skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so (seriously), as an experiment, compile a c++ code file that overloads, say, "+" into a .so file (let's keep it to elf format then) and let us know what the "true" name of the corresponding function is by hexdumping the .so
The problem is that as a moderator those type of posts get your attention. The outliers are the ones you worry about.
As someone who participates I basically ignore those. There will always be complain posts even when everything is perfect.
People might have had a bad day or there might be another reason for their reaction.
As the years wear on, I find Reddit, FB comments, and Twitter (and in my decade of lurking, HN less so) to be great examples of the importance of the Nonviolent Communication framework.
There is just as much short interest in Apple as Tesla; where is the fake news regarding their product quality? You being played like a violin.
Ask HN: What's the best piece of software you use every day?
What software (on any device) gives you joy every time you use it? Is their something you enjoy or envy about their UX?

Is there such a thing as the 'perfect' software?

Inspired by this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23803539
Isn't Ng a Vietnamese name?
This seems to be the Tesla ownership tradeoff: you can live on the bleeding edge of driving experiences available today, if you’re willing to tolerate bad build quality and a service experience that makes Comcast look good.
I guess Typescript, like C++ is just better than not having it at all.

Plain javascript is a crime against the mind (and QA testers).
UK and West+EU hasnt got enough enrichment by the hands of anti whites using open borders + Diversity and multiculturalism to destroy white nations and western freedom

Besides the mass hordes of ISLAMIC INVASION and BLACKS, now we need more asians that will vote for

- wealth redistrubtion

- GST/VAT

- Welfare

- Pandering to old people/disabled/women
Thanks for posting a Wikipedia article.

I'm well aware of who he is. What he wants doesn't actually get done, no matter how many pledges people sign. It's a fantasy.
In the almost 4 years I spent doing security for startups, Python was overwhelmingly the most popular language, not just among clients but among every startup we talked to. That's not counting data science teams.

(I'm not really a Python fan, for what it's worth.)
First Hong Kong, next Taiwan?
For the record: I rather think that comment validates my view. This is what you're hearing: "This guy is complaining that you took down a winger conspiracy theory that got upvoted, therefore HN must be balanced."

Here's what I hear: "A winger conspiracy theory goes to the top of the HN front page before being taken down! That means that the voting population of HN is horrifically skewed."

See the difference in perspective? I'm happy you take conspiracy stuff down, I really am. But I'm not happy about the population that pushes it finding a home here, which they clearly have.
I was in disbelief at the paper title, so I looked at the slides:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4gzotq077orblwq/CaetanoNielsen_sli...

Read slide 17. The key assumptions are that: the confounder present at bunching point is representative of the confounder present everywhere, and the confounder affects outcome linearly. The second assumption is what strikes me as too strong, and you can read the paper Appendix C for how they address it. The reasoning is quite weak and they even phrase it as such: "Our main empirical findings
therefore do not seem to be an artifact of this linearity assumption". Overall I would take this paper with a grain of salt, from a cognitive science point of view it just makes no sense that doing more reading would have no cognitive benefits (in fact, we know the opposite to be true.)

Also, the paper hasn't even been reviewed yet. We should revisit it after it has been peer reviewed.
It will probably turn out that the most cost effective way of getting around encryption is bribing employees, whether through a contracting firm or directly. Great for trust...
Uses Apple CDN

Wouldnt it be better to add to openstreet map
Your life situation is very similar to my own. Except for the one key difference. Your comment made me appreciate my Japanese wife's daily tolerance even more. Thanks to you I have just told her so.
> Git's mental model makes "moving a branch onto a different commit" (git branch -f) a natural operation. But no graphical tool I've used allows you to do that on a branch you're not checked out on.

This is trivial in SmartGit, I do it all the time.

Simply drag the branch marker to the commit you want it on. It doesn't matter if it's the checked-out branch or not.

