skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Look from a private perspective and up until a few years ago even from a business perspective (i was very idealistic when i started out) I am linux/foss/privacy advocate through and through.

But in the business realm, you have no privacy whilst your at work on work devices, the company owns that data not you. Want to send a message privately about something not work related. Fine, but use your own device. Man I spent like the first decade of my working career in all forms of laboring being exposed to OH&S violations of epic proportion which were unable to be prevented or retrospectively acted upon because no data was captured that proved it happened. Think stuff like bosses bi-passing fire suppression systems that prevented machine operation on drill rigs punching holes in ground littered with methane gas pockets just in order to keep the rig running at risk of all employees running it.

I'm sick of companies getting away with abuse of customers and employees. Most of this can be prevented or at least discouraged via tech based monitoring. If you want privacy.....keep it for your private life.
"Just tell me what year you want me to believe we're in"
You are arguing a different thing, then.

The point that was being discussed was whether or not "bad reputations are hard to repair". GP argued that this is not the case and did use an example of someone who got a bad reputation and (to my understanding) has not managed to establish himself in a prestigious position as the one he had.
It's always the white folks who claim this. The often false assumption that people who are non-white must be being discriminated against and that being colorblind is not enough, etc., is just a new version of the "white man's burden." It's neocolonialism dressed up as empathy. Most people want to be treated as just... people. Not handled with kid gloves or lumped into a racial group and having all kinds of assumptions made about them based on their skin color, regardless of whether you think those assumptions are supposed to help them. They don't help.

The Portland white woke spiel goes like this:
Latinos are non-white, therefore they're being discriminated against, this therefore shapes their lived experience, therefore they must support progressive economics and want to vote Democrat.

Except people don't want to spend their life feeling discriminated against; they want to move up in society. They don't want to base their identity on your exoticized idea of their group suffering.

So sure: Introduce new ways that people can feel like they've been discriminated against. That's the way it's done! More and more identity groups! Caste, why not? Hey, we can even celebrate it.

This white guilt has done nothing but create more and more disharmony and disunity in a country that was founded on being a melting pot and where civil rights and equal rights were fought for, and won.
I think I'm just an old guy at this point who doesn't get it but what is so different between tik tok, youtube, bandcamp etc? Can't you view popularity metrics on all of these platforms? Why are they so focused on this one platform?
Do you have some examples of that? I don't recall any broadcast or cable news having a backing track. Many use sounds and music to introduce a segment, but I don't think any are running music in the background of the regular broadcast.
I just hope Elon adds a dropdown soon.
Hi, I'm interested.

My main backend language is Python, but I'm open to Java.

ClarkWhitehead.com
I had the good fortune to be working with a Ukrainian dev team when things broke out. The first week was chaotic, but all of them were doing their best to move out of the cities and settle in villages to continue working. If my city was being bombed and I was having to relocate for safety the last thing on my mind would be writing software. I said as much to the devs, especially when they were apologetic about availability. Their response was basically "This is how we're supporting the defense efforts. Some people are picking up weapons, but we're helping by keeping money flowing into the country." That gave me a new perspective on the work they were doing and their work ethic during such crazy times.

A+ would work with again.
He works at X. (Which happens to be the software they use daily)

She didn't get into specifics as they did ask when I bumped into them.
Less bullshit on formatting, far better content.
There were no layoffs in eng at Google
I think this counter argument is used when people are against something without offering a reason.

For example I often hear "The riches 1% pay 80% of the taxes" (or whatever the correct values are). The person makes this argument against the idea of raising taxes, however they aren't explaining why it shouldn't be done

Since they don't offer an explanation the assumption is they are either already rich or think they'll be rich.
Airships fly 2x the cargo with 2/3 the fuel a plane would use.

You could have luxury travel with dance floor and bar in the front and sleeping cabins and air freight in the back.
Get metric compatible fonts.
You can blame other people for your failed gambles and slow processes. If it takes 4 months to hire and onboard.. fix that. If you were betting on this person to save the company make sure you offer enough so they can't refuse. Offer them half your company if that's what it takes. It is 100% up to you.. make it happen.. you are cheating yourself and investors by blaming a new hire that never was.
If you'd actually be interested in the answer, you wouldn't be asking.
No, it says a lot about Twitter specifically. "Social media" is a fake category; Twitter's toxicity is not the same as other places.
next they'll offer MS AI HR that'll do that for you
Google Search and Gmail are getting overrun by Spam
Leaving the Nest (2016)
Yes I wanted to say something very similar. The idea of having an organization that collectively represents my interests against things I oppose (like this) feels good.

