skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame that Reddit relies so heavily on their "default" front page experience.

99.9% of people looking at Reddit will never see how good and useful it can be. My front page is just the stuff I'm into - a couple dozen niche subreddits with good cultures. It is nice. It is my favorite place on the internet.

Most people will never take the time to make an account and curate their subreddit subscriptions.

Could that process be improved and streamlined? Absolutely yes. When you make an account -- or perhaps even before -- it should probably hold your hand and walk you through a preferences discovery process.

As it stands now, customizing Reddit is effectively a collection of "power user" features and we all know how that goes: only a tiny fraction of users will ever bother.
I think ec2 gives 99.99% availability in their SLA, no need to scale across regions or even AZs. Multi AZ RDS is 99.95%. We have a simple ELB/EC2/RDS/S3 stack on us-east-1 and need high availability for a very small amount of users and run very cheap.
I remember Quest For Glory IV shipped with a game-breaking bug that required downloading a patch from a BBS and possibly starting with a new save. I never finished the game because of that one.

Much worse when it was ROM media - Impossible Mission for the Atari 7800 is literally impossible to complete because of a bug that made it into the release.

Still, this stuff was really rare. Very different QA mindset when recalling the product is impossible or expensive.
I'll agree with your point but his 4 other examples were "steamship, railroad, assembly line, and commercial aviation" which are comparable. With that said it felt like everyone I knew watched it (I associate with mostly non-techies) so to each his own. But yes the moon landing was on another level.
Path Trimming in Nightly Rust
This is the one half of my bad experiences are associated with:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
You are surely trolling me now :)
I don't have a link handy, but there is a "monkey island 1 ultimate talkie" version of the original Monkey Island that I highly recommend.

My understanding is that someone backported the speech from the remastered version into the original game. So you can play the original MI1 in SCUMMVM, with speech. It's great.

edit: this might be the link https://archive.org/details/MONKEYISLAND_201903
Obviously Apple. That's the entire point of taking a principled stance on something. If a country is not on the list, Apple is declaring they don't think it does human rights abuses.
The problem was with C dependencies. I'd install Xcode CLI tools, that didn't work then I'd try installing them with brew and that didn't work.

I was trying to get Jupyter Notebook and an R engine to work as advertised in a Packt ebook.

Only way I got it to work was not by installing it on MacOS but a Vagrantbox and then doing port fowarding.

But I'll have to look into the Docker way. Maybe that way is better.
> For years, I was profoundly puzzled by people that are willing to give hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars to (mostly women) they'll never meet for what's basically freely available offline.

That's because you seems to misunderstands theirs needs and misunderstands the cost of what you consider "freely available offline". I recently saw a tiktok of a girl crying because she fake one, well they are just putting a price over that effort.

> It's a bit sick that the internet -- the very thing which was supposed to bring people together -- ends up cannibalizing its own.

Yeah, it's something that I realize day after day. In the past it wasn't like this, I've seen so many people make real connections, but since a few years, maybe a decade, making friendship over the internet seemed to have changed (maybe it's just me though).

I feel like you got something with theses fake relationship. They are so much easier to maintains, they are easy source of dopamine and they still "feel" like real ones, but they aren't. Some pay for them sure, but Youtube videos are another cheap ones, mostly the vlog format, are most probably source of many of them.
>It doesn't take much effort to find current instances of sword, famine, and plague.

And yet those things are affecting fewer people proportionally than at any time in recorded history.
I use reddit as a google fix. Essentially I search for what I want + reddit then click the links in the posts. This has become harder due to the pile of shit that is google Amp but if it still works
Thanks, I'll take a look a this.
The XML element object always has this function, in every implementation I’ve seen.
Two large threads about this already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24356741 (1637 points/466 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362047 (404 points/101 comments)
Dotty 0.27.0-RC1 – ScalaJS, performance, stability
I think this is right, but it's still IMO basically a natural language semantics issue. For instance in haskell (which has a pretty advanced static type system), I would still probably be satisfied with:

-- A float between 0 and 1, inclusive.
type UnitInterval = Float

foo :: UnitInterval -> SomeResultPresumably
foo accuracy = ...

i.e. I think the essential problem in the SO question is solved, even though we have no additional type safety.

