skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Free Speech doesn't mean just being able to say what you want, whenever you want! Your words could hurt someone!"

Uh. That's /exactly/ what free speech is. I have the ability to say whatever I want, because in our society it is impossible to not offend.

I wish someone would electronically silence musk for a month or twelve. Take away all his toys, gadgets, conveniences...
There must be a balance point between greed and control vs letting people enjoy your work. I understand the need for artists to earn a living, but being to restrictive will paint you in to a corner.

In a way she is doing the same to her music as she did to her self; hiding it away from public view
We've changed the URL from https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603593201683599360?s=46..., which doesn't have much information, to an article that has more information (the most out of the half a dozen I looked at). If there's a better article, we can change it again.
I just uninstalled the app. I'll miss it.

What's the most popular replacement for a text editor with code support? VS Code? I was looking into Nova, but I'd assume an open-source editor would be updated more frequently and have more themes etc.
They took the cake from the pirates and gave it to the privateers. The majority of the musicians get nothing and the cats (labels) and the tech companies get paid.
> That leads me to see that you are unfamiliar with the purposes of hash functions and their utility in real world situations.

Don't post like this, please.
> If you need you consume a Graphql API you most certainly reach out for Apollo on the clientside to query data.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been assessing whether to use Apollo in a Swift iOS application. If your backend is using GraphQL then it’s almost impossible to find even a StackOverflow answer from anyone not using Apollo.

But when I tried it out, I found the package was cumbersome to use, and the generated code was over-dimensioned and inelegant, and the dependency itself pulled in other dependencies.

With bitter experience of using other packages in the past, which start out as helpful, but which end up a burden to the codebase, I decided to write some queries and mutations by hand. And it was super-simple.
Bad article. This is an outsider's perspective looking in.
Godot and Blender are no where near industry standards.
Interesting to see this! I've used instapaper and noticed you guys established what differs between Readwise and instapaper. Curious and looking forward to try it out!
Since a couple years ago you don't even need to open QuickTime for a screen recording, just ⇧⌘5 to bring up the system native screen recording tool. If you just want a quick screen recording and nothing more, it's a lot more convenient than OBS, especially if you want to record a window or part of the screen. In OBS you need to manually configure output dimensions and cropping is difficult and unintuitive, you can't just drag out a rectangle on your screen. I don't know what gp was comparing to when they said "an extremely good screen recorder for macOS with much less UI jank"; the native screen recording tool certainly doesn't have any UI jank and is lot more user friendly.

Where OBS shines are

- Precise control over encoding parameters;

- Mix and match multiple input sources, beyond just screen + system sound + mic; this includes rearranging and cropping multiple application windows;

- Add text, images, filters, etc.

In short, it has a lot more power user features. If you just want to quickly record the entire screen / an application window / part of the screen, native screen recording tool beats it handily.
I haven’t heard the fan of my M1 laptop since this summer, and I have multiple electron apps almost always running.

Now, if I move the mouse a bit fast on my i9 laptop, it’s time for hairdryer mode.

I think the silence depends more on the hardware than the software.
Everything is still going to be tree-shaken, minified and mangled before being transferred to the client; no matter how much bells and whistles are added to web languages. Why not just make it decoupled and efficient? Compiling code isn't a radical idea.
Why would the public need to know which plane is where, as opposed to just a plane being somewhere?
I wonder if there might be room for a hybrid approach, with a time-domain model taking machine-generated spectrograms as input and turning them into sound. (Just a thought, no idea whether it actually makes sense.)
4chan is interesting because it feels like a holdover from the "old" internet. Less a "platform" and more an unruly forum with its own distinct culture.

If 4chan had anywhere near the size/reach of Twitter or Facebook, I think it would either be more toxic or more restrictive in its moderation.
The "other side" wasn't ranting about not banning any speech that wasn't illegal. Also, AOC doesn't have a private jet.
Bingo, you get it exactly. It's Wendy's reluctance to "flaunt" it that makes her all the more appealing as a person. I understand that she regrets her time in seclusion, but it makes her unassailable as somebody who was "throwing it in your face."
That's because it was (and is) slow compared to true compiled applications. Just because VSCode has about 1000 tortured dev's making it usable doesn't mean its not fundamentally flawed on its face using a scripting language for text editing.

https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32

Spread the TRUTH - praise be compiled programs...
I loved Atom. Before that it was, oof, Notepad++ or Bloodshed Dev C++ or Code::Blocks. I can't remember what editor I used at work in 2014...
>It’s generally accepted that reporting on car movements is allowed as well. You don’t have a right to privacy of movement on public roads.

