skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as horrible as you make it out to be. I was circumcised. In fact, I didn't even realize I was until I was much older, I just thought that's the way things were down there. Once I learned, I didn't care. Everything's fine. Everyone makes it out like it's torture; it's not. You can't even remember it.

I have no deep trauma, no lingering issues. I'm just a normal boring guy, kind of like most guys who are circumcised too.

Personally I've only known women and uncircumcised men to have a problem with. I've never met a circumcised man who cared.
Oooh, this is poor timing for me.

I'm about to get a new laptop for work, I usually use Fedora. Should I gamble on using SilverBlue? I'll have to think long about this one.
It's unbearable. Reddit's dev and design staff is not very competent. They probably have lots of virtues, being good at their job is not one of them.
Circumcision reduces susceptibility to AIDS by quite a large margin (60% in heterosexual relationships). I'm not sure about other diseases but there's probably an impact.

https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/
>This applies everywhere. Buying a car? Look to the best car manufacturer. Don't buy new, never lease, always go for reliability.

People with tons of wealth often buy new, often lease, and not always go for reliability (but instead for looks, beauty, vintage, etc.), so not sure what this middle class idea of what wealthy people do is supposed to convey...
I feel the same as you - I've been working towards financial independence precisely for this reason. I'm retiring early to learn stuff, write code and play games!
The best part of shooting transparencies is not being tempted to pull "one more print" to fix something you missed in the last 6 prints :-P
>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.

They are, because the business wants you to download the app.
They don't really scale since MySQL / PG don't have built in features for horizontal scaling / sharding ect ... If you want to make it scale you have to do a lot of things manually / use third party tools / solutions.
Have you considered other types of investment that are more liquid, like stocks, bonds, commodities, or real estate?

If so, did you gain experience with them? Why or why not?
> It's totally realistic to assume that a human will have to suffer psychologically even decades later from a psychological scarring caused by such surgery without anesthesia.

That’s what OP said, emphasis mine. I agree with you: that infants experience pain in the same way as adults should be the default hypothesis. That they remain psychologically scarred by it for decades,
however, should not be.
Is not it better then to publish preprints to some open repositories and reference those repositories in scientific works. And use journals only for career, but never for research. This way they will gradually lose their role.
>I don't understand the insistence of the article to place quotes around the word pain when referring to what insects feel.

Because they're acknowledging that they didn't actually establish that they feel pain in the sense of a conscious experience of suffering.
> an insect is a lot more like you than a robot

If you mean that insects are more similar to humans than they are to robots, I'm actually not convinced.

When we are deciding what kind of mental mechanism to attribute to insects to explain their behaviour, there are two desiderata we need to satisfy:

- Our hypothesis has to be strong enough to explain the behaviour

- It has to be plausible given insect hardware

YeGoblynQueenne has suggested our starting point should be the hypothesis that "that all animals can feel pain." This is certainly strong enough to explain the behaviour, but it's implausible given the size of an insect's brain.

A fruit fly's brain has O(10^5) neurons; ours have O(10^10). Modern artificial neural network architectures typically fall somewhere in the middle. Now, certainly both human brains and insect brains have sophisticated architectural features that we haven't figured out yet. But given that robots, ANNs, etc can exhibit the same sorts of behaviours as insects given similar hardware constraints, I don't think we need to attribute pain (or any sort of mental life) to insects in order to explain their behaviour.

It would be cool if a neuroscientist could weigh in on this.
Unless I missed someone, every single comment (including myself) agrees: the new site is just unusable. It’s awful.

IMHO it’s been broken since they released it and so it makes me think that they won’t fix it so people will switch to the app (or that’s what they might be thinking).

Like many others I use the old design and if they get rid of it then I’ll just skip Reddit entirely.
Then why provide old.reddit.com?
After a certain level of cleanliness, the more effort someone puts into their appearance, the less respect I have for them. I have tried to look past this in some situations, but I cant help but think they're lying to me in some way.
> It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem

Yes, but in a big company developers don't define the product, (product) designers do.
>It becomes less, to my eye, individual expression than blinkered social compliance.

There's no real "individual expression". The "relaxed" trainers/jeans/tshirt in the US is no less a "blinkered social compliance" than wearing a suit. It's just the norms of the country, and of a certain class. Heck, punks in the 70s dressed in safety pins and tons clothes all looking alike (and same for hippies in the 60s, which even made their "own clothes" still all looking alike).