Unfortunately unions will not represent my interests in a huge swath of other areas (meritocracy, politics, etc). So choosing a union just trades one set of shitty things for another. For all but unskilled workers, the benefits are basically an illusion imo
They'll do it if it makes them richer.
Yeah it's not necessarily true. I think Innuendo Studios/Ian Danskin explains this mechanism very very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

Many people think Jeff Bezos should exist and have his wealth because he got there by playing the game better than everyone else, and that this game is just the way things are. He earned it. Attempts to change the game will just make everything worse and people won't get what they deserve, and thus these attempts are unethical. Equal societies are an absurd liberal fantasy.

My attempts to advocate that Jeff Bezos shouldn't have the money he does are actually just selfish attempts to cheat at the game and stuff my own pockets with money and get something I haven't earned. The real issue here is a lack of discipline.

Watch the rest of the videos. People who think like this largely can't be argued with.
Writing widely useful, performant, reusable, correct and stable libraries is very hard. Rust is the easiest language to do that in.

If someone says programming in another language is easier, it's because they are not attempting (or are failing) to do one or more of those things. Those things are not always important so that's fine, but a lot of programmers (myself included) have this dream of being able to solve a problem once rather than over and over again, and that's why Rust appeals to us, and why we argue against Rust being hard - because it's actually easier for our particular usecase, but clearly not everyone has that same usecase.
“Easy money” as in it was dirt cheap to borrow money and the Fed had been doing QE since 2008. That ends now - at least for a while.

Risk assets look very different when you can borrow at 0.5% interest rate vs 3.5% interest rate.
That’s assuming people can’t be purely altruistic and principled and they must hold every position they do for personal gain.
Hi, I'm interested.

My main backend language is Python. I can do full stack development and data science.

ClarkWhitehead.com
You realize that historically labor unions predated government laws about labor unions, right?
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1 and 2 have been ported to pc and work great. and you can remove the insane fog if you want!
Swift is by far the closest from a language point of view, but alas the ecosystem is all-but-nonexistent outside of the Apple systems.
HN is for thoughtful conversation about topics of intellectual curiosity, and job ads are intrinsically uninteresting. Threads on uninteresting, predictable topics tend to be tedious and nasty (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). It's easy to predict what threads on job ads would look like: a generic boo-or-yay referendum on each company, repeated each time. But the highest-motivated commenters would be ones with pre-existing grievances, so it wouldn't even be boo-or-yay. It would mostly just be boo. That would make HN worse, not better.

Uninteresting posts like job ads arguably shouldn't be on HN in the first place, but they're there for an out-of-band reason, which is that it's proper for HN to give something back to YC in exchange for funding it. Since that's their only reason for existing, it doesn't make sense to turn them into regular threads.

The opposite is true of Launch HNs, incidentally, which is one of the other concessions HN gives to YC. In those cases, there is something new and interesting to discuss—the launch of a startup—and since each company only gets one such thread, repeats aren't an issue. It's in HN's interest to have open comment threads on those submissions, so we do: https://news.ycombinator.com/launches.
> Where do you think the things people today spend all their time politicking on would rank?

I realize "politicking" is often used in a derogatory sense, and perhaps that's how you mean it here, but there is a whole lot of plain-old-politics that takes place on a regular basis which has good overlap with those issues you hinted at. Things like: planning and building infrastructure, making sure people do not go hungry or thirsty and that they have places to live, having common laws, etc. A list kind of like "what have the Romans ever done for us?"[1].

Certainly, politics/politicking can also have an amplifying effect on the bad stuff too, as you mention.

I suppose my main issue with what you say is the bit starting: "politics invariably turns into a viral team sport ..."
I don't see it as invariable. The pendulum has been swinging that direction recently, and I don't like it either, but I don't see it as a one-way road to doom.

Though I respect if you do feel that way, of course!

----

Aside:

Your comment led me to read a bit about history, and I found on Wikipedia[2]:

"According to a 2021 study, Franz Ferdinand's absence was key to the breakdown of diplomacy and escalation into war, as Ferdinand had been the most powerful and effective proponent for peace in Vienna."

Like you, I had the "an otherwise irrelevant Archduke" idea in my head, but I guess now I'm not so sure. So, thanks for the indirect new info (:

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Fran...
In Australia, this still happens.

The man is the story below, discovered a house in Sydney whose occupant had died. He changed the locks with no-ones permission and started renting the property out to other people. He did this for 20 years before filing the paperwork to take ownership.

Relatives of the the decease owner were contacted, and they tried to to fight him, but he won in court fairly convincingly -- And got himself a $1.5M house and 20 years of rent payments.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw/developer-wins...
I shouldn't have to belong to a particular organization (especially a politically active one) in order to have a job in my field.
Shoulda written it in C maybe.
> If you can avoid async I would recommend doing so. The problem is that the entire ecosystem has completely shifted to async. There are almost no active / popular libraries related to network IO that haven't switched over.

