skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a pissing contest; it's a misunderstanding of giving equal weight to two incredibly different probabilities. When Fox News says it's important to have a discussion about climate change and give 50% time to those for and against it, they are conveniently ignoring that 98% of scientists believe in climate change and 2% don't. But they are essentially saying both viewpoints are equally important, even though one is widely accepted to be true by the scientific community.

Yes, it's certainly possible that thinking different (or being contrarian, or stubborn, or creative, or whatever you want to call it) will lead to something great! It is also extremely unlikely unless you are in a brand new field such as quantum physics 100 years ago that whatever idea you had has already been considered by countless people before you and you are not special.

The reason most startups fail is more than just bad execution. It's because most startups weren't meant to exist because they just don't solve a problem people are willing to pay enough to make the company a profit. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it if you really think you're onto something - but you should be aware the odds are wildly against you.
Particles (fermions, anyway) share quantum states all the time. They just can't be part of the same quantum system when they do so, for definitions of "quantum system" that some people made up at one point and are (apparently) free to redefine at will.

This is "teleportation" in the same sense that Chinese skateboards with electric motors and debatably-safe lithium batteries duct-taped to them are "hoverboards."
Those are acute issues that can be directly linked to the closure of the shelter on Long Island.
Apple is a luxury product so they are less sensitive to price so a tax will not hurt then as much. Plus they are able to game the system and gain an advantage. An tax won't hurt them at all.
> How is "view of minors" relevant?

Because minors shouldn't be exposed to certain things. Like public urination, drug use, or fornication.
This is my solution too, and it works great, but I find I have a hard time scaling it.

Often, when a project reaches a certainly early/mid scale where I'm tackling some of the bigger problems, I'll push myself to work on it a little longer and finish it. If I might normally finish at 10pm, I'll push myself and go till 11:00 or midnight and finish the system.

Then, because it's so late, I tend to just close everything out. And because I've just completed a milestone, I'm faced with not only getting back into flow, but beginning the process of designing/implementing a whole new big thing.

It's at this point I really start to stumble, and I've lost a lot of projects to, "Whew, just finished that awesome system, I'm sure I'll pick this back up soon!" and I am at a total loss of how to power past these moments.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.
This seems like a "feature"? Not to discount the churn numbers - but being able to quickly and at low cost set up a high quality commerce site where folks don't have to be heavily invested seems like they're providing the service as intended.

I enjoy the Shopify experience from the Vendors that use it and do stick around.
It exists but is very weak, meaning it’s not the primary driving force.
Peppa Pig was all over China this year for Year of the Pig merchandise.
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I currently use uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger, but I've become frustrated with having to disable one or both of the above for too many sites--they just break functionality for a good chunk of the web. What's the best setup these days for ad-blocking + privacy/tracker-blocking that doesn't break the web? Thanks!
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Well, I wouldn't exactly say that Lisp (CL) is functional. Also, if you're referring to macros then that's fair.
If that's the case, then I've been doing agile for decades before agile was a thing! So I guess waterfall is agile...
Well I imagine it respect the shebang at the top of the script so it will be run in the right shell where it doesn't parse or do any of this fancy stuff.
If I could load, say, $10 into some Google account and in return that buys me complete exemption from tracking + ads on 10k site visits, I would absolutely do that in a heart beat. I wonder if they have thought about doing that yet
You can make the very same argument about London
This is a problem that architects are aware of. It's bad to build with photography and media exposure in mind. But I'm not sure the architect you met was guilty of that. New buildings tend to be documented and published in an unoccupied state. It's the same for most products like cars or furnishings, and you could also argue that the way clothes are advertised has nothing to do with "use".

There's not much architects can do about what happens to buildings after completion. They no longer have a role in the life of the building. I don't think it's necessarily a very bad sign that they sometimes express disappointment or frustration or indifference about the way the building actually ends up being used. They aren't responsible for maintaining it, unlike the authors of software. It is out of their hands.

Every sane architect is OK with the fact that users will adapt their work.

"You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong"—Le Corbusier.
Well, even on this thread FP is being discussed as a set of Haskell features, starting with the idea that all FP languages use immutable data only.

Which would make Standard ML not a FP language. :)
do not worry, London will be its own shell 5 years after BREXIT.
It boils down to whether they believe that all ideas are worth having, discussing about and of equal value to a "free" society and should therefore be openly discussed or whether only their specific subset of ideas are allowed and everything else thought-crime.