A language without type synonyms could do just as well with CPP defines
Combine with the JS/TS syntax sugar for objects and

{person}

Is an object person with key person and value person of type Person
Thanks for taking the time write it all out, much appreciated.

Do you know if the time of day makes a different? I avoid the Sun between 9am-3pm as that seems relatively easy to get sunburned during that time, but I wonder if the alleged benefits are tied to the same time window?
It seems like you completely missed the point, or are intentionally being facetious and trolling here. (No where did I say anything about doing away visas. If the US had a less restrictive visa policy, like Canada or other Western countries, I would have few complaints.)

Most countries, at least most Western countries don't have a hard numerical limit on high-skilled work visas. (They might have numerical limits/targets on permanent residents, but rarely on highly-paid, educated, high-skilled workers.)

The only countries that do (that I'm aware of) are the United States and Switzerland. Note: most other countries don't arbitrary numerical limits on high-skilled work visas whatsoever.

Switzerland has a limit of 8,500. This is for one of richest most advanced economies in the world with a population with 8.5 million. The visas are obviously rapidly exhausted. For example, here is an article from 2017 complaining about it: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/worker-visas_cantons-demand-mor...

The Swiss high-skilled work visa limit as percent of population is ~0.1%. Why is the limit so low in Switzerland? Answer: Xenophobia.

The United States has a limit of 65,000 plus 20,000 for US advanced degree holders (and an exemption for non-profit research). Also an extremely rich country with an advanced economy that would (yes) benefit from high-skilled immigration. People that graduate from Harvard often can't manage to find a way to stay in the country, because of the US' horribly restrictive visa/immigration policy. Here's an article from the Harvard Crimson about it from freaking 2007: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/9/raise-the-h-1b-c...

The American high-skilled work visa limit as percent of population is ~0.03%. Why is the limit so low in the US? Also, answer: Xenophobia.

The xenophobia is so bad that the Trump administration has been trying extremely hard to exclude/deport this tiny 0.03% of new highly-paid educated immigrants. I was personally affected by this, as a previous visa of mine was denied for bullshit grounds (that courts have ruled in individual cases as being facetious and motivated by anti-immigrant animus). People with $200k+ salaries are being denied on joke grounds and told to depart the US. The United States is so xenophobic that it cannot tolerate adding 0.03% of highly-skilled well-paid educated people per year to its population.
Apple? Because this is a statement about their moral principles.
This is weird, someone in the OP thread said what you have.

A portion of fries can be 80 individuals, the proportion of all fries in the fryer might be 0.1; proportions are often expressed in percentages.

So "the proportion of the population using my tool is 1%" means 1/100, ie 0.01 of a population normalised to unity.

Pro-portion is like pro-rated, it's taken as in comparison to the whole (normalised to the whole, if you like).

"What proportion did you contribute" == what share of the whole did you contribute.

[en-gb native]
I think 14 because he mentioned being in a 2016 batch of YC
I agree, for simple things, FastAPI is really nice to work with. I'm currently rewriting some Flask/Sanic projects with FastAPI to make it easier to maintain.
The Grim Truth Behind the Pied Piper
I never had an account on reddit, and I never had problems with browsing/expanding the comments too. I am not from either US/EU so by the looks of it and the input of others it might be more of a regional thing rather than a universal one thus the conflict of information in discussions.
In theory performance management should be about helping people improve. In practice performance management is about four things:

1) Pay

2) Promotions

3) Accountability (e.g. firing)

4) To satisfy legal requirements (perceived and real)

Performance management falls under the umbrella of HR. HR's historical roots are in compliance. In the 90's when cost vs. profit center was the rage, the HRBP model emerged to prove HR could provide business value beyond compliance. HRBP is the dominant model now but it hasn't had the impact its creator intended. Inertia is a powerful thing.

