in the app. Perhaps we could discuss the database structure and how it might be improved or changed, maybe we dig into some CSS or into some GraphQL or any other aspect that we need to. I've had people stumped and unable to continue but the vast majority of devs can make a good stab at it, even if they are not familiar with the specific stack. The best devs are barely slowed down by such unfamiliarity and can still reason, logically, about the code.

So far I've had really positive feedback from job candidates. A couple even described it as their favorite interview ever! I feel like it has worked well, given the people we have ended up hiring.
They said the same thing about truth social.
Thanks for reading and for sharing your experience. Much appreciated.

I'm not trying to spread propaganda. I'm doing my best to make sense of the different narratives being told by different parties. It's all we can do in these crazy times.

You have many good points. This article was not comprehensive and could have dug deeper into many reasons. I'll respond to one bit:

>To say that pro-western and anti-Russia attitude in Ukraine was fabricated by the West is a bit of a stretch, to say the least.

I never used the word 'fabricated', and I don't think I said anything that robust. I said "funded", which is different. Ukraine is a large country, and there are plenty of different political opinions and movements to pick from when supplying funding.
That’s the spirit! Now you’re talking!
The claim that most American towns are going to go broke is a tricky one. The towns became dependent on federal grants raised via income taxes, the towns are not directly capable of raising income tax dollars today. It's possible that the suburban communities are financially viable with income based taxation policies rather than property tax based policies.
> because reading is easily an order of magnitude faster than writing.

Hmmmm, really?
I disagree. I don’t think Twitter holds up any sort of white supremacy. It’s a bad example.
This might be appropriate for some cases, but is dangerously similar to just not making backups in the first place.
What is "everything else" in this context? You're saying that every writer should stop writing books, every artist should stop making art, every musician should stop making music... That is everything as far as our information society goes, there won't be any "everything else" after that.
Really like how this makes the interview simulate day-to-day work
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with any of the studies concerning the safety of traffic flow if you think that that is the only factor that determines intersection safety.
Twitter wouldn't exist in this scenario from the stock holder's perspective. They would get cash and then put that cash into other investments of their choosing.

The only way this makes sense is if there is a bigger offer incoming OR if the Twitter board has a plan to make twitter much more successful in the near term and succeeds at that plan.
> When I was a teen, I used to think about having kids so I could do a better job. Once I became an adult I could even consider or conceive of it.

I used to think the same thing when I was a teenager! I would daydream about how I would be so much better of a parent.

Now I realize I wouldn't do better at all. It's incredibly hard. So I understand my parents much better now, but it's still hard for me to feel love and affection for them after everything that happened.
Vox needs a spanking. (As always).

Just imagine. I have some land. Lots of people would love to buy it it for different things. But for now, I just want to hang onto it until I'm ready to use it. And my house is sitting right next to it.

Yeah, nimby blah, blah blah.

But it's my house and my backyard and my land so... I have to be forced to sell it?

Brah. Just another socialist redistribution scheme.
Show HN: A candy crush style Wordle clone, 1 puzzle a day, 20 moves max
Stock prices are largely based on the emotional responses of humans, at least in the short term.
I use gimp and so do many people I know, it takes some getting used to
They claim SGX support on Xeon is still “full steam ahead”

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Products-and-Solutions/...
Its a metal version of cricket nets!
$TWTR has been trending down over the last year. When he bought, the price went up 27%, signaling that people thought his involvement would be positive for the company. If he says "twitter is hopeless" and pulls out, the sentiment will be that nothing can save twitter.
It seems to be a supply shortage driving a bit of FOMO. There were a lot of condos built in prime cities which are seemingly foreign money or deeper investment as they're not heavily occupied. This cores out the cities which, unfortunately, is where the jobs are. WFH has helped but the cities here are facing the same "come back and save the restaurants" push from the cities.
It is both funny and sad that this country made it through a revolution, a civil war, various recessions, two world wars, the looming threat of nuclear holocaust, decades of ill-advised military adventurism but apparently it's "people arguing on the internet" that causes us to stop believing in free speech. Like I said, cowards.
While I don't dispute that Elon is first in Elon's mind, I (perhaps in ignorance) have no reason to believe that he wouldn't take a principled stance and apply the standard he wants for himself to all. That's certainly what he's claimed.

I don't find the assertion that billionaires inherently lack integrity a compelling argument. In the spirit of honest inquiry, do you know of any reason specific to Elon that I should not take him at his word?
This makes no sense. Disney is not stopping you from making your own home movies. You can even put them on YouTube or any of the other alternatives.

There's actually lots of good criticisms of Disney, but you didn't mention any of them.
The idea of land-value tax strongly reminds me of the often cited, and much maligned, so-called fiduciary duty to shareholders which CEOs and/or board members reportedly have. This duty creates, it is said, an incentive towards naked short-term greed, which is often described as a bad thing. Now, even though this duty is also usually derided as fictional, the argument, if this duty did exist, would be reasonable. But does not a LVT create the same incentives in landowners – in essence forcing landowners to always use the land in a way which extracts the maximum amount of money from it? Why then is a LVT a good thing while the duty thing would be bad (if it did exist)?

Note: I am making an analogy not with what fiduciary duty actually is, but instead with the idea of it which people usually argue against. People usually say that fiduciary duty creates and even enforces thoughtless short-term greed, and argue that is bad for society and also the company in the long run. Regardless of what fiduciary duty actually is in reality, how is then LVT any different from creating the same short-term enforced greed?

