skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at The Onion a few years ago. The content teams there were some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career.

This is an upsetting story. Despite so much upheaval in print and publishing at large, and the unfortunate circumstance that reality has become as absurd as the headlines of The Onion a decade ago, everyone there comes in every day ready to give it all they’ve got. It honestly is a remarkable staff and sometimes I really miss it there.
It does cause some constipation, but it's nothing compared to that caused by even 'weak' opioids like tramadol or dihydrocodeine.
“But there's not a ton of serious thinking involved.”

I guess it depends on what type of backend it is, but I wager the backend of Google, Amazon, eTrade and Twilio require some serious thinking. The backend of simple CRUDs? probably not much
It sounds like you applied styling to improve your conversion rates
What "skills" exactly? Burglary and cyber crime?
They are saying just because it grew out of the ground doesn't mean it is safe. I found that pretty clear.
> You would see the same level of harm reduction if other opiates were legal

We see huge harm from legal opioids which are widely mis-prescribed. They cause addiction and fail to treat the pain for which they are prescribed.
> I dunno, a wchar_t or something

Most likely a char or a * wchar. Yeah, random pointers.
Nowhere near the levels it is now nor in the quantities it's being consumed by individuals.
Well, no argument it is an opioid (or probably a couple different opioids). That said, it has at least three significant advantages over black market heroin (IMO):

1. It is extremely inexpensive! Even grey market production, shipped halfway around the world, sold in small quantities across the internet, is just extremely cheap. Almost anything you would cut or adulterate it with is more expensive and thus adulteration is not as economically viable.

2. Dose (quantity). It's much less concentrated than heroin.

3. Dose (method). Taking drugs orally doesn't provide the same immediate gratification feedback loop that injecting (especially) or smoking does. (And as other commenters note, it tastes bad. It's like drinking dirt tea.)
curious, does this affect AV Club, which I believe was a shoot-off from The Onion?

I really love AV Club's content, hope it doesn't go away.

Of course, I also love The Onion, it's an institution.
Mexican Lala goes to india I guess?
> I want to try both Haskell’s built in literate programming support

Haskell doesn't have literate programming support. The "lhs" format merely changes the syntax of block comments, it provides no additional power over {- text here -}.
A picture tell a thousand words - so unfortunately as much as I like emacs and markdown, I end up using Visio.
And how does that relate to what I posted? I clearly was not saying any plant is safe, I was comparing heroin and kratom.
ClearCase required its own custom file system on the server, but lacked atomic commits.

Also, the same workplace where I used ClearCase was the one that used Lotus Notes.
Smokers have lower health care costs because they die younger, avoiding some of the very expensive end of life treatments that are typical of heart failure and cancer patients.
In the past, the ancient past, a great actor would have gotten a measly salary.

Today, Some actors(not necessarily the good ones), get lucky and become filthy rich.

So is their luck an inherent part of the human condition ? or is it the result of technology, TV/Cinema ?

And do we have a right, as a society, to choose how technology will shape us, or not ?
When my mother was dying from pneumonia (after it had destroyed her lungs), she had been on a respirator for several weeks and was only getting worse. She also had been unconscious because she had been "fighting" the machine. She had told us that she never wanted to end up that way, but she did not have an advance directive on record. The family made a decision to pull the plug and her doctor administered a large dose of morphine to ease her passing. She went peacefully. We were all very grateful to the doctor for this.
Show HN: Indecision-app
Scrolling on that site on my phone is incredibly broken too
This hits home, but most of the time I think this is an excuse we tell ourselves when we didn't try hard enough.
A immigration policy change threatens non-citizens with deportation
Yes, the extracts are where you end up eventually.

It's true, being high on opioids increases productivity massively while you are high. I remember being able to code 12-18 hours a day, be excited to mow a 2 acre lawn with a push mower, etc. The problem is when you run out of money and are in withdrawal productivity drops to zero, it's hard to even get up to take a pee.
they are definitely part of the Five Eyes and as culpable as any of the others
Sorry, I should have italicized any in my post. As in I don't think the average user can solve any plumbing problem or fix any software bugs without additional resources: documentation and/or assistance.

At least on a command line you can get somewhere with trial and error:

$ ?
?: command not found
$ what do I do?
No command 'what' found, did you mean:
(...)
$ help me
bash: help: no help topics match 'me'. Try 'help help' or 'man -k me' or 'info me'.
$ help help
(...)