Combine HR's roots in compliance, with the above four reasons performance management exists in practice and that will give you a good way to understand why performance management works the way it does.

If you're learning about these things in an effort to improve your own organization's practices then you can also use the above to evaluate any proposed changes and think about what they would have to contend with. History is replete with failures. Unless you are in a small organization, with total control over incentives and the culture then I will leave you with a quote from Blade:

"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill."
Effective product is the important part of "effective product launch." Find a user. Then another. Launching softly requires minimal resources and can be done today. Unless people care, nobody will care about a big product launch. Apple launched at a local computer club not live streaming from a packed auditorium. Good luck.
> I did not say "generics".

FYI if you’re talking about compile-time programming and you use the word “generic“ (as you did, in the context of a generic sort, which actually does have a meaning related to generics, as the routine works on containers of any type), note that this is a well-established term, which could be confusing if you actually are referring to something else.
Why do you need to intercept DNS queries on the network level? Can't you configure systemd-resolved to do what you need it to do?

Also, dnssec is implemented, and it works.
Thank you. I try. It's a little tiring, and I wonder if all the energy I've expended on it is worth anything, or a complete waste of time.
>Personally after watching it live, I'd argue Space X launching humans into space is one of those "moments".

There's no way that Space X launching humans, something we've done dozens of times, is as significant as the first time someone walked on the moon. 94% of households in the US watched that. I'd be surprised if 0.94% of households watched Space X.

That said, he is still wrong. 9/11 was definitely a shared cultural moment. At least shared across the US.
The last I heard, the human body needs/consumes ~700 IU of Vitamin D per day. So I think your US levels are actually the full intake.

One thing to consider is biological inefficiency. A 4,000 IU capsule contains 4,000 IUs, but that doesn't mean your body can't actually extract all 4,000 IUs.

That said, I think 1k IUs is considered a standard dose for people without a deficiency. 4k IUs are generally used by people who are currently deficient, or have other issues that cause the deficiency. Doctors will sometimes prescribe doses up to 10k IUs for deficient people.
Update from that link:

> It has been brought to my attention that there was a mistake by an entry level employee.

> So the Revenue Department itself was supposed to get all the NOCs required by going to all those offices, but an entry level employee forgot to add my file to the list of NA’s to be done.

> So now I have been told that all the NOC’s will be taken care of by the Revenue Department, Collector Office.

Doubt it's a systematic problem.
And by forcing users to download the app when they try to browse the website. It was like that for months.
Page doesn’t work for me in Safari on iOS 13.6.1

There’s a top bar and then everything else is just all black.
Young people consume top 40 pop, they're the consumer demographic for new pop music.
Ah, so it’s a vague unsupported aphorism that purports to explain something unmeasurable?

Just because something is pithy, doesn’t mean it’s true.
Many people are squeamish enough about their own urine to not want to hold a 2" long test strip in the stream, a 6" plastic device gives more clearance.

But in any case, test strips vary in how they work - some require a couple drops of urine in a specific spot on the strip, some say to dip in the urine cup until a dye mark appears. Is holding the test strip in the stream going to give the same result? I don't know.
There are so many examples where a niche subreddit got filled with drama, and then a significant chunk split off and created another subreddit that now fights with the original occasionally. Gaming subreddits appear to be particularly bad at this.
My anecdata: I'm a long time reddit user, hate their new UI/UX, avoid their App and now visit less. I'm also still looking for what's next. Im thinking to go back to finding good RSS.

Where is a good feed finder?
To me there's a pretty big difference. The moon landing was a national effort envisioned by the President and involving thousands of employees in the public sector as well as massive media coverage and public funding + support for close to a decade. SpaceX is a private company. Their accomplishments, while impressive, are nowhere near the same national-level endeavors as the Apollo program.

