skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not homogenous. The companies that don't make money go broke and cease to be. No sign of that from Google. They're buying the data to monetize it. If they were doing something unexpected like destroying it for the greater good they'd announce it.

The extraordinary thing here is if they bought the data to /not/ monetize it. That requires the evidence. Not the overwhelmingly expected thing. They are mutually exclusive alternatives after all. Go with the overwhelmingly likely one until you've got a solid reason not to. We don't here.
Rightside Norms, Accuracy Norms, and Internet Garbage-Fights – Singal-Minded
Design has changed a lot in the last 9 years to the point where I don’t know if a lot of this still applies.

I’ll also highlight the concept of designing for the medium; it might make more sense to create a design that does seamlessly scale without manual involvement than to do the designer’s first idea and then manually tweak that to work in every possible variation.

Given that much of the time svg is perfectly reasonable, I wish platforms had better support - I’ve found Xamarin.Forms, UWP, WPF, and native iOS all wanting. Web seems to be about the only place it works seamlessly nowadays.

Also, if anyone in the Windows desktop team is here, please support SVG desktop backgrounds. Often my desktop is vector art and I’d like to skip the jpg middle man and get something that scales to all my monitors well by default. You were somehow weirdly on the right track with the Windows 8 start backgrounds fwiw.
Worth mentioning that https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel does excel -> powershell -> excel in a really nice package for that kind of filtering/etc work.
Try to stay busier so you think more about what you want to accomplish and not about what you haven’t.

I was pretty suicidal by normal standards because of how much I would think about my death and everyone’s death. I moved countries and started working 15hs a day and didn’t have time to spend thinking about that anymore. I got fixed
Vault is ridiculously easy to use for this.
Never say never, I'm sure it won't be long before 4k's as commonplace as 1080p (with heavy compression).
Wow, that’s fascinating and a bit bananas. Source code for (the whole shader? One of its parts?):

https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders/blob/master/crt/sha...
I’m not sure why this comment is being downvoted. It is a relatively accurate description of how network effects work and the implications to those trying to resist those network effects and an opinion based on that. No need to downvote people expressing an opinion you don’t agree with!
> 13. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’.

Precede it with 'seriouseats'. Kenji is the ultimate hacker in the cooking world.
This is good advice, but separate from the labeling, it's also okay to not like things. If you actually don't like dancing, that's okay, and you shouldn't feel guilty about not forcing yourself to like it. And other people shouldn't feel obligated to "Green Eggs and Ham" you over it.

If somebody says they're not interested in something, don't try to force them into it. You're not really doing them a favor. The dancing example is appropriate, because for some reason people who love dancing have a hard time understanding that others might legitimately just not enjoy doing it.
So that college students can freely break the rules? I like that idea.
Note that many of the item numbers are links.

Regarding

> 52. If you want to become funny, try just saying stupid shit (in the right company!) until something sticks.

There's some quote (Oscar Wilde?) that says being witty consists of saying out loud what other people are thinking.

There's an obvious downside to overdoing it though!
I've been building complex UIs since early this year and one thing that's been interesting is that whenever I add a feature which performs an action automatically for the user(let's call this a smart action), it almost always backfires.

Generally speaking, people like their actions to be predictible, reproductive and deterministic. Whenever an app trys to add smart actions in the hopes of making the UI more responsive, it has the opposite reaction.

Notion seems like one of those tools that relies on a lot of background smart actions. Not that I mind too much, I'm a big fan actually.
Yes, though I suppose they might have meant the inclusion of permanent credentials rather than a session key or temporary token?
> But if a fn takes an input stream as an arg, and if given input streams that yield the same bytes the fn always yields the same result, then why consider it an impure fn? The input stream is just a fancy data structure for bytes.

Hmm. It's impossible to create a value that's equivalent to reading from the input stream, because reading from the input stream has operational effects. But that logic doesn't apply to an array if your access to the array is unobservable. (One could argue that reading from an array creates temporal relationships, but I don't think that really holds up). So I think you're right, and a function that accepts a mutable datastructure can still be pure (in a vacuous sense really, since a mutable datastructure can't ever be equivalent to a value - it's not even equivalent to itself at a different time), though given that that purity can't ever be useful to you I don't think it's particularly important.

> And though I guess it would be possible to have the `Mut*` collections use value equality instead of reference equality, that'd probably conflict with the performance goals of the mutable variant.

