jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Charity has limits.

When you're using terms which are very heavily politically and emotionally loaded to label people who disagree with you, you're going to get that sort of response back.

You can't be deliberately uncharitable to people and then say, "But you should be charitable when you respond!"
For sure. Thank you.
My one-person SaaS architecture:

It’s a Rails monolith deployed on Heroku.

I’d rather have the time to build new features for my user base than spend it learning how to use k8s or wrangling AWS through its abysmal console website.
> If customers do not care enough to stop using the product then there is no harm.

Facebook users (notably not customers) are the ones being harmed here, and they don't exactly have free reign to choose the platform their communities talk and organize on. If I choose not to use Facebook then I'm isolating myself from my community.
Relevant: GGPO, the age-old gold standard of rollback netcode, was recently open-sourced!

https://github.com/pond3r/ggpo

I haven't used it myself yet - mostly because I'd want Haskell bindings first hah
The voodoo I’ve seen from HR departments makes MB look like Newtonian Physics.

Yet they are so bad at stats that you can’t even enter a discussion on if it passes any kind of empirical test.
I’ve got an FCC radio license that says I get to hack my hardware and tell other people how to do the same.
These are things needed, yes. But the Meyer draft of the thesis was typed in January 1968, the Model 37 wasn't produced until 1968. Can't rule anything out yet, this is a great suggestion will keep digging.
The pushback is minimal. A lot of the pushback possibly includes people that are going to be upset by many things. Specific Reddit communities and Hacker News are good examples of that. If these demographics are unlikely to be happy with your social product’s privacy and dark or non dark patterns, catering to them makes no sense.

I don’t know any one outside some geeky sites and only one person personally who cares about any of this. Some do say lame casually. But it’s not going to be a deciding factor for using the app.

—

To add on to the whims of the geeky communities. Some companies escape it more than others. Airbnb doesn’t get much shit for spamming Craigslist people in early days. Compared to the negative talk of Uber, Facebook, etc, they also get no where near any criticism for the way they incentivize negative aspects of their platform.

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All of this to say - there’s no real downside if money and power is the primary goal.
Thanks! I think your concerns are on point. To get the best outcomes that truly champion end users, I believe we need to look to policy solutions and not just the technology. With Spruce, we can ensure that technology is never the barrier to implementing more consentful digital interactions, but ultimately good governance has the potential for huge impact, and this should not be overlooked.

For example, I think the EFF analysis of COVID credentials for entry into public spaces is completely founded and brings up important points regarding equity and accessibility in a dystopian world where everyone is expected to wield digital credentials.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-blockchain-credenti...

There are active discussions with considering the privacy and equality of access impacts, and we definitely welcome you to participate in them. E.g., https://github.com/w3c/did-core/issues/370
I see it being rather common on sites like Kickstarter.

The classic example of this that I keep seeing over and over again is the standard kayak bag that gets rebranded as an exercise weight filled with sand. The ad copy makes it sound like some innovative new exercise product, but it's just a kayak bag with branding.
Internet Explorer wasn't ported to Mac, though. Instead, a new piece of software with the same name was created. This is not some kind of nitpick or technicality; they were really quite different.
due to user expectations, no doubt
Right, because we've never had to upgrade our security measures, so browsers should have a set of measures built-in that can't be easily upgraded. That's a great solution.

I think it would be a LOT more useful to have a site that discusses security and the current best-practices for dealing with it. Instead of everyone taking their best guess, let most people follow along until they have an idea to make security better than standard. And if it really is better, it can be promoted to the new standard.
I've noticed this with lots of engineering type people... We love to build, to push boundaries, test limits, apply new ideas and technology, but don't generally like to think about all of the other stuff because it doesn't seem quite as cool or exciting.

I'm launching a business soon and I must say, there's a lot more that goes into it than I expected from the get go. Pricing plans, the front-facing website -- what information goes on it, how do I sell it, what do I focus on, etc -- logo, business cards, hosting options, funding, lawyers, incorporating, beta testing, etc... There's so much extra stuff involved and decisions to make.

It's really not for everyone though; so engineers, keep building apps if thats what you like to do. If the other stuff excites or interests you, then do that. Just know that if you want to build a business, there's a lot of extra crap you'll have to do that is gonna either suck, or if you're like me, excite you even more.
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I know first-hand what kind of budgets most small/medium-sized restaurants have for websites and online marketing.

Its much better to put resources and money into a profile/photos/menu on a site like http://www.grabmytable.com/ than doing a half-arsed 'proper' website.
Also, for a restaurant a website is really an extension of their menu/business card.