Also, if you ask anyone who was at least 5 years old in 1969, they will tell you the two events were nowhere near the same on an emotional and pure coverage level. The moon landing was by far the most-watched television broadcast in history up to that point, and held that record for a decade - 650 million viewers for a live event. Demo-2 was less than 11 million (with probably a billion more people having access to it than in 1969). It kind of saddens me that America has gotten to the point where people think these two events are equivalent. We've really lost the sense of what national identity-defining big projects even mean.
WFMU sold the FMA to Kitsplit in 2018, who in turn sold it to Tribe of Noise in 2019.
This 3-part article series starting with the link below is a much funnier take on a similar concept as Graeber's:

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta...
.. better than Batman Gotham ?
Amazon has been open-sourcing a lot lately. Firecracker (microVM service), Bottlerocket (Linux designed for hosting containers), and they've been distributing OpenJDK builds.

Perhaps not as much as Microsoft (these days), but they are certainly giving back.
> Looked at the article, but didn't see any. Perhaps it was cost? Does the Pentagon budget break out the cost of Stars & Stripes?

From the article:

> The eagerness to kill Stars and Stripes is hard to fathom. As the senators note in their letter to Esper, the $15.5 million saved by eliminating the newspaper’s subsidy would have a “negligible impact” on the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget.

That's 0.0022% of the Pentagons budget, i.e. essentially nothing.
> If there are no scientific studies about something, it's OK to rely on intuition and stories, and act upon them, until sufficient data is gathered for scientific inquiry.

Doesn't that lead to witch trials?
Illegal betting in video game (CSGO)
In Scandinavia, before potatoes, people sometimes used the inner layer of bark from trees as a supplement to grains when there was a shortage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread#Bark_bread_as_food
Quote from the the TrailofBits audit report [0]

> Anyone with administrative access to the Voatz
backend servers will have enough information to fully reconstruct the entire election,
deanonymize votes, deny votes, alter votes, and invalidate audit trails

That's...sub-optimal

[0] https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/revi...
In Scandinavia they reguarly added inner bark to flour during famine. In Russia, nettle and orache were used. There a good article which goes through what many cultures eat during famine below [1]. Some of it is pretty horrific:

> “…I have no idea how I managed to survive and stay alive. In 1933 we tried to survive the best we could. We collected grass, goose-foot, burdocks, rotten potatoes and made pancakes, soups from putrid beans or nettles.

> Collected clay from the trees and ate it, ate sparrows, pigeons, cats, dead and live dogs."

It goes further into mentions of infanticide canabilism which I won't quote directly here but is worth reading.

Birch inner bark flour seems to be "common" as far as obscure flour goes. Apparently it wasn't even a famine food as such, and just a normal part of their diet. [2]

[1] https://www.askaprepper.com/ingenious-foods-people-made-fami...

[2] https://practicalselfreliance.com/birch-bark-flour/
"The eagerness to kill Stars and Stripes is hard to fathom. As the senators note in their letter to Esper, the $15.5 million saved by eliminating the newspaper’s subsidy would have a “negligible impact” on the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget."
Agreed. I was especially unconvinced at the arguments for "repetition", for example that today's music is separated from the 90s only by "nuance". What? Sure, from up close it may seem that way, but given 30 years I'm sure we can look back and very clearly see the style developments just as we can for the 70s and the 80s.

It sounded to me like a case of "back in my day" but with incoherent arguments.
Interesting that you feel older demographics
degrade a platform. For me, it’s the opposite:
I am really starting to appreciate hobby forums
that are dominated by people a couple of decades
older than myself.

Yeah, it's funny. Older demographics "ruin" some platforms and really excel at others.

This is all 100% subjective, but I think many people would agree that older demographics are.... not always much fun on "general purpose" social networking platforms like Facebook.

