skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this should have been a blog post. I absolutely can not stand threadreader because there's something about how people use it that rubs me the wrong way.

It does not help solve the fundamental problem (this should be a blog post not a series of Tweets).
/usr/bin/env is also the only shebang you can really use on nixOS AFAIK
> To ban a democratically elected president of the united states. Quite dystopian.

Actually the opposite - Trump did and said many things that would have gotten literally anyone else banned, and Twitter literally had to make a special exception in their rules for him because of it.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22233450/trump-twitter-facebook-b...

This is the old "when you're used to supremacy, equality feels like oppression" situation in action. Trump got more slack than anyone else ever would have, and when they finally did come down conservatives are still mad that it was "biased" and "unfair" somehow.

tbh I think the potential for retaliation likely also stayed Twitter's hand - if they had enforced the rules equally while he was still president, he likely would have found ways to retaliate against them.
Buybacks are more a tax quirk than a control mechanism.
Twitter adopts 'poison pill' measure that could thwart Elon Musk's takeover bid
Thats the philosophy of every criminal entity including govts, police, security services and everyone else.
I mean in a literal sense, hoarding all the goods means no one will be able to produce anything for your consumption. Unless you set up a serfdom, that is.
I was an H-1B worker and this shit annoys me - the prevailing wage check should require that the h-1b wage be above the prevailing wage - say 5% - so that any industry that starts to accrue a large number of H-1Bs starts making H-1Bs more expensive.
I guess it's not universal that they don't reduce tax rates for people that are unable to pay, retired elderly? In the Seattle area that's a thing. I want people to be able to pass on their businesses to their kids. But in the US we have this fantasy of inheritance taxes wiping out farm owners. It really only affects giant farms, 11 million is the federal threshold.

I don't think society will be bettered by creating evermore trust fund babies. I'm generally in favor of making it hard to pass on wealth that is so high your offspring's families never have to work. I think one of the major challenges of the US in the future is the accumulation of wealth in smaller group of people over time, and the vast amount of income difference between the masses in the US.
Hey, I mean fair enough. I can definitely respect that answer. Mind you I’m not trying to argue that Java should win any awards from an ahistorical perspective, however recognizing that the team had to make decisions in the context of maintaining a solid experience for an already existing large userbase made me appreciate their decisions more. I still wouldn’t choose Java as my favorite or goto language, but it’s not so bad as to warrant some of the disparagement it often receives.
I think the parent is suggesting discarding keys for all backups after X days. So, anything deleted in the live environment effectively gets removed from the backups after X days.
Are you able or willing to share some samples? I've been shying away from doing technical assessments the "old way," instead focusing on having a discussion about a candidates past projects. I feel like your way could be a good chance to get insights into someone's problem solving and critical thinking skills, which is truly what we value as a dev team.
> It's nonsense

Why? (Honest question.)
"Less government" still has taxes, so I'm not sure how your comment is connected to the one from the previous commenter.
The Georgist land tax taxed the unimproved value of the land. The tax remains the same whatever you build on it.

Sale price already nudges you to preserve, improve, or augment the value of the land.

So I think your concern either already would have happened, or if not, a Georgist land value tax makes it no more likely. Thanks for the opportunity to think this through this far; what am I missing?
> Writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, even a lot of software developers

Plenty of those same people are fed up with copyright law in the US too. There are people releasing their works under more permissive licenses, publishing directly to torrent sites, etc. The fact is that most of the time copyright enforcement doesn't do a damn thing for the creators anyway. They rarely keep the copyright of what they produce. It does however often hinder their ability to work on things they'd like to, and it opens them up to legal risks from others who might claim their works are too close to their own. There's a very real chilling effect where creators may never even publish works out of fear that they'll be dragged into court against a team of industry lawyers. Our excessive copyright and patent system actually hinders more than it encourages new works.
> There's no coherent ideological bias on any sufficiently large social network, they just pivot to whatever is causing chaos on any given weekday.

This is both true in a trivial sense and bullshit in an important sense. Governments and companies work every day, and employ armies of people full time to create the "shitstorms" that social media companies react to. Even the news cycle is motivated by billionaire owned news outlets, and a brush fire on twitter becomes a wildfire because those outlets magnify it, often prompted by press releases from PR companies, lobbyists, NGOs, and administration officials.