I've tried a few Git GUIs, but SmartGit continues to be my favorite. Pretty much every one of the recipes on https://ohshitgit.com/ is just a simple drag and drop or menu command in SmartGit.

One of my favorite things is the way it handles the reflog. Just click the Recyclable Commits checkbox and every reflog commit becomes visible in the normal log view. You can see the commit's file contents without having to check it out, you can diff two reflog or normal commits, etc.

https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
> "I don't know how many times people need to have the same conversation again and again."

such an oddly particular criticism. don't you have the same conversation with certain people all the time offline too? it seems completely unavoidable if you have other people in your life. that it happens online too should be thoroughly unsurprising.

it's like thrift store shopping. you wade through all the same boring stuff to get to that rare new (to you) thing that makes it all worth it. focus on the payoff, not the rummaging. and certainly no one is so learned that nothing new can be found in many, if not most, of the discussions.
The git safety net against accidental resets is at https://gist.github.com/chx/3a694c2a077451e3d446f85546bb9278
Here in Germany, Moodle seems to be the defacto standard (100% at n=4). It surely does have some rougher edges, but overall I like it a lot.
Your discussion is unworthy.
>I think that would give the HKers access to the Pacific and a place to rebuild. I'd love to have those brilliant entrepreneurs and engineers over here.

Not many special "brilliant entrepreneurs". Just regular ole entrepreneurs taking advantage of the specific spot HK was in, and the specific relationship between Britain and China for global trade.

Merely bring the same people elsewhere would accomplish no great miracle.

It's not like taking SV-based VCs and programmers into e.g. Oklahome (where they'd just make a new hotspot, since their skills are carried with them).

It's more like taking the people in the tourist industry of Miami and moving them to Maine. It just wont work as well, since it was all about location in the first place...
Ah yes the engineering nirvana where no-one is a manager and targets don't exist..
They are outliers in intensity only. They are not outliers in terms of the underlying phenomenon of how users arrive at their generalized perceptions of HN. On the contrary, the phenomenon itself is routine and typical. I would even call it universal.

If you see a comment complaining about "(Apple|Google|Microsoft) fanboys", that's much the same thing. The only actual information in such a comment is about the commenter—specifically, what they dislike (in this case, (Apple|Google|Microsoft)) and therefore what they notice and assigned greater weight to.

Such commenters routinely produce entirely opposite outputs about the exact same input set. Indeed their complaints are interchangeable except for the direction of bias they're complaining about. This phenomenon is so reliable that I'm not sure I've seen any more reliable phenomenon on HN. There is clearly a deep cognitive bias underlying it. I've done my best to try to explain what that is. I'd be interested in hearing other explanations, but so far most responses seem to deny the phenomenon, which from my perspective can't possibly be correct.

Where I think being a moderator makes a big difference is that we get bombarded with these contradictory complaints every day, often in personally abusive ways. You can't help but notice the contradictions when you're getting bashed for one reason one minute and than bashed for exactly the opposite reason the next. When one side calls you Hitler and the other side calls you Stalin, and each side complains bitterly how you ban everyone they agree with and moderate in the other's favor, the only sane response is to become curious about how the exact same thing can result in such an extreme variance in perception.
The explanation of dimensional sizing isn't quite correct. The lumber is indeed cut at the mill to its nominal size (like 2x4), but it's rough from the saw. (They use big, fast saws that tear up the wood.) Rough-sawn used to be sold, and you'll sometimes see nominal-size lumber in old houses. You may even be able to find it at some lumber yards, but it's rare.

To neaten up the board, the mill usually then surfaces it on all four sides, shaving off the rough cut to leave a nice smooth surface. This takes off around a quarter inch per side. Thus a 2x4 ends up as 1.5" x 3.5".

