skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But as an aside, free speech is the biggest thing keeping the press alive. The “mainstream media” has much more to fear from authorities than from fringe alt-politics. This has been true through history and it’s true now.

As early as the 18th century, it was obvious that in any elected democracy, the concern wasn't top-down repression from "the authorities", but rather either the tyranny of the majority, or the risk of some repressive demagogue rising to power on an explicit platform of crushing the rights of some unpopular minority.

Mainstream media outlets within a democracy are not going to be shut down or silenced. Nobody would ever stand for such a thing, and such a move would be so unpopular as to end the career of anyone who attempted it. If something is popular enough to be labelled "mainstream", it is too popular to ban or censor, and is at no real risk from the authorities. (Outside of a democracy, of course, whatever "mainstream media" exists only exists at the bidding of the authorities in the first place.)

There may be more of a risk if there truly is no mainstream, but this only increases the incentive for the mainstream media to protect their oligopoly which is what they are doing when they attack Facebook.

What people have and do stand for is for silencing "fringe alt-politics" by any means necessary. It wasn't that long ago that people were driven away from their careers and livelihoods for being real or suspected communists. These days, people are driven away from their careers and livelihoods for other real or suspected ideological heresies.

Frankly, having marginally less free speech actually benefits the mainstream media the same way that all forms of regulation and government interference benefit established incumbents and hurt the little guy. CNN and the Washington Post have the resources to comply with complicated and ever-changing sets of rules and regulations. Individual commentators do not, unless they can get a lot of money, which is kind of hard when your primary sources of money are companies like YouTube and Patreon with a history of silencing people in exactly the same way and for exactly the same reasons that Facebook's critics want Facebook to silence people.
totally disagree. Blender's UI is great
Voronoi Diagram
Many years ago a lot site's comment sections give you a choice between using an anonymous account for the site or linking to your Facebook or Twitter accounts to post. I experimented with using my real name/ID on some of them under the assumption that I'd be more inclined to be polite, assume good faith, avoid unproductive engagements with people, etc. if I wasn't anonymous.

It didn't work. It just deterred me from commenting at all, and when I did comment I think I was more terse and condescending than usual. I'm not sure why, but I wonder if maybe in anonymous forums I kind of just assumed a lot of the stupid things being said were by edgy teenagers. I was inclined to be patient with them or write them off since I just sort of assumed they were too young to know better and would grow out of it. But once you see the profile pictures of the people posting, and they're grown ass men who really ought to know better, it's much harder to be nice because you know these peoples' horrible beliefs have consequences.
This is something you expect to see in China when the government wants to shut down someone's mouth, but it is now accepted by a large number of people. Based on wrong arguments like "we protect the children" or "we protect copyright holders" or "we fight against terrorism" one can shut down anyone in disgrace under false pretenses that general public agrees without understanding.
Under WTO trade rules you can't single out which countries you apply tariffs against. The, "no favoured nation" rule.
The Breville stuff is complete garbage. Bought a expresso machine a few years ago, crapped within 1 year, William Sonoma gave a new one, crapped again, I fix it with parts from eBay, then craps again.

Unsealed shit switches in a humid environment, no conformal coating on PCB. Not even real FR4, a cheap cardboard laminate found in chineseium toys.

Fancy stainless on the outside, garbage on the inside.
The Church of Labor
Somewhat spontaneously attending the GF (Grammatical Framework) summer school gave me a totally different appreciation for natural language formal grammars. Now when I’m learning a foreign language I can actually look at its GF grammar and understand it in the same way I’d understand a purely functional program library. And I hope to use GF in future businesses and projects.
Your definition of walled garden is pretty broad and includes all major browsers.
This would turn regulation into a game of whack-a-mole. How do you break up something as pervasive and nebulous and interrelated as FB?

What prevents the separate entities from forging close partnerships?

I don't see how breaking up FB would work in practice. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could clue me in.
There's a certain dance of courtesy when it comes to eating with a lazy susan that you eventually learn. Children were taught to yield the lazy susan to their elders first, otherwise they would be scolded by their guardian. This means hands off of the fun spinning table for kids. This is unless the guardian knows that the child (more so toddler/baby) is too young to understand table manners, and would otherwise cry from hunger. But in that case, it's the adult guardian that's spinning the table. And then there's the whole thing with who gets the last piece. Lots of small intricacies when it comes with family style meals, and spinning the table just makes it a little bit more interesting.

You don't know table manners/societal norms innately; it's a learned thing.
A discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246897

And one from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1976127
Thirded. One of the best take-away from his series of posts is that a programming model that a programmer can reason about is far better than compiler optimizations that a programmer can only guess about.
"User Friendly" depends on the type of tasks that the user intends to accomplish, and the frequency of those tasks. The things that expert users intend to do are not necessarily the same things that beginner users intend to do.

