jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On the incentives point, it seems to me that 'we' as a society focus far too much on money and expect it to paper over the gaps that employment inevitably causes.

Finish after your children leave school? Money -> childcare.
Can't get time off to cook for yourself more? Money -> restaurant meals.

Small stuff. Office located in a stupid place like downtown, forcing _everyone_ into a silly commute. Lack of parking spaces.
You can, but it's not easy, especially not if you're a 19th century man.

More seriously, misogyny is not just "hatred."

Nietzsche elsewhere wrote: "From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth—her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."

This wasn't negative for Nietzsche, who admired and advocated flattery and deception. Someone interpreted him like this:

"Nietzsche's apparent misogyny is part of his overall strategy to demonstrate that our attitudes toward sex-gender are thoroughly cultural, are often destructive of our own potential as individuals and as a species, and may be changed."

Can you not see how much charged cultural prejudice is expressed in the quote about truth as a woman? It's not exactly trivial to explain, but for starters, consider what it means that he considers it surprising or innovative that truth would resemble a woman rather than a man. Why? Because men are straightforward, logical, truth-like? Women, though, are mysterious, aesthetic — and something to "win." Nietzsche often wrote with irony, but that there are misogynistic aspects to this quote seems obvious.

Virginia Woolf: "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
is HN really so humorless?

The verdict is in: yes, HN really is so humorless. Such a pity.
Eh, just make an alias in ~/.gitconfig no need to add more options to git.

That is:

[alias]
nilinit = !sh -c 'git init && git commit --allow-empty -m NIL'

And now git nilinit does what you want.
One of the things I've found interesting about rapidly popular opensource solutions in the last 1-2 years is how quickly venture cap funding comes in and drives the direction of future development.

Docker has a whole ecosystem of bolt-on github projects that fill-gaps that the Docker project hasn't had time themselves to fill because they are too busy organising conferences, withholding features until the keynote of said conference, and working out how to spend the millions of dollars on future development.

Even the gap-filler github projects are getting VC funding (see http://weaveblog.com/2014/12/03/announcing-weaveworks-and-ou...). Weave will either become the standard networking stack, or be made irrelevant by an in-tree featureful implementation.

So Docker are on this tightrope trying to innovate whilst avoiding stepping on the toes of their VC-funded 'partners', so their response was simple-core with a plugin framework for partners to integrate into. Anyone else picturing fragmentation in 6-12 months time?
Do it.

I work in eCommerce, we develop a platform - and this stuff pisses me off no end, as it tarnishes the entire industry, and we'll now be dealing with jumpy clients for a month after this news hits the trade rags.
> Plus, a built-in torchlight provides convenience, whether it’s late at night or after you’ve turned off the lights.

So that's what a torchlight is for! Thanks, landing page!
Just take a pulsar map, like the one on the voyager golden records.
Now if we could all get back to using real Languages like Fortran and PL1/G :-)
Is that OS Meego ?
You've got the cause and effect backwards. They get paid so little because they are already getting tipped.

Otherwise you'd tip the poor son of a bitch at McDs who makes 7 an hour.
Concrete is already recycled - although it is mostly used for subgrade (the aggregate underneath a concrete slab) and is considerably cheaper than crushed rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_recycling
My point is that most people's "list" is not rooted in objectivity at all.

I provide objective and concrete reasoning for why these style elements are beneficial. In the wild I rarely see people justify their style with strong convictions.

Again, different people can reach different conclusions given the same evidence, so there will never be a universally correct way to do things.

But there's also is a lot that's done by convention that's hard to justify objectively.

The biggest faux pas I see is pushing implementation details to the forefront. There are arguments to be made that this can be beneficial in some contexts, such as algorithms where you want a "single pane of glass" into what's happening. But you can also objectively specify those contexts and when a style is more applicable to one context vs another.

So long story short, no, there is no best style. Yes, you can objectively quantify why a style is good or not, and in which contexts. Beyond specific style elements, there is a philosophy underlying the readability of code style and will eventually become a big part of education in software IMO.
So it seems that they wanted to avoid the backlash by adding the "crypto" payments until they released it.
> I still feel very disconnected from the celebrity and political drama

I try to never bother with 'celebrities'. They are glorified nothings. Actor X is using phone from ABC company, only because they paid him to pose holding one. Not because it has anti-matter/matter fusion technology. Also most celebrity events do not affect any of our lives. They divorce? pity.. but still.. don't care. Model X went to a party? good for her (wear a mask!) but still.. don't care.

> Having the possibility not to care is a luxury, in a way.

I remember the Minimalists once said "most crises, aren't". There is wisdom in that phrase. Lack of immediate exposure to 'news', filters out most of the non-crises and the unecessary drama. The important news will stick around after 48 hours/days/weeks (Sollarwinds, unemployment rise, COVID, a major shift in political events, etc.)