This is only improvisation for the first five minutes you become important. Once the relevant institutions have employed people full time to focus on the manipulation of your platform, it's systematic and routine. In the current climate, resistance will mean you're called to Congress and yelled at, and every other journalist will be screaming for your investigation and destruction. Instead, what happens is that you end up knowing all of the manipulators of your platform by their first names, you go golfing with them, and your kids date each other.
On consumer CPUs DRM may have been the only use case, and indeed good riddance. But on the server side it's possible for tenants to use these hardware features to run workloads that the hosts verifiably cannot modify or inspect. In other words, this lets you use AWS/GCP/Azure etc. while keeping both your data and your code competely opaque to Amazon/Google/Microsoft etc. Disclaimer: my job is to write the software that makes this possible, and all our code is open-source and housed under the Linux Foundation's Confidental Computing Consortium: https://enarx.dev/ .
What do you mean by purity here?
I also believe that Musk will walk away and the stock will tank.

Musk’s recent stock purchase and discussion about joining the board made the price jump significantly. You’re right that there’s no obvious reason that his involvement should change Twitter’s value, but the market appears to think otherwise. If he walks away, at a minimum, I would expect that the stock price will drop to what it was before he started playing around.

But if he walks away, I believe he’ll also do something to make the stock drop more. For instance, he’ll stop Tweeting, which should have a measurable impact on the number of people actually using Twitter regularly.
Russian artist faces jail over peace protest using supermarket price labels
Proposition 13 needs to end. An obvious reason is that property can be owned by a corporation or LLC somehow and you can sell that to someone, effectively selling the house and avoid the proposition 13 tax reset. Proposition 13 has become just yet another way for wealthy people to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
For some it is necessary to use Windows. Windows Ameliorated is for those who both need (or desire) Windows, but don't want the intrusive spyware that comes with it.
Disagree on everything it’s possible to have an opinion about.

Speed of light or length of a second are not going to change just because I want it to.
This is an excellent solution. I don’t see why it couldn’t be the industry standard.
How many consumer routers go that length? For most of these, as long as they are on the network, they can communicate over DNS, using the router as "middleman".
Specifically the next generation of SGX is pushing ahead, since a number of flaws were identified in the original design.
Thanks. That makes sense and I see it now.
I'm of the opinion that as long as a company has policies to never restore legitimately deleted data from backups, then backups of deleted data simply shouldn't count.

Everything else is just too ugly to implement.

Though I get the impression that regulators are not happy with this opinion, and what that data to be physically deleted within some timeline.
In the UK, the regulator has a specific comment on this exact issue:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Everything legal in the jurisdiction they reside in (USA).
You're paying $5-10 per month to host static files on a linode VM, when you could host it for free on netlify, vercel, github pages... etc

Vendor lock-in is no where near as bad for static sites too, as the actual static build is the same just slightly different deploy commands for different platforms.

A commercial product might not exist in a few years, but you can't guarantee someone else will pay for your Caddy server VM, after you're gone too.
Yup that tracks. Thanks!
Companies do this all the time with share-based compensation don’t they?
> Every time I bring this up, it's always australians, canadians, british, etc making excuses.

Or, Australians, Canadians, British etc _explaining_ the nuance to you, because they understand it?
> That's not true. If H1-Bs were not a good deal for the guest workers, there wouldn't be a 10 year waiting list to get one.

Are you confusing H1-B with the Green Card queue? I'm not aware of any queue for H1-B - just the annual lottery.
> 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.

I'm pretty sure "the only factor that determines intersection safety is division of attention" was not a stance I was taking (when is an event ever a function of just 1 variable in the real world?), but if you'd prefer to take a swipe at me regardless, it would be nice if you could make your response constructive and actually link to some studies that show I said something contrary to reality, if you're well-studied in traffic flow.

Hopefully my reply clarified for you what my earlier point was, even if you think the point was wrong.
I hadn't thought about it that way. We're seeing some resistance in Shanghai, but not enough to stop it. Even when killing pets and separating children from parents. Lack of grocery deliveries. It's scary.
I took a different path to Clojure/ClojureScript, coming from a dynamic language background. Java was foreign to me too, but perhaps in a fundamentally different way. That said, I think the experience is probably very similar so I’ll share mine as it relates (but I’m not speaking for the author).

Clojure (the JVM runtime variant) is not compiled to JVM bytecode. It’s compiled to Java implementations. This detail isn’t very hidden, and few affordances are made (or were when I worked in Clojure) to accommodate the indirection when something goes wrong. When you get an error, you’re now walking down this stack:

0. Debugging the build (which has all of these steps before you might even run code)

1. Debugging your own code

2. Debugging Clojure source written in Clojure

3. Debugging the Java implementation of Clojure

4. Debugging Java’s runtime behavior

Most often, Clojure the language doesn’t do anything to make step 1 or 3 any easier. It’s just a call stack from whatever .clj source into a Java stack with no context whatsoever.

This is incredibly hard to debug, especially because a lot of other important details are hidden. For instance:

(let [foo {…}] …)

Calls one of several kinds of HashMap implementations, and may call many others in the course of processing foo. All of these dump you into Clojure, the runtime.

