skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that a balance is generally possible without paying significant sums.

On the rare occasions that I do read news articles I find them shallow, meandering and less informative than they should be.

I used to read The Economist and found their reports useful. But that comes at a considerable cost. So the easier option is to just forgo news altogether.
Ive done all 3 series. To me, some of them are quite blatant, especially in the easy series. Some of them are irrelevant to me, especially in hard. In a few cases, I actually prefer the bad design.

My main takeaway is that design has quickly diminishing returns. Which is probably not what the authors wanted.
Beneath the image of socialist do-gooders emerges the true face of the EU project - a fascist super state controlled by unelected maniacs. Soviet Union 2.0.
I hope this whole thing collapses when first domino (Brexit) drops.
Where is law enforcement in this? Corruption here is bright as the sun.
Currently reading it for the first time, and agree that Ursula's writing style is immersive, and also I find her quite poetic (some of the fables she weaves into the story are marvelous). I feel just as lost and confused as the envoy so far, which seems appropriate.

Also the geek in me loves the Ansible ;-)
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> I think the new generation is caught up in quizzes that stir up emotions, and psychological tests that determine whether a giraffe is your spirit animal.

Given the activism they're showing in, eg, the US, I think if you read the news, you'd be surprised how wrong you are.

> How can anyone justify reading news that only talk about negative things?

To be aware of them in order to help fix them?
Hi Ramirez, we are rolling out the platform in English and progressively we will extend other languages. The Italian is already up and running and we are working on French and German
Pijul is based on a different (and much more advanced) algorithm than Git. That doesn't mean it's the perfect tool - just as Git is better than SVN (even though they're based on the same underlying algorithms), Pijul might be the "SVN-like" tool waiting for its own Git...

Edit: having said that, Git isn't perfect either, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an even better tool!
I tried to use this in a blogpost this week.

Somehow people just said "Well, sounds about right"
I consider it a little dangerous to rely on a single news source. Granted HN as an aggregator is better than relying on a single paper but it's still a bit unhealthy to read all news in a HN framing (assuming you read comments+newsitem). Even if you just use it as an aggregator it's still fairly selective.

Additionally, HN is very "high level". I don't know how involved you are in the community you live in but I always consume at least one "hyperlocal" paper (+local radio) to stay up to speed on the things that happen in my immediate neighborhood.
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I don't agree that homelessness and bumming are same things. A law-abiding citizen who got evicted from his rental place due to unemployment and has to live with his friend on even sleeping in his car while figuring things out is one thing, and yes you have to be a Nazi to put him to jail for that. But wandering around the town dirty, drunk, stoned, smelly, begging and looking for what to steal is a totally different story. First is an economic/social issue which society has to constructively address: how to build a workable safety net which eliminates or minimizes such cases without bankrupting the public funds. Second is strictly a law enforcement problem, which should be solved in the interest of law-abiding citizens, not himself: remove this person out of public sight and make as sure as possible that his behavior will be fixed, without burdening public funds too much.
I heard a very interesting talk on Crowley by Robert Anton Wilson once. Crowley did have some rather far-out ideas. Also, I seem to recall him being in cahoots with the British Intelligence services at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8TZ0hYHiE
They only negotiate the bribes. EU is never for the good of the citizens but which corporation pays more to get their way.
Bravo la startup nation !
My argument is that considering you are entitled to take action as you see fit and justifying it by you not getting results in other ways is NOT a useful or sustainable approach and as such it's not a helpful advice.

From the original poster:

> If you want to make a political statement as ordinary citizen these days you need to do something with real measurable impact.

i would add "maybe refrain from breaking the law". Encouraging people to take matters into their own hands is pretty much the worst advice you could give them. Not only will that not really change much (unless we're talking about a full blown revolution like overturning communism) but it will also put them in trouble. Who do you think will suffer more? Amazon? Or the guys who have to show up at the next employer as "those people that will sabotage your company whenever they consider it appropriate"?

> the numerous laws Amazon violated

But you're not willing to wait for the court to decide the matter.

> Amazon is very likely to face a lawsuit in court and lose--the French are extremely protective of labor rights.

If the expectation is that Amazon will lose anyway and justice will be done then the only reason to break the law and sabotage your workplace is not justice or prevention, it's revenge. You are actually not gaining anything from this but the satisfaction of causing damage. You know what was the perfectly acceptable way of "punishing" Amazon? Quitting and encouraging others to do it. Without enough employees Amazon loses money.