A diy plumber who doesn't know of the existence of teflon tape is always going to have some leaky joints. However, as I asserted, I agree that most people can figure all this stuff out pretty easily, I just think most people are too intimidated or just not interested in trying in the first place.

To put it another way, I've found that the concepts of "hierarchical filesystems" and "drain waste vent stacks" are equally foreign and equally accessible to average laypeople.
Taking something as innocuous as a utility bicycle and applying classist and sexist connotations to its use is so progressive.
Gender dysphoria is an actual terminal illness depending on the person. Many people end up dead because of it. My ability, desire, or whatever to eat diminished years ago because of it and my health continues to get poor with also lack of sleep. Similar to other illnesses where the body shuts down in the functions of having good health. I've been seeing several doctors for several years and continue to do so with trying to voice my right for euthanasia the past several months. Currently people take a diagnosis and have their opinion glazed over by success stories of people fitting the diagnosis. It's sad when people then refuse to acknowledge the ones who have a different reality with the same diagnosis. I think this happens a lot in the medical community.
> Markets pay for things that people of means want.

No, markets pay for things that are worth more than it costs to make them. Only a very small fraction of those things are useless toys that delight rich people.
As a Dutch man owning a cargo bike I have no idea how they came to this conclusion.

There are some stange parts of this study. For example: because the website Geenstijl is linking cargo bike owners to the party Groen Links it is suddenly true what Geendtijl says?
It's like saying that electric cars are bad because Top Gear said so.

A cargo bike is just a way to move stuff and kids around in a city. People with low income buy used ones, people with high income buy new ones.

It has nothing to do with status. It's just very convenient.
If you clone more often than you commit, Subversion is the VCS for you :)
We know that opioids impair ability to drive.
For a recent home remodeling project I paid an Architect $90 hr and the Plumber $130.

There's nothing diminishing about being a Plumber.

"Software is eating the world" means there is more demand for developing systems than designing them.
OK, Wikipedia it is. Wikipedia lists C’s typing discipline as
“Static, weak, manifest, nominal“, and Python’s as “
Duck, dynamic, strong since version 3.5: Gradual[4]”.

> I’m not sure why evidence that “strongly typed” python in practice suffers from all sorts of typing errors that “weakly typed” C/C++ avoids is not relevant to your point.
> I also don’t understand why you dislike the string examples, which explains the (strongly typed) semantics of the operators you mentioned in your comment.

I have no idea what evidence you’re referring to, or what examples I supposedly dislike.
My family recently moved and, during the move, our file cabinet was accidentally locked. The key was lost years ago. Being able to pick the lock came in handy. Not all skills that CAN be used for illegal purposes WILL be used for illegal purposes.
Nice, copying comment from other thread:

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.
I think my memory of pain is during merging. We settled on a fairly simple, conventional system: mainline new dev, branches for each release, and occasional personal branches for experimentation. This meant we rarely merged other than fixes to sustaining branches.
Cognitive Networks: Brains, Internet, and Civilizations (2017) [pdf]
The branching isn't the problem, but the merging is. My experience is that it depends on how closely the team is working together. If everybody is working on separate files, then SVN can merge together on a file-level. If people are working on the same files, then every such file requires manual merging. Since git works on a line-by-line basis, merging is much easier. It still requires a human to look through the resulting merge for logical consistency, but it gets a lot closer on the first try.
> been addicted to quite a few of them,

If you know this about yourself, maybe don't start taking opioids. There is certainly a subset of the population who, like yourself, seem to have addictive personalities regardless of the substance. That shouldn't really inform policy on any particular substance.
There's a great episode of This American Life from 2008 with a behind-the-scenes look at how the staff comes up with headlines: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/348/tough-room

It sounds like an amazing place to work!
This is part of a larger ethos of curiosity about how things work and building, modifying and demystifying tools used everyday; e.g hacker culture. I don’t think it is particularly fair to reduce skills like this, or frankly exploration of skills like this on private property, to one negative and narrow usecase.
It also doesnt help that building valuable software these days requires lots of data, especially if you are doing any machine learning.

And most startups lack any data. its all owned by the monopolies of Google, facebook, Amazon and Apple. So the rich will just get richer, and the chances of startups succeeding in any field is as low as ever.
> we’ve intentionally built a more egalitarian system

More egalitarian in the sense of opportunities, yes. But that doesn't mean it will be more egalitarian in the sense of outcomes. The disparity in wealth between the poverty line and Bill Gates, for example, is probably larger than the disparity in wealth between a serf and a king in feudal times.
I discovered Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in college and have trained 5+ times a week (barring sickness and injury) since then.

