skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi phreak,

I am a react native developer as well. Can you answer some of my questions ?

* How was your experience in React Native (RN) when it comes to styling the components ? I find it very hard and sometimes confusing to have consistent styling between iOS and Android.

* I have no native iOS or Android experience. Can you suggest me how shall I approach learning native app development ?

* What resources did you selected to learn react native ?

* Do you think one can learn kotlin without learning Java first? Or do you think that Java knowledge is beneficial or necessary for learning kotlin effectively ?
No, but further reduced my use of it, Instagram and Whatsapp. It's not like deleting is likely to actually do very much anyway...
No, but I stopped opening the webpage/app about 2 months ago.

Interestingly, the first couple of weeks FB started emailing me whenever someone acted in my feed.. posts, comments, likes, etc. FB is mostly a ghost town for me now so it was interesting to see how desperate it looks when I got an email that someone I hadn't talked to in years "liked a post."

In the past week or so, FB has started texted me these updates. I assume they have some data that says it only takes one time opening the app to get someone re-engaged.
Presume the worst case scenario so you can own the decision. If you make the presumption that anything you have your dev[s] do or may or may not have access to will soon be public domain in China, would you have a problem with that? If the answer is no, move forward.
This is how I’ve always thought about it, but I’m realizing now that that’s the minority opinion. From the user’s reference frame, escalators behave the same as stairs until you hit the end (as long as you don’t sit on the railing thingy)
I also learn by doing, and it works with ML too (dived into it last year, though I'm currently not doing it anymore). Find a project and jump... Happy learning!
Why this site ?
> I've discovered that people who've been in my life a long time have really toxic aversions to self inspection and self improvement, and that had never come to a head because we were both content being dishonest about our inner lives, but once I started being more open, it made sense to phase them out because the relationships didn't feel healthy.

I came to same realization and it's heart breaking to let go.

> I might be reading too far into your mood from just a single sentence, but don't make the mistake of burying that part of yourself just because it got burned once.

I don't think I am so much scared but I will weight my options before jumping into that role and I will be especially careful when it involves money.

> I tell that story not so much for the part about letting these people back in your life – maybe they really exploitative – but more for the bit about needing to put yourself on the line instead of shying away.

I think your advise is good. I will try to mend the relationships but as equals. May be I should try next year.
Data is cheap though and a very effective way to get them is crowdsourcing. The differentiation may not last long.
What type of policy implications does this actually have?
Oh, I get it now. In the limit, say 99.9% of people want to stand, so if they are all on one side, then half of the capacity is lost to the few walkers, in theory. But this is an absurd way to define efficiency, because the standers by definition aren't in a hurry. How often is there a backup at the entrance to an escalator anyway?
Resistance to development stands in way of prosperity
YES. I disabled it, and no longer use it. I did not delete it altogether, because all of my contacts are on Facebook Messenger. Honestly, my general happiness rose about 10% after leaving FB. It's trash for the brain, and hurts more than it helps. Get rid of it.
Deleted it years ago, been actively pushing the people I’m close with on to Signal, and setting up new chat groups there.

Signal is great, easy, private with no data mining, and we all have messages set to self delete after a week.
Or the extinction of the California grizzly within 75 years of gold being discovered. It’s a common pattern — maybe the issue isn’t with the game…
That's "gwasanaethau" -- services, amenities for motorists. Maybe you could get a "paned o de", a cup of tea.
Lastpass categorically does not have this. We could find no way to use it to share TOTP among administrators for a root account for example.

They refused a refund as well.

Horrifically bad company customer service, UX, UI. Save yourself the trouble and skip them, call 1Password.
Tragic and ironic that we need a libre Firefox.
I'm pretty sure that isn't what machine-readable means, especially in this context. But this kind of obtuse reading seems like it would be exactly how the concern of the parent comment would come into being.
In the midwest ( a place before people have had a mass exodus ), Facebook still serves a purpose as somewhat of the white pages, in that everyone you have ever known at least has an account. It is a single place to find everyone.

If you delete your account, which I did in about 2006 and maybe again in 2008 or so, people thought I specifically unfriended only them, and were mad at me.

I would love to see the network (list of people), and connections (friends) to be separated from facebook itself.. so that you could use different websites to still find the full list of people and friends, but didn't need to go through facebook for everything.
Agreed, as someone that's never used facebook, I see a lot of the criticisms levied against it and think hacker news and other forms of social news are just as damaging.
It depends very much on what you work on. If you are in the security business, write software for networking gear or anything like that I'd say no, really do not do that. If you make software for ovens that bake cookies I see no problem.
By small I meant about a half an inch thick :)
Enjoyed the books (and even the movie) He was a bit weird but the concept of earning citizenship as depicted in starship troopers always intrigued me.
Responding to this thread would be an excellent way for the poster to discover people who don't have facebook profiles, then create fake profiles on facebook.
I removed the app and only use lite version of messenger to stay in touch with a few people.
About this: "buying weapons from American arms merchants, a policy greatly to the detriment of the American public"

American arms merchants employ the American public. People get jobs. Taxes are paid. Suppliers and subcontractors benefit too.

