skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly? How do you "balance individual choices" by making ONE collective choice? How do you balance individual choices by banning cars? Balancing individual choices would be the permitting and taxation system I described initially, to price in the costs one individual's choices have on the others.

I don't see how it's odd. It's the biggest problem with solving climate change - how much do you restrict everyone, and how do you properly balance the conflicting individual choices with people's ability to live their lives? Collective choices aren't really a thing. We approximate it with democracy, but obviously not everyone gets what they want (see Trump being in office).
Do you speak more than one natural language? I am an anglophone but took most of my schooling in french. Though I work in english now, I can remember distinctly 'thinking in English' and 'thinking in French' and depending on the problem I was wrestling with, the constructs of the language you frame your thinking in absolutely can give you an advantage or disadvantage.

I always thought it was remarkable how much human thought was imprisoned by language, and it really makes me wonder what a human 'without language' would be capable of thinking.
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GoF style software patterns and the software pattern movement are misunderstanding of Alexander's work and his pattern language. Software patterns are recipe collections. They may be useful as recipe collection and bag of tricks. but that's what they are.

Only exception is, of course, Richard Gabriel who studied Alexander's work and read his other books.

Christopher Alexander's foreword and the first part of the book Patterns of Software are good intro to Alexander's thinking and how it may inspire software.

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

ps. Richard Gabriel is the author of Worse is Better: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
Says a guy whose job relies on this data. OK, digital marketer guy.

My counterpoint is that the majority of content out there does not deserve any monetization, for example: the associated article.
Your article was simply not interesting enough.

> I don't want to have to game HackerNews to get relevant content to this audience

You seem to think getting your blog on the front page serves some higher purpose. You do not decide what's relevant, especially if it's your own articles.
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That paper confirms that carbon dioxide and other gases are the dominant cause of climate temperature changes, not anthopogenic heat release. It furthermore includes all anthropogenic heat (e.g., in cities), not just the heat release from combustion during power production which is relevant to our discussion.

Since you apparently aren't arguing in good faith, I won't continue the discussion.
I don't think so, you need some corporate contract or the like.

JFYI, accordingly to this, LTSB is now LTSC and you shouldn't choose it unless you have an embedded device:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ukplatforms/2018/06/11/s...

Of the twelve key points/reasons given in the above, more than six make me actually want to have a LTSC, however.
MySQL Adventures: How max_prepared_stmt_count can bring down production
Hmm... What do you mean by a restriction on monads? Algebraic effects basically mean that you live in a single monad that can be either widened or narrowed via new effects or new handlers respectively.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "using monads for everything." Monads are basically just flatten and map. It sounds kind of like "you're using map for everything" to which the answer seems something along the lines of, well in a lot of places where you use map, if you didn't use map, you'd probably just reinvent it.
I've had blog posts "authentically" make the front page, and had blog posts disappear without a trace. Sometimes the same blog post gets both behaviors, being much more successful after someone reposts it. There's a whole lot of randomness in what gets upvoted. You can't take it personally.

As far as getting your friends to upvote the article, keep in mind that HN has some sort of voting ring detection, so this may be penalizing you.

I did a fairly detailed reverse engineering of the ranking formula a few years ago: http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h...
Yeah, it does. People can use public transport. Or legs.
That was my first thought too. I remember the attention it got. And of course it was not so ephemeral, as people ensured the poem was captured, since in that case people knew it advance it would self-destruct.

It's an interesting poem, and one that probably was read far more because it was published the way it did than if it had been published the normal way. While I enjoyed poetry, it is the first and only time I've rushed to read a newly published lyrical work.

It's beautifully constructed in that it is about the distinction between memory and reproduction, and where the poem represents a reproduction of Gibsons own memories, the self-destruction served to make the book itself an event and creation of memories about the reproduction of the poem even in many cases in people who never got around to reading it, but just read about it.

It's also interesting because one of Gibsons own comments about it is about how we tend to remember the past in light of the present, not the way it actually was, and thinking about how I remember the work, I realise I have memories of text fading, but 1) my memories don't match how it was presented, 2) I never saw the original anyway.

I have distinct images of reading it in light blue on darker blue, but I would have read it on my Amiga. Those are not the Workbench colours, and the offline readers I used did not use that colour scheme - it's more likely that I'm confusing it with reading texts shared on floppy on my C64, years before. So our memories of Agrippa are themselves now an example of the theme of the poem itself.

