skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally it was the established/predominant religion's job, not the government. It was hoped by many that religious institutions could act as a counterweight to the nobles, kings and politicians. Which is why the civil power structure tried (often successfully) to co-opt religion as well. Of course, religious institutions have their own issues in that it often becomes a parallel power structure on its own. Or go from reflecting cultural norms to shaping them.

The enlightenment and rise of humanism in the latter 1600's and 1700's attempted to shift this moral authority to "the people". And today, post-modernism attempts to put forth the notion that all morality is simply cultural context and relative. Which, while perhaps strictly true, is, IMO, pointless. Sort of like positing that we live in a simulation. Might be true, but so what? How does it matter?

Anyway, in today's world I don't think it's possible to have a widespread "trusted moral authority". Too many people seem to not realize the contradiction of saying on one hand that other cultures (and sub-cultures) should be respected while on the other hand decrying the utter horror of differing morals and ethics. Cultural differences are more than variations in language, cuisine, dress and music. Cultural differences are, at their roots, differing beliefs about what is right and wrong.
Ha. The ADA has been put into law, yes. The result was reduced employment opportunities for disabled people. Because the cost of conforming to the law is prohibitive.

Apparently, in America, its more important to appear to be virtuous than to actually do good.

The law of unintended consequences.
Surely no one's that dumb!
It’s still a problem because Adobe stole money from their users and didn’t deliver on their promise.

Sure it’s in the name of Executive order but still leaves a bad taste. It says you can’t trust Adobe.
I think it's disingenuous of you to call it "Open Source" and I think the distinction matters to more people than you think it does.
Relation Between Cyclomatic Complexity and ABC Size – Mathematical Analysis
Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by 50%
I have an idea: let's cancel culture the people who are cancel culturing, and then all sing Kumbaya.

In all seriousness, this is ridiculous. I hope this makes people understand how frighteningly China is intertwined with our corporations and culture.
> Hong Kong was a democracy, it getting eaten up by China is horrendous.

Hong Kong was never a democracy in the modern sense. Its citizen only elect half of the members of the legislative council. And the Chief It had Rule of Law, freedoms of press and assembly and other factors, but it was never a full democracy.
none of that is true, and I hope you can find a source for any of those things. Organ harvesting of uyghur prisoners is completely unfounded and is a lie spread on the internet.
I recently assembled my first piece of non-IKEA furniture.

I think the misconception might stem from the fact that

* IKEA instructions for even very simple things like shelves are often up to 20 pages long. A lot of steps are very simple, but there are lots of them.

* IKEA furniture parts often have many markings on them to make them unique. This is necessary for reuse across products, but also identifiability for above-mentioned instructions.

The shelf I recently assembled had none of these "problems". In fact, it only had 2 types of structural metal bars that were identical except for length, and boards to go on top of those bars.

The instructions were 2 pages of text. Full paragraphs worth of text. It included sentences like "Connect the vertical corner pieces such that the second-to-last lower peg of the top piece connects to the topmost peg of the lower piece".

That one sentence takes around 10 seconds to parse, 30 seconds to visualize and then 1-2 minutes to lay out with the physical pieces in front of you.

I would estimate around 80% of that time is waste, compared to just printing those instructions using one IKEA-style diagram.
Eventually you will get so far away from something that you cannot resolve it even at the plank distance.
This article has sold me on not buying that book.

I mean, what is this. Not even a point on how Expert Software Designers get bored and browse hacker news for 5 hours?

Terrible.
Yes most of the things just work.
I'm not sure what world you live in that not being able to enter a formal contract with a partner means "you do not deserve to share your life with the person you love. You don't deserve to take care of them when they're sick. You don't deserve a family with them. Because you're gay"
A piece of paper and some legal guarantees is not stopping you from having a family, sharing your life with and aiding said person in sickness.

I am and always were in favor of gay marriage as long as marriages were a thing(as in, i'd rather they not exist as a "formal" thing), but this hyperbolic nonsense that the only possible reason there is disagreement on it is because they hate the gays and nothing else is just silly.
> So to make it simpler do I hereby grant anybody the right to do consulting/support without prior permission as long as it is less than 30.000 USD per year.

That seems pretty fair - avoids the issues of freelance work being done with the project. I find it hard to care about big corporations not having access to monetize it but that begs the question - doesn't this reduce possible hosting solutions? Especially since there's no official hosting. Does this license imply that there can't be 3rd party commercial hosting?
It's a silly stance, even if one thinks private companies should be allowed censor who they want on their platform. It conflates "free speech" (which is a wide philosophical concept) with the "first amendment to the US constitution", which is just a particular law regulating the government of a specific country.
Uber Works
Are you saying that musical intelligence is more highly G-loaded than most other dimensions of intelligence? That would be pretty interesting if true, any research you could point us to?
I'm waiting to see if the other shoe will drop or not. The latest numbers about Viacom's revenue by country that I can find are from 2014, where the US and Europe account for 90% of their revenue (https://csimarket.com/stocks/segments_geo.php?code=VIA). Seeing as how Viacom was trying to sell its majority stake in their TV businesses in China earlier this year, maybe they just won't care about blowback from China.
Lucky this person is not a writer. :)
A guy tweeted an ingenious hotel-room hack and Twitter responded with their own
Great resource, thanks! It would be interesting to see more context for each of the entries, such as examples in published work—I certainly noticed they'd incorporated ones used by science fiction authors that I like. Though I understand that such examples may still be quite thin-on-the-ground.
It turns out, if you let people define words however they want to, they're never wrong.

who knew!

The solution is to reject those redefinitions.
Agreed. I think this is an instance of:

> It is only by harsh experience that we learn which principles take priority over which other principles; as mere words they all sound equally persuasive.
If, for example, the hourly rate is high but the hours required for a typical mom & pop site are low.

Example: being a lawyer might be lucrative (just take it for the sake of argument) but their services might remain accessible to mom & pop business owners because they only need a few hours of lawyering per year, for the most part.
OK, here is a case that we do know something about:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/why-uc-berkel...

Is that frivolous enough for you? That's the same law you're defending here and when that article came out, it was universally decried here on HN. Funny how things change, huh? But I guess it's not ok for someone to sue UC-Berkley for providing free non-accessible lectures, while it's totally ok for a private business to be sued for having a non-accessible website.
The Latin alphabet is actually a terrible way to write English, and guessing how to pronounce words is the hardest part of being an ESL. You can't use 5 symbols for 19 syllables and call it a day.

Ideally people would use Shavian[1] or some other system that kinda matches 1:1 with the language.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet
Agreed. Think of them as a list of skills that software engineers have to learn. Junior engineers may not even realize they need to learn them; this post might open their eyes. It may get them talking to users when they might not have otherwise, and through practice, developing those skills.
Not really. Google is a public company. If they risked legal jeopardy on the whim of Schmidt exacting revenge then shareholders would be livid.
Are there any example punch cards we can select and then read and execute just to try it?
Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
Do i understand correctly that this guy's strategy for reading a book is to read another book first?
Agreed. I didn't finish the article. I was hoping the author would tell me what "show, don't tell" means, why it is said, and maybe even an example. I have a guess of what it means, but as this is the first time I have encountered the phrase I'd like a concrete definition or description.

I am always trying to improve my writing and most of the books I have read on the topic of writing well have a common theme: write clearly and simply. For someone who appears to think of themselves as a writer, I did not find this writing very clear and had to re-read many sentences. I also didn't know what "mimesis" meant, and although it sounds fancy I don't think it added anything. I guess I am not the intended audience of this article.
The differences between mainstream browsers are like different models of bicycles. The differences between screen readers are like all the varieties of two-wheeled vehicles, from segways to hoverboards to scooters.
right, Bob and Betty can have that discussion elsewhere. all of it. We don't need a standup for Bob and Betty to figure out they need to have that discussion.
https://belarusdigest.com/story/poland-belarus-and-ukraine-t...
Bandwidth and storage are both scarce resources and metering them out so producers are compensated is necessary to enable an economically sufficient quantity of both to be produced.

I agree that intellectual property rights might reduce overall efficiency due to the artificial complexity and friction it adds.
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Ask HN: What are some interactive job positions in the tech industry?
After working for 6 years in the industry I am starting to get drained. Ever since I started I realized that I get no satisfaction from sitting in front of the screen all day.

I want to do something where I would have to talk to people more and discuss more.

I am ok with something like Technical Sales Maybe? - Is the transition possible? Do they make any dough?

Maybe some type of consulting? Or maybe even some type of Product Management?

Anything else that comes to mind?

Cheerio
I've spent the last two months in rural Saskatchewan working on an AgTech project. The gas station/convenience/restaurant 8 miles away from here used to do an absolutely amazing Indian buffet (East Indian, not First Nations) on Fridays, but they stopped due to lack of demand from the locals. They still make great "standard fare" food like subs, sandwiches, salads, etc, but... man do I miss that buffet.
Please, the debate skit was as bad as anything they've done. Cheap caricatures of the media's caricatures of the candidates. The only redeeming aspect of the skit were the cameo performances, particularly the portrayal of Harris—and then only because Maya Rudolph is endlessly engaging to watch despite the weak writing.

Look how they portrayed Andrew Yang. An unconventional candidate with near-zero media attention consistently polling above O'Rourke, Klobushar, Castro and Booker. Yet the joke is how poorly he's doing? It's noteworthy that the audience literally didn't laugh.
You do realize that censorship is only limited to governments in a legal context? People can be, and are, censored by private entities all the time.

How do you figure that cancel culture isn't defacto censorship? Deplatforming somebody because you don't agree with their viewpoints is absolutely censorship in a moral sense.

Calling people "childish" who don't agree with you is a weasel tactic. Those tactics should invalidate the whole argument, but for some reason they don't. Make the argument without the weasel tactics if you want people to listen.
Not anymore but do visit often. My family is still there, though
I disagree but don't think you should be downvoted.

I wouldn't say it is explicitly stated in the rules – the rule they cite prohibits "Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image."

Which is basically a catch-all for, if we decide we don't like it, we can prohibit it.
The same problem exists with PFC foam used at military and civilian airports in Germany (and probably around the world): https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-muenchen/bunde... (in German)
Well, the law provides for a number of balancing tests to ensure that a court will respect the rights of all parties. A rule of thumb is unlikely to be specific and precise enough for any practical use. For specific details, consult an attorney.

Since it only applies to "public accommodations", it's highly unlikely that a drawing program will be covered, unless it's tied to a good, such as if you can have the drawing printed up for you.
Sure, if you (10 years ago) smoked a joint on the street, and you were black, you carried a far far higher risk of being imprisoned.
> You should be able to watch a movie with no sound and follow the plot

Why?
Would satisfying one's curiosity count as an extracurricular activity on a CV? For example, I love learning about how airplanes work. I spent this weekend reading about Boeing 737 bleed air systems and how they power many things on a jetliner. Sure it's not code, but something interesting.
I think it's more that he is afraid of being misunderstood, and rightly so.

It is also unclear to me how one could find a true scissor statement and know it until one unleashed it and saw the effects. It would just seem obviously true or obviously false.
> people who are fed up with rational cost-benefit analysis and want to wreck their perceived enemies

I've been thinking this for a while, and it seems to be creating some nasty feedback loops.

At least some of the support for politicians like Trump and Boris Johnson comes from the fact that they continually piss off people who are liberal/progressive/left-wing/anti-Brexit (delete as applicable depending on who is 'the enemy').

In the same way, I've seen things written about progressive politicians to the effect of "he is upsetting a lot of angry old white men, so he must be doing something right".

"How much do they piss off the other team" has become something that many voters use as a metric. Perhaps even the only metric, for some people.
There are a lot of attempts to dismiss whistleblowers by attacking their "credibility" lately.

There is only one criteria to assess: is their report true? You assess this by investigating what they claim in their report. So far, what he's said has been entirely backed up by facts. His reason for blowing the whistle in the first place is irrelevant.
I will definitely try this method next time I do user testing.
I mean, yes, but

1) ICE is Executive branch and he's the chief of Executive branch (I guess the proper word would be accountable).

2) I'm pretty sure a lot of the way ICE is acting now (you know, the children in cages who are refused medical care and so on) is affected by the guy in charge being openly racist who considers non-white people subhuman, wants to build a wall and considers "good people on both sides" between nazis and non-nazis.

President is not just chief of the army and the executive branch, he's an ideological leader who represents the people and shows what kind of behavior is proper, and what is acceptable and so on.

At least he should be, anyway.
I think there are even faster JSON parsers out there nowadays. I have recently used orjson and found it to be extremely fast for our use case (serializing a dict with about 100 MB).
Before this episode I always wondered why they kept making those bad transformers movies, turns out China loves em.

I think its fine if people want to make movies for the China market, but what I find alarming is copycat behavior trying to bring that sort of censorship here.

It doesn't make any sense to me why anyone should apologize or censor themselves creatively just because someone got salty about it. I find the notion limiting someones creative expression to someone else's judgement of "appropriate" to be despicably egregious.

Sure you can vote with your dollar and time by not watching something you don't like, but its the creators prerogative what to create and what not to create.

Anyone arguing the contrary on the effects of censorship has not looked into the origin of the word.
Microsoft’s Surface Created the “Pitchfork Effect”
Jeez, What3Words is such a scummy company.
What factories?

Everyone already has or currently is moving manufacturing operations from China to Viet Nam or India.

5 more years and the only factories China will have are going to be domestic.
Yeah, almost everyone wastes time on "fun" and "relaxation" that they could be better using by working on a commercial project.
Making sense of API response times
I want to write -- I love writing -- but what to write about?

Every time I want to write - I write about something that is pissing me off or something that is coming out angrily. My writing is ok and entertaining...but sure as hell does not show any "logical" thinking.

If I were to write about software...I would probably write about ideas, random ideas that catch my mind. Any pointers?
Young people are poisoning themselves with over-the-counter drugs
“AI” powered WiFi hacking with rpi
The downvotes aren't unexpected. There's a size-able pro-socialist leaning group on here that loves everything that China is doing.
In other words, for other manufacturers there are several places in the supply chain to get the numbers from. For Tesla, the only place to get numbers is from Tesla itself.
Expanding on this point: English is a Germanic language with a vocabulary that's 80% Romantic (i.e., french, latin) in origin, due to the Roman and then Norman occupations of England (though the 20% that's Germanic makes up the most commonly used vocabulary). Because the ruling classes for several centuries spoke Latin or French, education became synonymous with those languages and English speakers borrowed heavily from them, leading to Germanic and Romantic versions of the same words ("pee" vs. "micturate", "shit" vs. "defecate") where the latter is the more formal, highbrow version of the former.

A similar transition is happening with Japanese, where English, the dominant world language in the 20th century and second language for many Japanese, is having its vocabulary widely adopted into the Japanese language. For example, the more common word for "ball" in Japanese is now "bōru" (literally, "ball" pronounced with Japanese syllables), while "tama" refers to more traditional items.

French, interestingly, is consciously hostile to borrowing vocabulary from other languages, to the point of having the Académie française in France [0] (and, to a lesser extent, the Office québécois de la langue française in Quebec [1]) act as "the authority" on the language, prohibiting borrowed words and issuing directives on correct usage and new vocabulary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_...
I personally find `cherrypick` to be occasionally helpful, as a way to jump out of trying to be too git-clever, and simply starting a new branch and pulling in the useful parts of another branch.

That's probably anathema to some users, though.
Blizzard sub Reddit is now set to private
Blizzard sub reddit is now set to private
https://www.reddit.com/r/blizzard
Don't large numbers of professional chinese who work on the internet use VPNs to get around the firewall?

My insight into this comes mainly from professional Chinese scientists who were previously trained in the US but returned to China because there were better scientific opportunities. Many of them have told me (in person, while visitng the US) that they have to use VPNs to get their work done, and as long as they are relatively cautious, circumspect, and don't repeat what they see to others, they are tolerated.
I always considered as something that applies to filmmakers more than writers. Sure you could through natural storytelling demonstrate that a hobbit hole is comfortable place to live Or you could use your greatest strength as a writer and just tell me

"Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
Ah, so they're just illegally using the bicycle paths. Interesting.
That's not what's happening. People are being de-platformed for carrying out or inciting harassment and violence. The only thing that's changed is that we've decided that it's unacceptable to hide behind passive speech when it's obvious to a reasonable observer what you mean to do. E.g., "I heard there might be a fire in this theater!", "My friend says there's a fire in this theater!", "It'd be great if someone yelled 'Fire!' in this theater," might not get you criminally prosecuted, but it's perfectly reasonable for a theater to ban you after the nth time that you've made an alarmist reference to fire on their premises.
I think the main benefit from this method is just reading easy books (biographies, etc) before reading dense, hard books so the dense books will make more sense.
Huh. This makes me wonder how many blind people prefer using ed.
>Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority"

This seems to always be an invitation to corruption though. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that. So getting to "trusted" may be hard. In the US we have Brent Kavanaugh, and in China they have the CCP, and in some countries they have religious clerics... I can't think of an example where there is such a body that I would trust.
My town has a floor that's about 100 gallons per day that I'm always under. My bill, with no sewer, is more than $20/month. $100/month for water seems high in that, anecdotally, electrical and oil bills are a much bigger deal for most people than water. OTOH, $100/month doesn't seem out of the realm of reasonableness either.
Hate-speech laws exist because people are programmable.

Try and tell me your opinions are your own and the books and media you consume do not own some portion of them.

Hate-speech laws exist to prevent the programming of people to systematically hate and exterminate other people, a lesson that has been learned many times over in history.
Node-Red is more low-level.

You can already see it in the way it describes itself "Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things". So it is "programming" what n8n does not try to be. In Node-Red they give you as a guideline that you should not write high-level nodes if you can write lower-level ones instead (which could build the higher-level one when combined). Which is totally right for programming but not really to allow none coders to automate things. That is also the reason why there are no Asana, Pipedrive, ... nodes in Node-Red. It is simply not what it is made for. It is perfect for IOT applications but not for higher-level automation tasks.

n8n, on the other hand, is probably not the best choice for your IOT application.

So it is simply about using the right tool for the task at hand.