skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment more or less epitomizes the lack of understanding of conversational media and is probably the reason why traditional media is failing so badly right now.

People can think for themselves, they don't want a self-righteous gatekeeper to spoon feed them the bits of information that they think are correct, relevant, or acceptable. People don't want more spin and more production value and more hot takes and more dunking. Censorship is ultimately counter productive in the same way that sterilizing everything in your environment is for your immune system, you need exposure to a variety of information and viewpoints including incorrect, toxic and down right whacky ones in order to learn the metacognitive skills that you can use to think about how that information impacts you and the viewpoints you hold. If you just funnel the "correct" information into people you wind up with a bunch of infantile paper tigers that can only parrot back what they've heard and collapse in a heap of sputtering rage the moment their prepackaged world view is challenged. Nobody is pretending that Joe Rogan is a journalist, least of all himself. He isn't there to challenge anyone's beliefs or to discover the truth or fiction of what his guests are saying. That's your job you lazy fuck, as he would say.
Except he didn't. He specifically condemned them. Some journalist took part of his statement, cut off the rest and riled up a bunch of people over a false narrative. I still see someone in the media who should know better by now repeat this lie on occasion.
NYT is currently publishing a series of podcasts called "Rabbit Hole" which, in its latest episode, portrayed PewdiePie as a misunderstood guy who is definitely not a white nationalist or alt-right. That said, what you are saying could be true at the same time. I don't read the paper and certainly don't care to follow the PewdiePie story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/podcasts/rabbit-hole-PewD...
False

From the FTC

>If you endorse a product through social media, your endorsement
message should make it obvious when you have a relationship
(“material connection”) with the brand. A “material connection” to
the brand includes a personal, family, or employment relationship or
a financial relationship – such as the brand paying you or giving you
free or discounted products or services.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/10...
Amazon's Bellevue footprint across to the lake from Seattle is expanding. New development in Seattle mostly stopped since 2018, while some existing projects are still being built and coming online.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-bring-15000-employees-b...
I've also used Linux on the desktop for over a decade, and I have to use Windows 10 at work every day. In my experience, Windows is still not Linux. I don't know what kind of laptops you've had to run Linux on, but my desktop experience has generally been much better than on Windows. Sure you have the occasional tussle with things that don't work at install (although it's getting better). But once things are set up you don't have to fiddle so much anymore and it's usually smooth sailing from then on. Things just work.

I don't want to get into details about what's missing, although I could go on for a while on that. I'll only share one small use-case.

Linux spoils you with the belief that you can just set up your work environment once and find everything exactly where you left it. So imagine that you have 8 desktops and you've spread and organized things nice and tidy: browsing on Desktop1, work environment for app1 (git, log, tests, editor, etc) on D2, work environment for app2 on D3, media on D4, email on D5, experimental stuff on D6, on and on, you catch the drift. That setup out of the way, you can just show up and work on whatever you want, each day, every day, for months.

Now the Windows experience. Everything works at install, but then you try to turn Windows into Linux, you tweak at it and you get maybe 80% of the way in. Not bad, you can get some work done. Then you're reminded of the Windows reality: the dreaded updates. You basically never stop updating. Firewall, antivirus, drivers, apps and rebooting.

That's just one thing, I could go on with others (someone else pointed, no pun intended, with Windows obsession's with the mouse).
It took you a half hour to realize that Jones was nutty?
3.5% of what?
> Do you seriously think in Go when you make an apparently blocking system call, an actual blocking system call is made?

Who cares? From the perspective of the programmer, it's a blocking call.
Contact Tracing 101
Darn. Yeah, they confirmed the "US" layout is ISO.
Explained here:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/capeng2....

For an infinitely small resistor the energy is effectively a spark pulse coupled directly to free space, and half is radiated away in EM waves.
Building a Kotlin Library with Gradle
Depending on what you mean by "shit". From employers perspective Apple was probably better place to work after Jobs left, since Jobs was pushing the employees to work insane hours and was very demanding. I would bet things were more relaxed after Jobs left in the 80's. Don't know how the culture developed after Jobs came back.
Go look at the AQI for last 12 months. I live here. I know.
Im Not a Programmer
Which country restricts their own citizens from travelling in a quarantine? It's always the foreigners who are not allowed to come in.
The key here is: know your audience. What's impressive to a SV tech entrepreneur is often incomprehensible, absurd, or simply farcical to someone like a PhD in Classical Philology, or a tradesman that owns his own small business. And vice versa - achievement doesn't have a universal definition. This becomes really obvious when you compare different countries, say, the U.S. and France, for example.