It's a little strange, but makes sense historically and per manufacturing practice. Kinda like a "quarter pounder". But what's really inexcusable is that plywood is no longer sticking to its nominal size. A 3/4" thick ply is actually 23/32” thick. For a full table see: https://www.inchcalculator.com/actual-plywood-thickness-size...
Umm I live in an neighborhood where few apartment complexes have car charging stations and one of my pastimes is observing build quality of Teslas (and sometimes Leaf or some other ones) - I have not yet found a Model 3 without uneven panel gaps - some are acceptable if you don't compare them to another mainstream car but still it's not what one would expect from a $35K car.
"Reflections on trusting trust" is specifically called out as a motivation for the Bootstrappable Builds project[0], which I think is an interesting approach at regaining some of the trust in our software. Another, better known project is the work on Reproducible Builds[1], and of course it would be nice to have auditable hardware based on clearly documented designs.

[0] https://www.bootstrappable.org/

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/
The people of Hong Kong are "paying" a hell of a lot more than the British.
Part of what has kept 4chan relatively unreddit (aside from less aggressive moderation) is knowing that you need something like 4chanx to make it usable.
I was going to say Android, but it's hard for me as a user to know which issues are hardware and which are software.

Common problems, for me:

- Camera stops working, it seems some apps take over it and it won't work again until I close all apps

- Can't hang up on phone calls because the proximity detection that locks the screen bugs out and won't unlock until after the other person hangs up

- Occasionally gets stuck in a loop where it unlocks then locks again instantly, and I have to power cycle

- General UI lag on apps that should be simple like the clock

- Sometimes it just seems to get stuck on a black screen but eventually it wakes up after a number of minutes

As for the timer/clock there are two features I'd like, maybe there's a way to get them. 1) Have a small counter running under a timer after it expires, so I can tell at a glance how long it's been since then (useful when setting a follow-up timer for cooking after fussing with stuff) 2) Let me set an alarm for a time on a day without having to select it as a repeat, which means it'll run again the next week if I forget to unset it.
I thought so too, but Wikipedia said Chinese, so I went with it.
look into caja as a replacement for nautilus, it's basically a maintained fork of nautilus 2 before they made it suck
There are more niches, industries, and developer cultures than any one of us can fathom.
Same, as much as I still love my aeropress and french press and hate the Nespresso lock-in, wastage, etc. I do honestly feel my Nespresso Vertuo makes a damn great cup every time, with zero fuss. Plus their ordering and delivery is slick as hell. Ordering a load of different capsules on their mobile app in the evening and they’re at my door the next morning is pretty incredible. They still can’t seem to send a properly formatted HTML email with the invoice/receipt though.
> So is this paper saying that if my daughter had done activities instead of read (like play video games or run around outside) she'd be just as good a reader?

I can only imagine that the paper says that in aggregate kids get as much out of play as they get out of enrichment.

Though I’d also say that if your daughter likes reading, that’s pretty much play/leisure to her, not enrichment (or both).
Agreed, unfortunately try getting anyone with that goal elected though, they immediately get eaten alive by the other side with "but they want to spend all your money!". I may just be speaking for Australian politics though.
I cannot get with Notion. It is a jack of all trades master of none. It dives me crazy just trying to organize things and link it all together, it is more work than it is worth at this time. Maybe the API will change that.
Man, without you I don't think I would have survived in the corporate world. If it wasn't for the fact that I could install coLinux to turn my work XP in an actually functional OS, I don't know what I would have done.

Nothing (almost!) against Windows, but with experience steeped in Xenix, Solaris and Interactive... let's say that coLinux was also pretty effective as an anti depressant :D
I think in my kids it depends on the activity. Some things are better than others I'm sure. Nothing wrong with trying things to find what you like, maybe find your passion.

Is there some perfect version of achieving cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Are people happy if they achieve it?
It’s obvious that not all staff will be affected, vulnerable, and/or want to stay home. My last reply.
That’s what I keep thinking: this is a dry-run sewing if they’ll get meaningful backlash from the next U.S. President.
The problem with such an idea is that there's a lot of room for abuse below what can be expressed in the form of rules, which means it can be difficult to moderate without appearing to censor or favor particular sides.

