skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using IRC for for 14 years now. I began with DALnet, EFnet, Freenode, OFTC, etc. These days, I just use Freenode only because all the main communities around open source technologies seem to hang out there.

Before StackOverflow was founded and became a thing, Freenode IRC was my primary source of help when I encountered issues in open source tools. I have learnt a lot from the #debian, ##math, and #not-math channels, especially.

Some of my favourite channels on Freenode IRC include #lisp, #emacs, and #python. They have great communities with many regulars who have great attitude. These channels are also quite friendly to beginners. I still remember an interesting incident from 2006 when I posted a mathematics question to one of the channels. The channel was mostly quiet. After about 15 minutes, I got detailed answers from multiple members of the channel. 20 minutes or so later, I saw others posting Python questions to the same channel. That is when I realized that I had inadvertently posted a mathematics question in the #python channel. :)
I'm just guessing, could it be that it's the top vs new categories? It's difficult to leave the "new" section without interesting and relevant content. If you check the new section, it's full of duplicates, spam, self-promo or otherwise uninteresting submissions with zero comments.

Same goes for comments, bad comments get downvoted and greyed out quickly, whereas great comments get elevated.
Agree. We want to distribute the pie with equity, but GDP is still probably a pretty good measure of how much pie there is.
> I wish I remember the name that the professor used for this concept, but essentially, he argued that the same activity might be ethical or unethical depending on ease and scale.

I hope you remember too, since so many drive-by internet comments reject that distinction in order to dismiss someone's valid concerns about something. It'd be a useful concept to reference in such situations.
All years are good.

'Foreigners in Afghanistan have long joked that Afghanistan is where the world’s Corollas come to die. But Afghan’s take issue with that description.

“They come here to die?” asked a puzzled Askar Khan while leading reporters through dozens of parked Corollas in his dealership at the eastern edge of Kabul. “But Corollas never, never die. They drive on forever.”'

https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/afghanistan-gives-a...
>The most common use of heterodox seem to span from status-quo to far-right libertarianism. That's not very imaginative.

You might want to look into Marxian economics, Modern Monetary Theory and ecological economics. There's some interesting stuff there that might interest you. :)
> GDP has some great features - it's relatively easy to measure, has more-or-less a standard agreed and universal method of measurement and it is quantitative.

None of these great features indicate that a larger GDP is in any way desirable.

I don't think anyone argues against measuring GDP. The problem is when people implicitly assume a larger GDP is better.
I don't know that I'm defending it so much as pointing out how hinky it is to single out what's happening at Apple TV+ when the entire rest of the industry runs on exactly the same kind of executive influence, with the difference being that people actually watch stuff the rest of the industry produces.

If anything, the misleading part of my comment was the suggestion that this was a 30 Rock premise --- it's the premise of a pretty solid chunk of all late night NBC comedy in the 1990s, too, because GE actually did own NBC.
c diff proliferating in the solid waste?
> I thought that we had effectively neutered the religious right.

How could you pay attention to American politics in the last 30 years and possibly still think this?
Sure, nobody would expect porn to fill desires other than sexual. But, one can do other things to fulfill other desires.

> there are other facets of life where regular porn consumption or masturbation might have a negative effect

If there is a pathological addiction, yes, it will have a negative effect on one's life, just like most other addictions. (Addiction to sex, for instance)

But, otherwise, I can't really think of masturbation interfering with life that much. People frequently waste away 10 minutes in all kinds of ways.
I was hoping the link would be for Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz, which is actually on Gary Halbert's (the author of the linked book) list of essential reads. The more advertising/copywriting books I read, the more I discover how much out there is derivative of Eugene Schwartz, who wrote Breakthrough Advertising in the sixties. Although you might not want to get it from Amazon.
>As much as I am privacy-minded, the idea that someone could upload an explicit video to Pornhub without verifying that they were 18 is mind-boggling.

You make it sound like the statement requires no evidence. In reality it makes no difference if the uploader is 18 or not, but that the _recording_ is made consensually by 18+.

It is not a net positive for content producers, because viewers of legal but unverified porn (ie the wast majority of the content) will go to other sites.

I suspect xvideos viewership will go up, and they probably won't ally with the credit card agencies.
> What if you could have done something more productive or rewarding with your life instead

That's a bit unfair, though. The same reasoning applies to everything in your life that isn't strictly work. Gaming did change my life, requiring everything to be the most efficient use of your time is simply unreasonable.
Metromile, SPAC'ing at the Perfect Time
I was born and raised in Poland. Granted, Polish winters are not as bad as Siberian (-32°C is the lowest I experienced).

