skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing the recent wave of discourse surrounding social media platforms has been interesting.

We had similar problems before them. Tabloids, conspiracy theory subculture, clickbait, etc, are nothing new.

And we had "feed readers" that functioned to aggregate news sources that we subscribed/followed/liked. Which, in theory, should have catered to us in the way that people now label an "echo chamber".

But there are a few differences that stick out to me:

- More people producing content (back in the day anyone could create a blog or personal site, but the barrier of entry is lowered by social media platforms)

- These platforms are promoting some content above other content (which goes beyond aggregation)

- There's more data being collected and the tech to analyze it is increasing (targeting segments is easier)

- Bots
If you have no idea that radio waves exist and no way to build a receiver, looking for telegraph lines is the best you can do. Given our (or rather my) knowledge of physics and engineering, electromagnetic waves are the best medium for long-distance communication and quantum magic isn't going to change that anytime soon. If there really is something that's even better, we can start worrying about it once we can detect it.
Its also worth considering the strength of the coffee may be more than anticipated. For instance, a 20oz cup of Starbucks coffee has _more than double_ the caffeine found in 20oz of red bull. It always gives me a laugh when the "5 hour energy" commercials advertise "only as much caffeine as a cup of the leading premium brand of coffee" -- aka Starbucks. A 5 hour energy _also_ has more caffeine than a red bull. I always bring this up in these conversations because it was all such a surprise to me.
> Second, if most miners stop mining a coin, it can kill it.

This won't happen though. Miners are out to make a profit, full stop. They mine whatever currency is most profitable, so hash power follows price. Bitcoin has over half of the total cryptocurrency market cap. So long as Bitcoin itself is highly valuable, the miners will naturally follow along as well. And as some miners temporarily defect (thus incurring massive hourly losses in opportunity costs from mining less valuable currencies), transaction fees on Bitcoin simply go up higher, making each block worth significantly more reward, thus tempting the defectors with ever-increasing profits to defect back to mining Bitcoin. There is no mining cartel.
"invest in index funds" is a heuristic for "own a tiny share of everything, at market price".

The mantra is "try to be average, at very low management fees", that way, your performance will always be average, and never worse than average.
> Except if she wasn’t sure she didn’t want to settle down

As you have said, she had a void that needed to fill and a very difficult past to deal with. Being sure about what ones want is not that easy in that scenario. She probably got engaged with you hoping that you could fill that gap or simply because it could bring some stability to her life.

I don't blame you for having tough thoughts about her. You'll need a thick skin to get out of that relationship but it's not as simple as saying "if she wasn’t sure she didn’t want to settle down...she shouldn’t have".
>It’s really hard to form these arguments and hypotheses rigorously, and I rarely see anyone try to do so. What does it mean to ask “were we happier before the agricultural revolution than we are now?”

>Are we talking about the mean happiness of all humans at one instant? If that’s our only goal, maybe we can achieve it by killing or sterilizing everyone below a certain level of happiness, but obviously that goes against most people’s moral beliefs.

While the interviewer was clearly pushing for comparisons of happiness in modern civilisation, I don't feel that either participant in the conversation were attempting to rigorously quantify it... That would seem as fruitless an endeavour as attempting to quantify broad intelligence. The details are not only subjective, but in this case likely to group quite disparate "wants" for happiness due to experiencing an entirely different lifestyles. They are not all (or hardly at all) directly comparable, but it's interesting to contemplate the differences to see what we have gained and lost.

In relation to happiness: the most interesting "correction" discussed is how the transition to agriculture clearly and quantifiably did _not_ provide an immediate improvement in quality of life (and most likely by proxy happiness), bone records show that undernourishment was an effect of becoming an early member of agricultural society.

We tend to think of hunter gathers as we used to think about neanderthals (as being obsolete, rather than simply different). Civilisation clearly has many advantages that are not possible in a hunter gatherer society, but even in it's evolved form mostly void of the initial malnutrition and disease has many side effects which are not present in hunter gatherer society that are not necessarily advantages. Likewise hunter gatherer lifestyles have advantages that are not practically possible in modern civilisation.

I guess my point is, they are different, and it's important to think of them as different rather than obsolete and degenerate as most people do... even trying to compare them in terms of crude quantifiers such as "happiness" seems wrong in this sense (for better or worse).
> Did this trend start with social media

I don't think so. I think it started when there are more free stuff to consume than the time we have to cobsume it. In a way it is connected con consumerism but when the products are free.
Most people who add sugar to their coffee use a couple of teaspoons, so probably less than 15 g of sugar. Now in e.g. a Coca Cola, there's 10.6 g of sugar in each 100ml. You'll probably drink at least 300-600ml of coke.
The big difference seems like it will be tax law and availability of public/corporate pensions. Otherwise the rate of return shouldn’t be fundamentally different depending on the country you’re in.

