skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are covering these people with a cloak of ideas that they don't have.

FEs do not have ideas. They are not examining anything. They are not courageous.

What they have is a cult of inconsistent, disingenuous rhetoric. They contradict themselves constantly. They are not reasoning, they are jumping from over verbal attack to another. They have decided that the best response to a life empty of "winning internet arguments"... is to just pretend they won.

This is a social cult of people telling eachother that their empty word blocks amount to ideas. Telling eachother that their refusal to think is intellectual integrity. That their refusal to consider is superior knowledge. That their willingness to purport to believe in nonsense, is somehow radical and valuable.

Don't humor them. It won't change anything. They can't magically become smarter, especially if they value the 'feeling of knowing', more than learning.
That seems like a stretch. You can delete erroneous posts, reply to your own erroneous posts with corrections, or retweet with corrections.

It's not like there's no way to correct yourself, you just need to be a bit more deliberate. It also arguably causes people to be a bit more conscious of what they're saying before they post too.
It would have been if the US was the first country.
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Congress is starting to find bipartisan consensus on Big Tech regulation
Google has used encrypted search terms in the referrals for years now.
I was pretty young when this happened, but if I remember it was basically listed in the accommodations/perks in his contract.
I graphed this for myself a while ago in my work as a technical founder of CircuitLab (YC W13): https://imgur.com/37mbya5

Two striking findings emerged (and FYI I'm a "frequently commit small logical changes" person):

1. My work patterns seemed surprisingly self-consistent, with a notable gap 2am-10am for sleep and around 1pm for lunch and exercise. (Plus a markedly lower average in the evenings after 7pm for seeing friends, just relaxing, etc.)

2. The intersection between my curve and the window of 9:00am-6:00pm is only 53%. If a "conventional" employer were to constrain my productivity to that window, that's at least some first-order measure of how much inefficiency that constraint would likely produce for me personally -- 47% reduction.
Scratching my own itch: how I built a job board for myself
You can see the problem here: A national culture that promotes polite restraint, and which actively fends off and forestalls the forming of relationships between strangers, is one that might as well be inviting loneliness on its population.

Let's not forget there are two hazards here. Loneliness is one; the other is the suffocating tyranny of constantly attending to others' ideas and feelings, because attending to your own would be unacceptably disruptive of precious social connectedness. In "A Room of One's Own" Virginia Woolf diagnosed the injustice of a society that reserves the privilege of aloneness to men, and particularly upper class men, while denying it to women (who are supposed to be "selfless") and to a lesser extent the lower classes (who are supposed to be too mindless and animalistic to make anything of solitude.)

Being reluctant to intrude on another's social space is a good thing. It should be joined with skill at inviting others in, and a readiness to respond to that invitation. Let's not shit on people who have solved one half of the problem as if they were inferior to people who have only solved the other half.
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Agree, I will also add that technical debt != complexity.

As an example everybody uses an OS to code. An OS is incredibly complex. Maybe one of the most complex piece of software. But it doesn't mean that you should care about it. With the proper and clean interface it will have an abstraction of this complexity to its user (in your company or not) and they will be able to continue to code and never have to care about it.

So of course an OS - or like OP said anything creating value - doesn't mean that it creates technical debt only because it's complex.
... and those people are free to sue the Silk Road guy for the money they lost.
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The difference is largely money. Doom was revolutionary when it came out; id software made a whole lot of money from it. The rest of the industry took note, and, wanting to make a lot of money too, decided to emulate what they saw.

If you want people to accept and learn from your clever programming techniques, try to find ways to turn them into products that only you can make that lots of people will pay money for. Even if you don't succeed in convincing the rest of the industry, at least you'll have lots of money.
Yes, it's quite possible to cause tearing in C#. It does not cause undefined behavior, but it can, for example, break invariants (supposedly enforced by privacy) in large enough structs.

See this example where I break encapsulation in a struct by abusing a race condition:

https://github.com/VictorGavrish/MultiThreading/blob/master/...
I really don't believe the flat earth phenomenon is about genuine curiosity. An important part of such a conspiracy theory is to generate more and more elaborate reasons why data must be rejected. That's not curiosity.
Go for http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/ instead. His site over HTTPS uses a self-signed certificate that expired over eight years ago.
https://www.netsparker.com/whitepaper-http-security-headers/
Hey HN!

My name ist Fabian, I'm a computer science student from Munich and created an iOS App which allows you to listen to Spotify audiobooks! What are the advantages compared to the normal Spotify App? The playback position is always saved, so no need to remember anything. You can easily start listening where you left.