Ironically, it is a cooperative project with Dennis Ashbaugh who designed the book as an art piece, and came up with the concept of the self-destruction, but whose part of the work has remained the lesser known part of the "package" despite (or because) not being the part to self-destruct.
Timing is absolutely important. Articles sit for such a limited time in the queue that you only have a small window to upvote.

I've seen the same article posted by the same user at different times of day, and the ones that landed at the the right time got upvoted and the others didn't.

I haven't collected the stats on what an optimal time is, but I'm guessing it's the start of the workday in the Eastern time zone (where the the majority of the population of Canada and United States is concentrated).
Great Mark,

Agreed - the cl-json library will handle all the Solid standards and then developers can layer on top of that their preferred db etc. I'm not sure if we need a db for the core library or not...
I'm not sure there's a better answer than "it seemed like a good idea at the time." The problem (as we saw in the recent primary here) is that the person who is actually in charge of the system - the governor - is able to deny responsibility for it.

https://nyti.ms/2rx3V9D
Heh, well I guess the answer is yes. Which amuses me, since as one of the aforementioned friends I did upvote your other articles, so seemingly no effect, but had no idea about this one and just found it on the front page!

I've had organic stuff on the front page maybe 2 years ago. What time frame are you asking about that you've noticed this change? I'd be very curious to see HN user growth numbers. I imagine it's just gotten a lot more competitive lately.
Not exactly what you're getting at but the artist Thijs Rijkers did a series of pieces similar to this, called Suicide Machines: https://vimeo.com/56871178
Congrats, this post made the front page, seems like you don’t need our advice!

As the tables turn, did you have your friends upvote this or something?
If you want a string that has no opinion on encoding you should just use bytes.

Trying to force bytes into a string without having an opinion in its encoding is asking for problems.
Disappointed this comment was not flagged for declaring disgust with the product on top of a single sentence characterization of its business model.
Definitely not everyone and/or every time. Also time is a factor. And what about comfort?

I'm not in favor of the current system, but your idea is wrong. It creates a centralized monopolized transportation system that serves well only a very small minority of people and might easily became a nightmare. There are other ways we could follow that would make much more people happy, support the economy and wouldn't make sick people stuck at home and everyone late.

One such system could be a real time optimized network of self driving and self owning (limited AI) electric vehicles with various sizes and operation modes (on demand like taxi/bus-like/...) - and non-self driving vehicles wouldn't be allowed inside.
“The website that rots, pixel by pixel, when it isn't viewed; or the application that subtly corrupts itself over time.”

Just publish in a slightly obscure file format on physical media, and this is taken care of. Nobody will be able to access your art work in 20-40 years.
I wouldn't say it's a handout, they are signing a new 25 year lease, and the funds are supposed to address wear and tear. Seems reasonable to me as a landlord (in lieu of the owner of the stadium performing repairs).
As documented by Dr. Rhonda Patrick (and others), fasting can trigger cellular autophagy and reduce senescent cells without the use of drugs. https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/t/fasting
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I want to like Brave, but dealbreaker for me is I'm on Linux and 1Password X extension isn't supported.
Complexity can't be the only answer (and there is evidence it can be tamed anyway). Over the past two decades developer culture and wider technological culture has conditioned regular people to be passive consumers of computing, rather than authors of it.

The fact that there are no compelling RADs for the major platforms -- especially ones that use intuitive metaphors -- speaks volumes. I have worked on many small freelance projects for the past few years and the issues most users have are all more or less the same: they need to organize some information in a way that is useful to them and to interact with it somehow. This might involve more remote fetching than it did in the 90s, but this isn't that much more complicated.

Imagining another way has become completely unfashionable, mostly because of marketing and the stated needs of business. We no longer apply the hands-off funding and timespans for the kinds of computing research that gave us personal computers in the first place.

Things are not the way they are because of some natural law.
The easiest way to pitch your idea
Nowadays, there are many StartUp in the world. Every StartUp has a good idea But the most of StartUp can’t raise fund from Investor or VC.

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- The investors do not remember what kind of business that you’re going to do.
These are the main causes that make the plenty of StartUp miss the opportunity to get the fund although they have a perfect idea.