A LVT would tax a plot of land by what use it could theoretically be put to in order to make the most money. And this is evaluated individually for each plot of land, with no regard for what would actually happen in reality if every single plot of land would actually be put to use in the most money-making way. Would a LVT not force a monoculture of, say, only lofts, where previously each landowner might have opted to allow things like nightclubs or the occasional park or other forms of variation and whimsy? If you tax every land owner as if they have the maximum possible income, do you not essentially force every landowner to implement that way in order to acquire it?

(Adapted from texts originally written here:)

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319095

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25324577

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319594
Nah, I'd just say it was historically ignorant, because lots of superstates without a strong uniting identity have been formed, especially as part of decolonialization, but most of them have at some point (not always immediately after independence) viewed the lack of uniting identity as a problem to solve.
Well, "HOV 2+ ONLY" is the only part you actually need to read in the moment.

And helpfully those words are much much larger.

I will note that signs like that don't exist in my area.
What “unpredictable consequences” could that be, will Putin shoot himself in the foot!?
How long is this interview? I can debug a random React app in 30 minutes, but a whole stack may be pushing it.
Show HN: Cost basis for your DeFi investments
You don't think that Pirate Bay is a library?

Or how about Library Genesis?

Or Sci-hub?

Or perhaps you're wanting torrents off of Archive.org? They have the biggest PS2 iso library anywhere in the world.

I really don't understand why people can't see this...

Face it: If book libraries were a new concept around 1998 (Napster), they too would be illegal dens of iniquity reviled by "copyright interests" and raided with the backing of federal copyright statute under criminal guidelines. .
> I also did a lot of testing with the original game, running it in DOSBox and on original hardware (various 386 and 486 machines which I got from eBay). I built test levels for focused observation of specific enemies and game mechanics, recorded video captures of these using DOSBox, and stepped through the recordings frame by frame to verify my findings from reading assembly code. Once I had implemented an enemy or game mechanic, I would also typically record footage from my version, and compare it to the original frame by frame to verify the accuracy of my implementation.

The developer put in a tremendous amount of work!

The wonderful thing about programming, is how the product of your intense focus can be shared with so many people. There are people who have built super detailed model railroads but you will never see them unless you visit their basement. With software, just about anybody can build/run/play this game that has been so lovingly and painstakingly recreated.
But it isn't a violation of basic human rights. It is a community working together to protect itself from an 'invader' - much as we would see in places under attack by less invisible threats.
> Their content moderation is pretty hands off, but as soon as any subreddit attracts negative attention, it's quarantined or banned, no matter if the controversy is justified or not.

That's the point. They just want the controversy to go away. To suggest that they should care about justification is to make them moral arbitrators.
What’s the difference between a process, an algorithm, a logic and a system? With your definition wouldn’t everything in the observable universe be an algorithm? Not that there isn’t utility in thinking that way but I feel like the definition should be more specific.

My definition is: computation is the transformation of information into meaning. (Simply)

Or more expanded…

> the transformation of energy into meaning == consciousness

> the transformation of energy into information == computation

> the transformation of energy == physics

Something I’ve been working with in my research and nomenclature.
I’m curious what happens in that case, then - let’s say hypothetically that SPY has enough cash come into the fund that they’ll cross that threshold if they follow their stated investment policy (“buy the S&P”) - what’s the move, then?
I get what you mean. I fought a similar battle back in 2013 when a document was proposed to the IETF, never ratified but yet network engineers everywhere adopted it and the anti-spam industry exploded. I somethings think these things are under-engineered on purpose so that friends of friends can create new business models.
I thought you could use it for HSM-type workloads too
Netflix had a product to sell, not just a crowd.
Absolutely. That’s why I asked
Technically using AME from the pre-built ISO is illegal, however realistically no one will ever go after you for it, unless you're a business.
You can however legally do it by self-ameliorating and entering a key before the amelioration process.

It does lack Windows Update yes, as WU is a threat to privacy. Windows Ameliorated helps mitigate this by shipping a non-administrator user account by default. Of course you can still do admin actions, it just requires the admin password. ~70% of Windows vulnerabilities are caused by using an admin user (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...)

P.S. Personally I think security updates are a bit overrated, as in all practicality, there's extremely little chance of getting attacked unless you download FreeFortniteVbucks.exe
I sometimes ask candidates "what kind of interview do you feel would best bring out your strengths?" and try to adapt the interview to their response if I can. It's helpful if they want to talk about side projects or war stories, but doesn't pressure them to. I still give my coding challenge after. Wonder why no one else does this.
It's generally not required to 'permanently delete instantly' (this includes GDPR).

So you take a backup every day, and delete backups after 30 days (or whatever amount of time you need to for compliance). When somebody says 'delete this permanently', you do, from your primary data store. Then after 30 days, not even the backups will have anything.

You can also get fancy with more than one stage (soft delete, hard delete, then backup purge), as long as the whole pipeline is done within the compliance window.

Of course, the trickiest part of all of this is knowing where all data can proliferate, and making sure it doesn't (don't let people download data to their machines, don't let people create a 'copy of prod' that sticks around outside or retention.
> I think if the world had been on board with a zero covid policy

and

> I can work remotely and we have an income sufficient to rely on instacart and delivery for food.

Quite obviously only a minority of the population shares your personal situation. And yet you are calling for global lockdowns, which would include lesser developed countries where a vanishingly small percentage of the population is in this situation.

I shouldn't even be having to point this out. It's been a continuous theme that office-workers and IT workers have been self-indulgently calling for economies to lockdown because "Hey, why not just work from home?". And people have made the response I have above many times, which kills this dumb argument. So why is it still being made?
I've never felt like the rotation of the lead was an issue for me (except for the few times the lead broke). Do you (and others) do a lot of drawing?