skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most will tell you that its about luck or perseverance, but reality it's about the network and people you know majority of the times.

If you ever worked at FAANG or graduated from Ivy League, or have connected parents it's actually difficult to not get money from VCs - especially the last 2-3 years. Assuming that you have a reasonable sounding idea. Network and connections is highly undervalued. Once you have money, long term success becomes more likely also.
Furthermore, under the "businesses can do what they like" principle, there would be nothing stopping a business offering to ban anyone as a paid-for service.

On the technical side of this issue, I am curious how MSG as to how acquired the reference images, and I wonder if they would try to pass it off as fair use.

In fact, I am slightly skeptical that the identification was done via face recognition, as opposed to through the ticket sales chain, with face recognition being claimed as a cover. If using ticket sales information this way would present legal problems for MSG, I hope this possibility is investigated. (Nevertheless, face recognition clearly could be used this way, so that issue would still be on the table regardless of what MSG did here.)
https://dukeundergraduatelawmagazine.org/2018/10/22/the-righ...

> Summary: A business owner has the right to refuse service as long as he or she does not infringe upon federal or state discrimination laws.
python eval() is the root of all evil.

Basically if the library uses eval() it's probably a good idea to avoid it if possible.
Marles talks civics during St Joseph’s visit
Sounds like the Bitkeeper drama that lead to Linus creating Git
How do you do that with no connections, no money and no privileged background ? Do you just cold message people asking what they need ?
Surprised they paywalled this one. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! 'Yourself' as both an industry and a specific business.
For example, asymmetric key pairs. Give sites a public key and auth by signing something with your private key. You can use the same key on as many sites as you want, but you can also use different keys for different sites. No need for a third party even.
The style guide linked in the document seems to refer to the "6 types of British Nationalities", but fails to list them out.

Of the 6, the most quirky seems the "British Subject":

"You became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if, until then, you were either:

a British subject without citizenship, which means you were a British subject on 31 December 1948 who did not become a citizen of the UK and Colonies, a Commonwealth country, Pakistan or Ireland
a person who had been a citizen of Ireland on 31 December 1948 and had made a claim to remain a British subject.

You also became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if you were a woman who registered as a British subject on the basis of your marriage to a man in one of these categories. "
That's usually done to unruly fans. This is controversial for two reasons: the tech angle (automatic facial recognition) and that the denial of service happened to an attendee who had shown no signs of unruly behavior and only happened because of her place of employment.
>Worst case scenario they could provide you a "kit" to replace the battery(i.e a special screwdriver like they do for the SIM card)

They are still glued. Replacement is possible, but requires skill, tools (heating, shim) and replacement seals. Definitely not "easy".

>I don't think Apple is trying to make the iPhones slimmer or lightweight-er.

If that were true there would be lots of space in the device.

> It's a policy issue not an engineering one

It is definitely an engineering issue. Removable backs are hard to do and hard to do right.
I love this idea, and have been working on something similar. The problem is, how can my mom like and comment on photos of her grandkids without setting up her own account or domain?
>work for almost 2 decades as an engineer just so you can afford the average one family home - what a joke!

If you're lucky. The salaries in my country are so abysmal that nobody in my generation can buy a house: the only one with houses inherited them or have rich parents.
Most efficient in archieving what exactly?

They only gave actual objectives for 3 of the 6 proposals - and those objectives where "fairer markets" and "create more jobs".

Reducing inequality was not mentioned anywhere.

Indeed they acknowledge it will hurt lower-income households but handwave that away with some unspecified measures to "minimize" harm to those households.

> Eliminating the deduction will drive up costs for people with workplace healthcare, but makes the health-care market fairer.

...

> Instead, impose a consumption tax, designed to be progressive to protect lower-income households.

...

> [carbon tax] can be structured to make sure it doesn't disproportionately harm lower-income Americans.

Oh, and of course:

> Three: Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people.

Because no wealthy person ever thought of ways to restructure their assets so they are poor on paper...
My Kyocera is water proof and has a replaceable battery https://kyoceramobile.com/duraxv-extreme/
Looking to pivot to a similar approach, any chance I can reach out to you or follow you on Twitter?
The average Joe in the US earns $60-70k, same as an average software engineer in the EU.

The difference is not that US workers earn more on average, but that being an engineer doesn’t make you automatically rich in Europe like it does in tbe USA.
Ugh no. Just because choose to use a keyboard-based interface doesn't mean I don't want things like colors and graphics.
You run a good ship. Thanks for the well managed forum. Happy hols.
You’re missing the wealth tax. 1.1% of global wealth, including unrealized gains of startup share positions.

https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/wealth-tax/
Why do people use phrases like "ring-fence", "circle-back", "let's take this offline" ?

