skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Economist does include a one page summary of the week's news near the start, with just one or two sentences for each story. You can use that to decide which you wish to read a whole article about later in the paper. You can even choose not to read any, though admittedly it would be a bit expensive to buy the paper and read only one page of it. (There is also a page about business news, reflecting the publication's title, and it's often worth looking at the first couple of those.)

Also worth looking at unconditionally are the letters page, which is always very good and sometimes has very famous correspondents (occasionally from tyrannical regimes making preposterous statements, with no response from the paper), and the obituary, which has an eclectic selection of very famous and very unknown individuals.
Given the population size and density, competition is not nearly the same, and hence, top education is probably more expensive compared to the local wealth in India.
> So many open source hackers do not know the basic tecniques for backwards compatibility (e.g. don't reaname a function, just intoduce a new one, leaving the old available).

I'd dispute this, or at least I think this doesn't capture the whole picture. Microsoft makes money with backwards compatibility and can afford to spend significant effort on to the ever-growing burden of remaining backwards-compatible indefinitely. Open source volunteers are working with much more limited resources and I think that it comes down much more to intentional tradeoffs between ease of maintenance and maintaining backwards compatibility.

If you have a low single-digit number of long-term contributors, maybe the biggest priority to keep your project moving at all is to avoid scaring off new contributors or burning out old contributors, and that might require making frequent breaking changes to get rid of unnecessary complexity asap. Characterizing that as "they don't know that you can just introduce a new function" doesn't seem like it yields instructive insights.
As a french i beg other european nations : please, don't let french law makers decide the future of european internet. They don't understand a thing about technology (or science in general) and have a passion for ideology and state regulation.

One of the reason we have had riots every single week for the last 3 months is because of their inability to make smart and pragmatic regulations. Don't listen to them.
As a Brit, I always merge early due to the sense of fairness. However, this is strongly enforced by the nature of road signs, which show, say 500m ahead, a diagram with an arrow on the right merging to the left.

All it would take would be a consistent change of sign showing merging in turn at lane-merge to change this behaviour
Yes, I am :) Might be a cultural thing. We like simple and efficient solutions.
Time for some action
I think that the parent commenter is referencing node 4.3 being past EOL and being unmaintained software and therefore unfit for prod, unlike the ms stack which is receiving patches
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I think of something similar but less "news" lead - for example a backlog of the most "important" global issues (yes we can out climate change at number one) but it's things like "water shortages in southern sudan" at number 18 and so on that really will give perspective - when we see things like Brexit at number 67 that we know we have a proper balance.

I would start with a metric like "estimated number of excess human deaths from this issue in next year, five years fifty years" and have open transparent ways to assess the metric
Left out of this conversation is the reason ursula is lionized nowadays - more for being a particular gender than for her ability(which is great). she's a talking point on all the sjw blog "news" sites and her rating is boosted artificially. don't expect to like her if you never sought her out before based on your reading habits.

There's also a directed thrust currently in the scifi community to push women/trans authors to the forefront(at the expense of male authors for better or worse) and ursula gets brought up in those talking points as well.

just offering up some things that came up in my "why is ursula mentioned so much suddenly when she was pretty much forgotten outside of sci-fi readers for a long time" research after i got influenced into binging her books by these selfsame articles...i think this should be mentioned. ursula is great but she isn't "must read" if you like reading in general. a lot of her stuff is very genre/niche oriented.
What's the number for the 1% world wide ?
Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age
>The point is, most of what you read online today is pointless. It’s not important to your life. It’s not going to help you make better decisions. It’s not going to help you understand the world.

That's an awfully privileged position to take. I'm going to guess the author isn't likely to have their status as a person invalidated, their religion declared illegal, or their citizenship revoked any time soon. I'm going to guess he's of a race that isn't likely to be a target of a government endorsed hate crime.

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I purposefully wrote that paragraph before I looked up the author:

>Shane Parrish has become an unlikely guru for Wall Street. His self-improvement strategies appeal to his overachieving audience in elite finance, Silicon Valley and professional sports.

When a member of an elite class gives you advice, consider if the advice is truly in your best interest, or if it serves to cement their elite status in society. The elites benefit from keeping "the proles" in the dark.

