skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it interesting you choose this as an example, and not rather say that "Fred the Farmboy" might actually see those "librul coastal elites" or "ivory tower intellectuals" as people like himself.

I wonder, if he had instead chosen your example, would you no longer have found it interesting, but other people would then have found his new comment interesting (who did not find the one he made here interesting).

Abstractly, it is quite interesting what humans find to be interesting, and how that interest level can be so easily inverted by simply injecting of new values into various seemingly innocuous variables.

Well, I find it interesting anyways. But most other people I've encountered seem to kind of consider such topics to be....~"not appropriate for discussion in polite company", in that they often have strong negative reactions to the very idea, if not outright demanding that you cease engaging in discussion of such topics ("starting flame wars" is the formal terminology used during Overton Window enforcement) - and if you do not, they themselves will disengage from discussing the topic (while maintaining an air of extreme confidence and certainty in their alternative ideas). "Gaslighting", "whataboutism", "gish galloping", etc are some of the most common rhetorical accusations that I have experienced in my journeys (if any are given at all that is).
> Do you seriously think Scalia cared about protecting people's rights to bear arms beyond the text of the 2nd amendment?

Whatever rights to bear arms there are, they come from the 2nd Amendment. It is absurd to stretch an Amendment about "well regulated Militia" to mean D.C. can't require people to store a handgun with a trigger lock because it would impinge on their ability to use it for personal protection. Yet that's what Scalia in the majority decided.

> what constitutes a true liberal originalist?

You keep missing my point; if anyone was actually an originalist, some of their decisions would seem conservative, some would seem liberal, because they would just obediently be following what the text says. No judge actually does that and that alone, I'm only aware of conservative judges that claim they do. The term "originalist" was invented by conservatives so that's not surprising.

I am not saying all conservative judges make wrong decisions and liberal judges make right ones. I'm saying conservatives attack outcomes they don't like as not being "originalist" instead of being honest that it's an outcome they don't like. They're hypocrites.

But this is not really relevant to the original claim of the Federalist Society undermining democracy; I think it would go to far to say to be conservative is to be anti-democratic. If the Federalist Society is anti-democratic, it's more in their means than in their ends.
From my perspective there are two sticky elements to vim, where once you’re accustomed to exploiting them, you find it very difficult to leave.

The first (chronologically speaking, for most people) is modal editing. Most popular editors today support vim bindings. So this bulwark is gradually eroding.

The second is the automation. Any piece of your workflow can be captured and remapped to a couple keystrokes.

Some other editor might innovate a new feature that vanilla vim doesn’t have (in fact this occurs regularly).

The (not unique in idea, but in implementation) power of vim is not any superficial feature, it’s the meta feature of extensibility, and how this is interwoven with the modal editor idea.

I think many people who come to vim and then leave it for another editor get the first idea, but never got used to the second idea, or never got around to integrating the two.
That's a cool idea. I'm usually cynical about that stuff, but this could actually work.
A former Intel engineer here. Paul Otellini -- a non-engineer -- was not a right man for the CEO job. He instilled a bean-counting culture driving technologists out of the decision-making process. It was downhill ever since he became the boss. And as mentioned elsewhere a counter productive and oftentimes adversarial relationships between "sister" design teams (Santa Clara, Jones Farm, Israel, Austin) was a huge drag.
This.

It feels like the "Old World" of open source was mostly about passionate people developing (and open sourcing) software for other similarly passionate people (think of some of the great projects on Freshmeat 20 years ago). I am not saying it was perfect but there used to be some sort of etiquette.

Now the demographic has changed drastically. On the "maintainer" side you have a lot more people just dumping their stuff on Github (public repos were the only one free) and only want to collect the positive ("feel good", resume padding).

On the "Consumer" side you have way more people that completely abuse online helping channels such as StackOverflow, or Github issues (how many times have I seen someone say "hello it does not work can you help me").

It reminds me on how IT departments evolved in Corporations where years of abuse lead IT departments to develop a very conservative defense mechanism that basically leads to the function being solely self serving.

I am shocked reading this thread that it has become completely ok to flat out ignore legitimate and well researched/documented bug reports. Feels like we are throwing the baby with the water here.
I run a small site/app where wingsuit pilots upload gps tracks for analysis. 180mph is fast but can be achieved/sustained without a jet.

In practice that is difficult to do on most BASE jumps as you need to sustain a steep angle for 10-15 seconds to hit that speed. Density altitude will greatly affect performance as well.

What's cool is being able to sustain 180mph while not losing altitude, which it sounds like BMW+Salzmann have accomplished. From the article:

"While Salzmann’s first flight was a resounding success, it appears he’s not resting on his laurels. According to BMW, the daredevil wants to fly between the skyscrapers of South Korea next."

