skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this perspective fascinating, because I totally disagree. I started using reddit in... 2007? (I remember a lot of content about the economic crisis and Occupy Wall Street.) I feel that the change in reddit has come from an influx of younger users, not older ones.

When I joined reddit, I had the sense that most users were 25-45. If you revealed you were 20, you were a baby by reddit standards. There was a sort of unspoken (and sometimes, outright) filter preventing younger users from enjoying the experience. The community of users wouldn't tolerate poor grammar and misspellings. Users were torn apart if they posted a news article about a study without posting a link to the actual study. Users ignored onions from other users if they were unable to cite sources.

The site was ugly. Before the redesign, it looked like it was built in '98 and never updated. I remember a friend of mine being completely turned off by the site because of the visual design, without paying any attention to the quality of the content. There was much more of a learning curve to using the site than there is now. That served as a deterrent, whether intentionally or not. People who genuinely were interested in the content and the conversation stayed, and users who were more interested in a spoon-fed lazy entertainment website stayed away.

Now, it's not uncommon to see posts from 13 and 14 year-olds. I've even seen content from people as young as 7. I think this has had a significant impact on the decrease in quality of content. The redesign has certainly made the site more inviting to the average user. I think this is a chicken-or-the-egg situation, in that I can't say whether the influx of new users was a result of the redesign, or the cause, but it doesn't really matter. The point is that the content has shifted from more slow-burn, idea-challenging content, to entertainment designed for instant gratification. There's nothing wrong with that kind of entertainment in itself, I just prefer the former.
And I think this is why Reddit won't try to cater their main app to "our crowd" (Powerusers, HN readers, etc). In a way they already have an app just for us: their API.

Reddit knows it's going to be impossible to design a single app to cater to all types of users. They know there is always going to be a group of people that complain about one feature or another so they in-turn expose the API that we can build out own. Now if a group of users has a specific workflow they like, they can build an app that will specifically cater to them.
There's a question of who knew this was going on.

I'm a 30y Pasco resident and (historically) a Nocco apologist.

I'm also consistently critical of police mistreatment of citizens and have often exampled Nocco as an example of a better-sherrif-than-most. You can imagine my feelings as I'm sorting thru this TBT article.

I have 2 things to bring up. First is that Nocco replaced Bob White, who unexpectedly retired mid-term. White was a awful sheriff, obsessed with budgets. He fired older experienced officers (& was sued), replacing them with fresh academy graduates. The result was terrible deputy judgment for complex situations & officers shaking with rage during totally routine traffic stops. I suspect White was forced out of office. At least I hope that's how it happened.

Under Nocco's tenure all of that got better. In the first 6 months he twice returned sizable funds to the county. There were a handful of actions he took that I held up as an example of what a good sheriff might look like (in contrast to Grady Judd, in nearby Polk county).

I strongly believe the path to better police lies thru better police chiefs. Nocco's tenure likely helped me form that opinion. He made bad choices as well but my overall assessment was positive.

-- Have to run out. I'll be back to append my 2nd point.
New wireless monitors let premature babies have skin-to-skin contact in the NICU
> The average American pays about $10k in federal income taxes each year.

Do you have a source for this? There is absolutely no way this is true. Are you including Social Security contributions as "federal income tax"? Or maybe did you mean the average American household pays $10k each year?
This would look similar to images produced by the Danmere Backer, a device which let you back up your files to a VHS tape.
> I think the language they designed has the properties they desired

That's a tautology though :) Of course any language designer will design a language according to the properties he/she desires.

> you run into bugs like this early on

Not necessarily. Race conditions are hard to find. It's established that "simplicity" is not a straight forward metric to measure. Having a simplistic language just means that complexity is being pushed on the programmer, since most non-trivial programs are complex by definition.

Regardless of what the goals of golang were (they kept changing their definition of "systems language"), the fact that it's being pushed for almost everything, due to hype and fad driven development, and the inexperience of many programmers, is an issue. It's almost ironic that golang is used more outside of google than in.
$5 a month for DNS?! I MUST be missing something. Why the hell would you need to pay monthly for dns?

Edit: Guys if you down vote at least let me know what I'm clearly missing... Does dnsimple do something google domains can't?
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I agree 100% here. Comment sections on reddit are approaching YouTube-level lows.
You probably don't grab a tooth pick from way in the back and call it a day.
You mean jedberg and others? Yeah, they're around.
For simple usage, GNOME Boxes is really nice. It'll automatically download the ISOs of basically any Linux distro when you click on their logo, automatically go through the installer, and install copy/paste, dynamic resizing of the VM screen when you resize the window (I don't believe virt-manager supports that), and drag/drop support. It uses libvirt behind the scenes, so you can use virt-manager with VMs created by Boxes and vice versa.
unironically yes lol
This was being touted for the Fedora build system recently, and Jeff Law made typically sensible remarks to temper the enthusiasm. I don't have a link to the devel archive to hand.
Electron hate is starting to become such a meme lately.
Yeah it's the mods. Easily the most annoying thing about HN these days. I really wonder if they consider the original author at all, and how they are editing their piece for them without permission.