That said, tax implications matter a ton.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me here, so maybe this comment is going in the wrong direction entirely:

I think we are on the same side of the fence. Reasoning about your designs—and communicating your reasoning openly, not fearing scrutiny but rather embracing it—are important in any project.

But you compare an introductory article in which I try to explain a language to prospective users or other interested parties with the notes, musings, and writings of someone working on a compiler, aimed at an entirely different set of interested parties. Sure, in the end we’re all programmers and should all be interested in both, but trying to cover both at the same time will only result in mental overload.

I’m also in no position to talk about these things. I provide the occasional compiler bug fix, but I’m not the principal driving force behind the compiler. I build tools and libraries with Carp, and see whether it breaks in interesting ways, or try to come up with use cases that don’t yet exist. In other words, I’m just a user.
Yeah. Good points, I appreciate your perspective.

I’ve been going to therapy for 2 months now independently. We did one appointment together. She cancelled her follow up.

We agreed to go to counseling together over a year ago but she just never followed through, even when I tried to.
I think a large part of it is due to excessive exposure to life of the rich and successful. Seeing these images through Instagram feels more like a personal interaction than through a magazine, not to mention the frequency.

I have felt this myself having for a period followed the 'it' group in my city. These people were in the best clubs, restaurants, yachts, holiday destinations almost all the time surrounding by beautiful and what appears to be interesting people. Hard not to feel deprived when your monkey mind perceives that as somewhat normal. Despite a very, very small number of people who have this lifestyle, there are enough for this type of life to appear pervasive.

In the past our exposure to this subset of people was extremely limited. Fashion and gossip magazines would do profiles giving a small glimpse into the world. Generally the incredible lives some people have was hidden.

I think it is probably best not to be frequently reminded of a lifestyle that is likely out of your reach. If one thinks not obtaining this lifestyle is a failure (work on this thought if you do!), don't reopen the wound several times a day.
Bitcoin Price: New All-Time High After Thanksgiving Day
Aside from the federal/state/local split, which has already been mentioned, the Constitution split Executive/Legislative/Judicial branches out at the federal level. We may have weakened the intent of those checks and balances in our current environment, but they certainly were designed into the system.

So yes, to answer your question - I would definitely would apply the same logic to government.
I bet most people don't know chickens need light to lay eggs, their egg laying will slow down as the days grow shorter. Plus they will kill each other if even the slightest bit of blood appears. And the smell oh the smell!
Hashpower doesn't matter. Miners follow price which follows economic demand. Mining is at the very end of the chain of causality, not at the beginning or middle of it.

The failure of the Segwit2X fork exemplifies this perfectly. If hashpower truly were as important if you say it were, then Segwit2X wouldn't gone ahead with >90% hashpower support (software bugs notwithstanding). Instead, it was called off for lack of consensus within the community, and the miners stuck around afterwards anyway. That 90% figure isn't nearly as important as you're making it out to be.
That's full text search, not having directly the argument definition. If you search "-l" in "man ls", it will be only your 8th occurence.
I can help with UX. DM me, my Twitter is in my profile.
Yeah I guess I really need to. I’ve been scared to do so.
Why do you reply by editing your original comment, instead of using the "reply"-function?
A friend of mine is about to start delivering/shopping for Shipt, I'd like to see a similar breakdown.

Heck, I'd like to see what pizza delivery drivers costs are as well.
Everytime I get frustrated with my wife I'm just going to keep thinking about how good I have had it.
Not just hard work but dangerous. So many people including children have been killed or maimed working on farms. What makes it is farms are all family operation not some factory.

Farming must be the last industry in the western world that has children working in it and it's seen as OK.
You need an amazing test suite, for starters. If the test suite is good enough then even a large refactor isn't that scary.

This was part of the problem for the Segwit2X code: inadequate testing. The original Bitcoin Core codebase is up to a very high standard, and that high standard seems to be the first thing to go anytime someone goes to fork it. This is part of the reason why the developers of Bitcoin Core have so much influence to set future direction of the currency within the Bitcoin community at large; there aren't that many highly-skilled cryptocurrency developers out there. It's unsafe to launch a fork without them.
>regulate the capitalist wet dream

American culture really comes down to this. The driving force behind our "leaders" is a blind will to dominate and hoard wealth. It feels like we're reaching the point in history where this human instinct is backfiring tremendously.

I have a theory that one way of decentralizing power is to create protocol standards that help us share freely. For example, if the concept of a user was somewhat standardized across social media, social media companies could expose an API for sending cross-platform messages, tagging each other in photos, etc.

