skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never look at aggregate scores (unless, I suppose the score is "one star"). Instead I read individual reviews, and keep reading until I'm reasonably confident I'm seeing a consistent pattern (either good or bad). This is time consuming but seems to work for me. One example of why this approach is necessary: very often people will give a restaurant a low score with a comment like "Way overpriced" or "Portions too small". Well, I actually want to pay more money if I get significantly better food (often, but not always, there is correlation), and I don't really care for huge portions.
Why Is Everyone Talking About 30-50 Feral Hogs?
One slight difference however is that on Facebook you have to use the 'share' button versus using a 'like' button. In some ways I feel like a share is more meaningful than a like due to the extra step involved.
Closer to being the same idea developed at the same time with both being influenced by LEGO.

Blockland:
November 15, 2004 (Freeware)
February 24, 2007 (Retail)

ROBLOX:
March 23, 2004 (Beta)
August 27, 2006 (Retail)
I think it's implied that the capacity was there, just no impetus.
I still don’t understand why she called Clinton the first black president. I think people confused his charm for respect and understanding. I believer Bill Clinton was the first presidential candidate to get Black voters. Until then most candidates would rely on black celebrity and community leaders to meet black voters. Not only would he meet them in churches and community centers, he was really comfortable doing it. Most white politicians would do an awkward stump speech in a church or center with an eye on the exit. And that wasn’t the case with Clinton. He was a natural shmoozer.
I feel like RescueTime is pretty close to this.
They also classify "coffee, mate, and very hot beverages (drinking)" under the same category.
Do you know anyone working for the german authority? If so, you could ask them to investigate for you.
The original data site might be more usable for browsing:
http://www.enforcementtracker.com/
The mythical Hydra could respawn her heads without really expending any energy. The real world does not work that way.
I've been in this industry 30-some years. I thought I'd seen the worst SV has to offer, but my jaw is just on the ground. I mean, I knew Yelp was constantly up to no good, but...just wow.

I suppose I should be furious at Yelp (or GrubHub, or...someone), but I'm really more furious at Apple for having not cut that partnership a long time ago. It just gets my goat every time I click an icon in Apple Maps, Yelp pops up, and there's no way to change data sources. And now this? I'm normally not one for a strongly-worded letter, but I might fire off some feedback on this one.
Or you could make a game out of vacuuming, or you could explain why vacuuming is needed, or ...

The alternatives have merits too.
Developers have to be hands-on with documentation. Even if tech writers produce the final copy, devs need to be willing to provide sufficient notes to explain what needs to be documented.

I've worked (as a tech writer) at places where good documentation was part of the developer culture, like RethinkDB, and at places where documentation was seen as either something to get around to later because gosh we're just so busy now or something that tech writers can just magically pull out of their (ahem) hats with no guidance. I've been at one place where the same dev lead who literally walked out of a meeting with me saying that he didn't have time to follow the guidelines I'd written up at his request later berated me for not keeping documentation up to date. You know, documenting changes that I could only learn about if his team followed the guidelines he blew off.

Not that I'm still a little salty about it.

Anyway, tl;dr:

* If you want good documentation for your thing, you need to pitch in.

* Internal documentation matters.

* For developer tools, documentation is basically your UI. Don't skimp.
It's clearly more him trying to make a point about immigration.
No mention of starting capacities...
Yep, that's what I saw in Japan recently too (both electric and non-electric). Tons of bikes had a child seat, some of them had 2 child seats.

I also loved how (as you can see in this photo), people just park their bike the way you park a car: you just leave it there, without locking it to something. Here in America bikes like that would be stolen left and right. But I guess that's one of the big differences between a highly industrialized and developed nation and a 3rd-world one.
A very interesting essay - but it works better if you substitute 'arabic nations' with 'dictatorships'. Most of what he's talking about has far more to do with the mechanics of maintaining a dictatorship than arabic culture.

He probably missed this because he's both unwilling to acknowledge that he's been training the troops of dictatorships for his adult career, but also, that the US is generally involved in the propping-up of such dictatorships.

