skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50ish hours give or take 10. I'd say a good 10-15 of those hours are researching and studying material on how to improve current projects and my own development. It's greatly beneficial for the company I work for and myself in my opinion.

A good example is gRPC. We all can use it no problem, but using it correctly and efficiently is outside the scope of some teams so I like to spend the time to understand it deeper and spread that knowledge within our groups.
There is a difference between "too much freedom" and "not enough direction."
> compared to crime that isn't brutal and on video (e.g. rich avoiding taxes) but may actually be much more important.

You must have missed all the posts from /r/aboringdystopia and /r/latestagecapitalism that regularly show up on /r/all
Are you guys considering adding in more social features to compete with Strava? It’s seems an excellent opportunity right now with so many people upset with them. A simple UI update showing a feed, add a kudos system... you’re halfway there.
First of all, I'd like to thank the moderator dang. I don't always agree, nor do I expect to agree. I'm comfortable with disagreements.

If we are serious about avoiding echochamber effects, then we shouldn't take voting so seriously. What is wrong with having a polite disagreement? Why should we value popularity?

Have we reached a point where we cannot discuss certain topics as adults? If so, can those individuals not simply choose to opt-out of the discussions?

I didn't read the discussion in question, but I don't understand what stopping a discussion solves. From my perspective discussions should be stopped when they are needlessly toxic, when participants can no longer advance their ideas politely. Humans have limitations, sometimes emotions become too hot. I appreciate when dang closes these types of discussions.

An illegitimate reason to censor would be to remove ideas which cannot be countered, but the reader disagrees with. Some people find disagreements and discussions disturbing. Others enjoy the opportunity to challenge their ideas, as a matter of 'intellectual curiosity'. Some simply relish in the tactics of formulating arguments, regardless of the underlying position.
Alas, there's no way to avoid being the target of that anger. It's inevitable in the system. You're right that one has to develop strategies for managing one's reaction to it. I don't think requiring a mathematical analysis would work in my case. It might not work in any case; I expect most angry people would probably get angrier if told that their anger is invalid because not backed up mathematically, and the dynamics of escalating mass anger could end up destroying the whole system.

There's a deeper issue though. Such an analysis would depend on labeling the data accurately in the first place, and opposing sides would never agree on how to label it. Indeed, they would adjust the labels until the analysis produced what they already 'know' to be the right answer—not because of conscious fraud but simply because the situation seems so obvious to them to begin with. As I said above, the only people motivated enough to work on this would be ones who would never accept any result that didn't reproduce what they already know, or feel they know.
Show me a human who learned how to ride a bike by watching others.

My impression is that the general dynamics robots are already on a path that isn't hard to imagine becoming quite animal-learning like in the reasonable near-term future. Their body (as with any animal) is a mostly-given, as are the available control systems. Couple this to a NN-style learning process that takes place inside the robot rather than over there in the programmer's development system, and I'm not really sure I see an important distinction given the parameters of your question.
No, sea levels have risen as predicted; see for example https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2017/09/13/modern-day-sea-...
A text editor could easily highlight passages where concurrent changes were made. (Perhaps only if a heuristic indicates that the merged change doesn’t make any sense.) The metadata is all there.
Props, this is really cool.

I remember playing colecovision as a kid. My older brother had gotten one.
Yes.

The discussions on HN dont go deep enough to look at the antecedents of the current imbroglio.

Human brains are weak to a variety of manipulations. Media manipulations are one of the oldest, and have been going on for ever.

The 24/7 news cycle preceded the net and created the exact same issues.

Right now what we have added is mobile internet which means people can access the material all the time, and we've added algorithmic creation of inciteful content.

We've gone to the industrial complex era of outrage creation.
Wouldn't an electric car with an efficient generator under the hood be the best of both worlds? Totally eliminates the range problem.
"You met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods."

It sounds like Feynman remembered that his student thought highly of the problems he was working on late into his career. Feynman's encouraging his former student, as a recent graduate, to start out with low-hanging fruit.

He goes on to describe some of the easier problems that he worked on in the beginning of his career. That gave his former student some examples of worthwhile problems to start out with.