It's not about the implementation of .equals(), it's about semantic equivalence. Two different arrays with the same members behave quite differently than two references to the same array (as the program continues and other code mutates them), regardless of whether they compared equal at the start.
Thanks! Clickable link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CwEoXiapYtYiU5TvYrVs...
With regards to the “block”- my understanding at most companies is that if you don’t pass the interview, but still had some positives, they’ll tell you to try again in a year.
> No, it wasn't about him, it was about the soldiers.

It wasn't. But a bit of a context wouldn't hurt, right? Why did Koreans choose to return the remnants, out of the blue? You wouldn't have guessed it unless I told you, right? Given the general atmosphere, it certainly feels like there's a deliberate omission. Yay for the best journalism the U.S. has to offer.

I'm aware of T's conduct, I don't like him and I wouldn't vote for him if I happened to be a U.S. citizen. But I'm not, so I don't really care about him that much.

What I care about is freedom in a very broad sense, including the freedom to share information and express opinions, and to know other what others have to share and express. And here T. and his fate in media and on social platforms is a mere indicator.

Back to reddit: in 2016 you could see supporters from both sides. They were visible and vocal about what they had to say. In 2020, there is only "orange man bad" side to be seen. If I did not know better, I could have thought that this represents a legitimate change of the tides: in 2016 T. had supporters, now he does not.

But this isn't the case. In 2016 he got slightly less than a half of all votes, in 2020 he got slightly less than a half of all votes, no change here. So what changed? Reddit. For what I know, it deliberately chose to suppress the voices of the T. supporters for some reason. Ban this subreddit, quarantine that, change the mods to more loyal ones there. Like I said, they're probably in their own right, but this reverse astroturfing is scary.

This is scary because: what are they going to suppress next? What else did they suppress, but I did not notice? And if venues in the range between the best and the snobbiest magazine and the semi-anonymous public message board choose to suppress something, where do I find it then? And, most importantly, why so many reasonable people find this OK? Even fellow HN folks suddenly became very pro-censorship in the recent couple of years. My guess is that they have never been on the receiving end of it :(

It is not about T, it is not even about Reddit. How do I find something if Google chooses to suppress it? How do I send a link to what I found to my friend, if their messenger of choice bans these particular links, and their email provider puts emails with these links to spam? How do I keep my friends updated about what I have to say if their social networks or news aggregating tools forbid or suppress links to my website? Or (as in the case of Facebook, afaik) suppress links to all websites, while censoring their in-platform content heavily?

Do you really think that the problem "does not exist"?
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>Facebook ain't running full-page ads in major newspapers because it feels strongly about it from an ethical perspective.

Why do they need to do this at all? Surely as a vendor of advertising they can use their own to greater and cheaper effect?

Or is their advertising not quite what they claim?
> How Americans Came to Distrust Science

It's the internet.

Anything before is historically interestingly but now meaningless.

Pre-internet I'd passively watch science shows on physics and lap String Theory up.

Now I can hear the dissenting voices and see how the String Theorists don't address the simple issues raised.

Science is dead to me and I don't think it should be revived. I think we need something better. Science doesn't have to be the best way forward. There are alternative frameworks to science.
Nobody cares about the .biz acquisition because nobody cares about .biz. A lot of the early additional gTLDs got tarred as "scammy places for people who didn't care enough to find a .com". On the other hand, people can think of .org sites they use and don't like the thought of them being potentially held to ransom by rent seekers
Seconded. I had to tweak the spacing, otherwise on it was too condensed on my Mac but the mono version feels slightly less cartoonish to me and is actually not bad at all. At first glance that only thing that annoyed me was that + and - didn't align perfectly.
This might be how law enforcement agencies break into iPhone
Charity is always nice. It doesn't have to be starving orphans. Sometimes just give a tip to the food delivery guy, especially when it rains. A tiny tip can practically double their earnings for that round.

The bar for charity is also remarkably low. You can probably get a charity dinner with VIPs for something like $100 in some places. Education might be a little too expensive in the US, but here, you can also sponsor someone for a semester for a little money. If you want more fun, there are several events which give out a shoutout to donors for only about $50, and you can go in with an anonymous troll name.

These numbers are all third world and that's part of the fun - look at poorer countries and see how much impact you can do with a little money.
Oh, I must be behind. Should've kept up and tried it. Thank you!
This is the same Ambassador who noted:

Tian'anmen, 1989:

“The Politburo’s response to the mob scene at ‘Tian’anmen’ stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action,” Freeman wrote at the time. “I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be.” National Review, 2020-07-31.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Freeman_Jr.#China
Still works here, using Firefox 84 on Ubuntu. That's pretty cool.