Essentially it is about the path-of-resistance between you and your goal. A beginner friendly UI might do X, Y, and Z. But complex tasks like scheduling X, Y, and Z, automating them based on other events, or even performing them rapidly in sequence, are likely to be given a higher path of resistance.
Let's see. Thirty years ago is Dec 1989. I remember more or less how many sexual partners that I had that year. I remember the name of the one who I married. Plus a few others. Some, I never knew their names. What can I say, I was promiscuous.

In particular, I never knew the name of the guy who pulled a knife, while we were flirting, and threatened to rape me. Also, I don't remember the name of the woman who attempted suicide. After I got tired of waiting for a sexual relationship, and found someone else. With whom, by the way, I visited her in hospital, until she was discharged. And I never knew the name of the guy who beat the shit out of me in a park, after I'd insulted him.

I could go on. But the point is that most people arguably don't keep grudges for decades. And yes, maybe it's just that I'm a guy. And maybe rape is just so much worse that victims do keep grudges for decades.

Also, I admit that the "based on available evidence" argument is iffy. Because we only know about cases that involve notorious perpetrators. Maybe one could use FOIA to get relevant aggregate data from police. It'd be a decent thesis topic, perhaps.
And AT&T, except after it was broken up, all the different pieces all started merging with each other again.
>The ads say “PROMOTED” in capital blue letters and Adblockers still work. Is it really so bad?

That adage about boiling the frog by slowly upping the temperature so it doesn't notice probably applies here
I've used the Kensington SlimBlade for years and really love it. The only difference from the Expert Mouse is that instead of a scroll ring you just spin the ball in place. Completely eliminated the RSI I was getting in my mouse hand and is my favorite hardware for mouse-like functionality.

https://www.kensington.com/p/products/control/trackballs/Sli...
Still SpaceX routinely recovers the first stage after launching geostationary communication satellites. I thought GPS should be lighter as they are closer to Earth and needs to send much less information in their signal, so the power requirements and size of Solar panels should be lower.
Trivia: Erlang's syntax comes from Prolog.
I was going through this recently because my brother is going through the CS program that I went through, which is the only time I've encountered anyone mention Prolog. I still can't really envision how to create comprehensive systems in this, but it seems the logic paradigm could be applied to some really useful new areas that it hasn't reached yet, similar to how the influence of functional languages is pretty much expected for any trendy new language today (Rust, ES6).
> User friendly UIs are most often terrible for experts and expert UIs often have some learning curve.

You don't have to choose one or the other, it just takes time to make it right for both.

Word is a good example example. You want to type some text? It's easy. You want to format it? Click the icons that look relevant. You do it often? Keyboard shortcuts are available for everything. You want to do typesetting? Styles are available, but not enforced. You want to automate things? Integrated programming environment is waiting for you. And almost every action has its own page in the manual.

Simple things are simple, tooltips and icons provide discoverability, and you can head to the manual for expert content.

This is totally not how blender pre-2.8 works where the discoverability almost doesn't exist.
Inclination changes are very "expensive" in terms of delta-V:

https://www.google.com/search?q=plane+change+delta+v&ie=utf-...
Take a look at Lucky framework!

https://luckyframework.org
Stories like this are a great read. I live in a country were everyone has at least three supermarkets in a 5 kilometre radius. Its easy to take fresh food for granted.
I spent much of 2018 on a quest to try to set my internal sense of judgment and partisanship aside, and just focus on understanding why people come to believes that appear to be completely irrational, and why otherwise intelligent and well-meaning people can be so at odds in their beliefs.

I'm coming strongly to similar conclusions - people are poor thinkers and totally unaware of this fact. They're not self-critical, but they are very critical of anyone who disagrees with them.

I summed it up in a quickie comment recently that has stuck with me. "Nobody thinks they're a racist. When they say racist things, they don't think they're being racist. They think they're being reasonable."
This is an understandable and common point of view -- mainly because most people come from the perspective that you do. However, I've gone the other way around. I used the GIMP for years and one time I tried to give a hand to the designers on our team that were using Photoshop. I couldn't figure it out. Eventually I had to move back to the GIMP (and I even finished the task faster than they did ;-) ).

Granted, I'm not a professional designer and the things I do are well suited for the GIMP. I usually manipulate bitmaps that will ultimately be displayed on a computer screen. This is not to say that all of the tools and workflow in the GIMP is good (the text tool, for instance, is horrible as far as I can tell). I'm just saying that there is a considerable bias when you start with one complex tool and evaluate another similarly complex tool that has a different UX.
What does a nation care about the legal system of the country behind their reserve currency?

