skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People knew there was no way out, so work style was different though (keeping work/life balance was not a phylosophical question).

Really? My grandparents and grandgrandparents told me an entirely different story.

Please provide references for your statement.
> I've been trying to receive "euthanasia" for myself. I suffer gender dysphoria.

I'm sorry to read that you want to die, but I hope very much that you continue to fail. You are valuable, you make the world better by being in it and it will be worse when you do die. Yes, you have a mental condition, but that is no reason to hate yourself: you deserve love, not hate. Life is tough for everyone, some more than others, but it's also full of joy & beauty, and you're part of that joy & beauty.
This site is for intellectually interesting discussion and nationalist dismissals aren't that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Choices about what profession or business to go into, whether to buy things and how much to pay for them, what goods/services to provide and how to provide them, etc.
Inside a $1B Real Estate Company Operating Entirely in VR
This is often very illegal to do on a bicycle.

On a motorcycle lane position is very situational... however very very rarely if you are in motion is being in the middle of the lane a good idea. Generally speaking you should only be in the middle of the lane when you are fully stopped at a stop sign or light to keep cars from trying to squeeze by you.

On a normal two lane road (one each direction) you want to stay in the left hand side of the lane. This is so people over taking a car behind you spot you and don't force themselves in putting you in a dangerous spot.

On a four lane road (two lanes each way) you would hold the same position as previously mentioned if you were in the right lane however if you are in the left lane you would want to stay to the right side of that lane... this way again someone merging in from the right lane would see you.
And so the cancer-free version of the Aryan race was proclaimed
I don't & I don't do any tracking. I respect anyone who decides to read what I write. I'll make money if my articles end up getting me hired someplace.
Is there a link somewhere to a summary of what happened here? A lot of context is missing that is only coming from the comments in bits and pieces. For instance the only thing I was able to gather from the comments is that there was some potential police overreach where someone who collects donations was raided because the recipient is involved in some illegal/terroristic bomb related activity. Seems like a lot of nuance is missing here.
Maybe We Should Go Easy on Uncle Bob
Have not found my passion. Currently using money as a proxy. Optimizing my software dev career for it.
Second article regarding brutalism I've sent today in HN. Sheesh, time to redesign all of my websites with brutalist style.
An example how to make nice REST API with Spring
Why? What makes the living being" deserving of empathy, and the machine not?

Why should "living beingness" be restricted to our genetic footprint?

Is an animal any less deserving of being treated well when it is raised for food?

Do children that aren't descended from someone deserve to be treated more harshly than one's own?

As complexity goes up, and things develop to become more humanlike, at the end of the day, we'll need to be willing to extend some semblance of care toward them.

Do you think it's perfectly okay and reasonable for marketing to predate on primal heuristics in order to manipulate you into doing something you'd not normally do?

What else is another human being other than a bag of squishy parts that happens to take action or make sounds in response to stimuli in similar ways that I do?

I think I know where your attitude comes from, but the ability to map input to output doesn't magically make something not worthy of empathizing with. The exact opposite is often preferable to a degree as it helps inure one to rampant dehumanization of those around them.

I'm not saying to take your hammer out to dinner, but an emotional connection to an inanimate thing that works as it should is not unhealthy. And when you start talking about children, them showing concern for anything but themselves is a good thing.
I'm on the current medical treatment I can afford. I wouldn't combine the word effective in that sentence. I've given it enough time to decide the treatment is unacceptable in making the pain be bearable. I'm at a point where it's euthanasia or suicide and which is the case for people seeking euthanasia. Some people have more pain than others with the same illness classification and depending on how life transpired. It shouldn't be an outsider limiting others scenario.
There's an extension for that. http://darkreader.org/
What Scott Adams has to say on the subject:

http://slidesha.re/1dPgJ0p

http://blog.dilbert.com/2014/01/21/goals-are-for-losers-pass...
I have, in fact, worked in a large corporation and I agree that regulations are a big reason why they survive. I just don't think that no regulation at all is the better alternative. I wish I knew how to prevent big corporations writing their own regulations, but for many topics most people who know anything about it are on their payroll.
I've heard it causes pretty significant constipation in some cases. I guess that's undesirable.
Learn by Doing [Volume 10]: When microservice architecture bites back
This looks like a great way to get over the initial hurdle of unfamiliarity.

The only thing that looked potentially confusing was calling "cd .." a way "to step back". It could sound like a way to go to the last directory you visited instead of a way to go up a directory.
>going from a small brew a day the first week to doing 6-10g a day within weeks.

At small doses Kratom is somewhat of a stimulant. 6-10G is where opiate effects start kicking in, so I'd say doing 6-10G is perfectly normal for Kratom usage.
A related tip for mobile users is Firefox Focus.
It is a variant of Firefox that does the following:

"The new Firefox Focus automatically blocks a wide range of online trackers—from the moment you launch it to the second you leave it. Easily erase your history, passwords and cookies, so you won’t get followed by things like unwanted ads."