This is certainly not true in Europe, and in the US there's generally zero restrictions on publicly sharing any kind of PII.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I really hate to ban a 14 year old account, but you've been posting abusively so consistently lately—in fact it seems that's all you've been doing—that I don't see what choice we have.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
No, you can find it on the Wayback machine from a year ago. They only added a new sentence to it clarifying that they're worried about things that threaten someone's safety.
Heh, just a month ago Adobe Brackets (another Atom clone) did the same https://github.com/adobe/brackets
If I owned a private jet, I would assume it is broadcasted, because it has to be, legally. Nothing you can do. Anyone can find it, so what’s the difference if a Twitter account links it?

Obviously it’s a different story if someone would indeed make his (and his family) real-time moves outside his jet known. But I haven’t seen that unless he announced it himself.
This seems to be common with many "authorities", journalists too.
I suppose it's usually a sign of people placing too much trust in an authority.
Could you un-paywall it?
Isn't it pretty established in the US that e.g. companies selling bulk license plate scanner data is completely legal, and any "right to privacy" isn't really a thing in public space? (very different in other parts of the world, but US seems to be the relevant context here)
Autodesk and SideFx are doing just fine, and are hardly beaten. It might feel that way when working Indie on a shoestring budget, but their tools are worth the entry fee to many.
What I hope people understand is that, while he wasn’t always outwardly like this, his core personality really wa always this deranged narcissist. He’s a tech version of Trump. He hasn’t really changed.
> One bad recession and that AAA piece of proprietary software you've built a whole game on could go under.

Great, that increases scarcity.

Companies investing labour so they can pay less for labour isnt something to celebrate. They can pay people to build tools or buy them from indie devs. The web world is essentially dead for independent development. Software is everywhere and it costs precisely zero. Best deal you can get is wage slavery. Now this is all about to eat the game dev world. Add some ai to the mix and artists can kiss their little revenue goodbye. I know i am not hiring one because i can generate my content online. Soon that will come to asset store packages that will be available for free everywhere.
I'm partial to "X after Y" myself. Example: Stock market crashes after man eats a hot dog. Implying causation is great clickbait.
Thank you again for your kind words.

I am not using any social media like Facebook, never have, except for LinkedIn, which is where I found out about a lot of my previous classmates' achievements.

My relationship with programming is always giving up half way, because I've always hit a roadblock or something that takes me so much time to figure out, I just say "just do it manually". I love tinkering with Excel Formulas, and it's one of the reasons actually my current boss likes me, as I'm able to do some minor technical stuff. I don't know, it doesn't come down naturally to me. Maybe I should try taking up on it again, I don't know, but I've "failed" so many times at it already.

Irt other jobs... I've always been in front of a screen, and believe it or not, access to well paid respected professions in my country that are not "hands on" is very, very difficult, for example, a teacher requires a College degree + masters + to take a comparison test with other teachers that is pure rot memorization. Then there are other examples such as stevedores or policemen where you basically need to dedicate your whole life to it ever since you're a certain age til you get in.

I wish no ill will on others, so I hope my peers and old pals overachieve me in life a lot, and I don't wish a future middle life crisis on them.

Thank you for your kind words.

I've always found it very hard to believe in stoicism, I've always seen it as the philosophy of having a plan until you get punched in the face.
Given that the police is mostly a hassle and pretty useless otherwise, especially when you are part of the uberrich, I am not surprised. Why spend valuable time at the precinct trying to make a high-school-dropout in uniform understand what they are supposed to do if you can just hire private security?
ElonJet on Mastodon
Machine learning models are often developed in a training environment, which may be online or offline, and can then be deployed to be used with live data once they have been tested. The next step is to split the data set into train and test dataframes for training and validation. We will use the Mobile Price dataset to classify the price range into different categories mentioned below: 0 (low cost)1 (medium cost)2 (high cost)3 (very high cost) The data set contains 21 columns and the target column is “The target column_range”
Most of the sites I found were not primary sources and many were clearly cut & paste jobs to fill some content quota or something. All the same, from what I gathered, it sounds like about 100,000 children are adopted every year, and it is about half of those were due to step-parents adopting the children of their partner.

So say about 50,000 adoptions that are foster children or given up at birth. Who is going to adopt the extra 830,000 per year? Maybe those 33 million infertile couples? There are 400,000 kids in foster care right now and apparently those 33M are not jumping at the opportunity to adopt them.

Yes, some famous people were adopted. So were some terrible people. I don't see either one being an argument for or against.
Musk on November 6th:

My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15894149585086914...
> Most of my hobbies I pursued in my formative years as a child

I will specify my stance on this for childhood since it is a special case and the brain is also very different. So: I also had hobbies as a child that I pursued for their own sake. The key thing is when you grow up, you are either able to pursue those hobbies, or not. You can only do the former if they provide enough value to the world in that case it may become a hard thing, latter is as a catharsis.