ClojureScript is fundamentally the same, except:

- It’s got a whole additional runtime to loop through

- The cljs maintainer is (or was when I was writing cljs) actively hostile to offers to contribute changes which would make this less painful. Literally close as wontfix, rejecting offers to contribute

Nearly 100% of these experiences are leaky language host marginalia (ie type errors caught in an unhelpful place at runtime). And I wanna be clear: I love the concept of Clojure and don’t regret any of the time I spent working in it (though I do regret some time with cljs). But the probability of encountering incredibly confusing host language stuff very quickly approaches 1 if you’re developing actual things for real users. And then it gets really “hope you have a good mental map in memory” really fast.
> Google, Facebook and the big tech companies are running H1-B visa pipeline

Because they aren't doing anything illegal. Those companies hire for a real role, and pay an H1-B worker the same as a citizen.
The west wants to hurt Russia's economy, Russia's economy is made up of individuals.

The west's objective is to limit Russia's ability to wage war, do you have another suggestion on how to do this?
> Have you ever wanted to process a file through a pipeline and write the output back to the file?

I don't think overwriting the input data is a good idea due to risk of data loss.
Care to share some data. Even anecdata maybe?
It will lower the value to institutional investors that they pulled the “poison pill” move, because it means that management is entrenched and they can’t remove the board if they needed to. Elon isn’t the only one who is barred from buying a controlling stake in the company.
AMC mobile app now accepts payments using Doge Coin, Shiba Inu
Give Windows Ameliorated a shot man, it truly does get rid of the BS. Not just with some registry edits and cosmetic settings options, but it actually gets rid of the spyware on an executable level, meaning the functionality of the spyware is not just disabled, but completely removed.

My whole family and I have been running AME as a daily driver for awhile now, and haven't run into any significant issues (funnily enough, I've had less issues with Windows Ameliorated than I have with Windows). From my experience it really is stable, and IMO even more stable than stock Windows.
How much of a conclusion can we draw from that market period, though?

"Smart" sets tended to move from the top of the market downward. This meant that if I wanted a "non-smart" set in a given size, it was likely to be the lower-end product-- often with fewer inputs, a lower-grade panel, or from a firm with an inferior reputation for quality.

This makes it difficult to de-conflate if people were buying a smart TV because they wanted the smart features, or the panel/connectivity/brand reputation.
Yeah I think that is true. However I was really speaking to something a little older than that, though vinyl could still be a source signal for it.

You go back far enough, and the gear starts to roll off about 10 khz, yet if you listen to a modern signal through it, it sounds good. That's what I'm getting at.
> Proposition 13 has become just yet another way for wealthy people to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

“Has become” implies that was ever not that.
In more than one other sub-thread here, people have offered variants on the theory that some drivers are hostile toward cyclists and/or more likely to notice cyclist transgressions because those cyclists constitute an out-group and that's what we always do with out-groups. "Treating them differently just because they choose to live a bit differently" is the most recent version I saw.

Well, that cuts both ways. A certain subset of cyclists treat anyone in a car, or indeed not on a bike, as an out-group. They notice transgressions more, deny the out-group's right to do what they're doing, etc. It's not activism. Positive change is not the goal. It's just venting their own unresolved anger and frustration. If the putative cause of their complaint disappeared, they'd miss it ... and then they'd find a new "cause" to be anti-social about.
> Legal immigrants like H1Bs pay the same taxes as any citizen or a permanent resident.

Moreover, primary H-1B holders are basically by definition selected to be the subset of the population that poses a negative burden on society. They have a steady job (if they lose it they get deported); they have health and criminal background checks; they are college-educated. Some other country took the burden of educating them and took on the risk that they’d turn out to be a deadbeat, and the US receives them as a taxpaying adult.

(Full disclosure, I was an H-1B holder.)
You think there is no such thing as OSS models?
Hardware-enforced anticheat (for certain kinds of games) is a pretty cool potential usecase.
Thanks, good ideas! I'm definitely interested in how I could invest in some carbon sink to offset the emissions. The idea is an extreme elimination diet for everything else so eating less isn't really a good option since that means my calories would go below maintenance. I'll look into some options on purchasing carbon capture services since I know some of those exist and that can directly offset the impact, do you know any reputable providers who actually do what they say?
Thanks! So far so good, though the packing up to move is taking longer than I'd like ;-)
I fear for things mostly managed in primary care like diabetes, hypertension, etc. the period of this study is just not long enough to get adequate amount of mortality data.
Reminds me of McMaster-Carr's website, which is another pinnacle of web design.
Like a third party’s HSM running locally on your computer, heh
The whole program was sold under false pretenses and has been abused hundreds of thousands of times by virtually every large company in the US. It was sold as a program to import foreign labor in specialized roles that couldn't be filled by US workers. In reality, it's a cost-cutting measure designed to suppress US wages in order to increase corporate profits.