As the internet itself became standardized, so must our social media. Hell, what's stopping it from becoming a crowd-funded FOSS network of independent social media platforms? Costs a whole lot less to run a social media website if you're not trying to take over the world!
You can't. And they were hidden before pg stepped back; in fact, he made a poll asking what people thought of the change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605
Start a local news & culture Twitter account that's better for young people than your newspaper.
Comments like these are the reason why I need an editor.
Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape--talk by Michael Frank in the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium.
http://ee380.stanford.edu.
Well, they do have an issue tracker https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/GUACAMOLE
The one advantage folks in their 20s have is time.

I actually don't think software engineering is the best career (in financial / lifestyle terms) for someone who might also excel in business, finance, law, or medicine. But there is one hack to our industry:

You can make a good salary starting in your early to mid 20s, with only a bachelor's degree or less, while most of your peers will still be in school for years, then paying off loans, and finally beginning at the bottom of the corporate ladder.

Now unfortunately, by 35 or so, most of your smart friends will have caught up - paid off their loans, and now be earning similar high incomes. And software engineers tend to hit a glass ceiling, run into ageism, etc.

But having lived frugally while making over six figures for over a decade, you can have accumulated $500K - $1M, and if you forget about that money, can coast into early retirement by 50 or earlier, or take career risks that others can't afford. A million in net worth at 40 opens up a lot options.
I'm curious how many HN people still use Facebook. The overall sentiment here seems to be to just quit it.
Though even in the case of CISA, you have far more Republicans than Democrats voting in favor of it and far more Democrats than Republicans voting against it.
You forgot the part of the quote that agrees with what you're talking about:

> yet we don't really cut the umbelical cord (grant them autonomy) until they're in their twenties

The problem pointed by GP is that kids are expected to behave responsibly at school (as if it were work), but parents are not giving them enough autonomy in life. Most of them never "become responsible", because they're taught from early age that they shouldn't (and that feeling is reinforced later, when parents call colleges, and the things you talk about). There's a lot of cognitive dissonance there.
In dynamic languages such as JavaScript or Python, renaming is definitely a kind of refactoring, as it can easily break things (I've seen it happen).

In static languages such as Java, renaming a variable is something your IDE can do for you with all the benefits of static analysis. There's almost no risk associated, and reviews can be a rubber-stamp.
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I was under the impression that you could see it when clicking the "[-]" at the right side of the comment metadata. But it seems it's just the number of child comments, my mistake.
To me, this overall cheapening of life is a problem bigger than social media.

Before recorded music, getting to hear a performance was an event in itself. I can only imagine it was savored. Now, the constant, high-speed bombardment of new music has made our tastes fickle and cheapened the experience. It's not "bad", but it has changed that part of being a person.

We've done it to everything. Food, film, clothing, books, and social interaction. These things we criticize are just specific symptoms of the overall trend, but I can't imagine a scenario where it doesn't happen. It's an unavoidable outcome of our increasing the pace and availability of things. Again, not even sure it's bad, it just feels weird. I don't know how you scale a civilization any other way.

As you get older, it's common to think of yourself as having been born "too late" for something, and I try to be mindful of that tendency. However, it's one thing to lament not being able to be a cowboy, it's another to wistfully look back on life having any manageable pace.
I am excited for WASM for the same reason; not for wholesale migration, but targeted optimization. Hope documentation for this (likely very popular use-case) improves as WASM matures.
Now try to teach someone that pastes images into Word to send them as attachment into emails to use git + emacs + TeX/docbook/perldoc/HTML/plain text.
I think the real issue is the lack of DOM access rather than binding to JS.
I wish they had implemented gradients in a way that didn't depend on uri fragments. Not an issue with standalone svg images, but it means you have to manage namespace clashes for inline svg images.
> He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor.

Even if judging by surface appearance something is a clone, there might still be a lot of creativity involved "under the hood" i.e. in the implementation. In the case of Linux it was originally optimized for 80386 and is a monolithic kernel while Minix is a microkernel design. Fine-tuning it to run fast on 80386 must surely have involved a lot of creativity?
I think you're correct. I'm also actually astonished how many people drink sugared/flavoured drinks (including "juice" and "milk") as a substitute for water and never question what effect this might be having on them. I would encourage everyone to stop drinking anything except water for 6 months just to see what happens.
Curious about the relationship between SnapCloud and WeTransfer.
Inspecting Docker images without pulling them
I don't agree with your proposed way of studying this. You're trying to study a symptom and then conclude on the cause of the symptom. That makes no sense. If you want to prove that Facebook is listening, then prove that Facebook is listening. And don't try to prove that Facebook is listening and then targeting you with ads based on what you said. There are way too many levels of indirections that can trigger false positive for a vast number of reasons you don't control at all.
What you are trying to do is replicate in large-scale displays of anecdotes but with a slightly more controlled environment.
That won't prove anything since it will just be anecdotes and will again not sustain rational explanation by experts of Facebook ads mechanisms.

