skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuine question: (you're on a throwaway, what's the harm in answering me, right?)

What is there to buy into about pronouns? If my first name is Stan, named after my dad also named Stan, and my middle name is Jason, and my dad abandoned my family when I was young so I prefer people to call me Jason, you'd have no problem calling me Jason and be understanding that calling me Stan is a sore point, right?

What if I don't want to explain my personal issues with my father and childhood family situation to coworkers? If I just say that I really strongly prefer Jason and that it genuinely upsets me if you call me Stan, would you demand an explanation?

So if I claim, without explaining, that I strongly dislike being addressed as "she" and strongly prefer "he", isn't that the same amount of work? What is there to buy into, an explanation about personal struggles with gender dysphoria? That seems like a pretty personal thing to expect from a coworker, does it not?

What am I missing?
Aviation safety: Transport comparisons
Keynesians (the real ones, not the so-called New Keynesians) understood stagflation as it was happening. There was a deadlock between capital and labor. The oil embargo starting in 1973 lowered America’s real income. The question was who was going to suffer for it. It led to a political crisis, which in the short run was handled by allowing wages and prices to both run up, but it was eventually resolved in favor of capital during the Volcker shock, which deliberately created mass unemployment to undermine worker power. It didn’t have to turn out this way, though. There were other options.

Here’s an excellent article:

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/reviews/other-peoples-blood...
There have to be some folks there fully aware of the dark-pattern hell of their redesign, and smart enough to keep old.reddit running to appease the people who appreciate what the old style offers. And I hope they keep it up! Reddit is pretty much the last forum I frequent other than here, and the day they kill off the older version is the day I stop visiting.
https://evetravel.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/unidentified-slee...

> I was so entranced by it that it took me a few minutes to notice that the spindly structure was not all that there was to see. Both directly above and below the structure (relative to the system’s ecliptic, of course) were two large, swirling maelstroms of energy.

https://evetravel.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/massive-debris-fi...

> As if a giant hand had hand-picked pins out of a pin cushion, the debris field stretched almost as far as the eye could see. The various sticks, originally arranged in circular fashion, now are laid out in a serpentine pattern, as if it were a winding path. Lightning crackles between the various posts: the flashes of light that originally caught my eye.
What Oracle has won on is in the Structure, Sequence, and Organization in the API.

The analogy with phone books is if someone else published a competing phone book, with the same positions for adverts and paid listings, and same distinctions between adverts and paid listings. The courts would find that such a phone book infringes as well.

To make the analogy more accurate, many consumers have since come to be used to the layout of the old phone book, and do not want to switch because they have to retrain their habits to use the competitor book. Competitor book argues that the old phone book layout has merged with the idea of a phone book, or that the old layout is essential to the use of a phone book. The circuit court disagrees.
Could you please elaborate? Deep down everything is machine code anyway; the farther we get from that, the less and less "real" our concepts are. Closures, monads, or lenses (I still have no idea what the latter two are) -- they feel kind of powerful but they're really only rearrangements of the same plain old data structures plus some implied pattern of their usage. Do you feel they're necessary for quality? What is your definition of quality?

At the very least these concepts are less efficient, which lowers quality in the efficiency dimension. For example, in assembly it's very easy to detect integer overflow; in C, which is still fairly low-level, there's no direct way to do this and people invented various workarounds. They are less efficient, but portable. Does this raise the quality as you understand it?

(BTW, there were a few attempts to write an OS in assembly (Menuet, Kolibri), now they seem to be mostly abandoned, but the intermediate results were fairly impressive: getting from boot to GUI in less than 10 seconds is something modern "big" OSes are utterly incapable of. This definitely looks like quality at least in some dimension.)

edit: typos.
> the problem is bigger than just Amazon.

Neil Young, 1994 (25 years).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovum-GjYWKQ
They had my company name there, even in incognito mode
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Does anyone use this for anything real?
> And I'd say the number one problem with this industry, and the root of its increasingly poor reputation among the general public, is a lack ethics.

Correction: The number one problem with every industry is lack of ethics. The root of its increasingly poor reputation is that the richest companies in the world will always face extra scrutiny. Few people cared for them 10 years ago when they were small fries and conventional companies topped the charts, but today when the majority of the 10 most valuable companies are tech companies the world will naturally start focusing on them more so than any other industry.
He died of cancer, probably a result of nuclear testing. They didn’t fully realize how dangerous it was until later.
If you're talking about the 78 programmer amici brief, only 12 have any connection at all to Google (only 5 are employees), and each of those are affected personally, beyond association with Google. This is addressed directly in the brief.