What are the key features?

* Have your own audiobook library. So no need for creating a playlist on Spotify.
* See full length of audiobooks and your current position.
* Play downloaded audiobooks with Spotify Mode (make sure you stop the playback in Eary)
* See all chapters (tracks of audiobook) and jump directly between them.
* Bookmarks
* Sleeptimer
* Search audiobooks directly in Eary
* Dark mode (activate through settings app or swipe with two fingers)

This is my first iOS Application, and I'm quite sure there are still some bugs, therefore I am grateful for any feedback.
Sony was using 8 characters of alphanumeric at one point. They reduced it to 6 digits. It turns out that the chance of guessing six digits successfully given one or two tries only is low enough to satisfy human beings when it comes to “annoyance versus protection”, especially when codes expire after a couple attempts.
Q1 2019

"In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 2.87 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.76 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.26 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 436,000 miles."

Q2 2019

"In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.27 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.19 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.41 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 498,000 miles.*

*Note: Since we released our last quarterly safety report, NHTSA has released new data, which we’ve referenced in this quarter’s report."
If we expose people to the most sophisticated system of disinformation ever created in the history of mankind, with no restrictions or supervision of any kind, and then watch democracy collapse, it's not enough to to say "Welp! Democracy is a failed concept".

This is not about censorship. This is about each of use trying to help educate, uplift and enlighten those around us. In other words, it's up to us to help our fellow citizens. If you want to punt on that project, then so be it. But not all of us have given up.
> Completely normal

Ok, good to hear. That's not the impression I got from your comment about the LA yoga guy.

> Sam Harris is a charlatan for preaching it using "his program": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774981-waking-up

What's wrong with the book? I read it and thought it was, on the whole, interesting and useful. Obviously it isn't perfect.

How specifically is Sam a charlatan? What falsehoods does he claim about himself regarding meditation?
Who knows? It’s still obvious if you look at the traffic patterns, a VPN can’t hide that. But as long as you stay under the radar they might never know. Or you might be booted and blacklisted from the network.
As far as I can tell, subreddits custom sidebars are missing. That's insane they ignored that.
I know there are different opinions but I like it. I like the dark theme, the explore tab, the "data saver" option and also that the navigation experience got better (backward button points you back to the correct tweet). Well done!

I only hope they do not remove the "see latest tweets" in the home tab.
I am not sure they could have added more white space to the new Twitter if they tried. I would not kill them to adapt to the amount of screen real estate that I have.
I just found something very indicative of the current times: in Ask A Manager (a blog about work where the owner answers questions from her readers) someone is afraid that not working during the evenings or the weekends is going to hurt their job prospects. The article has been published today.

https://www.askamanager.org/2019/07/can-you-advance-professi...
I think that has a lot more to do with Carmack being at a small company where there was no-one to say no to him. If you were the CTO of a three-person startup you most definitely could do whatever weird, esoteric programming you liked.
I think you've put that very well.

All I'm wondering is how this would play out in a dystopian future where I'm recognised by everyone wherever I go.

And in some cases they might even have additional information maybe in a probabilistic fashion. Like what kind of clothes I prefer or the kinds of food I like. And that would be the good version.

The worse scenario would be that some malicious actor puts all this together to play on others' fears.

The worst case, of course, being big brother!
Yes, that one's a bit tricky, isn't it? You might inspect the user-agent to at least try and only serve the font to browsers. You might also make sure that if there is a Referer, isn't not someone else's referer. I don't think it has to be foolproof to satisfy the terms of the license.

It might also just be: you have to check the referer. If your website has technical issues such that sometimes the referer isn't available, you have to change it so it always is. Or host it on one of the approved third-party hosts referenced in the license.
That was cringe inducing. I want it to be satire.
There was a point in Carmack's career where he was not famous, and he (and his work output) wasn't given the benefit of the doubt of being a genius.
Coming up with good abstractions can be very difficult, but those abstractions aren't necessarily difficult to understand.

Similar to idea that it's hard to write simple, clear code, but easy to understand it.
I didn't not get the same take-away from that documentary. My takeaway came from looking at the status-seeking and power games this little artificial pond carved out of the internet with the help of gullible people and people with mental conditions.

That one guy at the end seemed like the only one who legitimately wants to do experiments and improve their knowledge... the vast majority of the people in the film were completely caught up in the glow of attention they get from saying the ridiculous things they say.

