skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not wrong when you say it’s hard. I have been struggling with the problems you’ve brought up for awhile.

Re:anonymous fb, I’m not going for exactly that but let’s imagine I was and consider the problem for a second of the homophobic/racist/etc Uncle. The simplest solution for not getting that content is to remove them from your list of contacts. But I also have a theory that this is where there could be a global improvement in communication. I believe some people are trolls not because they’re anonymous but because they’re not. Their identity is basically a troll - think the guy who wore a MAGA hat to a recent BLM protest. If that person was allowed to, maybe they would want to change their opinion.
I'm lost between the no-true-scotsmen and strawmen the post tries to construct.

The advice about closing the descriptors is for practical reasons. There's no need for "true believers" taking that advice to extreme. Just like clearing the dict if you're dropping the reference anyway is useless.

If you can consume the file immediately, you can close it. If you're doing lazy iteration you have to keep it open, and I don't understand why that's an issue.
Yep, try it some time. Believe it or not, reducing inhibitions helps build close friendships by making is easier for people to get to know one another. Who could've guessed?!?
That would only apply to America and other countries with weak workers rights where firing people is cheap PR.
That's such a tricky one, because the version number doesn't necessarily indicate the maturity.

For example, as of the beginning of this year, the latest version of Pandas was 0.25. ((t jumped to 1.0 in late January.) This despite it having been a core part of the standard professional toolset for years and years now.
Or maybe they did plan a rape, and did the leak to expand the suspect pool.
I think you got that mixed up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q
This sounds like a plot to deal with faculties top-heavy with senior tenured profs - who will be on that top rung of risk in the death lottery = save Georgia Tech a bundle.
Prove me wrong!
Is this not the same as graphql?
It sounds desirable, but isn't feasible unless the language is stateless. If you iterate over a thing that is stateful, you need to know whether the iterator is lazy or not to decide if you can modify the underlying thing.
You can specify an IV with -iv. If you don't, the IV is derived from the password.
I guess it's an argument for and against it at the same time.
GoRecord. A Rails Active Record Like ORM for Go
I would like to suggest that the attempts to solve 'toxicity' in social media are actually an attempt to relativize the latent, normalized, usual-amount white supremacism, heteronormativity, ableism and patriarchy that most makers -- being privileged enough to have the resources to make -- are filtered for ahead of time.

Put a way that you find easier to read: You're halfway between 'oh shit I'm like that' and 'yes I appreciate the needs but we couldn't possibly XYZ' and you, like everyone else, is having to pick a side. That's not 'toxicity', that's just the ongoing war. And for those of us whose survival depends on the outcome, the war is not figurative; it is quite literal.

Beware, your bias is manifesting.
Ah, I remember when seeing your software on the shelf of Egghead meant you’d made it.

Of course we had to give up 50% of revenues, and then pay them tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of that for “co-marketing”, all while spending $10 a unit on packaging and disk duplication, while providing an expensive phone support team.

I guess I don’t miss it that much, come on Apple take your 30%!
People who don't care about code quality write brittle, hard-to-maintain systems - which is occasionally fine, depending on expected longevity of the system.

If you're interviewing for a job that involves any sort of maintenance over a long-lived project, organizational attitudes towards code quality are a useful smell test to how miserable it might get. I bear the scars of a couple of wholesale refactors (that cowboy coders wanted no part in, to no ones surprise) to improve readability/maintainability. Merging those gigantic PRs and having everything work was satisfying; it almost made up for the hair pulling. Also satisfying was catching a surprising number of hidden bugs caused by sloppy programming (some logical errors are obvious when you give functions, arguments and variables good names)
They threw them under the bus to make the banwave come off as non-partisan.
(It's a germ of an idea but I hope to work on this!)

Problem:
Public schools in India don't do justice to students. Private schools in India charge a bomb but most of the money ends up in the hands of the "owners" and not enough to teachers (For reference, an average primary school teacher earns lesser than what an Uber driver earns) .

The solution :
A network of "not-for-profit" schools where the fee structure is reasonable ( can't be free ), but the profits are shared amongst the people who make the schools run. Think "community banks" but for schools. I can't solve the problem for everyone but hope to set a good example by attracting the cream of teachers. It's time the teachers got their due.
The article did not imply that:

> """with a different file format"""