With that said, a quick scroll through a couple of news-worthy outelets (BYOsite) will give you all the info within 60seconds, and will give you the opportunity to seek out more - without the spammy exposure of TV/Radio.
Can you explain how a drawing of imaginary person hurts somebody? What about texts? the characters in some books like the ones used in Game of Thrones TV series are very under aged, do you accuse the readers of the crime ? if yes who was hurt ?

I understand the point about hurting children or adults by the porn industry but I would hope we can find better methods to stop this crimes , social media justice is not the way,,, I read about under cover cops catching soem criminals so let's fund them to do their jobs ... and I also read about some teens killing an old man because someone accused him to be a pedo
Darius Kazemi blogged about the first 365 rfcs over a year:
https://write.as/365-rfcs/table-of-contents
> how do you effectively tax actual rich people without squashing the middle class?

By using a tax ladder [1] (tax rate increases in steps).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_ladder
> It’s that adding a cryptocurrency to an end-to-end encrypted app muddies the morality of the product, and invites all sorts of government investigative and regulatory meddling: by the IRS, the SEC, FinCEN, and probably the FBI.

We need to fight against the idea that private payments are any less moral than private conversations.

We also need to actively reject the status quo in the USA of a complete and total lack of financial privacy. OF COURSE something that brings real privacy to payments is going to be a target for busybody financial regulators, just as the first widespread e2e-encrypted messenger was (iMessage, now backdoored for the FBI).

Cryptocurrencies at their core are speech, not property, so it makes perfect sense to enable use of them via a private communications tool.
Great question - it depends what (or who) you’re optimising for.

I’m generalising, but as an example:

The optimal culture to get very difficult things done far more quickly and efficiently than other companies could (think SpaceX) probably often won’t have the best work-life balance. In contrast, a culture which optimises (at least partly) for employee well-being will very likely lose some edge, efficiency, innovation, drive… along the way.

There are of course myriad other variables, but there probably isn’t an ideal answer to the culture question: it all depends on what you want to do, and how you’re willing to act to do it.
Civic nationalism. Our citizenship tests have largely moved towards stressing instiutions and civic rules instead of cultural or historical touchpoints. The criticism of this is its identity-lite, at least when directly compared to ethnic or cultural nationalism, and can't effectively compete. I too would prefer our shared identity, but I wonder if the civic ideals are compelling enough to people.
No data? There are supreme court decisions on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger
I'm measuring 1.8mm of total travel on my A1243, and 0.8mm on my 2020 Macbook Pro but it could just be a matter of technique. 1.3 would probably be great.
I agree entirely. Lots of people calling out racism are themselves acting fundamentally racist in the sense of racially prejudiced and discriminatory. I won't be surprised if I wake up one day and we have race-specific water fountains again.
I think that's Google's problem and very much a scenario they created for themselves. I'll give Google a lot of credit for serving the majority of their ad content off of intentionally distinct server groups but that line has been getting greyed and, if they make themselves untrustworthy, that's on them.
Nonsense. You can write and execute Python code in VSCode without even leaving the GUI.
If official authorities in any country are able to voice concerns about a controversial subject, that's a good thing.

In Canada, they would lose their jobs immediately.

I'm not sure who is right in all of this, but I do think that rational discussion ought to be had among the plebes and bureaucracy, and the problem with the more authoritarian woke is that they will destroy anyone who does not agree.

I think one simple, ugly, but useful tactic is to refer to these policies as racist - because in a way they are.

'Racism' is the weaponized term that the crowd will use to try to destroy everything they don't like.

But since their acts are almost entirely racially based, the argument is easily made the term 'racist' applies. Even though they generally would not agree.

Because the shoe fits: making boards or any group hyper-representative based on race is basically racist, so use the word.
"I am planning a series of related compositions, constructed first from the other songs involved in the listening tests, but then probing the space of MP3 compression in different ways, attempting to highlight even more explicitly the filtering effect of this codec.... Composing with these sounds and injecting them back into contemporary listening spaces is one possible act of resistance, one available mode of cultural critique."

MP3's unwitting/unintended uncovering of the possibilities of weird filtering schemes points to the hugeness of unexplored timbre space. We are so familiar with our usual collection of instrumental timbres ... we have assumed that this galaxy is the whole universe. Timbre is waiting for its Hubble.
actually it's a little (tiny) bit offset by paying less taxes proportionally. So your net income would be like 84% instead of 80%. Doesn't change your overall point, though ;)
Canadian. I think it's interesting. Canada buy some stuff from Colt Canada, apparently, occasionally require designs to be manufacturered by Colt Canada for service rifles, such as the one used by the Rangers in the North.

