skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"Looking back at my weekend with Flat Earthers, it is striking how many people who doubt the global model of the Earth also subscribe to all manner of other beliefs, from Biblical literalism to occultist paranoia, from anti-vaccination to quack cancer cues, from antisemitism to Aryanism. But it was also just as striking how many people whose journey into believing the Earth is flat included traumatic events or personal crises.

This, perhaps, is why it is so important for us to listen to and talk to Flat Earthers, and to approach them as much with understanding as ridicule: if they can see no light in mainstream society, their rabbit hole may only get deeper and darker."

This is one of the most humane, compassionate worldviews I've read in a while.

I really want to be more like Michael Marshall (the author), but I just don't know how.

Maybe I do, and just need to do it more. Last year I got involved with protecting wolves from one rogue rancher. During the public hearing, things got very heated. I found myself empathizing with the ranchers more than the enviros, two of whom acted very embarrassingly. One rancher (who was actually an ally of the enviros but still being attacked) had to leave the room, so I went out to check on him.

I guess I'm still trying to figure out how we're supposed to engage with people we strongly disagree with.
The way I read it[1], you're both right.

The rabies vaccine is part of rabies treatment, but it's used in the window between being exposed to rabies and developing rabies. People who've been exposed but haven't been previously vaccinated also get Rabies Immune Globulin, which provides immediate antibodies until the body can respond to the vaccine by actively producing antibodies of its own.

CDC: "Rabies vaccine is given to people at high risk of rabies to protect them if they are exposed. It can also prevent the disease if it is given to a person after they have been exposed."[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/rabies.h...
It's an inverted approach to problem-solving that is fine for side projects and self study but inappropriate for getting things done.

I suspect part of the problem is that people don't really have enough time for self study, so they, consciously or subconsciously, start finding excuses to inject their interests into their work. I know I am guilty of having done this in the past.
These patterns are likely to happen in times of extreme wealth inequality. Many people point the finger at Google and the like, and they may have a good case.
Don't give up trying to learn skateboarding, you might regret it 20 years later :)
I tried that and my kid hacked the phone (and PC). So now I just take the keyboard in the evening and return it the next day. I think Google and Apple have an opposing interest to parents.
Even then, the chances that the car behind has automatic braking get higher every year. And if they're so close that they can't brake before hitting you, that's _their_ fault, not yours. Brake, every time.
I honestly doubt that any other CEO would have made any difference.

Google's business model is fundamentally based on data mining as much as possible about their users, and what's changed in the past couple years is (a) a much greater awareness of the potential negative consequences of this data collection and (b) the sense that the American internet giants are becoming unstoppable juggernauts.

The hate against Google was inevitable.
I respect myself and women to know this won't solve it. I don't really care for lack of sex, its the lack of love cuts deep.
As much as I liked the Expanse, I really do agree with your point though. Acting was beyond ridiculous and cheesy. E.g. James Holden, Roberta Draper and Chrisjen Avasarala, though that might be due to the nature of their contrived characters.

It's not just that, though. In this context, "Space" and "sci-fi" are nothing more than plot devices that allow them to do the same thing all serials are doing these days: escalation. There is almost never a happy ending, never closure on anything, always something new and "bigger" lurking behind the scenes. Almost as if actual "creativity" is being substituted with "size" in some non-physical sense. "Heroes" is a clear example of it.
It's crazy that DragonFlyBSD took so little time to fix it. I can understand from Microsoft/Xen/Ubuntu to take only 1 day since they have so much people working/depending on it, but it shows great competence and dedication for such a "small" project as DF to solve it in 1 day. Respect.
People could list all sorts of reasons they don't want specific types of people. That doesn't mean they're right.
>I have a pet theory that more visual thinking is something that has come in from our Neanderthal ancestors.

That is an interesting proposal. One thing I like about it is its easy testibility. Given how easy it is to find people without Neanderthal DNA, the effort needed to conduct a study on this question would be minimal.
I'm not really sure you can. :(
?? I don't follow.
Given how much of software development itself is often little more than cargo culting w/ strong doses of guess & check stirred in, I suppose it makes sense that hiring/interview practices would mirror that, but it's still depressing everytime I come across stories like this one.

It doesn't have to be like this.

I don't hire people this way because I've never seen it produce good results, and I have to hire esoteric skillsets for a challenging problem, and without the time or budget that will forgive making bad hires.
Poorly represented information (lack of links to proper sources, and use of profane language), but there is content worth discussing about.