Hell, believe it or not, I've heard people say that it should be illegal to be fascist for example. Of course these people should be ridiculed.
I think Hacker News is probably the only message board that IS that kind of message board.
I can empathize with most of this, but I can't say I understand the "last straw" bit. How is there anything wrong with DanielK's request?
Why does it matter if they spend it on their megayatch as long as they did what they paid for, which is not burn the Amazon.
Maybe all the tech companies should leave SF for San Jose. It has an airport. And SJ isn’t so precious about it’s history.
I'd say the same would happen in pretty much every other company. Political discussions are very hard to have outside work and it is 10 times worse at it. Most of the time it's either echo chamber or free ride for all without any considerations.
None of those links provide any context to why they were started.

> Another video of the airport riot. According to reports, the policeman who drew his pistol had had his testicles smashed when he was being beaten up and he is now in hospital.

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/cputoi/policeman_sta...

See how it was started by the policeman bodyslamming a innocent girl?

I could also cherry pick a bunch of videos showing chinese violence against protesters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/clbof6/in_a...

https://amp.news.com.au/national/queensland/hong-kong-protes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/coy60g/a_young_femal...
In some places, yes. If you get the silver/gray stuff, it's about half mercury.
Convenience and access have been tried by several startups (including a project that we did a few years back). It's being attempted yet again by the Brave browser with blockchain tech. With micropayments, there's a big problem with decision fatigue.

Affordability is the largest factor by far though because most people just cant pay for everything they consume for free today. When you look at video content especially, it can easily add up to several dollars per day in spend.
> because the FM radio's sensitivity sucks.

It's worse then you think because Bluetooth is a frequency hopper which means Streaming QOS is limited by the link margin on your worst channel.
He offended a broad class of people. Women shouldn't have to pick and choose who they feel comfortable working with around the office. Or worse, be forced to work with that guy. Once he expressed views like that, his fate was sealed. You don't punish the victims.
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I was thinking definitely of more complicated sounds than simply playing a static wave form stored in a file. I absolutely agree if that was the case, it's very simple to parameterize it.

In a more complicated situation, where perhaps you want some sounds to be simple wave forms and some sounds to be more complex sequences of wave forms mixed in some manner, then I was envisioning a `SoundEffect` base class from which simple and complex sounds could be derived, providing a single-dispatch polymorphism.

A `SoundEffect` instance (or more likely mapping of names to sound effects) would certainly be a property of whatever entity contained it... but the `CarHornSoundEffect` is a `SoundEffect` and `TrainHornSoundEffect` is a `SoundEffect` relationship remains a straightforward and effective use of inheritance to provide single-dispatch polymorphism.
I mean, meeting people online isn't really an alternative to meeting people through friends. If that avenue is open to you already, it's probably one you're already gonna be exploring.

It's an alternative to meeting people through bars and clubs. That's what it's got to be better than (and almost certainly is on a bunch of different metrics).
> This doesn't make any sense at all, to me.

Of course it doesn't, because that's not what is explained. Read again maybe. If anything, the author asks for respect.
I also make free software. It's a battle dealing with folks who want both free code AND free work! Making code GPL is both a blessing a curse. Tales lakie this make me stop and double-check my choices
I think it's hard to bump your brain up out of the ground state of doing nothing into the state of doing something. You have to decide what to do, marshal your focus, get up off the couch, and do it.

Browsing the web on your phone takes zero effort and it also effectively distracts you from the question of whether you should be doing something more worthwhile. It's a cognitive trap. It gives you the just five more minutes excuse, forever and ever.
> Human rights aren't things people must do, they're things governments must allow the people to do.

I agree with you. I think people should be allowed to access the internet. That is different from forcing the government to give everyone a network connected computer [one example].

> Actually I think the entire comment is weak... the Internet is not "a network of private systems", ...

My point here being that the internet is just a large network. I don't have access to the internal network of a company I do not work for, and I don't think I have a human right to that network. If I get blocked by FB/Twitter/[any site/network] have my "human rights" been taken away? I don't believe so.
People love to repeat "time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted," but I'd change it to "time that's fulfilling to waste is not time wasted" because fulfillment looks at things on the long time scale.