US forces tend to spend a lot of time training extremely demoralized and unenthusiastic conscripts, surrounded by officers who see their own soldiers as the enemy, and don't trust eachother - and that's exactly what you expect of the army of a unpopular dictatorship, and it's exactly what such armies have looked like throughout most of history. The problems that mysteriously vanish when he talks about the 'elite units' are vanishing because the elites actually like the regimes they're in.

They also seem to vanish when they worked with the Kurds, for instance.
Agreed. This seems so judgmental and creates a hostile environment for a lot of people.
For external-facing APIs and libraries, one reason I've found motivating to write documentation first is that you can "playtest" very quickly as a user/dev who comes in and starts wanting to use your thing.

If you (or another teammate) have to write a use-case snippet of code similar to how you want your thing to be used, based on your docs, you often find friction points and inconsistencies that should be streamlined and simplified.

It allows you to start iterating much faster than having to wait until you have a functioning product. It also often lets you avoid sunk cost fallacies where you run into that friction point later but don't want to go back and rewrite/redesign code to streamline the friction point.
Of course pieces of paper can be forged... one at a time. To do so in volume requires a somewhat large operation.

I mean, sure, anyone with a laser printer can print 10,000 pieces of paper. 10,000 ballots, though... you'd have to get the right paper, the exact size, the exact font and layout. Then you'd have to move your printed ballots into the ballot stream, upstream of where they're counted. That could be done, but as I said, it's a somewhat large operation.

Compare that with changing a SIM card, where you can change multiple votes at once.
Tell that to Paul Graham.
The title is a bit misleading. This is not an alteration to the DNS system, but rather a brand new naming system.
One may not think in a common language used to communicate (e.g. English) but the way one thinks could be considered a language regardless, only specific to one's own mind.

Take for instance Google's translation AI. It developed its own intermediary language[1] which facilitated translation between languages and enabled it to even translate languages it had not specifically been trained on.[2]

[1]e.g. It had a "word" for dog that wasn't part of any existing language.

[2]e.g. it could translate Spanish -> French even though it was only trained on Spanish -> English and English -> French
This should not have taken years, and many deaths.

Don't host fascists. Don't do business with nazis.
Good Bankers Know Lots of Things
"My perspective on this is that a person with this world view has to spend time with the people of the race that they're against. And that you can't really do on an image forum."

This is a very good point. It's interesting because it could happen on an image forum but it would probably be hard to make it meaningful in the way that you describe (and that is so important).

I can't help but thinking the internet might at least be part of the solution though. So much opportunity for diverse groups to meet and interact.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but no RaspPi has a PCIe interface, yet. From the embedded side of things, I would expect that to be a whole Pi generation out. Even then, I’m honestly not sure what the use case is, the Pi is doing amazing things with SPI and USB.
“Rock Paper Scissors” Trained in Browser AI/ML
I'm not sure if those goes against popular thinking. It only looked at one small part of the ecosystem (i.e., what's in the soil). In that one small part they may have found a null result, as you call it.

I would be curious to see something that aggregated the research of the different parts of the ecosystem to look at a more holistic impact.
Iota set to become the protocol upon which the IoT economy runs
Please tell me you wash your hands.
That is true for EU fines, but these are fines levied by the national authorities so they to go the national budgets of those countries.
> for the sole benefit of Copyright holders

One can debate the moral and philosophical issues of property rights until the cows come home, but in the case of copyrights, the legal construct is unambiguously not intended exclusively to protect natural rights or incomes for creators, but instead "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".

The real challenge is that there's no inherent bright line or Schelling focus[0] that defines where that balance lies, between fair compensation to creators, and unlocking that artificial monopoly for We The People. Death of the author comes closest, but that could also leave families stranded after an untimely passing of a creative breadwinner. Death of the author + 18-25 (protecting income for dependents), might be the least worst. I'd be interested in hearing arguments for other durations; I don't see an obvious answer.