I get that there are a lot of shitty 'click-bait' titles but that's just how it goes. Once you start changing those you're down the path of changing any title submission for who knows what reason(s). I've seen it over-and-over and I really don't get it. HN is so hands-off generally this behavior is truly puzzling.
Why unfortunate? Paper are the good kind.

No reason to assume that being near condoms means people don't want to be pregnant.
Oh possibly, but it sounds too much like "keep the plebs busy so they don't have time to develop independent thinking".
Soundcloud is quite good at associating comments with timestamps. I don't think it has threads, but it's a relatively popular platform.

As others are saying, it's not really something that is standardised (or strictly necessary), which is why you don't see it much.
SoftBank’s Bet on Tech Giants Fueled Powerful Market Rally
Hand and Brain Chess
After programming for 10 years, nothing really makes you feel you haven't programmed before. I have found that even looking into entirely different programming paradigms, beginner material does not resonate with me, essentially what i would want when approaching something entirely new would be X for Y programmers.
There are no human rights. Only privileges. Some have more, some less. The most powerful ones give and take them as they see fit and is convenient to them. It has always been so. Laws are for the masses.
Can you please elaborate on that? "Currently-approved media"? In my mind (European) by media we mean the Press. Do you mean Press or Social Media?
A radio station, or a newspaper has a license to operate and is governed by specific requirements and protections. Facebook and Twitter are NOT part of the press (imho). The fact that e.g. BBC tweets some news doesn't fall under the Social Media "laws" but under the Press "laws".

Do you imply conspiracy? Could it just be that greedy capitalism runs ahead and legislation is 10y behind and ran by white old folks who just care to be re-elected and not to keep up to speed because, why bother?

I am not trying to make this political, I sincerely do not understand if you are implying conspiracy or ruthless reality.
It doesn’t spin that fast (linear speed) close to the helicopter, and any fuel leaking out of the wings during flight will fly outwards so you would be safe inside ;-)

However, I expect they pump the fuel from the helicopter body into the wings, and I wonder how they guarantee the seal between the two. Helicopters must continuously adjust the angle of attack of the wings, so it isn’t even a matter of a single fixed axis, and the chemical properties of hydrogen peroxide won’t make things easier.
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine de Saint—Exupery
Can this be converted to use standard combustible fuel?

I wonder if this can be converted to a jet engine that pumps pressurized air out of the ends of the blade rather than this stuff.
Weird that it's been flagged as off-topic with no explanation. "I'm looking for a word" seems very on-topic for an stack exchange about a human language.
I got into stone carving for a while when I was working at a granite shop. Any time we got some soap stone or onyx I'd grab a chunk and make pipes, jewelry and animals and stuff.

I was never able to do things like this

>to create a lifelike pose, facial expression, claws, teeth and muscles

But it's a really fun relaxing hobby. The feeling of shaping a piece of stone with some tools is really like nothing else.

It makes you feel connected with the earliest days of humanity. You can picture thousands of years ago, someone doing something not so very different.
Respectfully, politicians you don't like gaining power isn't evidence of the system buckling.

The other issues aren't exactly unconcerning, but I think we have to acknowledge that this is a quite peaceful time. For most of history, what we call "unrest" was the status quo, and there were in addition wars of open territorial conquest which are nearly extinct today.
I miss the era of design where the form factor never changed. You could design stuff like this without worrying about the window resizing because you simply couldn't resize the window.
Couldn't you simultaneously do the twitch stream, but also record and host the shows elsewhere, if you wanted that library of past shows?
Sounds a bit like the Fairey Rotodyne which had the same setup using small jets. It was very loud even for the standards of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA3AkvxwS_M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne
I agree. It makes his code very approachable, as well as providing an excellent model for complex projects. I try to follow this as well to provide good examples within our corporate codebase.

The main challenge I have is not all engineers are equally willing/comfortable/able to communicate their ideas in this way. Sometimes because of ingrained preference (comments are never necessary), other times because of language barriers.
Yes, it's my impression that helicopters have problems with thin air reducing lift long before they lose engine power.
That's why it's easier for them to fly forward than hover at high altitudes; the forward velocity of a moving helicopter provides more airflow over the rotors and thus more lift. I don't think it's a matter of jamming more air into the turboshaft engines, which presumably could be done using larger intakes.
In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?
Adding to this reddit is centralizing themselves. Classically they were a link aggregator, a place pointing to other content. Now if you upload something there reddit is the place its pointing to. A video on reddit is hard to download, and a link to a video is always opened with a full reddit view with comments and everything.