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Batch-reduce: A tiny package for reducing a list in batches
Banning cars in a city or some part of a city is a step in the process of making a city where you don't need a car. Removing the traffic, exhaust, & safety risk to other users helps make biking, walking, bussing, and rail faster, safer, & more pleasant.
I’m not a protectionist, but we need to start looking USA-based semiconductor supply capacity as a national security imperative. We should never lose our ability to manufacture these critical components, even it means policies that might be viewed as “protectionist”.
Stack Exchange Migrates to .NET Core
There's a couple good reasons to do your own ammo. 1. Cost. Bullets are very expensive, and you need to shoot to use your firearms well when you need them. The whole 'individualism' thing is applicable to anything people would do themselves other than forking over money for it. If bullets are cheaper, the equipment and time to reload would not be worth it.
While the article title is sensational, it’s encouraging to see SENS getting wider traction in the public imagination. A lot of the other proposed therapies seem to involve genetic engineering, and this one seems more somatic, more at the scale of designing a drug to work at the scale of cells, vs the scale of DNA. It seems, to my interested layperson’s mind, that a rough and ready treatment is more likely at this scale, albeit one less likely to result in 4-digit lifespans, measured in years. This does make one of my fears more imminent, which is what to do with things like teeth, the vitreous humor, extant arthritic damage, and other systems and organs, the effects of aging for which the body has more or less lost or never had cells in place that can be recruited for repair. Time will tell. With any luck, we’ll have loads of it!
Sorry but right now I don't have time for full reply. Consider that many problems you listed are caused by regulation (that supports corporations and their interests), not the financial system itself. The same system is used elsewhere with better results.
How is it authentic to have your friends upvote your articles?
Does it cover the Parker Square?
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> I fail to see how the quote that she didn't question it beyond thinking it must be dilluted is an example of how she question giving someone 38 pills beyond "must be dilluted".

From the above:

> The idea that the Septra might have been diluted was the first of many rationalizations that Levitt would formulate to explain the unusual dose and to justify her decision to administer it.

If you read the rest of the article, and not just what I've selected, there are multiple points in which the author quotes the nurse about her decision making process.
The Winding Road to Full VR Immersion
What about the 3rd founder? He got written out of the narrative early on, but he built the original platform and was bought out in the first few years.
The Tricky Truth about KPI Addiction
You said that your dad's anti-BART habit is hard to break, but elderly should really be encouraged to use public transit. It is safer and healthier. I get that transit sucks in suburbs, but that is something that should be fixed.

People live in high density areas. The residents should have higher priority than folks from the suburbs who choose to drive rather than taking public transit. That means having usable and human-focused urban design.

I generally am very much for pricing in externalities, as you say. But when it comes to cars in very dense areas, there is a significant discontinuity in social cost between zero cars (pedestrians can freely use the streets, no traffic lights, etc) and a few cars (like in congestion pricing schemes). With even a few cars, walking becomes far more inconvenient, and there is much less public space.

In dense urban cores, a huge proportion of the land area is essentially vacant, only used by a small minority that choose to drive. It is really a bizarre way of doing things.
This is talking about the case where you don't know the encoding. So you don't know which byte sequences are multibyte characters. Whether you use latin1 or bytes the edge cases are exactly the same, and they don't get handled.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153722
I make the front page by posting articles that are interesting to a technical audience, or people interested in the intersection of internet development and business. One weekend last year I had three very different articles hit the front page in one weekend.

Looking at the results now, it appears one out of thirty of my submissions make the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mcenedella

It definitely doesn’t “pay” to post articles to HN, so I suppose I just do it because I value the community and want to give back relative to the enormous value I’ve received over eight years...
How would a bunch of X-Acto blades laying parallel with the canvas be able to cleanly cut it into strips? It seems more likely that the frame contained a pre-cut version that it just rolled out.
> There's a very sound argument to be made for the opposite conclusion, that if we care about a problem we should make it necessary to solve the problem correctly or else stuff very obviously breaks, not have broken systems seem like they kinda work until they're used in anger.