Figure out how your audience defines achievement and work backwards from there.
Does propaganda here mean organized baloney as opposed to individual baloney?
No doubt she's done very well, but I took the OP to mean people who've achieved significant things without the absurdly privileged springboard of beauty, wealth and famous connections.
HPC in Life Sciences 2020 Part 1: Rise of AMD, Data Management’s Wild West, More
There was 0.000000% truth behind the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the basement of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria. No basis in fact whatsoever.

If you don’t believe me, ask the guy who went there with a semiautomatic weapon and discovered the complete lack of truth for himself.
Little Sound DJ: A Game Boy Music Sequencer
If I think straight, the initial potential energy in a column of liquid would be the integration of mgh (actually integration of density * g * section * height), therefore mgh/2 at the beginning of the situation. Or said intuitively : the center of gravity of the column at half its height.

But obviously, even with this 1/2, your relation after dividing between two tanks still holds. :)
To be clear, I'm not defending autotools.

But every C build system will have to deal with some mess. That may be having multiple configurations for multiple OSes (with weird exceptions for weird OSes or WASM), snowflake libraries that just had to have their own pkg-config replacement, fiddling with flags for various flavors and versions of MSVC and non-MSVC compilers, rpaths, sovers, etc.

To me it's inevitable that every project that starts with "just 5 lines of simple CMake/Makefile, look how simple it is!" will end up with the same mess everyone else ends up with.
Confession: 30 year emacs user here. Have been using org-mode since 2008 or so (I think the first org-mode shipped in 2003). So, why so many articles? Emacs is dwindling away. There are enough users, emacs will likely never die.

I think there are a lot of org-mode users that would like to see org-mode for VS Code (there are some starts) and other editors. Org-mode is really an extendable dsl for personal information. Source code (which is what you are calling the output) is interesting in that it looks like a semi-structured text file, and compiles to many output formats (pdf, HTML, spreadsheets, etc).
It's really clear that no matter what evidence I provide, you're going to dismiss it, so I just won't bother anymore.
Show HN: I made Spotlight for Chrome (Cmd+M)
Fantastic. Been looking for something like this. One of our biggest pain points with Spinnaker/ Kubernetes is opacity of helm charts, especially when editing.
The general idea is that an employee working from home saves the company money and generally costs the employee money (or, more generally, the employee's household). The specifics of how it costs them money are just a thought exercise; I was merely presenting one way to look at it (the way I look at it).
Stateless JWT for auth is one of the worst trends to catch on in the past few years. Don’t do it – always check your tokens against a database. Otherwise, if someone compromises an account or gets their hands on a token, there’s basically nothing you can do to stop them.
A clue as to why it's so hard to wake up on a cold winter's morning
This popular Game Boy sequencer recently became free, so it's a great time to try it out. It's a Game Boy ROM so you can compose in an emulator on on real hardware.
The dependency injection seems to miss the point of dependency injection though. I'd love to be proven wrong but, in the documentation, under the providers section [0], they seem to be wiring CatsService directly as a concrete implementation because, I guess, interfaces are erased in compile time. In C# such problems don't exist. Weird, as they also mention SOLID.

[0]: https://docs.nestjs.com/providers
Show HN: A writing prompt generator for your writer's block
The problem with this is that once you close the switch, you get an infinite current (aka short circuit). Bad idea!
Don't underestimate how much inertia will be established after a year plus of perma-WFH. That's a lot to try to come back from. After a whole year, most people who are renting will have had their leases expire, and may have moved farther out where they can get more value for their money.
When you are sixty you will not look back at your achievements at fifteen or twenty with most pride unless you have completely squandered any gifts and opportunities you might have. You don’t need to compete against anyone else if you don’t want to. They’re the star of their show in their heads as you are of yours.

If you really want to do something impressive go for it. Don’t collect a set of prestigious certificates without actually achieving anything. Do something that actually makes a difference. The pseudonymous author of Mother of Learning[1] spent nine years writing a serial novel. If that’s all they’ve done with their life it’s a more impressive achievement than getting four prestige degrees and failing as a VC and CEO.

You do what you want with your life. No one else is ever going to know what you wanted to achieve unless you tell them. They won’t know what you actually achieved unless you tell them either.

[1] https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning
> I wondered what some of the most impressive things you had seen in young people were.

"11-year-old skateboarder lands 1080" https://youtu.be/84VkS17b1P8?t=20

> Or perhaps I'm looking at this question the wrong way?

Yes. There are ~8 billion other people on the planet, trying to find a peak that hasn't already been climbed is probably not a good use of your time (unless you are truly driven, or called, to something.)

The great secret is to be of service to your fellow beings. If you measure your achievements by how much you have benefited the people around you you'll die happy and surrounded by love.