It better captures why wasting so much time on, say, Twitter actually is time wasted: it's not likely to be as fulfilling as just about any other way you could've spent that time. Only narrowly beating out spending that time in a drug-induced euphoric stupor.
So key ones are:
- the pixelated borders can only really be replicated with box -shadow insets, border does 45deg angles (JSPaint not doing the borders right was what spiralled into me doing my thing in the first place... D: ). If you go with the pixel-font (which maybe you shouldn't if the goal is more general usage over an outright homage) then it jars a bit. I've sass mixins that do these you can work from, think they're under "box-shadows.scss" or something like that
- There's a bold version of the font, I have it on my repo but I don't think I made the one I use (iirc mine was junk). Almost certainly credited the place I took it from though
- Tabs are a _nightmare_ across devices, their behaviour is pretty hard to track iirc (they move around depending on which you click I think when there's multiple rows?)
- Text inputs have a very specific outline (again, box-shadow) however Safari based browsers just totally overwrite creative stylings here
- The outline on buttons is wider, but on firefox has issues where it'll clash with the native outlines in some cases
- content of buttons indents 1 pixel down and to the right on click
- the icon examples list perhaps should cover their behaviour as buttons too, given that's what it's replicating?
- border-dark on some buttons seems to be inaccurate? I believe that's just representing their focused state when the window they're in isn't the focused window? or the initial focused element within a new window? not 100% here though
- Lemme know if you ever find a larger size version of MSSans! Way too tedious to recreate a larger one for me but it's be super useful
- Start menu dividers between the various parts is prolly an easy win to add? (just an after element after each div inside that isn't the last child?)
- checkboxes and radios could probably resemble the originals a bit closer, exact replicas would be prolly too far but chunky looking x's might be good
You are right Youtube is a real gem, but only if used in a proper way. One of the challenges we have, that right after internet installation students check youtube and for the first-time users, it shows only the most popular content which unfortunately is far from the educational one. That's why we try to navigate students via our online mentorship program (described above) and guide them on how to use the internet (and btw youtube)for education
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Seattle is a shithole. Fuck the liberals. There is no other answer than this. Go and see, if you don't believe.
To answer your question: I personally flag all death articles, unless it is sudden as in important tech person dying young. For any other case there is generally nothing to talk about, as there are no actionable consequences. Though some people like to praise accomplishments now and then.
I felt a dejavú while reading Google statements. It remind me a time when Microsoft published statements about how harmful was OSS for software innovation.
The compelling idea here is that they convert the output of common shell commands into tabular data that can be manipulated using common operators, so that you don't have the remember sorting/filtering/grouping flags that may be different for every different shell command. So, imagine being able to use the same sorting/filtering logic on the output of `ls` as you might on the output of `ps`, and without relying on hacky solutions like pipelines to `grep`, `cut`, and `sort`.

It also means shell command output can be easily transposed into JSON and CSV. Actually pretty clever!
Whenever someone points out Portugal and you talk to them you find that they think just decriminalization turned Portugal into a beautiful utopia.

In practice decriminalization was 20% of the action. The important 80% was investing heavily in social workers, public health, and temporary housing so that people on drugs could receive treatment.

What other countries fail to appreciate is that people in these conditions are almost always self-medicating or escaping something. So great, you don't put them in jail, but they continue living in a vicious addictive hell with no hope for a better future or of ever regaining their lives. That's not exactly compassionate is it?

The metric to track can't be: "didn't die" or "didn't incarcerate", it should be "regained their life" and "broke their addiction".
Elvish author here, thanks for the plug :)
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That's only a US thing. In the rest of the world (well, I can only speak for a few european countries) discussing politics is normal office chat. Why wouldn't you want to discuss current and thought-provoking issues with your peers?
Why does it have to be “hate”? Why can’t I just decide it doesn’t work well for me and prefer not to use it?
"A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea" - Dutch proverb
I find it hard to believe that something deeply insightful can be compressed into 140 characters, or even a collection of tweets. I've read tweet-chains from twitter pundits, and though these longer form tweets do have insight, it's still more like getting an elevator pitch from a smart person than actually getting a deep understanding of the reasoning that leads to said opinions.

Basically, my feeling from using twitter is that it is a venue for expressing opinions in clever/snarky ways, and reading other people's clever/snarky opinions and feeling amused. But I might be very wrong, or following the wrong people. Do you have any examples of tweets that are highly information-dense and making insightful points?
Thanks for the detailed and sincere response.

I apologize upfront for not knowing who Mike Savage is, but it is my understanding that Limbaugh (who I don't listen to, so I could be wrong) is a guy that rudely declares that we should enforce border policies as written into regulations written by Congress?

That may not be true, but if it is, is that wrong-headed?

