skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I disagree with your arguments, e.g.:

>Because at least you put some thought was put into it, which again, is better than no thought at all.

That's the problem. By opting for a an argument that sounds reasonable to justify your pre-existing decision/idea, you don't "put thought into it". You use your emotions to pick a logical sounding justification.

That makes it even more dangerous than admitting "I don't really have a justification, I just like this decision/idea".

That is what we call "rationalization", and it's the worst thing one can do. It's how abuse victims remain with their abuser, how racists find supporting arguments for their beliefs, etc.

>Consider your question applied to math: how is a false mathematical argument for believing a theorem better than just believing it for no reason at all? It's clearly better because you can actually point out the flaw in the specific argument.

That's a false equivalent, because in actual life arguments about personal beliefs (about decisions/ideas/relationships/etc) can not always be shown to be faulty as they are not axiomatic but casual.

The fault in such arguments often depends on qualitative judgements, guestimations, subjective opinions about people and situations, and so on.
Still broken for me
I definitely understood the parent comment differently than you did.

My read of it is that they are criticizing those predicting low probability events, and then cherrypicking the predictions that turned out correct as misunderstood predictive geniuses.

A similar event in tech is the analysis of a potential AI singularity event, which comes up plenty often. We'll only be able to tell who is right in retrospect, and plenty of folks call each other quacks over that.
its still down
I lied. A search for "whatsapp" works, but not for "Hacker News"
same, still broken.
Image and video search works. Regular text search, maps and news are down. Did they forget to bay their Bing bill?

EDIT: scratch that. DDG is back in business again. I would love to read a post-mortem.
Potential interference, crowded spectrum, battery required, extra weight due to the presence of battery, and if the encryption is weak then you have a signal broadcasting all that you type in the vicinity which could be a security nightmare.
Autocomplete in the search bar still works, so there’s some data out there.
> it's still slow and painful in comparison to compiled languages

Something tells me your opinion about Java is stronger than your experience. Java IS a compiled language. It just happens at runtime.
https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/java/arc...

I see this as yet another example of people here repeating a severely outdated statements about the JVM ecosystem.
The tragedy of tragedy the commons is that it is not based on evidence. Elinor Ostron won the nobel prize by proving that the commons are sustainable most of the time.
Things only become unsustainable when those who exploit the land have no physical relationship with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom.
Haha, I was also searching "food" to see no results and just started seeing recipe results returned.
Changing the time range to "Past Month" yields results
One can look at this as an expression of support for BLM, and perhaps Apple actually does, but the reality is that the mural does exist on the road today and anyone using Apple Maps to get around benefits from the maps reflecting the current reality. Same goes for the street renaming. The only way I can see this being controversial is if the mural is removed or the street name is reverted and Apple Maps isn't updated to reflect those changes.
They say it's the journey, not the goal that matters. Having achieved everything you ever wanted sounds kind of scarry. But there's so much stuff you can do. How about helping other people or our planet? Doing some charity work or environmental projects?
Possible issues:

- It could be an issue with DNS servers
- Certificates that got expired
- Latest push to production that got wrong
- DDoS attack
I personally remember that couple of years, 95-97, as ripe for coming up by yourself with things that are now considered "obvious" or just the way things are done.
Things happened fast: by the start of 1995 the concept of networked computers was a vague thing from the movies to me and by the end of 1997 I was an "experienced" web developer.
We had websites, but we didn't have good search, so you still had to learn many things the old hard way.

The biggest thing I remember to have "invented" by myself in early 1996 (at the same time as thousands more) was the database driven website: I was tasked with creating a "virtual campus" kind of website with forums, chat, assignments, calendar, grades, news... and the sparse examples and models I had found for all those functionalities used plain text files as storage.

After completing a prototype I was obviously sick of dealing with those files and suddenly thought: "hey, dumping all this crap on a few tables in a database would make everything so much easier!"
It felt a bit mind-bending, because you were taught that databases were for internal "databasey" things: Accounting, addresses, customers, widgets and their prices, that kind of stuff. Using a database as storage for a forum or a public-facing website felt almost like a revolutionary concept.

By the end of the project I was quite bored of writing plain SQL and I had something very close in spirit to many ORMs/ the Active Record stuff from Rails. So I sort of "invented" that too.