I.e. it has the aforementioned extensions built-in, and is a small binary. It's also light-weight in the sense that it has very limited support for broswer tabs—prevents you from mindlessly opening a ton of them.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus
If you login, hit the menu in the top right, there's an option to permanently revert to the old reddit style.
https://losangelesbicyclelaw.com/california-bicycle-laws-ove...

"When there isn’t a bicycle lane, try to stay near the right curb. Unless you are moving faster than vehicle traffic, passing another bicycle, or making a left turn, you should typically stay close to the curb or road’s edge."

http://www.calbike.org/bicycling_in_california_sharing_the_r...

"The law says that people who ride bikes must ride as close to the right side of the road as practicable except under the following conditions: when passing, preparing for a left turn, avoiding hazards, if the lane is too narrow to share, or if approaching a place where a right turn is authorized."
Hi, I just now saw your comment--I maintain lists of my most used snippets in HTML format, rather than using a dynamic "snippets manager" or other content management system to generate HTML when requested or as a static website. I hope that clears it up.
Well, to be fair, Python's logo resembles a snake more closely than John Cleese.
Git is pretty agnostic to storage. There are implementations that use RDBMS for storage quite successfully (TFS/VSTS). It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of queries can be significantly faster to perform over git repos stored this way.
https://www.richard-banks.org/2014/02/tfs-internals-how-does...
> The quote by the HHS doesn't go into the details of what they see are unnecessary hurdles for women. Did the reporter not try to dive in more?

The HHS spokesperson wouldn’t even attach their name to their statement, I don’t know why you think they’d be forthcoming about anything else.
Not to be snarky, but this sounds like the viewpoint of a front end developer. One I disagree with. It would be like someone saying front end developers are unnecessary bc anyone can spin up a WordPress site and then go get a coffee.

Can you get a backend going for a thousand users fairly quickly and easily? Sure. But that's the WordPress equivalent of describing back end development. If you have any kind of process based workflow with varying parameters, integration with hardware, detailed reporting / analytics, hell, if you even deal with money or dates/ times / timezones, which is any non-trivial application, backend development gets real complex real fast.

It may be trivial to spin up a WordPress site, but it isn't too put together a solid, reliable React / Redux PWA with isomorphic rendering and offline support. It may be trivial to serve a few API endpoints straight out of the database, but it isn't when you have workflows and processes and states and have to deal with shit like GDPR.

> But there's not a ton of serious thinking involved.

Give a fucking break. The only way this could ever be true is if you only have experience working on extremely trivial applications with no complex functionality.
Yes, it's the same proof.
This is a fantastic article. I've been wanting to write an article like this and Justin Worthe did a better job at describing org-mode and Literate Programming than I could have.

For my part, I've written at least 3 "non trivial" literate programs using org-babel and describe them here: https://gist.github.com/jpf/d71453f535065a0d9281672152541386

I should mention that one of my "dirty secrets" of writing literate programs is that I always start with an "illiterate" program, tweaking, changing and updating as I go along. Then, once it's something I'm ready to "chisel in stone" I start converting the code into a literate document.

I do this by checking all of my code into Git, then re-create the code inside of org-mode. Every time I "tangle" from org-babel, I do a "git diff" and make sure that I haven't changed the code by documenting it.

I do this because, while it's easy to make changes to a literate program, but it's harder to do a major refactor.
Not a huge loss for the US, but I will probably never go back due to this. Even if you have insurace, your life will be hell for a while due to having to fight your insurance company over a tremendous bill. I don't want to have to think twice if I should bring in my son to the hospital or not, and frankly, the US doesn't have anything unique enough to offer to offset that risk. I'm also doing my best to stay away from conferences, preferring instead Canada, European or Asian destinations.
I read that less as "inequality is a choice", but rather as "if we allow choice, there will be inequality".

So you can't easily choose to have less inequality, unless you also choose to eliminate almost all (other?) choice.
Although bikes are well protected in Dutch cities, for American cities, I intuitively see taking kids around on a bike as extremely risky.
I thought apple in general follow this guideline unless you are one the big guys? Is that right or am I remembering this wrong?
Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong
I personally run a music and fashion label in Toronto, and my primary partner and I both use Apple Music, as we are fairly locked into Apple’s ecosystem. (We produce music in Logic Pro X, edit our music videos in Final Cut Pro X and Motion, and use iPhones for GarageBand iOS -> Logic capability.)

It works like a dream, we share a family plan for a very reasonable $15/mo and have access to 95% of even the old exclusives from the iTunes Store.