Also when the commenter said "wrote the API", he was referring to the Oracle/Sun Java API, not the Google Android API.
Giving individuals more information is unambigiously a good thing.

The link has nothing to do with it, I only included it because you brought up skin color.
This is an interesting comparison to Dataflex vs. Powerflex: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLRev/1998/12.html In this case, the use of “copied” reserved words was at the heart of it. I never understood why reserved words could be protected.
Thank you so much for this article!

I usually have a lot of trouble sleeping and was panicking after I read the book. The side effects of not sleeping did seem kind of exaggerated, but glad to know someone actually took the time to corroborate all the claims.
"Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" fallacy.*

Programming will not cause astigmatism, which is due to the faulty curvature of your cornea-lens complex.

* it was after 'this', therefore 'this' caused it.

Very unlikely. You might as well blame getting out of bed in the morning for the astigmatism also, because the astigmatism happened after you kept getting out of bed.
How to catch carpool cheats: Behind the search to find a better way
Thanks! Yes, your quote is another good example of the book's level of argumentation. Not going to include this because I get too many "nitpicking" charges against me already :)
It greets me as “Hi Dynamic Duo Training! What brings you to Bill.com?”.

I guess my dynamic residential IP is associated with that firm somewhere somehow.
Shutting a new door on locality (2016)
You might enjoy the section where I cover a little bit of his academic work, in case you missed it: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-but-this-is-j... :)
How Jim Simons became the most successful investor of all time
I wasn't referring to age of death, but mental performance while alive.
New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones
> NPR did a podcast a few years ago on six policies it’s ideologically diverse panel of economists all agreed on:

That panel consisted of five American economists (Luigi Zingales is perhaps an immigrant but working in an American university). Two of them appeared to be om the Democrat's side and three aligning with the Republican party. That is not very ideologically diverse.
Data partnerships give them your info associated with IP, then LinkedIn lookup gives them your company.
But folks (Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella) running large companies are not usually billionaires. Bill Gates isn't running Microsoft any more, you know. And if he was, what difference does it make to anyone exactly how many billions in stock he has? The difference is the delta between the benefit of his charitable efforts and what anyone else would do with the money, and the parsimonious assumption is that it's about zero. Since, you know, he didn't get rich by solving the problems he's trying to solve now.
I think it's beyond Left and Right. Google, like most companies and individuals, is self interested. When something benefits Google, they'll pursue it, regardless of where it falls on the ideological spectrum.

Unions? That's bad for business owners, so Google is against. Diversity? That increases the number of workers you can have, so Google is in favor of it. Immigration? Google's in favor, for the same reason. More taxes on tech companies? Google's against, etc.
Magic Switch [Update 1994]
What is your recommendations for someone seeking to buy a 13" MacBook Pro or Air atm? Is the latest incarnation of the butterfly keyboard still as bad? Are revamped versions of those machines around the corner? Or far away?
Actually asking for a friend.
This. Patreons purpose is to make it possible for many to pay content creators, with some rewards the creators themselves make.

Patreon needs to understand that they have nothing unique other than their name, and will be replaced tomorrow if they can't optimize around their core functionality.
> Why don’t we see numerous both-side frameworks which make http (rest, ws, etc) completely transparent?

I think you want RPC. There are many solutions. Most popular are corporate-blessed. Not sure if anyone likes them. They were always kind of pain to use. But that might have been due to mismatch between actual network requests that are intrinsically asyc and can fail any time for whatever reason and function calls that are quick and always succeed (except for specific scenarios).

As more desktop programmers get familiar with async and that most async do not necessarily need to succeed maybe it's time to revisit the idea of RPC in open source setting.

I'm a bit afraid though that in current climate of every language getting 'await' keyword people come back to mindset of 'Yeah, I'll wait. Fail? What fail?'
I really liked the idea of Google+ Circles when they first came out. It allowed me to organize people I interacted with into a focused group; work, Linux, TF2, etc. If I wanted to talk about AWS, I could switch my brain into that mode and just post things about a single topic. It was really nice.
Annapurna Circuit Trek Cost
I love how this makes it to the front page of HN. Yemen indeed has preserved a great wealth of old literature and manuscripts. I am surprised they single out "Zaydis" rather than "Yemenis", but perhaps there is some reason behind the distinction. Either way, a noble and well-directed effort.
https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/orl-4334429546c27/
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I always forget Kore has Python support. It is not a bad fit.
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I don’t think your site works on mobile - I just get a picture of a woman sitting reading on a pile of books.
> Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder

So let's fix that?
I am mostly surprised this is still ongoing... isn’t it going for around 10 years already?
Oracle's trying to get copyright duration on the exclusive rights to something that falls under patent subject matter, so yeah, they're blurring the lines.