Another thing to reflect on is that I wrote all that as plain C through CGI. The database was mysql. I tried to run it a couple years ago and it compiled and ran almost straight on a modern Linux system, after like 20 minutes fiddling with Apache and the makefile, 20 years after the fact. My current projects seem to rot every time I take a short vacation.
"...what I've seen the comment moderation"

It's what you don't see, friend.
To clarify, these are done constantly. A large portion of the training events that the average military service member does are in support of these wargames. They are extremely effective in keeping up mission readiness at all levels; commanders get practice solving difficult military problems in peacetime, battalions get practice coordinating deployments and operations, and individual units and personnel get practice using tactics and equipment. The only real downside is that they are vastly expensive.
> We are talking about a continuation of a huge line of the same thing that happened in Europe of thousands of years. It’s not really a question foreign cultures, just the clash between different cultures.

I'm not really sure what you're referring to by "the same thing", but if you're referring to the cultural genocide committed against pagans in Europe by Christians, then ironically that helped fuel the type of German nationalism that gave rise to Nazism. The Nazis famously used the Massacre of Verden committed by Charlemagne against the Saxons as historical justification for their ideology[0].

> Nope, you can still read Mein Kampf today and many still believe in it.

Nazism is not practiced to any significant extent, unless you want to argue that the existence of neo-Nazis warrants the destruction of all Germanic languages.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden
My company writes and supports a lot of custom Haskell software for our parent, an ISP up in Alaska.

What we gain is a high level of confidence in our business logic rules due to strict typing, fewer overall tests, and by avoiding a few small gotchas uncrashable runtimes.

Not to say it doesn’t come without problems. Poor IDE integration (I personally don’t care), questionable documentation at times, and a steep rewrite your brain learning curve.

Some posts I have written.

https://www.alasconnect.com/2018/10/02/introducing-haskell-c...

https://www.alasconnect.com/2018/10/04/productive-haskell-en...

http://blog.bojo.wtf/2020/04/15/is-haskell-a-bad-choice/
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
June 2020
Daily Average
62,489,472
Razer Blade - which year? Heard 2020 is not nice with Linux as much as older models.
Or the one in charge of testing. You'd think this is a day one unit test.
If it was decoding a broadcast signal, how could the unique serial number of an individual decoder play any useful part in the decryption key? I didn't see any discussion of this in the article. Sorry if I missed it.
It is just the "All" and maps tabs that are not returning anything as of now. News/images/videos are still working.
still broken, and it was broken for me maybe 10 min ago, so the window is getting pretty long for something as critical as the competitor to google search..

Edit, and now it's back up for me, so ~15-20min of downtime from my perspective
Unlikely it is their logical app code , at this scale you likely will do canary releases or similar , failing for all users should be super rare

It perhaps is related to devops or the search index cache servers is broken
I tried to find one. The closest I came is their Traffic dashboard [1], which is updated daily. I also checked their Twitter account [2] but no mention of problems yet.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
[2]: https://twitter.com/duckduckgo
Why isn't every physicist a Bayesian? [pdf]
Oops, not fun. I think they must have been having problems for a while, I recently switched to try qwant because DDG was frequently slow to respond, but it was still working...
Here is my suggestion, given the size of the company and your role. Ask your boss to try and answer your work emails while you are on vacation, or send a reply saying you will get back to it when you are done with vacation. If he encounters something he isn't sure about, he can email you. That way you will only be bothered about things that really require your attention.

Offer to do the same thing for him when he is on vacation. This is a better strategy for co-workers, but since you are a small company you can see what your boss says. At the size you are at it is important that you offer to reciprocate what you are asking for, to show that you want to be treated fairly and appropriately.
Came here to say this. Still broken for me. "NPR" was last query.
There are systems and processes for everything. The plus of that is that there's a lot less winging it, and that you can just hand a bunch of stuff off to people that know how to do it. The minus is that you have to learn who those people are and how to activate them, and it can take longer than just doing it yourself.
It looks ok to me:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing&t=hk&ia=web
Erlang is a Mature Technology, and fits Pt 1 - 2 but not Pt 3.
"Boomers" are just people born before us. If you or I were born earlier would we have acted better than them? Probably not because people are shaped by their culture and environment. So whats the point of this argument?
HAPROXY 2.1.6 is broken for me after upgrading, had to roll back, maybe part of their stack?
I've been working with yjs, and that is probably the best option for collaborative editing at the moment. Look into it. Reach out if you have any questions.
Using your definition, I'd definitely agree that there is a big problem.
Disagree, it's important to start changing the dialogue everywhere you can. HN likes to stick their head in the sand because a lot of the people on this site benefit directly from companies/investors who are part of the problem.
nope, guess we are witnessing it
> what I can't figure out is why user interfaces have gotten worse over the last 10 years

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure telemetry is not making UI worse.
Are you sure we don't just need them to talk to a giant probe ionizing our atmosphere?
All developed countries have literacy rates statistically indistinguishable from 100%, so I'm not sure it provides much evidence either way on the effectiveness of teaching styles.
Then how about "black hat hacker"?

Wonder what the reaction would be if people requested that "brownout" no longer be used because it's insensitive to certain races.
Guess I'm not hungry, because nothing shows up for me.
Vulnerabilities are a massive trade off. I want my devices to be open to me, not to anyone. Seems like it should be straight forward to give you access to the device (like "scan this qrcode on the inside of this panel" and you get the private key). One can dream...
Am Romanian, a similar thing happened to me ~30 years ago, when I was in my 2nd or 3rd grade, i.e. I was drawing the letter capital S and the number 3 in a non-standard way (“backwards”, to quote my then elementary teacher) and that was not ok.
Maybe modify the title to something like "Discovery of ancient eruptions indicates the Yellowstone hotspot may be waning", so the whole thing fits?
Fixed now it seems
Oof. That’s exactly what I worry about... who is compiling this “Ubuntu”... is it official upstream? What Kernel patches are they carrying?
Stroke order is the only reason cursive Japanese/Chinese can even exist, your cursive would look nothing like mine if we used different stroke orders. Never mind the nightmare of teaching 100m (or a billion Chinese) to write thousands of pretty complex characters if there wasn’t a canonical way to do it.

Also, it makes sense semantically. Most characters consist of
several “subcharacter” that also exist in their own right, so you definitely want to write them as units.

It’s a fundamentally flawed comparison.
No, given that we can map the dark matter density in galaxies - having a bunch of dark matter galaxies wouldn't explain the shapes of what we actually observe.
And it's back, after 10 minutes. Nice job to the response team, that was fast !
Diminishing returns is a thing, tossing another billion dollars at Cancer research is unlikely to make much of a difference. There are only so many diseases with a proven track record of significant human risk.

SARS was a huge sign that something like SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) was a significant risk. But, give it 10 years and I suspect research funding will once again be scarce until the next outbreak. It’s not about this disease so much as a reasonable response to a range of diseases like Ebola which easily and frequently make the jump to humans.
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the Covid-19 pandemic
Just look at any of the data surrounding a) who's running the government (hint: boomers) and b) who's voting for republicans (hint: boomers). Be mad if you want, but the data doesn't lie.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/the-republican-party...

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45583.pdf
Not as dangerous, sure. But...

Highly concentrated / "pure" HP is an entirely different animal than what you buy at the drug store. It absolutely is not something to be toyed with.

It may still safer to use than the "typical" hypergolics, but it isn't "safe."
"Accepted by their community", where the community is the gang. Economic opportunity - gangs can provide that too.
Exceptionalism Is Killing Americans
I agree completely! Unfortunately that means either running a very recent distro release, a rolling distro, or upgrading the kernel on a stable distro like Slackware or Debian, currently at 4.4.x and 4.19.x respectively. I chose to run a recent distro release (Pop!_OS 20.04), with the caveat that overall stability is not up to par with traditionally stable distros like those mentioned above. My C2Q workstation runs Slackware 14.2 and, as mentioned before, is rock solid. It has an AMD FirePro "Turks" era card, and it's doing quite well with the open source driver.
Before most people typed, having at least reasonable handwriting was arguably a fairly useful skill. (Arguably, learning shorthand would probably have been equally useful for many but "clerical skills" were looked down upon in a lot of curricula.)

That said, handwriting (Palmer script) was consistently my worst grade in elementary school and it's basically non-existent today.
I am a daily user of fd (find), rg (grep), exa (ls), bat (cat), and am planning to try out sd (sed).