The assumption behind the paragraph following the example does not imply lazy evaluation, but rather the opposite - the broken one is obvious if you have lazy evaluation in mind, whereas the docstrings imply the caller would be using these the same and not be expecting lazy evaluation.
Because this is rarely, if ever, the case. Going after employers has the single goal of getting someone fired. It's mob punishment, and nothing more. It sets a scary precedent when free speech is restricted for this reason. 'Think like us, or be unemployed' is the current state of the US. Sad.
I don't think it's actually that hard to choose a set of benevolent caretakers willing to understand the needs to the common folk especially if you divide the aristocracy up into a few different branches and put checks and balances on the power the aristocracy has between each branch and preserve a core set of individual liberties upon which the aristocracy shall not tread. But we've seen that fall apart so at this point I'm more interested in a Neo-monarchist experiment myself.
I'm glad you found it thought provoking. The liturgical churches tend to follow a lectionary, which, as you say, excerpts from the scriptures. The RCL has some passages that I think are cut poorly, but generally keeps the unit of thought at the level of the particular story or argument.
There was a ClojuRU 2019 talk about such a thing: https://youtu.be/Hf57HbRvYhM
“Accidental duplication” well said. Not enough people even consider this before deciding that they must remove the duplicate code. Will each duplicate section change for the same reason? If not then it’s not really duplicate code, it just looks the same.
eIDAS is a great initiative but unfortunately I think it’s going to take a while before it becomes useful outside government. As you said, many countries don’t have well established e-IDs and that is what I’m trying to remedy. My main target is not government. Ht

Smart cards don’t work very well today where the average person uses most services through their phone. With the HSMs in modern phones, security in a e-ID app will get very close to that of a smart card though which is really exciting!
I'm further very disturbed at how that issue, and a bunch of other issues posted to their repo in response to the Santa takedown are all fully locked for discussions and reactions. It's messy all around, and I don't envy anyone being in that decision making tree. They're pretty much screwed all around, and the best they can do is pick the not-so-middle ground that happens to offend the least amount of people.
Of course liberalization isn't magical and does not solve all economic problems. There are tons of reasons why India failed in its liberalization program, lack of focus and coherent policy being the most important ones. Now of course China is far from your standard free market, but as you said, they have been enforcing a very strict protectionist policy for most of the 20th century. And for most of the 20th century, china really was full of misery and abject poverty which is something that only ended with a relatively incredible opening to the world's markets.

I also should've been more clear, what I'm talking about is more free movement of goods than the libertarian definifion of free markets. You can import and export goods in China pretty easily, but it's a nightmare in countries like Argentina. You are (or were, until recently) also relatively safer in china, when you don't have to worry about sudden anti-business measures, tariffs, or outright death by targeted regulations

Also, protectionism in south america has a very long history [0], and was already very strongly enforced much earlier than the 2000s. The concept of protecting "Infant industry" is ingrained in much of the region's recent history. And again, the countries that are doing better right now in latin america have mode liberal trade policies. I don't understand how it's not outright obvious that latin america has shot itself in the foot multiple times with very inefficient, very populist protectionist policies that made competitiveness impossible and commodities/primary goods the only productive sectors.

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w8999
I'm gonna dig into this also. Thanks for your contribution to the gaming community.
I'm a Canuck, but it is no secret how close our two countries, our peoples are.

Some of us point and scoff, but these are the same sort which laugh when someone stubs their toe. Buffoons, they are.

The lion's share of us watch, concerned. Not just for ourselves, and of what might come from utter chaos to the south.

We are legitimatley concerned for what we view as family. I personally feel as if I am watching a beloved sibling, mess up their life for incomprehensible reasons.

You want to help, you want to intervene, stop the pain.. but you feel that it may only make things worse.

After all, how can you help, when you can't even understand?

I agree with what you said, the media is broken. I can think of some fixes, like a constant "this is not news, but an opinion piece" banner or some such, but I doubt that will really help.

It does seem to me, that a tiny, tiny percentage of the population is causing a HUGE disruption for almost everyone else. I mean tiny, a core of 0.001%, with all sorts of others "hanging on".

While the issues raised have some legitimacy, the media has thrown gas on the fire, and in a way which reduces chances for either side to resolve things.

Instead, we get, as you elude to, absurd, useless theatre.
Thanks. I like the idea that you converse and archive conversations there itself. Its great for real life conversations and maybe meaningful conversations.

About the traction, getting users has been hard. I made some mistakes in the beginning, I targeted the wrong audience. I got wrong feedback from family, friends, co-workers etc. Then I started cold messaging readers and writers on other writing platforms.

From the feedback I gathered 60% of the users asked for an app. They would like to read on mobile. The website is mobile friendly but still they want an app.

For writers mostly the feedback was that they don't want to create stories on website which is not popular. There are plenty of other places where they would write where they can get more visibility.

Its kind of chicken and egg problem. Still I cold messaged a lot of users through social media and got some users and stories.