A detriment would be if Saudi Arabia bought from China or Russia, enriching people in those nations instead of the American public. We'd also have far less influence over Saudi Arabia... really, they could be a lot worse.
I was for a very short period of time in London and I do not see anything can be dreamed, starting for super-poor quality of ANY buildings... Mean quality I see resemble eastern-Europe ex-communist buildings of the poorer quality, just covered with moquette to hide the disaster...

Without speaking, of course, about pollution, traffic, noise etc. Perhaps for someone who have always live in a big town the level of service and public transport can appear really good, but if you ever live in riviera...
I never had one. But I deleted my Linkedin account to stay cool.
My explanation is, the escalators and elevators are the "little socialism" for the people: they provide free service and in order to consume it fully, nobody moves. I have friends running marathons but still using elevators when on work.
I've never been to Moçambique but absolutely I felt a bond with people over the other side of the Pacific in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Similar post-colonial perspective on the world, similar emigration stories (e.g. strong Italian cultures in both Buenos Aires and Melbourne, German migration to Adelaide and Valdivia), similar latitude producing great "new world" wine, and we celebrate Christmas in summer.

Of course there's the language but my attachment to England ended 160 years ago and my only visit to the US I found strangely alien, feeling more at home across the border in Canada.
"Are journalists only allowed to write positively about immigrants and refugees or any other group that is considered "underprivileged", while hiding anything remotely negative?"

If you work for "Der Spiegel", the answer is defiantly yes.
Yes, deleting all posts (using Social Book Posts Manager[1] IIRC) and other footprints as much as possible before I did. Of course, I can't control whether Facebook actually performed those deletions or just simulated it to my satisfaction.

On retrospect I'm now just sick that I was ever caught up in their "engagement at any expense" Skinner Box to the extent that I was. I'd have Facebook open in one tab and start typing f-a-c in a new one before being aware of what I was doing.

Facebook is digital lead, digital radon, digital asbestos—pick your metaphor. Life is much better without it.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...
You are not the only one questioning the existence of the drones: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/23/police-admit-may...
No, I never used Facebook (or WhatsApp or Instagram) in the first place. ;)
Or a potential government contractor selling anti-drone technology.
Ok, I add a small thing: storing electricity on vehicles/ships/planes etc, so anywhere we can't create a big dam in a nearby high mountains...
>Wow. I had no idea that a single company had such an effect. I'll stick to my occasional pipe loaded with organic tobacco, and enjoy my continued lung health and lack of nicotine addiction.

I understand that, but what is the "strongest plausible interpretation" of this exactly? In what way is occasional pipe smoking a replacement for vaping? In what way does smoking a pipe ensure "continued lung health"? Is there no nicotine in organic tobacco? What is the intent of the comment to begin with?

All I see is an ignorant endorsement of tobacco smoking over vaping. What am I missing?
" In fact, however, third-wave antiracism is a profoundly religious movement in everything but terminology. The idea that whites are permanently stained by their white privilege, gaining moral absolution only by eternally attesting to it, is the third wave’s version of original sin. The idea of a someday when America will “come to terms with race” is as vaguely specified a guidepost as Judgment Day. Explorations as to whether an opinion is “problematic” are equivalent to explorations of that which may be blasphemous. The social mauling of the person with “problematic” thoughts parallels the excommunication of the heretic. What is called “virtue signaling,” then, channels the impulse that might lead a Christian to an aggressive display of her faith in Jesus. There is even a certain Church Lady air to much of the patrolling on race these days, an almost performative joy in dog-piling on the transgressor, which under a religious analysis is perfectly predictable."

Very accurate analysis imho.

Growing up around fundamentalist Christians, I'm pretty tuned into people who use moral posturing to gain status within their social group. The resemblance with the virtue signalling is uncanny.
"I'm curious, now, where did 'jayalpha even find this nasty piece of writing?"

I looked for another one from Spiegel. "X Million Turkish people are already here, X Million more want to come" but could not find it anymore. This was the first google hit that showed up for my search.
No. Because it’s still relevant. And useful.
Heh, this is funny... I worked on an emulator for Dark Age of Camelot _and_ an emulator for World of Warcraft (WCell) and attribute experience from both projects to getting my first software gig.