Looks like it uses JS to constantly update the favicon so it matches the DOOM screen.
I appreciate the honesty with the situation on Android. Not usable is how I would describe it. Really looking forward to this getting addressed, keep it up
I just (last night) read The Intensive Care Unit [1] - it was great, and I've been thinking about it all day. Very fitting for the current pandemic situation.

[1] https://ninapower.net/2020/05/05/348/
Not op, but presumably sfp+ drop cables if the devices have sfp+ interfaces, like:

https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-Mikrotik-10GBASE-CU-Passive-1-...

https://www.amazon.com/10GBASE-SFP-10G-AOC-Ubiquiti-Supermic...

Would prob. make sense if you got cheap 10g network cards (second hand, maybe) with sfp+ interfaces?

Other option might be a converter/adapter - but then you might be better off with a switch that has rj10 ports built in (and use cat6/7):

https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-srj10-review-convert-s...
Haiku has a clever solution to the problems presented by vector images at smaller sizes: Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF)¹².

HVIF supports only basic shapes with integer coordinates (by default) and detail reduction. Each shape is tagged with a minimum and maximum scale³--computed from a base icon size of 64x64--at which it should be visible. Rounding and hinting bring those shapes within tossing distance of custom-drawn icons at small scales.

¹ Leah Hanson's post is quite illuminating, though it focuses more on the small on-disk size of HVIF data; http://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons...

² https://web.archive.org/web/20070111153750/http://haiku-os.o...

³ "stippi"'s original announcement: https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku/Icon-Artwork
The advice would be to not let a label tell you that you don't like it. If you don't like dancing because men don't dance then that's silly, no matter if it's your deepest held conviction or not.
Vault as a CA is also ridiculously painful. This comes from the battlefield.
When a valid study is retracted by its authors because they don't like the conclusions being drawn from it, when a university professor is fired for citing research that his university published, when journals publish any research that conforms to certain political views, even when it is obvious garbage, it is not science being distrusted because it is not science which is being performed.

When we are told by scientists that masks don't work, and then, with no new research being done, we are told by scientists that we must all wear masks, it is not science being performed. It is propaganda. I distrust propaganda.

In any field in which I am not an expert it takes time to determine if something that is claimed to be science is really science, or if it is propaganda. I trust the scientific method but I don't trust that people claiming to be scientists are using it.
I agree, but from my point of view, Notion's UI and UX are still way better than other platform such as Evernote. In addition, they are willing to accept suggestion such as modification of mobile app which is really positively changed after many complains.
Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's Cryptographic Protocol
Sadly, mine largely aren't committed to words yet. I do have a small thing on implementing regular expressions: https://medium.com/@pschanely/modeling-python-regular-expres...

But there is so much to talk about: gotchas with quantifiers, mixing logics, multiplication, float conversions. I'll try to write up some more of my experiences if that's valuable for folks!
That's fair. But I know a number of men (to go with the example) who think it's unmasculine to dance (or to dance in certain styles and settings). However, as a single guy taking up ballroom and tango dancing was a great idea for meeting women (along with, at that time in my life, getting in better shape and starting to dress better). The notion that "real men don't dance" (like real men don't eat quiche) is harmful to many individuals because it's become internalized as a quality of themselves due to identity and not due to actual preference.

That's the problem with labeling and holding onto an identity too strongly. It can contradict the actual desires of the individual and can often contradict reality.

But I agree, don't force it on people. I've never tried to force anyone into something they don't want to do. When they, on a rare occasion, participate in something they ostensibly hate and express real joy in the experience, it's obvious that it's not the activity that's the problem but something else.
I think this is great read. The point of this is learning - as you probably would have seen in the article yourself. I don't know what's the point of questioning his design - if you don't like you always have option change it and/or implement it as you think is best. IMHO Carl did some really great work here.
You're right, but I'm grateful anyway. I used to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast sometimes (on Overcast, which is awesome)... since he moved to the vastly inferior Spotify platform, I don't listen to him at all. The platform is pure shit for podcasts, so I've cut Rogan out of my life, and saved many hours per week in the process. Not that his $100M is going to notice my absence!
Totally fair, but I wouldn’t expect Notion to work exactly like a code editor. What I do like is they stick to the universal language of “working apps”.

So slash commands, markdown support, code snippets, dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, rich embeds, etc.

Those are the bare minimum for me, but I don’t think any of their competitors actually have all of these features which is one of the reasons Notion is a good fit for me (and most people that try it).
This reminds me of the realisation that you can actually park your car anywhere you want for as long as you want, some places are just more expensive than others.

