skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friends from the mainland call these people “愤青”, basically young extremely patriotic men.

Basically any sleight against China and they’ll come in droves, screeching people down and proclaiming the eternal glory of the lunar kingdom (and its subsidiaries).

Fortunately, as this thread shows, English language forums only get one or two of these crazies at a time.
I think this points to the idea that there’s a blurry line between talent and just a really early head start. Lots of the things we call skills are composed of more basic, lower level skills and in general skills can overlap in different domains. For example the skill of programming can be seen as being composed of / overlap with the skill of thinking abstractly, which may be composed of things like being able to visualize, draw relationships between ideas, sit still for long periods of time. Sports skills may be composed of the skill of something like detecting very subtle physical cues in your body. Are these things really skills though? I would say yes because you can train yourself to get better at them, but I suspect low level skill start developing so early on that it’s hard to catch up to others if you start developing them later in life. We think of these skills as innate talent because they can start to differentiate kids at a very early age, but that’s due to these skills starting to develop so early in life.
I think if you look around, you won't see anything like it. You don't need to repeat the 'gushing'; I read the prior two comments. But anyway, have fun.
I have a greyhound who occasionally likes to go for a run by himself. He doesn't think of it as a game, it seems to me that he's just off to patrol his territory. It's not just his running speed that makes him hard to catch, either. His reflexes are so quick that when I grab for his collar, if he doesn't want me to grab it, I can't. He's like those ninja movies where the fight scenes are sped up.

Last time he went for a run I had to get the car! Found him playing with some kids at the local sports ground - I'm glad greyhounds have such a pleasant nature, and love people so much, because if he'd appeared any more aggressive than a giant and playful puppy, there might have been problems.
> What's next?

Reddit maybe since they have been exploding in growth.

To me, it seems as though network effects are not as important as they seem as the businesses that rely most on them where fellow users provide all the content (myspace, facebook, twitter, snapchat, reddit...) rise and fall faster than any other company.
Why not implement standard data structures? Or system programs ( ls, ping, etc )? Or a compiler ( a subset of C perhaps )? Hell a basic http server or sqlite clone? There's an endless list of projects you could do in C++ if you really wanted to.
There's a huge spectrum in the amount of each type of athletic play children have done.

I think most of that "natural" ability is still down to practice. Tiny innate differences and advantages push people in certain directions, which means they practice those more (through play, to start with), and pretty quickly there are big apparent differences.
The computer history museum has done an amazing job of documenting the history of computing. I'd argue they slant heavily to hardware but for the early history that was the coolest part. I wish they'd get BillG to speak.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-agg...
Could you give another example of how this would be used? It seems like a cool idea, but I think I'm too stupid to quite understand why yet.

> When you attempt to dereference the pointer, a page fault fires, which causes the underlying system to load the image from the server. When the loading is complete, your program resumes.

This first half doesn't sound very exciting, this is exactly how your program already works when it communicates with the OS. It's also how co-routines work, this space has already been pretty well explored.

> When you dereference the pointer to the image, you know the user's viewport size. Meaning you know how large the image should be. Therefore the underlying system can automatically request a perfectly-sized image from the server

This part seems pretty cool, it's not currently easy to reconfigure your OS and have it change the answers it gives you (except in some obvious cases, like changing the file your program is going to read() ).

I like the idea of "dynamically reconfiguring the syscalls", but I'm not sure what I would use it for.
> This is business.

I dont think Woz got that memo, he assumed his friend would not betray him.
Don’t bother stressing over after hours drops like this. Right now FB is still a buy and when the market opens in the morning it could quickly rise up several percent again, and probably be back in the 200s soon to enough.
LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses
> hony signals and fool the receiver on, say, an aircraft into thinking it’s somewhere

I thought aviation didn’t rely on GPS for navigation?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
It's really asking from an abstraction layer with opaque capabilities... Something like the mobile frameworks or Haskell's MTL-style IO.
Example: audit all employee access to PII data.

Anyone who's worked at a large company can tell you how incredibly complex and expensive this can get if your systems aren't designed for this.
How about the fact that Zuckerberg was summoned to Washington to testify before Congress and failed to disclose the ongoing data-sharing agreements FB has with 60 or so device manufacturers?[1]

In addition to willfully misleading Congress it also likely violates their 2011 FTC consent decree[2]. Is this also just part of the 'media narrative' you claim is different from reality? I think these revelations amount to pretty "scammy behavior" as well, to borrow your terminology.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-gave-some-companies-ac...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
The ship names are pretty much the least interesting part of the Culture books.
Samsung Display’s ‘Unbreakable Panel’ Certified by Underwriters Laboratories
It’s a legitimate concern that requires constant vigilance of an educated and engaged electorate. Otherwise we’ll end up paralyzed with anxiety of what if vs progress.
A friend of mine is a far better webdev than I could hope to be. She knows CSS inside and out, and seems to make it a point of pride to know every little detail. She did it in three years of focused effort, with no prior programming experience. It was one of the most amazing transformations I've seen, but it was only because she worked so hard.