I also remember (fondly) going through RunUO with .NET Reflector to pick up tips and tricks. :)
No, still use it, no reason to delete.
There are reliable ways to generate unbiased, synthetic and even big data for almost any industrial domain out there plus a lot of applied research fields in the STEM curricula. The most important issue nowadays is the accountability of results aka ablation studies following too many false positives and a number of recent, blatant scams.
Experimenting with low cost 3D printing
No, but I've just completed exporting as many of my contacts as possible to vcard format and have added them to my Protonmail account. I've also set my existing Gmail accounts to forward to my Protonmail, and I'll sunset those accounts down the road once I'm confident I've transitioned everything off it.

Facebook and Google will soon be eliminated from my life. Amazon will probably be next, but I'm less concerned with Amazon(with the exception of Alexa, which I no longer use).

My Facebook account is still around mostly because much of my family still uses the site and our private group is where most family news, photos, etc. get posted. Otherwise, my account is basically a "husk". Very few of the people I know who are under 40 use it much at all at this point. The site, in relation to my social circle, is tumbleweeds blowing around. I don't know if I'll ever truly delete my Facebook account, but I hardly go to the site and I've purged my phone of all their software.
Barclays has the slot-your-card in pin sentry gadgets. Those are quite nifty. They don't need to be personal, because they take their pin from the bank card. So they can just hand them out.
Hmm, how interesting. It looks like you mostly encountered social housing. Where did you stay and go?
To play the devil’s advocate, might this incentivize people to arrive earlier? Admittedly some train schedules might need to be adapted to make connections possible.
Replaced Messenger with Signal.

Blocked all Facebook domains, even Instagram, (so many!) in my MacBook's etc/hosts file to "blackhole" any FB tracking. Can no longer sign in on my laptop.

Still have Facebook on my phone with Location privileges turned off.

This has corresponded with increasingly aggressive notifications on my phone about things that don't directly involve me. I used to I only get notifications about things I posted on or posted myself. Curious if this has happened with anybody else who disengaged.
What Google knows about you might give you Goosebumps
MMOs as virtual worlds are really hard. Red Dead Redemption online has all the great graphics, but play is mostly people randomly killing other people. No plot. This is a big problem with MMOs - big working worlds can be built, but mostly people just kill each other. Look at the success of Fortnite - 8 million peak concurrent players.

Second Life has a functional economy, but no NPC ecosystem. The economy is driven by land ownership and fashion. Second Life has landlords, who pay money to Linden Labs for land and get a bulk discount, then rent it out. They have most of the problems of real landlords - collecting rent, handling evictions, dealing with tenant complaints and tenant disputes. Most of the administration of Second Life is handled by landlords. The biggest operations make US$ 6-7 figures this way.

Fashion is a big deal in Second Life. There are designers with followings. Fashion shows. Women are in the majority. This is entirely player based - players are buying from other players. LL takes a cut when converting from Linden dollars to US dollars, but it's under 10%.

Objects in SL have privileges, but not quite like files. The privileges are Copy, Mod, and Transfer. This is key to making the economy work. Owning an item with Copy privilege lets you make more copies, but you can't give them other people. With Transfer privilege alone, you can give or sell the item to others, but can't make more copies. Items like furniture and vehicles are usually Copy, no Transfer, so you can buy one chair and set up a room, but not set up a car dealership. Clothing is usually Transfer, no Copy, so only the owning avatar can wear it, but you can sell it at a rummage sale. Anything which is both Copy and Transfer can be duplicated and sold. All this is server side, so it's hard to break the protection.

SL now has a NPC system, "animesh", but, as is typical for Linden Labs, they just implemented it and gave out a few demo objects. Everything else is up to the users.

SL runs about 40,000 concurrent users, which would place it at about #12 on Steam if it were on there, around where GTA V is on Steam.
I post screaming crying pictures and people love it. Just like you said, they appreciate the authentic. It reminds them of their years in the same position.

Heck, Facebook has a poll option. Poll your crowd and give them what they want.
My goal is to slow down to a more manageable pace and allow for more reflection and dreaming. 2018 was a hectic and eventful year and I am absolutely amazed by how much happened, but I can also feel that I completely neglected the importance of winding down.

I recently completed a biography[0] and the subject in question lost all his responsibility, in turn it let him suddenly have the time to pay attention to the small details relating to his former work. Now, I’m not interested in loosing my responsibilities, but I do want to give them the attention they deserve.

[0]: The Power Broker, Robert Caro
The inherent limitations of human memory likely made that person assume you use a single password everywhere. Your response makes me assume that you memorize a unique password for every account.

You do you; but personally, I would rather memorize timeless things like facts and theorems - or at least ephemeral-yet-important things like deadlines, decisions, names+faces, etc. - than memorize a ton of meaningless blobs of entropy.
I still do this. But the open wifi is on a separate vlan, and everything is bandwidth limited and routed down a public VPN service. I've never had any problems.