Ultimately, the problem for Oracle is that the APIs are too functional to be eligible for copyright protection, too abstract to be eligible for patent protection, and too generic to be eligible for trademark protection. But that doesn't stop them from trying to get the best features from all the above.
The sentence means the same thing without the word extraordinary.
Depending on your receiver, that may be because it’s trying to conform to chassis sizing requirements to be rack mountable (often via audio shelves, not rails). In the audio world many things use 19” comm racks, much like servers do.
That the author is right follows from simple logic. Assume A implies B. Observe A but not B. Conclude that A implies B is false.

Replace A with "printing money" and B with "increased inflation."
I'm sure Oldman will be fantastic. He killed it as John le Carre's George Smiley in Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy.
Only if you think there’s something inherently wrong with ‘old’!
Please share some links to those materials. I’m interested in the same.
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If you're repeatedly saying "property rights" and you mean to encompass common law property rights, copyright, and patent rights in a discussion where the differences between those are relevant, then you really shouldn't accuse anyone of not having the facts. You're being deliberately obtuse and unclear. Go remind yourself of the rules here, especially:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Knowingly glossing over important distinctions is not appropriate.
Have you ever reached into a hot oven and grabbed a sheet of tinfoil with your bare hands? The foil is 350F (or hotter) but you don't feel anything because it's so thin and flimsy. There is not enough mass to hold enough energy to hurt you.
Ask HN: How do you make important life decisions?
(throwaway because personal)

I'm 30 years old, and about to make what might turn out to be the single most important decision in my personal life.

Should I stay and have children with my current partner?

She is a great person, we're great friends, together for a few years, no red flags, but no chemistry on my side.
Mathematically, I think I should stay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

I feel that having kids and many decades together should be a decision easier to do than what I'm going through. This is the sort of decision I would say: "do it, if it's obvious; if you're having doubts, well, it's a tell". I've been with other partners where I wanted to have kids much more enthusiastically (although in a more distant future).

Anyway, I'm trying to be as introspective as possible, and understand what I'm feeling and why.

How can I, at least, not regret - not the decision - but the decision process? (is there a difference?)

--

I like Ruth Chang's framework on her Hard Choices TED talk.
1. Is it lack of information? Sometimes even if you have the ability to see the full future outcome of both alternatives, it is still hard.
2. Hard choices are an opportunity for us to realize and choose what we value most, and define ourselves. "Who am I to be?"

There's Bezos' regret-minimization-when-I'm-80-years-old framework.

There's Larry Smith's "Why you will fail to have a great career" talk and how not to make yourself prisoner of others, namely your partner and your children.

There's expected value maximization, multi-objective optimization, exploration-exploitation trade-offs, billion-dollars-russian-roulette decisions, and sunk costs fallacy. Go with your gut, and double check it? Research others in similar previous situations? Ensemble all these models?

--

What tools and processes do you use to make your most important decisions?

How do you decide on your personal and professional "wicked problems"?
The protesters are starting to discover that they are like the pouty children who, when told they can't watch television, think they should set fire to their own couch.

You want to have to stand when you watch TV? OK, go ahead. Make my day. It's not my problem. It's your couch, after all.

You want to ruin the metro? Go right ahead. It's your metro.

Hong Kong's problem is that it has lost its importance as far as both the West and China are concerned. China doesn't need Hong Kong, Shenzhen is just around the corner. The West don't need Hong Kong, they can use Beijing or Shanghai, etc. Hong Kong will be irrelevant by the time 1947 comes around.

Hong Kong in 1997 was a very important financial centre. Today, China has many financial centres which are bigger and better than Hong Kong.
Names says nothing about a person while he/she describes an aspect of you. A person who wants to use the wrong pronoun is like a fat person wanting people to call them thin. Of course calling fat people fat is not very nice, the same can be said about missgendering people, but it is very hard to call fat people thin so you try to avoid the subject.

So if you look like and behave like a man then people will call you a man, if you look like and behave like a woman then people will call you a woman. Of course there are cases where the person looks like and behaves like the other gender but some assholes still calls them by their old pronoun, but in most cases I see someone who is obviously male wanting to be called female or vice versa. In those cases it hurts a bit because it goes against the meaning of the words, and given how our language is structured it is very hard to avoid the subject like most people do with other attributes.
Harry Potter Geek Created Foursquare and Went from $1 to $1B
No, you’re flat out wrong. There is no trust and it’s impossible to steal money.

You need to find a path because path needs to have channel capacity required for your transaction, that’s why you can’t pick random nodes, not because you want to trust them.

Stealing somebody’s funds from channel is just as hard as stealing bitcoin - you need to crack encryption or you need a private key.