She mentioned the other day that she's a bit sad she can't find any aspect of React she doesn't know. But now she's been banging her head against react native for the past few months, so there's no shortage of challenges. She's the primary architect of a startup's frontend webapp (and now their mobile app). I keep trying to push her to write and post her stuff, but she still feels like she doesn't know anything. But that feeling seems like the main reason she knows so much now, several years later.
Supposedly there’s going to be a massive unveiling by the next Elixir Conf of a library that’s been developed by the guy who headed Xbox Live. It’s called Scenic and there’s a lot of anticipation.
Ask HN: Favorite conspiracy theories?
Have a favorite conspiracy theory (they doesn’t pertain to recent electoral/political shenanigans)?

I’ll offer the Phantom Time Hypothesis: “The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. First published in 1991, it hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retrospectively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.[2] According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.”

And - of course - “The proposal has been universally rejected by mainstream historians.”
Most do not. Financial illiteracy is rampant; most do not understand how to use credit intelligently, or to figure out how much interest rates cost them if they do use credit. Consequently far too many people either avoid using credit entirely, or treat it like monopoly money and content themselves with paying minimum payments.

Besides, an alarming percentage are still working shit jobs for no money, and paying everything extra towards college loan bills for degrees in useless things that do not make them employable, or worse, that they did not complete.

The idea of socking away enough money for a down payment on a house is, depending on where you are, a daunting to Herculean task. When the dating pool is filled with other people in a similarly fucked and precarious position as yourself, incentives are not great to pair up and expose yourself to a partner's poor financial decisions, further depressing the drivers to home ownership.

So a lot of people just float around hedonistically, and maybe start to wake up and become an adult around when they hit thirty. Or not.
I can't look at "Goop" and not immediately think of this: http://goophandcleaner.com/

(Probably about as close to diametrically opposite the market of Gweyneth Paltrow's Goop as you can get.)
100ms or more ping time as we wait for the signal to travel thousands of miles into space and back would also have something to do with it.
Do humanity a favor and please Refuse to swallow the bait?
They have over a billion daily active users. That is more than the EU and the US COMBINED! Any personal opinions about a product are practically useless when your customer base is that freaking large and diverse.

Edit: I avoid facebook like what seems like most other people here on hacker news but my point is that hacker news is in no way shape or form representative of the global population.
> "Not being abused" should be higher than "being able to say you've worked with the greatest talent."

There are people who say that working under Jobs was the best work they ever did.
Completely anecdotal but I enjoy hating on facebook -

I created an account so I could create ads for my new business.. I have no idea what's going on but the only page it ever serves me is "sorry something went wrong."
so clearly they're missing out on my $5/day ad budget.
As far as I'm aware, you can pull your contributions out of a Roth IRA without penalty - they are post-tax dollars when they go in, until a regular IRA or 401k. Earnings and returns are different.
The paradigm is vastly different from traditionally popular programming languages, there are few tutorials, many of the tutorials that exist get out of date as the language changes and aren't in-demand enough to keep up to date, etc.

It's easy to learn Python because everyone has a blog with Python code on it.
Devil's advocate, but I have a feeling black people, at least in the US, are driven to look "hipper" from systemic racism.

When society is generally more suspicious and condescending it makes sense to pay more attention to how others precieve you.

I'm a fat middle aged white dude. My superpower is blending in with any crowd. I've noticed that most friends who aren't "white" looking pay more attention to their appearance IMO.

I appreciate the effort but it's a damn shame that this is a "thing" in America. Would be nice to see a study done in a country with less historic racism like Brasil
I think it's the narrowcasting that is a danger to democracy. When you have to blast your message across popular broadcast media your message has to appeal to a wide cross-section of the public. The ability to secretly target individuals you can craft messages that would be repulsive to a larger audience. That's why Facebook's political ad transparency is an important first step against this new attack on democracy.
> There is no drug, no treatment, that will 'cure' cancer until we understand exactly what is going on in a cell that knocks it out of line. ... Everything we do on these two fronts (cancer, and murder) are delaying actions to minimize their impact on the greater whole.