You can't take anything with you but you can affect what you leave behind.
I almost included a point on this in my original comment. You’re right but I get the impression those are the same type of people that think only “intellectuals” like them can truly understand Rick & Morty.
While I never thought Verdana was bad, it was I think quite a boring choice. Now they are moving to Noto which dare I say is not the most exciting of fonts either but from an utilitarian perspective, well, I guess it get the job done so maybe it's a good choice after all.
Thank you so much for your advice, it is really useful. I was going to send the email to jobs@, but directing to a specfic person is a better idea. Thanks again!
The reason (for me) to use msys in the first place would be so I can create binaries that do not depend on obscure DLLs like winpthread. If depending on 3rd party DLLs was no problem, I could have used Cygwin.

Also, as I heard it, winpthread combines the warts of windows threads with the warts of pthreads, doing neither justice.
I just don't understand why when he (a neuroscientist) writes about gravitational wave scepticism, he gets tons of upvotes on Medium and here, but when a woman PhD in physics writes about it first and with much more background knowledge, she gets nothing. https://www.quora.com/profile/Kirsten-Hacker/answers/Laser-I...
https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/ghostly-gravi...
They've both known each other since the early 2000s and appear to be somewhat friends, so it's no surprise they've both gone on each others shows. I think Joe expects his audience to interpret Jones much of the same way he appears to, which is entertaining but insane.
In Denmark, I met an 11 year old girl who fluently spoke six languages. I was impressed but am unsure whether to classify her language skills as academic or outlandish.
> You can rent your own digital files to one person at a time via streaming.

This can never happen but only simulated, up to a point. Copying physical objects requires manufacture work, copying data is essentially free if you neglect the transmission costs. Whatever paradigm digital ownership adopts will not resemble the physical world renting mechanism.

I used your sentence as a straw-man, please forgive me. :)
Justine Tunney wrote a post on her old blog arguing for founders' 'right to rule': https://web.archive.org/web/20151128145818/http://justinetun...

> I firmly believe that founders have a right to rule. This is because founders are the sorts of people who do not take power; they do not usurp power; and they do not inherit power. Instead, founders create their power from thin air where there was previously none. Founders are simply awesome people who make things happen; and as a result, they experience this phenomenon where power just materialises around them from the æther. It’s the truest and most noble form of power, and I feel it ought be embraced despotically.
Affect

I am a little bit indignant because it does affect me. When a small number of people abuse the system it means the rest of us can't have nice things.

If there were not rampant piracy, I would not have to know what is DRM and all of its associated inconvenience, because it wouldn't have to be a thing.

Not that the current solution isn't broken -- I do pay for (nearly) a dozen different streaming services. But I can't help feeling that I'm subsidising your lawless, anti-social approach, and it doesn't seem exactly fair that you get the better experience.

You have to acknowledge that if everyone did like you, then the whole thing wouldn't be able to sustain itself. It only works because most people take the hit and play by the rules.
Since when is thinking about others you work with called "political correctness"?

I go to work to do my job and get a paycheck, ideally without drama. I don't give a day's ass about your MAGA hat.
Plenty of people work harder and have nowhere near as much money. That’s a small part of how you know she’s working smart.
Those magic functions for named routes though... I'm not sure such magic would do well with typescript
The spring/mass model works really well here, too. Connect two identical springs together between a pair of fixed walls. Pull on it so that one spring is stretched and the other is at its natural length....
Or Gitlab
Title should include the year (2019), to make it clear it's not related to current events.
By the 18th century, soybeans were introduced to the Americas and Europe from China. Soy was introduced to Africa from China in the late 19th century, and is now widespread across the continent. They are now a major crop in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, India, and China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#History
> there were a few that could led them to success

which ones? If they tried 2 or 3 times with C++ and the Rust one succeeded, what other information would you need to have to convince you that Rust was the differentiating factor? It seems like you just don't want to admit that Rust was the key to their success in the project, even when you have someone who was there telling you that it was.

We aren't going to get research study levels of replication on large projects like this, so I don't know what standard you're looking for here.
The gold they brought back was also inflationary as soon as the King started spending it (although pretty low inflation compared to what we tolerate today).
I want to claim it has upsides and downsides, that each example is different, and that you need to dig into nuance of how it is done. I further want to claim that thinking about this in terms of oversimplified cliches, stereotypes, or syndromes does more harm than good. Oh... and I want to claim I dislike articles like this one on Wikipedia and its oversimplified and sometimes ill-thought-out sources which substitute cliches for figuring stuff out.

How's that for a claim?

It doesn't make for good headlines, but I think it's honest.
I am using CL in pre-production to avail myself of its ability to compile & load at runtime. I haven't used Lisp in production in a while (dating back to Zetalisp!), and the decades of perspective lead me to some surprising conclusions. I have encountered neither ecosystem issues (due to quicklisp) nor community issues (due to "addition by subtraction" in the Lisp online community). However, I have encountered plenty of issues due to dependency-hell issues in the non-CL software I'm using: Python 2 vs 3 vs Python package incompatibilities; Python 2 vs 3 Ansible/Vagrant container/VM/distro incompatibilities; node.js vs npm vs inter-node-package version incompatibilities; etc. CL has been gloriously stable, and given me substantially less heartburn and fewer headaches.
Reminds of how I dev-tooled my way through a JS test with a nice 666% score and with NaN time left.
Guinness Is Copyright Claiming Hundreds of Super Mario Speedrun YouTube Videos
Probably.