If CZ ends up picking up Colt Canada too, seems like they'd be in good hands.
Nice.

Is it compatible with ansible?

Because ansible has one thing that can't be beaten: the ecosystem is huge. You have recipes for everything.
That's not really the type of "skipping" that is the issue.

Software tends to ask the system the current time (via a library), and the system responds with a "here is a number, it is the number of [units] since [epoch]". The library then converts that number using a formula to work out a date/time. If it is decided a leap second is added or subtracted, and the library's formula doesn't account for it, then the time will be calculated incorrectly.

For most software it is unlikely to matter too much, but this sort of thing can lead to unpredictable emergent behavior in complex networked systems.
What good reason is there for the president to not simply communicate via whitehouse.gov or equivalent?

You might argue that it has lesser reach compared to a major social media site, but there are countless individuals and organizations that would jump to be the first one posting a link to a presidential address on social media sites.
Restricting speech, even when you do not like the person speaking or what they have to say, is never the right answer. It is a slippery slope and not the basis for a free, independent and informed electorate. Mentally unstable individuals will read between the lines regardless of the speaker or what is being said. The mob mentality to ban speech is not unlike the mob mentality we all witnessed the other day. It is ugly, and upsetting, and wrong.
> If it swings too far the other way I'll quickly switch my thoughts on the matter.

I’m also in group b, but the danger is that if it swings too far the other way, we may have already lost the ability to speak out against _that_ and restore balance.
I know Trump supporters, and even they (the ones I know) don't justify his tweets. If Twitter had used numerous previous tweets, I could personally go and argue with those supporters and feel like I was making headway.

I don't argue with them to change their mind, I argue with them for the crowd of 5-6 people listening who are on the fence. All of them were just pushed off that fence.
honestly, good riddance. you can argue the merits of all this stuff "intellectually" about free speech and what not, but it doesn't pass the sniff test. and twitter is a private enterprise. he's free to go off to parler or whatever and take the millions of followers with him.

this entire thing is just an extension of the type of shit you get real tired of in daily life. like some bully repeatedly antagonizing you and when you finally fight back they claim persecution.

like the key and peele skit... no, you're no persecuted, you're just an asshole.
aren't we talking about Trump here?

I never said right or left though, I've said all of them, even though from an American point of view I would be described as a "communist" (it wouldn't be far from the truth TBF ...)

I am as far away from Trump as the Star Wars galaxy is from us.

Politicians already have a platform, and the platform is "being a politician"
>but it also enjoys regulated protections from liability those protections should come with strings attach to them to uphold and honor the free speech rights of the public.

The free speech rights of the public include the right not to be compelled to hear, host or publish speech against one's will. That's why the First Amendment only applies to Congress - if it also applied to the public, it would limit their freedom of speech.
I'm a bit worried that the CEO is so vehemently against federation [0]:

> It is unlikely that we will ever federate with any servers outside of our control again, it makes changes really difficult.

I think as long as there is no federation there will always be the "benevolent dictator" situation, which often doesn't end up well in the long run.

At the same time, I'm sure that I couldn't convince my non-tech friends to switch over to a federated protocol like Matrix. The clients have been getting better, but they still lack a lot of mainstream UX. So, while Signal is better than WhatsApp for now, I think the only sensible solution is a federated protocol.

0: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I use a plain text file with columns separated by tabulations. First column is my earning, and my expenses that are predictable (like phone, loan...). second column is my expenses on a daily basis. A simple awk command and I can compute a projection of the money that will be left on my account at the end of the month. Each month I use a new file. The beauty is that I can print the result of my command and put it in my status bar, next to the temp of my proc. It's a metric value like another after all.
Just hyphenate:

Texas Appeals-Court Rules Phone-Search After Arrest Violates 4th Amendment [pdf]
Isn't this because when using a filesystem, we - in almost all cases - don't have relations between files we need to use?

If I needed to look in a folder containing a million files, find a subset containing the word 'foo' and match to the 'joining' files in another 4 folders (all of which contain 500k+ files) - I think my code would resemble my filesystem more than my filesystem resembles my code.
Good observation; I was trying to figure out how to state my proposal as concisely as possible, and glossed over that detail. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7310959
If you're going to rush a space shuttle into orbit and do a hundred things that have never been done before on a space mission, things like not wearing a space suit during EVA are fairly stupid risks to take.
So an electric car is actually the better choice for the environment because it has bigger tyres?
Here's a list of slack groups someone maintains: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks

I'd also google "<area you live in> slack" or "<front end technology> slack". You could also look for discords, I hear discord is hot right now and several communities I follow have moved to it from slack.
1658.
F# is 1073.
avoid XML

avoid IDE's -- or at least, anything that causes your team to need an IDE just to counter-act some other linguistic or procedural vomit you often encounter in the typical Enterprise Java shop

avoid abstraction-for-the-sake-of-abstraction -- the Java ecosystem, not necessarily the language, is notorious for this
It's an important issue... I think it's success or failure will define the discussion over government involvement in infrastructure for decades to come.