These tools are in my opinion significantly better than the classical UNIX tools: they can be orders of magnitude faster, understand .gitignore, have more intuitive command-line options, and make better use of colors.
Looks like it's back up now!
The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces
It's working again! But wow, that was quite an interesting 9 minutes!
Except no.

"A ticking time bomb" literally means this shit is about to explode real soon. And so it did.

They called it out EXACTLY.
I took Japanese in college, and we were taught that this is because dictionaries are arranged by stroke. For Kanji characters there are tens of thousands of them, so "alphabetical" order is a meaningless concept, making stroke count and order the most meaningful ordering concept. But that then requires stroke order (and direction) something you have to be completely consistent about.

This is a memory from a couple of decades ago, so I could be wrong.
Once again the persuit of security theater to meet the requirements of commerce (which most of the web doesn't share) cause problems accessing the large parts of the normal web.

When are people going to learn that centralized cert authorities are just for commerce and only hurt the non-commercial web?
I wrote a Reddit post a while back that might help. (The parent comment has since been deleted -- the poster was asking whether using monads in Haskell was kind of like "dependency injection", i.e., passing in all the information that a function might need, as arguments to the function.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/593ud7/a_taste...
She only takes 1 class to qualify. Its the state school. Her insurance was otherwise ~ $2000/month.

Her tuition is only that, and is good for half a year. The student insurance cost is small and annual.
> Without items being registered on a blockchain, sure you can have gamers throwing down $20 bucks here and there, but you're never going to have university endowments and state pension funds allocating some of their investments into virtual items.

It's at this point I'm assuming you're being bitter and trolling.
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I have no idea. My first guess is that they contain libraries that they are not allowed to distribute as source, and that they have only been tested on VSCode.
Is there a mailing list or wiki tracking the status of these components and patches for the kernel for HK? Like the one for Sunxi?
Works again. I wonder if the fix was just rebooting a server
It's back up now. Should know soon why it was down
Shutdowns prevented 60M coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds
Differentiable Visual Computing
My wife's great uncle (a retired college president) lives in a Kendall community near Dartmouth, his old alma mater.

Kendall has a focus on senior learning:

https://www.kendal.org/about-kendal/kendal-values/lifelong-l...
A nice example of Japanese stroke order mattering are two of the katakana, ツ and シ. The difference is that the former starts at the top left and the strokes move right, then down and across to the left. The latter starts at the top left and moves down, then up and across to the right. It can be hard to tell what one you are looking at in practice if you don't know this.

I think cursive used to serve the same function, which I basically conjecture from the fact that older people tend to be significantly better at reading cursive than me.
It's too bad that memorization - as a tool - is so readily dismissed. I think it is immensely valuable and enables one to master complex material and establish insights that would not be readily available through other means.

I think its a false alternative to see it as memorization vs. creativity. I'd make the case that memorization provides a useful foundation for creativity. It enables one to command a large set of facts to then integrate them into new insights.
Unsupervised translation of code between Python/Java/C++ with deep learning
Dating Apps Debate Race Filters as Empowering or Discriminating
Yes. : https://www.cnet.com/news/google-goes-down-for-5-minutes-int...

"Google suffered an outage late on Friday night, though you might not have noticed -- it only went down for five minutes. During that brief window, Internet traffic around the world dropped by a massive 40 per cent, according to Web analytics firm GoSquared, Sky News Online reports. "

Bing also: https://www.pcworld.com/article/183770/bings_30_minute_outag...

"Microsoft's Bing search engine was offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening."

Qwant also:
https://blog.qwant.com/qwants-unprecedented-service-failure-...

"Qwant’s infrastructure broke down around 12.00 UTC, and the service could only be restablished hours later, around midnight"
Most people who rethink for first principles actually reinvent the wheel. Once in a while, someone doesn't, and they change the world. It's worth the exercise, even if the odds of success are rather low.
It is right that democracy cannot cast moral judgement on people who reject it. In this sense it is like a mathematical postulate -- you either accept it or reject it, and if you reject it then your proofs cannot be judged by that postulate.

But the people who value democracy can cast moral judgement, because while they are working to make the world a better place by sharpening points of view and rooting for the best one to win, you are just exploiting the system reaping all the rewards while not contributing anything.

Why the shortcut though, why not make your value a longer-lasting law?