My friends and colleagues from the south (or even US) always ask me, why I dislike winter -- "I should already be used to it".

I doubt you can ever get used to it, but we've insulated our houses well and have good heating system (especially in dense cities). And you'd usually try to escape the cold as often as possible, mostly spending winter inside.

On the other hand, an additional negative of winters (or late autumn) is the heating makes the indoor air "thick" and unpleasant. You need to ventilate the room every hour or so. It's really tedious. During summer, you'd just leave your windows open whole day and have a nice air exchange.
When the financial costs of exposing yourself to such risks outweigh the time saved.

So, never. At least, not in our current software development industry.
My evolution writing JSON-REST APIs
This is an extremely weak argument. At a certain scale, policy becomes about statistics rather than absolutes. This applies to absolutely everything, including the laws themselves.
Companies in all industries have to occasionally issue recalls on dangerous or faulty products, just like PornHub or Reddit have to occasionally delete stolen or illegal content.
Everything is a tradeoff. For instance if you think about optimistic mutations - where when you post on FB, it instantly reacts and moves on, the tradeoff is speed for a potentially more confusing user flow in the future (oh whoops our backend was down, and that post you made 5 minutes ago, yeah that's not around anymore).

Blanket philosophies like 10,000 hours or 100 millisecond, boil all of the nuance out of these tradeoffs. I'm a bit torn as I do see the benefit of simplicity, but am also a big proponent of thinking from first principles.
You’re right. Like I said, atomics are one space. Another as you point out is that the memory architecture is pretty unique at providing high throughout and lower latency than traditional x86 architectures. I suspect Intel and AMD will adjust their roadmaps accordingly as a result of this new competition.
Your nines or their nines?

I bet if you personally can't use it, but their overall reliability meets the bar, then they're within SLA.

Don't ask why I know this.
It is, but DR is definitely the more polished experience. DR2 has by far the best engine sounds of any race sim.
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Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made with little forethought?
Who else here thinks that good old mailing lists are better ? Higher density of thoughts, actual work, slower pace.

It's just a thought, I rarely use them but compared to most of the web it seems like a saner substrate
Sure, it doesn't hit the thermal envelope of Pro&Mini when working as is but isn't there a way to push it to run at higher voltage and frequencies?
Then your ad spend becomes your search engine optimization spend and you get even worse results.

It is quite hard for a search engine to fairly treat results which are trying everything to manipulate the system and results that aren’t trying at all.
Isn't it much the case that AMD beats Intel because AMD is 7nm while Intel is 10nm. And now, Apple is 5nm. You would expect the fastest performance from 5nm, assuming we don't take into account multi-threading.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-M1-Chip-Everything-W...
Surely the point is that this developmental ability to persist is wasted on FPS? You could have learnt a musical instrument or developed some other accomplishment that lasts a lifetime. I.e. the real problem is the opportunity cost
Hi HN,

Spent a few hours last weekend working on this very basic prototype frontend for an online kids learning playground for my son - target age range of Pre/K to early primary.

The idea is that, while he has some great work coming from his kindergarten, a lot of it is a bit too hands on for me to instruct him on while I am simultaneously working from home during the pandemic. Same with a lot of other webapps or platforms I've found for online learning - a lot of it is text-dense (hard for a kid who barely reads to figure out the instructions), and/or requires additional content or materials not just readily included in the app.

Kiddoo is a super simple fill-in-the-blank style learning tool for kids to work on their reading, writing, and math.

Right now I just have reading/writing going, but I have configured the platform for easily extending exercise content, including to other topics such as math or science.

Would your kid(s) use something like this? Would it be beneficial to your schooling experience?

Thanks!
I have these glasses that block blue light and I also use a screen cover to reduce blue light
Show HN: Fast HTML Sanitization in Python
Except they choose to destroy people they disagree with rather than countering their arguments; it's a completely different phenomenon, aptly described in its 50s McCarthyite form in The Crucible, which has little relevance to consumer boycotts then or now, but describes contemporary Cancel Culture perfectly.
But AMB doesn't have such resources nor filters at all. Also the file length limit of 64KB is not as small as it sounds; some implementations will have to only read one screenful a time (plus a bit of buffers) to save the working memory.
Author here.

Recently I was looking for a way to sanitize user generated HTML of malicious things like JavaScript.

Solutions like bleach, html_sanitizer, and lxml's Cleaner all work but I found that their performance on complicated HTML snippets were lacking because they needed to rely on html5lib for parsing HTML5. And completely normal content would get mangled without using html5lib.

I ended up writing these Python bindings to the bluemonday library. It seems to perform much better than existing Python solutions for the same problem[2]. I suspect because more of the work can be done in native code instead of having to pass an XML tree around.