Leaving Facebook's substantial ethical concerns aside for a moment, Facebook and Instagram stopped being fun real fast once everybody's parents and aunts and uncles showed up. It's simply too easy for Uncle Bob to repost anti-vax stuff or whatever he's into, and most people would prefer to keep some of the fun/exciting parts of their lives private from their families.

But, like you, I've gotten into some hobbies where the older folks have just a freaking amazing online presence - just super generous and talented people; absolute superstars of the community.
Tried, tested, and proven cloud cost management methods for both Azure and AWS
Note that the author of the linked piece killed and maimed a bunch of innocent people in order to blackmail major newspapers into printing it. In my opinion, out of respect for these victims and a desire to discourage such behavior, you should NOT read this piece, and instead wait to read Murray's piece (or Douthat's book). Say what you will about Charles Murray, but he's never put any explosive devices in the mail.
The answer is so obvious it doesn’t require this pedantic exercise.
"Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependent on education and socioeconomic status. No, it is not stupid or wasteful to use a hardware interface to help women with this."

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/130178603213683507...
From the article it sounds like the cost is $15.5m?

> The memo ordering the publication’s dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this move under the president’s fiscal year 2021 defense department budget request. It zeroed out the $15.5 million annual subsidy for Stars and Stripes.

> The eagerness to kill Stars and Stripes is hard to fathom. As the senators note in their letter to Esper, the $15.5 million saved by eliminating the newspaper’s subsidy would have a “negligible impact” on the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget.
There's a lot of alternatives in this space

Meander was the last one I can remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhnJpCgtUw
Cheating in Professional Video Game
From my experience east cost VCs are mostly former wall st folks, lawyers or family offices who are playing VC. Very few of them have any operating experience, and if they do, it's at BigCo, not in or around startups. I don't think they are well tuned to what non-traditional success looks like, and as a result they have problems pattern matching.
Most of the time? Isn’t that why everyone was pushing for molten salt or pebble reactors?

I was going to say coincidence but this was clearly Google doing creepy stalker things after it saw what else I was searching for on the Internet (even not using google.com) This popped into recommendations an hour after you asked:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=q3d3rzFTrLg
The second test had more clear instructions about "read results after X minutes, ignore any changes after that time". The electronic test wouldn't have had a visible line after 10 minutes that scares young college students when they think they can see the shadow of a second line if they hold it to the light the right way.
Unfortunately many of the true subreddits are now alt right havens.
Having a fifteen year old, my perspective is it’s the cool YouTube fetish object at the moment.

What I wonder about is why everything is a “group buy” basis. So none of these “companies” (mostly seems to be Shopify sites) have no cash to buy inventory or take any risk whatever? Or is the “group buy” kind of a hive-mind advertisement. “Oh others aren’t buying this ridiculous keyboard so I guess I should jump on too”

I just ordered for my son a 27$ 15g tube of some kind of bearing grease from McMaster Carr. All these keyboard shops sell it like its nectar of the gods. It’s just a normal specialty grease in fact. (Don’t ask me why a switch needs to be “lubed”).
Yes. And it works in uBlock Origin, which is what i've been saying to enable it in from the start. I didn't mention other adblockers
Discord is great when you want real time conversation, but it exists parallel to a subreddit, not as a replacement.

To look forwards, you must look backwards, at new forum software such as NodeBB or Flarum. Specialist niche communities are already shifting in that direction, or have never left their old BBSes behind, but are due to welcome a resurgence of new members.
I don't think the author is overestimating, I remember when this paper came ouy it was printed/aired all over the media as a The Great AI That Can Read Your Thoughts (TM).

I thinking he's just piling on the hype and showing what it really was.
He should of said he 3d printed the save icons
I'm OK with cutting $15.5 million from the military budget. Sure, it's a drop in the ocean, but any savings we can wring out of the military is a good thing.
Policy Wonks
It seems quite possible to love having a BS job.