I've dreamed of being able to zigzag through downtown skyscrapers for more than 10-15 seconds. The Jetman project is astounding. From a friend who is working on a copycat, the costs are close to 100k to replicate. Eager to see experimentation+progress on any projects with the promise of making hybrid human+wing flight more accessible (cheaper).
Why not the IntelliJ Vim plugin with Clion? I think the better distinction is Vim for editing text, IDE for performing non text editing tasks.
Thanks, I wholeheartedly agree. It sucks to get a PR that was clearly work that you want to reject because it's a direction you didn't want to go, has big flaws, or would be hard to maintain.

I'm mostly talking about simple PRs, little bug fixes, even documentation improvements.

But even big PRs, all I ask is basic human courtesy that we provide each other in meat space. It's totally fine to say, "Thanks but I'm sorry we won't accept this." especially when it's out of the blue. What isn't fine is being rude. It's wrecking the community.
It's not stupid. It's just a matter of how much time the maintainer has and how they wish to spend it. People who submit PRs forget that they are the only person, at the time of submission, who understands what their PR does without any further effort. Maintainers have to spend time (away from their day job or leisure time or whatever) understanding your work and not getting paid a cent for it. For a popular project, spread that effect across a thousand or so users.
Sounds like you have a similar setup to me. I'm running HA with mostly Jasco switches. It's been okay, but there have been hiccups. Z-Wave devices can be annoying -- ESPECIALLY door locks. I've gotten them all working, but the setup was finicky, mostly due to the security requirements. The only way I deal with HA breaking changes is that I don't update often. About once every couple years I've gone in, dedicated a couple hours on a Saturday to doing a major update. And I keep everything in git so I can roll back if something goes pear shaped.

I'm probably sticking with HA, but my latest batch of light switches have been TP-Link Kasa WiFi switches and I really like them. Very fast to respond. Easier to setup than Z-Wave.
Thank you for this.

I absolute despise this lowest common denominator argument that is so often reiterated in society today: “no one is entitled to my time or energy!!!”

Ok sure, that is technically true, but are you actually doing yourself or anyone else any good by just dissolving good faith like that?

No, what goes around comes around, and you are just contributing to the destruction of community.

That doesn’t mean just go be a doormat for everyone. But to do the opposite and just accuse anyone that even so much as points in your direction of being entitled to your attention, is beyond messed up.
Stop buying consumer networking devices and the reboot problem goes away. Last I checked my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X uptime was just over 2 years. 0 issues. Same with the Unifi APs I use in my house.
Also consider giving Crystal lang a look, in particular the Amber and Lucky web frameworks. Amber in particular is designed to feel just like Rails and accomplishes that pretty well in my opinion.

Crystal is designed to feel like Ruby but to be "fast like C". I think in reality by adding a type system it manages to be better than Ruby.

Small but very welcoming community with a number of startups and companies running things in production. Crystal itself is doing well with the 1.0 release looming very soon.
Turn $1.5 Blue Pill STM32 board into a Sigrok compatible logic analyzer
I think they missed an opportunity for a great product; let me explain.

You only needed to add the ability to "enclose" your office space with some sort of sound-proof film or panel, and voilà, a much more interesting piece of furniture.

The current Ori simply offers the ability to neatly "collapse" the "mess" of a home office, and substitute it with a wall-mounted TV piece of furniture. Ok, fine, but... Meh.

Instead, give me a chance to have a sound-proof bubble I can use for phone calls and video calls, so that screaming kids in the other rooms are not ruining the call, and similar issues. Then I'm interested.
It's absurd to say that only a little bit of luck is necessary.
>especially when you take into account the privacy issues.

HomeAssistant seems to be the most popular open source "smart devices" manager.
The Physics (and Sounds) of Magnetic Monopoles – With Felix Flicker
It often surprises people what effort someone will go to to steal their identity.

Consider that you have a github account. You might be in the supply chain for a bit of code someone needs to read or backdoor to attack a company that you've never heard of. Github is a harder target though.

The scary ones are the real estate funds redirectors. They just need to be in your inbox for a little bit and boom, hundreds of thousands of $ gone because people don't take the time to re-verify bank account details by in person.
I think it is about how bugs are submitted. I see bugs on GitHub that are like

"BUG FIX IT NOW" (entitled)

vs

"I noticed a bug when testing v1.17 on Ubuntu 16.04 while using Python 2.6" (constructive)
I was curious myself.

https://compliancy-group.com/hipaa-fines-directory-year/
I appreciate the sarcasm. Some responses in this thread are giving me a bad vibe. This site is full of users thinking they can somewhat engineer society towards what they think its a proper state and that aligns very well with the currant behavior of big social media corporations. I wonder when did we tech people deviated so much towards being aspiring tyrants...
Fantastic, I'm looking forward to testing this out.
I'm not a power electronics guy but can a charging circuit realistically be a fire hazard without an initial overcurrent?

It seems like good redundancy to have thermal cut-off but theoretically a fire would have to be preceded by a massive overcurrent anyway, no?
An interesting consideration: using something like this might have negative tax implications. In Australia, you can claim home office expenses by one of two methods: fixed rate, or actual cost. As well as being very convenient, the fixed rate method is typically going to be quite advantageous (certainly has always been for me—my actual costs are quite slight), as it’s 52¢ of deductions per hour, which is about a thousand dollars for a full-time year. But to go with the fixed rate method, you have to have a dedicated work area—if it’s an area of the house that would already be being lit and heated or cooled or whatever, it’s assumed the actual cost is negligible. I don’t believe this thing would count as a dedicated work area, so if you file your taxes honestly it could easily cost you most of a thousand dollars of taxable income per year; depending on your income, this could effectively make using this office cost you $200–400 a year, compared with using a dedicated room (of course, if you don’t have a spare room to dedicate to the purpose—).

Source: https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/income-and-deductions/ded...

(This year there’s also a “shortcut method” which I presume is due to lots of COVID-19 working from home, at 80¢ per hour including all costs, so no claiming phone or internet costs on top of it as in the fixed rate method, and no dedicated work area required.)
Quadcopters are enormously more robust. With an RC helicopter any hard landing probably means replacing hundreds of dollars of finicky bearings and swash plates. Racing drones on the other hand smash into stuff all the time and keep going.
> Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call (seconded by AP) of President-elect Biden's win in Arizona. That enraged Trump, and gave him something tangible to use in his attacks on the network.

Their call for Arizona did seem premature, but it wasn’t wrong. “Correct but a bit early, and didn’t change anything” doesn’t seem like a strong avenue for attack.
I keep my resumes crisp and to the point. The first section briefly explains how I evolved from a Python 2.7 desktop application developer to a full stack web developer using Python 3 on the backend over the years.

The rest is just my employment history, a few lines describing my academic achievements and a few links to personal projects related to my work experience (I change these depending on what my potential employer is looking for).

I write this on a HTML sheet using Bootstrap for the layout and some basic styles, and I convert it to a PDF with pdfkit. Recruiters love it so far.
The problem is, people are no longer extending these basic human decencies to one another in even just meat space.
Depends on where you are. If you land in the metropolitans or the provincial capitols then it's a lot better. The more remote you go the more local connections you need to do things. That's why some areas are actually completely avoided by investors.

When people say "China" sometimes they don't realize that China is as diverse as the whole Europe (but under a central gov) so there are a lot of discrepancies among different areas.
And you couldn't directly integrate with other services?
I think it's a very constructive word.

Because in this world; very often, making yourself emotionally vulnerable DOES expose one to some pretty horrible abuse, if you do it in the wrong setting. And it often ends up making the problem worse, prolonging or even preventing recovery.

We'd really like to live in a world where people are not driven to attack each other when they are down. But unfortunately, that's not the world we live in, and I think people need to be pretty vigilant when they're going through something like this and looking for help. TBH I find that anonymous internet forums are very useful places for this sort of thing, (because they're free, and convenient) - but on the other hand, there are some really bad predators out there who are constantly on the lookout for a gazelle to eat.
How many of Scalia’s opinions have you actually read?

Humans are not perfect, and I think all judges can delude themselves with motivated reasoning at times, and all judges have some bad opinions, but having read many SCOTUS opinions, Scalia always struck me as one of the more logical and thoughtful members of the court.
The only thing that worries me about the domain is lack of reviews about the entity that manages the .ht ccTLD.
I completely agree. I've had to turn away PRs that came out of the blue and went a direction I didn't want to take. It sucks when that happens.

But when it does, I thank the person and explain the decision. It's not what they want to hear, but it's a lot more respectful of their effort than silence or writing a blog post about how annoying they are.
The problem is not all the claims you might consider baseless actually are and neither you nor I have any way of really knowing.
One of AWS's major flaws is that it provides an encouraging UI that almost begs new teams to create a special snowflake manual configuration.

The AWS UI should ideally be refactored to be a frontend for an infrastructure as code service like CloudFormation.

One of the other problems with AWS+CF though is that it doesn't support every option from every service, e.g. populating secrets was a hassle when I used it.
This is why they cannot use the EDF for launch—nowhere near enough thrust. But thrust is far less important for sustained speed, where pitch speed becomes the critical element.
For almost everyome, that's not an option.
> I don't felt

The correct way to say this is "I didn't feel".

It might be irrelevant, but if I were in your shoes I would have liked to be shown the correct way to say it. Not trying to be pedantic.