Frankly, the websites that a lot of restaurants have are perfectly fine. Even the ones made by hucksters. Is the address and phone number clearly marked? A map? Menu? Wine list? If you wanted to get fancy you could update it regularly with events and specials, but that's not really necessary.
I'm working on something at the moment. Just hours + menu + some optional social integration.

Based the research/feedback I've done, decision makers have near-zero time to learn or use a cms (hence why menus are always in PDF) and near-zero budget.

So what I'm going for is a super-simple system much like about.me/flavors.me ... something around $5 to $9/month or possibly even free and use it as a gateway to other services (also working on a diy groupon clone and staff scheduler for restaurants).
One reason for menus in PDF is because the menus may change frequently, and a PDF is easy to create from their actual print menus. It doesn't seem like a big deal to update both an InDesign layout and a website, but if different people do those two things, then it's quite likely a mistake will be made, so it's smart just to use the already proofed version.
> be the singing-masters of my soul

Those have to be seven of the most powerful words ever written in any language.
I know, right? Early mornings (assuming one went to bed early enough and got enough sleep) are great and as I get older I'm more of a morning person anyway... my main challenge there is coordinating with my partner since our sleep schedules obviously are intertwined.
The injection has been stopped and Baidu's script checks if there exists a referer.
> I don't need a faster iPhone, or more tech.

I need computing power equivalent to several thousand million human brains within the physical space of my home by 2050, and fitting in my pocket by 2075.
This is a really well article outlining how the man-on-the-side attack on Baidu is carried out. The only flaw here is the logical leap that goes from "Baidu is being hijacked" to "Baidu is being hijacked by the Chinese government"
In 2011 I made a similar offer, to write patches for any documentation improvements to Ruby: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-22-im-making-it-d...

I think overall, about a dozen people took me up on it over the years.
Well, that's a good analysis article and a good promotion for CapLoader.

Wireshark indeed can do better on Gantt charts and graphs
Everyone at FB is already in open offices. It's just on the scale of a floor of a normal building, instead of a gigantic building.
Most people might not know what kind of organization GreatFire really is because too much context is missing. I only discovered recently it's not so simple. There have been a lot of talks about the behavior of GreatFire for quite for a while but most of the talks are in Chinese. There are some in English though, to give everybody a glimpse here is an example:
https://github.com/greatfire/wiki/issues/1

I have an impression is GreatFire tried to weaponize all the users of github. They succeeded.

I don't like the GFW either. But I think I'm very likely to be downvoted because the context of this incident is quite complicated. It's not easy to tell the truth especially when it's against most people's belief.
He gave like $10k to the EFF, no?
I agree. I've been fortunate enough to work with mostly interesting people over the years where a few have become life long friends. I've also been to offices where lunch was dreaded because most people there you didn't want to have to interact with anymore than required.

I don't need to work with best friends, but if I hated spending any social time with my co-workers I would find another job.
In reality, it seems like they are going in the opposite direction: Microsoft has actually partnered with Nokia to include Nokia Maps in all their service platforms
Downvoted on HN for extolling the joy of pursuing what you love even in the face of disagreement - a certain irony there, I think!! :-)
"It takes more energy to start than it does to stop. This is true for physics, your career, and that idea you need to work on."

This is not true for physics.
for(a=0;a<aa;a++){
if(bbb[a]<bbbb[aa]){
bbb[aa]=bbbb[aaa]
}else{
bbbb[aaa]=bbb[aa]
}
}

I'll be out of jail in 30 days.

The original programmer will be fine once the stitches are removed.

Actually, all kidding aside, yesterday I enhanced a 1700 line program with these variables:

Cust
CustCmmts
CustComments
DelCmmts
CustNbr
DelDate
Cmmts
CustID
Comments
CustDel
Del

The variables "Cust", "Cmmts", "Comments", and "Del" should have different names. What are they? I spent half a day just trying to figure out what everything was, one line at a time. You can't globally locate, edit, cut, paste, or change without fucking up everything else. (And please don't ask me to use a fancier IDE. Just name your variables so the next guy doesn't have to suffer.)
I like this! though ironically the conservative states that say business should be able to discriminate/make their own policies would hate it haha.
> I would like to point out that the American industrial revolution happened during a period without central banks and their "flexibility."