That said, the Italians have a lot of ways to personalize their fashion (sprezzatura goes a long way).
Robots don’t anguish over their pain.
Is there is some effort to keep MAD going? I learn everything I know from this magazine.
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
Staten Island shields Manhattan from some waves. A wall protecting Staten Island from flooding doesn’t protect Manhattan at all, tho. And as we know from Sandy, Manhattan and Brooklyn are equally vulnerable to flooding — and far more costly to allow to flood.
The Lemacs/FSFmacs Schism (2000)
This works for 35mm but for 120 film you need to capture multiple times and stitch them.
I've been exclusively using https://i.reddit.com for years.
New design is getting faster every day. That said I have little reason to use the new design.
I love that there's three locations eating up 1/3 of the screen telling me to use the mobile app instead.
I wonder about the implications of believing animals and insects to be agents with subjective experiences. Would that not imply some form of moral culpability for animals? If animals inflict untold amounts of suffering on each other and we consider them to be beings capable of experiencing subjective experiences, would the most logical path not somehow be to eliminate all animals and insects?
fossil fuels are also heavily subsidized
I've mentioned it a bit further down, but I was sufficiently annoyed by the absence of such a framework to try to create one: https://freckles.io

Documentation and tests could be better, admittedly, but there's just not enough time in the day. I'd be keen to get input from others though, and I'd be happy to target specific areas of documentation that they find lacking...
The Myth of Blubber Town
Non-poisonous spiders are actually benign. You may wish to keep it alive the next time you see it. They can catch the things that might really harm, and for me, a spider is much less annoying than a fly.
Recently visited germany,many people are ridiculously negative on nuclear for no actual reason besides "chernobyl" and the dumb preconception that it is not green energy.
As you said, it hurts the middle-class and below the most, as coal and other fossil-based methods are banned/cracked down.
Sad how this transition towards green energy is not done responsible and for the most part to gain political power.
There are tons of websites to get those:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKVxGbZpMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSw9ZdxQIiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGibb8iv-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEKEdA-tjEw

P.S. Just don't go too deep, after a few videos, it's all just salespeople selling whatever BS sponsors them, even total crap like shirt garters for men (an item meant for military personnel on inspections and official parades, that they market to people who don't even have 2 suits in their wardrobe as some kind of essential item).
To temper the uproar
I moderate one of the "default" subreddits so I have a rarer perspective than most. I can see the traffic of a subreddit that most users see daily.

There are almost 3 times more people using the redesign and the official reddit app together than the old site. However, engagement (number of page views per unique IP) is half or less of the old desktop or third party app.

So the new styles (cards, content focused) have more unique users overall, but those users engage less with the content.

There may be other reasons for this -- but to me it makes sense. The redesigns are harder to use and make reddit less addictive. You simply see a smaller volume of content and can't interact with it as well. But hey, it's a modern looking website I guess.
Walking NYC (Narrated): Power Outage and Manhattanhenge
> Const correctness in C++ is a nice feature, but to say it is missing in many other languages is a bit exaggeration. Many other languages offer a much superior tool - immutable data types. Immutability is stronger than C++ const correctness and easier to use at the same time.

Technically C++ const can be used to implement immutable types just as they exist in other languages (and can be hidden behind a library entry point) but I agree that conceptually it's easier to think of an immutable string or vector as an inherent property of the object rather than one applied. And in C++ I don't think you can prevent casting away constness.

> Templates are nowhere near capabilities and ease of use of languages with proper (read: not accidental) macro/metaprogramming systems (e.g. Lisps) or languages with modern generic type systems designed from the ground up (Haskell, Scala/Dotty, Idris, etc). Templates are IMHO a powerful hack, but hack is still a hack with all the consequences - terrible error messages, slow compile times, difficult debugging, late error detection, a lot of accidental complexity caused by templates not being first-class citizens etc.

Templates were not an accidental hack for macros; as Stroustrup once said to me, "the ecological niche of 'macro' had already been polluted so templates were my only way to put macros into the language." I agree it sucks next to lisp macrology (but as a lisp developer since the 1970s I would say that wouldn't I?) but hell, the language makes a distinction between expressions and statements so there's only so much you can do.
Household of 3 people in one of the most expensive cities in Germany here, with multiple Raspberry Pis, a laptop and a small server running 24/7. We are not actively doing anything to save energy. We pay between 20 and 30 EUR per month for electricity. The average net income per household in Germany is 3314 EUR per month [0], so this is less than 1% of the average household income. I would not call that expensive. Regardless of the cost, it will especially not prevent you from putting food on the table of your family, because if you have problems to do that, social security will pay the bill for you.

