skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distance doesn’t seem to matter as much as culture, government, and monetary policy. Silicon Valley and Detroit share a currency, a government, and a population.
If you’re already managing a product, why not start committing code to that?
As a broad response, let's just say not everything is perfect. These systems can be and are abused (by publishers, malicious actors). Yes, let's fix those.

But let's not overlook why these things have become popular in the first place (from a utility point of view). Google made the whole web searchable and digestable. Facebook made social & forum content much higher utility than before. YT did the same with billions of mostly-uninteresting videos.

Going back to an old style forum & email-list experience is a step backwards. Well, be my guest, do it if you like :) I won't.

See Reddit, Hackernews etc regarding how social cues can be used for ranking/curation. Yet, those platforms do a bare minimum (imo not quite enough). E.g. Google Feed is more engaging, interesting, and informative (in my experience).
Not sure why this is being downvoted, It was absolutely the case being made for why we should be economically involved in China, however it turned out to be dead wrong.

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2007/08/31/capitalis...
Farnam Street curation is also good https://fs.blog/mental-models/
U.S. border wall no match for Mexican girl's Santa wish list
Last year I did all problems in Scala, focusing on using pure fp, scalaz and cats. This year I wanted to bolster my Go and Ruby skills since I'm now working on a project that uses both. I found that Ruby was more fun to work with, so much more fun than Go that I only did one solution in Go. Many solutions I found could be solved in an elegant way just as I would have done in Scala or Clojure, but I found some rough edges in Ruby which were partly due to my ignorance of the language and partly because there are some inconsistencies in the collections api. I had to revisit more puzzles for performance improvements than in Scala. For example one puzzle required random access and insert and delete on a very large array which was incredibly slow in Ruby, but would have been acceptable in Scala or Clojure using the Vector collection. Rewriting as a double linked list improved runtime 1000x.
One of the money quotes for me (emphasis added):

“The tech industry was collectively upset by its proximity to a government and funding source that blatantly misused its power. Silicon Valley gets most of its money through SoftBank’s Vision Fund and by proxy the Saudi kingd... the total invested by the kingdom alone into U.S. startups is far greater than the total raised by any single VC fund.

Did we see a single example of a startup that refused to work with SoftBank in the aftermath? No. Will we? Probably not. Because Silicon Valley players are mostly only political and activist when it’s convenient for them”
Simple rule: if you put food on your own plate you should eat it all, if someone else puts food on your plate you are allowed to leave as much or as little of it as you want. That way you will hopefully learn to take only as much food as you will want to eat.
I'm more inclined to see this as:

Fortnite is super popular among humans.

Humans are very social animals.

Fortnite sees a ton of social activity.
That was also the argument for why WW1 could never happen, yet it did.
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I see what you're saying -- my language can definitely be interpreted as asshole-ish. Tone is obviously hard to interpret when speaking in text, but my intention is to just clear things up gently but firmly -- I should do better with that, I grant you that.

How I feel seeing mostly-tech people talking about music is how tech people probably feel when they see CSI show us a "hacker." It's just way off so often, and like most people on this site, I usually like to correct incorrect statements when I see them; there's no point in letting misinformation or incorrect assumptions stand if I can easily jump in and clear it up.

I feel like you're ignoring the context of the what I was replying to, though. This discussion is talking about standards. It's a trope by this point that every serious jazz student is encouraged -- forced, even -- to learn standards in all 12 keys. I've been fortunate to study at some pretty "prestigious" schools, hang and take private lessons with some seriously heavy hitters in the jazz world, and absolutely none of my peers or educators would bat an eye at what I said. Many of them may not like it (myself included), others totally perpetuate it, but zero would disagree that it is a very commonly-held attitude.

I'm not defending the, as I called it, "hardcore meritocracy" of the jazz world -- stating that exists is not the same as defending it. It can be toxic (though it's improved a lot in recent decades), and you're correct to refer to it as dogmatically ridiculous. It's often backwards-thinking and stuck in the past. I think the whole culture of using standards as some reliable barometer of someone's skill is insane, and is a total waste of time.

These and other reasons are why I'm not longer a professional jazz musician -- I've since moved on to things that interest me far more than improvising over the Real Book. But I'm just stating facts. Waltz into any club in any serious jazz city like NYC, Boston, or Paris, ask to play, and see what happens when a tune is called out in a certain key, and you pipe up and say, "Uh, I only know that one in __. Can we do that instead?" Once is maybe fine, but after two or three and they'll tell you to get off the stage, because you're not a "real" jazz musician. The gate-keeping is real.