So what? Even if everything you say is true, the outcome of the research is possibly hundreds of millions of additional quality life years.

And there are many treatments that 'cure' cancer. Many people have cancer, are treated, and never have it again. Many have it, are treated, and live much longer than they otherwise would have. I'm not sure what you are saying, or why research that saves and prolongs lives has to meet some other standard (and what is that standard?).
Bread Lives Matter
I don't think I can agree with that idea about chaining.
It’s a great model for the users. The fact that it hasn’t seen significant adoption makes me think that it’s not viable one, though. If you think about it, advertisers would put much lesser value on the free tier users, so the free tier will collapse.
This is a good illustration of what Charlie Stross says:

But even so, when you get down to it, there's not really any economically viable activity on the horizon for people to engage in that would require them to settle on a planet or asteroid and live there for the rest of their lives. In general, when we need to extract resources from a hostile environment we tend to build infrastructure to exploit them (such as oil platforms) but we don't exactly scurry to move our families there. Rather, crews go out to work a long shift, then return home to take their leave. After all, there's no _there_ there — just a howling wilderness of north Atlantic gales and frigid water that will kill you within five minutes of exposure. And that, I submit, is the closest metaphor we'll find for interplanetary colonization. Most of the heavy lifting more than a million kilometres from Earth will be done by robots, overseen by human supervisors who will be itching to get home and spend their hardship pay.

This is not "settling" the Gobi desert any more than manning an oil rig is settling the north atlantic.

Much more well-reasoned detail here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
I bought it! I looked into trying to do this myself and got stuck.

Also interested to hear how the sales go, I think charging a little money for it is a great idea.
Can you post on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-bigquery? I haven't heard about this, but if you give the community good specifics, we'll work on it.
I wanted a GPU to dabble in mining, machine learning, and games in my new Ryzen build. I went Nvidia becuase of CUDA. That is too bad. I'd have liked to buy the AMD gpu
I was under the impression that Vanguard's U2F fails open if your password is over eight characters long. Is that still true?
Distillery is pretty much “the way” right now and the core team hired the guy that built it to flesh out the long term built in solution. He’s explained the various moving parts but the short version is that he’s aiming for portable binary style deployment.
If only facebook helped me achieve my goals rather than trying to manipulate me to give them attention with the lowest hanging fruit.
Clearly such an exceptional dog-lover won't conform to your expectations about how that love manifests, either.
It is gender specific: https://ncadv.org/statistics

Less so than it used to be, in that women now more often have the financial means to leave, but still gendered.

That isn't surprising to me, in that a lot of the psychology of abusers is clearly patriarchal. E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling-ebook/dp...

That is not to discount abuse against men, of course. Indeed, most of the people facing Jobs's abuse were surely men. But the trope I'm referring to is pretty clearly gendered.
MTV did its damage on the youth who are now all adults and totally different from the generation that preceded them. There is no telling in what ways minds have changed. If only someone were to do a research study on this.

But without it, it is difficult to say that damage did or didn't happen.
Everything about the Drake Equation, the Great Filter, and the Fermi "paradox" strike me as extremely sloppy logic, from which nothing but unfounded conclusions can be drawn.

We have essentially zero data on the prevalence of life in the universe. There is no "absence of life" to explain, because we don't actually know whether life is absent. We more or less completely lack the scientific capability to detect extrasolar life entirely, and have only limited data about life within the solar system-- we have not checked deep in Mars' crust, which will be a comfortable 72F at some depth (and has a good probability of being wet there, too); nor have we checked the oceans of Europa or Enceladus; nor have we checked the methane seas of Titan. We have no datapoints. There is nothing to extrapolate. There is nothing to say. We don't know anything. Anything but the null hypothesis here is bad science.

I also don't think the absence of life on Mars (if it is indeed absent of life, and there are no microbes in deep aquifers) would present trouble, because the surface of Mars is uninhabitable even by Earth standards-- it is far worse than even the most hostile parts of Earth, which are nearly devoid of life despite there being about 4.5 billion years for complex life to evolve into those niches, with the leg-up of a more hospitable start. If there were forests at the top of Everest, I might have an easier time wondering why the bone-dry, -200F, 0.006 atm surface of Mars appears sterile, but given where life has a hard time reaching here on Earth, really no one should be surprised at all.
Ooops! Sorry for getting that mixed up! erlex sounds like a neat project! I hope you make an Elixir Forum post about it so that more people are aware of it, I think it probably has quite a few good uses.
So because one author on one French site wrote one article that has a slightly negative title but otherwise neutral content, suddenly the whole country dislikes the company?