Thank god for politicians like Xenophon demanding some transparency to the process. Whatever you might think about the merits of the plan itself, the government's handling of the discussion has been amateur at best - shady at worst.

As for the plan - my prediction (for what it's worth, and that's not very much): the network will either ruin the business case for the deployment of the newer tech that comes along in the next 10 years, or will be made redundant by such developments. Honestly, massive 10 year infrastructure plans in the telco/tech sector is just asking for fail.

They should have only mandated the plan for country areas and left the better economies of scale in the cities do the job for them. Here in Sydney I already get 12mb plus. Yet my connection is still being forced onto the new fibre? What for? That's just wasted expenditure.
It is primarily about that (q.v. my post on RSUs). But if this reaches an extreme where hundreds of non-accredited investors (very) indirectly hold ownership in a private company, it's far more likely to raise regulatory and legislative eyebrows.

Today, I presume they don't need to hassle with non-accredited investors because the demand is so huge. But the door would seem to be open to this in the future since there's not much to stop it, possibly apart from Facebook's control over transactions.

I admit it's a far-ahead concern. But it's a real danger.
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Do you have a glossy screen? Switching from glossy to matte helped my eyes a lot.

I also use Flux on my mac, so perhaps that helps.
google are a notoriously selective employer, so it's hardly surprising that GPA has limited predictive power within the sample of people who were successful applicants.
10x more.

It'd basically put the industry out of business.
In Sweden you’re allowed to cancel by phone call, email, letter, etc. Point is they don’t get to stipulate how you cancel the service. The US needs a similar consumer protection. Click to cancel is a good step, but really just providing multiple simple methods that legally work for all services is the correct approach.
Don't forget Zeus in that list! Think it was the third iteration in the Caesar->Pharaoh-> city-building genre.
> As a former student and now a parent. I have no idea why we need to recreate math books over and over and over again. Seems an incredible waste of resources. The fundamental material doesn't change.

The way we teach the material changes, for valid reasons:

1. We can get better at teaching it. (Optimistically).

2. We might need to update textbooks for more up-to-date references. Even if it's not political ideas, textbooks might reference things that are not relevant (or not reference things that are).

3. Whether or not they are better, sometimes new ideas of how to teach material are created. E.g. new math etc.
I'm not actually making a value judgement on that. Just pointing out the consequences maybe not what was intended.
They charged more than the service cost to produce.

A shocking idea I know but there we got.
First step is to make sure there is standing water in the floor drain traps. Nobody wet mops bathrooms regularly anymore so the dry floor drain trap allows sewer gas into the room.
> It's a novelty

No it isn't. That stuff has been done since the mid 90's.
define "pay like crap". My experience in Berlin is different, depending on your experience 60-90K EUR is possible. Combined with the relatively low cost of living in Berlin, you can live comfortably. I don't see London paying significantly more, while being a lot more expensive.
I mean, that's literally how politics work. Something isn't political unless people make it political, otherwise it's just the norm of the time.

You could replace [ferrets are] with [gay marriage is] and get the description for any political argument ever. People argue X is political, others argue it isn't political and create a political argument trying to argue it is/is not political. Repeat as nauseam for topic of your choice.
AI is such a nonsensical word these days. Will automation eat jobs? Most certainly. Will automation based on machine learning become good enough to entirely replace humans? That's hard to predict. Depends on the data. I'd lean towards no it won't. The thing about AI is, it's not the algorithms that make it intelligent, it is the data. Data that might help machines replace human effort is also data that can be abused. Unfortunately abuse of data is currently more profitable than use. So it all depends on how certain humans (politicians and corporations) evolve.
That's pretty cheap of them. In Toronto there was a very large building where gay people would stay rent free and get paid if they live-streamed their lives. This was in '97.
I believe the idea underlying what he said is that everything is political. If I am wrong I apologize. It's an extension of the 1960s revolution of "the personal is political."

To expound: everything is political in the sense that any action we take or decision we make or conclusion we reach rests on assumptions, norms, and values not everyone would affirm. That is, everything we do is rooted in a contestable point of origin; and since the realm of the contestable is the realm of politics, everything is political.
Give women discounted internet?

It’s funny, if you look at the stats then you will see Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat etc are all majority female. The only social network that has gender parity is LinkedIn. HN may be predominantly male (no one knows for sure) but it’s a rounding error in terms of user numbers. There’s no male equivalent of Pinterest (Reddit isn’t even close)