As iTunes was the primary source of legal music online for quite some time, it’s selection is vast and it’s seamless integration with iCloud means all my Apple things (which are most of my digital things) all have all the music I want on them...which is a lot.

I’m also a stickler for quality, since I make music for a living, so it’s great from that angle as well.
> Drivers on opioids frighten the crap out of me.

Is there any reason you personally feel that way or is it more of "opioids are strong and dangerous so I figure people driving on them is dangerous"?
Well, I live in a country that does have a socialized welfare system. So the best-case scenario isn't entirely hypothetical. Everyone who earns money pays ~50-75% of their income in various taxes, and everyone who hits economic or medical hardship gets enough help that they'll survive and keep a minimum of dignity. No one starves, no one has to be homeless, no one is forced to work a job that ruins their mental or physical health, although some do come close before they are diagnosed and get permanent (paid) medical leave.

Almost no one dies from diagnosed and treatable diseases, with a few exceptions in cases where treatment is extremely expensive and ineffective (e.g. treatment costs $1 million per year and increases life expectancy by 2 years).

We do still have drug addicts, homeless people, people with massive gambling debts, people with untreated psychological illnesses and prostitutes of many types.

I think it's an interesting philosophical discussion to which degree those who suffer the most on the lowest rungs of my society are victims (in the sense that society should have done more to help them). The vast majority are certainly _offered_ a large amount of help. Some seem unable or unwilling to accept help. Many do accept help, but keep making self-destructive decisions, and it is considered unethical to use force to stop them. Most receive help and live decent lives.

Interestingly, acts like surrogacy, prostitution and donating blood or plasma for money is still illegal here. Even though few better systems could be devised to ensure that on one is forced to take part in these against better judgement. "No one should be allowed to sell their body" is a mantra you'll hear a lot, but there hasn't been a very comprehensive discussion about the pros and cons of this.
Nice diagrams - any pointers on what tool was used to make these?
Exactly what I meant. I mean, you could still permit some choices, but they couldn’t meaningfully influence outcomes.
The parent didn't say any plumbing problem.

I think you wildly overestimate the cleverness of the average Joe. I watch users struggle with basic GUI concepts. Add in learning a specialized language and support libraries? Joe can figure out a wrench by looking at it. He's not going to get very far with a shell prompt.
I don't think it has the same binding affinity as more powerful opiods which reduces it's addictive potential, as well the risk of overdose.
I know you are joking, but I wonder if we will eventually have people fighting for “robot rights” just like some people insist that gorillas are sufficiently intelligent to also have rights.
Never heard anyone call anyone soft for being involved with their kids nor for riding a bike ... ignore and move forward.
The thing with Kratom is that it's very dose-limiting. It tastes terrible, causes bad nausea, and makes you jittery. So let's say you have a dose of Kratom that you enjoy and you want more. You double it and you either puke it up before it all hits or it makes you so miserable you think twice before taking it again.

The real danger is in the so-called extracts, which distill and purify the active ingredient(s). But regular powdered Kratom is, IMHO, less harmful than marijuana and should be legal.

Interesting historical note about Kratom: it's traditionally used in SE Asia as a productivity drug. Farmers would take it to help them get through long days in the field. Much like how coca is used in the Andes.
There are arguments for eugenics. Consider Tay-Sachs disease, which used to afflict Ashkenaz Jews - in Israel it's extinct thanks to genetic testing.
Not misused -- I think I gave a pretty good shot at writing literate code as Knuth originally intended it. It's just that the goal of literate programming, the transformation of source code into a document that can be read like a book, doesn't seem to be useful.

It's worth noting that Knuth wrote WEB in 1981, ten years before the web. There's no way he could have known at the time that hyperlinks and search would be a far more useful interaction model for reference documentation.
I like the ideas behind "Brutalist Web Design" [0] and "minimalist web design", and flat design aesthetics where content is treated as most important over presentation.

Personally I'm more in favor of what I term "Capability Driven Development" [1], known by others others as "Resilient Web Design"[2].

I think good "visual design" should often be minimal or even abstract, just enough to invoke a feeling or emotion related to the content. True to form or materials, like a brutalist.

I think "web design" should work for the lowest common denominator and level up depending on the capabilities of the end user. This means using real HTML form submissions instead of AJAX. The page should work without Javascript, but the user experience may be enhanced with AJAX if Javascript is present. Web pages are built out of HTML elements, it should work that way from bottom up. From my perspective a Javascript only websites (AngularJS) is the same as a Flash only website (which the industry has formally shunned).

[0] blog post: https://brutalist-web.design/

[1] blog post: https://russell.ballestrini.net/capability-driven-presentati...

[2] (free online book): https://resilientwebdesign.com/
"The Bulk of Software Engineering in 1XXX is Just Plumbing"

When was it not?

What were these guys thinking?