I am not very good, but it is definitely my greatest passion. I took a PE class on a whim after a professor talked about it and it has defined my life ever since.
Zwiebelfreunde is an organization associated with the CCC that do Tor related stuff. They collect donations for RiseUp, an US based mail/web/… hoster. One site RiseUp hosts calls for action against a far right political party. Next to various info, it has instructions on how to build color bombs and other solely property damage stuff.

This was enough justification for the bavarian police to raid Zwiebelfreunde and various other hacker spaces and persons linked to them[1]. To illustrate how overreaching the police was: When the Zwiebelfreunde's hacker space was raided they found this 3d printed model of a bomb[0], which of course is just a plastic toy. However, they accused the people in hacker space of planning a bombing, so they could seize more stuff.

[0] https://www.thueringen24.de/img/incoming/crop214771927/17338...

[1] https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zw...
I'm the author of this piece. I considered writing a full policy breakdown but figured people would get bored very quickly.

Plus, things keep moving so fast (almost arbitrarily sometimes) that I wonder whether it's worthwhile. Fundamentally, the issue is this:

US intellectual property lawyers are very well organized and have the backing of big corporations. As a result, they have a disproportionate influence in US organizations - in this case, ICANN.

With each new proposal, each new rule, each new policy, these (very smart) IP lawyers find ways around it to suit their main goals. And because ICANN, unfortunately, has no moral or ethical center, it tends to bend its own policies to accommodate whoever is the most powerful and/or loudest on any given issue. In this case, the American IP lawyers are very driven to retain the existing system.

But in this particular case of Whois they have come up against a brick wall of decided European law.

And they have been trying to find ways around it, pressuring ICANN into a series of policy positions that are very clever but can't go anywhere because the law is settled.

Plus the data regulators are the people in charge of deciding how it is interpreted. And they, naturally, have a fairly strict interpretation of GDRP.

It's worth noting btw that European governments have often ignored the data regulators in favor of their own corporations (just take a look at the whole Privacy Shield debate). But in the case of GDPR, the data regulators are in the driving seat. At least for now.

So I could give a detailed rundown of what ICANN has proposed, and how it has changed, and how it is going to change again. But in truth it doesn't matter - ICANN and the IP lawyers will try on any new interpretation they can think of to get what they want - access to the contact details of every domain name - and they will discard any or all of them as soon as they no longer further that goal.

What's really happening is that ICANN has, for the first time, hit a situation where it doesn't get to decide for itself what happens.

As such this Whois/GDPR process is shining a spotlight on the dangerously flawed policy-making process of this critical organization where it keeps insisting on transparently bad policies, keeps putting forward arguments that don't make sense, and keeps trying to bend its own processes to fit with a pre-determined conclusion.

And the Europeans look at it, say No, and the whole facade comes crumbling down. And that is causing massive temporal dissonance at the organization in charge of the internet's naming and numbering systems.

That's what this article is about. And it's unlikely to be the last.
All of that is true of a single source file too -- editors can generate tables of content and cross-references. The experience of using a well-organized paper encyclopedia and Wikipedia are fundamentally different. The point of "serial" is that if I want to read a book, I have to pick an origin point and then start scanning linearly. There's no search bar in a textbook.
fyi : The vast majority of these commands are aliased within Powershell with the exception of touch
Simple advice but I needed to be reminded of that finding your passion partially means that you need to try everything.

Okay, maybe not everything, but it sure sounds fun! :)
The Privilege of Knowledge
Really? Its phone number is 555-xxxx and the passerby says the call can't be completed? How are we supposed to take this seriously

I'm glad you had fun, I don't think these are relevant here
I’m sorry you’re going through so much suffering. I personally don’t think anyone experiencing mental anguish should commit suicide before giving “drugs of abuse” a try. These drugs are so popular and addictive precisely because they’re so good at making you feel better. They’re a last resort, but I think they’re a better last resort than suicide.

Here’s a link to a recent Reddit comment where I discussed this idea, along with suggestions of drugs to try:

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionregimens/comments/8wcv8f/...
Benzos cause dependence, and your link says this.
Was anyone able to confirm if the 10min baths were taken daily?
> Our legislators are smart enough to use piecewise linear function

Yes, but it's also hard to avoid when you are offering non cash welfare. An example for middle income people is affordable housing. You get into the unit (saving you $25k+ over market rate) if income below $X. Otherwise, you don't.