I dont like the way they are going and have sought alternatives 2 years ago. Thats where i found hackernews and tildes.net which are pretty good. However not a good alternative to the niche subreddits we all love.
Please read the linked paper. The 600 iu dosage recommendation is due to statistical error, and the paper is rather short but goes through it.

200 iu sounds very low.
It is causing myocarditis and myocarditis is causing permanent damage to some %that you can Google.
Originally I was more in favor of phpbb style forums and anti likes/favorites/upvotes but I've abandoned that attitude.

I really think it's the same as it ever was. If you want to find quality you need to start with your interests and then find a community from there. Discovering a huge community and being frustrated or upset that it's not catered to your preferences is a mistake. The lower the barrier to entry, the lower the quality of the forum will be.

And it's important to remember barrier to entry isn't just technical knowledge. Barrier to entry could be something as obvious but unspoken as writing style. Even as I'm typing this comment I'm aware that using my "hacker news voice" with all of the attendant style rules that make it fit with the community.

*edit: also I'm sorry to see that you are being downvoted because I get your sentiment
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Oh there’s like 5 of us playing it on the same pc so there’s always ideas thrown around. If nothing works then start clicking on everything :)

I don’t recall it to be as frustrating as say King’s Quest but then again it might be nostalgia.
Yeah, that particular configuration of SR guys didn't really work out. Why they went drinking and left me to finish up is a longer story, life lesson. I quit within months and went to work with a couple of the more dedicated of the bunch.
You should turn this comment into a blog post. Your writing is captivating. You made this ecosystem sound a lot cooler than the web pages you linked to.
I'm struggling to bring to mind a 'reputable' source that I haven't caught in some heinous misinformation in the past couple of years. Potentially worse is that social media companies are censoring opinions they disagree with.

I am genuinely concerned about how people will stay informed in the future.
For C I mostly agree, but from what I understand there's still a ton of new C++ being written and even replacing "legacy" alternative languages even if they provide advantages.
From Russia to United States, democracy might be ‘backsliding' globally
If I had a penny for every time people write blanket statements of this nature, id be a wealthy man.

The list of privatised institutions that perform worse than their publically owned equivalents nations is very long.

Passenger rail in US and UK is privately owned and terrible compared to French and Spanish.
US broadband is quite poor. US healthcare is much worse value. Private prisons - I dont even know what they were thinking.

One must carefully access if market-based solution for a given problem is suitable, or if the potential for abuse and natural monopoly just too great.
> Video games are terrible at interpersonal relationships, for example. I find the more "interactive" relationships with NPCs the more shallow the relationshop, while "railroad" games tend to be better at it.

I think this is more of a money issue. in a highly linear game, every dollar is spent on content that every player will experience. if you have even three choices in the game that depend on each other meaningfully, you suddenly have eight possible endings and several additional plot paths on the way there. so you have to do several times as much development work to achieve the same level of polish, but each player will probably only experience one or two of the paths. they'll still only pay ~$60 for it.
Many would argue that Electron itself is a meme. An unfunny one that gets repeated at the user’s expense ad nauseam.
You are right! I like Django admin panel, without coding you get UI and I'm comfortable with Django + DRF.

In Flask you need to add many things to make it usable.

If you check the code of the tutorial you will see that it differs from the most of the ML-to-REST-API tutorials. It's not only setting the endpoint. You can have many algorithms with many versions and stages (testing, production). There is A/B testing example. Of course you can do all in Flask but I prefer Django because many things are there already.
quick poll: do the people of HN prefer resources like this in video format or written formats like blogs or actual docs? i’ve personally found it difficult to self-learn from YouTube videos so if you prefer that, what about it do you like?
They're acting like teenagers with a Robinhood account.
I get they lost a lot of money but this looks like a hail mary attempt to recover from their bad investments.
Please don't go by what you last heard and instead read the linked paper to get an idea as to how the recommended dosage was arrived at and how statistical errors caused the recommended dosage to be too low.
> The bigger reason

It's a tricky thing estimating coefficients for non-repeatable experiments like much of history. I'd prefer to phrase it as "another significant factor."
I don't think that sex education and accessible abortions stops people from being emotionally invested in finding out if they are pregnant. This can be a stressful question whether you want a child, don't want a child, or don't know!
Re: Cross-discipline where the skills don't transfer -
Ehh depends on a lot of things? If the assist can go on for months, a lot more makes sense. Plus, I dunno about you, but programmer seems to be almost entirely "learn new skills". Sure, they're all programming skills, but we're still really good at picking stuff up as we go.