Oh, definitely :)

I'm rationalizing the focus on grapheme clusters, if I had my way "what is a string" would be a mandatory unit of programming language education and reasoning about this would be more strongly enforced by programming languages.
> That being said, SVP level people did categorically deny it

Again, as someone who worked directly w/ executive level people (and lawyers), the denials mean only that the statements were cleared by lawyers and probably corporate communications staff. (Obviously, Elon @ TSLA's an exception.)

After reading the story and the discussions here, I reviewed some of the statement language. There's lots of wiggle room.

All is further complicated if US gov't agencies etc., are concerned. Rules and regs that the average person thinks will apply won't. This is just how it works.
Edit: I didn't try to handle files with Python for a long time. All of the following is stuff that can change as an ecosystem matures. All that may not hold anymore.

It's better in some ways. But then, I gave up long ago on manipulating files with Python, because Python 3 simply decided that anything on my filesystem is utf-8 by default.

Want to get an stream out of a file? Better have utf-8 content. Otherwise all the documentation will be buried 15 meters deep, outdated on some aspects and dependent on some not-released yet features.

Want to name a file? Better have an utf-8 name. I gave-up on python before I was able to open a file with a name that doesn't conform to utf-8.

Want to read a line at a time? Sorry, we only do that to text. Go get an utf-8 file.

Want to match with a regular expression or parse it somehow? Sorry, we only do that to text.

And so on.
Just create a new command pattern implementation that implements the pattern interface. Deploy the factory method pattern to return the correct concrete implementation based on programming language.

Solved.
Wow — top doc on the list specializes in “Pastoral Counseling”? Something is missing from this story.
Is Apple willing to pay for supply chain security? Could they afford it?

Writing for this week’s newsletter put out by the SANS Institute,
a security training company based in Bethesda, Md., editorial board
member William Hugh Murray has a few provocative thoughts:

1. Abandon the password for all but trivial applications.
2. Abandon the flat network.
3. Move traffic monitoring from encouraged to essential.
4. Establish and maintain end-to-end encryption for all applications.
5. Abandon the convenient but dangerously permissive default access control rule of “read/write/execute”
https://jalopnik.com/5971433/how-a-slot-machine-mechanic-fle...
I wonder what would happen if they flew for more than 90 days putting them in violation FAR 61.57

> (1) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, no person may act as a pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers or of an aircraft certificated for more than one pilot flight crewmember unless that person has made at least three takeoffs and three landings within the preceding 90 days
You want to make the front page you need to come at is with something unique not startling or starving for attention. Put a lot of time into something and "Show HN". If your stuff is good maybe you can climb back to the top but you won't outsmart a croudsourced algorithm of smart folks with gimmick.
There are www.brava.com as well.
I've discussed this a fair bit and we have a rough plan, but the idea is to wait for other things to localize first.
Ny experiance being from a non english language was the exact opposite. Python 2 would fail in horribly weird ways and you constantly needed to add weird tricks to get simple functions working. I. Python 3 I haven’t even encounters any similar issues everything just works.
Of cause sometimes you need to specify some encodings but I don’t view that as a failure of the language. I think a lot of people have a biased view because tons of issues where just not apparent in English, but if you want a language to be viable for the entire world you have to look outside that limited set of characters.
What Everybody Is Getting Wrong About FIRE
Yes, I have only had two articles out in the last couple of years, both reached the front page, one the top spot. Neither involved any shenanigans.
Just a huge disappointment (not for the investor, of course). It would be cool if it would actually shred itself into small pieces so the investor would lose $1.3M but in fact it just changed its style.
I'm excited to see this on Hacker News again.

I've tried it on my MacBook Pro and found it to be a pleasant experience once configured.

On the other hand, the temptation to endlessly configure exhausted me and led me back to macOS.

I'm running macOS Mojave now, and hopefully this will fix some bugs so that I'll be able to use Nix as my package manager until I take another shot at a full NixOS.
Connecting the future outcome you want with your present experience. Running when it’s 40 and rainy sucks to start, but after your warmed up and for the rest of the day you will be glad to have done so. Starting definitely sucks, but if you’re convinced enough in the present that the future state is worth it, you will want to run and you will want to push through it. That’s a skill that can be cultivated.
HPKP is about to only be usable on Firefox since IE/Edge never supported it and Chrome has deprecated and is about to remove it.
I think we are the bubble generation, like the poor schmuck who died last in the ww2, humans will live forever and conquer the space.