People can be abusive in subtle ways that enter a gray area of civility. For example, a discussion thread that devolves into a combative exchange about what a participant really meant by their comments, and whether that means they're a white supremacist, will eventually become exhausting and pointless, and everyone knows it, but what kind of rule can ban "exhausting and pointless" threads?

But any moderation that can't be enforced on technical terms will start making the enforcers seem subjective and biased. Reddit has a long record of subs abandoned in anger by a large cohort of users because they consider the mods to be unfairly biased, and it's not always the case. Conversely, forums can die if the "good" users think that not enough is being done to shut up problematic users.

I help run a private discussion board that's been active for ten years now. It's great, but it's had its own share of drama. The hardest problem we had was a person who simply incited trouble. He didn't break any rules. He was just a very difficult person, and we knew (through friends of his) that he had mental issues. In the interest of being fair and keeping to our terms of use, we let him stay. While there were people who openly argued that the community should have room for people like him, others complained and started leaving the site, just because of all the heated drama. This went on for years. After several incidents where it just became too much, we decided to ban him permanently. But it was a hard decision. We still have "problem users" who, purely by voicing unpopular opinions (from nationalist/fascist sympathies to belief in anti-vaxx or rejection of Western medicine), incite a lot of heated discussions. They're not breaking any rules, they're just loud and controversial.

I think a discussion board lives and dies by the trust its users put in the moderators.
It’s really not, but alas, the great crimes you won’t know about until after the fact. A crime is happening in the JS community, and one day we’ll all be writing the same thing OP wrote about C++, an amalgamation, a monstrosity, but whatever, it’ll be too late.
The first Intel Macs were the Macbook Pro and iMac, which had core duo. Looking on the internet, the first Intel mini came a month later, so I think it’s fair to call it one of the first Intel macs, but it had a core duo option as well (check lowendmac or mactracker), so I guess you chose the core solo, but can’t say you were “saddled” with it.

Anyway, that core solo mini also was a great little computer. I believe that’s the one I bought refurb, added RAM, a core 2 duo, and upgraded the wifi to N, and used it for years as a media head and server.
> If it's not controversial for Britain to offer them citizenship then it shouldn't be for US either

China objects strongly. It says these are Chinese citizens and Britain ceased to have any claim over the territory decades ago.

Of course since Britain's offer exists only on paper (there is no mechanism proposed by which a typical person in Hong Kong should actually make use of the offer to leave) the Chinese objection likewise extends only to paper.
Propaganda - Uneducated is good. First volley of a recruitment campaign I predict.
TIL: That PG agrees that the source for Twitter’s toxicity is the pursue of engagement at all costs. Those recommendation algorithms that surface content that triggers people’s emotions and spur divisiveness are clearly one of the main reasons why citizens in the USA are at war among themselves.
i think the problem is capitalism incentivizes bad actors, rather than the internet itself.
Huh, that's very interesting, thanks!
Even more is that many schools were suddenly served a huge plate of spaghetti– or a metaphorically similar type of grain– and in a time crunch to understand how to dish it out to their students.
I do wonder what sort of traffic HN gets in terms of Page view. Would HN consider self hosting an analytic like plausible or other cloud solution where the information is public?
Plan for 35 hours a week, but expect to work 80 hours a week periodically. Averages out around 45 hours.
It has literally all been eaten by China with this latest law.

The idea of HK as separate from China is just over.
It's worth noting that this article is 11 days old. A more recent dispatch would be more meaningful since things have happened since then.
The proportion of Indians was never that high in the ICS even right before Independence.
Because it's a SPA trying to make 200 requests to get a ticket...and I'm barely exaggerating.
Easy way to make vscode choke: hold down ctrl+alt+up/down to enable multi-line editing. Let the cursor run up or down the screen for a bit. It lags a lot.

This might be because of the vsvim plugin though, itself the source of a lot of lag.
For me it got to a point where I hate being outside without my headphones.