Re: Sales -
I'm actually a "Solutions Engineer", which is one of the many versions of sales-supporting-engineer roles, others being "solutions architect", "customer engineer", "sales engineer", "field engineer", etc etc. Depends on what kind of thing the company makes (AWS is def SAs, for ex, while stuff that gets physical installs is FEs (AFIAK)), the balance between pre-sales and post-sales in the role, etc. I love it, and if you like face-time with people while still doing tech, you might as well. I kinda view the whole category as under the motto: "My job is to deploy our technology"
True, but I don't know how to relate this to "terrorists using telegram." I mean, communication is fast these days. It's not like we can prevent a militant in Syria from hearing news from Europe for months.

re preamble: Of course, everything has stuff that happen before it. But, it's not like there were decades of "something major is cooking here" before the revolutions. No one really expected them. Voltaire, Rousseau and others associated with the revolutions had just recently published. Even they were cagey about being labeled "liberals." The idea of absolute sovereignty of "the third estate" was considered out there until the revolution was already happening. AKAIK, the term "democracy" went from meaning "naive anarchist ideas" to an actual system of government within 3-4 years.

Monarchism went from being the only realistic option to outdated and doomed very fast, viral and global 250 years ago.
I was not able to find a list of issues that their static tool was supposed to look for. List of links to github issues would be interesting as well.
Ask HN: Has anyone thought about digitizing co-working spaces?
I am working on a project to bring entrepreneurs and digital makers together online via a platform to digitalise the interactions they have on the physical spaces. I figure most of the time would be specific questions or advise from other members of the office and end up being short conversations of around 30 minutes. Do Slack or Discord cover these needs?
Try out https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news. I find it to be a decent evaluator of accuracy and bias.
Yes, Bezos’ kids will be wealthy and even in 500 years they will be wealthy (look at J&J, Rockefeller, Canegie, etc) but that’s still better than the earldoms and such in the UK where there’s still massive chunks of land centuries later controlled only because of birth. Turnover was based on royal decree, not bankruptcy/ legal transfer/etc

So not saying trillionaires are perfect, just that they have fewer flaws than aristocracy.
America should not give entirely up on cars, but reduce to a more balanced level where cars are not a necessity to live. Americans engineered many places to be car dependent when it didn't have to. Once something changes from a nice to have to a requirement, it becomes more like a drug, and the freedom is lost.
> Google Flights that shows you the legroom for each flight right next to the price

I've never seen this before on a flight booking site. How widespread and discoverable is this feature across the major booking sites, outside of Google Flights?
Here you go: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/10...

Say it's about $10k for federal, for ease of calculation. If it's less, then that means even more people's lifelong contributions are incinerated by a propaganda rag.
Well they haven't done long-term testing, but this definitely sounds like a step in the right direction.
I don't think its snark. Its, don't worry about optimization to soon.
Basically the only interactions I have with reddit nowadays is my Pythonbot that grabs wallpapers from a few subreddits.
No doubt you can try and hey, maybe it will work?

I definitely know it works for people stuck in the immigration system, but this particular example (a visa for a temporary trip to the US) doesn’t seem like it would rank all that high on a Congressman’s priorities.

My guess is they’ll look into and tell you there isn’t anything they could do. Might speed up the rejection though.
This is a good rundown of GNU Make capabilities. Be careful about relying on things like pkg-config to auto-discover dependencies, since distros changing things will permanently break the entire history of your project. Then you can't git bisect and have to use things like Docker to go back and examine old versions.

Here's a Makefile I put together recently that builds over 9000 objects, 72 libraries, and a few hundred executables. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/Makefile The interesting part I've noticed is tuning the makefile so it correctly orders linker arguments, making sure the relationships between granular libraries is a DAG, and being able to build individual targets without building the world. GNU Make probably makes this easier than any other tool, since it's secretly a functional programming language. Which is something that might frighten the uninitiated.
The people who are developing spacecraft, writing poetry, or reshaping the internet are not "average Americans."

Neverthess, I agree that the statement is without merit. I think this stereotype comes from Europeans, who tend to be more worldly than Americans (for example, nearly everyone in Europe speaks both their native language and English).

What Europeans tend to forget is that in Europe, you can hop on a train, airplane, hell, even a car, and within an hour be in another country, for less than the price of a fancy dinner.

America, by contrast, is huge. As a result, travel is more expensive, more time-consuming, and much harder when it comes to finding diversity.