But here's an interesting sequence of events:

- The alt-right emerges as an influential bloc

- Our self-appointed explainers and meaning-makers try and fail to understand it; unable to understand it they're completely unable to explain it

- The term "alt-right" is bandied about more or less carelessly, often as an insult or as a way to discount ideological opponents, until:

- The term "alt-right" loses much of its meaning and is applied to people with only the most tenuous links to the original group.

The same basic thing has happened before and since: think of the neocons and the dirtbag left for example.

So, yes, they probably are trying to paint him as alt-right, but not at a level much above "lololol Bro Rogan sux !!!!!!!!". Reassured?
If Rogan is MSM, then Spotify killing the open RSS ecosystem is even worse that I thought.
Makes some sense during the pandemic. Many workers pay a high cost per foot in order to live within reasonable commute time to the office. In a suddenly remote world these same workers are expected to set aside a large chunk of their home specifically for working, at a pretty high per foot cost due to geography.

As a permanent thing, I’m not so sure. If I can live anywhere and know that I’m going to have to have an at home office, why does my employer have to pay for that? And what are the unintended side effects?
I got sick of seeing links to sites I knew I never wanted to visit (or couldn't due to pay/sign-up walls) and accidentally clicking them, so I made something similar to this for myself, but it applies to all sites.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/

[1] https://github.com/7w0/ssure

It's terrible to configure because it was only intended for personal use. The only reason it's in the add-on repository at all is the annoying fact you can't reasonably use a locally installed add-on.
I've thought about this problem a lot and the conclusion I came to is that tools like Confluence are like the original Yahoo directory of links. Organizing seems like a good idea when there are a small number of items, but it quickly becomes unwieldy. What I've settled on, while not perfect, is shared Google docs where owners of the doc allow suggestions to help keep it up to date.
Probably not, even though you get a lot of physics “computation” for free, simply because you’re managing physical stuff that gets dirty, jams, needs lubrication, can be stolen etc.

OTOH it’s the only way to do headset-free AR which is impossible with cgi!
It bears repeating again - as responsible individuals, we can handle lock down for a few months. It's a reasonable thing to do given the uncertainty of the situation.

We won't do it for years - that's a delusion, a fantasy that ignores how the human mind works.

It sounds like you don't want to take the risk of either contracting, or further spreading, the disease.

No-one _wants_ to take that risk.

But if the only alternative that you can suggest is deleting 1, 2, ... years of the prime of my life, staring at screens or meeting friends behind plexiglass, you've lost me completely, because you're describing the actions of a paperclip maximizer, not a human being. You're impacting others by expecting them to give up their lives.

In that world view, either I'm autistic or you are; we don't have the same brain chemistry; your experience of the world is _so far_ from my own and most people I know that a blanket policy for both of us makes no sense.
Saying you condemn the nazis while absolving the folks who marched with them _is_ a dog whistle to rightwing extremism. That's the entire point.

If they were good people they would've called the nazis out and kicked them out of their march, or refused to march with them. Instead they marched with the nazis.
Wouldn't it be better for everyone if a legitimate competitor emerged? It's not like antitrust legislation significantly raised the quality of Microsoft's software in the 90s.
I remember waiting many seconds as images visibly loaded from top to bottom, or with the progressive quality multiple passes.

Seconded that no one enjoyed it. We all looked enviously at the people at companies and universities with their better hookups.
What’s entertaining to me on this topic is that I am no more “immediately available” on slack than I am by email - I close out both when I want to get work done.

And, based solely on various productivity blogposts which come up on HN and Reddit, I’m not alone. I can even say that the number of us “going offline to work” types is growing with time.
> Sure. If you're working from home your work site is where you live.

Unless your employer assigns your residence, it's not a difference in job duty.you are being paid for, so is not analogous to being paid for employer-assogned job site when analyzing disparate impact.
>“keep religion and politics out of the workplace” was advice that had been in place for a while

Sure, but said Facebook employee has a greater chance of having action taken against him for wearing a MAGA cap than for wearing an Antifa shirt. Of course Facebook have all rights to do so since they're a private corporation but that sort of thing is what GP was talking about.
Contrary to the US, when a president isn't president anymore we stop calling him "President" -- it's not a honorary title for life
If I remember correctly, Moore had the whole thing planned out but then the studio truncated his timetable so he had to speed things up to get to the end which is why the last two seasons are not stellar.