Edit: I have many loving/giving Muslim friends, and without their help I would not be alive today, but I am somewhat afraid of their "extremists" when I travel to Pakistan, or Qatar. I don't think I'm a hater, but maybe I am?
No, it takes extreme arrogance.

People who look at someone else and think "you should just.." are normal. We all do that.

People who look at the world and say "everyone should just.." are the height of arrogance and epitomize the phrase "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Some people are perfectly happy consuming and producing nothing. And the inverse. Not everyone can be a producer; it is hard work. Anyone can be a consumer.
Octava for a premium, bulletproof product. Kinivo or StarTech for low cost.
I don’t like the term “observer” because it implies it’s an entirely passive thing.

Why is it that we cannot passively observe quantum states? Why does observation necessarily have to be destructive?
> he owes playing video game to help him in critical thinking.

I often hear people attribute part of their success to things they already did, and I think it's usually just a combination of survivorship bias and other similar effects. I've heard people say similar things of nearly every substance or activity: "I am successful and doing X is part of the reason" where X can be anything from illegal substances to something mundane like coffee. Usually when X is something one likes, one tends to find it interesting.

This has been on my mind after recently debating with friends whether some substances like weed or shrooms should be legal and them basically saying they shouldn't because they know people who have taken them and turned their lives for the worse. Then I brought up how you can say similar things about video games (which IMO they are addicted to) and they quickly said it's different and you need to perform some impossibly complex studies to determine anything.

This is likely part of the reason echo chambers form everywhere. If ideas confirm our own beliefs, we hold them to much lower standards than when they don't.
I'm a bit annoyed about people running popular open source projects suddenly creating drama like this. The reason these projects got popular in the first place were often that the author didn't care for fame, glory or money; they just wanted to solve a problem.

And well, to be clear: most of us prefer to use an open source library, over a commercial library.

What I'm a bit upset over here is the bait and switch here.

Using the open source aspect of your library to get widely spread, but also somehow expecting to make money off this, somehow - this doesn't make sense.
Alton Brown, in his inaugural episode of "Good Eats: The Return," points out that most of what is known in the U.S. as Italian food has its origins in Little Italy, New York.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kg6regArFY
I too have been off and on writing a Rust shell, though I want it to support `chsh` POSIX compatibility for my Arch setup. It's no where near complete though.

https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh

`nu` seems very cool (and I love the name ;), but isn't building atm.
Even if you change jobs frequently, and take long sabbaticals (I took a year off for the birth of my first child, and another to write one of my books), you probably still spend much, much, much more time working than actively seeking jobs from strangers.
It really seems to depend on the company culture (which itself depends on the actual product) and office setup. E.g. I work remotely, spend time throughout the day relaxing and always done by 3pm and very well compensated
It might be something about the "cooking fish" that people serve that's different from sushi fish - freshness. I used to hate all fish, then liked only sushi, and only eventually moved into enjoying cooked fish as well. The last only happened when I discovered that fresh fish never smells like fish, even when cooked.
Corporate structures are created by and serve human civilizations, so I think we've reached an optimal solution given our current societies.

We will need to wait for an evolution in human interaction before any new developments follow in corporate design.
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This is one of the cons of non-discrimination laws. We can't tell people like that why they got fired.

Something tells me that if I could tell someone I fired them because of their support for antifa or the alt-right, that evil nonsense would bleed itself out of our society in a short time.
Sure - I get that. I understand with enough people in a semi-anonymous forum that it could get toxic quickly from just a few bad actors.

However, a lot of the commentary here has been around in-person interactions and not on an online forum.
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My success on Tinder was fairly low despite investing a lot of time and money and was causing endless frustration so I stopped using it after realizing it's stupid to put the chances of passing on my genes in the hands on an algorithm that's incentivized to make money off my struggle by intentionally withholding matches until I pay them money(Tinder Gold) or not showing my profile to any women at all until...I pay them more money(Boosts).

So I started learning Game to meet women IRL instead and despite being a short, average looking introvert, got better results with little effort other than being confident, going out and saying Hi and now I'm in a happy relationship with a very attractive woman.

Made me think that probably due to evolutionary reasons there's still a large number of females who value an average looking confident male who can flirt IRL over online profiles of potentially more attractive males.
The insurance industry is so broad that it could probably support a dozen unicorns or more disrupting it.

The Lansing Michigan area where I live is a major insurance industry hub. They have a new accelerator that just graduated its first class. Almost all the startups were from outside the US. In their home countries capital simply wasn't available.