Those do not increase precision and phrases like "let's take this offline" are even more confused. Are they talking about an annoying idea in a meeting or a broken web server?

I do agree that some technical jargon can help communication between experts. Understanding the jargon marks you out as an expert. That's the root of why so much status-signalling jargon exists.

If someone says let's circle back to topic X they probably know a lot about project management...
Thank you Dang! Happy holidays!
Also consistently forgetting the 15 times larger population.
Christmas Without Commerce: Celebrating Without Shopping
And that is why, in the USA, health care is not a given (or at least extremely affordable). As long as that is then - especially if you have a family - taking risk that might lead to failure is a no go.

Instead, the no risk route is to assimilate into the status quo, become a cog in The System's wheel. Providing foundational First World "human rights" would allow more professional / career freedom.
Smoked meats have high levels of carcinogens. The carcinogens are created when food cooks at a high temp. For smoking, in particular, they are created when fat drips on to the heat source and then the resulting carcinogens end up in the meat [0].

Cured meats contain nitrates or nitrites, both of which have been associated with an increased risk of cancer.

0: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-smoked-meat-bad-for-yo...
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, that wasn’t my opinion, I was referring to how some other parts of the US perceive California.

You’re right it makes no sense but I think it’s undeniable California is used as an example of failed policies around social welfare and taxation by, say, Texas and Florida politicians.
I find it interesting that you have called out "digital nomad influencers". You make it sound like at some point you believed them, which I would say is an alarm bell for a potential business leader, except you have then run some businesses.

Running a business is looking at what is happening and amplifying what works and fixing what doesn't. There is also an enormous amount of luck involved.

I suspect if you look at all companies, most people running them will have most of the skills needed, most will have had some kind of luck/lead/timing that made things work and all of them will think they know how to do business because of survivorship bias.

Even the most famous business leaders have had more companies fail than succeed but it is unbelieveably tiring unless you enjoy the journey, in which case, learn to stress less and keep working away.
Fix styling on input range. Please.
We’re like three terms of use updates and a bad decision from Tesla disabling your car’s charging for a day because you got a warning on Twitter.
You haven’t accounted for health insurance, college education, and possibly retirement.

Once you add those in, the Nordics still pay a bit more, but not by the margin you might expect.
Sir Humphrey disapproves. What has become of the Civil Service?
I’ve seen some in older homes and have heard “there are no basements in Texas” when I lived there. Same thing in Oklahoma, even though a house I lived in as child had one and we definitely weren’t wealthy. :)
When I at one point considered moving to the US, I did the numbers for UK and Norway, because I'm from Norway and live in the UK, and while Norway certainly came out higher in terms of tax than some US states, comparing with places I might be prepared to consider, like California, the difference was small enough it'd be more than eaten up by health insurance before considering the other costs of a reduced welfare system (e.g. needing a far bigger cushion in case of unemployment, far higher childcare costs etc.)

Your mileage will of course vary a lot depending on specifics, and especially which US states you compare with.
There are more reasons why smalltalk failed to become popular:

- expensive commercial licenses over free Java/C/C++
- multiple vendors with incompatible versions
- closed nature and hard to integrate with existing tooling (editors, vcs, OS)
- poor story for Web, Java had applets and JS was native
- slower and memory hungry compared to C++
- lack of type safety compared to Java/C# or Ocaml
Doesn't mean they didn't think it would help the stock price...
That's a lot of money to see those teams lose. At that price every game better be an exciting game rather than be a blow out.

Nicks were 37-45 that year. Insanity.
I don't thinks this reply is helpful. Its basically saying "its your fault you failed, moreover you are going to fail again because of your attitude"

turning this question around to you:

have you ever managed to "change your mindset"?

assuming you have changed your mindset, did it materially change your circumstances?

Because if you're still in a hole, "being mindful" isn't going to affect that.
It’s a combination of things I guess. The 3D renderer is one bit that it complicated in itself, but most of the code is actually UI.
there’s active litigation involved. and businesses have a right to refuse service. so, yes, that would be fair game.

would i be happy about it? no. but the company that i work for is suing google, so it’s assumed there would be retribution of some sorts.
Modern sysadmin does not use GNU for servers.

A server is an appliance. Just needs a Linux kernel, a container daemon, and a target application binary. The end.
ByteDance is beholden to both the US and Chinese governments. The US government also has enormous power to coerce ByteDance (and other tech companies), and right now, ByteDance is under much stronger political pressure from the US than the Chinese government.

ByteDance actually can structure its operations to separate its US and Chinese apps as much as possible, to limit the ability of either government to access data from the other country. It's not a state actor, and is actually trying to avoid coercion from both the US and China.
I had to search up what is an "alternate reality game" [1]. Has anyone here tried this kind of thing? What is it like?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
I don't think this way of looking at it is helpful either.