I strongly believe in internet access as a human right.
Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
It's good to see the US govt making an effort to step up its technical level. A vast if hidden problem in the political sphere is that most politicians do not have a technical education. This creates a serious misconfiguration of the govt alongside other centers of soft power like large cap tech companies.

There is no way around it that these companies have to work with the government to secure public interests from 21st century threats. Just today I read an article about how black hat hackers are targeting outdated industrial control systems more vigorously than ever before. The government on its own without technical upgrades cannot face down this problem in its current condition. Which is why opening up data is a beneficial thing.

Openness of data is a double edged sword. It will make malicious agents' job easier to have as much data as possible in a consistently machine readable format, but it will also help those on the other side.

If tech is one of the things that can bolster and improve government, tech needs to work in the optimal environment. Which is one with open data.
No, but I also haven't used it in years. Only keep my account around for a few mobile games that only have Facebook Connect as a login option.
The test case programs/expressions input into a compiler are external regression test cases. By itself, that is not TDD.

External compiler tests may seem TDD-like because they exist first, and make the compiler fail until the required features are working.

TDD is about bogging down the code with internal tests that treat every aspect of the code as a committed feature.

You cannot do a single thing that doesn't first fail some newly added test, which then goes green.
And startups are populated by young people, so the cultural shifts that exist matter. If you have any employees at all between 18 and 30, the current culture is something you need to understand.

And I don't think even big companies like Google do. The backlash against drones and that China SE were telling.

I don't have any answers to those problems, and these sorts of articles are interesting as background to what it all is.
My point was that often one has to structure code across classes to get efficient branching. Any details regarding optimisation for virtual dispatch doesn't change this fact.
DO NOT CLICK OPEN THE REAL WEBSITE. Jeez, I just made that mistake. Omg, that was bad.

I can't perfectly describe what happens but I'll try — the page jumps around with a cat image, every time I try to kill it with cmd+w, it repawns into another small window. I think it remaps cmd+w to cmd+p, and just plays dubstep in the background. Oh, and at some point, a random cat headbanging cat appears, and the voices goes from saying "a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a" to "I can't see the inside of my mouth".

I think it also logged me out of gmail.

I had to kill Chrome. Don't open it in your main browser, use incognito mode, or the private browsing mode of a different browser so that you can kill the entire browser without losing HN access — because that's what you'll probably end up doing.

Edit: Oh, it seems to be easier to kill on Firefox. Also, it keeps asking for webcam and mic access, and to be set as the default application for bitcoin links?!!!

Edit: A way to get out without killing Chrome is: "press cmd+w" to get to the "print" screen. That seems to stop the windows from moving around. Then kill all the other windows first, and kill this "print" window last. You'll it say "please don't go" every time — but don't give in!
Deleted it early in the year. The wall turned into junk anyway in the preceding years, so it was not difficult to quit.

My wife still has Facebook, but she rarely mentions any interesting friend/family news sources from Facebook. It seems that Facebook is slowly becoming a Ghetto.
So you can play it without depending on that service? The streaming service might close its doors, lose its license to the content you want, raise prices, start interjecting ads... who knows.

Personally, I listen to some obscure (in the West) music from Japan and it’s difficult to locate in any service other than YouTube. YouTube videos can be and are deleted at any time with no warning, and they only let you ‘offline’ them while they are available online.
You're not wrong. The article is at least 10 months old:

https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/7zmt8u/i_do_not_lik...
No, there's nothing (other than good taste) which stops you from passing a pair of arguments to std::sort() which would be legal for both std::sort(begin, end) and std::sort(range, comparator).
Ah, I only use their internet/tv services so I only needed to worry about the cablemodem and dvr (a free cablecard from them decrypts tv so you can use your own "tivo like device"). I purchased my equipment about 5 years ago for about $100 and don't rent/lease any of their gear. It's saved quite a bit over the years.
Any resources to get into Spark?
No, removed all the data from it, kept it as messanger tho. It's my only way of contacting some people (i don't have whatsapp, instagram etc.)
I worked with runuo quite a lot and while I too have lots of fond memories, it's actually a huge mess of a codebase.

It's object-oriented except when it's not. It's modular except where it isn't. It "optimizes" for $number_of_cores_on_your_box but doesn't actually use them for anything but world saves. Almost none of it is commented or documented (doxygen doesn't count as documentation).

I think runuo excelled not because it was significantly better but because it was less shitty than POL and Sphere that came before it.
A CPU is an interpreter.
Does this mean you always prefer using stairs over escalators?
Police admit Christmas ruining drone may not have existed
kinda similar to a touchless car wash system. if you are looking for an analogy
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745624
The question is what should be the next logical step?
Kotlin came out before Swift
Contrary to what the other person said, I didn't think that you use a single password. Still, when a password is stolen, I prefer to have a second layer of security instead of losing my stuff in that account (and giving the attacker additional data to use against other accounts).
Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation