skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am arguing that, and it's also how I read mrep's comment: it's a wall of text with no clear pauses, making it hard to read.

And if those §'s are your other ways of adding pauses, then those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses for most readers, including me: we're not trained to read those characters as pauses.

Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future.

But good for you that you're not one of those people, I guess.
I would welcome 'accessibility first' if it means people start thinking about 'semantics' again. 10-15 years ago, the web dev world was obsessed with semantics, separation of style and content, the idea you could just edit CSS to do a complete redesign (like csszengarden.com), and your markup could remain untouched, understandable by all devices present and future. I think this notion still holds some power, but it's obviously taken a hit with the component paradigm. The modern approach of 'sprinkle-on' accessibility doesn't work as well, and just feels like a messy extra step you have to do when building a feature. It was much better when people cared about baking it in from the ground up, through considered semantics and document outlines.
Should I really be forced to memorize word soup to find what I am looking for though? Thats just absurd to me.
This is utter nonsense. Political censorship in the East is not a response to modern liberal views in the West.

That is so completely obvious that it boggles the mind that I even needed to say it.
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How about Chinese owners?

That’s a tricky one. The “woke” don’t care about all the Saudi money in Uber and WeWork despite that regimes hideous treatment of gays, women, dissidents and so on.
It is a catch 22: unless you are spending at least half your time prospecting new clients it is hard to keep a steady income, but it is hard to invest that much time in the commercial side of your "one man show" if you are not charging high enough.

Every beginner underestimate how much salesmanship it takes to run a successful freelancer career.
Sadly, the video quality there isn't quite what I would get from pirated versions - to put it mildly.

And considering that cartoon style videos don't even need much bandwidth for good quality to begin with, this seems really weird.
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specifically when he advocates for pedophilia
I doubt that hearing "Claire de Lune" being played badly on the piano for the 500th time is more productive or appreciated than a huge game of Civilisation or insane run in some other game.

Creativity exists in different forms.
> If there was no merit to the complaint, the Guardian would tell Schmidt to sod off.

Logical fallacy.
Story would be much more readable if he had actually stated the offending Scissor and cut it short by half.
It definitely depends on the structure of the org. But I do make a distinction between management and team lead. On some teams the management is technical and involved in daily tasks. In others, less so.

But the key thing is that the daily standup is NOT a status report for management! That should not be its purpose! It is for the team members to sync with each other, not a daily report for task management.
In this case, these kids were likely seeing psychs anyway - maybe even the same psychs. Setting up a clinic basically amounts to setting aside an amount of time in the month for a doctor to take existing caseload on from the existing system and hiring a receptionist.

The problem is that highly specialised clinics breed power imbalances - you don’t usually have another option for where to go because other doctors refuse to touch the subject matter now that there’s a specialised clinic for it, so getting treatment involves conforming to whatever the clinic doctor demands of you, no matter how undignified or inhumane.
I have heard it doesnt take a whole lot of time for them to produce new episodes. Also I thought it parodied everybody pretty well. I didnt get the hint it was going the other direction to be honest. Was the season aired way later or something?
Do you really need to memorize it?

You should absolutely be able to derive additional search terms from first principles, assuming you know that Gio is a golang library for GUI...

If you don't know what it is, then why would you be searching for it in the first place?

If anything, you have it backwards: it is the Gio name itself (or whatever more unique you suggest) that you'd need to absolutely memorize.

Additional terms ("golang", "GUI", "library", and several others one could use) come naturally from knowing what Gio is, no memorization required.
>In theory. In practice you can only act like a bully like that when you are already on the side with much more power. Repeatedly swatting (or whatever, doesn't have to be swatting) people richer and more powerful than you will just get them to use their power to make the problem go away (maybe by leaning on politicians to lean on police to not respond so over the top to unsubstantiated calls or to create harsh punishments for the callers).

They'll only be able to keep the police from responding at their home and office, anything beyond that will be difficult and require significant constant effort to arrange. And besides, it's not enough to just coordinate this with the local police, you'll also need to talk to various state agencies, sheriffs and so on.

A bomb threat will take down a plane, a single individual targeting you can permanently prevent you from flying commercial. A single individual submitting online visa applications with threats can make any kind of border crossings extraordinarily difficult too.

There's no end to the awful things a person can remotely do to you if they know who you are, being a powerful executive just leaves you much more exposed.
You think this sort of investment is any different than investment in general? Investors will pick a bucket of investments with differing risk pools like tbills, stocks, bonds etc.
>> Political censorship in the East is not a response to modern liberal views in the West.

Of course it's not, but you're missing the point. They're simply taking advantage of this incoherence in the current western value.
> "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

"Solar-type star" is meaningful here because first extrasolar planets we discovered orbit the pulsar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1257%2B12
Well thank God then that wasn't my argument.

What I'm saying is, China is co-opting modern liberal censorship in the West to do it's own political censorship (edit: in the West).
If you think that is scary look at who owns our defense industries now that the pre Clinton era small contractors were forced to merge.
I would say this is a rather childish view of the world, to separate things into two categories, evil and good.
Without touching on the ethical / moral aspect of stereotyping or disrespecting large groups of people, I'm curious if "racist" is the right adjective here, vs some other term that relates more to nationality vs biological ethnicity?
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“Turtles all the way down”, an expression of the infinite regress problem
> No, it isn't.

Well, let's see. My main 3 purchase locations are Steam, Humble Bundle and GOG.com. I'd guess this is fairly typical, but anyone using other platforms feel free to add yours.

Steam: The Steam client is still stuck on 32bits. I'd bet it will soon be updated to 64bit, but it just goes to show that macOS is pretty low in the priorities of Valve. And if a company with the resources of Valve doesn't care, I can't see much motivation for the individual developers either.

Humble Bundle: I've went through the current and following Humble Bundle Monthly games. Windows Only: Call of Duty WWII, Crash Bandicoot Remastered, Spyro Remastered, Sonic Mania, Planet Alpha, Override-Mech City Brawl. Windows+macOS: Battletech, The Spiral Scouts.

GOG.com: There's already a 64bit DOSBox port—DOS–era games will eventually be supported. Windows–era games are gone—Catalina breaks Wine emulation and no announcement has been made for 64bit support by the Wine Team. For newer games, GOG.com will need new builds from the developers—doubtful if we ever get to see those, especially for indie games where developers don't have the resources to go back and port their released games. Newly released games are often Windows-only.

I don't know how you see this picture, but it looks pretty bleak to me.
Have we all forgotten when Mozilla replaced the CTO with a long history of internet freedom work to replace him with a marketing director and the disaster that followed?

Are we going to keep trampling on all our freedoms in the name of ... freedom(?) and then blame it all on China?

EDIT: I knew some people were going to try to spin it into something it wasn't.
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I've found well-designed take home coding tests to be a great way of assessing potential hires during a recruitment process. I've also found that take home tests can be really hard to manage for a growing team; lost emails from HR are common, incomplete submissions are returned ad-hoc via zipped attachments and google drive uploads, and reviews and feedback from your own engineers are often difficult to keep track of.

I created Candidate Code to make it trivially simple to issue your existing take home coding tests through Git, collect the results and review them collaboratively. Feedback is welcome.
It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.
99% of Go projects, and Go itself, use GitHub, so I don't see how you'd "steer clear and away" when to use Gio you'd need to be using Go anyway...

Nor is this thing used here a "great alternative".
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> China is co-opting modern liberal censorship in the West to do it's own political censorship

No, it’s using good old greater-pile-of-money diplomacy. SJWs aren’t running around rooting for Xi. This is a company with major economic exposure to China bowing to censors’ wills.
authoritarian government is a tautology
...it boggles the mind that I even needed to say it.

Saying it didn't make it true. Do us all the favor of a more convincing argument.

Besides, are we really talking about censorship in "the East"? Blizzard is based in California.
Then if your diagnosis of burnout is correct (and I'm not doubting you for a moment ) it looks like you've never given yourself a chance to recover?

I'd tentatively suggest:

1. Significant time off. Use this time to rest, heal, exercise, and also to focus on dealing with any interrelated issues - such as depression.
2. Critically analyse your lifestyle - is there anything outside work that you're doing (or not doing) that's contributing to your apparent continual downwards direction? (Google 'Tignum book' - might give you starting point.)
3. Think about the job you really want, and what characteristics it should have? e.g. if regular/routine interactions with colleagues are a problem, would remote working, or night shifts, or a more solitary role, help?
Yes as long as they have a problem they care about and you can show you solved similar issues in the past they will most likely say yes. Also in the software industry people read quite a lot so they love the idea of a carefully drafted document about their challenges and potential solutions written by a professional.
Go to Europe and say the holocaust didn't happen, see what occurs.

In fact many countries in Europe have blasphemy laws and they uphold them: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
And no, they aren't. The two things may look superficially similar but Chinese political censorship is much, much older and the process but which it is done hasn't changed in a long time.
> Not to mention rotation-based characters are no good for, say, someone with dyslexia.

Latin has pairs of rotated characters (depending on the font): un, pd
Other little things too. A long standing bug/limitation of PowerPoint Mac is that you can't embed fonts in a presentation. So you literally can't create a presentation on a Mac and know that it will display correctly on another machine.

The ticket was closed as 'fixed/implemented' with the launch of the most recent version of Office - but you can only embed fonts if you have an Office 365 account.

Its becoming 'subscribe to unlock basic features'.
The last paragraph of the article would be worth re-reading. It clearly states that the way the issue with UK laws were mitigated was by publishing jointly with The New York Times. No one was thrown under a bus.
They shouldn't have accepted to get bought by Activision. The only way they make good games now is by releasing old titles (sc remastered, classic, reforged)... And now this
Also, because take home tests can be a controversial subject: I think they're a great way to evaluate some skills, but they're not the only way. There's pros and cons to every technique, for both candidates and the hiring organization. I'm personally also a big fan of pairing style interview questions (remote or otherwise). A lot of the bad experiences people have with take home coding challenges seem to be caused by poor design as much as anything else.

Mostly, I think if you design your hiring process to respect your candidates it's difficult to go too far wrong.
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Whenever I open Hacker News on Linux, the fonts are incredibly tiny, difficult to read and imo ugly.

This can be solved by installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer and accepting the proprietary license.

I have looked at HN's CSS, and it seems okay (has a fallback to a generic font family), but the problem I think is that the default Linux font for sans-serif is too tiny when the size is set to 10 pt. Verdana, ..., look fine at that size.

I would recommend that the site's CSS be changed in some way (I don't quite know how exactly) to fix the issue with small fonts on Linux.

P.S. Happens on Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint with Chrome and Firefox.
That "whistleblower" has no credibility left:

>> In 2014, Wylie co-founded Eunoia Technologies[9][23] along with former SCL/Cambridge Analytica senior staff Brent Clickard, Mark Gettleson and Tadas Jucikas.[23] In describing his ambitions for developing Eunoia, Wylie stated, "I want to build the NSA’s wet dream".[23] Eunoia Technologies has been criticized for the similar psychographic profiling tactics used by Cambridge Analytica,[9][23] using the same dataset shared by Alexander Kogan.[9][23][24][25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wylie#Eunoia_Techn...

So he basically accused Cambridge Analytica of doing what he then went on to do with his own firm. It's great that we learned all that shady business going on, but it's clear that Wylie's motives were not altruistic.
Was that the same lover of freedom that campaigned to take away the freedom of others?
Summary: author shows three ways to extract numeric-only columns from a
dataframe, 1. a naive loop, 2. using apply(), and 3. using idiomatic sapply().
Only methods 1 and 3 work as apply() assumes singly-typed vectors (and
dataframes can have mixed types). Author is frustrated because 1. there
are too many ways to do simple extractions and 2. using apply() is a prime
example of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

Verbosity is an existential threat.
can you elaborate on what's broken?
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Not even close to accurate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country
probably custom code for the MAS DSP.
Nice but apparently it is not compatible with any of my 3 Android devices? What are the requirements?
Not just adversarial. FK simply uses word length as a proxy for frequency, which is obviously wrong. It makes crocodiles and elephants score higher than gybe and vaunt. It also doesn't acknowledge that embedded clauses are more difficult than a "sequence" of clauses, etc. In practice, it'll often point in the sort-of-direction-ish, but you need to take the outcome with a pinch of salt.

Here's an almost random, older paper that discussed readability score differences between genres: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2008/pdfs/p1978.... Their conclusion:

... the analyses confirmed that several frequently used approaches for measuring vocabulary difficulty tend to be structured such that resulting text difficulty estimates overstate the difficulty of informational texts while simultaneously understating the difficulty of literary texts. These results can be explained in terms of the higher proportion of “core” vocabulary words typically found in literary texts as opposed to informational texts.
First they came for Linus. Then they came for Stallman. A week after Stack Exchange fell. And still nobody was willing to say it like it is.
Soon the endgame will appear and censorship will be applied directly to thought, as if it isn't already...
Megalopolis, really? At the same time, Mesopotamia's cities were much larger. Uruk's population was probably more than 30,000 people. Even outside Mesopotamia, Ebla, south of Aleppo, was a large city where nearby villages provided agricultural resources. In these regions, technology and art was apparently centuries ahead. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk_period for some achievements before 3000 BC.

