skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> contingent on a heavy imbalance of power

Only if you forget that it's a metaphor. I suppose there's always someone who will take things super-literally and complain that the literal version doesn't match the current situation exactly, as a way of scoring points.

Well, guess what? I don't actually carry a badge and wear a blue uniform either, and I'm not suggesting that anyone here should. Nonetheless, I've been in many situations where having one person play skeptic/adversary and another play advocate can be productive. Not everyone is good at poking holes in their own idea so they can be fixed, or at defending their own decisions in an unfamiliar environment where others might have more expertise. Sometimes it's more extreme vs. moderate than aligned vs. opposed, but it still works. As I've pointed out in another thread, it's how our (USA) justice system works. It's how a thesis defense works. It's not the right approach for every situation, but it's not invalid either.

Or maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate here, to see how much others follow their own advice to act collaboratively. ;)
I am very skilled, highly educated, and interview poorly. When companies hire me, I get big promotions, leadership pulls me in, etc. This is because I'm not "an engineer" or "a programmer." The departments I work in obviously know/recognize me but the business doesn't know the job function really, its starting to be a more recognized area. The fact that I got as far as I did is hilarious, and I know how to find a lot more people like me at any time, and they'd never have gotten any of that value without hiring people like me. I also don't know how you would discern a "fake" me from me, without some of us on the interview. My interview was conducted by some highly qualified people and a few not qualified people, so I knew I had room to grow because there was a lot of dead weight.
Not to mention the growing number of people who only use a mobile phone as their gateway to internet services (along with all of the personal info to be gleaned from them) and who spend the vast majority of their time on the web using Facebook.

I've seen this a lot more in countries where internet access wasn't too common until the past 5-10 years and people didn't start out with a less centralized web before apps and closed networks gained popularity.

My partner isn't from the US originally and when I mention how obnoxious it is that Facebook is like the new AOL and I thought we were past this, she reminds me that it's all anyone back home uses for anything and they didn't have internet access back then.

To her and her friends/family back home, the internet basically is Facebook (and occasionally being forced to open their browser app to search for something if they don't just ask around on Facebook). A handful of other apps and defaults define the internet for them and anything else just sounds like too much hassle.
I have an old iPad2 and I'm honestly amazed at how bricked it is at this point just from the passage of time.

Recently I turned it on after a long while, asking myself this post's exact question.

I went into the browser, but I got SSL errors accessing Google, Apple, etc. Okay...

Then I went to the settings app to see if there are updates, but the device is obviously unsupported at this point.

Finally I went to the App Store to try and install some picture frame app or something, but that was stupid of me since I already knew Apple certs were no longer valid in my obsolete OS.

Bottom line: It's trash with a touch screen. Galaxies are much better in that aspect. Rooting them provides a world of possibilities.
> we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.

Sounds OK to me. I care if someone can do the job well, not if they have a burning passion for it or whatever. We have stuff that needs to get done and we want people who can handle that while being nice to work with. Tacking on more requirements than that is counterproductive, and you don't get to complain about how hard it is to hire if you're doing that.
It's much easier to interview for senior programming positions than get them. There's folks who get rejected from a lot of companies.
On the other hand imagine how much you would learn if you could spend all you gym and bike time learning computer science and other things

You'd reach burnout extremely quickly. You'd literally go insane. Your body would break down rapidly. None of these are good for anyone involved.
> Simple: delete your Facebook account. Many of us already have. Nothing will send a stronger message than people doing this en masse. Even if they don't get the message or don't care, it's the only way to protect yourself from their never-ending privacy violations.

And if you're not willing to delete your account just yet, switch your profile pic and cover photo to messages saying you're planning on using Facebook less or eventually deleting your account.

If enough people do that, it adds a social element to the exodus. Just deleting you account makes it poof out of existence without a sound, and most of your FB friends won't even notice.
Don't get me wrong, this is absolutely a scummy thing to do since it's deceptive. That said, I don't understand why everyone thinks this is such a big deal. They already have your phone number from 2FA anyways, and they already show advertisements. What difference does it make that they let advertisers target people based on their number?
_variables.sass works if you're using BEM. But now you have two component-like things: BEM classes, and the components themselves. BEM solves the issues inherent in nested CSS (cascade, inheritance, multiple selectors, specificity) by forcing us to never nest them, and instead having to name every single element in HTML. Though they look semantic, they are not truly reusable since they are coupled deeply with the markup. But with Tailwind, your component is your unit of abstraction and you don't have to name everything just for the sake of hooking up the HTML with CSS.

