jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards.

One area where HN has done poorly for years is accessibility, both on desktop (poor) and mobile (very poor). Most of the click and tap targets are quite small, and are spaced quite close to each other. Most of the fonts are quite small.

Unintentionally downvoting something when intending to upvote it (or vice versa), unintentional flagging of a post, etc., happen more often.

Isn’t there a web designer out there who can create a better (yet simple) CSS for HN to use and donate it? Isn’t YC capable of spending some pocket change on improving accessibility on one of its important sites? How about a design competition (with constraints) with the top five getting some reward and letting the users choose (in their profiles) which of these winning stylesheets they’d like to use? Or just allow a URL for stylesheet in the user profile so anyone has the freedom to customize it however they like?
> there is a non trivial percentage of everyone that this is clearly, demonstrably not true.

And the military generally weeds such people out at some point during training, because they won't make good soldiers. Being a soldier requires a certain amount of judgment. It is impossible to tell someone exactly what to do; in order for any organization to be effective, a certain amount has to be left to the intelligence and judgment of the people carrying out the orders, even at the lowest level.
> There's too much risk of loss of work

Backups can be made independent of source control.

> What about making smaller commits and going back and editing it later?

In experience, it's actually more time consuming to restructure an existing set of commits (especially if they're making changes to the same files and same lines of code) compared to just making a new set of commits.

> By the way, you know about 'git add -p', right?

I am aware of it, but I'm not a fan of the menu based approach. When I stage code with git apply, I actually use vim's feature of visually highlighting the part of the diff I want to stage and filtering those lines through the git apply command. I can skip things like debug statements I've added to the code when staging. I can also unstage code by using the same command with the -R parameter.

I even commit within vim by reading the output of git status -v, writing my commit message and filtering that message through git commit with the -F parameter to have it read from standard input.
Private schools? At least that seems to be the case for the white parents I know in San Francisco.

I found this stat startling: "The average white San Franciscan makes three times more money than the average black resident. "
In March 2016 I started writing an Android app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unwrappeda... ). In May 2016 I released it. You can set wallpapers on Android with it. The last new wallpaper I put up was in November 2018. Early May 2019 was my last app update.

I did not run ads in 2018 until I ran <$15 worth in November-December. I ran ads one day in 2019 (the day of the last app update) and got less than 350 clicks on the ad. I have not run ads since.

So I have done nothing since early May 2019. From June 1st 2019 to Jan 31 2022 I made over $3500 on ads for it. It made $70 in October 2021, $87 in November 2021, $104 in December 2021 and $82 last month. In March 2020 it made $264, then $242 in April 2020, then $264 in May 2020. This is from ads.

My expenses are a $10 a month Ramnode VPS, a $20 (probably overkill) a month Linode VPS, a yearly Namechap domain name expense of maybe $30 or so. It kind of pays for itself, plus a little more.

I could make more money on it with some work, or release another app, but my current direction is "those efforts would be better off trying to progress my career". Studying Kotlin helps me at my day job, but also could potentially help in the future if I decide to revisit the app.

I had another app which in late 2013 and early 2014 was making $2000 or more a month. My expenses were about the same, I ran no ads at that time.

> the effort is much greater than it sounds

The initial effort for both apps was a lot but then less work was needed to be done. I also learned how to put a whole "modern best practices" app together (plus the backend REST API, plus the relational database and its normalized schema etc.)

> was worth it after your initial effort and ongoing maintenance

For 2 1/2 years my ongoing maintenance has been next to nothing. I had nagios watching it while working on it, but a change on the nagios server broke nagios and I have not fixed that yet. Every once in a while I try the app out and see if it is working.

My Android (and Python REST API) skills are much better than they were when I wrote the app and if I released an app (or apps) now, I'm sure I could hit the $2000 a month mark again and then start pushing that up, even with existing competition. But I make multiples of that in my day job and with study can level up my title and get the pay that goes with it.

There are different motivations to do it or not do it which fluctuate with time. I could see going back to writing my own apps at some point.
If you're going to insist that a character (or string) is it's own magic datatype _and is not an unsigned (or similar) underneath it all_ and you're going to talk about high level niceties, then your interpreter really really should not violate principle of least astonishment. There is no sane way to frame "1" - 1 _unless you explicitly typecast the string to a number_, because you now have to reconcile it with what should be identical behavior for numeric types, like "1"+(-1), which guess what, yields "1-1" in javascript, which is the definition of insane. You've also got to deal with other less obvious cases like when the string is a in a var and is not _always guaranteed to be a nice number_ etc, which really really makes ever using anything like that a code smell. It's far easier for both the programmer and the interpreter _not_ to play the guessing game, and try and implement inconsistent numeric behavior, than to just say "well I'm not going to do this unless you really insist (via an explicit cast) that you want this".
You don't need lobbying to convince republicans to oppose public sector solutions to markets already served by the private sector.
Red states also seem to be more in bed with the entrenched ISP monopolies. The states which are prohibiting municipal broadband are all red states.
And the serious cyber threats are just distractions and boogeymen from what's going on in plain sight.
Yup this is exactly the point. Everyone can throw around all the whataboutism they want in this discussion (which there will be plenty) but this remains true in the end.