Furthermore, most "tax havens" are hardly known for their strong goverments and legal systems. Quite the opposite. Not that it matters, since this discussion is really about the reserve currencies of nations.
I would assume that a 'theoretical study' would involve some type of passenger flow modeling, which TfL often use to measure expected passenger flows in projects like the Bank upgrade, layout of Crossrail stations, future upgrades like Camden Town, etc. The problem with modeling is that it assumes all your inputs are correct, and there are so many confounding factors in the operation of a Tube station that there's no real replacement for a real study.

I only put in the disclaimer about height because while it's mentioned with the theoretical study, it's not mentioned with one of the only actual experiments, and Holborn is a 23m long escalator, which you wouldn't know unless you use Holborn. These findings wouldn't be very helpful in New York, for example, where most stations are so close to the surface that you're only traveling one or two stories.
420 legalize it 8)
Facebook allows you to create fake names as long as they're reasonable and not impersonating. Your name doesn't need to be "anon2082347432732" for it to be anonymous.
Thanks for the compliment! There is a Swiss company that makes a fancy word lock that is glass and metal slick. Very apple-esque. But that’s not my personal style so I set out to make one that I would want.

Personally I like the challenge of figuring out the manufacturing process.
Creaking and cracking noises are common in tall buildings from my experience, but in this case it seems an actual crack in the structure has been found
I think that reflects more on you than “myopic UK” then
Thanks! The plan is to start marketing it more after the new years
> I also don't understand who would make their tablet
> their primary work device, or even a secondary or tertiary
> work device.

You called?

I carry my iPad Pro (previous generation) + Apple Pencil + Smart Keyboard Cover to all kinds of meetings. I take notes with the pencil, can look up anything I want in Trello, G-Suites, Confluence, &c. ...

It is wholly inadequate for coding, but I'm with the late Steve Jobs on that. Laptops—even Apple laptops—are pickup trucks. When I want to haul stuff around, I use my pickup.

But it's amazing how much of my job is concerned with words and people. You don't do words+people with a pickup truck. Ok, the metaphor is strained, so I'll just say that when I'm using my words with people, the iPad Pro is a very good tool for augmenting my memory and my words.

YMMV.

p.s. There is something amazing I have noticed ever since I got a Toshiba Portegé Tablet PC decades ago: If you are talking to someone, the laptop screen is a wall and a psychological barrier.

A tablet reverses this. No wall. Also, less privacy for taking notes. But that can be a plus, it implies that you don't have some secret agenda. I think that's something in favour of a tablet, regardless of whether it's an iPad or some origami-like device that is a tablet or a clamshell depending on how you fold it.
A manual can be part of the UI. If the manual is well-written, why fault a program for using it?
that would make me look for a job elsewhere right away
I think it helps to think of Prolog as something similar to SQL. See, for example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117651/comparing-sql-an....
Yes and not only, you can see file history, just like commit history in git&c, you can compute diff on-the-fly both for single file and entire trees, you can "undo" last write etc

There is zero filemanager integration, so only manual CLI operation with a UI a bit less comfortable than zfs, encryption have few limitations, physical volume management does not offer "built-in raids implementation" of zfs (but you can create volume on top of any supported raid config), deduplication is a bit resource intensive, replication is not clustered even if you can "mirror" (incremental mirrors included) any volume locally or on a remote machine in a way similar to zfs one...

Essentially is a zfs with a raw and a bit less intuitive UI with logfs and few nice extras.
Guide dogs: Where do they really come from?
About half my workday is spent following slide decks, reading PDFs or other documents, or answering email or Slack. At that point, being able to walk around with the iPad is much more comfortable.

When I have heavy creation to do, I use my desktop.
I’ve benefited greatly from various medications combined with non-chemical strategies. When I first considered medication I talked with my Doctor, talked with some friends that are Doctors, and did my own research and every resource came up with the same basic info, we don’t actually know that much... Add onto that finding a combination of things that ‘worked’ was a trial and error process that took over a year, all while I was dealing with my mental health issues.

Sadly so many people in a similar situation don’t have the flexibility, access and/or support to go down the path that I did. Often they will opt out because of the stigma associated with having mental health issues.

The fact that we know so little leaves tons of room for improvement in addressing mental health, but I worry that we have a very long road to giant leaps in addressing mental health unless we can destigmatize mental disabilities (and other neurological conditions)
I think a larger problem is that it’s such a crapshoot about which treatments will work for a given individual, pharmaceutical or not. It took me about 10 therapists with varying backgrounds before I finally found one that would help. It also took me trying several different medications to find a combination that’s actually effective. It’s a lot of work and effort, and most people suffering through depression, anxiety, or another debilitating mental health disorder don’t have the energy to keep trying over and over again after failing. For me it was actually a matter of life or death and needing to keep going for my family that drove me to keep trying.
Using an iPad for work is kind of odd. If you mostly just need to do things like read, browse social media, and send emails you can use it like a tablet and then prop it up when you need to type. Or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, you can ssh into a "real" computer, prop up the iPad, and then use vim on a keyboard without needing to touch the iPad. There's this uncanny valley where if you need to do a mix of typing and touch navigation it's really awkward, but if you just need to do one or the other it's actually workable.

I mean I don't use one. The keyboards are awful and the system is ridiculously locked down when you start thinking about iOS as a desktop rather than a phone OS. But I can see how it would work for certain people.
Vim is pretty easy to learn, you just have to be willing to read tutorials and guides. Most complex subjects are learned that way, after all.
Almost has nothing to do with learning Farsi, great analogy otherwise
>Page 44: "Our economy has grown at a steady rate despite changes in economic policy". I expected to see a lot more fluctuation on this data.

Barring some calamity, this is pretty much as expected. Tariffs impact a very small percentage of the economy with large size, and the rest of it with a small overhead, much like a fed interest rate hike. Even with this hawkish fed, there hasn't been anything overly harmful to the economy from a policy perspective.

> This is crazy to me given how much we hear about gun homicide being a problem in this country.

Anything that's politicized gets this special treatment. Kid kills brother with car, blurb in local newspaper. Kid kills brother with gun, national news and Tweets from Presidential candidates.

Texting and driving is as bad as drinking and driving when it comes to number of deaths (dwarfing gun deaths as well), yet people do it like it's no big deal. Most cities still only levy small fines (in comparisons to DUIs) for doing it. Not all accidental death is created equal.

>Page 29: Crime rate has declined but "The number of incarcerated persons has increased by 330% since 1980"

Welcome to the US where the war on drugs gives us authoritarian level incarceration rates.
in the usa it is maybe easily to store it. but in germany it is a huge problem.
asse II is probably already wrecked and nobody knows for sure if "konrad" can withstand the time.
NTP itself is not decentralized, but the largest NTP provider is the NTP community pool, www.pool.ntp.org. The pool is operated by MANY PEOPLE IN BASEMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, using DNS to distribute the traffic. It's practically pretty robust for most purposes.

However, people just go to a list of NTP servers, then copy a few into the code, instead of using the distributed pool. Then it's not a surprise that the NTP in a product is going to stop working, meanwhile a one very overwhelmed guy who happened to run one of the server is going to have serious troubles, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753835.
Otherwise known as: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1522001/files/978-1-4614-6336-8_B...
start counting at 1 instead of zero, ok, its valid.

column-end means really "end+1", why?

problem: when you go from left-to-right: column-start-3,column-end-5: means column #3 is included

when you go from right-to-left: column-start-3,column-end-1: means column #3 is NOT included

So if you read "column-start-3" you don't know if column#3 is included or not, it depends on column-end.

"column-start-3,column-end-5" should include column 3, 4 AND 5

This is from level 10:

>For example, grid-column: 2 / 4; will set the grid item to start on the 2nd vertical grid line and end on the 4th grid line.

What's the correct interpretation of "start on 2nd and end on the 4th"? shouldn't the 4th be included?
As I noted in the sibling: it's not an "article". It's a blog post, written informally, for a familiar audience.

If you're stepping in on somebody's semi-public journal, it's probably incumbent upon the reader to do their spadework if they care.
TDD wasn't a thing when I started coding, there's no software that I use or that has been influential to me that's developed using TDD. For my personal projects, I'll never use TDD, it's a crutch, I don't even jump into tests, I add assertions and then only add a test if I find a bug that wasn't obvious.
Specifically, the energy that is sound will gradually dissipate into energy that is heat. Brownian motion happens on the microscopic level; we perceive it on the macroscopic level as temperature. Temperature is essentially the combined, average kinetic energy of Brownian motion.

Most types of energy gradually turn into heat, including light, macroscopic kinetic energy, released gravitational potential energy, etc.

If you catch a baseball, the kinetic energy of the baseball turns into heat within your muscles (and skin, in the form of friction between the ball and your hands). If you walk down stairs, the gravitational potential energy that you're releasing turns into heat as well, as friction in your joints. Light shining on your skin turns into heat and warms it, as on a bright and sunny day. The electrical energy of a computer converts largely into heat, hence the need for cooling.

There are also theories that all matter may eventually decay, including all atoms and eventually even protons after 10^34 years (though proton decay has not yet been experimentally observed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay

As someone on Quora wrote, "Heat is energy's final grave". The concept of "heat death of the universe" derives from the idea that, eventually, most forms of energy will decay into heat.