skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's content marketing. It's the poster child of bullshit. If the people from your examples actually wrote their pieces, it's already above average. In my experience, from working a desk away from a few social media marketers, the usual case is copy-pasting from other blogspam on the same topic.
I get your guilt. I think it's normal to worry about how the company will fare without you, and how your relationships with your soon to be ex-colleagues will be affected and what not. However at the end of the day you do what's best for you and your family, mentally, financially, you name it. And you must always remember that throughout this process, regardless of what's going to happen.

There is absolutely no guarantee some people won't be upset and won't take it personally and there is no guarantee the company will have a smooth ride without you, but what you can do is give them plenty of notice, say 2-3 months. During this time you can work with them to make the transition as smooth as possible, including training and/or hiring a successor. Whether those months will be good or a total hell, only you can guess - and you may still be wrong.
>It takes quite a lot of time to prepare talk and it is not like they would pay all that impressively.

Most tech events don't in general pay for speakers or any travel. (Keynotes, scholarships, etc. are among the sometimes exceptions.)

I rarely literally re-use a presentation slide for slide but many presentations I give are based on an earlier presentation I gave. In most cases, a different conference is going to be a mostly different audience. In general, it doesn't make a lot of sense to just dump a presentation because I gave it once to a couple hundred peop,e.
ohhh would love to join philosophy groups... is it a thing?
This is correct. It's not generating the clicks anymore, so they've moved on to other things. The media only cares about whatever gets the most eyeballs.
The bigger question would be why didn’t that person feel any shame in giving that presentation?
Yes, the more I develop on the Web, the more I find HTTP lacking as a panacea for process communication. It's ubiquitous because Web 1.0 operated at a human-readable level. It was 1 request makes 1 response. Now that we have 1 request makes many server-side requests makes 1 server-side response makes many client-side requests. There does not exist a solution now that solves all of the problems of this many to many communications problem on the web.
Nah, just another Rube Goldberg machine.

Deep parabolic mirror, hugely inefficient. Huge amount of materials to control the orientation.

If you split all the materials, you could have built two collectors facing different directions. You would not need much more space because a lot is already wasted. You would get better efficiency because for portion of the time both collectors would be operation.

I know it is nothing special, but I personally like simple designs that work dependably.
You are most welcome. Personally I found the genius and the goddess made the greatest change in my perspective. Obviously I can't say it will have the same effect on you; however I've found that many of his writings are very thought provoking so perhaps just pick a few at random :).

I wish you the very best and I'll leave you with a quote from the man himself:

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
No need to wait decades, we have them. They are called missile destroyers. Look at the Arleigh Burke-class, or the converted Ohio-class submarines.
So the people in Michigan that nurses were standing in front of vs the BLM crowds.
You can always rely on the Lindy effect in times like these. Except for technical books, I try not to read any book that have been published in the last 20 years.

Old books that are still read will continue to be relevant while the current NYT best seller is more likely to fall into obscurity.
already in my favorites
The standard conservative position is that police unions are good. So are you saying you disagree?

Or is it that you agree police unions are good, but know you don't have good arguments for that view, and so are trying to divert the discussion away from police unions and over to unions as such?

My own view is that calling unions all good or all bad is simply mistaken. They are a mix, and the proportion depends greatly on the case. I see police unions as one of the cases way over on the bad side. Do you disagree?
You say that, but there are standardised learning programmes like this that were very popular 30-40 years ago, such as the SMILE System for teaching maths. These relied on the idea that, given the opportunity, students would find their level and progress just as well as if there was a teacher giving the whole class the same lesson.

Luckily we have learnt that this was a terrible idea and moved back towards actually teaching!

In terms of whether resources are actually shared, they are, and most lessons on a given subject within a given exam board will be largely the same in terms of materials and planning (school textbooks have teacher’s editions with worksheets and lesson plans), but will vary wildly depending on which concepts students find easy or difficult on the day.
That's a big gamble.
Maybe. But if people switched from alcohol as a drug to heroine or morphine, that’d be a net win. They’re substantially less damaging to your body than alcohol.
The Saturn CPU that was used in HP calculators back in the 90s had a hardware return stack, with only eight levels. It was only possible to use six levels safely, as the interrupt routine used the remaining two.

The hardware stack enabled nice tricks back in the day, at the whole CPU was a fun little beast.

4-bits bus and addressable units (nibbles), plenty of 64bits registers, 20 bits addresses...
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I am referring to teachers in general, including elementary/middle/high school teachers, for every subject, not only computer science.

You can use computers to teach almost anything.
I have to wonder when it will switch to small, inexpensive drones instead of the larger, jet-type ones. Imagine fighting against a swarm of 10,000 drones (each with a small explosive, EMP, etc). Similar to the Fire Bats[0] in WWII.

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bat_bomb
One motto I have: never trust an author that does not honour an unsubscribe link.
thanks, I love practical advice, accompanied by an URL ;)
It’s called being shameless. I hate to be that one sentence reply, but why beat around the bush here?
Getting involved with a church or religion could be a positive thing for you, but I would recommend not joining the one linked to in the parent comment. I grew up in that church, and it demands unreasonable amounts of time, money, and group loyalty. Its missionaries are unlikely to outline all of the church's expectations of its members up front. It's hard to be a half-way member, so you end up being either in or out. I've chosen out.

It can seem like a great community to join when you're in an emotionally vulnerable spot, but if you explained the whole package deal to someone who is in a good place emotionally, it wouldn't look very appealing.

If you end up looking for a religious or spiritual group, keep an eye out to make sure you don't join one that will take advantage of you. Being part of a community of people who can rely on each other is a great thing, but some groups go too far.
Don't tell us there is no risk from these protests, but there is a risk from stay-at-home protests.

I don't think that is what they actually said, though agree it could have been articulated better.
Would an airship based carrier hosting dozens of drones cruising at high altitude become a reality?
Have you discovered Mathematics? One can lose many joyful lives just studying and understanding, especially when there's no pressure for achievement.
I used to love Scientific American and subscribed for decades. I had to finally give up maybe 10 years ago; they had become dumbed down and human-story focused to the point that there was no reason to subscribe.
My point was that all of that regulatory behavior is ultimately captured in the organism's DNA.

OP was claiming that you can't even really understand any of this unless you understand "the entire ecosystem - including the sum total of all individuals and species [on earth] and their previous and current state".

That's technically true in some sense, but most scientists would roll their eyes at the wildly expansive nature of this claim.

If you fully understood the information in an organism's DNA, plus the DNA of their close symbionts, that'd be a rather complete picture.
Can I see sources for the four claims? I'm not sure what your idea of MSM is (some use it as an alias for "media that I don't agree with"), but for point #2 there's an article for vox that seems to contradict your claim. https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir...
FF fanboys can go get fucked. As long as Mozilla doesn't care about addons, I don't give a shit about Mozilla and I won't use their browser. Simple as that. You can go fuck yourself too. Nothing but ass munching pieces of shit who downvote everything over nothing around here. Fuck's sake. I hate all of you motherfuckers.
They're taking that position because if they don't, people will call them racist.
This is not only an excellent answer but also a fantastic history of the development of the stack.

> "I've found no particular evidence that the stack pointer was made a full 16 because they felt any need for a stack to be that large. It's clear that at least some experienced microprocessor developers (the MOS 6502 team) felt that an 8 bit stack pointer (256 byte stack) was plenty. It's possible that the 8080 designers disagreed, or it's possible that they felt they couldn't force a particular area to be RAM, as the 6502 designers could. (Even more than the MC6800, the 6502 design strongly encouraged page $00 to be RAM, so forcing page $01 to be RAM was no hardship.) Or perhaps it just didn't occur to them that registers pointing into memory could be any less than 16 bits."

To add a little bit of detail to the preceding paragraph:

A page in 6502 parlance is a contiguous block of 256 bytes in address space. Page $00 are the first 256 bytes of address space, page $01 are bytes $0000 to $00FF and so on. Page $00 (so called zeropage) is treated specially by the processor and is therefore required to be backed by RAM (not ROM or IO).

The 6502 has an 16 bit address bus but only an 8 bit stack pointer. The stack was fixed at 256 bytes (a page) in size and fixed in location at
$0100-$01FF (page $01).

So the point made above is that because the 6502 already required the zeropage to be RAM it was easy to require the RAM for the stack in a fixed place too, while the designers of other contemporary processors didn't have that luxury.
The GP was a bad comment for HN but crossing into aggressive personal attack is even worse. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: flamewar comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23449798 are also not ok on HN, so please don't post them either.
> This is the type of schizophrenic messaging that happens during societal collapse.

Maybe it happens as a matter of social change or economic stress? What evidence is there that "societal collapse" (or what that even means?) has anything to do with these headlines?
In addition to preventing hospitals being overwhelmed, the lockdowns were intended to give us time to develop the infrastructure for adequate testing, tracing, and supportive isolation. With those things in place, we can re-open and still keep the virus in check.

If we don't have those things in place, the problem is not the re-opening, which was inevitable since indefinite lockdown and isolation is not sustainable anyway.
Try:

https://archive.today/peiyb

https://archive.is/peiyb

https://archive.fo/peiyb

https://archive.li/peiyb

https://archive.vn/peiyb

https://archive.md/peiyb

https://archive.ph/peiyb

One typically works.

List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

Cloudflare is in a grudge match with archive.today:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
No, not giving up. Just reprioritized. All I think we’ve proven is that a large percentage of the population is more comfortable risking a infection and far less comfortable with the police violence.

There’s nothing in here about disregarding recommendations from epidemiologists. It’s about saying enough is enough on a persistent threat, not an acute one.
100% think this is the way this is going to go. For a year or two.

Finally the fly boys will realize they're totally outmatched and that the F35 will be our last fighter. In my wildest dreams it gets cancelled and a bunch of smaller defense companies spring up to bring prices way down and competition in the space increases. Then overall defense spending goes down and we get more money for services - while being still being armed to the absolute teeth.
But what is the policy approach to protect law-abiding citizens from crazy exes and people who take an affinity to lynching? Saying "solve poverty" seems like both a huge leap in logic and frankly harder than "solving" crime.

I appreciate the discord between current political alliances, but explaining that it exists seems to imply that major reductions in policing is not a fully considered plan.
Learn APIs in ten minutes or less: Whose Jason? Oh you mean JSON
Thats China for you. This is why IMO shipping from S.Korea is a good signal for legitimacy of the offered product.
I'm probably a cretin, but I just don't understand all the fuss about a font.
Interesting. I'd thought about some sort of meta-search service running over Google, Bing, etc., and aggregating results, that was tied in with some way of rating recommending URLs.

I've never got around to doing it and one of the reasons (excuses) is that I haven't yet figured out a way to stop bad actors exploiting it by, e.g., mass downvoting URLs of competitors. I did think about some sort of moving average, or bias toward more recent votes, which would at least somewhat mitigate against transient actions of this kind, but it's harder to deal with a sustained attack like this.
Ask HN: Is your favourite software being intentionally comprimised?
With most software projects openly advocating and endorsing the destruction and lawlessness that the BLM movement has brought to our societies I can't help but worry that if I am to be responsible I should now regard them as compromised if our societies decend further into chaos, especially so since many have demanded their core contributors share such politics.

I was always taught that our politics should be kept seperate from our professional lives. HN, am I wrong to be worried?
Collective free will demonstrably scales poorly in media.
"One in every 1,000 Black men and boys can expect to be killed by police in this country". If we presume average years of life lost per black person’s death is 50 years, then Covid is less deadly.

To lower risk, black people could stay at home and wait for better times...
Those are great and non-obvious discoveries, but they don't particularly change the fact that (virtually?) all genetic information is carried via DNA. (...and possibly similar mechanisms that don't particular change the overall story)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450676
probably https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
> Find hobbies, find many hobbies, switch constantly, and you might just find one niche you love.

I think that if there is something that defines me, is that I change hobbies quickly, after a deep dive. That's basically how I got where I am. Should I keep doing what I always did then?
I don’t think he writes or communicates in a vulnerable way at all.

“I could be interested in a variety of relationships with you” = not vulnerable, not a question, not direct, not clear.

Also I don’t respect this article so I don’t feel compelled to demonstrate respect — I’d rather practice what he preaches to demonstrate its fundamental rudeness than do any preaching of my own
No reason to downvote me, asshat.

You could always go fuck yourself. I don't want it to be shown when I'm scrolling. It takes up a fuckload of space. I do want it to fucking show up again when I need it, and not when I scroll up and down a dozen fucking times before it shows up. Assholes.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129492

X11 is an old display protocol predating modern concepts of application sandboxing. It gives gives windows lots of control, like allowing them to move the mouse, enter keystrokes, etc. Basically, anyone who has an X11 handle has the same level of access as the user. In Firefox, the process that's supposed to be sanboxed (the content process) has precisely such a handle.
Same on Firefox at 1530 px.
If you're just wanting to get your feet wet create-react-app is the right choice. Go strictly by their docs: they do a good job of leading you to third-party solutions when required.

In a way React suffers from it's own popularity. For example Next/Gatsby can be confusing for new developers but they only exist because React is popular enough to have popular meta-frameworks focused on solving specific use cases.
Screwing with the browser history == "The abomination that causes instant abandonment"
This looks like 10words.io - it's quite popular.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're here for curious conversation, not tendentious snark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just a suggestion...

Help other people, make art and listen to "Skating Polly"...
Sprocket: A simple library operating system in Rust (2017)
So do popular science articles that extrapolate potentially huge future applications even when it's, for example, a materials science experiment demonstrating some semiconductor properties in a diamond anvil cell + laser heating.
Working in a corporate setting. I think my management tries to actively counter that with arbitrary deadlines. That strategy does not work well either.
Pretty typical of everyone that I have (anecdotally) ever met who contends that black violence on whites is the primary issue. They say one thing based on their intuition and when they hear any response that complicates their view they are out to lunch. A lack of curiosity about your own biases is not a great look.

Also worth noting is that the term homicide can only be applied by law enforcement, whose systemic bias against people of color is.. you know, the topic of the day. It does not include many or most of the cases of wrongfully being killed by law enforcement and it certainly doesn't include the illegal killing of people in other countries by our armed forces. I would be very interested in seeing these numbers included.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, and particularly please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450877.
Strongly disagree, I think the freedom of speech (the ability to disseminate information widely) is massively more important than gathering in large crowds. How would you even know there were protests or something to even protest without free speech and press?
Because at least you put some thought was put into it, which again, is better than no thought at all.

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.

If someone accepts a mental framework and is faced with a choice they want to make, either:

1. They can find no justification for a choice they want to make, at which point they are more likely to question whether their choice is justifiable, or their mental framework is sufficient. Either outcome should be encouraged.

2. If they find a justification that's valid in the framework, then they have an explicable basis from which to convince others they made the right choice.

3. If they find a justification that's fallacious, then pointing out either how the framework is incomplete, or their argument within the framework is incorrect is far more likely to change their minds than simply claiming their choice was wrong and trying to explain why from your own framework, which they haven't accepted (and likely won't without a lot more convincing).

Ultimately, applying thought to a problem is always better than no thought.
Presumably said people would be willing to forfeit medical treatment and quietly die at home if they did catch it?
I think it is perfectly rational to believe that one set of protests support a bad or unimportant cause and another support an important and good cause, and thus judge that one set of protests is justified despite the risks, while another is not justified. Why would this be an irrational/hypocritical position to take?

Of course, the belief in the importance or validity even of the causes of either protest can vary between people, so various people may support none, one or both protests, according to their particular beliefs. I wouldn't call any of these people irrational (though of course I have my own beliefs and only agree with one of these positions).
90% of our Zoom users use smart phones and install the app, which is a normal and understood process by most smartphone users.

EDIT -- I've actually just gone off to try out jitsi again (i do actually check to see if it's worth switching platforms) and it turns out it asks me to install an android app too. So Jit.si itself actually needs me to download software on my smartphone. So......

There are a myriad of things that mean Zoom fits our use case better. I'm not going to enumerate all of them as I'd be here for an hour.

My point was that Zoom fits some use cases better, and that seems to be the case more often than not for users with less technical ability than the HN userbase.
I agree that is difficult to find good blog posts/tutorials on technical stuff. When I want to learn something for the first time, I usually go through the docs and if they aren't friendly enough (for me) to read them and learn, I go and google a nice book about the topic. That being said, there are a lot of nice blog posts about technical stuff, not tutorials/teaching but actual experiences/opinions, people sharing and documenting what they learnt. I appreciate those.
Because this is an election year, so get back into place, and either support the engineered chaos or stay at home while it happens. /s <- unnecesary but these days there is so little critical thought and reading skills that you never know
This is a great comment.

In all fairness, they did have an auth story, right, and recent documentation suggests they reconsidered that path and now suggest keeping it out of couchdb. So, to me, this says auth was something they never could get right because it is complicated. And I took that a step further to think that it's better to have it outside because you can use any auth solution you want, instead of what the couchdb people felt were the best way to do it (it's smart that they realized they got it wrong and changed course).

I'm confused why everyone here seems to think reverse proxies and auth proxies are complicated. Isn't it the case that all apps of any complexity are a bunch of small services wired together behind a proxy? My auth proxy is all of 50 lines of code, my reverse proxy is 8 lines in nginx conf and it's all held together with a docker compose file that is declarative and works locally as well as on my production server.