Again, not defending it. I want to make it clear that I think it's fucking stupid. But this is reality. Period ;)
My family was on welfare growing up. Most literally. We found time to make food that was cheap and nutritious (dry beans, dry lentils, cheap chicken parts). That’s how we got out of poverty. It’s the only way out of poverty. Saying something is difficult isn’t constructive, productive or particularly interesting.
This is totally cool. I wish there were more events like this. Disney meets escape rooms meets The Mysterious Package Company.

I bet there's a huge market for botique entertainment like this.
The growth pattern is still exponential, instead of going x -> 2 * x, you go x -> 9/8 * x + 6. I think it should still be O(1) amortized, you just need to adjust your proof for doubling a bit.
How much of it is cold calling people though? I’d hate to be annoying as my job.
Encryption is another problem.

I thought the whole point of an encrypting filesystem was that applications using it would not need to care about such things? Unless you're going below the FS abstraction and actually accessing blocks of the device directly, it shouldn't matter.
Anecdote:

A good friend made enough money he was able to quit his job as an engineer to provide telecom consulting services directly to small healthcare providers in the North Carolina mountains. Started a small phone company, hired a sales guy, who closes the deal, my friend comes along and walks the company through integrating.

He describes it as a hybrid between being a reseller and a managed service provider, but 100% of their revenue is residuals from services his partner sells, and they both live pretty comfortably and happily.
A girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon. An American found it
I'll second this, I've also debated law school time to time. Every time I start to get disillusioned with tech (the vast majority of tech jobs do nothing to improve the world or help people) I consider criminal defense.
Yes, our ages ranged from 2 to 8. There was 5 of us.
Cloudflare's Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019
You will benefit from http://unpaywall.org/
That is beginning of the new era and the sources can be given to us as well because we are all living in this era.
That raises the questions of how competent are the atomicity of changes, persistence, and speed and memory optimizations implementations of your Prolog interpreter?

And, since those are not usual goals of an interpreter, I would guess "not very competent" for at least the first two with high certainty.

It also raises the question of whether Postgres has a good Prolog plugin. This one looks more likely to be useful.
Hey, I was at a war and did not get injured, now I am totally sure no one ever gets injured on wars, because I was not injured!

Hey I drive my car for 30 years without a seatbelt and was never injured, it surely means that seatbelts are useless and you can’t really get injured in a car, so why even bother with protection?
DiskCryptor does it in Windows fairly easily and lets you install the bootloader to USB.
If that is the steal kind so there are a lot of new things in it and this can be fascinating as this is quite impressive a swell.
I started being scared when I found many kids having tics from Fortnite steps.
Whoa! Quoting Charles Fort with no mention of raining frogs! :-)
Being an introvert is the worst. I feel like I’ve missed out on so many opportunities.
Site is up again :)
I've come to believe that singular scientific papers should be consider "only slightly above noise". Like ants leaving weak pheromones when they find food: It works well in scale but close to random in the particular case. I feel this is even more true nowadays, when the marginal utility of improved rigorousness is so low.

This article reads to me like a PR piece for the (marketing) professor more than an honest showcasing of scientific findings: The results are very relatable and feel intuitively true so as a reader it's easy to pick it up as "ammunition" for future family dinner discussions and thus are also good for the media to publish. So there's no need for rigorous science. (I mean come on, "participants were asked to imagine eating a certain number of cookies (...) and then asked how much they wanted one more cookie.")
Yes. But others (like Haskell) aren't much behind.
Most American restaurant portions are absurdly sized. Any meal I get in a restaurant these days is almost always lunch for the next day too.
Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar.
Ask HN: What are your favorite computer games?
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I didn’t read anything in TFA that wasn’t already present in, say, Halo 2 ten or twelve years ago. I still play weekly with people I’ve played with for over a decade. Got a job interview at a major software company via a contact from the Halo crew.

But that’s just one example. :%s/Fortnite/wildly-popular game with party chat/g
I would like to try something new but Im afraid I wouldn’t be able to switch careers entirely - software development is the only thing I know how to do. Part time is much more feasible though. I can make a comfortable living by doing dev three days a week. For the rest of the week Im considering volontereing for some climate change cause.
The article talks about one of the primary motivations for using Lisp being that it's 'fun,' which is a comment I've heard about Lisp elsewhere, and which makes sense to me since I've noted a difference in funness between other languages.