[0] https://www.bpb.de/nachschlagen/datenreport-2018/private-hau...
Maybe it's because HN itself is written in a dialect of Lisp.
Looking at the "double-writing" option, this talk by Udi Dahan ("Reliable Messaging Without Distributed Transactions") could be of interest to you https://vimeo.com/showcase/3784159/video/111998645

It's still a "double write" but you may not need distributed transactions if you're happy with at-least-once writes to Kafka and deduplication on the consuming side.
I believe he's talking about acquiring wealth, not about how to act once you already have it.
"Fossil fuel/non-renewables" would not have been the biggest, as you can see in the chart, "renewables" is bigger. Also they didn't split it into those subcategories so that solar wins, this technology split is a absolute standard way to differentiate between technologies which is always used, and it makes no sense (on that level of detail) to not differentiate between lignite, hard coal, gas and oil which all need different power plants, have different costs, different emission factors etc.
Yes

1) never take a position that can wipe you out, and
2) shut up and wait

Steady accumulation will achieve most things for most people if you can handle the fact it's not exciting and you won't get to feel like an important investor guy. If so, there's your best bet.
Can anyone find a good way to browse? Closest thing I could find to an index is a alphabetical list of guests - but the formatting is made for mobile or something and you have to keep clicking 'load more' every couple of names.

https://freshairarchive.org/search/guests

In creating avenues for discovery ('collections' and 'topics') the simplest one seems to have been ignored - just listing all the segments with relevant metadata. Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious.
No doubt. The people at notabug, mostly, are the most abrasive assholes that have been pushed out from other sites. They're not good people. You gotta be the change you want to see. I often post about technology and science there. But I'm simply not enough to make the frontpage always tolerable to people that can't ignore assholes. Sometimes there are strings of racist posts but that's still better than corporate censorship.

The people aren't the point. The technology is. It's a federated server system using the GUN distributed database. And posts can be transferred from instance to instance via p2p between browsers.

If you want to start a notabug server you can run it with an iron fist and censor all you want. But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things.
As another person based in Western Europe who would want to start investing, I would also like to ask for good resources. Particularly for a long-term outlook.
Ever since Star Citizen betrayed us by walking back their "third person Freelancer-style combat" promise there hasn't been much hope for anything that recaptures that spark. I can tell you that Everspace is the closest I've come. The lore and plot are skimpy and the star systems are procedural but it absolutely nails the combat.
Anyone know if they have public metrics on www vs old visitor traffic?
Working Remotely or Remotely Working? Tips for Confident Remote Collaboration
That makes the silly assumption that all organisms are equal. I'm sure we can all agree that a human's life is more valuable than a bacterium's. Or else you'd have to admit to genocide every time you use hand sanitizer.
Writing something new comes with tremendous future cost. 99% of the functionality will be pretty quick to implement. But 3 years later, you'll still be fixing edge cases and you'll have to keep the documentation up to date if you ever want to hire other developers to work on it.

Writing something from scratch just because you want to understand it is fine. But you should think long and hard before actually using the new thing you just wrote in production code.
I spent a lot of time with Pete on ICQ in the late 90s. He really taught me a lot of basics (heh) about programming back then, and his community was great. Many regulars from his site and NeoZones/Neobasic are still in contact with each other, and it's crazy seeing what some people do now, like release TurboGrafx games.
Do you reckon that's all there is to it?
i guess these are vector artworks? (I.e. Adobe illustrator)?
What organization hosts HN?

From what computer science construct does that organization's name come from?

Who founded that organization?

How did that person get wealthy enough to start seed funding other companies?

Did that person write not one, but two books on Common Lisp?

Just some points to ponder.
There is evidence supporting that hypothesis. The idea that pain trauma mainly works trough personal memories processes was the reason why PSTD in adults was long seen as character weakness.

The idea that infants nervous system is more fragile should be the starting point.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejn.12414

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253046/
Too bad they're not available in his store.
We also got Class Template Argument Deduction, structured bindings, various syntactic sugar (if (auto var = initializer) {}, if constexpr, fold expressions...), std::variant, std::optional, and a whole POSIX-style filesystem library, to name a few. And that's just C++17 alone.

It's nothing earth-shattering (that stuff is coming in C++20) but these are all features that improve the language and allow you to write better code. Consider e.g. if constexpr which can eliminate so much SFINAE cruft. Or CTAD to reduce the need for makeXYZ() functions.
It seems that Imagus is not maintained anymore... but at least Reddit Enhancement Suite gives you a button to view images inline. Thanks for the suggestion!
HN exists because of LISP.

More precisely PG attributed success of Viaweb to LISP (speed of iteration etc)

http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I am pretty sure the key factor was having a small and talented team. It didn't have to be LISP. They could have used another language they were familiar with.
I updated the title to include the 2009 reference. Hope it is a bit clearer now. The notes themselves are from 2011.