We’re also I’ll equipped right now to fight this, our culture is divided and most of the intellectuals in power are more concerned about seeing everything through the social justice lens. So anything we do against China for our own national safety is being chalked up as racism etc. China sees this and is taking full advantage. I hope Biden takes a strong stance on China domination so at least one end of the political spectrum can be convinced to get on board here.

We can’t just simply out battle evil regimes like we could in the past. Each major power (Russia, China, US) has weaponry that could destroy the world if unleashed against each other. We are at a turning point in world history. So we have to fight this on the economic level, banning apps is part of this strategy.
The interesting word I think is "reliable": some extremely rare corner case where the match isn't correct would be enough to make that claim true, but they make it sound as if it was worse than randomly guessing.
It's rational. The US government exists to protect and promote the interests of US citizens and companies. So it is the US's job to protect its citizens from foreign surveillance.

I'd say it's Europe's job to protect its citizens from foreign surveillance. It's not "OK" so much as "Not my job."
I'd imagine that later saying your license was denied would direct the internet mob in your favour, not against you.
Does anyone know how to get it to show the full referer URL? I use a self hosted Matomo and it only shows the referer domain.
So maybe the problem is a broken political system which serves the interests of only one group of people, rather than high or low interest rates?
> At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow

What’s the connection between weather and fiber?
Tbh, it actually is okay. After about two years most prominent marks we have on them are those left by seatbelts.
It is seeping in here as well, especially the Green movement seems to be infiltrated.

Austrian Greens split over wokeness into two parties. German Greens are basically taken over, with a few personal exceptions (Boris Palmer). And given how much climate change interests voters, we may get a hefty dose of racial wokeness as an unexpected side effect.
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Right. AFAIK there is no universal Math deity like there is Caissa for chess that can serve as a representation of "perfect math", God is the next best thing.
It is pretty much just an issue of having the right graphics drivers.
Sure. But personally I’d be pretty happy to trade all the improvements in our living standard for an extra 20 hours a week of my life back. What’s a smart phone compared to the most precious thing we have, time?

I’d also assert that a lot of pointless work is getting done. If workers are self-reporting that they work ~3.5hrs a day, then perhaps we wouldn’t even need to give up any quality of life if we just eliminate the need to fake being busy for 40hrs a week.
Okay then how do you prove the government hasn't stolen my Mazda? They are even more powerful than corporations.

Inverting the burden of proof is listed as a logical fallacy for a reason. It is never appropriate.
You almost answered your own question by mentioning "balance" -- the primary goal is self-regulating stability. This is an approach which uses intensive (and expensive) horticultural methods to quickly create a patch of forest that will require no further human management or operating expense.

The biodiversity should increase a little bit as local fauna habituate and immigrate to the forest, bringing with them propagules from other native species, so humans don't have to do all the work.

Specific benefits of the Miyawaki method are that it can dovetail well with common urban practices. A small forest can grow next to concrete buildings, roads and sidewalks, and offer all the common "green building" benefits such as fire suppression, improved thermal regulation, and runoff absorption. Of course, there will be wildlife as well. Some people consider it a nuisance for whatever reason.

M.R. Hari in Kerala has done some experiments with "eccentrifying" (my word, not his) Miyawaki forests into types such as a edible- or flower- dominated forests, which the mix of such species is slightly increased, but not enough to disrupt the ecological balance. I recommend his YouTube channel 'Crowd Foresting' for many examples of what these forests can look like (in his particular location).
Chinese imperialism isn't better or worse than European imperialism. Hong Kong would be best off as an independent, liberal democracy, under no one's "rule".
Popperism is not, and has never been, the definition of science. Science is straightforwardly defined: it is a pursuit of research whose primary mechanism for gathering knowledge about the world is the scientific method. Difficulties in methodology aside, social sciences primarily use the scientific method, and thus they are science.
I found them snarky as well, but interesting enough that I read it through for any help on trivia nights.