I haven't figured out a way to avoid this cliff that isn't exceedingly complicated or violates the intention of the program.
Wal-Mart is one of the most successful businesses of all time. What would "disrupting" poverty be, if not enabling the poor to afford things they couldn't before?
What is the status quo on vertical alignment if I may ask..
This topic is touched upon briefly in the excellent game / walking simulator "Firewatch".
I would invite you to elaborate. The parent apparently has a misunderstanding, and all you've offered as a counterpoint is "that's not how it works". When someone tried to engage in a discussion, your response should be to explain your understanding, not to ask them to clarify their misunderstanding.
The README and the code always stay in sync. An update in once place changes both the code and the documentation.
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Ask HN: What does “Strong background in data structures and algorithms” mean?
Going through job descriptions of a 'Software Dev Engineer' role; I often see "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I know this has probably been asked and discussed umpteen times before here. However , I am currently applying to companies , with 6 years experience as a .NET web developer , and cannot seem to understand the level of expertise expected when this is posted as a requirement.I do have basic knowledge of data structures and algorithms from my computer engineering days.I have worked with fairly large enterprise code bases. However , I face lot of challenges when trying to solve tech interview questions, whether on a phone screen, online or face to face interviews. So am trying to understand the level I need to achieve to become "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I am not looking to pursue a MS/Masters degree or anything, but do want to achieve a level so I can gain the confidence to face tech interviews where this is a required criteria. Appreciate your thoughts and experiences.
Lit-html seems like a more fleshed-out version of this: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html
I'm very interested in solutions to this, as a bay area resident - somehow separating units into "the poor people houses" and "the rest of the people houses" doesn't quite seem like the right long term solution to anything.

I don't have a solution, hence why I ask.
Somewhat philosophical considerations of tbe moral standing of robot aside, there are a few pretty pragmatic reasons to study this.

1) if we build robots that elicit human empathy, then it could help avoid property damage to the robot - which is more about protecting the rights of the robot owner.

2) better understanding of how/why children are abusive to entities that they consider capable of suffering could give some hints about how to raise children to not be cruel to other people/animals. This could have impact ranging from reducing bullying to how we deal with crime to society'a willingness to go to war.
I have a trailer for my windsurf. It's a great way to get around and it doesn't affect my bikes handling. I have an electric bike so I don't notice the weight either.

My windsurf is more than three meters long so I am worried about the tail end swinging out when I turn. A rear view mirror would make me more comfortable. The trailer is low so I'm also worried about a car passing behind me driving into it.
We have multiple people working on the same files and use Eclipse to do line-by-line merges automatically (except when there are actually conflicts). It works fine. So I still haven't seen any real evidence of error prone merges.
It's not an opiate. It absolutely is an (or is made up of at least one) opioid.[0]

> Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.

> ...

> Opioids include opiates, an older term that refers to such drugs derived from opium, including morphine itself. ... Opiate is properly limited to the natural alkaloids found in the resin of the opium poppy although some include semi-synthetic derivatives

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid
This is an interesting point - my limited experience has been that with successive generations of hires, each attempts to update the practices and tools used to build the application. This leads to pockets of properly functioning Y-way code and many layers of inefficient and difficult to support bridging between X-way and Y-way.

Overall, in each one of these scenarios my gut is that it would have been more efficient to attempt to optimize X-way, rather than layer Y-way on top. It always seems the goal is to incrementally migrate from X-way to Y-way, except we never seem to quite finish and frontend moves quickly enough that Z-way starts to look enticing midway through the painful migration.

I think it is extremely important to differentiate between the benefits of building a fresh application Y-way initially, and the (often extremely painful) friction of migrating from X-way to Y-way. One great example of this is the recent AirBnB departure from React Native. It seems like the majority of their complaint with the framework was that it was difficult to integrate with the rest of their app - had they built from the ground up in React Native, they likely would not have experienced such integration challenges.
If network failures can leave working copies in pieces, in an unknown state, it isn't a matter of knowing what one's doing. Out of the box, Git and similar modern VCS systems offer better safety, and better auditing whenever something goes wrong.
>certain subreddits have articulate people in them with interesting back and forths

Very, very few. Even on some of the "deep" subreddits, they went off the rails years ago and are now echo chambers where the most insightful comments are just re-statements of the article's main point. The closest thing you get is the heavily moderated subreddits like askscience or history or space, etc. But even then, good luck navigating any discussion, because 9 out of 10 comments will be "this comment was deleted by a moderator", with a few now-contextless comments thrown in here and there.