This is my first side project so I am learning and having fun. :)
The static IV is a brown M&M but not in itself fatal because this seems to use fresh random keys each time. If your keys end up re-used (NB don't fret about somehow choosing the same random key as somebody else that's astronomically unlikely, but do fret about your choices not actually being random after all) then you're screwed anyway.

There's no obvious route to decrypt these messages without the secret key, though it's up to you to not send that key anywhere (HTTP clients don't send fragment identifiers as part of the HTTP request, but of course a Javascript-enabled client can be instructed with Javascript to simply inspect the whole URL...)

The lack of authentication does mean you have no reason whatsoever to be sure this is the message intended. Regardless of IV anyone with control over the encrypted data gets to selectively alter the plaintext you'll decrypt even though they can't read it.
You're bringing in a whole host of issues inapplicable to the snippet OC found questionable. Don't disagree with ya, but "lack of obvious abstraction" isn't one of these "extreme sensitivity to environment vars" cases.

In fact, vociferously complaining about such cases is a great way to turn scientists away from code review as a concept. Fold the code away in your head (or edit your local copy), and dig for subtle issues like numerical sensitivity, environment, etc. That's the way to bring actual value to the process.

For the code in question, "oh by the way this can be done simpler", with the simplified snippet, is an appropriate approach to the review. But in my experience it's best to save your breath for actual problems.
It isn't irrational to be upset at masses of people being stupid. It is quite rational given the sheer history of damage they have caused.

Calling it "rethink" is a euphemism that damages the truth. It is rethinking in the same sense that a true king doesn't have to say he is king as power, deeds, and masses of followers make it abundantly obvious. In this case it is clearly a demand. Actual thinking would involve enough introspection to ask "isn't avoiding black in phrases like the plague in itself suggesting that black is bad far more than any tangental occurance?".

A proper rethinking would be demonstrative instead of imperative - for the previous only demonstrates what they shouldn't do instead of demonstrating what they should do. Coin a new set of phrases for the roles and explain why they are preferrable to the faded zeitgeist. But that would require creation instead of more destructive social bullshit slinging.
I tried to scale up my servers and I think I crashed everything... :( My provider made it seem easier than it was. If anyone knows about scaling up servers, please lmk.
Is the purpose to cause harm to the individual? That is the common question behind anti harrassment laws. Even if a person has a legit grievance, intent to cause physical or psychological harm is still illegal.

If it is difficult to separate that question for someone who has political abhorrent views, imagine a neighbor who acts abhorrent. Their dog is barking all the time, leaves dog shits on your lawn, their car is blocking you, they play loud music late at night, and so on. Are you allowed to call their employer and try get them fired for being an awful person? If the answer is no because that would be harassment then the answer doesn't change when their abhorrent behavior is political rather than being an abhorrent neighbor.
Steal? I feel this differs from stealing fairly significantly. Do you consider Amazon (or others) as having stolen from the public for any tax breaks they got?
I’m not entirely sure about that. The highest rate they’re talking about is 2.4%. Would you switch jobs or choose one job over another because of a 2.4% difference in comp, all else being equal?
I thought Washington has a state law against income taxes? Isn’t this an income tax?
The eBook I want is the reMarkable, but can't justify the cost at this time.
Tl;dr: progressive 2.4% income tax phasing in from $150K-$400K

So, not so much a “boss tax” as it is a “rank and file” tax in big tech companies. If this were a boss tax, it would be 24% phased in linearly from $150K to $4M.

Also, Washington doesn’t have an income tax, so the top bracket would still be paying less than people that make much less pay in California...
I have used Scheme and Clojure witch are both dialects of lisp a few times a months to try out ideas for ProjectEuler. Lisp, Haskell or F# or what every pure functional language you would like to use force you to translate math to code very cleanly. so when you are doing something that is very close to implementing pure math in code people still use these tools a lot.

But regarding your point is it still used at a job. Well I at least have never seen it mentioned on a job position. But some companies also specifically remove this from there job openings to not scare people.
I’m trying to solve the hard problem of finding a new job since COVID-19. It’s not going very well :-D
> Exactly. Because once everything isn't protected, someone gets to choose. So what we need are systems where content can't be removed, and users can't be banned, by design.

This is naive at best. I know of no social space on the internet that has light moderation, no moderation, or primarily user-driven moderation that isn't also a dumpster fire.

This is the internet. There are uncountable social spaces on it, and the fantastic thing is that the owners of each social space are free to enforce rules as they see fit. If you are unhappy with the moderation of a social space, or if you get booted, find another one. Or, you could even create your own.