Without getting into the ads delivery part and the anecdotes, how would you prove that Facebook is listening?
How would you prove that there is a set of information taken from your speech or your audible environment transferred to Facebook.
I understand others have seen them before, but I wish dups wouldn't get nuked into oblivion on HN as soon as they are identified.

Nobody has read _all of hacker news_. Can't there be a place for re-posts, if not on the main page?
Yep. I only drink black coffee, no sugar, and I don't eat sweets, cookies, or anything. In fact, I mostly don't consume anything but coffee from I wake up until dinner time, 6-7 PM.
IMO most "personal finance advisors" miss the career progression thing.

- on one hand, it's ridiculous to seriously recommend young professionals (in their 20s) to long-term save 20+% pretax income if they don't have substantial assets (e.g. their parents' house) or if they are not in the top 5% of their age group (think finance in London). I bet most millennials don't have the kind of income that allows that _and_ having a life quality comparable to their peers. In London and I suspect in SF it's very common to have 30% of your pre-tax income to go to rent; taxes will eat another 30%, groceries and eating out is another 10-20%. What's left is measly 20-30% of income that must be divided between shopping (clothing, hobbies, car, gadgets, whatever) and long-term saving. If we throw in absolute income numbers and property prices, it all comes to "question any expense, live in misery and MAYBE you'll be able to afford a downpayment in a decade".

- on the other hand, a lot of people can expect to double, triple or quadruple their income in a decade of their career. If not, on the scale of a decade it's possible to change the career.

So maybe there is a point where one should focus on earning more instead of saving. Maybe it's more important to have that expensive hobby that reduces your stress levels and allows to work harder.

Maybe the only right kind of advice is "raise your income and don't get into debt".
This is a tough problem. I'm a parent, and the "do I meddle in this?" issue is probably what I think about most.

With most tricky parenting issues, the answer is probably that you're on the right track if you're even thinking about it and asking the question
Great. I like the way Rust is going on about.
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That's how it may have used to work.

The abuse of the Commerce clause has expanded the regulatory power of the federal government almost unilaterally.
This is silly. You live in globalization. You're dependent on foreign companies one way or another, whether it's cheap Chinese made products, Russian gas, or Saudi oil. But you're worried about being 'dependent' on Microsoft Office, from the United States? Get a grip.
No, GSL is a kind of stop-gap solution, until standard catches on.

For example std::string_view and ongoing design on std::array_view are based on gsl::span. The gsl::byte is also no longer needed on C++17 thanks to std::byte as yet another example.

The GSL asserts are there until code contracts[0] get into the standard.

The magical types like gsl::owner allow clang-tidy and VC++ checkers to apply a Rust-like memory tracking usage.

Kate Gregory did a presentation at CppCon 2017.

"10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDEzfpdcSg

As for not taking off, being initially a Microsoft proposal, it is surely used by Office and Windows teams, specially given they already use SDL (Security Definition Language) macros as well.

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p054...
For market dominating software, those costs can be reduced by sites like stackoverflow, youtube, and blog posts/samples.

Try searching for how to perform an arbitrary function in Word or Excel. Hundreds of hits, and probably 25% will solve your problem. Try the same search for Google Sheets or OpenOffice. Crickets was always my experience.
Im curious, what objectively terrible advice have you seen? I want to make sure I didn't pick some up without knowing it.
The word has been incorporated into other European languages with spellings that make sense for that language. Other commentators have mentioned the Portuguese, Spanish and German forms. To add to those, I've come across "Čau" in a number of Slavic languages.
Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails
My point is on the elegance of a solution. As you said your solution works but that can be attributed to your domain knowledge. But the affect of your solution might be understated. We have people who write direct queries after much discussion with us. While we can't directly point them out, the queries tend to run for hours affecting other people's work and then we have to rework the whole thing all over again.
No that's not it. The _real_ cause for this angst is so many people disparaging the mindless consumption culture. (Perhaps teenagers are afraid there won't be opportunity to participate :).
Sounds ideal to me.

In the UK we have 'silent carriages' on trains but after a while the 'loud and impolite' people started to realise there was little or no enforcement so, although we still have them, they are pretty much redundant.

In Spain (where I'm living now) there seems to be a class divide (much more in the UK) regarding etiquette for loud talking and phone conversations. Local busses and trains can be sheer hell yet longer distance services and flights tend to be quite civilised.