Personally, I think Feynman was very humble. Especially for a Nobel Prize winner.
1) A lot of the people who come on there are 1st time business owners and don't have much experience negotiating with investors

2) The "Sharks"/investors really push the whole "yes I'm taking 30% of your company for $30K but I bring in a ton of value in advice and connections" thing alll the time and most of the time, the people go for it

3) I'm pretty sure the whole pressure of appearing on TV and getting grilled for 6 hours in front of cameras (apparently the 10-20 minutes they show on TV actually takes around 6 hours) and then walking home without any deals feels like a missed opportunity for the business owners so they eventually just give in and end up taking any "deal" the sharks throw out which is almost always terrible
Those Cubans were filthy gamblers, sugar plantation slavers and drug dealers. That filth deserved to get kicked out. Their children won't fare well.
The article almost made me not watch the video. It is poorly written, by someone not versed in aviation terminology. Much of what said of "raptor pilots" is in fact true of all fighters. And some of the facts are so awkwardly worded that they are borderline incorrect. For instance, the F-22 does not fly at 60-65,000 feet. That is its service ceiling, its maximum possible altitude.
For anyone wondering about quarter-sawn wood, this article has a pretty good rundown of what it is, compared with other lumber cutting techniques and their properties. https://www.grandior.net/what-is-the-difference-between-plai...
It seems like nowadays that's where concessions on visible efforts the likes of the Linux kernel go, inevitably.
It’s not even just that. It’s that the government indicted five guardsman at the times, but couldn’t secure convictions. A civil trial ended in settlement. Fifty years later, we’re still talking about four deaths.
Uh, the postwar west developed the modern techniques.

For a while the rationalist approach was dominant and media channels tended to reflect that ideology.

But with the creation of the 24/7 news cycle a whole new system to leverage the modern media tools that were created.

Eventually in the 1990s this trend came to a head with the creation of Fox news and the rest is frankly history.

But before that, for a short while, it did look like reason was overcoming superstition and ignorance.
I've launched one of these balloons before. Made it from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico and started making the turn up the coast before losing contact overnight.

The balloons are standard mylar balloons, but slightly bigger than average. About 2.5 feet in diameter. In order to allow the balloon to climb to ~30k feet, you need to leave a lot of room for the gas to expand. I'd say our balloon was only about 15-20% full at launch. You put just enough helium in the ballon so that it has about 1 gram of lifting force.
I didn't feel like I had anything worth sharing until recently. Something I've discovered is that it's often the stuff we consider "basic knowledge" that is the most useful to others. I think that perhaps one of the reasons skilled people don't share basic things is because they don't think they have to.

Once you get over that initial fear of being patronizing or talking down to people, you're able to really start communicating the things they most need to know.
If you know of research or analysis that is essential on this topic, please tell us what it is. I'd like to be sure I'm aware of it, and other readers would surely be interested also.
You're probably right that Hunger Games was the immediate inspiration for PUBG. I understand Hunger Games to basically be an American adaptation of Battle Royale though (and also derivative of The Running Man.) Battle Royale already had "cult classic" status in America by that time. The naming of the genre seems to support the notion that the public was generally aware of Battle Royale. Before Battle Royale the term was in use, but generally referred to free-for-all boxing matches. The modern use of the term to describe Hunger Games or PUBG seems to closely resemble the premise of the Japanese movie/book.
Those forums exist I am sure, because ES is now an ancient concept.

I'm guessing those forums now are invite only.
There are too many generalisations here to take any of your points seriously.
Racism exists in all countries, not just Britain. It may be worse or better in Britain than elsewhere but it's certainly not alone.

If your point is that the potential influx of HKers will create social tensions and feed into racism then I would agree, but that's not specific to the UK. Having 3M people suddenly popping up on your doorstep can be a challenge.

However, while I hope that many HKers take on the opportunity to get a real British passport, I know most will do this as a backup plan. They will funnel their families and finances out of HK (to the benefit of the UK) but still live in HK for the most part.

Most HKer know they can't just show-up in the UK and be successful there as they are in HK. Some will enjoy some opportunities and will manage to build or rebuild their success but most have their lives strongly anchored in the economic fabric of HK, and that's not easy to transpose elsewhere.
Quicken (well it was an open-ended question).
Feynman, like everyone, has his virtues and vices, but humility is definitely not among his strong points. The majority of the stories he tells about himself are anecdotes in which he is the smart person in the room making (maybe lighthearted and friendly) fun of others with a cheaply superficial pretence of humility.
The best conversations I had on the internet predate the like/upvote button. As soon as conversation became about scoring points and not engaging with an individual in a discussion it went to hell.
If you're on shark tank it's because one of

1) you think the company would benefit from the publicity (even if you don't get an investment)

2) it's a total last resort

3) you want to meet the investors / have your fifteen minutes
My understanding is that graph databases came first and relational databases replaced them because they provided a reliable methodology to understand and accelerate nearly any new access pattern without reshaping data (joins and indexes, of course). The new graph DB rhetoric does not address what changed to make the previously-fatal flaw no longer fatal.

10 years ago, I bought into the mongo hype, jumped before it was ready (ACID? Transactions? With our new philosophy you don't need any of those silly things!) and wound up cracking my head on the bottom of that particular swimming pool. I'm not keen to repeat that mistake, so this time I want to understand before I jump.
Many non-extern C++ names are mangled in .so files, not just operators. I don't see how that affects the ABI (i.e. the calling conventions of the functions). It just means you need to use a library to demangle in order to call the correct function.
> But the threat of draining HK is an interesting sort of pressure to put on China.