> If your underlying reason to pursue something is because it's difficult, then I would argue your motivations are flawed

That’s separate from hobbies. I’m saying we need hard things in general to grow. They come to us, not that we seek them like hobbies, although sometimes it may overlap. For example what was the one thing you didn’t have as a kid? Or something you yearned for, and still didn’t have as an adult? I really don’t think people who “have it all” are that enviable. It has to be a balance. When you go through a process for that, you grow. It’s the “chase” or the “journey”. Very different from leisure time. Both are important.

We are shifting that balance now, and shifting it on either side is not good. I would say we have had enough technology for a utopia for the last few decades. The problem that remains is political not technical. AI will only exacerbate that technical problem, without solving the incentive problem. See social media designed to make you stay hooked. Will the next generation want to play piano or draw stuff when they are in a forever trance of amazing content delivered by Big AI?
Mirror: https://archive.ph/fVhKm
And women that want to can still go trough with pregnancy and adopt the child out if they want to. It is their right to choose if they want to dedicate 9 months of their lives to giving birth, including sacrificing their body and possibly going through the most painful and dangerous part of the lives. Made even more difficult now as many hospitals in red states are holding back needed medical care just so they don't get accused of supporting abortions.

It is certainly not our right to demand this so we can get cheap labor.
Twitter was lost the day Musk carried that sink into the building. I agree that it was an important cultural institution, but I don't think there's anything that can be done to save it. The faster we let it fall, the faster we can develop alternatives.

Twitter is dead. Long live the Fediverse.
On its announcement it made my 2014 netbook overheat and lag like an ssh terminal in south Peru.

RIP
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34004822
Here’s an article from TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/tiny-acquires-meteor/) on the acquisition of Meteor by Tiny Capital
Twitter is also blocking links to Mastodon servers:

Update: As of 6:30 PM PT, many links to Mastodon no longer work on Twitter, which flags them as “potentially harmful.” Tweeted links to some servers without Mastodon’s name in the domain still appeared to work in our testing. Banned domains include mstdn.social and mastodon.social, while links to journa.host and others still work.
The people that hate on Electron aren't amused by cute browser tricks.
Twitter is kind of gone at this point. But the lessons could live on after it.
Because I am very often (temporarily at least) a bad developer. I am tired, or sloppy, or unmotivated by a particular project, and I make mistakes. I want my tools to help me.

Most people, in my experience, are both good and bad developers in different measures. Tools that help the bad developer therefore help all developers in those moments when we make mistakes.
Interesting to see GPT related products approaching the market. Will give this a try and update feedback.
What adsbexchange, flightradar & co. are doing is almost certainly illegal in Europe under the GDPR.

This isn't exactly "public flight data", in many cases it's illegally collected and published flight data.

E: I can't reply to "imnotjames" below thanks to HN ratelimits, but here you go:

It's an obvious GDPR violation, just like it'd be an obvious GDPR violation to publish a similar database but with phone IMEIs and associated locations instead of aircraft.
> I understand many service workers are undocumented, but where are the I-9 forms going? Every job I've had made me fill one out, by law.

You can just be dishonest on an I9 form. It's a piece of paper, not a mindreading lie detector.
Are you sure that wasn't a spot of impostor syndrome? Or do you think it was just a bad culture fit?
Getting paid more than domestic workers doesn't mean you don't lower the wages of the sector overall, it could just mean you're competing with the top end of the market.

I was over there working on an E-3 a few years back, and I'm pretty sure I got hired because it was easier (e.g. cheaper) to set up a hiring funnel in another country than within the US. That doesn't automatically mean lower wage growth, but it could.

I tentatively think that skilled migrant workers lower wages within a single sector but have a neutral or positive effect on wages overall, and the US tech labour market is so hot that I don't feel bad for making its wages drop, stagnate, or increase slightly slower than they might otherwise, assuming the overall impact on every other sector is positive.
Personal liberty and societies needs often conflict. I am happy we mostly choose to favor liberty and I am convinced in the long run this make a better and more productive society. Even if it isn't that is clearly the society I want to live in.
Billionairs hating public discourse, news at 11.
WHy iS NoOne Talking AbOut ThiS ? No7 SurpriZed Me ! :D
Yeah, psychologists are hit and miss honestly. I hope you're better off now after therapy.

Best wishes to you too.
> I've heard only good things about the Sublime Text UX for literally a decade or more, but is it "hackable" in the way that Atom and VS Code are?

The vast majority of the UI uses a custom GUI toolkit and doesn't have any API, though you can theme it. There's a few things that are extensible in limited ways: the command palette, text phantoms, input boxes, html sheets, etc. So no it's not generally hackable.
I've been living with VS Code for the last year at work and it's nice, it feels less like an Electron app than Atom did. I still use Sublime Text at home (and for pesky column edit and other tricks I know in Sublime).

