skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person who is drowning does not have the power to save themselves. This is of course terrifying. The more they struggle, the worse it gets. In fact, a person in the terror of drowning will, in their terror, drown other people they can get ahold of.

The only hope for this person is if they are saved by someone else who has the power, knowledge, and skill to do so.

So, the question is, are you drowning, or are you in some other situation? History is very clear that the more power people get, the more they abuse it. If we could improve things on our own power, would it not be the opposite? This tendency to abuse of power and authority looks just like the drowning person. Their own efforts doom those who are around them. The 20th century is full of examples of people achieving absolute power and then killing millions with that power.

If you come to understand that you are that drowning person, then the Bible is a great comfort, as it shows that there is salvation, not on your own works, which will never be good enough, but because there is a Lifeguard who can save.
I’ve been maintaining free software for a while and people have been actively hunting for my email for support, completely ignoring clear guidelines in README and ignoring GitHub issues.
State law banning symptoms just makes us feel better. The people remain the same and now the problems go deeper into the muck.
I just use DuckDuckGo’s privacy plugin, that seems to kill most ads.
Rousseau certainly had an interesting relationship to the rise of Liberalism. And I am often unsure of whether to count him among the developers or enemies of the movement. I can read him both ways.

Your second point is I think correct on part of the problem but I think there is a second deeper issue which goes beyond dark money per se and implicates everyone. That is the fact that family and community are support structures which each of us rely on during hard times. If you come from a wealthy family and you really screw up repeatedly you will still probably do better than if you come from a poor family and do everything perfectly. But the family support structures have been under constant and sustained attacks on a number of means on the idea that if we undermine the family we will, for example, liberate women from inequality (in truth, it only increases gender inequality because motherhood has heavier burdens as single motherhood). Undermining the family, however, creates larger markets for a lot of things. A larger number of smaller households consume more. So business steps in to fill the role, as does the state. Moreover if you liberate business from the state and from community, then the first thing it will attack is the family and the reproductive order because it isn't very efficient for employees to have and raise kids (better to import kids after they grow up).

So I actually see the sexual liberalism of the progressive left and the business liberalism of the Koch brothers as mutually reinforcing, as politically heretical as that might be in the context of US political discussions.
what was the survey sample size and how was the sample selected? (46% of 0.001% is still 0%).

my assessment isn't what things compile to but what they are authored in.
Tuck and roll. Cover the head and keep your extremities pulled in. If sliding on the road, rotate as you slide to lessen roadrash, do not attempt to run. If in anything thicker than wet grass, roll. Protect your neck and spine the best you can, rolling from shoulder to hip, diagnally. Leather is your friends here, even thick jeans will qickly rip above 35.

-has 'this is akward im out'ed on a motorcycle at 60ish a few times. Only recommended for the worst of conversationlists.
I hope it unfolds into a little tent.
The answer to nature vs nurture is epigenetics.
That is a point. It would be better though is we recognized Google as something of a common carrier and insisted that they do not try to be the arbiter of what is true.
A lot of the time (most of the time), you end up in a particular specialty by career accident, not because you're genuinely excellent at that and only that, and not good at related adjacent things.
They Might Be Giants and Jeff Lawson of Twilio
UBlock Origin on Mac and 1Blocker X on iOS. Pretty happy, only have to whitelist occasionally. But it’s usually a surprise and I struggle until I realize one of my blockers is interfering with a site I want access to.
I have the experience that to be truly compatible with everything that potential users of your code would like to use (embedded systems, ...) one still needs to write C90, what's your experience with this and where are C99 and C11 used the most?
First, I must say that the inventors of UML saw it as the last layer. The grand vision was a complete code generation from UML diagrams. And this was the overall grand vision that drove OO in general. I think that this is was happening now with the "low code" startups.

The whole idea is to separate the global decisions (which are hard to change) - e.g. architecture, what classes, what each class do, from the local one (e.g. which data structure to use). So you would use UML for the global decisions, and than make programming the classes almost mechanical.

Of course the customer do not see that. The customer see the user interface, and if the overall use cases are implemented correctly. Hence using those tool might help or not.

Lets take architecture for example, why do people use an architect ?. Why does architect needs diagrams? Will the owner care of the architect use diagrams?
Ask HN: Are you in need of a frontend consultant?
Would a taxi have cost $60? They tend to also have the pro of already being at the airport.

I don't think "anti-taxi" was why most people picked up Uber, rather it was cheaper. So if that isn't the case then going to a taxi rank makes a lot of sense in many cases.
I think it's fair to call it the pinnacle when talking about the Western world. Both shogi and xiangqi developed from the same base game as chess historically, so I'm not sure how far they venture from the theme compared to something like hnefatafl (which is chess-like but varies considerably in game mechanics when compared with shogi and xiangqi).
>He was the cto of a company, too, at least at that time.