And I mean, the site is about calendrical fallacies, I expected a scolding for my preconceived notions on dates and times going in.
Ah, makes sense. Have you folks considered open-sourcing that Elixir app? It would be instructive as an example of how to start a potentially long-running one-off task with the Machines API and monitor its progress.

Edit: Also, I'm just generally curious about the Machines API; it doesn't seem to be documented (yet). The blog post mentioned that launching the VM takes about 2 seconds. Is this startup time proportional to the size of the container image?
I’m surprised no one has searched up Jed Margolin. He was kind of Mr Atari and had his fingers on all kinds of things in the golden age of Atari

http://www.jedmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm

Also

http://atariemailarchive.org/
Wouldn't you just get a notification on your phone from your credit card or bank app to say how much the transaction is for and to whom. Then you'd know straight away that something is wrong.
I think everyone needs to relax about wordle. This is cementing in my mind the human shameness of copying things (copy cat culture). Drop it. It’s a bad habit and I hate seeing it. It’s why we have 30 saas apps that do nothing. Stop it.

Sameness is an existentialist crisis, so please explore it in that realm instead of the abstraction of copying.
> Personally I think just the fact the universe hasn't been eaten by Von Neumann machines means we're alone.

Or maybe it'd make sense to consider how big the Universe is, how fast it expands and combine it with how very local is our perception of it.

If you do that and account for how young our capabilities to hear and see stuff out there actually are, Fermi's paradox doesn't make any sense just like the certainty of statements that start with "that must mean..."
programming is hard just like discovering a proof for a mathematical theorem is hard.

software engineering, that's a completely different level of hard. you have to be a good programmer just to begin to understand how to make actually good products, not just toy leetcode puzzles or write only run once scripts.
> The only way to mitigate wealth's influence on political institutions requires drastic, systemic changes.

This is what poor people should be voting for, but somehow they never do.
I don't believe anyone is seriously talking about banning factorio, but I do have a hard time trusting that an affirmative answer to these questions isn't accompanied by some level of value judgement. how could I not? we are literally contemplating all the great things that could have been accomplished if nerds didn't spend so much time playing certain video games. you never hear about all the furniture that could have been moved for the elderly if people didn't spend so much time at that damned gym.

frankly, I think we should not care so much about what people do with their leisure time, as long it isn't actively harming anyone (ie, not in a "what could have been" sense). if we want smart people to do more useful stuff, we should figure out how to pay them for it.
As opposed to what? Mobile is worse, with iOS not allowing a choice at all.
I don’t think this is submarine advertising. Apple is big enough, prominent enough, and loved/hated enough to have an active community of pilotfish analyzing and speculating (and a big enough community of readers to pay the pilotfish in likes and even dollars).

I’m sure Apple does use submarine ads, just don’t think this is an example.
They made a tv show too, some of the cast being the ones from the radio show. It's definitely in the original doctor who style of special effects, and I really enjoy it!
I think parent is saying there's no economic incentive to save starving kids in Africa.
There is also no way to disable your persistent radio connection on your cell modem (except for turning it off), and your network provider will know your location and radio tower etc as well. Same applies to your mac: you turn the appliance off and then the connection is off as well. You turn it on and it's connected again.
The problem with nouveau is more that it's trying to replicate the Nvidia blob driver (and then some), in that it supports multiple disparate architectures and at different levels (three generations might be a similar uarch, for instance). Replicating a single GPU driver would be significantly easier, albeit still a Herculean task. Especially if your main goal out of the gate is simply framebuffer support and maybe some 2D acceleration.

At least, this is from my experience dealing with the Tegra X1 on a Jetson board for hobby osdev.
I just threw up a fake post as a blonde girl - 3 replies from guys: "Boysenberry says let me take you out...baby girl you're a cutie let me take you out, to a dinner and a movie?"

I think they may run into the Chatroulette problem...

But very impressive growth indeed!
I had a fantastic calculus teacher in high school (Freddie Irani, many thanks if this somehow finds you). He's probably the only math teacher or professor I ever had who made math both fun and intuitive. We had no homework, and regular quizzes.

He taught math by talking about the history of the problems we were trying to solve, and how people went about solving them. It was the concepts that mattered; the equations were secondary. He would put a problem on the board, and ask the class to solve it. He would then give us pieces of the puzzle, until we had enough that we could figure it out ourselves. I found the class participation to be key. With most math classes in college, the instructor works through 3 or 4 problems for a given topic on the board, and the students spend the entire class furiously copying down what he writes. It's pointless. I get that it's driven by the need to cover a lot of material, but I'd rather the class work through two examples then the instructor work through 4. Also, regular quizzes were a key part of Irani's class that made retention much, much easier. Instead of the typical weekly homework, two midterms and a final, I would much prefer weekly quizzes, 3 (or 4) midterms, and a final worth a much smaller chunk of the grade.