Edit: unless you meant "I haven't felt", which has of course a different meaning.
It is spelled HIPAA -- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Having 4 weaker motors is generally safer than one big one if something were to hit it, and you can shorten the blades because the lift is spread across 4x as many blades.

Multiple motors is good as well for any motor failures, as quads (if they're well designed) can fly after even multiple motor failures.
Profiles in Perseverance: Jack Ma
I saw this on the news a couple of days ago. It stated that flight time is about five minutes before the battery runs out.

That time in "flight" doesn't seem much different than the time it would take to plummet to your death. The only material difference seems to be the not dying part.
I did this on a prior home and then removed almost all of them just prior to moving. I haven't re-installed them in the 4-years we've been at our new home simply because the "failure rate" was so frustrating to me.

I don't mean hardware failure, I mean "intermittent, rare command failure" -- I've never experienced quite the same level of annoyance/rage from anything else, versus hitting a switch and having it either not turn on/off or having it be delayed by 1-second.

Granted, that was relatively rare, but having a wall switch not work even just 2-in-100 is enough to give me serious pause. I did love & do miss the ability to turn all lights off from a bedside switch, to run scenes, etc. -- but I'm just not sure it's worth the trade-off.
Exactly. Notice though how strong the resistance is to recognizing nuclear power as a viable option. It's literally a win-win for people concerned about climate change and those concerned about crippling the economy. Everything comes with a trade-off.
Totally agree, but the people complaining about bug reports rarely ever acknowledge the difference, and they often treat them all the same.

Take for example OP, who would say essentially "Pay me first" outright without even considering the bug.
asyncio was introduced only recently, roughly python 3.4 and above. There wasn't anything for you to see.

I'd wager it only became usable very recently since most development was stuck writing code compatible with python 2 and python 3, precluding the usage of asyncio.
You missed the point. The partner who made the pizza didn’t eat it.
Even in mid-sized projects there's usually one or two pages with sufficiently complicated front-ends that it's worth having something like React in your toolbox, though it might be Vue or Svelte.

You don't have to make the whole app a SPA to use these tools. You can just use it in those few pages that really need it.
I'm not familiar with gemini or gopher.
Anyone want to offer a summary ?
I'm pretty sure it's daughter-father, not wife-husband.
You could use these suits to help pilots who can’t land their plane - they literally only need a few moments of “burn” close to the surface
You're just vastly underestimating the stability four rotors bring. They're not flying in a vacuum. There are gusts of wind on top of actually moving the copter where you want him to go.

That can't be reasonably compensated by unless you use a processor which requires way more energy then the rotors ever will.
What I Learned from Bombing a Technical Interview
It's a matter of scaling laws. You don't see insects or hummingbirds gliding anywhere, small things fly differently.
"I don't feel" is grammatically correct and has lower edit distance.
The point is that your friends don't always have similar beliefs to you. You don't think rednecks in the south play video games or soup up their cars or listen to rock and roll, the same as a Biden voter from Los Angeles?

So if you set up a forum for fans of the Atari, you get all kinds. They get to know each other. And then they talk about whatever.

But several things have smashed that all to pieces.

The first and main problem is that everything is a single site with millions of people now. You can go over to /r/atari and talk about Atari, but if you try to talk to any of those people about climate change they'll direct you to a different sub, which is full of entirely different people who you don't know or trust.

Then the sites that are independent are often operated by the company that makes the product. Sony might host a PlayStation forum, but they're going to boot you out for talking about politics or religion.

And then there's the fact that everything has become disposable. What do you do with your broken out of warranty Atari? Get a soldering iron. What do you do with a broken out of warranty iMac? Get a rubbish bin. But then there's nothing to build a community around, because everything is an appliance that you can't improve or repair.
You're forgetting a privilege to have a cheap phone, free maps, free decent email provider, cheap usable computer etc. It's possible thanks to Google. Of course it's costly to transition the same way it would be costly to get those services if Google wasn't around.
thanks for sharing what a great read!

"And the adults who had set up Communitree were horrified, because they were being overrun by these students. The place that was founded on open access had too much open access, too much openness. They couldn’t defend themselves against their own users. The place that was founded on free speech had too much freedom. They had no way of saying, “No, that’s not the kind of free speech we meant.” But that was a requirement. In order to defend themselves against being overrun, that was something that they needed to have that they didn’t have, and in the end, they simply shut the site down."
Taking HN threads into nationalistic flamewar and adding personal swipes will get you banned here. If you keep posting like this we are going to have to ban you again, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules going forward.
Yup, I think I and that child are talking past each other. :-(

It's good though because they raise some really valid points about the importance of intuition. I joke with my colleagues that all we're doing is encoding data as a hilbert space and slapping an algorithm on it, but that elides the fact that intuition like the child is talking about is important for knowing how to build that hilbert space.