What's your argument supporting? That I'm wrong in saying that people should not take justice into their own hands?
Aaand it works surprisingly well with color photos. It can remove the insta filters and the overdriven HDR effects.
Great work!
The top-rated comment when they cancelled it last time was "seems like the system is working". So is it?
That comes as an explanation of the previous statements:

"Good God," I said to myself, "and this is merely New York! What must Mexico be like!" I supposed that I was experiencing normal conditions, whereas in point of fact I had landed at the climax of a heat wave which killed about a hundred people a day while it lasted. I should have discovered the truth if I had looked at a newspaper; but I did not read them.

In any case, that principle means we should probably refrain from reading HN too.
I don't like the binary choice to either read the news or ignore it. We just need to be mature enough to curate what we read, hopefully striking a healthy balance between our personal lives and what's going on in the world outside of that.
> The EU is on a roadmap for complete integration along the model of the USA.

The USA federal government has exceptionally well defined limits. The EU can legislate on whatever the hell it wants. Quite the difference there.
Great question. There is indeed a unique solution, but it's not intended for the player to use that information. (Which is why the rules don't mention that guarantee). I considered a couple of alternatives when writing this:

1. Don't have a single solution, but have any duplicate solutions be trivially transformable to the others. E.g. via the "this piece has two possible orientations, and neither will conflict with another piece".

2. Make having a single solution be part of the rules, and necessary for solving some of the puzzles.

3. Make sure the puzzle generator just never generates a place where the uniqueness of the solution can be used to short-circuit the solution.

4. Punt.

Idea number 1 is probably the best one, but the fear was that players would perceive that as "guessing". But looking at how people actually play the game, I think that fear might have been misplaced.
I think it used to be that way.

Culturally today, the difference between the metro areas and the "flyover country" is increasing to the point that people make silly comments like the gp post that betray a total lack of understanding of the rest of the country.

There are some common themes -- but they're becoming less and less common.
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This is fun but broken, on mobile safari it’s mixing up the images and giving me the same pair from the previous question.
Yes I could have worded it better :)

How about:

I don't want to make any claims about the upper bounds of smoking in the mid 19th century and earlier, but the lower bound is at least above what a layman would describe as 'niche'.

Or is that too wordy?
It's really easy to link a MySQL dataset and ask questions about your data. Will DynamoDB also be supported?
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Which non-existent problems monarchies were trying to solve?
Extremely privileged position
> On the other side smart people can be quite insecure about their smartness, that they might not be as smart as they think. So correcting others on the internet might be a way to quieten these insecurities.

I've seen these insecurities and many times they had solid ground. Dunning-Krugger effect is widespread.
They didn’t pull the plug. You can’t create or update new lambdas with older versions of Node, but if you have existing code, it won’t just stop working.
Most democratic countries allow ordinary elected representatives to propose laws, I think. It's mostly a question of whether they can get enough votes, which is easier if the current government supports them. The fact that the EU-level elected representatives have no power to make new laws whatsoever is quite unusual.
Clear, crisp guide. Thanks a lot.

> Those that ask things a lot and can't do much, assign them small tasks.

This is what I'm stuck with. Most times when this happens, I blame myself for not being capable of empowering them. Like you said, I should stop taking this hard and give some time for me as well as the person. Thanks.
Hey mate, awesome you messaged! I am sincerely not skilled enough to comment on the minutia of the language. I can say I really love the idea behind it and as far as I can tell the implementation is solid.

From a end user point of view, I thought the official website and documentation felt a bit lackluster, not because it was bad or anything (the Nim tutorials part I & II are a godsend), but I instinctively compared it to languages like Python. Again, this is not a fair comparison, more like a impression. I'd love to see more blog posts like this one [0] or maybe the occasional roadmap.

Ah I understand where the 'self-fulfilling prophecy' is coming, but if anything I talked about Nim to dozens of people already, even if I can't currently find utility for it on my day job (I do ML, Embedded and Image processing, so it is actually really hard to use anything other than c++)

Again, commenting from the outside, it seems it is a hard position because today upcoming languages such as rust and go have some solid enterprise backing.

If anything, I don't think you need to change my mind! The Nim development is something I keep a close eye on and I hope I will progressively incorporate it on my daily tasks. The mentioned regret on the first post has really more to do on how little spare time I have.

[0]: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/06/07/create-a-simple-macro.h...
We're using the definition a few notches upthread: "Dear manager, for the next weeks/sprint the team needs X days to upgrade the software to version x.x.x otherwise it will stop working"

As opposed to:

2011: deploy website, turn on windows update

2011-2019: lead life as normal

2019: website is up and running, serving webpages, and not part of a botnet.

That's reality today, and if it helps to refer to it as "maintained", that's fine. The point is that it's preferable to the alternative.
Had the same problem at a big corp once.