As a member of the elite, trying to sell to other elites, Shane represents the ultimate in privilege: the type of person who is going to be just fine no matter what the government or any company decides to do. Some of us aren't so lucky.
If you own a runway you probably don't need a side hustle to make money.
A lot of that activism is more performative than practical, judging by voter turnout.
Is that mailing list for Volt also the place to find out more about V the language? It sounds and looks really interesting!
I am not sure if that number is accurate (or which super-exclusive school they've taken as reference). Private School fees depend on the institution and the grade you're in, and varies from $5-25K.
Working in Monaco without being from Monaco does not grant you the same benefits. Besides, it's a really, really boring city.
> Having 100 luxury cars must be fun, but I can't imagine it changing your life that much.

But it's the gap from flying first class to owning private jets. Or renting a large yacht or owning a small one to owning a super-yacht with two helicopter pads and a sub (like e.g. Paul Allen's "Octopus" [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)
Installing Security patches for a ruby stack takes a full code coverage test suite, days of planning and even more to update code for breaking changes.

Installing security patches for a Microsoft stack requires turning on windows update.

There's a BIG difference. Once you write your msft stack app, is done. Microsoft apps written decades ago still work today with no code changes.
EU laws do not apply to the rest of the world. No need to spin up TOR. Put your site in California that should be enough. I don't see HN caring a rat ass about EU law, in the same way that HN did not ask for a publishing license from the Chinese department of communication.

The irony is that the French are the first ones to complain about the hegemony of sites like Google (burning tons of tax payers' money on useless projects like the Quaero search engine), but when they're given an opportunity to shoot themselves up in the foot repeatably, and to kill ANY hope of having ANY European site that EVER competes with the US then they seize on it. It's the apex of stupidity.

I'm going to write an angry mail to my French representative tonight.
I buy the bit about being critical about what news we consume, but I just don’t see a complete avoidance of news as being a good solution. To me, not reading news would remove more value from my life than reading too much.

My personal fix for news media was to identify exactly what I wanted from a news paper and then identify the one which suited my needs best.

This turned out to be a paper, which at the time (2017) only had a printed version. No online version at all, they do now, but I’ve never visited it. It’s a high lixcount paper with a heavy focus on society (as in statecraft not cocktails), culture and arts/literature. It’s basically the perfect paper for our cultural elite. I’m not really part of that, and I always skip the book and arts sections, so you could say the paper isn’t exactly a perfect match. It’s underlying political philosophy doesn’t even align with mine.

The thing is though, it only comes out on Fridays. This means the paper only focuses on the stuff that’s actually relevant. It also means the articles have actually journalistic depth. The combination of this means I get to stay informed without being bothered by all the irrelevant noise in the regular news cycle.

It’s been truly awesome, and if something critical happens I can always turn to internet news.
I would really like to see some more research done on Whorfian effects of gendered language. It certainly seems plausible that a language that forces speakers to remember and pay attention to every person's gender will affect how its speakers think, and there are plenty of languages that don't do that, for comparison, so perhaps there are some interesting experiments that could be done.
If you want to understand better than 99% of the population where the world is heading, you could do a lot worse than reading a few of the titles in the Economist's books of the year list.

Even better, read Machiavelli, human nature hasn't changed and it will help you interpret the news.

Also watch the documentary "The Century of The Self"; most news is propaganda, and this will help you spot it.

And, if you must read the news, aim for a bit of diversity (i.e. both media from the right and the left, and events in your country as seen from abroad, and triangulate), otherwise you will easily get brainwashed, censorship in dictatorships tries to block media it can't control for this very reason.

Headlines are clickbait more often than not, don't believe them, and "breaking news" is abused so often that it's become a meaningless tag.

Don't use social media as a news source, it's abysmal, even worse than tabloids.
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Metal has quite a few name collisions, but perhaps the most unfortunate is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band)
> Is the new generation reading news? I highly doubt it.

Instead of doubting it, try doing some research.

"Age does not impact people’s attentiveness to various news topics. Even the youngest adults are as likely to pay attention to news [...] as older adults. Further, they are no more likely than older adults to follow news on lifestyle topics."[1]

> 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.

This is incredibly condescending and seemingly not based in any statistical reality.

> I know the system is broken, corrupt, beyond repair -- why remind me about it every day?

Because knowing how "the system" is broken today (which differ from yesterday or last week) makes you an informed citizen. When enough informed citizens vote, the system is significantly less broken.

If you don't inform yourself and vote, you are one of the reasons the system is still dangerously broken. I hope well-run governments are not a matter of life and death for you, because they are for billions of other people.

1. https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/...
There's some info here: https://volt.ws/lang

Some ideas are similar, yes.
It's all obscene. IMHO we're headed for guillotine territory if things continue the way they have the past ~40 years or so in the West. And climate change is only going to make it more likely to go up like a tinderbox.
Right now it has ~10% of Slack's usage for the same chats.
> To be aware of them in order to help fix them?