Yes. I've been complaining about async contamination for some time. I'm writing heavily threaded code, with threads running at different priorities, and libraries which want async get in the way.

If you look at the poster's example, the "Arc" version is very close to the Go version. And if it didn't use "async", it would be even closer.

Go's green threads simplify things. It's real concurrency; you can block. But there are times when you have to lock.

As I've said before, if you're writing webcrap, use Go. The libraries for web-related stuff are stable and well-exercised, since Google uses them internally.
> Only minus is I couldn't use Let's Encrypt with them.

If you mean namecheap doesn't support letsencrypt DNS-01 challenge, you can still buy your domain in namecheap but point your NS somewhere else that support DNS-01 challenge (e.g. cloudflare, Route53, or even Google Cloud DNS).

Most letsencrypt clients uses HTTP-01 challenge though, which doesn't care about who's hosting your dns.
In the UK laws are signed into being by the monarch, formally they're like writs from the monarch about what they wish. Parliament and the legislature are just advisors. It's a bad look for a country claiming to be democratic.

The monarch chooses the PM, it's 'her majesty's government' according to law and tradition; she refused Australia's choice of PM in the past IIRC.
You can read more about the underlying algo here: https://medium.com/seer-medical/finding-patterns-in-seizure-...

Happy to answer questions about anything seizures, epilepsy, or med-tech related.
>> There is no caste discrimination. PERIOD. I have witnessed up close.

How can you be so certain, especially when you’re mentioning “Dalits” as 3rd person? “Trust me” is not a source.

>> For several generations Dalits enjoy a superior position

Literally not true. https://m.timesofindia.com/india/presence-of-scs-sts-in-govt...
TikTok is where the teens are apparently, and so they want to capitalize on that.

Whether it actually coverts to dollars may remain to be seen.
It's silly to try to minimize the impact of the Prophet 5 in making analog polysynths mainstream (especially in popular music), or the general impact of towering figures like Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim.

I think of the 4/8-voice as predecessors to later analog polysynths (including models from Sequential, Oberheim, etc.) because they were more like a collection of mono (SEM) modules that you could play polyphonically. The Korg Mono/Poly and even the DSI Tetra are a bit like that too (and kind of fun to play polyphonically in voice cycling mode where every voice is a bit different.)

We are amazingly fortunate to have modern incarnations of Sequential and Oberheim making amazing instruments, from the Prophet 5 reissue (and affordable/portable Take 5) to the upcoming OB-X8.
> The US has had a president who largely communicated with his constituents through Twitter (one-way as that communication may have been)...

I know what you're trying to say here, but I just want to note for the record that all presidents communicate primarily with their constituents in a one way fashion.

In other words, that president was unique primarily in platform, not mode.
My spouse used to run technical customer support for ISPs. Then she ran technical customer support for a big CDN. Now she translates software engineering bug fix reports into customer-appropriate release notes for a big process-automation company.
You might be interested in the design philosophy of Yokoi Gunpei who was the original creator of the GameBoy as well as the Love Tester and other pre-Famicom Nintendo, "toys" from the 70's. He called the design philosophy he utilized, "lateral use of withered technologies" and, I can't agree with you enough about the, "magic" of the those peripherals from 90's and early 2000's; I think the design philosophy drives some of the magic. It's all very coherent and functional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi
What about a transpiler that added a ^ operator that made a variable actually an Arc and inserted unwraps, clones, etc as necessary?
Very much true, but that funny money didn't evaporate, there's just no appetite to put it in an asset like this, temporarily.
> Why do people assume that you have to think you'll be a billionaire to be against something that would affect billionaires negatively?

Because there is a group who struggles to reconcile what looks like a contradiction - another group who appears to advocate for policies which harm themselves. The quote and its derivatives attempt to explain this apparent contradiction.
Go and Hare are rust-adjacent with just a touch of crayon involved. I highly recommend both especially Go since you mention rust with GC
You make good and valid points, but it's also:

"..self-reported..."

which always raises questions.

Also, was this an actual study. Or simply a statistical pattern detected in UK Biobank members?

Note: Not trolling, just looking for full context.
You shouldn't, nor should organizations push the limits of what people accept before they snap. But here we are.
I wonder how much actually contact he has with his kids. I'm certain he sets the rules for the nannies, of course.

Same for Musk -- bet those nannies do a lot of eyerolling, though.
Background:: Early history: https://www.awesomic.io/blog/startup-journey-to-100-k

YC launch discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28199089

Their case studies: https://www.awesomic.io/case-study

Any other super relevant links?
Perl did nothing wrong, but I echo the sentiment you have about Rust.

Last year I ported a mid size internal project to it as part of a resolution to learn a new language and the experience left me feeling like it was just me who "didnt get it". Building things took a lot longer, not just in the amount of code, but also the compile time. Ultimately compile time was the dealbreaker. On more than one ocassion I'd have to go back to the git history to remember what it was I had planned to do next.
The Queen is just a figurehead, like the more recent US Presidents.