The silence is pretty addictive.
Is there a way to disable all the Tesla telemetry, even if it means reduced functionality? I'd love a Model X, but I refuse to own a car that tracks my location and reports it back to the mothership. I'm so serious about this, I've disabled my BMW cell subscription (and cut the cable to the cell modem).
> Python is incredibly popular because its runtime performance is "good enough" for a huge fraction of applications

Is there anything slower than pure python?
There's no need to involve rotation matrices (or any kind of matrices at all) for basic ray tracing, it's just a basic exercise in vector arithmetic.
So people can play via whatever method is most convenient. (c.f. the Switch's value proposition)
Kashmir, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland would like a word with you
Cisco Contact Center Express. This is a pure disaster, this damn thing is full of hilarious bugs that exist there for many years through many major versions.

One of examples: if you click 2 (or more) links in its web interface and open the links in new tabs, the content of these tabs will be a mix of content from the links you just clicked. It’s not very obvious and it’s very easy to change something in the tab A, thinking that you’re changing the call center configuration for application A, but in fact you’re changing a random piece from site B or C.

Cisco doesn’t care much about it.
They should have just done it from the start,

> Britain’s ‘disgraceful’ pre-handover efforts to deny nationality to Hongkongers revealed in declassified cabinet files

> Officials repeatedly pressured Portugal not to grant rights to Macau residents to prevent Hongkongers from asking for similar treatment

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2156385...
The iPad 3 was pretty terrible very quickly as well - I think it was the slowest iPad they ever made. Mainly due to quickly cobbling a retina screen to hardware (GPU and RAM) that simply couldn’t drive that many pixels.
And also to kill. And there are a lot of mainland Chinese people.

Frankly, I don’t know how anyone has the stomach to sit behind a heavy machine gun and turn 200 mothers’ sons into rotting meat. I’d probably reach for my pistol.

Not that the PLA likely uses the same tactics as they did in the 1950s.
git add -p is extremely useful if I encounter a typo or something while doing some other change. Then I can commit this small unrelated change in its own commit without mixing with actual changes and without losing my context (of course this should be trivial stuff only, as it might be mixed up in the feature branch of current work)
Ahh I never noticed that. Not sure if it's new or if I've just been blind.
Getting a chunk of seed money up front for something (similar to any loan) except this one has better terms than most options, and I happen to be approved already.

I (like many people) did this for the EIDL "free" grant money mainly, however, that hasn't happened and who knows if it's going to anyway. :p
I thought that the article argued that Lego is an exception to the rule in that it does inspire brand loyalty.

Also, what investors mean by brand loyalty is fairly specific: A customer who buys into one brand continues to buy it for years or decades.

Kids are fanatical about the "in" brand of the month, but will drop it without a thought as soon as a new trend is "in".

How many kids are tripping over themselves to get the latest Spin Master toys? Most probably wouldn't even recognize the name. Just a couple years ago, stores couldn't keep their Hatchimals line on the shelves. None of that excitement carried over to their other products.
:set rnu

will give you relative line numbers from current line in both directions, so you can quickly 20jyy20kp to copy whatever is 20 lines down to here, etc etc.

Its infinitely useful on servers. And you can script macros like nothing.
> Second, if I understand their methodology, they are checking students with no enrichment activities to children with a few minutes a week of enrichment time.

Did you read the paper? That’s not what they say at all. In fact they say that we would expect no real difference from a few minutes and 0 but because we do find differences we can use that to control for other factors.
> There should be some open standard data-attribute on password fields so the app can read in the required formula to create the perfect password without me fiddling the settings.

Yes, please! This is a fantastic idea.
I think what he did has nothing to do with smart. it's experience that matters here, he learned such stuff, sometimes even on the hard way.
Why is this any different than collusion? This sounds like multiple competitors deciding together to reduce market competition.
Don't worry - in many states anyone can just get a copy of the voter rolls including names, addresses, etc.: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...