But you can even do BEM with Tailwind if you really want to with @apply.

> Why would you change a padding in multiple files when you can set `$base_padding: 10px`?

Neatly written CSS that uses variables for design scales are a good thing to have, but without any kind of tooling help, it is really difficult to keep it consistent. Tailwind on the other hand gives you the affordance for that - a "pit of success" because you never have to define magic values and instead use pre-defined functional CSS classes.

Regarding colors - you can use "text-quiet" or "text-title" etc. - the names are fully in your control and can be set in the configuration JSON file.
I like Tailwind. I think the appeal here is to write less CSS, get things done faster, have a consistent design and the maintainability. All good so far.

But let's remind everybody that this is only one approach of many you can use.

One approach that can solve problems Tailwind tries to is proper planning. An initial style guide can show you that the `author-bio` component looks similar to `article-preview` (taken from the author's blog post[1]), so you beforehand plan for that HTML and CSS and create a component you can reuse.

Of course, you could have decisions made after the fact and go back and change stuff; nothing is bulletproof.

- [1] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
Does the lack of any better solution justify it?
Ah yeh, sorry, my mental maths strayed a bit into hyperbole there, it's more like 4-5x
Anyone know what the white material they covered the mosaic with is? Then later washed off with what looked like hot steam? I'm guessing some sort of plaster or glue to protect it during transportation.
"The Cove", (2009) about the secret practice of commercial Cetacea (dolphins, mainly) hunting in Japan (a Metascore value == 84, fwiw).

And +1 for "Grizzly Man."
I dont think the logic here is to assume that OP is dismissing the argument simply because they're women. I think OP just means that because they're already in the field, their opinions and viewpoints are very different from people who went in different directions in their life.

One quote from the article is Anna Karlin's where she says "Hence, when they get to college, fewer of the women have been exposed to the excitement of CS," and just that sentence alone is enough to show the bias there. I think we can gather that CS isn't inherently exciting except to a specific sort of person hence why most people choose not to pursue it. I would personally rather hear viewpoints from women who were on the border in college choosing their major or even girls in high school. I want to hear their mindset, not necessarily someone who assumes what others may think.
Thanks. I couldn't remember a specific example off the top off my head, but this is exactly the sort of thing were reddit is a great combination of reliability and accessibility.
I wish it were that simple. In Brazil, Whatsapp has effectively replaced SMS as the standard form of communication.
I don't think I disagree with anything you're saying, it just doesn't seem like what China is doing right now has much to do with the goals of communism. So the article seems weird to me. Obviously, given the downvotes, people disagree.
Morris is brilliant. His 1999 doc Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Death:_The_Rise_and_Fall_o...) sticks with me to this day.
Who cares about such pesky things nowadays? "Morality is for losers" is the current Zeitgeist. Phew
Adding onto this, Reddit is a terrible place for advice, but there are a lot of good gems in there. If you knew which subreddits to search. Because there aren't alternative communities for that topic, and people gather there.

I have used reddit for some programming related advice (excel VBA, batchscripting, etc). It was better than what I got from stackoverflow

Whenever I need a 2nd opinion on something, the first thing I do is "<insert topic> reddit". There's usually a lot of good insights to glean from it. The nice thing about reddit is it is also generally less biased in my opinion than quora, since there isn't an ulterior objective to most posts.

It doesn't really matter if we're talking about reddit, quora, hackernews, stackoverflow, etc. Bad advice is found everywhere. Its up to you to ultimately gauge if that person is really an expert or not.

But this tool is not a bad idea though. Someone who constantly post things about Postgresql is probably an expert, or someone trying to be an expert. All it takes is just a bit of sifting through their post history to know
I suspect that the youngest React whiz on HN will be able, when his day comes, to find COBOL coders as pallbearers.

I have no particular desire to code in COBOL, though I have peered at some and debugged a bit of it. Still, it's indoor worker with no heavy lifting.
I know of two cases in my own family where one elderly spouse died, and the other announced that they did not want to go on, and they died within about a week.
I've been getting that apparently due to the VPN that I use -- if I temporarily switch it off, I have no problem reading their articles despite my adblocker.
Fundamentals of Small Arms Weapons. It's a documentary by the US Army showing how firearms work starting with just a barrel and a bullet and progressing in design all the way up to selectable fully automatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzXG7MYX1c
The original essay made a statistical claim, that most women don't want to code, ie. that 80/20 is a natural gender equilibrium of those actually interested in CS. It was not universal claim that no women want to code. Therefore this article is not a rebuttal.
These are both nerdier subcultures than the one you cited, but:

Darkon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462246/

The King of Kong: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
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Yes, and that assertion had nothing to do with subconscious bias. You're conflating statements made in different contexts. Why? What useful outcome do you expect from that?
That happens to men all the time too.