(It's also curious that copyrights use the language of rights, which are typically thought to be inalienable, yet are transferrable as economic assets in ways that most other rights are not. Not saying that's good or bad, just noteworthy.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
Yeah, I didn't mean anything about questioning if it was a sleight etc, just talking about size of population. The comment was talking about Russia being substitution for USA in coupling with China, and that Russia has too low population. So it's actually about comparing size of population of USA and Russia, then Nigeria looked as an example of a country with small population compared to USA. Which is far from true.
Germany, Italy and Ireland are on this list separately. How? They have the same currency together with a lot of other countries in Europe. How could these three countries alone be on the list, but all the other countries from the Euro-zone are missing? That's like saying Texas and Nevada are currency manipulator for the US Dollar, but not the other US states.
A Year of Working Remotely
>Ratings measure how good a restaurant is compared to other restaurants in the same class because that is where their patrons' reference frame comes from.

See above, but I find the opposite to be often true. I see reviews for restaurants I am very familiar with, that I know to be excellent and basically the best option for innovative cuisine in a 100 mile radius, which say "Way overpriced small portions". Pretty clear that whoever wrote that review was operating outside their preferred restaurant class.
Yep. I check both. I found Google ones are on average inflated by half star.
I think they are implying that it could be fraud, but since there are birth certificates available, you couldn’t commit this fraud by simply making up a birth date. So a fraudulent supercentenarian would likely have assumed the identity of someone older, perhaps to claim a pension earlier.

As for the correlations, low incomes would provide a motive for age pension fraud. Short life expectancy being correlated with more supercentenarians suggests it’s not because people in those areas are naturally healthier.
I get the "global, transparent, append only log" appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don't want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.

From what I've heard, the "Layer 2" networks for even the most venerable of blockchains have the potential to reduce transaction times a couple of orders of magnitude.
“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in a society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
Don't also use the words "fascist" and "Nazi" to shut down those who aren't really either, but who you disagree with strongly.
I have a lot of sympathy with this argument. Ive seen some projects recently that were heavily influenced by the agile manfesto with very little documentation where I particularly miss the high level stuff and justifications for some key decisions. I cant helping thinking that this was not the intention of the authors. I loved Django for the quality of its documentation from the get go.
Yea I'm sure brand new users have lesser ranking on Yelp Sort. My experience is just from talking to the Yelp Account Managers and seeing our bad reviews be Page 1 one month, and pushed to a further page the next month.
Yes per capita, that's why I said "for anyone with a decent wage". France has one of the highest unemployment rate in OCDE, so for all these people it is indeed cheap, in fact free. But for those actually making more than the minimum wage (and for anyone making close to a SV salary or the French equivalent), you end up paying way way more than the Dutch and the Swiss.
There are plenty of Windows laptops with a touchscreen. In Apple's case MacOS isn't really designed for touch
the Google search has gotten terrible lately
I'm interested to see who the first US-headquartered company will be. My understanding is that US companies aren't immune when dealing with EU customers, but it might be more difficult for EU governments to enforce the fine. Google France doesn't count.
This feels very much like the author tried to use functional programming to solve a particular problem, got bit by it, and is now raging that the tool is broken.

I'm not in favor of functional programming everywhere, but it's a valid tool in the toolbox.
A question, since I have the ear of an individual who chose to add tracking to their small website: what exactly do you hope to get from these trackers? Do you think there could be some critical piece of information which could be gleaned from these logs which could help?

I associate trackers with megacorps where they're essentially playing Telephone between management and the boots on the ground doing the work ("we need tracking!" "ok, next on the work checklist is tracking, and here's a service that says it does that...").
I've pointed this out many times, but Randal conflates freedom of speech with the first amendment of the US Constitution (and other similar protections against government interference) with freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech goes way beyond freedom from government censorship... And it isn't some mystical unlimited right that trumps all other rights.
Whenever I feel this way (and I do feel this way more than I care to admit), it's usually due to mental fatigue from extended periods of mental exertion. I've found that stepping away from high intensity thinking for a few weeks every six months or so helps me reset. A complete "information lobotomy" as the author suggests, may be overcompensation...
> It's the case not just in Korea and Japan but in most cities outside of America. It's one of American peculiarities, like checks or no public health care.

As opposed to the peculiarity of Japan, where cash (often in envelopes) is used for a lot of stuff (instead of cards). :)
Thanks for the link! Very interesting read!
I worked with a team of 6 remote contractors for a year at my last company. They suffered greatly from a lack of documentation for our project. As it turned out, most people were using saved emails in Outlook as their own personal documentation store. Emails from years ago might describe how to set up a dev environment or deploy code. This left me with an easy solution: I started pasting emails into OneNote and touting them as official documentation.