I'd be curious to see if the guy at the end has moved on after this experiment, or if their in-group status has convinced them that maybe some mystical force interfered with their experiment, like the other person who was trying to actively keep quiet the false results of their gyroscope experiment.
Except they don't. Belief in flat earth is an ideology, it's not based on science. All of the evidence clearly shows the earth is round. You have to completely ignore the scientific method to believe the earth is flat.
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And if you click read more, it's only to read 1 more level. You have to keep clicking read more all the way down...
> This totally can't be applied to ironic fascism. People like PewDiePie are totally not playing into that.

And him playing "Papers, please" while wearing a hat with hammer and sickle[1] is a secret plot to convert the youth of America into commies, right?

I'm baffled to see such McCarthyism.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWQfZl-Xtc
This seems self contradictory. If people keep falling into the same traps even with training, how is "this is a human limitation" not a reasonable conclusion?
While a fair point, cost is not value. It is the lower bound of value.

It could be that targeted ads are creating $10 value per person but it only cost $1 per person, $9 of which goes to the advertiser/consumer.
My generation mostly drank beer when socialising, I think this is an improvement.
You've forgotten to install uBlock Origin, or you're using the default browser on Android which doesn't allow you to block ads/trackers, in which case you could install Firefox and then uBlock Origin.
I'm afraid of real conspiracies, but the main stream media seems far less interested in them than this nonsense that I've yet to be convinced is any more harmful than any other weird hobby.
Homeless man builds beach and makes milions
Tracing the bitcoin transactions might prove which account stole the money. But the device tracking helps prove which real person was controlling the account.
Meet the man who influenced your entire breakfast this morning
It's widely accepted that olympic swimmers are more talented a person you'd randomly find at your community pool, but for some reason there's strong resistance to the idea that across a large distribution of software engineers, some outliers may indeed be much more productive than the mean.
The article is about the times of day Git commits were made, not the times of day they were pushed, nor the times of day people used other source-control systems like Perforce. You said, "I’d be very cautious about assuming that commit time has anything to do with work time," citing your own policy of not pushing at night as an example of how "commit time" may not have anything to do with work time. Now you're saying, "My policy is about putting anything new in the master branch during off hours," which is to say, it's about pushes, not commits.

This means that your original top-level comment is completely irrelevant to the article you are commenting on, which is unfortunate, since it's the top-voted comment on the article. You should edit the top-level comment to reflect that fact, or, if that's not possible, add a second-level comment retracting it.
Ask HN: How do you discover new podcasts?
I'm planning on building a new discovery engine that matches your interests with new podcasts. I'd love to know how you search for/find podcasts currently and what's missing.
The best part about Netflix was their recommendation engine at least in the beginning. Now they have their own shows which they want to force down our throats match or no match. I think their USP at least to me was their great recommendations which is totally lost now because of their ulterior motives.

Coincidentally I too am going to cancel my subscription this month.
>reduced the density of information by splashing whitespace everywhere on the page and navigation on it was way inferior.

For some reason i'm noticing this happen on a ton of different platforms and I seriously don't like it. I didn't get a bigger phone screen so that devs could waste more space
I would suggest making use of 'git commit --fixup' or 'git commit --squash' which creates a commit that is specially-named such that you can later squash everything together with `git rebase --autosquash'. It's really transformed how I work on large patchsets.
if no one else at a company knows how to do a task, and you are doing it, you're not a 10x dev, but an 'infinite-x' dev, no?
> Congressman's biggest concern after poking around on github seemed to be about international committers and a "native Nigerian" committing a lot of the code.

He comes from a DoD background. Security is probably his concern here.
It's not "nonconformism" it's a mix of stupidity and childish negation

It's one thing to look at the other side of the coin and disagree with it, another to just mindlessly negate something "because I said so".

The world needs more of the former type but it's abounding with the latter type.
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I would hope letsencrypt has a number of heuristic safeguards, but I can guarantee they do not make connections from multiple routing paths: My ad server registers a certificate during the SNI hello (but before the certificate is presented), and I get a certificate after a single ping.
Are the commits represented in UTC time when using the script?
Your way of saying it isn't wrong, but I think I would say instead that C++ uses destructors both for memory management and management of other resources.
The first season of Fullmetal Panic was produced by Gonzo. While not bad, the (animation) quality noticeably increased after Kyoto Animation took over. Definitely a great show.
Why Are There More Serial Killers in the U.S. Than Any Other Country? (2018)
https://www.tesla.com/en_EU/VehicleSafetyReport?redirect=no

"Tesla vehicle fires are exceptionally rare events, and in some cases, there have been zero Tesla vehicle fires in a quarter. That means that an increase from one fire per quarter to two per quarter represents an increase of 100%. In order to avoid misinterpretation of these numbers and provide a meaningful comparison to industry data, Tesla will publish an update to vehicle fire data annually.