Is there anything worth reading in these essays that is genuinely unique to women? Because so far it sounds like damore round two. The only form of unarguable, gender specific discrimination I see in computing is against men.
The obstacles faced by women who succeeded may only have been insufficient to deter them due to a singular factor, that they may be aware of, and can speak towards.

For example, my mother had me at 18, and managed to struggle through college anyway. The reason she was even able to go to school is she had 2 sisters that could take turns babysitting me. If she had 1 sister, it wouldn't have been tenable. If she didn't have a family, same.

So she's very much aware of how difficult it was to get through college, and she readily says "if it weren't for your aunts, I would never have a degree."
Surprised no one mentioned this one yet:

> The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive gaming directed by Seth Gordon. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong from the previous holder, Billy Mitchell.
- Wikipedia
There are a few apps on the App Store: iPCamera for example (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipcamera-high-end-network-ca...), it provides an MJPEG stream that you can process with a camera monitoring software like ZoneMinder.

There are also a few open-source projects with this kind feature: StreamIt for example (https://github.com/twittemb/StreamIt), which also provides an MJPEG stream.

This would be the most basic stuff.

MJPEG is however not the most efficient (~200Kb/s networking). There are also some "video" streaming projects like https://github.com/shogo4405/HaishinKit.swift or https://github.com/wlanjie/lf.swift, which provide MP4/RTMP/HLS streams and could be processed with a camera monitoring software like Shinobi (https://shinobi.video).

I hope this helps!
I for one absolutely agree with you that the web has gotten too bloated, especially news websites, and I salute your initiative for "debloating" your blog. This is a path that more of us should follow.

I think Google's AMP project is a step in the right direction, but it seems to me that it's not adopted enough.
>Good for Linus, I'm happy that he's not looking to adjust his technical expectations:

Did anyone seriously, with good faith and without political goals, believe that that was going to happen?
Someone mentioned tonsils below, but in the past, we also had bloodletting, trepanation, and various other unnecessary excisions. Foreskin may one day join the list (who knows, though). This all raises the question of why medicine is practiced the way it is, with so much appeal to authority and memorization, rather than something more intrinsically scientific. Why do bad practices persist for so long?
Seriously. This is just inline style with extra steps.
Of course, astroturfing is still an issue even on Reddit…
I just want to have a small house with a little yard. Do they still get built?
Some of the worse problems I've seen have been created by software engineers who lacked empathy for their teammates, or even their future selves.
Empathy is not part of computer science, but is incredibly important in software engineering. In software engineering, much of the day-to-day work includes things like:

* Discussing and ultimately making decisions

* Learning about how things work from people with a different set of knowledge than you

* Doing things which optimize for the understanding of other people after you, as opposed to optimizing for your own productivity in this second

Software engineers who do these things with low empathy end up contributing to the stereotypes about engineers who are unpleasant to work with because they don't consider other people.
"Separation of concerns" is a straw man

So true.

That's why CSS-in-JS is awesome.

Everything is in one component, nobody cares anymore if you need to edit markup AND styles.
My parents joke about that with my brother and I; "Dammit jbob, we should have aborted you!". Jokes like these require context and when you look at them from the outside, they look terrible. It's not "necessary", but then again, neither is 90% of human communication, my parents could have just said "You. Bad action. Fix."

That seems to be what's missing from this whole SJW movement; context. These people watch from the sidelines, pick up on a few "trigger" words, and then burn your house down because they didn't understand the context of your comment.
> Would you rather use Netflix or Spotify without recommendation engine?

I'd rather it didn't have a recommendation engine. I'm fed up with it trying to get me to watch something else - I'd rather it just stay out of my way.
Does adblock + custom element filtering not help against such sites? If every additional feature that takes up more computing resources provides a slightly higher chance to retain the average user and thus make more advertising revenue, I don't see why large sites would not riddle their sites with such features.

Of course, it's sad that happens; but I think adblock sufficiently solves this.

As a side-note, I recently installed DNS66 on my android device and the internet is much faster. Using the mainstream web without adblock seems to be difficult these days.
"site:reddit.com {{tool name}} vs ______" is something I use fairly frequently. Its not perfect by any means due to astroturfing, but its better than nothing
The art, I think, in hiring and managing is how to build useful things even when you can't rely on everyone intrinsically caring and being self-driven. If you wait to find a dozen, fifty, a hundred people who care, you might miss out on a lot of opportunities.
Can anyone explain why the stone structures of the acropolis aren’t coated with the stone sealer I buy at Home Depot?