I suspect that if the trickle shows any sign of becoming a significant exodus, a state of emergency will be called and all HK-ers passports will be cancelled, probably under the pretext of issuing new documents. While the US is shifting it's focus to the Asia Pacific region [0], that's probably hollow posturing. Even if the US had the willingness, what could they do on China's doorstep (beyond bluster) that wouldn't trigger a major military crisis? If Hong Kong is China's Anschluss, will Taiwan be its Poland? I sincerely doubt the current US administration has the diplomatic nouse to out-maneuver China here. The failure to check China is likely to send a shockwave around the world, signalling to allies the truth of what they already suspect - that is, that an increasingly withdrawn and internally focused US will not willingly elect to spend its blood and treasure defending anything but its immediate interests. In Australia, the government has signalled a huge (by our standards) increase in military spending in the next decade, as a consequence of this reality [1].

The times, they are a changin'.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Tho...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/australia-unveils-10-...
Sure, that's by far the biggest issue in my working life and therefore one of the biggest in my life. My approach is to try to take it as an opportunity for growth. I've spent a lot of time with forms of therapeutic process work that have affected me deeply and which overlap in some ways with the challenges of moderation. I sometimes imagine that there is also a spiritual aspect of sorts (I hesitate to use that word because it sounds inflated in an internet comment, but you touched on something similar when you said 'zen')—something that allows for an intense and crazy-making situation to perhaps be a catalyst if you use it in the right way.

Two simpler factors are (1) I'm paid to do it and (2) I have creative freedom, which is important to me. Just remembering those two things reminds me that I'm choosing to do this. That sounds so trivial but psychologically it's a big thing.
Please make it clear that you’re quoting the piece. Your entire comment is a literal copy/paste of the first few paragraphs.
Thanks for sharing your sentiments. I tend to associate polymaths with the Renaissance era. People like Da Vinci and Galilei are true polymaths. In modern days Elon Musk is one. However I do think the word polymath is more well-regarded/skilled than a generalist.
There is also the era before smartphones vs after smartphones.
> where you can go and exchange thoughtful ideas with considerate peers who may or may not share your political alignment, but treat you with respect.

I'll bet that this will never happen for topics like politics.

Politics is a 0 barrier to entry conversation and a maximally emotion driven discussion.

If a forum allows politics, the mod work load goes up and the forum will polarize itself. Politics is one of the natural scissor statements of the web.
> What I do want to do is distill the moderation explanations I've posted over the years into a sort of expanded FAQ or commentary.

I think that might be very interesting, and potentially pretty valuable to people working in a similar position.

> If anyone has noticed how often I post HN Search links to past explanations (which I hope is not too annoying)

Those are not annoying. (although I do not doubt you could introduce me to someone who says they are...)
>I used to stay awake at night because it was finally quiet enough that I could concentrate.

Same here, particularly during a time when I was living in a noisy apartment building. It was particularly difficult for me as I didn't to take sleeping pills since I'm a bit against those things.

>Whoever cracks this particular nut without headphones and manages to create a bubble of 2 cubic meters or so that is silent from outside interference will make a lot of money.

One of the first things when I got myself an RTX 2080, was learning how to use the ray tracing APIs to develop an idea similar to what you mention. I was using the rays to model the wavefront of an arbitrary source of sound, and then, given a 3D scene of a "room" or whatever, visualize how this wave was traveling through the space and reflecting over surfaces with different parameters.

The point of this was to see if you could find/predict the spots in a room/house/building where noise is naturally damped. The visualization was very nice to look at as I modeled the wavefront as if it had an exaggerated effect over the diffraction of light on the air. I cannot find it now, but there used to be a 2000s or so tv ad for the Beolab 5 which looked very similar in essence, maybe also a bit like schlieren photography [1].

[1] https://ntts-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/t2p/prod/t2media/tops/img...
So, where's the distinction going to be? Use Github for developer networking, LinkedIn for non-developers?
'voting' doesn't foster good discussion it harms it.
i am completely fascinated by this response. it is literally so dense with self-parody and hacker-news-ness that any attempt to quote it, analyze, refute, or satirize it in any way would only dilute the message.
Atlassian is a garbage fire.
I'm not saying it's relatively terrible here compared to the rest of the internet. I'm more thinking about the stridence of typical discussions, say, pre-1980. Simply, there was not a context where the typical person could go to have or witness aggressive partisan argumentation, be it about a company, a political system, whatever. Certainly, very, very few people could cause their statements to be broadcast to more than a handful of folks. Whereas your humble correspondent has probably gotten hundreds of impressions on these modest thoughts he has posted here. Another thing that wasn't present was the space for those views to feed back on themselves and become more intense, more passionate, and more aggressive.