The true power in both the US and the UK is the 'Deep State' or the 'Establishment' or the 'Oligarchy' or whatever you want to call it. (The rich and powerful behind the scenes.)

Sure, we think we elect the President. But who really selects who are the final two candidates that we are allowed to vote for?
Nice!! Ill haveca look
So is the pay such that everyone outside of SF should apply or is it such that nobody inside SF ever will?
Well, they still need to stop in the exact way that was identified before.

RAM manufacturers got caught in market pricing collusion every decade what 3-4 times?
> Wow, that is breathtakingly cynical. I’ve hired many people over decades and I’ve never lied to a single one of them

So, when they ask you for the budget, do you give them the highest possible comp numbers in your budget?
Everything trivially version-controlled.
Copilot ( and others in it's class) is a paradigm shift:

What is software development: let AI generate most code then REVIEW code for accuracy, completion, security etc.. and test it

What is NOT software development : "solving age old problems" via Stackoverflow

By 2030 tools like Copilot create 'two-tier programmers'

-Tier 1 (squeeze 10x from Copilot) : writes 'prompts' and 'function signatures' for AI tools likes of CoPilot as part of technical design, from which Copilot will generate 80% of the code

-Tier 2: will check completeness & execute generated test suite
Sometimes words have different meanings in different contexts.
its not just fame, University 'Research' Centers are completely overrun with politics. I noticed after mapping diabetes, obesity, and excessive alcohol consumption that high levels of obesity almost perfectly overlapped with diabetes, except in areas with excessive alcohol consumption. I brought it up during an ideation session, but it was immediately dismissed as 'SES (socioeconomic status) must account for it, don't look into it further. when I lied and said these are higher levels obesity which is correlating with soda consumption, they wanted to write a paper / grant.

its leading to junk science, and large swaths of people are losing faith in what we are labeling as science.
> Also, why would you delete your Facebook account without having another way [...]

As I said, it was dumb. I did not fully consider the implications, which is why I caution others here to not make the same mistake.
IS there anyone on HN that doesn't have the freedom to choose their news sources?
Isn't Thursday the BH Monday but moved, so not quite the regular BH either.
Overkill guy here. You need their toolbags. Yes, you do: https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/leather-tool-bags/deluxe-...
accuracy isn't a strict requirement though

if you accidentally fire 10% of good people you still have 90% of them left, and if that lets you fire 80% of the staff that are committing thought-crime it's probably a win.
Not P, but I agree. One does not have to like a billionaire or even dream about being one to disagree with disproportionate taxation out of other principles or concerns.
As others have said - we already have it. I literally have it in my street, but it can only be connected to by commercial or city (think schools) entities. So the incremental cost of connecting me and my neighbors is very small and allows amortizing the original investment over even more customers. Capacity might be a question, but from what I’ve seen it’s the same size as the water main.
It would not be altruistic to be for a person with a monopoly of assets to hold more of those assets while other people don't have homes.

Principled makes sense though.
I honestly first thought this article was satire. It is so unreal to find myself in a world where this is acceptable. What's next? Installing cameras in restrooms to catch offline conversations?
Well yes. But this is still the correct procedure to follow, even if it has some risk.
I was shocked at how quickly divided society became over vaccinated/unvaccinated.
Well, there's what people would typically interpret it as. Then you have the translation here which is a correct interpretation, but not that informative.
I think you are pretty spot on here. I write Rust and Haskell most of the time, where the choice depends on the kind of project I'm working on. Also I've written Rust professionally but Haskell has been confined to random hobby projects.

I love Haskell but it has its own flavor of problems. I've meant to brush up a bit on OCaml; I've heard it has interesting features in its module system that Haskell does not have (maybe what you call "higher order modules").
Time for the Great Unresignation!
After lurking for years I created an account just to reply to this post and to say thank you. I’ve never gone to jail/prison but I know many who have and I’ve always wanted to figure out a way to help them gain employment and housing upon leaving prison. You did what I wanted to do & I love knowing that someone out there gave a damn and tried. I’m sure you’ll succeed in your future endeavors but once again, thank you for trying my friend.
Wish I could read the page but apparently my ad blocker is too offensive. Well I'd be fine with supporting the publisher through online ads but I am really not okay with the tracking those advertisers do. You ditch the tracking and any annoying ads and I'll ditch the ad blocker. Until then, we have to agree to disagree, the Faustian bargain of internet advertising is untenable.
You don’t want purple pipe in the house, just at the street for your irrigation.
This is really common across all windows ISO releases. When I did MSP work we would commonly build our own Windows ISOs with added drivers to get around these issues.