Nova is a nice update from Coda 2, but it lacks the plugin community to really shine unless it does everything you want today. I kept opening it up because I wanted to like it, but after a year I let my license lapse.
> Neoliberals are very pro-immigration.

Is this really the case? My experience with neoliberalism is they are certainly pro-globalism, but would be quite happy physically keeping everyone where they currently are (all the better to exploit the wage gaps).
Ha! Me too! I realized I'd known about her site for a long while but had never taken the time to reach out and thank her.
There are way way more H1Bs working for bodyshops that lease them to non-FAANG Fortune 500 companies than work for FAANG.

https://h1bdata.info/topcompanies.php

8 of the top 10 H1B filers are bodyshops. And of course the average salary for the 8 bodyshops is way below the 2 non-bodyshops.
Huh, we can also see the parallel in Musk's transphobia vs Ford's anti-Semitism.
Fish abbreviations–what are they and how to configure them?
You're allowed to be upset about more than one thing.
There's no scale on that map, but the marker shown appears to be right next to Huntington Memorial Airport.
"VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering" in a world where vi and emacs exist seems like a bit of an exaggeration, and I'm not even a fan of either (VS Code is my daily driver; I like my GUI editors and I like them to behave like normal apps on the platform I'm running).
Science is more a slang word these days. Of course it means different things to people, but most would assume it's an activity that is meant to offer clarity to things,to that of which we know absolutely, so it can be taught and built on, and to further investigate what we don't understand ... yet.

The problems set in when what people want to claim as knowing with great certainty, something which is more often not at all been arrived at or vetted by the scientific principal ... properly.

For a long while I've recognised there is "good science" and "bad science" ... nothing so much to do with evilness, but on how well those involved conducted research, studies, tests and arrived at a conclusion of what the data meant, while being mindful to include any possible external factor they had not considered or first overlooked from the onset of research.

Poor science often comes down to a rushed process due to a limited budget or a need to publish results to justify their job. More often it all starts with a huge bias and the subsequent design does nothing but set tests to confirm what they "knew" or "thought" most likely.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/everywhen
Read maybe not, but I was there if you are curious about anything.

I was there during the transition period. Originally joined to work on the Meteor hosting platform that was called Galaxy. Handled integration of Meteor APM (which was an acquisition) both of which got sold off when the old Meteor business was sold.

I then worked on what was called Apollo Optics, the GraphQL APM product. Rewrote the time series backend to port it to Apache Druid (which remains in use today!). Was somewhat unceremoniously let go of during a bad personal period. Don't think I would have stayed anyway though, main reason I stayed as long as I did was I had a really good mentor there that taught me a lot.

Worth mentioning the company had already raised an absolute crap ton when on the original Meteor path, then the following pivot raised even more money. No idea how many rounds of financing the company has been through at this point but to say it exemplified the excesses of cheap money would be an understatement.

Developer tools is a tough business, no-one really wants to pay for that stuff at the low end which means catering to enterprise. Long sales cycles, annoying requirements etc.
Seems like stormwater capture could help.

"More water is running down the river into the ocean than what Los Angeles would use in close to a year."[1]

...

“It’s the fault of 20th century thinking about water, which was to get rid of stormwater; get rid of wastewater, treat it as a liability,” he said. “That’s the infrastructure we built. We channeled our rivers and we lined them with concrete so we could get rid of water. Now we know that’s a valuable resource.”

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rainwater-lost-wet...
I think you missed the gist of the message.

> If you work on your own, pick the tool that works best for you. If you work in a team, pick the tool that works best for the team.
> One bad recession and that AAA piece of proprietary software you've built a whole game on could go under.

If you're using Unreal you already have the full source for that proprietary software. If Epic went under tomorrow it wouldn't stop people from finishing in progress games that are built on Unreal.

> OS is slow by design

Really? Game engines are a moving target. You're telling me that slow development times for new engine features are a benefit?
Sure, but Elon’s tactics at Twitter appear to be more impulsive than strategic.
Well if you want to use that definition then my point is that "correct" in that sense doesn't (necessarily) require any thinking through.
H1B is an easy scapegoat. You see people of certain nationalities on visa and think ohh the companies are bringing in cheap labor. The reality is that most of them would be citizens if the immigration laws were created equal. You wouldn’t see that many people on visa if they didn’t have to stay on it for decades.

People come from Europe all the time and become citizens, and you don’t say “ohh look at all these foreigners on visa taking away all the jobs and suppressing the wages” because they transition to citizenship and you don’t see them on visas for long.

Create a fair immigration system and you won’t see H1Bs around for long.