Would Google's entry to Berlin trigger a rise of inequality for the city's inhabitants and make life difficult for everyone that is not working for Google? (for example private Google buses for their employees in San Francisco)

Also a company that is morally a bad one in the public eye, with all the data collection, appearance in NSA revelation, is not something that the citizens of a city would NOT protest...
It's not so romantic if you have a family - and from the other side, as a kid, it wasn't nice for us having my dad away for weeks at a time.
Ah, I thought he was giving an argument why the Epstein drive was unrealistic, since his tone was agreeing with the parent.
It doesn't mean they're automatically wrong, either. Not sure you're saying much. They created a whole website to outline their argument.
Codegiant and Scrumpy look like good alternatives atleast for me.
How Useful Is Fear?
The page itself does this by calling out "tech bros".
He predicted similar in 2007: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2
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>Why is it that an app needs to follow the latest fashion trends?

I think our fashion and design tastes directly reflect something important about the time we are living in. For example, minimal and clean is in right now. You could speculate many valid reasons for this. It's also dependent upon the person. The majority of people are attracted to the latest fashion for various reasons, but some people go somewhere else, and others don't care. Users are thinking, if you're not on trend maybe you're out of sync with the user's needs?

It's also about consistency, and appearing as though you've spent time on the app to give it a consistent design. It doesn't necessarily need to be on trend as long as the design says something about the functionality of the app. A retro game in the play store should have a retro-looking menu!! If your design looks significantly outdated without being consistent with the functionality of the app, I think it sends a subconscious signal that the functionality is also deprecated, or that the developer was too lazy to care about an aspect of development that usually gets a lot of attention.

But, it depends on what your app is for.
I personally think that might depend on what you mean by "slow". Tcl/Tk programs can be very light and memory-efficient -- you can pack a lot of features into a program that only takes 10 megabytes or less at runtime and that starts up and responds to input near-instantly. The event loop abstraction which is well-integrated in Tcl makes it easy to handle sockets, files, timers, and gui events all on one loop which done right can keep your program very responsive without needing to worry about multithreading.

In terms of pure runtime performance (CPU efficiency I guess), do you know of any reasonable benchmarks comparing TCL to say, Python and Ruby? I wonder if they might all be in the same ballpark?
Even doomsday cults find ways to rationalize their mistakes when the apocalypse misses its schedule--why should an investor born into his money be any different?
I suggest you read the actual report, rather than the soundbytes. They put a lot of importance on the question of personal freedom: http://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/EN/publications/report-ethics-...
>Typing is a means for correct programming, not an end in itself.

That's not always the case.

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
This is a good time to reread one of pg’s essays http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I like the way you think. Are there any books you recommend on understanding how oligarchs think? What do you think is going through the mind of oligarchs with more geopolitical concerns, like Putin?
> People will need to realize that they will need to be welcoming to either everyone or noone, everything else is just bigotry.

AFAICT, Germany hasn't accused the NSA of doing anything illegal after the Snowden revelations. Should Germany be welcoming to the NSA in your opinion, lest Germany be accused of bigotry?

If the answer is that it is a separate issue because the NSA is a government agency of a nation-state and not a citizen, then I think good faith requires that you grant FUGoogle an edge case to your argument as well. After all, the argument they are putting forward is that Google is a powerful organization that surveils, censors, and avoids paying taxes. (Also, they make the argument that Google can't legally say no to participating in U.S. wide-net surveillance programs.)

Argue the substance, of which there is much, but please don't branch off into, "They came for Google and I said nothing." It's low effort.
With the Church of the Subgenius it's a lot more obvious, though.
I'm amazed to see some people here on HN could be that judgemental. You don't even know me and you somehow think that I wouldn't have asked my kid to let me work alone. My wife is there all day to take care of the child, and even though she does everything she can in her capacity, I don't know how much can you discipline a 2 year old who just can't resist being with her dad. Not sure how understanding/wise toddlers are in your part of the world.
All that for less than $60/hr.
Whilst it's certainly a case of https://xkcd.com/927 I find that Nix is very good for what you describe; there's also Guix but I've yet to use it.

I think of them as "Make done right".
Isn't TCL almost as fast as C for certain things, like strings, but slow in other ways, like recursion? I haven't tried to do any performance optimizations yet really.
Thank you, it wasnt long before I started thinking if I was undesirable because of my physical features AND my attitude.