They got MS Office approved for all PCs, so we ended up building all based on Excel, Word and Access.
Not an official roadmap with regular press releases, but EU Officials (especially recently) are usually quite candid in media interviews about the direction the project is going in.

You can see this for yourself in the expansion of power and reach since formation in 1993, and in every treaty since Maastricht.

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/macron-urges-gr...
[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-emmanuel-macro...
[3] https://www.ft.com/content/18eb3400-989b-11e7-a652-cde3f882d...
As a fan I would not want to read anything the author felt was unfinished. Worse, in Pratchetts case, I hate the idea that he would have stopped writing out of fear that part finished things would be released after he died.
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There is an amazing book written in 1925: A Heaf of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. And there is just as an amazing movie based on it.
There is an exchange about not reading soviet newspapers if one cares about digestion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOE_3_Ws4y0&feature=youtu.be... (English subtitles are available).
'Over-compensate to compensate'. To make a change, you have to be extreme.

https://sivers.org/compensate
You could create userEffectOnce as a custom hook:

function useEffectOnce(callback) {
useEffect(() => {
return callback()
}, [])
}
Just wanted to say thank you for trying to make native apps with thoughtful UX! I also frequently bemoan how far we've fallen since the golden age of app design and implementation.
I have been thinking about this for a while now - on the one had, as somebody who has never tried anything like this and has no intention of ever doing so, it sounds like a really good idea. On the other hand, if it was such a good idea, why aren't people doing that already instead of paying the performance penalty for emulation over and over?
He could have written a much longer article on this if he wanted to; there are deeper issues related to this subject. The characterisation of this should be news-news (company releases a new wossname, generally not a problem) and politics-news where society decides what is happening and what should be done about it. The big question is really: How does "the societal discourse" handle complicated issues?

I don't see much evidence that society at large can take an interest in a subject and maintain a sophisticated position like "there isn't enough evidence here to form an opinion". The closest that seems to be achieved in practice is two interest groups completely at loggerheads, preventing any action due to their strident opposition of each other.

In game theory terms, is there a system where a consensus opinion and a focused group of crazies can coexist without compromising in the direction of the crazies? Because the power of a focused group of political extremists is so great that it distorts political action and has significant flow on effects to journalism as political forces vie for control of the public discourse. The type of discipline to deal with something like that is clearly beyond most citizens.
HN is my news feed for tech, but I have realised that my news feed for "rest of the world" has reduced down to radio / TV weekly comedy shows. Things like BBC news quiz or Mock The Week, (similar to US's John Oliver/ Steve Colbert) actually do a fairly good job of capturing the headlines and providing concise updates. As well as enough cynicism to keep me on my toes.

The only time it failed me was a few years back when a disgruntled Tory party donor spread rumours that the then PM David Cameron had put his dick in a pigs mouth as a university hazing ritual. As no mainstream media would ever dare print that, but people slowly got the right twitter link from friends, there were two weeks when a "oink oink" joke would cause half the country to convulse in laughter and the other half (me included) to wonder what the hell was going on.
It is hard to find time to read The Economist from cover to cover. I try to at least look at each article, and read at least half of them. Even The Economist has some articles that seem ephemeral: for example, a discussion of whether a particular merger will or won't happen.
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> company wants liquidity for existing shareholders

Do they? Aren't existing shareholders usually bound to hold their shares for some time (e.g. 6 months after the IPO)?
Does anyone else find it strange that there is no real-world data in these notebooks? It's all simulations or abstract problems.

This gives me the sense, personally, that economists aren't interested in making accurate predictions about the world. Other fields would, I think, test their theories against observations.
Sounds like you have developed some great product development skills in your time spent and learned about what doesn't work for building a business. Now it's time to fill that gap. Some questions to focus on for now are:

* Who are the people I want to serve?

* How do I find out what problems they have that I can help?

* How do I reach them?

* What can create to help them solve their problems?

* How do I get them to see me and my products as the solution to their problems?

* How do I become trustworthy enough in their eyes to try my products?

You can learn how to do a lot of this yourself and there are many courses out there like 30x500 that can help. As an alternative, you might want to find and partner with a good 'Business Guy' who can bring the audience while you build the product.
Same. HN is the only stream of "news" I consume. And I kind of miss the older HN where non-tech "news" was immediately flagged to oblivion. So now I have to consciously skip irrelevant stuff (arguably like this one).
By the way, in case you're wondering why I'd be so disparaging of a harmless-seeming comment like yours, it's because comment threads like this literally make HN a laughing stock:

https://twitter.com/johnbarton/status/1092641187482095616

Many HN users go to great effort to contribute deeply-considered, carefully crafted, highly insightful comments based on a wealth of experience and expertise.