The Second Industrial Revolution (which wasn’t specifically American, though America participated) did not occur before central banking existed in areas overlapping those where it happened, though it was neither universal nor associated with either the economic policy mandates of modern central banks or the key tools modern central banks use. But that started changing not too far into the Second Industrial Revolution, in part because of the Long Depression which it led head-first into.
Energy consumption for home use during a blizzard is very inelastic. Energy consumption for empty hotels and office buildings should be very elastic rather than sitting idle, lights on, and HVAC blasting. Nonessential businesses that consume large quantities of electricity should be cut first before residential areas.
Installing homebrew and emacs doesn't require turning off security. Maybe the one about "only run Apple signed software" - is that the default? I don't think it is.
yeah sure. but that has nothing to do with reforming racist US police forces
I think AmEx has tiered service levels just like everyone else. I’ve tried Platinum and Hilton Aspire and Sapphire Reserve and other fee cards, and I don’t think AmEx is anything special, at least not anymore.

There was a promo last year where if you purchased $10+ at a non chain restaurant, you got $5 back up to 10x. I signed up for the promo using my account, which shows the AmEx card I used. But I never got the cash back, because technically, my wife owns the credit card, and I’m only the authorized user. So because I didn’t sign up for the promo using my wife’s online account, we didn’t get it. They wouldn’t even award me the $50 cash back even after escalating it to supervisors, and this is on $450 annual fee card, just because of a technical glitch.

I think AmEx started experiencing declines in profit and service levels 10 years or so ago when Chase and the other banks upped their offers for high annual fee cards, and AmEx had to respond by gaining more market share by attracting lower income customers with AmEx debit cards and no fee credit cards. I never thought I’d see the day when they would do that, since they had so long been the brand of the “upper classes”.
The easy answer is to stop treating errors as warnings! I’m working on a project where for the first time in my career I’ve made my environment/workflow/tooling less shouty about problems.

I’m writing for my blog, so I installed a spell check extension. But its dictionary stinks. So I just turn off its warnings before a final post pass.

Most of the time when I see yellow in my editor it’s stuff I would expect to be red. Even from my primary language (TypeScript) which officially doesn’t even have warnings.

More things should be errors and treated as such! And more things that legitimately qualify as warnings should error in final checks to ensure they were addressed somehow, even with just an explicit dismissal.
I never give out birth certificates for my kids. Birth certificates are foundational documents for identity theft with a lot of personal information organized on one page.

I don't want my kids birth certs sitting on some random server.

Instead when necessary I use copies of their passports or school documents.
It isn't about morality.

It's about the fact that they have additional incentives that are directly related to what the people in a certain jurisdiction want that are missing for a company.
1 and 2 have the same answer: it's signaling. Going to college has enough discriminatory power between good and bad workers, and it's also cheap enough for the good workers to buy (behaviorally speaking, it's almost free in US. 4 years later doesn't have any weight with a mean 18 year old's discount coefficient.

This also touches upon 3, everyone keeps going to college so why not jack up the price? It's not like there is any price elasticity or anything.
Doesn't chrome do the same? I used it last night, opened the history and that was considerably different.
Discord supports 1080p@30fps screen sharing in DMs if you have Nitro classic (and 60fps in servers), but I can't tell if that also applies to your camera.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25886218
1. The captions usually suck
2. Would you mind if they just shut off the audio?
"You cannot expect the populous to be sufficiently educated on the intricacies of foreign policy and global threats.
So my proposal would be for the lawmakers to propose a better form of oversight which includes strict provisions for surveillance, especially the domestic variety. These provisions also cannot hamstring the NSA or the like; there has to be balance."

but then, if you and I (the "populous") aren't allowed to know what they are trying to achieve, or how they are doing it, how on earth are we supposed to have any faith in the oversight that "lawmakers" provide?

I cannot overstate how strongly I abhor the "you cannot expect the populous..." type arguments when used to continue keeping them in the dark about matters for which THEY HAVE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBIILITY.

if "the populous" is expected to select lawmakers based on the quality of the job they do, then "the populous" sure as HELL needs to have the information on the intricacies of foreign policy and global threats made available to them, and the response that their lawmakers support.
In particular, pay special attention to any post where the only content is a divisive, wedge topic trying to change the conversation. Divide and conquer is a classic strategy, and was an explicit goal of JTRIG in their attempts to disrupt "threats".

While a post where this type of rhetoric is only part of a larger argument is harder to categorize, there have been a lot of posts here and elsewhere that seem to bring up stale talking points (and little else), that distract threads from more important topics.

This is a tactic that Scientology was famous for, and it seem other groups have started using it as well. None of this is proof, of course; I merely suggest being extra vigilant about off-topic distractions and attempts to create division and unnecessary argument.
I think weightlifting (and also nutrition) have an intersection between one's choices and the scientific literature. From what I've seen of bodybuilders on youtube, there are many that base their programs and recommendations on what they believe is scientifically optimal. In most other areas of personal decision-making, you won't find wisdom in academic literature. For instance, remodeling your kitchen or dating. You might seek out advice from various sources, but those sources probably wouldn't include academic research.

The other thing about this article is that in using forums and websites to gauge the view of the bodybuilding community, you end up sampling more dedicated people who are interested in this sort of discussion. There might be people following all sorts of weird stuff ("woo") based on what their buddies at the gym are doing.

I wonder whether there are political issues where the "literature" is ahead of where natural intuition is. For instance, the minimum wage. Microeconomic intuition says raising the minimum wage reduces the number of jobs available. I think there are lots of studies out there saying that this intuition is false. The minimum wage's effect on jobs is something fuzzier than scientific fact however, and it kind of falls outside the concept of metis too.

Also, the majority of comments here seem to be focused on the question of rest interval, but that's not the main point of the article as I see it.
The app store is the new aol
I am disappointed that they left off Javascript. Not that I ultimately care what religion would be analogous to JS, but it was an entertaining read and accurate on a lot of counts.

What religion would JS be closest to?
Wow. Just wow. You guys are seriously comparing the impact of whistleblowers to the impact of child rape?
I was very lucky, from an early age, to be told that I should focus on learning how I learnt. I figured out how I learnt best in high school and never looked back. Now I have no problems learning any skill becase I know how my brain learns things and thus can cater specifically to it.

Unfortunately there is no catch-all method to learning and it is something you have to discover for yourself through exploration and good old trial-and-error.
I'm sympathetic to your suggestion that a whistle blow may have far reaching consequences. But as you suggest, it may not. It may have no impact at all. It may be wholly inconsequential. It may be a misunderstanding, a hoax.

Meanwhile, a child was abused to make kiddy porn. No equivocation there. To suggest that the aforementioned whistleblower is always more positive than the kiddy porn is negative is shocking. To then try put a ratio on it seems particularly callous.
That clip left me with so many questions.
What was the purpose of the dosing? Did they follow up with her? Was there a lasting change in her life?

Seems like it must have been radically jarring to her 1950s housewife societal role.
There have been some fairly involved discussions about generics recently on the Golang mailing list[0][1]. I think at this point the Go team isn't really opposed to Generics, but high-level ideas about it have basically all been proposed at this point.

The only way a generics (however you choose to define it) will be added to Go is if someone puts together an in-depth proposal about how it works, beyond just syntax. This means how it will work with the compiler/linker. How it will work with the runtime and GC.

Due to the amount of time it will take to put together such a proposal without the guarantee that it would be added, no one has gone down that path yet. You also need a deep understanding of many parts of the language to be able to produce such a proposal, which is another barrier.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/L-2OTItS...

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/smT_0BhH...
For those wondering "Who is this guy?" - you can look up his engineering qualifications and contributions elsewhere. My experience of him personally, in two years spent looking across our desks at each other, is that he has intelligence, integrity, and empathy equal to few in this industry. His retirement is a great loss to tech. As a friend, I wish him well in whatever he wants to do in his life.
No, rhetoric from the president is why they stormed the capital.
I saw a comment on twitter which went like this:

What do you expect when Fox News and many other right-wing outlets are just lying all the time? When lawyers for DJT go into court and admit there is no fraud and then go out to the steps of the courthouse and give a press conference saying there is fraud and it must stop.

Fox News, et al are talking about this non-stop since the election. Just think of all the people that have listened to this and believe it. What on earth do we expect them to do?
No. Strange question.
But the big question is “Who’s going to decide who are the bad actors?”.

I don’t think the answer to that should be “a few people at large companies that are, at best, kept at bay by rich people buying or selling the company’s shares”.

Apple (and Twitter, in closing Trump’s account) act as judge, jury and executioner, and don’t allow appeals.
the widespread negation of facts and obliteration or information on subjects at fiat for political purposes strongly resembles to my mind only a reversal of centuries of libertarian and democratic advancement with frightening and real potential consequent potential for according reversal in social and economic development.
Right, the goal is not to prevent a malicious user from running things, it's to make a usable environment for non-malicious users (via giving them Remote Desktop) so they don't feel the need to install anything that someone else could later attack.