Your mistake was not completely destroying him. This behavior exists because one side likes to be civil which further encourages the irrational ones to continue.
A person has died from an eating-related condition (food poisoning)

Trash-crunch
it's a bit anecdotal but React /JSX is still more common than TypeScript (if for no other reason than time on this earth). and both are dwarfed by ES5/6
In policy matters, Trump would still be in Liberal. He isn't threatening to ban importing tropical fruit for example, and he is far more hostile to the idea of a safety net than is the Danish People's Party.
Exactly, many times these famous authors advocate for practices that make sense for building compilers and frameworks or libraries, but that make little sense for building applications.

Building applications is very different, because an application is the very end of the software tree dependency. Some practices make sense for both types of software, but many others don't and some of these authors don't seem to be able to make the difference.
> There was advertising before banner ads too, so is your issue about ads on the internet?

This thread is about your grandparent comment, ”The biggest barrier is that people don’t want to pay for content.”

Billions of people are the market, your remark opens with the judgment that people don’t want to pay for content. In other words, the market has judged most content isn’t worth paying for.

> That was a tiny web that barely anyone used and even less created for. It's really not the same.

On the contrary, today, certainly a higher number have their words preserved online, as persistent conversations such as this one or perhaps Likes on Instagram. But a far lower percentage of those who are online today “have a home page” for example.

In the mid to late 90s a higher proportion of “web pages” were meaningful, and a much higher percentage of users were also publishers of their own web sites.

Amateur web sites unofficially organized around topics of interest were a thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

That content is still getting created, and still getting self-published, it’s just much harder to find.

Self-published home pages like this are still cool:

https://www.gwern.net/

This one uses a kind of ethical advertising:

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/

Note the author invites patronage but says don’t worry about it: ”I have a day job and SSC gets free hosting, so don't feel pressured to contribute. But extra cash helps pay for contest prizes, meetup expenses, and me spending extra time blogging instead of working.” People with things to say will say them.

While it’s still being experimented with, it seems that quality content is worth paying for, even worth patronage:

https://patrons.theguardian.com/

This goes into more detail about content mill versus patronage model for higher value content:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-democratize-p_b_4...

// Irony of HuffPo well noted.
https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/ ?

It's sort of related.
> This is the crux of the matter: In taking the model seriously (even "literally"), BS evaluates it on points in feature space that may never occur in practice, and may not even be realizable.

Is it April 1?
I’d worry about the excipients (e.g. PGA). Several molecular weights are deemed GRAS (“Generally Recognized As Safe”) thus their use is unregulated (of course as bulk polymers, “molecular weight” is really just the fat part of the distribution).

The problem is at point of use: the vehicle is vaporized by a simple heated nichrome wire. This fractionates and agglomerates the polymers resulting in a completely different distribution of polymer weights. The results of which aren’t being analyzed.
Parent poster is talking about fearmongering. Fearmongering isn't skepticism.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Where are you from? Is it culturally expected of you to donate your time off to your employer?

My employer gets 36 hours a week as per the contract agreed between us. Incidental favours aside, any structural deviation of those hours comes at a significant cost to my family and my personal welfare (e.g., not getting round to odd jobs around the house, domestic chores, hobbies, leisure, sex, and raising a child).

So why are you working in your weekends?

If you enjoy working with distractions and it benefits your work, why not figure out a way to work from home on certain days in the week?

It is not normal to keep on working beyond the agreed upon hours if you are a salaried employee. You're life is simply too short to throw it away like that.
I'm more of a Windows and C# guy, and even I just can't get along with the naming and syntax.

I tried using aliases instead, but there is a danger with this - some of the aliases are commands on Linux. For example, if I use the `ls` alias it will work as expected on Windows, but if you run the script on Linux, it will run the Linux `ls` command, rather than whatever the Powershell alias is for.
I... Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...
You can also filter by additional metadata, like year:2019 - I often use that to narrow the results for very large labels down to more recent releases.
> ”The stack keeps track of the order that spells and/or abilities were added to it. Each time an object is put on the stack, it’s put on top of all objects already there.” isn’t hard to infer if you know what a stack is, but if you don’t?