Good one.
Why not summarize it a little if you feel that info got lost.

Technically if you need a patch you can generate it on the fly by comparing both objects (you can even do that in a bash script with `diff`, if you are willing to type in the logic to look up commit->tree->file->object-name first). So there shouldn't be anything lost. The only parameters I can see with storing diffs vs immutable objects is disk space vs processing time, which is also what git proofs by not storing old immutables and instead store diffs for old stuff (reducing space by increasing processing time).
I don't think we even can vote them out of office. All proposed EU laws are created by the European Commission, which is made up of unelected political appointees that aren't even meant to represent the views of ordinary citizens. We really have little say. The European Council is a little better in that it represents member governments which could be voted out of power, but unless there's a huge number of single-issue voters in multiple states who care only about this I can't see this having much effect.

Democratic accountability in the EU is incredibly weak, and the member governments seem to love it because it's great for creating laws they couldn't get away with at the national level.
As far as I know, in the entire existence of AWS since the first services launched in 2006, they have never abandoned a service.
Try driving in Bucharest or Athens for a bit and the UK will seem positively polite.
You’re pretty much right on the nose.

Of course, it depends on who they work for. Effectively, the American field of economics is an exercise in decoupling private reality from public theory.
She worked with Forrester’s group in the late 60s/early 70s. So there’s a direct connection.
For now yes. I'll create a separate website and communities for V in April.
You can simply incorporate both patches A and B, you don't need a separate "merge" step.

If A and B have conflicts, then the resulting repo will have conflicts (but that's allowed in pijul) and you can resolve those conflicts with a third patch, C.

The nice thing is that this patch C can be used to resolve those same set of conflicts, even if someone else has a completely different history. In git, when you perform a rebase, the identity of commits is lost, and so you have to constantly re-resolve the same merge conflicts when merging between branches where one of the branches has been rebased.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological or political or national tangents. They're off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Perhaps only having Hacker News as your source of news has led to that mentality.

Ok, next time I will omit the part where I say that HN has been my only source of news.
Has there ever been a time when the EU has devolved power back to the nations within it?

I can't ever recall something like that happening. But every decade or so there's a new EU treaty that transfers more power to the EU, eventually you end up with something that looks like the EU as the country and the old nation states as the provinces, but it happens so slowly over time that nobody really stops and asks if that's what everyone wants.
The contents are exactly as rich as the click-baity title suggests, here are the 81 (out of ~1500) relevant words:

> But it’s moving too fast for an inert rock, Loeb points out — zooming away from the sun as if something is pushing it from behind. And if it’s a comet spewing jets of steam, the limited observations astronomers made of it showed no sign.

> Loeb argues that ‘Oumuamua’s behavior means it can’t be, as is commonly imagined, a clump of rock shaped like a long potato, but rather an object that’s very long and no more than 1 millimetre thick

Meanwhile, wikipedia claims non-gravitational effects aren't uncommon in comets with no detectable activity, which is not something Loeb bothers talking about in his letter.

Worth noting is that Loeb is not any sort of expert on solar system objects, and I think he doesn't even do observational astronomy.
A Kind of Hippocratic Oath for Tech
Why pijul?

Cherry-picking.

In git, cherry picking is broken. In pijul, it isn’t.

That’s the shortest explanation possible of why a patch-based model is better than a snapshot one. Hope it helps.
There are a few other things in play: You get less of the wave-like behaviour from 2 lanes merging. That means fewer start/stops. If the line is long enough, it may also reach the previous intersection - with two lanes it gets much shorter, avoiding blocking other directions.
interesting. in Japanese you cross the traffic light when it's "blue" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/02/25/language/the-ja...
OK, we changed to that from https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190204/09090341521/artic.... Thanks!
I don't think you need to read the Economist cover to cover to get value from it.

Generally when I buy a copy, it goes something like this:

- News in brief at the front

- Feature articles that I particularly like the sound of

- Then I go through it skimming and stopping when something catches my eye based on how much time I have

Getting the digital version also means you don't feel the pang of the dead tree sat there making you guilty, too.
The Matirx ToS is for using (or federating to) their servers. You can setup your own homeserver and there is no ToS.
Oumuamua may be alien light sail: Harvard astronomers
I just submitted my DNA for testing, and was more than happy to do so.
I believe, that for me knowing MY genetic predispositions about certain diseases AND do something about it (even paying a premium for insurance) far outweighs the privacy concerns while you slowly die without targeted medical/lifestyle interventions.
This “she’s only popular because she’s a black woman” stance without any specific critique of her work is unwarranted and quite nearly racist.
What is the name of this paper?
> I don't think we even can vote them out of office.