Heck, because this is the internet, you are likely keeping up with many of the people you know from a social space through multiple other platforms, and if you want to peace out from one, you can coordinate a migration.
I like your phrase "statistical fact". I don't really know what you mean when you use it, but thinking back on my statistics class, I think it's a pretty funny turn of phrase.
I think you're just reading the rhetoric differently than I do. I don't read "these dead white dudes were slavers, so we should ignore the constitution". I read "these dead white dudes were slavers, so we should fix the constitution."

Many (maybe most!) of the changes the left would prefer for the constitution are things I wouldn't support. But then, that strongly suggests few other people will support them either, so I'm not too wound up about them. Adrian Vermuele genuinely and non-ironically believes that the constitution should be reorganized around the Catholic church, and he's got tenure from Harvard Law! I don't worry too much about his batshit ideas either, because of all the theocracies we could have, the Catholic one is among the least fun, and nobody is going to support it.

It's good that we can bat the ideas back and forth, though, if only to spot the bad ones! Vermeule and Deneen? Bad! Free cheeseburgers for everyone this Friday! But less reverence for the moral principles of slavers? I could be convinced!
Sounds like an enhancement
I've often found myself wanting something like this, a bootstrap to spin something relatively complex up quickly and then start customizing it. I think it would be nice if there was a way to export to the format native to whatever cloud you're targeting, e.g. CloudFoundry. This is something I've found missing in tools like Serverless Framework.
Lumen: Hack Your Metabolism
Ah, the ol' HN hug of death.

For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want.

This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does and check it out later when not as many people are present on the server. This is a concept known as graceful degradation, trying to make a service as accessible as possible during most if not all conceivable situations.
And it’s easy when you are anonymous.
There are about 200 countries in the world to be better than most means being about 99th in the world. I doubt an American would like that bad.

Using OECD figures USA does not even make the top 15.
What’s your experience, location, etc?
It certainly depends on employee's financial and social circumstances and the industry specifics, but it still begs a question if it's worth working for an arrogant asshole that could fire someone for a over a bad mood. Even if there's a law that says that they can't, one must be in quite dire circumstances to cling to a job where they are mistreated.

This said, I totally recognize I'm quite privileged in regard that the industry I'm working in, where business tend to generally value people and such senseless human resource management is typically misaligned with both employee and employers goals (putting it simple, being an asshole doesn't bring any profits). In such circumstances, my personal perception of at-will employment is positive - it makes sense to me that we (employee and employer) cooperate because we like each other, and there's nothing that binds us but our will for a mutually beneficial relationship.

Yet, unfortunately, I know this is not the case for many people but I have no idea what could to be done to fix this. But I suspect that legal protections that prevent firing people at-will are not helping the core issue here.
I’m inclined to agree with you, but let me think through this out loud...

If people could buy and sell water rights, those with property on an aquifer would get harvesting rights proportional to their land. They could sell it to the almond farmers, and ask for a price that’s more or less equal to the farmer’s expected profit, which cuts into the farmers’ margin.

This is kind of analogous to selling crude oil to refineries (petroleum is like almonds!). I’d expect big companies to buy up land to secure water rights. Probably the same companies that own massive almond plantations, because vertical integration.

I don’t think that this system would reverse aquifer depletion? Unless we artificially restrict the supply of water in the water rights contract?
> I used a Satechi USB-C power tester and measured an 8% peak power savings using UASP. That means you'd get 8% more runtime on a battery if you do a lot of file transfers.

No no, even better! Peak power consumption is lower, but the same work is completed much more quickly due to increased throughput, so the energy required for the same work is decreased dramatically. Between the performance increase and the lower power usage I wouldn't be surprised if this reduces energy use by 50 %.
I don’t think GP is replying in good faith. Taxes are not theft, and taxing wealthy people more than less wealthy people is not communism.
They were not called big iron for nothing. They are not measured in racks but metric tons and such :) In 1991, a Hungarian university installed its mainframe by partially removing the roof and craning the thing in place. I am not kidding. Hard to find photos. http://hampage.hu/nosztalgia/netto/ursus/ursus.jpg here's a small section of it.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hi... look at that dainty hard drive in the back :D
Yes, if you restrict your definition of abstraction to "polymorphism", then it becomes a different discussion (Go developers would like to have a word).

But I think there are lots of abstractions often missing from code that I have seen that don't need any sort of polymorphism. A common example is performing input validation all over the place instead of at the boundary with some sort of form object that only accepts valid params.
Freakanomics did an interesting episode on this indicating that as companies mature they have to focus more on “maintenance” of existing business rather than R&D. Acquiring smaller businesses becomes a natural way of investing in R&D

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance/
I remember a lot of BBS games were done in Pascal. I remember want to learn it, but never did.
You might be able to leverage GPT-3 in your work, it'll take the generative writing to the next level:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722635