Last semester, I took linear algebra. We had weekly assignments that I did with a tutor (bad decision), two midterms, and a final worth 45%. I went into the final with ~40% in the class, crammed for it, and ended up with a mid-60 in the course. It was pointless, and I don't feel like I learned much. I would much prefer the system Irani set up, but he's not a university professor, and he doesn't have a PhD. He taught himself calculus with an inch-thick pocket book he picked up from a second hand store.
A good way to catch up on what's new while we wait on the Mozilla / P2PU course to start up.

Landing Page:
http://p2pu.org/webcraft/html5

Course syllabus:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/courses/html5#HTML5.2...
Appreciate the support. Your email isn't the goal -- just wanted you to have a decent experience.
If you are in the bay area then Patxi's will be better than anything sent from Chicago because the Chicago pizza had to be frozen for shipping. If you want to understand why a "real" Chicago pizza does not rate out here then the next time you are arriving home at O'Hare buy one of those frozen ones for sale in the concourse, pop it in the oven when you get home and then go get a fresh one while you wait for it to bake; you will quickly notice the difference.

Yes, we know what snow is...it is that stuff you go visit up in Tahoe and ski or snowboard on, not that brown semi-frozen slush that slopped over the top of my boot as I stepped off the curb or kept me wondering which side of the street I had parked on when I saw it start to fall from the sky while living in Chicago :)
Ain't nothing faster than 0. I've done games for 20 years. The best optimizations are figuring out how to avoid running the code in the first place. This is where full-stack programmers come in.

There seems to be a battle here between full-stackers and specialists, but if you think of a full-stacker as "an extremely experienced generalist", then I think there are plenty of "extremely experienced specialists" who fit that description too. That is to say, an extremely experienced "database optimizer" is going to know how the presentation layer hits the database and how the database hits the disc, and I expect they would know many different database technologies.
I've done this in the past and it definitely works....in the beginning. If you want to KEEP your reclaimed time, be very wary of other time sinks. Don't just replace the internet with TV or some other similarly unproductive, brain numbing activity.
Is temperature really an issue for deep dish? I know for a thin crust pizza you need to get above 750 or so to even be in the game, but I always thought a deep dish pizza was cooked at a lower temp to keep the top from carbonizing before the interior had cooked.
I am sure someone else, if not adblock, would come with something new to beat this new system too.
no where near that figure, obviously can't give specifics but its not even approaching half of that salary
I actually think this is a good thing. I expect videos ads to disappear in the following year, assuming that Google tool works.

People would need to react much different that I suspect if the result isn't that less than 10% actually view videos ads. Even my four year old nephew knows how to skip a video ads. Either video ads need to be cheaper than dirt or I'm have to be way of the make the economy work.

With the exception of ads on search engines and a few highly targeted sites, I don't see ads (not just video) as a viable way of financing a service. It must be working for site like Youtube and Facebook of cause, I just don't know how, it's a complete mystery.
It's not the box, but a small plastic enclosure with some very cheap electronics (I believe they even used a led as a light sensor) and the battery lasts very very long. I wouldn't know on the impact of that on the ecology though. When it comes to recycling I remember from long long ago that PCB's have a pretty large ecological footprint, but than again, it's not part of the packaging, so it can be easily taken out and used for other purposes!
With Unity you certainly need more RAM but nothing prevents one from installing another wm like xfce, awesome or lxde to save a ton on RAM and run just fine on 1 Gb.
I give it a month before trolls are disabling people's phones for fun.
Cool! The only suggestion that occurs to me is, I think it'd be nice to show blocks/rows of thumbnails so it's easier to see more at a time, and it's easier to skip over games whose style/colors don't draw you in. Maybe left side has thumbnails, right side displays full-size? Just an idea. Thanks.
How about they start producing interesting content (emphasis on interesting) with a bit of product placement inside ?

I don't want to watch 30s of publicity for something I don't like and will never buy (and it could even make hate the brand). But if you insert in the video non obnoxious product placement I can live with it.

Example : I watched a cooking recipe yesterday. The cook emphasized 2 or 3 times the brand of flour he was using and that's it. I understand he needs to make a living (he's a pro, not a home cook) he was not obnoxious about it, I'm OK with that. I even have a more positive view of the brand he was advocating since they are clever about their publicity.