You have no idea how lightning works, please do some reading before making incorrect claims.
I wonder how much of this is because Amazon started out selling books and CDs. Those things don't really have quality issues, and are pretty much fungible. Now, decades into their "everything store" strategy, they're still trying to treat everything like books.
Phoenix (elixir) does exactly what you seem to want.

(Easily defining rest APIs from object definitions, automagically establishing sockets for extremely easy communication between backed and frontend, and even things like Phoenix live view to reduce the amount of frontend code you have to write.)

Honestly, it wasn't as great as it seemed when I experimented with it.

The only thing I really used after the first experiment was the auto sockets (which are fantastic). Everything else was basically unusable because straight db bindings are extremely rare. You mostly want to specialize it with custom authentication etc.

And there are better options if you really just want a thin wrapper over you database like postgrest or it's equivalent for graphql.

These can also be extended for custom methods so you're not forced to put everything in the frontend
I'm not seeing enough here about how Jeff Bezos is actively supporting and creating a system that enables and promotes fraud.
> It turns out that it's not possible to selectively repress emotions: "I've got to watch what I say about politics" subconsciously spills over into "I've got to watch what I say" which spills over into "I've got to watch what I say about anything new and controversial", and you lose the latter well before the former.

I don't have any problem keeping my non-work related opinions to myself at work, and I don't see any corresponding repression of my professional creativity.
I don't think it has anything to do with that.

"the old" they are referring to in the article is not the last one but the keyboard technology before that.

What they're suggesting is that it was a change in name only (which would be bad) while it's actually a rollback to a different, formerly used technology. (Scissor switches are back.)

I think they count on this ambiguity of an unspecific "old" to drive attention.
I'd wager that many people on HN are not interested in the startup and VC aspects at all. I come here for the news, the geekery and the expertise.
Yes, I think it does justify that. I think we should prosecute every case of theft, unless the victim explicitly asks that we don't. Of course, the punishment should be proportional to the crime (so that e.g. first time shoplifting offender could get 1 day of jail time), but we must prosecute every case if reasonable, most certainly if we know who the perp is, and have solid evidence of the crime, and we must escalate the punishment for repeat offenders.

If you don't do that, you get ridiculousness like this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...
Is there any data that says secondhand car seats aren’t safe?
Do you have a long term career strategy? If not,come up with one. And see which job aligns best.

In the short term, which job will affect you in the least adverse way for metrics that matter to you such as commute,work-life balance,salary,benefits and mental health?

Take those two results and prioririze what matters most. Short term adversity can be very bad with unintended consequences, after all, even if you endure short term adversity as part of your career strategy, things can still go wrong, there are always unknown unknowns so be careful on what you sacrifice short term for possible long term gains. That said, I would prioritize the job that aligns with my career strategy well,givem my passions,goals and weaknesses.

Ask yourself how the tasks of the job will help you in your long term endeavors,income and job stability among other things when formulating a career strategy.

Just don't be indecisive (which I regretably had been)

Also,I wish someone told me this earlier: never accept a stay offer.
Play Pong to Support Hong Kong
Hey Guys,
One of my close friends built this website called Pong 4 Hong Kong (www.pong4hongkong.com) and I thought I would help get the word out. It's to help support the movement in Hong Kong through playing Pong. If you beat the AI in a game of 3, the website donates 5 cents per every win. Funding comes from occasional ads, so please excuse them.
Funds made on the website will be directed towards Hong Kong Free Press via Bitcoin, highlighting a potential use case as to bypass potential bottlenecks with sending money through traditional payment processors to Hong Kong.
Anyways, it would be appreciated if you try it out and help further spread the word.
Thanks a lot.
SCO took even longer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes . It stops only when one side can no longer pay the lawyers :/.
One day I was writing an Excel macro, and I wanted to hash something (I forget why), and I was looking for a way to compare hashes in a relatively efficient way, meaning storing them in a built-in VBA data type.

Unfortunately, there seemed to be no convenient data type larger than four bytes, except for double precision floating point. I couldn't come up with a way to control all of the bits in a double, and there were no 64-bit integers, but then I discovered an alternative - there is a 64-bit type called "Currency", which is basically a fixed point decimal usable for my purpose.

So, I suddenly realized I'd created a currency system based on hashes...in Visual Basic.
You are correct. This extends into all facets of the market. Take aftermarket car parts. The only way to really get quality is to build relationships locally and buy things you can watch being made. There’s a lot of “made in US” parts that are just assembled from the same garbage all the ChinaBay “brands” use.
Yes Google did make search and mobile more accessible while helping itself to a big pile of money. Stop pretending that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts. Hate to break it to you but Google is just like any other business.