Hoping that this is useful to someone else but also looking for any feedback. Especially about how the bindings were written.

[1] https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

[2] https://github.com/ColdHeat/pybluemonday#performance
I vaguely remember some IBM study (maybe someone has the link?) on code reviews that concluded 45 min is the average sweet spot afterwhich bugs start slipping though. It also mentioned how long one should stay away from the screen to get back to top performance. (Simple things one can do 20 hours per day ofc)
> With 660M users (in a country with 1.4 billion), "low desirability" has a pretty low threshold.

Research indicates that "low desirability" /is/ a pretty low threshold.[1]. While all of the reasons and possible societal factors are not well understood, the effects are. Women tend to find only the upper percentile of men in objective attractiveness to be attractive, while men are more uniformly distributed across the spectrum of what they find attractive when comparing between genders in heterosexual dating contexts.

The net result is that in male skewed geographies, it's actually possible that the majority of men may be considered undesirable. China has a massively unbalanced gender distribution, which clearly plays an effect here as well.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...
If you see an axe headed at your head, you don't try to duck it with the smallest margin possible. Especially when we need to reverse carbon emissions a good amount simply to preserve our current climate....
> Suffice it to say that the reality was...significantly poorer than advertised.

So like, the Fyre of coding bootcamps. But still better than Siraj Raval?
I actually prefer Windows w/ WSL2 on my laptops rather than a bare-metal Linux install. It adds a bit of friction, but in return I never have any issue with external displays, sleep/wake, OS upgrades, etc.

> Also the next gen Carbons are supposed to have a 16:10 screen.

Yeah, a taller screen and Tiger Lake processors will probably be a significant improvement. However, I think they'll probably sell for close to "list price" when they are released (so $1500+ for a decent configuration). The build quality is a bargain at $830, not so much at $1500.
I wonder if the thinking is to extend RPAN into a bigger aspect of the site?

I'm a fan of RPAN, but I do wish that Reddit would stop messing with the formula. They had a great thing, and over time have been eroding it with the various re-designs and awkward app and sign-in requirements.
Ask HN: Modern PAR2 Alternatives?
I'm looking for a robust archive file format for long term storage. My first thought was PAR2, I was using Quick Par back in the days. But it seems there's not much activity on the tooling. So my question, maybe there are more modern alternatives?
IBM and Red Hat: Bamboozles, Foozles, and the Hybrid Cloud Chimera
The U2 I saw at Mather was based a Beale (as were the Air Force folks exhibiting it). They said the U2s get rotated in and out of service/training and that this unit had been all over the world.
Sorry if this has been mentioned in a previous comment, there are many!: what I find really useful is f.lux for lighting and colour. Especially makes a difference later in the day. I noticed I couldn’t fall asleep after a long d’au staring at the screen and this really helped...
Burnout and Burnout 2 were made by Acclaim, yes, but there was more than just Burnout 3 with EA. Wikipedia mentions eight games. And yes, the series is dead (which is a shame), but Burnout Paradise became available on the Switch around June this year.
Something I've noticed is that people who try to figure out insulated clothing from first principles often fail to remember to actually measure how the garment feels on their own body.
I think /r/musictheory is good
Winters in Berlin are particularly annoying because they're very humid. The cold seems to be penetrating deep into your bones.
Smaller niche sites are exactly the type of pornographic sites I try to avoid (malware, etc.)

And spinning up a new video host (that you intend to make money somehow) isn't cheap or easy.
I'm interested in the idea of running barefoot, could you share a reference or two?
Also, being close to the sea, wind and humidity. Vs inland dry air and much less wind.

Even though the "feels like" algorithm must be written by a dev in California (it's +5C, brr, feels like -3C), I guess there's something to having the "feels like" temps consistently 5 to 10 degrees below the actual air temperature.
Here is example of that (compilation benchmarks) for Ryzen 5950X

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-59...

> For the code compilation speed tests were compiking Apache, PHP, the Linux kernel, ImageMagick, GDB, LLVM, FFmpeg, and MPlayer
> None of this keeps my hands warm.

> Or makes me feel comfortable.

I wrote, 'Keep the thermostat at the lowest comfortable temperature', not an uncomfortable one. Don't lump me in with strawpeople who tell you to be uncomfortable.

> for an extra ~$50 a month during the winter I get to keep my house at a nice toasty 74-76 degrees F

I agree that you can do what you want with your $50. But there are other costs too: Our choices creates climate change for others.
> Imagine if pharma companies went "gosh, but hiring quality inspectors to make sure all of our drugs are untainted just doesn't scale!" I have trouble imagining you saying, "Well, they obviously can't sacrifice scale, so let's just wait and see if a better quality inspection solution comes up."