Those are the comments that make HN great.

It's a shame when middlebrow dismissals get all the attention.
Until last year at ReInvent, you could only use one of five (?) supported languages. Go was the only compiled language available.
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> I know the system is broken, corrupt, beyond repair -- why remind me about it every day?

Perhaps only having Hacker News as your source of news has led to that mentality. That's not to say it isn't broken, or there isn't corruption, but I don't think things are beyond repair, and they can certainly be worse.
Wow you just shat on people who read the news and people who don't in a single comment, while elevating your own head-buried-in-the-sand preference as the elite choice.

I'm not even mad! That's amazing!
I don't think the fact that the interviewer choose the same quiz all the time is the culprit (on the contrary i would say, because it helps establish a benchmark and understand the pitfalls of that particular question).

The problem is that getting the answer correctly shouldn't be the main goal of the quiz question. Rather, it is the opportunity to see how the candidate think, and how the person is able to work with someone else (aka the interviewer) to solve a given problem.

It could also be a way to make sure the candidate understands a few concepts of its field (complexity, memory pointers, etc).

Mainly what matters is the process, not the solution.
Firefox, not the hero we deserve, but what we need.
I try not to read such self-help/life advice articles, which are just as bad as news. Why are they so popular on HN?
It's still useful to understand data structures and algorithms on a conceptual level. Even if all you ever do is use premade ones it's going to be nontrivial to pick the correct ones in some cases if you never thought about the costs/benefits they come with.

And I wouldn't call it premature optimization either, just picking sane defaults.

Also...and that's just a personal opinion, I think it's good practice to show an interest beyond black box use when you work with stuff. Poking around in standard libraries can be great fun :D
At the Commission level (where legislation originates and the power really lies), the democratic link is so weak it's homeopathic democracy.
"in the 19990s"

Dates are hard, you should really rely on your languages built in date time library :P

But yes, I agree with your points.
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It's an educational course in quantitative economical methods. Fitting real world data is messy and would probably distract. There obviously is overlap with metrics but as an undergrad course I'd separate this too. They do have ample links to scientific papers that do use real world data. There's a pages long list of references [1]. Do check them out if you're into economical science.

[1] https://lectures.quantecon.org/jl/zreferences.html
> Keep in mind that you're arguing against an existence disproof. The Microsoft stack, for example, is a pretty big target for attack, and has seen its share of security issues over the years.
> But developers don't need to make any code changes or redeploy anything to mitigate those security issues.

I don't believe it. Most security issues are not just an implementation issue in the framework but an API that is fundamentally insecure and cannot be used safely. Most likely those developers' programs are rife with security issues that will never be fixed.
If you don't read the news then how are you supposed to make a judgement about who to vote for or understand current trends or be alerted to issues with products recalls or where the great bargins are?

I stopped reading newspapers very a long time ago too, haven't watched TV in several years, and because of this i miss out on most of the above.
Porn does not reflect the actual behaviors of people. Porn is bascially the candy of sex. Taboo-ness, and fantasy is a big part of what that caters.

When I say average I mean the biggest general cluster of sexual behavior.
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That said “transferring data” not “American ownership”. If it is required that your data doesn’t leave the country, just use a region in the EU.
> (yeah, we could do it with daemontools as well.. but no one did the hard job of converting thousands of packages to daemontools)

Void Linux is close. It uses runit as its init/service supervision and implements the daemontools uid/env commands with its chpst command. Logging is managed through svlogd which can timestamp output, rotate files etc. I couldn't be happier with a Linux distribution.

You really don't need to convert anything, unless it's explicitly written to interact directly with some specific supervision mechanism, which I don't think is the case for "thousands of packages".
There is an increase in the ratio of work performed in the digital domain, rather than through physical processing, often making things more efficient, easier or cheaper.

Like with the transition from an analog printing process (including shooting, developing etc photos) to the digital one.
If one thinks metal head is a slang term for robot / AI, one immediately gets a Rudy Rucker short story feeling...
https://pijul.com/faq/#why-not-a-git-merge-algorithm-instead...
Which makes sense, as it's a x1000 factor.

Millionaire is actually just a x100 factor from a middle class saving account.

Each time, the real difference is not the physical goods anyway. From middle class to millionaire, it's the logistic that changes the most. You can live free of many constraints.

From millionaires to billionaires, it's more a matter of impact in the world. Having 100 luxury cars must be fun, but I can't imagine it changing your life that much.