Sometimes the rich kid was abused by his dad and it ate him up inside and he turned to drugs and died of an overdose at 25 years old.

Sometimes the middle class kid came from a father that survived as a child in WW2 with undiagnosed metal scars to prove it.

Sometimes the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad then starts and scales a business up to millions in sales.

We don't live in North Korea. A great deal of your future in a country in the west is based on how hard you try and, yes, some intangibles that are beyond your control, but it's no where close to "the rich kid kept buying darts until he won while one in fifty middle class kids actually made it."

Furthermore, entrepreneurship is just one of many hard games. And yes, the rich have an advantage at this specific game and less so because of their access to money and more so their access to their parents that are often successful at navigating society for capital formation. But the rewards of being a successful founder are pretty limited. Slightly better tasting wine. Larger hotel rooms. Softer sheets.

When you actually add up all the real benefits of winning at forming a company, you'll find that they pale in comparison to other games, many of which are easier, but some of which are harder or MUCH harder.

People today barely remember who Rockefeller is. He's the name a fancy building near the middle of the city to most people. That will be Bill Gates. That will be Steve Jobs. That will be so many of our supposed HN heros. If humanity makes it a couple hundred years, more people will remember Putin and Biden. Their games are harder. They ultimately matter more. And if legacy is more important than threadcounts then their rewards are much larger.

I think it is more important to find out what is true and what is false and to embrace the truth and help others than it is to win at business. And if it matters at all to you, I've founded a couple of failed companies and one that was acquired and I still think tech entrepreneurship can be a good thing, but only to a point.
There is a difference between what people know because it is pushed out to them vs. what someone can deduce by careful research and logic.

Something like Wikileaks/Snowden got the "they're spying on everyone!" part into the public consciousness. The Twitter files is pushing out some slightly different nuances around what the current practice is. Plus the political implications.

People are annoyingly evidence based. There seems to be confusion about whether dictionary-definition fascism is a bad thing and it is important to collect and keep repeating evidence of what is happening as governments agents get involved in running media (or other) companies.
> The rich kid will have a go at throwing the dart at the balloon, and miss. But, because they're a rich kid, they just take out their wallet (or parents' wallet), get more stubs, and try again (and again) until they hit the balloon

I get contacted for a lot of “rich kid” startups for consulting work. This notion that rich kids are succeeding at startups due to their perseverance and fallback options is almost the opposite of what I see in the real world. A lot of the “rich kid” startup founders I’ve followed or tried to work with have been only half committed to actual working on their startups. They often want to be the idea guy or the money/fundraiser person or the iconic CEO role holder, but when it comes time to do the work they’re not interested in grinding.

Those fallback options also become a liability when things get difficult or stop being fun. A lot of them dip out at the first signs of struggle and fall back to easy jobs in their parents’ network.

In theory they should have more runway to persevere at a startup. In practice, they often have too many easy options to fall back on to actually persevere at the execution required.
Any software running on your PC can gain access to any online account on your PC. If you have auto-updates enabled, a malicious update could be pushed to your PC at any time to compromise you and tens of millions of other users, even with something as ubiquitous as uBlock Origin.

At some point you have to trust someone unless you wish to live off the grid, that's just an unfortunate reality.
I think this is a bit of a blind spot for libertarian ideals. One tends to get the impression that people only need to be protected from the government.

I, myself, am quick to point out that the first amendment only applies to the government, but I'm starting to think it might be better if those kinds of protections are broadened.
They require it is legal tender so guarantee it has value as a medium for exchange and storage.

I didn't say the government guarantees a particular value. I said it is backed by a government guarantee, and that is what ensures it has value (i.e., it is worth what is written).
Well, what's the difference between a "strong non-legal mandate" and a "helpful tip"? Either it's mandatory or not.
I like that you are not dismissing bootstrapping, but just wishing that people dismissive of VM should have that disclaimer.

I just wanted to provide a counter-example: Bootstrapping worked for me, but I was ready to live happily on 1800€ per month (France, where it’s reasonable), and remain small. It also required being able to part from anyone who would think 500€ a day for a consultant is reasonable, or that 20€/u/m is ok for a SAAS app.
Show HN: Colorful and Configurable Logging in Rust
And having another reason is the best defense against the discrimination suits.
> I think this ignores the reason jargon exists. -- To demonstrate that the speaker is part of the "in" crowd.

That's unnecessarily cynical. It certainly can give off that impression. But it is also a shortcut for people who work together in a specific domain to be more precise (or more general) than would be implied by non-jargon speech. So to me those things in the sky are just clouds, but to a meteorologist they might be stratocumulus or cirrus.