The vast majority of software is taking real world applications and dealing with the 'kind of a mess' of situations that can arise.

Even login/credentials can be a minor pain.

Doing it clearly and succinctly is the challenge.

Though it's often more 'solving problems' than 'building something' we should maybe think of ourselves more as construction workers than research scientists.

Upon graduation my skills were filled with so many holes I suggest that every CS grad takes a 3-month long 'power course' wherein the get all the basics, best practices and common tooling down.
Just want to point out that there is research that suggests there’s no clear-cut extrinsic/intrinsic designation and that motivation generally lies on a spectrum between these two types (Ryan and Deci). Moreover, finding ways to move yourself along the spectrum towards the intrinsic end allows for more effective output.
Honestly its getting rarer and rarer to find things like this, most things that reasonable people want to do "just work."

You have to go to considerable effort to come up with a case like this.
You give too much credit to the businessmen. They don't care about environment, they care about more sales and there do not exist any lengths they would not go to in order to achieve those.

I'd say producing one durable piece of tech vs. 5-10 non-durable pieces of tech is still more sustainable for the environment, would you not agree?
Watch out your credit score for a few months now. Some online merchants in CNP environment have power to put a negative remark on your credit if your credit card processor (Visa/MC/etc) deems they have higher trustworth score than you do. I seen it happening to people. Your score will not go down,; however there will be derogatory flag that could make it harder for you to get new credit card, etc. I seen those on peoples files for up to 18 months, and then gone.

Edit: here is the phrase that may show up on your credit report: "Account information disputed by consumer, meets FCRA requirements"
I'm skeptical that any of those things actually "prepare" people to face death in the first place. Feeling like you're "prepared" weeks, months, or years before the final hours of your self or a loved one does not necessarily translate to those final moments when you are actually going through it.
Still waiting for the iboga renaissance ;)
A lot of software was also developed without the use of any version control.
A bit slow but a fine example of this emerging horror genre. Thanks for the link. Asimov is looking practically pretentious at this point.
I work all hours for a startup, and I enjoy my work, but when my boss gives us corporate "110%" talk, I want to resign
It's pretty easy to control, just detect which browser and throw up a screen saying that browser isn't supported or "use at your own risk." I don't see any distinction between cross platform support and cross browser support.
"Someone at Apple really seems to believe in pain as a motivator. And it may work in the short term, but in the long term, it always drives customers to other platforms."

Interestingly, it drove me to buy three maxed-out 11" MBAs before they were discontinued.

So I have not left the Apple computer platform but I won't be buying another laptop until I burn through these three - which could be as late as 2022-2023 ...

As for fonts/aliasing - I just won't upgrade past Sierra (or whatever ... I use Mavericks now ...)
> And books are by nature serial, yet they can express enormously complex ideas -- think of a compilers textbook.

I'd argue that, in many cases, well-organized books have split their material up into chunks with formal interfaces between them. A textbook's table of contents and introduction create a high-level structure, cross-references allow like material to be grouped with like material to make a coherent picture of each subsystem or topic, and chapters can be read out of order or even skipped entirely by some readers. Textbooks for mathematics or computer science are the most obvious examples, but I find the same level of organization and ability to jump around even in popular science books and philosophical discourses. Even the simplistic "five paragraph essay" that is taught in elementary school can be interpreted as an implementation of a formal interface.
I have heard the same, and it's sickening.
Your post's content is the crux of the problem from my POV. The powers that be and the bodies that make decisions about the legality of substances and scheduling of them seem much more interested in general profit and preventing the average citizen from using any sort of alternate route or remedy to combat their addiction. If they focused even a slight percentage of their energy and efforts into actually helping these people or offering real alternatives in terms of addiction care / help I'd be much more willing to believe things they are doing and saying but as it stands everything just seems like a smoke screen or straw man to allow them to continue conducting business as usual.
I also don’t understand - is he so used to git now that he thinks the idea that working copy=staging area and commit=push are terrifying?

That’s the normal behavior of most version control systems. Only a couple of new distributed systems have separated staging and pushing.

Just forget about commits, there are only pushes.
Forgot this one:

"World of World of Warcraft"
https://youtu.be/Rw8gE3lnpLQ
Organic tissue and the ability to feel pain, for one. Why should anyone feel compassion for a bucket of nuts and bolts?
Backed Kickstarter for the Argo and the delivered product exceeded all expectations.

I hope they catch on, the Argo is 1/3 the price of the fancy euro cargo bikes.
A Quick Intro to Web Assembly(WASM)
Perforce was like that when I used it. (> 2009)

Why people liked it or even tolerated it still puzzles me.

Edit: While I'm sure this was what I experienced it might be because of configuration by the organization I worked for, but I doubt it as I remember reading everything I could find about Perforce since I disliked it so much and wanted to find out why everyone seemed to like it.