It's a slow process and I hope I too can one day have a normal life, with someone by my side.
Adding another road block is not gonna help your open source project :) Every little additional thing counts.
Dunno why you're getting downvoted. It's true, and it only adds to the Drapers being enormous assholes; it doesn't contradict that. The leader of the #calexit campaign was an American who was living in Russia. Plus Russia's been funding far-right parties in Europe.
So I haven’t really followed this, but were tests performed that directly compared Theranos blood testing vs existing blood testing? What were the results?
I would highly recommend this blog about surviving in Antartica (and not loosing all your SANity points ;)

http://sme.wikidot.com
very clean looking productivity tool. desktop client looks especially slick.

aside: i thought the time lapse transition[1] in the demo was pretty cleverly done

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/X6BwS9c.gif
>I think the book suffers from the same issue as many other books in the science fiction genre: there's so much focus on developing the setting that the characters are underdeveloped and seem very generic.

I'm okay with this because it's more realistic.
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Definitely applies to all of that and blockchain if you want to separate that from cryptocurrency.

“We know what it is - just not what it’s for... yet”
No, actually it doesn't. From the report:

"In emergency situations, the vehicle must autonomously, i.e. without human assistance, enter into a “safe condition”."

What they mean is that the driver should have the freedom to overrule the system, not that they must do so.
"So take an American of average IQ: 100. Poverty, according to the estimates from the paper that triggered this post, would knock a person back to an IQ of 87, dropping them behind roughly a third of their fellow Americans of equal intelligence — just because they’re poor."

Another piece aimed at guilt manipulation and scare mongering for the middle class. Don't lose your job, it will hurt your entire intelligence! Don't take risks, you'll be full flowers for algernon if everything doesn't go perfectly.

There's a likely reality here that the biological impact of intelligence is high and that the market selects enough for IQ that the whole measurement goes down as some people escape poverty. Which is close to what we want btw.
> My cynical read of this is that it's an attack on Facebook

Yah, and hooray. Google may be more powerful and invasive even, but there's tons of reasons they have a less-manipulative, less-awful business model overall. Any successful attack on Facebook is a good thing.

All these companies are bad, but Facebook is the worst of them. I'd say Facebook < Google = Amazon < Microsoft < Apple < FLO (free/libre/open).

All these companies are shitty in certain ways, but some are shittier than others. Apple's walled-garden censorship of copyleft software on iOS is what led me to embrace GNU in the first place, but the level of dark-patterns they do is nothing like Facebook.
The example in point 4. does almost no bit level manipulation and when it does, it does so with locally hard coded constants and shifts, which is probably one of the worst ways of dealing with this.
Sounds like London - people are open-minded as long as you tick the boxes to meet the requirements for being open-minded about. They fancy themselves open-minded but are really just mindlessly following another fad.
Best English translation: grit
companies and wealthier people moving in makes everyone in the area more wealthy.

This would only be true if everyone owned their own residences and profited from the increase in land values. In reality, the inhabitants of gentrifying neighborhoods are usually just evicted from their homes so the owners can sell to developers, and they end up worse off than they were before.
Cabal is one example, which requires packages like `base` to be specified explicitly.

Cabal runs a dependency solver to satisfy most dependencies, but for compiler-provided things like `base` it simply checks whether or not the requirement is satisfied by the compiler being used (if not, it bails out).
Yes, it's an option, but my wife is a stay at home mother so she takes care of her mostly. It's just that my kid can't resist knocking my door to see me or talk to me. And I'm surprised to see all others who are chiming 'discipline', she's just 2, so not sure how much can we discipline her right now.
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I hate it, and my personal biggest gripe is we the people should be making the rules to protect ourselves through laws, cheeringng on a company for doing this is just encouraging and enabling “self regulation”.

They’ll also hold shareholder value above “product values” (as google users are their product). It encourages half measure and ineffective solutions.
Temporal is right, Amos is really hard to appreciate without the background in the books. He is actually my favorite character by far,and I think the actor is doing a fantastic job at portraying him, but that's only beacsuse I "know" what's going on in his head.

It's a shame, and a bit of a failure on the part of the show runners, that you'd have to be a fan of the books to be a fan of the show.
Display is better, 25% maybe.
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Well, when you don't own the majority of the fruits of your own labor, then I'd say your "DNA" is a drop in the bucket in comparison. But yeah, precisely how you feel is how Libertarians and other actual free-minded individuals feel about concepts such as taxation.

Personally, I don't see DNA as that intrinsic or important as others do. It's just a piece of information about the composition of my body. Sure, if they could completely clone my brain and the essence of what I am, then I could get behind something like this. But as is, I'd just be peeved that someone gets to "use" my DNA. Same way I get peeved that Google/Facebook "use" my browsing habits to train their ML algorithms.
Liked for the last line. Getting old is funny.
The author is arguing for critical thinking. If a person makes an argument and we write it off because of that person's identity, that is the opposite of critical thinking. We could as easily write off the Luddites for being violent lawbreakers.