From that I think you could learn quite a lot about what a stack is. A stack is something you can put objects into, and it preserves order to some extent. If you pair that with a rule or card spelling out the other half of the API (what happens when you retrieve objects from the stack?) you've got it pretty much figured out.
You're underestimating the ability of women to artfully handle the interaction. You're overestimating the amount of attention they get. You're trying to avoid taking any personal risk. Here, try this: Say something funny. No one's bothered if they laugh.
Credit card chargeback would bring everything back.
You're agreeing with me, I think. There's a ton of innovation possible with the phone app that isn't happening. There's no reason there couldn't be curated white lists that you subscribe to for stuff like that.
The ecosystem, not the kernel. Linux packages are relatively good about doing one small thing well.
It's good point, but most of what I read on his blog feels like a distillation of best practices that I've seen mature in the industry. It all rings true and matches my experience of what works best. But can I prove it? No, not really.
Why is renting the wrong answer? From afar, it seems like there are plenty of thriving countries and cities where renters are much more the norm and accepted than in the US, where they're viewed (to borrow and tweak a quote) as temporarily-embarrassed homeowners?

Some of them, like Germany, struggle through problems with their systems as well. But their problems don't appear to be as devastating as the ones facing the USA.
you make some good points here, especially regarding the wide range of quality available in the vape market (gas station cig-a-likes vs rda with coils and juice you made yourself) and the echo chamber of r/electronic_cigarette, but I do want to point out that nic salts are not some scary weird thing.

alkaloids (like nicotine) all have freebase and salt forms. usually the freebase has a lower boiling point, while the salt is more stable and will dissolve more readily in water. neither is inherently more dangerous than the other, but can yield different levels of efficiency depending how the drug is administered. I'm not sure exactly what advantage salts have over freebase for vaping; I would think the lower boiling point would be advantageous.
A Java Web Scraping App with Jsoup and JavaFX
Society works by trust and faith, it's based on vicious talking apes.

In this case, you should be paranoid because we know darn well there are shady people out there trying to get you.

How many times a day does your phone ring and it's some scammer?
If Lyft was not reasonably priced, I'd have checked on the taxi situation. It turns out Lyft was $21 and change and I gave a $4 tip. If a cab was going to be $60 each way as well, I may have even gone and rented a car.

I am spoiled by the ride hailing apps; a medallioned taxi is a distant last resort for me personally. I may never call for a cab again in my life and that'll be just fine for me. Walking up to an airport cab stand is convenient and certain, so that's still in play.
They were pretty adamant about how it didn’t biodegrade - “you can have a spiders web that doesn’t break down for hundreds of years”
Strikingly, this crisis of housing insecurity is erupting in America’s richest, most rapidly developing cities. New York,... Washington, D.C., ... Seattle is close behind. In Los Angeles and Charlotte, San Jose and Nashville, the trends are similar. Unemployment is at a generational low; corporate profits have surged; ... Yet the teachers, maintenance workers, supermarket cashiers, and medical assistants who help sustain these cities are getting relentlessly priced out of them.

I am not sure if this is naivety or if the author is being disingenuous to make a point, but the housing crisis in these big cities is almost entirely an addiction problem, where it's not an addiction problem, it's almost always a mental health problem.

Not to minimize the plight of Cokethia, as the economy is clearly broken (and getting rapidly worse) for those who can't demand premium wages.

edit: s/and have a lot of dependents//
I believe that rights should exist when we believe they make a nation more prosperous, so this is ultimately an empirical question. Rights are a matter of national design, and not spiritually inalienable qualities. Should a person have the right to keep and bear arms? Data keeps the delineations of design honest.
System Software isn’t all that different from enterprise software. The business part is simply of technical nature. The biggest difference usually is that the software developers don’t have a deep understanding of the business rules.
Well, that's another thing. I'd love to get my hand on a 1980-1980 Mercedes.

Another thing build for live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W126

I'd love to import a well maintained one, still featuring its original parts.
On a long enough timespan, all of our work will be gone anyway.
Why not sell before tanking your quality and stndards? Its really a weird story how a sophmoric dick-joke zine became 'legit' with a few awesome documentary style videos, then getting funding and pivoting to a Buzzfeed News type outrage machine. Truly a sign of our times.
New publisher Modern Wolf declare commitment to “ethical game development”
And sometimes it makes sense to take shortcuts that don’t make sense from a long term maintenance standpoint just to survive long enough to get product market fit. Get funding and survive.