Every drug has acceptable levels of impurities. There is a non-zero acceptable level of rat feces in your food. Your bank rounds the value of your account to some decimal place. The various parts of your car have some mean time between failures.

In the real world we place bounds on how much bad stuff is acceptable, and these bounds are determined mostly by practicality and economics. "Ban all childporn" is certainly a reasonable philosophy, but it is no better a law than "ban all impurities" which would shut down every drug manufacturer in the world. A real law takes the form "perform these steps or reasonable equivalents to limit X to a tolerable level." You can claim that reddit is not taking a step it is required to by law, but it's not breaking the law just because it hasn't developed a perfect solution to a problem that likely can only be solved approximately.
As I get older, I'm finding my extremities are not maintaining circulation/warmth. While I can wear socks no problem, I don't really want to wear gloves indoors. Heating the house more makes it feel cozy and nice, so I can see why some people would make that choice.
"Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company's services.

The outage started shortly before noon UK time, lasting more than half an hour before services were restored.

Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps and more.

Google's search engine, however, remained unaffected by the problems affecting its other services.

Google said the problem hit its authentication system, which is used for logging in and similar functions, and lasted about 45 minutes."
> I'll save you some time, it is that we can verify personally. If I can verify it, I can say 'its true' and that 'I know it'.

So, have you personally verified the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Is it true? Do you know it?

And, you say a matter of fact is "what we can verify personally". Is that a matter of fact? If so, how do you know that? If it's not a matter of fact, is it still true? Or is just your opinion?
That's exactly the kind of political criticism that I consider very odd.

It barely admits that being able to choose genitals, independent of gender, is a step forward, only to then complain why CDPR didn't go much further by having players select pronouns and a non-binary voice.

Then it complains how the game is allegedly transphobic because it "objectifies trans bodies", a statement solely based on one poster in the game that made the rounds trough the Twitter-outrage-sphere a while ago, while completely missing how in the CP2077 world pretty much everything is commodified down to peoples memories and their individual body parts.

It's like there is some kind of agenda to paint the game, and it's developers, as transphobic since their PR Twitter account made a not so well received "Did you just assume my gender?" joke a couple of years back.

Along similar lines: Jeff Gerstmann complains about the lack of political correctness in some of the NPC lines, like when hardened gang-bangers proclaim "We are getting raped over here".

Which is just such an odd thing to complain about considering the setting: Here are these hardened criminals committing all kinds of unimaginable crimes like human trafficking, killing people, torturing people and pretty much everything else in the book, yet there's a weird expectation that they should be completely PC in their speech while engaging in these inherently anti-social practices.

Extra odd considering that a lot of the source material did something very similar for its time: The slang Gibson used in his books was inspired by very real criminal sub cultures like biker gangs and dope pushers. These kinds of sub-cultures where never particularly PC, still are not to this day.

So the expectation that criminal sub-cultures have to use socially progressive language, while abducting somebody to saw them apart for parts to sell, is just really weird and highlights a very odd double standard in our actual times: Depictions of all kinds of nasty things is okay, but as soon as the language gets nasty, that's where we want to draw very vaguely defined lines.
I don't understand how a site with massive amounts of traffic for mostly text pages can end up having money troubles. There are so many ways both clean and dirty to monetize a site like that.
It depends on what you do, and always will. 16GB will be enough for web browsing, gaming, and coding websites in python 5 years down the line. 16GB is not enough now for.. say, compiling Firefox with LTO, at least while browsing.
I’m just bringing it up to show that we don’t need to just consider one model and in particular one so out of date.

In general I also think a lot of the praise for apprenticeships is misplaced and viewed through rose tinted lenses.
> this is all quite far afield from the original thesis of my top-level post,

This is accurate. I am not going to refute your points directly, I don't think they're necessarily relevant for the crux of your argument and do a fair bit of obfuscation. In your post it seems more that you are arguing against philosophy - not for "philosophers needing stem professionals."

> which was simply that professional philosophers need STEM professionals in order to do philosophy, perhaps more so than STEM professionals need philosophy to do good engineering/science.

"good" engineering/science - what is that? Define it.

I just don't buy the argument that philosophy needs stem to do its job. Not knowing how every algorithm works doesn't mean you can't discuss its impacts, effects, if it's ethical or not.
yes but GP is still correct in general if not in the specifics. Practically speaking they can fit way more transistors on the die which translates to more power for more types of things whether it's M1 or 888.
How do you calculate this? Is it based on your previous prescription somehow, or does it require another optometrist appointment?