From 2012 – 2018, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 170 million miles traveled. By comparison, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation shows that in the United States there is a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled.

In order to provide an apt comparison to NFPA data, Tesla’s data set includes instances of vehicle fires caused by structure fires, arson, and other things unrelated to the vehicle, which account for about 15% of Tesla vehicle fires over this time period."
The way to truth is never censorship. SV/Google employees have become the book burning church of the 60's and 70's, complete with shoving their morality down everyone's throats by any means necessary.
This page was amusing to me: https://oxylabs.io/solutions/ad-verification

This is a euphemism right? Like what they're really saying is that this service would make it possible to fake ad traffic right?
Open office plans are wonderful for the micromanager. Everyone's screen is for all to see - and the moment someone happens not to be looking at an IDE, it's an opportunity to ding someone on their performance review.

While I personally am hyper-focused at work (perhaps too much to the point of tunnel vision), I know peers who have received negative comments despite delivering stellar work - all because they look at HN or doing online shopping from time to time.
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I prefer TLA+ (it's both simpler and more powerful than PlusCal), except when specifying something at the code level (e.g. something like weak-memory-model concurrency algorithm).
Just ask Kim DotCom about that. I mean, he sorta won extradition but the FBI did their best to ruin his life and we're pretty successful at that.
I don't think these are the same. If you get 15 marbles, arrange them into groups of 1,2,3,4,5 and give them the proper labels, you can trivially prove that the sum of two groups of 2 equals 4 and not 5.

The proofs for round earth are not as trivial. People have varying degrees of skepticism. Some are genuinely curious and are convinced by demonstrations while others are just contrarians. If you've ever heard Eddie Bravo talk, it's clear he doesn't care about understanding what shape the earth is and just likes to spout conspiracies.
In order to truly become an insufferable 10x Engineering talent...

Neither the author nor the toot thread that inspired the author seem to have the first clue what the term means. And it would take, what, six words to define it?
Plenty of military actions resulting in death have been taken when there were no lives in danger.

A guard may kill an escaping prisoner even when that prisoner is not in jail for any violent crime and is of no danger to anyone's life.

An executioner may kill a prisoner even when that prisoner is of no danger to anyone, as that prisoner may instead be kept in jail for the rest of their life and might have been non-violent to begin with.
I live in Japan and I'm shocked at how many people here believe in patently absurd nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if someone mentions to me, for example, that they saw a ghost recently, or went to a fortune teller.
Surely that's not going to work. You'd create many fake people linked to your name, but your own face will still be one. You'd have to create enough "face hashes" to DDoS a recognition computer .. seems unlikely.
in LoL, the system didn't penalize you for a game that already had a quitter; As for the latter issue, you would avoid the penalty by flagging the other players on exit (and it being accepted). I'd assume Dota has something similar in place
> I'm not sure I understand why people are so eager to conflate the term "10x engineer" with "an arrogant engineer who is only seemingly productive because of either obfuscation or generation of technical debt".

Part of it is defensive posturing. I have encountered corporate developers who are hardly, or not, literate in their primary programming language yet see their capabilities as average or the norm. A productive person popping their delusional dunning-Kruger bubble may very well seem arrogant to them.
Companies "reviewing" their competitors, or at the very least, trying to tag on to their SEO is something I'm seeing a lot of lately. I just don't think most people, when they search for "[product] review" want to hear from the main competitor of said product. Some companies are even sketchier about it, by setting up separate domain names to appear that they are separate.

I'm at the point where I now try to explicitly search sites like Reddit or Quora as Google seems to be full of so much trash and bias / affiliate spam before you find what you want.
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Letting one engineer obtain so much domain knowledge that they become a single point of failure in an organization strikes me as strictly a management failure. His manager ignored the bus factor and then when he/she realized it was an issue they just... did nothing? Because it'd be hard?
My understanding of Tor is that proxy keys are shared in a gossip network, and that without access to that gossip network you're vulnerable to being sybil attacked. How does Lightnion solve this? Or am I misunderstanding Tor?
Airplane contrails are changing the climate – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
I find it scary myself. I did not realize how easy it was to convince people to believe in a lie. This just demonstrates how easily manipulated people are. Which is scary considering some peoples agendas in this world.