Twitter is a perfect example of this. Everyone agrees that Twitter made some bad architectural decisions that caused the frequent appearance of the “fail whale”. But eventually, they got enough funding via combination of the VC funding and later the public market to rearchitect their system.
Just like Like Go and Poker each have a number of variant rule sets in common use, I mentally group all of these as “chess” based on their common ancestry. I haven’t really studied them enough to know if this is truly justified.
Yes! I've been looking for this since the conference ended. I love reading about this CTF it sounds so awesome (they got to play DOOM on an original Xbox this year!) If I had one "hacker dream" it's that I'd one day be a part of it, but I don't think that's gonna happen so I'll stick with doing my pico CTF problems and reading about these tough CTFs
It always blows me away how well it has aged. As for being ahead of its time, we might miss some of the context: at the time, cross-dressing apparently caused some controversy, which doesn't readily occur to me while watching them now.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can enforce discipline in myself to accomplish specific tasks similar to OPs. I agree that that external praise can be a game changer but man of the habits you want to develop are trivial and not worth bringing up but can have a huge impact. For example, instead of being creative, maybe you want to floss consistently or walk 10k steps. Both of those habits are just as important as creating but writing a blog post about it isn’t as sexy, nor is bringing it up in conversation.

I’ve been thinking about creating systems that help keep me going in the right direction even though I know I’m going to have an off day because discipline is so fleeting.
I had one of these... very useful
It's not like you've been coding with Javascript and now you need to learn Haskell though. Companies love to sprinkle newest trends in their job ads with the technologies they used in their last 100 LOC pilot project and you discover in your first day that there are many big projects which use gulp, grunt and others with ES3, some without async support etc.

I got a friend in Silicon Valley (I'm in Germany and here the attitude is more towards reliability and stability) and even there he got many interviews and a new job without listing many of the newest libraries/languages in professional capacity.

Plus, I'd suggest you try Typescript with an open mind. It's amazing.
Space law is the same as that of international waters right? Will that hold up for long or does it need revision. interesting!
I would have thought that the headline alone would be sufficient enough to provide that answer. In order to remove any further doubt, millions of books are still in circulation, after more than a century since the scare/panic. This should be considered as a fact that books are not infectious ─ not in the medical sense, at least.

A Kindle is probably likely to harbour more germs than an average book. Furthermore, the chemistry of books possibly does not allow harmful organisms to survive for too long.

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/why-do-books-smell-so-good...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/07/the-smell-of-o...
Also every additional extension makes you more fingerprintable.

A bit of a catch 22 - by protecting my privacy (unless I make myself unfingerprintable, which is very difficult) I make myself unique.
It appears to me now that we need more than one word to describe the various kinds of homeless: one group of mentally ill/drug addicts that can’t keep it together under best circumstances, one group that might just need education/training to get into the groove, one group that’s priced out by urbanization despite holding a proper job, one group that actually likes their freedom.

Lumping the four groups together creates a great deal of confusion - you can often find people arguing that homeless need more homes vs homeless need job training vs mental health care etc. We’re just talking about different people.
This is not a representative example of the average homeless person in the average American city. The first, second and third fundamental barriers that most homeless people face are substance abuse (opioids, meth, severe alcohol abuse). Everything else (ie mental illness, low income house availability) are second order issues.
It feels like there are two classes of Uber investors, and money is flowing from one to the other. Maybe that was the point all along, versus disrupting taxis.
Absolutely. In addition to more obvious resources like Bandcamp or Spotify, NTS has become an essential discovery tool. It‘s radio done right and it works so well because it’s real human curation, done by selectors with very fine taste, instead of yet another mediocre recommendation engine.

Some favorite shows of mine on NTS are Melodies International, Organic Music with Chee Shimizu, Floating Points and Palms Trax.
I'm curious if anyone has any information on the camera settings the Voyager used to acquire these pictures.
The headphone cable is used as a receive-only antenna for longer-wavelength signals like digital TV and FM radio. Using it is required for these features, and won't increase the exposure since it's receive-only.
Your argument doesn't make sense. You admit that even Amazon, who makes a living in providing sophisticated technology, is not perfect when it comes to security. How does that help the argument that my data would be safer split across tons of non-technical providers? How does wanting digital security kill capitalism? What does capitalism have to do with the market of a Socialist country?
All interesting stuff.

But scratching my head as to why things like this end up on Hacker News? Seems to happen a lot these days.
In this situation it’s really hard to blame corporations for all the problems when the key issue - zoning restrictions that prevent the construction of dense, low-income housing - is entirely caused by the government and by extension the people who elect them.

Allow developers the freedom to build huge apartment buildings and the housing crisis will be severely mitigated. The answer from the left is always more taxes, more government, more red tape and it blinds them to the true problem.
The ugly percentge of pet owners must be minority, but the number of feckless dog owners is huge. I will absolutely put your dogs turd in your open window when you leave it on the street for me to step in. I do this nearly weekly. Some dog owners give you all a terrible imge to the rest of us.