So that's pretty appealing to me, but I haven't quite found the right Lisp to use. It seems like Clojure (probably ClojureScript actually) would be the most practical for me to use on some projects—but I'm curious whether others have found Clojure/ClojureScript to have that same element of fun Lisp is sometimes known for.
Every time cutesy design comes up, two camps immediately go to war: the "Cute things make me want to bludgeon everyone in a 50 mile radius" camp and the "I actually like this stuff everywhere" camp.

It's probably just cultural because you can see differing attitudes toward it depending on where you look, but I am gonna be honest: I still think it's a bit silly how frustrated some people get over silly drawings.
Er, yes; that's what I said (or rather, hanging various things including but not limited to pointers). C only supported the typechecking part of this because it doesn't have any facilities for compile-time linearity checking.

Linearity[0] and dependency[1] checking is what makes Rust a improvement over C, rather than yet another "let's reinvent C++, but slightly less awful" project.

0: "error: no implementation for copy〈T〉","error: no implementation for drop〈T〉"[2]

1: "error: cannot move/destroy x (of type T); y (of type T&'x) outlives it"
>a raid group in classic WoW cira 2007.

After Blizzard releases WoW Classic this summer, I already know what will 2019's most important social network be :-)
If I go out for dinner and get served a big meal, I'm going to stuff myself silly and if I eat breakfast at all the next morning it'll be a banana or something. It really isn't hard to balance out your calorie intake across meals. I have a hard time believing that the insidious 'clean plate' mentality is the real culprit behind why so many people are fat.
Tresorit. It has linux cli client: https://support.tresorit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009330614-...
The kid in article was 3 years old. There is a big difference between a 3 year old kid and an 8 year old.
> That sounds a little selfish; think of people using other frameworks.

Or people using other frameworks could be not selfish and use React. If she/he's the one giving stuff for free - it's on her/his terms.
Hope you've still got your hopes up, never give up bro.
'Miracle' baby found on roadside is one of Arizona's great mysteries
My wife is very good about keeping up with old friends from back home; me, not so much.

Over the past year, I've been semi-consistently playing weekly fortnite sessions with three old friends, and it's been great. It's something we all do and laugh at while we're on a group phone call together, and it's good for an hour of relaxing and talking on a Sunday night.

The fact of it being free is important because none of us play outside of these gatherings (making the large-download updates problematic when they show up.)
The truth is, that we need some human wulfes to bind the family unit together. Without at least the ilusion of danger- people go wild, as the fear to be left by spouses/men in a now allmost danger free world.

Crime is falling. Public self-surveilance allmost eradicates all remaining "dangers".
So they make the danger up. There is the reason why every suburbian home slightly reminds of a fortification.
psDoom is one of those things I only ever looked at for about 5 minutes, but that is still one of those seminal projects in software visualisation. Alongside things like FSN(1) as referenced in Jurassic Park.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
I tried to do this on a volunteer basis. I wrote to a bunch of professors in the field but they all had zero interest in software engineering help. I had assumed it would be incredibly useful and they jump at getting it for free :-(
Partnerships and advisory roles can have % based compensation.

Brokering typically has % based compensation.

These don't inherently involve any more 'sales' than selling yourself in an interview for any other kind of role. They can involve more sales if you need them to.
I think the biggest difference is that now it's mainstream.

Back in the early 2000's online games were played by a faction of the population that plays them now. They were fringe, and having "online friends" was consitered to be weird and strange by most (I heard this plenty as my 2 closest friends I only met in person for the first time at my wedding in 2014! After having known them for almost 10 years at the point, and I heard plenty from even family about how it was "a bit weird").

That feeling has changed over the last few years, and now "online friends" are just friends, and the games themselves are actually almost the secondary reason many people play them. The primary being to hang out with their friends online.
I asked 'Them' and they assure me that the rain of frog will come later, once they have found both the umbrella and the frog.

edit - if you have no idea what I am on about, buy this immediately - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens
I've been working my way through Kleene's "Mathmatical Logic". It's a great read so far, touching on the details and proofs in some detail. I'm looking forward to the chapters on completeness and the like. I was mostly inspired to get his book because of the Kleene star, who knows why.