Of course you can. The European Parliament has the last say on EU laws. There's an upcoming EP election in only a few months. The head of the largest faction (essentially either EPP or ESP) will become head of the commission.
There's few times as good as now to contact your local MEP and voice your concerns about article 13.
Love it! Do you have any favorite tools you'd recommend, and/or favorite places for finding new ones?
It's always interesting when people try to Solve Art.

Art is inherently subjective, and you have to accept that a lot of it just _sucks_.

It's up to you to curate your own taste, and you do that by trawling through the terrible art until you find something that you like.
I think this technique will work if the victim does not expect interrogated by this approach. So, for example a terrorist group notorious for beheading victim, by contradicting themselves and use a friendly approach, then it will work.

For example for police force, they cannot play too tough due to law restriction, then those really bad guys basically don't give a fuck, so it may not work.
First and foremost- its about a mental model. Pijuls model matches how one thinks of code changes. But in terms of actual implementation- pijul has better space management (a factor that solely dictates use of mercurial often).

Also- pijul has per path check out.

But again- all this is implementation- what works better is mental model.

Anybody who has cherry picked patch hunks or done a 3way merge knows what I'm talking about.
Their wording is indeed bad, and does not convey at all what they wanted to convey.

Git stores patches to reduce disk size, and does so very effectively. However the same exact patch, applied to a different head has a different commit id. That commit id is a snapshot, even if it is stored as a patch.

Pijul, that same patch applied to different heads, will always have the same hash. This has some advantages that is deeper in their documentation.

Basically, you can cherry-pick changes (patches) from someone else, and then later merge their entire branch, but not conflict on the patches you already imported. Having dealt with this with git, I can see the appeal.
That's not the reality I know. I have apps written and compiled on windows xp that still work to this day.

If you work on any non-msft stack I know of, you're constantly updating code for any, sometimes even minor version upgrade.
I have been banging on about this for years - please see http://oss4gov.org/manifesto

It's hard to make headway with the chicken and egg problem - if there was a good OSS system for a government need, the government could be persuaded to use it - but you can't write one without the initial investment which you cannot get because VC won't fund it ...
The same could be said of keeping up with the front page of HN. I imagine most of us pick and choose which items to give attention to.
doing it at home/offline doesn't add any value to the shared knowledge pool.
Regarding the first question, fundamentally you can’t “prove” a number is truly random. Even if a number or sequence is completely not random looking (e.g. a valid copy of Windows 98), there is a chance it really is random and coincidental. You could have immediately said that. Did you?

But, given that this was a front end job, a common way to visually test the quality of a pseudo-random number generator is to generate a series of numbers and plot the results with pixels visually[1]. If the PRNG is high quality you’ll get a nice even static field. If there is a bias it will show up as a gradient or pattern in the pixels. I suspect this is actually what the interviewer was after.

[1] http://judeokelly.com/simple-visual-random-number-test/
The only YCombinator company to go public - Dropbox - started life completely dependent on AWS, proved product market fit, got funding and slowly moved from AWS.

Other companies like Netflix decided that they didn’t want to manage infrastructure and proudly announced they closed down their final data center and moved to AWS.

Twitter desperately needs to move everything as quickly from self hosting as possible.
Sure. Trump's an abhorrent human being but that doesn't stop me from respecting their gender identity.

I don't go around misgendering people I don't like because I don't like them. That's shit.
Is Instagram still heavily used by the Hacker News demographic? I'm starting to get a bit older, so I'm not always current, but my impression from my social circle is that it's fading like Facebook. I know a handful of "power users" who post nonsense everyday, but most people I know (myself included) never post at all now.

For me now, Instagram is a website, where I briefly check out surgically-altered fitness models doing barbell squats while I'm standing in line at the grocery store. I use the PWA, because the native app constantly freezes on two separate devices and the developers don't seem to care.

I'm stupefied by the idea that this could still be an important part of life for many average adults.
"Using Tor gets you encryption and onion-routing for free."

But not end-to-end encryption ... (unless Tor changed that?)
$32,400 According to Global Rich List - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...

I'm sure that shifts a bit from year to year
2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6928904

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183811

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15480517
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Thanks a lot for the reply and willingness to help, but I'm not using anything Haskell related at the moment. Might submit some issues in the future though.