The program was bought and paid for by US corporations for their direct benefit.

Why would Apple, with all their money, need to hire H-1B generalist Software Engineers and Project Managers when they can out-compete literally any other company on earth? https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/apple-inc-6g06vq412q/lca/...

The cover story these tech executives and investors use is that they like the H-1B out of a pure love for immigrants and the melting pot it creates. The reality is that they love the competitive advantage it gives them in hiring. They don't sincerely care if it's in America's best interest or in the interest of the countries being brain-drained. Some of them will admit this in private.

(Disclaimer: I have nothing but respect, understanding, and zero judgement for employees working in the US on H-1B visas. I have a dozen good friends on H-1Bs. They're in no way to blame for these abuses. They're just doing what's in the best interest of themselves and their families.)
That's something pretty personal that I'd prefer to keep between me and my doctor. There's a good chance this won't work and I will be back on a mostly plant-based diet but we are at the point where it is worth trying.
I think it all comes down to the type of curation being done and if the choices are made out of objectivity of subjectivity.

Like prioritizing a legitimate website over a scam website isn't punishing the scam website because of a controversial opinion or the search engine operator didn't like the content, it's because the website is objectively a scam, it's easy to objectively identify it as such, and everyone agrees it's one.

When it comes to Ukraine vs. Russia and propaganda, it is entirely impossible to have objectivity. As angry as this will make some people, opinions on the war in Ukraine are subjective. Russian outlets shouldn't be ranked lower than Ukrainian ones solely because a lot of people are on the side of Ukraine.

I'm sure some Russian outlets are spreading objective falsehoods, and some Ukrainian outlets are spreading objective falsehoods. These individual outlets should be punished in search rankings, but to classify all Russian outlets as spreading misinformation and all Ukrainian outlets as objective truth completely demolishes the objectivity a lot of people want their search engines to have.

It's a difficult topic, I feel like I talked in circles writing this comment.
I only once ever had an interview as you describe, and from a candidate perspective, it was my favorite! I had fun with it, and it was far more collaborative with my interviewer. I got to learn from them, instead of just regurgitating straight CS knowledge. It was all around a more human centered process. I got to learn that I would enjoy working with my interviewer, for example (this was a smaller company, so probably less applicable at scale-- unless you can continue to have the interviewers be candidate's colleagues, at scale).
>>That's pretty weaselspeak

as a more concrete example, as I get older I'm less interested in working on the computer off hours. I've noticed I don't even play video games as much as I used to. I actually started doing wood working a couple of years ago, and playing with 3d printers. It does go in fits and starts though - sometimes I get an itch to play with something just for fun...
Oops. I meant to write “could NOT consider or conceive of it.”
It means people being forced off the internet because of nothing but unproven accusations because they only have one ISP in their area.

It means artists who never publish their works because they're afraid of being sued for being a little too close to what someone else did once a century ago.

It means creative projects that never get started because while the will is there, the rights needed are impossible to obtain.

It means non-infringing works like youtube-dl get silenced and hidden from the public because they are inconvenient to media giants

It means accepting internet censorship without oversight.

It means DRM crippled hardware that you but are never allowed to own.

It means DRM crippled software that can never be preserved and archived in a usable format.

It means your culture and your history being paywalled off or locked away

If you this this is an issue of "I just want free stuff" you clearly haven't been paying attention.
Would you share a bit about your efforts to find such a plan? We other commenters are experiencing cognitive dissonance reading your comments, because in our experience, all the plans we've been on since ACA, cover an annual exam with no questions asked..
> If I was a member of Twitter's board, Musk's history of erratic public behavior, SEC settlement, and openly hostile attitude towards the company's employees would be more than sufficient to justify my belief that his controlling ownership would not be in the interest of the current average shareholder.

That... makes absolutely no sense. The interest of the current average shareholder ends when they sell their stock. There is no point in time at which both (1) the current average shareholder owns more than zero shares, and (2) Musk has a controlling interest. So it's impossible for those two things to conflict.

If you were a member of Twitters board, would it be in the interest of the current average shareholder to sell their shares at well above the market price?
Related: A command-line tool I wrote a while ago called Erudite that pulls articles from Instapaper or Pocket and converts them to an ebook format (uses Calibre as the conversion tool, all processing runs locally on your machine (aside from the calls to Instapaper or Pocket, of course)).

(It even has Hacker News integration that includes URLs for corresponding posts!)

https://github.com/evmcl/erudite