> Among the interesting artifacts revealed at the site was a cylindrical stamp impression of a man holding his hands up in the air, as well as several figurines of people and animals and tools imported from Egypt.

This was surprising for me. A city that cannot build tools, but imports them. And if the site was fertile and inhabited for milleniums, how come these artefacts look
These scanners exist, and they can serve a dual purpose; scan the web for websites to sue. And yes this is happening.

It's important to note that not every site on the web falls under ADA. The crucial part of this issue is that the business must have a physical “brick and mortar” location to fall under the ADA. Presumably purely online retail businesses are not affected.
>At least they are not the same warmongerers as the USA

Yes, it is so much better that they conduct their business of organ harvesting domestic prisoners and putting Muslims into concentration camps in their own (conquered) territories instead of doing it in places that fly different flags. Think of how horrible that would be if that were the case!

Edit: 你好，无毛党！
What was it about Activision that caused you to boycott them?
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>if what we want are social services that resemble Europe's more than our own, what needs to change aren't the taxes on the top 1% of earners, but rather increased taxes on the middle class.

How about increased wealth taxation on the 1% of earners, and the 0.1% of owners?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uckLT7mPPIw here is the video where RMS asks for the house lights to be raised. You have mischaracterized his statements and the whole situation.
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That would be utter nonsense, yes, if it was what the parent claimed. But as I understood the parent it was about enforcement of eastern censorship in the West. I found it a quite interesting observation (relatively unrelated to modern liberal views).
I'm really curious why you think a blind person wouldn't be "interested" in car insurance. They may not be able to drive themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't be the person paying the bills in a family that owns cars and thus has to have car insurance.

As for paintings... there was really zero information on the site other than pictures of paintings? Nothing about the artist, the size, or the price? You apparently don't realize that a lot of people who rely on screen readers are able to see to some extent. They may use the screen reader to navigate your site or make purchases, but they may still be able to see the paintings (sometimes by magnifying the screen greatly and looking closely at the details) if not in exactly the same way that you do.

I don't disbelieve that shakedowns like you describe happen. But there is a reason for the rules that you are apparently breaking. It also sounds like you don't really believe that disabled folks deserve any consideration.

You say you don't hear from them, asking questions or complaining, probably because the vast majority just give up when they encounter websites like the ones you create. They are likely very tired of contacting website owners (assuming they can figure out how to do so--not easy if the site isn't accessible!) who send back insults about how they can't possibly be interested in the contents of the site or accusing them of trying to shake the website owner down.

The sort of thinking you are putting on display here is exactly why the ADA is so important.
And you'd almost certainly be wrong. The subscribers to The Guardian, worldwide, value its quality reporting where most other newspapers are beholden to the interests of their owners.
Basically this is the UI FX used to build https://scatter.im

Best way to view a preview of it: https://youtu.be/9D6eWP4peYM?t=113
You're asking me to defend me disagreeing with the original point - the burden of argument should really be on them, but anyway...

Tiananmen square is an immediate and obvious pick. People who publicly referenced the events of Tiananmen square were not allowed to interact with China on a business level. If Hearthstone had existed back then and the streamer had mentioned Tiananmen square, Blizzard would (I think) have taken exactly the same approach as they did today. There's no co-opting of Western politicking here.

> Besides, are we really talking about censorship in "the East"? Blizzard is based in California.

Blizzard is heavily integrated with Tencent in China. The actions they took are to preserve that relationship. Ergo the censorship of China is what we're looking at here - without it this event would not have occurred.
I've traveled throughout eastern China and I've encountered this indoctrination many times when talking to otherwise reasonable people.

But despite the widespread nationalist zealotry, most ordinary folk still seem to enjoy bootlegging Western media choc full of Western morality. They're not trying to ban it.

Though of course China does have its very own PC police that are encouraged by the government.
lol, this is basically what the government in 1984 would say.
Article leads with 11 dead and "Macron chaos". But with deaths being caused not by police but traffic, wouldn't that imply that response has been far too muted, rather than overboard?
What are you actually trying to say?
Can you give an example of what you mean with "oppression of freedom of speech on account of hurt feelings"? Because I wasn't aware that such oppression were ongoing. To me it sounds like a fringe theory spread by those who oppose hate speech laws.
The US Navy does appear to have an ABM capability on some of its ships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...
Ehh... But how old is enforcement of Chinese political censorship in the West?
I agree. Most people would sound quite stupid if their speech were to be transcribed as-is. I feel that It's not that we are more skilled speakers than writers, but more so that we hold writing to a higher standard in general.