Get over your biases.
I get it's probably a joke but in reality it's not a very good comparison. On average with a slot machine you will lose. On average with the market (index fund) you will win.
Venezuela has a legitimate elected president, Brazil ousted a honest one and put a corrupt in the seat through a coup d'etat. Not coincidentally, he is selling with a big discount all national companies and resources, what Maduro and Venezuela will never do.
For comparison, here's the first example, but using fetch:

fetch('/my/url').then((r) => r.json()).then((data) => {

})

And as an added bonus, fetch uses promises, so in an async function that's just:

let data = await fetch('/my/url').then((r) => r.json())
A friend of mine has a staffie/bull terrier cross, with who knows what else in her. The dog has the nicest nature I can imagine (that's the staffie), and usually seems like a really affectionate animal with no aggressive traits.

One day, he was out walking her, and three guys came up to him. They stood around my friend in the usual threatening triangle formation, so no matter which way he faced someone was behind him. They started accusing him of stealing from them, and started to get aggressive until one noticed his dog and asked if she attacked. Just a moment later, she launched herself at the three of them - only the tight leash saved them from being bitten. She'd die to protect her family.

Whenever I visit him, she "attacks" me - launches herself at me so I can lavish attention on her for as long as possible. If he ever had to get rid of her, I'd take her in a heartbeat, but depriving her of the kids she loves so much would be one of those heartbreaking moments you'd never want to see.
Are we talking about different behavioral expressions of races' genes now?
There's definitely interest in using Elixir for GUI programs, in addition to Scenic which will be unveiled at ElixirConf there's also Uderzo which is pretty neat, but definitely still alpha or pre-alpha

https://github.com/cdegroot/uderzo_poncho
I like the idea of "dynamically reconfiguring the syscalls", but I'm not sure what I would use it for.

Exactly this. Little things, like why can't you just write `fs.readFileSync(<server URL>)`? That's all you want to do. You don't want to deal with issuing a fetch call and setting up handlers and so on. That should be abstracted from you. Ad everyone has their own ways of doing this, and you just search for whatever JS lib happens to tickle you that day. It's the opposite of a unified engine model.

Why does that matter? Because the easier your code is to write, the faster you can write. And the larger the systems you can create, individually. Since system value scales inversely proportional to the number of people working on it, that means you alone can build something in a few days that would normally take a team of programmers quite a lot longer.

Think of it this way. Why bother writing React? There were existing solutions. Yet we all saw what happens when you ignore standard ways of doing things and push for something better.

Two specific examples: You want to write blocking code, no callbacks and no awaits, and you want greenthreads. The reason you want this is because your codebase becomes exponentially smaller. And the only way to accomplish this in JS is to essentially write your own programming language on top of JS. Not really a transpiler, but more like an entire scheduler with heap allocated memory and page tables.

If that sounds crazy, just imagine how crazy it would've sounded to try to mix HTML inside of javascript before JSX.

The central theme here is simplicity and generality. HN's codebase proves what a single dev can achieve when you focus exclusively on these two goals.

EDIT: Some design inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2H3kUQByo&t=1340s

This is one of the few games where Lisp is used, and they show how and why it enables them to do easily what other games struggle to.
They're about to break the brains of 1000s of people subjecting them to aweful content. This will also have consequences. What was it "move fast and break things"!
I suddenly understand why there are so few open design tools and so much [trade] secrecy.

Wow, this is kind of sad.

I'm cynical any laws implemented now would truly protect though, considering the state the world seems to be in...
I just refuse to call manipulation and abuse of other people "building relationships". That is a positive term for a behavior that is decidedly not positive. We don't say, "Gosh, Hitler was just super at building relationships with the German people." And no matter how tightly a domestic abuse victim is psychologically bound to the abuser, we don't compliment the abuser on relationship-building skills. It's like saying Hannibal Lecter was great at sourcing cuts of meat. It's technically true in some sense but puts a positive spin on a behavior that's harmful to others.
Arg, I sold out of my position in $AMD in January after growing impatient waiting for Ryzen profits to show up. That proved to be a mistake, should have held onto my guns and thesis.

Perfect buy was on April 25th, up 75% since then.
There was a dance but it was broad, clumsy and tailored towards demographics that were themselves broadly and clumsily lumped together. And the feedback loop was glacial. But comparing that to what they do today is like comparing cavemen banging stones together to an industrial laser cutter.
Lol... this is going absolutely nowhere.