I’ve heard this generalised to “when you’re poor, rules control you, when you’re rich they just set price tags on different actions.”
Over what distance? Using what technology constraints?

Suppose we make it analog and parallel. Each pixel of the camera gets a separate connection to the matching pixel on the display, analog all the way.

For a megapixel, we could run a million fibers, but the Earth could be in the way. You can't run fiber through the Earth. The solution is neutrino beams.
So they can just ignore the advice in the article if it doesn't apply to them. What's your point? People should only write articles from the perspective of extreme poverty?
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> People will just form a thousand LLCs or use straw men.

Replace "if I hold" with "if the Beneficial Owner holds" to stop that. Beneficial ownership is not masked by forming LLCs or using intermediaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership
Breaking – Possible radio signal coming from nearest star
I agree about the red-flag part for avoiding all your exes, but I also find it a red-flag when someone says how well they get along with their exes. "If so, why do you have so many, and why aren't you still with any of them?"

If you were with someone with serious intent of trying to be a compatible partner, and failed despite your best efforts such that you and your partner agree the best thing is to not be together, then probably your instincts aren't as good as you would want... Maybe you don't fully understand why "being friends" won't be as helpful for either party as desired.

It's important to be capable of being friendly with your exes, all the more so the less you actually get along. But it's probably unwise to put this to the test.
Yep, agreed. I only point it out because there are certain types of activities where others will assume you only dislike it because of the label, and not because you actually don't like it. Dancing seems to be one of those.
It’s not BS. There’s no evidence demonstrating a significant difference and clear link in health outcomes for people who take multivitamins or placebo.

http://phs.bwh.harvard.edu/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/do-multivitamins-...
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Google is the ultimate arbitrager of data.

If you have data they can make better (creepier) use of, they'll pay a premium.
I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk - "I Like Notebooks" (https://youtu.be/9Q6sLbz37gk). He addresses some of the concerns/critiques about jupyter notebooks.
In that tweet Buterin claims that the stake of the founders, including the non-profit Ethereum Foundation, was 11%. They're defining "premine" in a way to exclude "crowdsale", which is perfectly reasonable.

Buterin elaborates on that here:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/120909416365814988...
Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z’s Tidal Service
Pandora restricted access for me when I was living in the UK years a go and I could no longer access it. (I don’t know if this is the case) Spotify won for me by default, as I can actually access it.
China Opens Antitrust Investigation into Alibaba, the E-Commerce Giant
Yea tbh that quote never made much sense to me. Wouldn't the Congo or Somalia be a paradise if that were true?

The whole thing hinges on the definition of Strong/Hard/Weak/Good and how you define them.

For example who is stronger, a turn the other cheek reverend or an eye for an eye preacher?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use#First_known...
Some of the problem here is that people have many different use cases for Notion: personal note taking, project management, collaborative text editor, and company knowledge base. Notion markets itself as a general tool that can fulfill each of those use cases. As a result it is hard for them to come up with UX that fits everyone.

Some of the things people are saying here that they can’t stand about Notion are some of the things that I like the most about it, and some of the improvements people are suggesting here are things that would make me abandon Notion if they changed it to be in line with what they suggest, and I think a lot of that is from difference in expected use case (I use it as a personal knowledge base)

It is definitely a weakness of their product.
Of course it is a hassle! I never claimed otherwise. But it is a hassle worth fighting for and this is what I try to show when I am helping them getting started with something else.

> If some people categorically don't value other people who don't use their preferred app, that totally weirds me out.

Who said anything about judging/not valuing other people by their preferred app? I am not claiming exclusivity. I still have WhatsApp on my phone for contacts and groups
who are not close enough to me for me to ask them to use a different app.

The point I am trying to make is that if everyone (including privacy-sensitive, tech-savvy people) keep this apathy in regards to their digital hygiene, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and there is no way we will ever get out of this mess. I presume anyone on Hacker News can and know how to do better, and we should be the ones in the front lines fighting for more open systems instead of passively waiting for some magical benevolent entity to save us from Big Tech.
Yeah, I definitely agree with this. My pet peeve is just when people assume you're not doing something because of the label, not because you actually just don't enjoy the thing.
http://archive.is/q38oo
Here's one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/telegram-voicemail-hack-used-a...
Might have missed the point of the site here (just speculating) -- I got a lot of sarcastic criticism (hey cool, I don't care) but not a single suggestion. Spotify has helped me find lots of music that I like. This site didn't.

Fuck this site.