Also, though very different, I just got GEB for Christmas, so I guess I'll be reading that finally now too.
TLA+ is hard to learn
Developers are too naive for politics. It would spin your head so fast you wouldn’t even know what hit you.
The new BSOD in Windows 8(?) with the sad face also causes me the same increase in irritation, even more so because it hides everything except one unhelpful "try searching online for SOME_ERROR_CODE" line. Before, I would copy down in addition to the exception code, the address, filename, and parameters --- which often determine exactly what's wrong due to other users also posting the same detailed information and the solution online.
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15114139

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819702
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Top 20% is definitely good enough, the value having removed the issue with transcendence between two normally unrelated fields will improve your advantage by many factors.

Of course, not everything goes.
Rust can already talk C ABI so I think the dream is already reality.
0h h1 – A little logic game
Can you share the two lines of CSS that would make something like this work?

<div style="width: 200px" class="kawaii-backpack kawaii-happy"></div>

or this:

<div style="width: 200px">
<img src="kawaii-backpack.sgv" />
<img src="kawaii-happy.svg" />
</div>

Edit: it should also work with a color user defined color.
I think the thing that makes Fortnite a game changer in this space is its ubiquity. It's free and cross-play on almost every platform, from phones to high end gaming PCs, and almost every console in-between.
Is It Possible to Reach the “Perfect” Lowest Score in New Super Luigi U?
Does clasp still support all the metaprogramming features of lisp while using llvm, and how does it do it?
All metal bands making music videos need to step it up.
Mom: There are starving children in Africa.

Me: Got a stamp?

Mom: <SMACK!>
I think a realistic job would be industrial designer or architect. An unrealistic one would be photographer or writer. Maybe working in the film industry.

My self christmas gift was a some gear to start shooting short films as a hobby that I will write, direct, photograph, and produce/compose the music. I think that's better than spending my free time coding and being burnt out.
This man spent $5,000 of his own money to put Zimbabwe on Street View
I’m actually designing and building a SUP. I’d love to hear your design and graphics ideas. Email me if you want. (In profile)
The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
I would say the same thing was the case for a game like World of Warcraft.

The big advantage of game-based social networks is that they have a purpose which means they have a constructive goal which is shared among the players, plus they have rules for how to win.

I would rather that my kids spend time in Fortnite than on Facebook.
I'm assuming that program is more approachable than something like Coq or others? I used ACL2 a bit in college, and could imagine people being frustrated trying to learn it on their own.
Hi from Argentina! I can barely read French to understand the text, but I still don't understand the story. Can you give more context? I was traying to find something in Wikipedia but I was not successful.

[spoiler alert] Let's try: The main link and the first link of the list in your comment are one stories. Two astronaut re in an empty planet and they find 6 abandoned starships. They must choose one to escape form the planet. All of them look fine, but for some reason they must select one because the other are secretly broken. So the riddle is to guess which one is the correct ship. How good is my understanding? Here is where my French (or logic) fails and I can't guess the answer to save my life. It would be nice if you can link a version of the comic in English (or Spanish :) ), or in other case explain the solution (with a [spoiler alert] warning).

Edit: Abusing my lack of knowledge of French, what about this solution: They pick the starship number five, because the computer in each ships says "The five subsystem out of the five subsystems in this ship are operational." but it actually means "In this fleet, the starships from number five to number five are operational.".
This was annoying growing up in a household with a stay-at-home european mother who cooked huge, delicious, but calorie-dense meals. We were taught to always clean our plates, but were expected to say "when" while the chef served and never actually stopped immediately upon hearing "when".

In adulthood though, having completely restructured my diet to something devoid of calorie-dense, quickly-digested fillers, none of this matters. I never have leftovers of whatever I'm eating, just to avoid the hassle; food going bad, or simply less cleanup. It's of no lasting negative consequence to my weight.

I think this issue is largely a red herring as a result. What you're eating dictates the significance of how much. If you fix the what, how much becomes irrelevant.
I used to play a lot of EverQuest with friends. At some point we realized it was like an elaborate chatroom - a place to hangout just as much as it was a game.

This is a big part of why Minecraft was worth buying for 2.5B. Minecraft provides an endless wilderness to explore, modify and hangout. Particularly powerful with kids since that's something they're no longer allowed in the real world.
Consider using git or another SCM instead. You don't need a centralized server, you can push/pull between any two machines with ssh (or a handful of other protocols). Encrypted end to end. Supports branches, useful for stuff like dotfiles on different machines. You don't need commit messages, just make an alias to add all changes and commit with and empty message. You have a full history, can revert back to any state, inspect any old version, diff versions, etc. There's git clients for mobile. Free as in beer and freedom. Check-summed. Puts you in control of when to sync, supports offline. Future-proof, acquisition-proof, VC-proof. Familiar.