That doesn't mean everything about the world was better back then. But this one thing was different.

I think it remains to be seen how much all this really matters. We probably won't know until they're writing the history books about this time.
One of my favorite You-tubers Andrew Camarata told the story of how he got a chainsaw at 10 years old. He hid it from his dad for months and used it. Then when his dad saw it he allowed him to use it on the provisio that he "be careful".

The trouble with the world today is that we're no longer allowing our kids to do anything useful for fear that they "injure" themselves.

So everyone grow up not really knowing even how to hammer a nail. I sympathize with your feeling having a kid myself, but without exposing them to even some slight danger, they will not grow up learning how to navigate the dangers in the world.
Maybe, immoral, but it’s more complicated than that. The US lost the war, but half a century later 95% of Vietnamese believe that “people are better off under a free market” and three quarters have a positive view of the US.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/30/vietnamese-...
For what it’s worth, PT lumber has been arsenic-free, in the US at least, for almost 20 years now
https://www.elastos.org/
I lived in Ukraine under complete currency collapse. I hope for the collapse of the British pound. Make no mistake. I'm a Christian. "Those who live by the sword, die by the sword." - Matthew 16:52. I pray for and celebrate the deaths of mercenary soldiers, drug addicts, drunk drivers, liars for money. I celebrate the deaths of imperial conquistadors and praise the lives of in situ historical peoples on their own lands. We're NOT a team. My passport remains intact. I have materially and forcefully and successfully contributed to the violent demise of South African apartheid "whites," at Harvard, and working for and with Unitarians. Know the frames of our dialog. I am a moralist. Play win-win, or lose.
His spectacular monetary gains are unrealized.
I’ve deployed this in the past.

Analog[0], AWStat[1], W3Perl[2] are some that come to mind.

[0] - https://www.c-amie.co.uk/software/analog/

[1] - https://github.com/eldy/awstats

[2] - http://www.w3perl.com
I recently switched to using a self hosted Ampache instance from Google Play music. The UI is pretty bad, but it's quite customisable and dsub works well enough on Android.
SrSDE / Scala. Not normal. I used to do 37-38 hours as contractor. Little bit more as a fulltime, but there is some overlap with my hobbies.
As a kid in the 70's and even into the 80's it was the Sears Wishbook. Nothing beats the tactile experience of flipping through those pages of potential. I wish I would have kept some of those from back in the day - they would be amazing time capsules now.
>That's extremely bad for community, and I don't know what to do about it

If I were to start a site for online discussion, I would probably not even try to foster a sense of community in the participants.

Although is quite unhealthy for most people not to belong to a community, the human need for belonging is not so pressing that the average person cannot afford to participate a few hours a week on a site that has no hope of ever providing belongingness.
hey.com

I've only been using it for a few weeks but I like the aspect of the feed and the hand holding it does when categorizing emails.

It is paid, but it's by the same team that did Basecamp. It's very polished IMO.
My own take trying to express this dichotomy of second-hand versus firsthand knowledge https://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/682
"Freedom isn't free"

Freedom is extremely expensive in terms of blood required to achieve it, so I'm always amazed at how easily people are convinced to give it up one inch at a time until it's all gone again.
Occasionally I find it handy to tentatively do a rebase or similar, where I'm confident that the rebase itself will succeed but not so confident that the result will be something that I want to keep. In that case, making a branch at the current commit (using "git branch new-undo-point") will leave an easy way to return to the current state as if the rebase never happened.

Recently, in explaining this to a colleague who's relatively new to git, I think the "aha" moment came in realising that if you rewrite the history leading to commit X, you're really making new commit Y in addition to the old commit X - you're not changing X in to Y. Leaving a branch pointing at X is enough that git will keep it around after the history rewriting, in case you decide to do something with it later.
In my opinion, Trex is actually working against what npm introduced to Node. Though I don't exactly know what "main problem" you're referring to, I can say that:

1) Trex is supporting multiple module registries, not just one. (Thus not necessarily centralized)
2) Trex is not associated with one entity in particular. This means that they have no company dedicated to hosting modules in house (another reason that they aren't centralized)
3) Node's package.json included many other things than just imports. Using Trex is completely optional, and if you do use it, an import map does not hinder one's development workflow. In my opinion, it makes dependencies easier to manage.
This is amazing!

This video compares and contrasts three different types of Geometries:

o Spherical Geometry

o Euclidian Geometry (the one we all know)

o Hyperbolic Geometry

With the wonderful property that

Spherical Geometry is sort of the opposite of Hyperbolic Geometry...

(Note to self, have to do more research on this!), i.e.,

Circumference of a circle:

Spherical: 2 x pi x sin(r)

Euclidian: 2 x pi x r

Hyperbolic: 2 x pi x sinh(r)