There was low buy-in from other developers to contribute because many of them already had emails saved. After posting all of my own emails in OneNote, other developers did the same. Some even updated the documents with later threads that less of the organization was included on. If something was incorrect, it was better to have it written down and correct it in text than figure it out and spread the knowledge via word of mouth. It was also better to have poor email documentation than no documentation at all. Quality quickly improved on the poorer pages and the habits of some developers who were referring to old emails for documentation changed when they learned that new emails described better ways of doing things.
The RPi 4 uses PCIe to interface with the USB 3 controller. However it doesn't provide an external interface for it.
That... is a _hack_! Awesome :D
> This is not an alteration to the DNS system, but rather a brand new naming system.

The existing TLDs will continue to be held by the existing TLD holders. So, as an example, news.ycombinator.com will still work!

This is truly a drop-in replacement of the DNS ROOT giving power back to the people.
It is clearly irony.
Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago
Dangerous Pierogi
Don't get rid of them... remove the shackles of government interference and, for the first time in history, allow an actual free market to set prices.

Don't think that will work? Research LASIK eye correction, which has NEVER been covered by insurance, and thus bound by true market pressures.

Health insurance is expensive for the same reason your cable internet provider is: NO free market competition.

This factor, of course, was made MUCH WORSE by Obamacare.
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
I worked outdoors for ten years of summers and now I have worked ten years indoors as a programmer. I often fantasize about going back outdoors again. What I miss most is how easy it is to start and stop working. Starting your workday is as easy as pulling on your boots and stepping out of the truck. You don't need to mentally reorient yourself and focus as you do when working with source code. A thirty minute break is meaningful. It means sitting in the shade, having a friendly chat, maybe taking a quick nap. Getting back in the truck at the end of the day feels great and feels conclusive. After programming, it takes me an hour or more to leave the mental state of work and to feel normal again. I work from home, but the mental commute still adds to my workday.
Poland, tickets here are free for kids under 7 and for primary school kids with valid school ID... And 50% discount for higher education.
That's in addition to long range school busses.
This post is satire.
You ( and many people, including me ) are attracted to the romanticized version of what you think such job is.

There are valid reasons for this, anyone who works with software for a while feels that he works so much but never made something you could actually touch and always has to explain to people the real value of his work because it's not obvious for the "common folk" ( even your boss ). So, making a deck is a physical, obvious and long lasting thing you can be proud of and easily pointed out when you seek for approval/praise ( everyone wants/needs that, some more than others )
Well no, "death panels" where the political term used to describe mandating doctors discuss end-of-life treatment for patients. Effectively, they would have a conversation with the patient and their family over what treatment will look like and when treatment should cease when the patient is terminal.

The bulk of the costs of care comes during the last few months of life. Medical staff are required to keep a person alive without considering their quality of life. So a person may not want to live out their life intubated, catheterized, and bedridden with several broken ribs from CPR, but they are forced to because no one asked the patient what they wanted.

When you ask people what they want, most would prefer to accept their time has come and not put themselves and their family through the trauma of being kept alive in such a manner. But this was tantamount to killing them, ergo, death panel.
Anti Crime Color Balls
In this case you're piping output from shell into HTTP _requests_. It's the mirrored version of CGI.
I see many negative reviews that I suspect are from people acting in the interests of competitive restaurants.
It needs to not just be better. It would need to be better in ways that aren't achievable with the alternative, and sufficiently better that it justifies the cost in terms of space and management requirements imposed.
> The French have the RIB system

When living in France I never came across the use case you describe, at least not in this form. But I did often come across people wanting money from me sending their RIB as an image attachment to emails rather than copying and pasting their IBAN into the body of the mail like elsewhere in Europe.
Like several others in this thread, I read Beloved at an 11th grade student in literature class.

It was the most humbling thing I remember reading. Moving, despite no personal context for the characters' experiences. Written beautifully without feeling over written.

It made me realize how far I was, and probably would ever be, from proper writing talent.
I wonder how this will interact with self driving cars and all their always on, always recording cameras.