Thanks.
Bigger houses -> Worse for the environment
"white-bg" then becomes a blue background that's called white...
Precisely, "communism" even in the "state capitalist" form of China creates massive amounts of asset misallocation and that would immediately draw the ire of Hayek. China has tons of gluts in their economy, every economy has gluts (which are generally fixed during recession), but communist and centrally planned economies have continuous glut problems that erode at the economic foundation over extended periods. There are tons of great examples of that, one of the most recent being Venezuela, which was considered a socialist economical pariah just several years ago.
It's rhetorical. The point is that if you trust your distro with millions of lines of code from Linux, GCC, and a thousand other packages, then you should be able to trust it with one more package (albeit a big one).
If not the most viewed documentary ever it is probably close to it.
I don't think they accept new languages anymore.
It's probably best to think of TypeScript as a relatively light JS language extension (like JSX, Flow, or enabling proposed future JS features), not as its own language, even though it's been called a separate language in the past. It's not an alternative to JavaScript, it's a set of guardrails for JavaScript that makes your code safer and hopefully makes you happier when programming. (I'm certainly happier in TS because of all of the editor features it enables, for example.)

If your goal is to grow as a developer, you should absolutely try it out and at least learn the basics. There are valid gripes, like some find it cumbersome for smaller/prototype projects (though I still prefer it over untyped JS even for small things), but it's probably best to try out both worlds (and maybe try out Flow as well) and make an informed choice from experience.
We know that Linus is way stupid sometimes. But he is good, so we tolerate it. The cost of opportunity of not having him is greather than some people offended.

Even if he wasn't, I'd accept that from time to time people do make mistakes and behaves stupid, and life goes on.
GNU project was already complete in late 80s -- early 90s. Hurd is currently a research project with no intention to replace linux. See, GNU and Linux have a sort of bittersweet history, but no matter which side you are in, if you just think rationally for a bit you'll realize GNU+Linux is the only future of both GNU and Linux. Even leaders of both parties, Stallman and Torvalds agree with this.
Bare non-google non-amp URL: (WTF?)

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/mcmansion-envy-spreads-as...
My alma mater Harvey Mudd College has rough gender parity in Computer Science so it's clearly achievable for colleges that make a focused effort.

https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/2018/05/15/harvey-mudd-graduat...
>Wait, does this mean it's now possible to get completely free egress from B2 to all of the other providers listed? (and also the public internet via cloudflare?)

Can some one please explain this like I am three years old. For example, Free transfer from B2 to Linode? And from Linode to Cloudflare? I know bandwidth was suppose to be cheap, and many Cloud providers are charging a lot for their profits, but this completely eliminate it.

When something is too good to be true, you cant help to be skeptical about it.
Is Grails even a thing still? On local JUGs around here, Groovy is only alive thanks to Gradle.
I mostly only get new ones when there are serious issues with the old one, so generally they just get recycled. My first, a 3GS, did last many years with a white noise app as a overqualified noise machine in the kids' room but even it is finally dead. One of my wife's was still in good condition at one point and we did resell it.
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, first and foremost.

Much of Adam Curtis’ work is fantastic. Hypernormalization and The Trap were as fascinating as they were frightening. If I had the authority, I would mandate every child see A Century of the Self in school, and then again in college.

James Burke’s Connections was also excellent. Kind of like a link between Carl Sagan and Adam Curtis.

I personally loved the History Channel’s Engineering an Empire, not least because of the hilariously hyper-American host, Peter Weller (best known as RoboCop).
Seems like a dangerous bias for a teacher to have. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy as he makes sure his female students don't rise to the top of the class.
It's a wider issue with feminists and arguments, not specific to computing. Look at the interview of Jordan Peterson by Cathy Newman. Newman constantly misrepresented and lied about what he was saying in the interview itself, right in front of him, to an absurd level ("are you saying we should model our society after the lobsters"). The whole thing is on YouTube, it's worth watching if you can get through it without stopping in disgust.
I doubt it's purposeful - more just that retail in the Amazon era is difficult and he has demonstrated no particular talent or qualifications for running such a business. He used to get talked up as the next Warren Buffett, but I don't really think his skills as an investor have held up to scrutiny either.
I think it's fantastic. Good programmers take a data-centric approach, preparing a slide on a data structure of your choice is trivial. For HTML the equivalent might be CSS-oriented.