Like "racist", "white supremacist" is tossed around ever more liberally in modern discourse. At Evergreen this year, people left graffiti saying that science without intersectionality is white supremacy. We need to engage ideas critically precisely to determine whether charges like "accused white supremacist" are even accurate.
I think it was a Vice video or similar, undercover at a chinese apple export "factory" showing what they did.
Knowing that most of the sites use that box to let you acknowledge they are tracking.

I wonder how that applies legally if they happen to collect data on you and you haven’t given consent.
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This is a problem I encountered just recently, even if your bus might in principle support byte wise access to memory, it might be the case that one of the custom devices on that bus simply ignore that feature, leading to surprising and unpredictable results.
Looking for a dead simple cpp example if anyone knows of one.
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>time for that.

I wish you good luck :) I, like many other people in this community, make sure everywhere I register I use a unique username/email. It is also safer as to have a different email for each service. This way I know which * sells my data left-right-and-center.

As for the Company Values, these are the ones _practiced_ by its people. No point having an adamant privacy policy if your staff actually disregards them.
If you've ever read an article about something you know really well (company you work for, someone you personally know well, topic you are an expert in), I think you'll find that in most news articles there are exaggerations/questionable numbers printed all the time.
No one is being forced to let their start-ups be dictated by venture capitalists. Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
Help me out... Why not use a C or Algol derivative syntax?
Thanks, that covers much of what I had in mind before.

Error handling in Haskell seems to suffer from two fundamental problems.

One is that there is a clash between non-strict evaluation and exceptions, as your first example illustrates. I understand the arguments about why throwing can be done in pure code but catching needs to be in IO in Haskell, but those reasons are consequence of other design decisions in Haskell. The asymmetry is awkward, and it feels like you can never quite trust pure functions to do what you expect. It's a little like the long-standing criticisms of exceptions in C++, except that at least in C++ idioms have evolved to compensate, whereas shoving everything behind one or another of the `catch` variants in Haskell feels very unidiomatic to me.

The other fundamental problem is that the different techniques for representing potential failure don't compose very elegantly. Given that flexible composition is arguably the biggest selling point of being lazy in the first place, that is unfortunate. The elegance gained from a language like Haskell in expressing tidy, pure code loses its shine a little if you then have to wrap a lot of real world code that calls out to other libraries to do things inside 17 levels of monad transformers, forced evaluations and catches.

Of course I'm not suggesting that these are new or insurmountable problems or that no-one can write reasonably safe code in Haskell or anything silly like that. But I do think some advocacy, as if the type system is borderline magical, can be rather idealistic, and sometimes overlooks the warts that also arise as a direct result of the decisions that made the language safer and more elegant in other respects.
They're more than incidents, they're the intentional modus operandi of the USA.
Because technology is more than practical, it's also cool.
> No, you just hover the function and get the help() out of it in most framework and libs. Again, if your code is mainly using a well define, documented and popular framework/lib/api, that's not a big deal. And it certainly doesn't require YOU to add types.

If the help or comments tell you the types of arguments and return values, that is just static typing in the form of comments. Even more verbose than language level type annotations, yet much harder to parse for editors/IDEs/linters.
The Coral Reef Pattern of Incremental Improvement
DNA is a pretty hard thing to keep private. I wouldn’t think of it as one of the last things you lose right before liberty.
Yubico is a Swedish company, so you may want to consider filing a complaint with the Swedish data protection authority:
https://www.datainspektionen.se/in-english/contact-us/
Well, I think I can make a simpler argument. Google will change this neighbourhood. The culture will change, the cost of things, not just rent, will increase. Assuming that the author is very happy with how his neighbourhood currently is, I can see how he doesn't want Google's change.

I think that, if the majority of the people in the area side with the author, there is an argument to be made to, through political means, block bringers of gentrifications such as Google from entering this area.
Can’t blame him for trying.

I can. I can definitely blame people for being amoral unless they have some brain damage/dysfunction whereby they don't know the difference.
Does it sync with my normal calendar? (e.g. google calendar setup)
> borderline childish website

It's fully childish, it's called "Fuck off Google" and the call to action button is "WTF?", and it's promoting tagging graffiti on stores/public places with ugly slogans and calling it "street art": https://fuckoffgoogle.de/2018/04/17/street-art-against-googl...
> Everyone in this area should have bought the flats they live in.

Don't you think they would have if they could?