skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been watching Ken Burns' "The Civil War". There was a bit that got me thinking about something which I've had trouble fully defining.

In one of the episodes, a historian talks about the simplicity of the values of the soldiers in that war. He marvels at how they were willing to march a mile and a half across an open field against a fortified enemy position. Think of the Union soldiers at Fredericksburg or the Confederate soldiers under Hood at Franklin. The historian also talks about how, were he in that situation, he feels like his response might have been "Sir, I don't believe that's a good idea sir" but how they bore it year after year and slaughter after slaughter.

Someone misgendering another person is a cruelty, just like any bully teasing a vulnerable person. There have always been cruel people though.

Juxtaposing that example of historical resilience against the increasingly baroque etiquette we require to insulate ourselves from experiencing garden variety cruelty, there's an incongruency that bothers me. Why could they bear that but we cannot bear this?
Sorry yes, "dry run".

There are definitely ways of doing it on a command by command basis but what I was more thinking about was a dry run on an entire pipeline. It's not a use case I tend to run into much these days though because there are usually better tools.
Canada is a cesspool of oligopolies, from TV to Cell Phone to Banks, etc.The excuse is always “if we don’t then some foreign/US company could come in and destroy our culture.” Which of course is bullshit. A handful of companies are making billions and billions off the backs of Canadian with worse service and it won’t get any better unless the oligopolies are broken.
The big things are corruption, graft, and mismanagement.
That's a strawman argument. I've never claimed communication is based on efficiency.

I'm saying we could make our communication more efficient, which you have not refuted.
English already has a non-specific pronoun that's been around for hundreds of years. It has come from the French, so it's been around at least since the Norman Invasion of 1066. So roughly 1050 years.

One can use it at any time.
“Compacting the Uncompactable” by Bobby Powers, Strangeloop 2019
The title sequence, created by John Whitney, right?

His brother James' 1966 abstract piece 'Lapis' is a favourite of mine, created using John Whitney's analog computer tech. There's a version on youtube[1] sadly only 480p, which gives you an idea, but if you see it projected it's just amazing..

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g
Why are Rich People so mean?
Your statement would apply more to buying a phone than buying a laptop.
Ah, I had misread. I don't agree with your conclusions, however. Based on reading her last couple posts, it sounds like she doesn't like using singular they in generic settings. (No evidence either way on people who use a personal singular-they pronoun, but given that she was trying to defend against anti-trans and anti-NB bigotry, that seems unlikely?) I don't think she's anti-trans at all, and just wants to avoid unnecessary use of pronouns in generic writing.
I remember the first I drove my Model 3 at night. I couldn’t figure out why the experience felt almost surreal.

The I realized, not having that glowing screen behind the wheel (which also means the wheel itself is smaller than a typical wheel) grants you a much better view of the road and noticeably better night vision.

I’ve never had an app where I can grant access to the car to someone from my phone, and even let them drive. I’ve used it a couple times and it’s been very helpful. I routinely unlock the car from my phone well out of Bluetooth range to let someone in to grab something, or to let my son get in ahead of a trip so he can play the arcade. We have an Xbox controller connected so he can play from the backseat.

Remote climate control is used extensively during the winter and summer to get the cabin ready for humans. Remotely controlling the seat heaters even, my wife particularly appreciates that.

A lot of this is made possible, or made significantly easier, because there are no physical buttons/knobs/switches which would need to maintain state with the software being remotely controlled. I know some types of physical buttons can be “soft-buttons” where the state can be changed remotely, but having it all on screen makes these features a lot less expensive, and easy to add in a software update instead of needing it all planned from the beginning.

The screen most of all avoids lock-in and future proofs the car for all the cool features they’ve been adding and will continue to add. There is nothing else on the market like it.

So bottom line, I’m not saying that somethings are not minutely more difficult, like adjusting cabin temp or turning on the rear seat heaters. But that only by committing fully the vision is truly realized. And the vision is absolutely grand.

Lastly, to your example with the sound system. Of course we have volume and skip-track controls on the wheel. The more advanced input and track selection is touch. Personally I would find it mind-numbing to try to do that with physical buttons. I mean, they didn’t even have Spötify last month and now they do, so I order to have buttons for inputs, it would need to be a scroll thingy highlighting a selection in a screen, or a push-to-cycle-through thingy which frankly those are both awful and not less distracting that directly tapping what you want.

Inside individual sources you have things like custom channels in Slacker/Spotify, podcasts, playlists, even now Caraoke. None of that would be manageable with physical buttons in any reasonable sense. It’s all made possible by the touch screen and software stack.
HSBC to cut up to 10k jobs in drive to slash costs: FT
It is a spectrum, but the extremes of that spectrum are easily labelled. In the middle, much less so.

There are some orthogonal components as well though: for instance, one form of propaganda could simply be labelled as distraction, a bunch of feel-good happy-go-lucky stuff that serves to take your attention away from the stuff that actually matters. It can all be totally objective and still be propaganda, just like trolls that stir up the pot can be part of a propaganda machine, even if some of the stuff they write is true.

In the end, in propaganda the ends are what matters, much less the facts. In journalism the facts are what matters, and the ends - if there are any - much less so.
> Think of special pronouns as names. All the etiquette we have surrounding names apply equally to pronouns.

I'm bad with names, too.
Labor Days (2016)
Indonesia has so many problems. Corruption is the biggest problem. All Indonesia’s problem stem from corruption.
I think THE most important tool useful towards better writing is better reading. Read the good stuff and avoid the crap. More Orwell and less Kerouac. Just read a lot of the good stuff. I'd say that a cook needs great taste first well before great culinary technique. If you can't taste the difference between crap and haute cuisine then mastering reduction will not help.
Depends on what country you are in. I suspect a lot of old people will end up falling back on their children, like in the old days. Imagine if all of those baby boomers will live to 99. It will be quite an interesting societal change.
Yeah, I share your feelings on this and this is one of the reasons I work alone for clients of my choosing
+1 I would recommend using KaTeX for this. Another thing would be to embed CodeMirror within ProseMirror (https://prosemirror.net/examples/codemirror/) instead of just using monospace font. The additional benefit of that is free syntax-highlighting.

I've played with ProseMirror and math support before, so this is what it about looks like.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/rV2AATD
I lived in Canada for 2 years. The week I moved there is when T-Mobile started offering free unlimited roaming in Canada. In my time in Canada I kept my T-Mobile plan and didn't even have to get an unlimited plan since I already had unlimited roaming. Since my bill was sent to a Washington address, I guess I got in on some loophole. The best part was that my coverage was phenominal... I had access to Telus, Wind and Bell in my area.

My prior trip to BC scouting for a home (a month earlier) cost me hundreds of dollars in international calls and data usage. The phone plans in Canada are shockingly bad. Being able to circumvent them was a godsend.
It's not just F150's and other "real" trucks. Car based platforms make up the bulk of SUVs now. They are only trucks in name for the purpose of gaming fuel economy regulations. The PT Cruiser was among the first to start this trend.
I just sign in as another (email) user.
$10/mb vs $2/mb...

Things have diverted more. French plans now have 25x the data for lower prices than Canadian plans...
Great work. I love coming across projects like these. Inspires me to "hack" and generally maintains my enthusiasm when the job doesn't.

A suggestion:
- remove the delayed image zoom when hovering over a recipe. It's a bit jarring and it makes the webapp feel slow when it isn't. I'd explore another way to display the information or just remove the delay entirely.
In many third world countries this is still the case. One of the biggest indicators of how wealthy a country is is to see what the average number of children per couple is. It's the first thing to drop once the feeling that the country will be able to deal responsibly with its elderly is established.
EVERYTHING behind cloudflare will captcha you on every page load. Have a dynamic IP from your ISP, they'll know about the new one with 30 minutes.
I disagree completely.

You could make the argument that devs should deploy their apps to older hardware. But develop on old hardware?

You clearly don't value developer time or the quality of life that heavier IDEs bring to the table.
> I think this will happen with the new wave of telecom companies that rely on satellites instead of ground towers

Maybe. If you look at the total available bandwidth of the satellite systems vs their potential subscriber base, I think metering will probably happen at a lower level than many people expect.

Perhaps they'll upgrade to much better radios in the future and the whole issue will be resolved.
That's why Uber and Lyft have rating systems, and bar people from driving if the rating as a driver is too low
I'm not familiar with the gzip algorithm unfortunately. But imagine, if you're familiar with Vim, that each character in English represented some "idea" and combining them together combined the ideas just like in Vim. Then with 4 letters you could theoretically reach 26^4 concepts. Actually this is similar to how Chinese works.

For example the ideogram for "grass/straw/manuscript" when combined with "berry" makes "strawberry".
There are several standards that specify how offsets should appear, but only Go uses Z (meaning Zero offset, aka UTC equivalent) followed by what appears to be a _positive_ number to represent a _negative_ offset...

By this logic we can expect to see a Moscow time stamp represented as HH:MM:SS+03:00 in every other program, and HH:MM:SSZ-03:00 only in Go.

It's just wrong, for no good reason.
Where does it depart from on Manhattan?
You know you have a lot of corruption and graft when you can't just pretend it's all mismanagement.
You are right. Yet hosting an encrypted 10kb for each user means that even if Bitwarden had a million free users it'd need no more than 10GB of cloud space to store all data. Consider syncing at startup or on adding new entries and the number of requests is also negligible. Not really a service that the company would ever had to cut to save money.

What makes you so sure that dropbox and icloud will never be shut down?
Agree. Or, if need for something more formal, ‘range’.
As you say, really unlimited will get abused. But in a functional market with unbundling, the "MVNO" virtual operators can exist. The UK has lots.

Here's a recent review of available unlimited plans in the UK: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/09/comparison-of-...
Paris is 84.45 km² if you remove woods that are outside "Boulevard Périphérique"
> I am going to build a company that will build me an affordable house and then I will sell affordable houses to people.

How?
I like this idea, and I'd love to help.
I actually sympathize - Canada is nice. Quebec especially so; doubly for Montreal. Perhaps it's a bit of this protectionism and isolationism that keeps it that way.
" the communities that outlaw it (the whole of Islam, old style communism)"

I lived almost 20 years in communist Romania, I can assure you interest aka "usury" was not banned at all.
Surely this would have been easier to recreate with practical effects? You can get the same pixelated effect looking through translucent privacy door screens.
If only that was technologically feasible...
It isn't magic! To the best of my knowledge it's all about framing the problem as a graph, then performing a search on the graph to find solutions with some heuristics.
Am grateful I have an autobiographical deficit. I can’t imagine being one of those people who remembers every slight or bad experience. Think about those people who are still impacted by something that happened to them in school.

Of course, it could be all that skate boarding w/o a helmet.
> Toronto

Sometimes happens at Fri/Sat 2AM on King/Queen downtown. Uber/Lyft will surge and there'll be a million empty cabs driving by.
Why is it silly? If someone rides a bicycle, walks or rides a subway in a city there is no noise pollution. Why noise pollution should be allowed for a guy flying his motorbike from his private hills to the urban center?
So, you would be surprised, Chinese law itself is actually extremely comprehensive and large. I would argue that Chinese law is nearly identical in scope to most Western law. There are laws on the books enshrining freedoms, and many which allow the people to hold the state accountable. All this with the humongous caveat that courts and judges will often not enforce laws as they are written, so just because China might have stringent environmental protections on its books, getting a judge who will actually allow such cases is difficult.

The law is structured in such a way that the judges and courts have a great deal of freedom and discretion about which laws to enforce when, and can decide not to enforce laws at specific times. This is seen as a strength of the system, in that it prevents a lot of obtuse bickering over minor details of legal interpretation. The judge can do maneuvers like saying "The spirit and intent of the law was this, doesn't matter what it actually says" and this is legal. So yes the Chinese state probably does have protections for this sort of thing, but they probably never enforce any of them because of rampant abuse.
Below the cheapest and most reliable VPS providers.

Europe => Hetzner, Scaleway

USA => Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode
The problem is that you're comparing two corrupt markets. You're absolutely right, it's not much better in the US: Behemoth providers making absurd profits not based on any kind of free market with the money to afford the lobbying and advertising to keep it that way.
When I close my eyes I just see a dull flashing pattern, similar to tv static. If I try to imagine a simple solid yellow circle.. well this is weird but I feel like my consciousness 'spreads' out as though it was an audience of ants in a stadium, and the circle floats in the center. But, I don't really 'see' it.. rather, the countless ants each knows the circle is there and they each contribute a brief chattering about what they see. So I 'know' I'm visualizing a yellow circle, and I can nimbly focus on what various parts/aspects look like.. but it's more a collective knowledge than a visual scene like my eyes present.
I have a different perspective.

Since the industrial revolution ~250 years ago, human workers have constantly been replaced by machines. All this time people have been sure it would result in unemployment, and all this time they've been wrong.

A worker today is about 30x as productive as one 250 years ago, because of this technological development.

Now, of course, it could be different this time. The past doesn't dictate the future etc. But at a minimum I'd want to hear why from someone who understands the history.
Unlike a church, most of the world's programmers have to use Stack Exchange in some capacity and abide by its policies. You're being obtuse.
This isn't really true. Road design is more complicated than people think. There's actually a table (I think in the green book) that gives you what are essentially coefficients for drivers "subconscious" speed, given certain design features. Meaning that reducing lane width, shoulder width, or even sign size will cause a driver to "naturally" drive slower. Setting the speed limit outside of this natural range happens all the time, usually in good faith, but results in speed traps.

So maybe not "physically" difficult, but it certainly takes a mental effort.
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161233
You are misunderstanding what you are seeing. The Z does not represent a literal Z in parsing/formatting.

https://play.golang.org/p/Qp-bBtzKpG-
> bar people from driving if the rating as a driver is too low

With Uber's driver turnover being what it is, I wonder what has to happen for Uber to bar a driver.

My bet is that they'll semi-shadow ban instead. Keep them in the system for capacity, but silently send less work their way. Especially to "complainy" customers.
Or Buckingham Palace area.
Firstly, that's an impossible question to answer. Having ADHD doesn't make you a better or worse developer than someone with schizophrenia, depression, or someone with no diagnosed psychological condition.

I want to be helpful, so I'm interpreting your question as: "Can you be a successful developer if you have ADHD".

The answer is yes. Full stop. You can be a developer (even a very successful developer) and also have an ADHD diagnosis.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in highschool. This was mostly for disruptive reason (I was a complete dickhead) as opposed to academic (I topped the state in math... English.. not so much). I took the Ritalin for about a month when I was 15. It was horrifying. If I didn't dose on Saturday and Sunday, I would have violent outbursts. Luckily, my parents picked up on this early and took me off the pills.

I don't think I have (or ever had) ADHA in spite of my diagnosis. My career has been fine. Focus is something I've trained and it's not a problem.

I work with a senior backed dev with diagnosed and prevalent adult ADHD. He uses some prescribed stimulates from time to time, but he told me this is rare and not something he "needs". He's an S-tier dev.

If you're diagnosed with ADHD, do what's required to keep your mental condition in check. I have pretty bad depression from time-to-time -- that's my issue and I need to figure it out if I want to have a career.
This is effectively what I have from Three Mobile here in the UK.

They seem to have stopped offering my plan, but I pay around £22 per month, SIM only. Ihave used in excess of 100GB per month a few times (we used it as our home internet while the cable line was being sorted out), and am very happy. I even get the "Feel At Home" package that means I can use up to 12GB a month in the US, Australia and a ton of other countries for no extra charge.

But as a small business customer I have no access to their web portal (!?) and they seem to have stopped selling this plan.
May be the Boring Company can work on this. They should be interested in accumulating expertise, instead of wasting it.
Yes, being allowed to dump a massive externality onto others does make cars quite a bit cheaper than if you had to pay their full cost. That's true for all cars, of course, though more for some than others.
Straightforward in the same sense that "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" is "trivial"[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Thats part of the job
> Buying these things is a way for people to save and consume at the same time.

This is the myth that Baby Boomers have been fed. They've been told their home is worth $X but when they're ready to retire and the next generation can't afford to buy it they're going to suddenly be without the savings they've been banking on and we're all going to be in a boatload of trouble.
You can just right click on the text box and use the context menu to make this task much easier.
Well by some measures we did struggle a lot during these shifts. The last industrial revolution was a period of social unrest, featuring mass riots which killed people. As a response the government instituted universal high school and labor union friendly laws (and labor day became a holiday).

As for what people ended up doing, new industries opened up, but I wouldn't say they were created by the specific new technology per se... maybe this is just semantics but if automatic tractors frees people up to be hired for instagram video production, can one say that automatic tractors "created" the instagram video market?
Okay, so you'd rather believe that Apple would lie about fixing this than admit you want to buy a macOS laptop?
It's even funnier when you find out that cell phone infrastructure is incredibly centralized. Most calls in Ontario go through Toronto.

The only mobile phone innovation in Canada is new ways to charge customers in ways that nobody else does. E.g. charging 15 cents for an incoming text message unless you have a text messaging plan.
The jet fighter commander who chased a UFO on Joe Rogan
No he isn't.

There is a huge gap to fill in the operators' space.

Basically every service offered by the public clouds should be provided as an operator (automatically managed with little human involvement).

And every one of these operators can sustain its own company.
As far as I can tell, this is basically the 32.32 fixed-point equivalent of Math.floor(N * Math.random()).

It reminds me of the sort of tricks I used as a teenager back in the 90s to speed up my MS-DOS graphics code.

Another trick: You can perform rounding by adding fixed-point 1/2 before the bit shift.
This sounds a bit like the general situation in Australia.

It annoyed me to no end when I lived there but the locals didn't seem to worry.
Github says that this project is 80% C and 6% Rust. What's up with that?
> The thing I hate about password managers is I am afraid I would stop knowing my passwords.

That is a feature. The handful of passwords I know are mostly long passphrases. The rest are long random strings, generally up in the 30-something character range.

In fact, I don't even know some of my logins anymore: I will use or at least append random characters to most accounts that don't have any 'social' functions (that I care about). I also use a unique email per site.

If an account is compromised, it's got a very low chance it'll even connect to another account I own (at least not without human interpretation), and zero chance of helping with cracking any of my other passwords (other than hinting you can skip guessing anything <30 characters).

I have backups of my password file, I have email recovery (to a domain I own) - knowing individual accounts is just unnecessary.