Another case, a similar one, is the stickiness of obsolete language in a certain domains. I've never used the word "cloture" in a sentence,* but to use it is faster for those who need it than to spell it out. In law, some obsolete words not only carry specific meaning but can call back to existing case law.

For HN, CPU is a good example, being an old word whose precise meaning is quite fluid (used to be literally the cabinet with merely the ALU and some registers; instruction decode was just how it was wired together) and so is jargon too.

* until writing that sentence of course.
Willard Metcalf – Icebound (1909)
Your examples are not jargon, they're metaphors.

Jargon exists because specialists in a subject want to communicate quickly among themselves, instead of paraphrasing all the time. I'm a mathematician, if I had to use plain-English words instead of jargon in my papers, I would go insane. But my papers aren't meant for the general public (although they're welcome to read them), they're meant for a specialist audience. This is not the case of government websites.
> ... because the app ecosystem is too dysfunctional

I suggest that it’s even deeper than that. By dragging the iPad kicking and screaming in to the “pro” demographic, Apple has killed the very thing that made it compelling for “killer apps” in the first place: it’s focus on your app.

“When you open an app it becomes [whatever that app tells it to]” - My very rough paraphrasing of Steve Jobs during the original iPad era

When was the last time you could use an iPad for a single task without having to be precious about multi-touch gestures, and without notifications interrupting you? What ‘killer app’ can serve the now-fragmented demographics while also competing with everything else trying to steal your attention while you’re using it?
Model Y is best selling car in Norway. While I agree they’re overvalued I don’t think that has happened quite yet.
All hail the newspeak, protecting us from wrongthink.

Seriously, avoid the exact domain-specific terms (“jargon”), don’t use “rich” figurative language (“tackle” is out)?

The recommendation is really going for the lowest common linguistic denominator, like it’s inspired from Simple English Wikipedia.

Weren’t we all supposed to elevate each other? Now it seems we aim for a common soft mushy muddy bottom.

(“Elevate”, “aim”... off with me head!)
Worth noting that Audible has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008, so it’s basically just Amazon exploiting creators:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audible_(service)
Success is an addiction that many people long to suffer from. It’s just an illusion for all but a fraction of those try to roll the boulder up the hill.

Comfort is what we should all learn to settle for. It’s really not that bad.

Learn to be happy and fulfilled where you’re at. Life is short, enjoy it.
this is akin to an alcoholic with a failing liver "cutting back" on the booze. Nothing short of full stop is going to help us.

there are plenty of crops that don't require so much water. we should be growing nopal and other drought tolerant crops.
Hey, if its any consolation, your post made it to #1 on Hacker News for a while. I think that actually fits the definition of the word 'ironic'.

Anyway, I feel for you. Having a dream and seeing it fail hurts. It may be painful in the present, but at least you know yourself. That is something many people never learn.
From one Dan G. to another (?), thanks.
Thanks for the archive link. I was pumping myself up since you didn't seem to name-drop the company. I love these sort of anecdote stories.
Comcast Xfinity accounts hacked in widespread 2FA bypass attacks
The problem isn't making money, it's making money without regard to how your activity impacts other.
Because they often are intended to obfuscate and save face — and that is the point — the ‘plain English’ alternative for “let’s take this offline” is “you’re dragging this discussion off topic” or “I want to avoid having a row with you about this in public.”
And this is why I say that I understand the economics behind it.

Still, it doesn't mean I _deserve_ a high salary: I totally get why I get it, but I don't work harder, or studied harder, or really did anything more special than 95% of the population.

So, while I am able to earn more, I am happy to share part of it with the society as a whole, and this is why I am happy about my level of taxes, compared to the services provided.

There are wastes? Of course there are! So many! But the solution to "governments waste money" is not "less money to the governments", is "more accountability".

This is of course my view of the world, but I still haven't found anybody that explains why my job deserves to be in the top 5% earner in my country, apart from being just a consequence of the fact that my job scales to billions of users due its very nature (that is completely inconsequential from the choices I have made), while other jobs have physical limits and they don't scale.
GDPR (which is still in effect in the UK) doesn't really care about _who_ misuses the data.

I really hope that the information commission has the bollocks to nail tiktok for this
I started using Rust a while ago and have enjoyed learning more about it. This is a crate I made that allows users to spice up their logs with a variety of formats and colors/themes. I like purely functional logs as much as the next guy, but making the birds jealous with fancy colors has really started to grow on me. If that's not your jam, you can also turn off color and just use the formatting features. I'd love to get some feedback on this project, and I hope that some of you enjoy this!
That makes me think - would it be possible to have a runtime or build time option for cpython that removes eval() ?
Many thanks for this information, I found the original URL via Google and was unaware of the parent site's reputation.

I am updating my link to the one you suggest.
How do atoms?