Title was: "O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp, and I agreed to write it"
You're free to hold such opinions. The rest of us thank you for making us look better in comparison.
Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch
I'm simply not seeing how you made a connection between insects and aborted babies
I know; I prefer the ITS/Lispm environment in which you were always running in the debugger. But I think most users wouldn't like that. Bill Gates laughed at me when I once suggested it in passing.
I think efail showed S/MIME was even more susceptible.
If you have a digital camera (SLR or mirrorless), which most people who shoot film do, you also have an excellent scanner. I scan 35mm, 120, and 4x5 with a DSLR, inverted tripod, and macro lens. The results are better than any flatbed scanner.

Use a rocket or canned air to keep the dust off, and a sheet of anti-newton glass to keep the film flat and focused while scanning.

Developing B&W at home is economical if you use a shelf-stable developer (I like Kodak HC-110, a half-open bottle keeps for years) and fixer (Ilford Rapid). Per-roll developing cost is between 50¢ and $1.

I shoot a few rolls and throw them in a big Paterson tank. Two rolls of film take 30 min to develop and 15 min to scan. Not much longer than the time to drive round trip to the photo lab.

No darkroom necessary- I load film in a dark bag. Post-process the scans in Lightroom or Darktable. Batch-processing means it's pretty fast. If I want to make prints, either I send out the digital positive to ProDPI or I rent time at the community darkroom.
At least for me, P has an extra pop of air so sounds slightly different
The best startup to invest in is Bitcoin
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
> “Most people engaging with extreme right ideologies, memes, views are doing so online and often not part of a formal network, organization or political movement.”

This seems like a problem that could be solved by giving right-leaning people a platform to peacefully organize. Deplatforming and segmentation leads to right-wing activists lacking good examples for peaceful demonstration. There are peaceful right-wing political activist organizations but they get deplatformed by intolerant anarchists like this article's author and then others have trouble finding peaceful outlets for their viewpoints.
Right? I don't get that argument at all. It's like the people that used to whine that apple released a new iPhone every 6 months.
These days there is too much money and not enough places to put it. It’s difficult as an unconnected angel to find decent opportunities. If you met the threshold to invest as an LP in a fund that would keep you diversified and the GPs would have access that you do not.
Just double check your offsite backup strategy!
Have you ever open sourced a large, complex, closed-source project of a similar scale, developed by one or two people?

I built a project with a friend that was half the size of this one and less complex. At one point we had to decide whether to open source it or shut down the project entirely. The amount of work to get it to the point of open sourcing it so that anyone could meaningfully contribute to it (or even build it without a very specific setup) was daunting, and I simply didn't have the time or energy to go through with it.

The fact that he's spent years getting it ready is a testament to his dedication to the community.

Finally, you have no way of knowing what his contingency plan is. He may have passwords and instructions detailed to transfer control to someone else in the event of his death.
Paul Graham was on the team that wrote Viaweb in Lisp. He wrote very highly of it, so HN attracted a lot of Lisp supporters early on.
What if you inherited someone else's code? Are you going to change all the libraries because you don't like them? Or even if they use good libraries, how are you going to unravel complex pieces of code?

What I'm trying to say is, sometimes you need all the help you can get. And even an awful debugger is better than doing it in your head.
In addition to context, quite a few things end up getting reposted to HN after having already topped the list years earlier when they were new. That's fine, but you can get confused if the headline makes you think something happened twice.
I was wondering the same thing. IIRC I found hn without having a clue about either Lisp nor about Startups or YCombinator.

Over time I noticed that posts about Lisp were quite common and decided to read up on it thinking there must be something to it if people bring it up again and again. Has been a gratifying journey so far.
Because it can easily solve or altogether eschew a lot of the issues that object-oriented JavaScript developers are struggling with and that's barely scraping the tip of the iceberg of problems which Lisp doesn't suffer from.

Alas one of the problems Lisp does quite acutely suffer from is that SBCL has become a defacto standard and its support for anything that isn't GNU/Linux (like Solaris / illumos) is dismal.
I look forward to checking this out. Gross is a very skilled interviewer, and this looks like a filter for the better stuff. Off the top of my head, the relatively recent interviews with Philip Glass and Tara Westover are fantastic.

There are also some interviews that did not go so well. The tension when Gene Simmons came on the show (https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons) was brutal but I've heard her say before that it's been the most listened-to online episode since it originally aired in 2002.
I also am feeling quite guilty reading this.

I think every kid in the midwest pulled a leg off a daddy long legs[1] at some point. They would keep moving afterwards, and to a kid this was fascinating (and reinforced the belief they were not like animals and could not feel pain.)

Regardless, now that I'm older I think most living things have a purpose and try not to bother anything that doesn't bother me, but yes, reading this I feel guilty :(

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae