skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don’t think I’d react differently. A function is an abstraction layer. Maybe this is just me being unintentionally obtuse because I’ve worked so long in environments where functions or collections/modules of functions are the primary organizing principle, but when I encounter “premature abstraction” arguments I don’t generally understand them to mean “sure take those three repetitions of the same logic and write a function, but think really hard about writing a module/namespace/package/class/etc”. Am I misunderstanding this?
Not the OP, but as an example:

Take a flat earther argument that's explanations within explanations within explanations to cover whatever "what about x?" type of questions you have.

Change "flat earther" to whatever conspiracy theory/controversial topic of the day, and there you go.
Do you have any prepped GRIDLOK.REG files lying around?
Looks like you already got it bud! Best of luck
Alan Kay made a really noble and modern effort at VPRI, but his group detonated and disintegrated for reasons never made clear, leaving the project unfinished with no community follow up.
You vastly overestimate the value of Voat and the zeal with which anyone wants to buy it.

Though, speaking of business sense, I don’t see why Parler would want Voat. They already have their own community. If they saw business value in a forum system, they would just build it.
aka "just spell the name right."
What is bad about NYC in particular? I’ve rented bikes in lots of European and US cities and have been thousands of miles in NYC and haven’t found it that much more dangerous than somewhere like Paris or London, except for certain large Avenues.
Huge differences between $100 vs $300 (in Japan market) is IH heater and pressure feature, not just controlling.

$200 supports IH heater for efficient heating (Efficiency is important because japanese outlet is max 1500W). $300 supports IH and pressuring.
Do it. Most next level battery tech is always 5 years away. It's been evolution in batteries not revolution that's made them good. Hopefully this works out.
I thought Voat was based on reddit's code, but apparently it's a asp.net application?

https://github.com/voat/voat

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
> this means don't even use pure functions in classes. Just use functions.

... so you agree with the author of this post?

Also, seems like there is tech debt with point free, you just have it up front rather than putting it off until later.
I'm not well versed on archeology, can you explain what the Clovis Culture is?
I've lived in Japan going on six years and was initially surprised by how ordinary things were - and that that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sure, there's an element of truth to some of these articles but you have to go looking hard to find it.
> That instrument had better be a steel triangle.

Played percussion in high school band. I have a feeling taking care of a triangle is much more intense than you think it is.
Oops. Brain fart :) Maximum entropy indeed
Don't worry. The places in question do that, too.
Serious double-standard going on here. If you make assertions without evidence, i can refute them without evidence.

In particular, you assert that:

1 - phone is more complex than a car

2 - if phones is more complex than a car, then the organisation that produced it can produce a car.

You have provided nothing to back them up. I am in particular disagreeing with the second one.
This is a difficult conversation to have asynchronously and over text, and it’s also a difficult one to have with someone acting in bad faith. If you really want to play, please start by answering: does America currently have free speech?
Is there a good quick summary of her approach?
> and tipping to pay

Tipping is demeaning and derogatory to the person being tipped, especially in the manner it is done. Also, it can be reason for discrimination against the expected tipper. It always astounds me how people (mostly a lot of Americans) defend this practice just calling it "custom" and that it helps the receiver.
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>Media companies have always had to decide what is misinformation

>I'm not sure how you propose the government and legal system can stay on top of this

In my country, (the United States) we have a principal in our cultural called "freedom of speech". It basically means that we do not propose or tolerate any mechanisms for general political speech to be "kept on top of" (or "fact checked" or declared "misinformation"). People are free to decide for themselves what to believe, and when you think something is wrong you publish an argument against it. It may be different in your country.
> Scientific consensus is often wrong.

Often wrong, sure - but still right in the large majority of cases.
Fun: Rossignol black ops gamer 118 skis. They shred.

Coffee: Kalita 185 pour over coffee maker. Inexpensive, high quality coffee. Also the porlex mini burr grinder.

Software: IntelliJ Ultimate/Clion for rust dev. Historically a VS Code guy but jetbrains products are great when you have enough horse power to run them.

Speakers: UE mega boom 3. Waterproof & great sound.

Book: Victor Frankls man’s search for meaning.

Food: Eggplant for this parm https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-eggplant-parmesan

Charity: Donating to Wikipedia. We need them.
"Wade" Ave... as in Wade Hampton III?
To be fair, it's cheapest product on lineup. I don't know expensive one is better design or not.
One of the best products I've had to maintain recently was a cgi app with very few abstractions, many of the pages in the app didn't even have functions, just construct sql, read it and spit out html. If someone had a problem all the code was right there in a single file and the error could be found patched and deployed in minutes.

Over the years there were a couple of attempts at replacing this legacy system with a "well-architected" .net one but all the architecture made things harder to maintain and it only ever got to a fraction of the functionality. When there was a bug in those ones we had to not only find it but we had to go through every other bit of calling code to ensure there were no unwanted side effects because everything was tied together. Often the bug was in some complicated dependency because spitting out html or connecting to a database wasn't enterprisy enough. Deployment was complicated enough it had to be done overnight because the .net world has a fetish for physically separating tiers even though it makes many things less scalable.

90% of the corporate/enterprise code I've seen would be much better off being more like that cgi app.
Wow, I haven't seen/heard/read of ELLE since my childhood in the late 80s, when my sister had a subscription to their glossy paper magazine. Talk about pulling ancient memories out of cold storage... those magazines and underwear catalogs were the closest thing to porn I had access to for a minute there.
is there any evidence to support the idea that having places for hate speech to grow has a quarantine effect, reducing hate speech elsewhere? Studies on the effects of banning hate speech communities suggest that the mechanics don't work that way. For example, when reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate and other subreddits centered around hate groups, other subreddits did not inherit the hate speech problem, and former hate group users reduced the amount of hateful content they posted.

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
Is that backed up by any data? Targeted ads always seem to be for goods or services I've already purchased. As I said, I find targeted ads to be atrocious at introducing me to new deals or items I might find interesting.
This is something that's quite fascinating to me. The unfettered access to social platforms with few limitations on speech and content today, and available to such a large audience, would be unimaginable 70 years ago. Society and individuals are evermore connected to each other en masse than they ever have been in the past. An individual's discomfort now stems from everyone suddenly being aware of everyone else's opinion and now has to face it and interpret it. It would be next to impossible for someone 70 years ago to be able to collect that information at scale so readily, also making it far easier to ignore. Now all I have to do today is scroll through someone's SOCIAL_NETWORK profile to find out or to experience it.

It begs an interesting question to me whether society is more "stable" with this strife of being hyperconnected, or less stable. The past was filled with far more silos of in-person clubs representing political ideals, making it hard for the common person to recognize their existence, at least to the extent of hearing about its minute details and ideals. There was also a great filter of the powerful individuals controlling the means of communication to limit the content that reached every single person.

Despite the real acts or false claims of suppression, it is interesting that there was never a previous time in the past where each individual was more empowered to be heard than today.
In one case, he lobbied the FDA to not approve a drug. Not because it wasn't safe, or effective. In fact it was safe, and effective, and cheaper than alternatives out there.

It's that it wasn't -his- drug. His company had the market-leading alternative.

So he lobbied against approving safer medicine because it would cost him profit.
Why would Trump care to withdraw from the Paris climate accord or the Cuba normalization agreement?

I'm not arguing Nethanyahu played no role, he did deploy whatever influence and persuasion he could muster, and that helped overpower the influence of those who supported the deal, like French President Macron. But ultimately it was Trump's decision, and Nethanyahu would have had to live with it had Trump made a different call.

Aside, note that nobody even thinks of easing up US sanctions on Cuba again or rejoining that agreement with Cuba. The Democratic party got such a signal from Hispanics last elections it's not even on the agenda.
Not sure why you are down voted, I completely agree.
I love these kind of Pinball machines, I die for one in my living room. The electro uses very simple components but the final result is awesome, be able to build and fix this kind of machines is art!
Ha, pretty sure the valuation you read was for Slack, not Screenhero.
This is not the case in all countries. I am aware that telcos in New Zealand, for example, will not accept emergency calls from phones that don't have a SIM card. However they will accept emergency calls from any phone with a valid SIM card.
Cool. Read this with interest. I want to give Nim a shot. Is there a compiled Windows binary of your program I can try out?
why would republicans be for giving 1 billion to smithsonian? or some of these other random places?
It has been shown over and over to be a good number for this purpose.

You don't design the abstraction for 3 different clients as often as you abstract it from code used by 3 different clients.
And yet ETH has virtually abandoned Oberon. The younger people associated with the project had to move elsewhere to continue, it seems. That’s a shame.
> Assuming that's true, all it says is that, once you're getting arrested, you're about even on the probability of being shot.

Which is the thing the other poster had the false impression was not the case.

> What it doesn't address is the increased probability of Black me to be arrested to begin with.

But now you're talking about a totally different issue. And if black men commit more violent crimes as a result of historical and other factors, what do you propose that the police do about that?
> Streaming is cheaper than cable because we can use it across a few households. Amortize costs down 2x-3x, on top of the fact that added up all these subscriptions still cost 20-30% less than cable.

You're literally saying "streaming is cheaper if I cheat/pirate/break the TOS".

Cable/satellite are even cheaper if you buy a pirate smartcard too, so we're not really making a fair comparison, are we?
I don't see anyone referring to angel with the star of david in the comments. I think the author of the post was simply using angel to refer to their angel investor that kept the platform funded.
What are the differences? I have an old Zojirushi without those features and haven’t really been sure what an upgrade could improve.
It's pretty simple.

x = 1
addSomething(y) = y + x

The above is not a combinator. addSomething relies on the line x = 1 and is forever tied to it. You cannot reuse addSoemthing without moving x = 1 with it. Therefore addSomething is not modular. This is the root of organizational technical debt. When logic depends on external factors it cannot be reorganized or moved.

This is also a big argument against OOP because OOP is basically the same exact thing with a bit of scope around it:

class B()
x = 1
addSomething(y) = y + x
divideSomething ...
b = 3

Now addSomething can never be used without taking x=1 and everything inside B with it. It is less modular as a result.

A combinator is like this:

addSomething(x,y) = x + y

fully modular and not tied to state.

The point free style is a bit long to explain. Another poster brought up readability and now I think I went too far with it as a recommendation, it's like going vegan basically if you employ that style. Just stick to combinators and you get 99% of the same benefits.

Suffice to say the point free style eliminates the usage of all variables in your code. You are building just pipelines of pure logic without any state.

When you get rid of state as much as possible, your logic will not have any dependencies on state, and thus will generally be free of technical debt caused by logic being tied to dependencies.
When he used that money to fund the production of substitutes, and provided it for free to those who didn't have insurance, then how does your viewpoint change?
As they should be. Not that they aren’t meaningful stepping stones. But energy storage and delayed usage has inherent side effects, and a lot of modern solutions have a bill that will come due. And that’s not just the nature of the materials used, but also the economics of their disposal. We don’t have a depleted heavy metals disposal program, we have “recycling” programs that ship hazardous waste to human processing dumping grounds.
Yep! The definition of parallax is that it's when a position or movement of something differs based on position of observer.
Will the same happen to Parler?
I could just as easily ask you whether cars have to engineer at the scale of 5 nanometers. Or whether cars have to support thousands of third party engineers adding arbitrary add-on components. Or whether automakers worry about hardening their security against nation state actors.

I'm sorry, but do you honestly believe that automobiles are more complex from an engineering standpoint than microelectronics? How could you possibly explain why the microchip was invented 100 years after the automobile?

Every domain has its own engineering challenges. Apples has consistently shown execution excellence across a wide range of disparate areas though. And more importantly an ability to quickly and effectively spin up expertise in new areas. From silicon to machine learning to acoustics to compilers to optics. Read this HBS case study[1] to be amazed at its ability to leverage cross-functional expertise across disparate domains. No large org in the world operates like it. There's a reason AAPL has a 50 times the market cap as GM. There's zero doubt in my mind that if Apple pursues autos, within a decade they'll acquire 5%+ global marketshare.

[1]https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...
Not to be pedantic but Volvo already makes atleast one model of an EV (XC40) that runs purely on Android. The android system also allows you to run CarPlay if you connect your iPhone.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906777/volvo-xc40-suv-e...
Yes, the Cray Solid State Storage Device (SSD) was a standalone unit that looked like a quarter of a Cray, complete with bench. It held up to 2 gigabytes of data in MOS memory and was accessed via an I/O channel at 100 megabytes to 1.25 gigabytes per second. It was used for "temporary storage of datasets" and could "significantly increase data transfer rates." The SSD was separate from the Cray's main memory.

It is described in detail in the manual: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/Disk/HR-0031_SolidStateSto...
4chan has a place on the Internet, and if that counts as "moderation" then Voat had moderation too.
That's only part of it, though it is part of it.

Fascists--and Voat is populated largely by fascists and by those for whom fascism is not a dealbreaker--need to seem normal in order to get their hooks into credulous people. When you don't eighty-six the fascists, 1) they bring their friends, and 2) they make new friends, because the garbage they spew is emotionally effective and requires an overwhelming amount of calm and coherent deprogramming to unwind and there's not enough labor available to do that forever.

For a related story, I am always reminded of this. https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089153745134387...
My experience has been that spaghetti is almost always in the real world mostly overly abstract and poorly thought out abstractions. You know you get a stack trace and you end up on a journey in the debugger for 5 hours trying to find any actual concrete functionality.

Compared to someone writing inline functions that do too much, the wasted brain hours don’t even come close
However, after the universe finishes expanding, wouldn't it start contracting again?

Btw, Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way in about 4 billion years, so at least we won't need ten times the mass of Mt. Everest to get there...
> we are probably worse off when they scatter back to the shadows.

We aren't, because unlike a criminal conspiracy, political ideas are viral. They don't spread well in the shadows. Like with an epidemic, if you even slightly lower the r factor, those ideas lose much of their power.

If you keep them in the light, if you normalize them, they spread like wildfire - as we have seen over the past few years.
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But it is pretty sad for the rest of the world. In Latin-America our oldest cities are European-style cities, totally walkable. The new developments (say last 50-60) are mostly American-style suburban hell.
Depends on the definition of tech debt. Do you mean structural/organizational or readability?

If you mean readability then yes, the point free style does not protect you from that imo.

But combinators and the point free style does protect you from structural and organizational issues, which is the type of technical debt I'm referring too.
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Bro is the wrong name for Martin Shkreli. Not sure if journalists understand the meaning of bro. Martin Shkreli is smart as heck.
This not context. "Generated By Stripe Hosted Invoices" would be context and it should be opt-in by the merchant.

This is plain advertising.
What would a witch hunt free reddit look like?
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LOL.. I’m going to throw this out there..

Apple can’t even make a simple stupid phone that doesn’t break.

They can’t even make a simple stupid cable that’s functional, and can last 10,000s of usage, and is not just for show.

And plus, they’ll sell you the car, and make you buy the cable, and claim they’re doing it for environmental reasons.

They’re going to have a reality check when it comes to cars.
I believe this is called the "Gish Gallop". The idea being that I can come up with many, many more questions that are hypothetical, but that require more energy to answer than they take to ask. Often times the person will combine this with a carefully worded question that has to be unwound by the counter-debater.

Like, "Knowing that this will cost working class Americans jobs, why do you want X?"

Well... X doesn't cost jobs, X might even create jobs. But now I have to explain that. And if I slow down for even one second, you have an opening to fire off another question or paint me as somehow waffling.
Thanks for the recommendation, I ordered that text.
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I was well aware of scissor keyboards. I owned a 16" MBP.

Given that Apple is still selling, or has only just stopped selling models with the latest butterfly keyboard - the issue may have solution, but hasn't gone away. Millions of laptops have faulty keyboards which, when they break, will be replaced with another faulty keyboard. That's an unresolved issue.
I completely agree with this analysis.

He committed the worst sin in Corporate America - he told the truth. And he exposed the underbelly of the American pharmaceutical system. And someone had to go down for both of those things, and it sure as shit wasn't going to the CEO of the larger, far more powerful pharmas.

This guy might be a dickhead, but last I checked, being a dickhead isn't a crime; and speaking of crime, the shit they trumped up for him was shit that gets done a hundred times a year, at far larger scale, with much worse consequences than what he did. And what was the end result of Martin's actions, once the dust settled? He made a profit for his investors.

Its a fucking disgrace, is what it is. This is why the American people have no faith left, because every goddamned institution has been co-opted by money, and where at least in the past, they had the good fucking grace to deny it and keep it hidden, now they blatantly flaunt it, because they know that not only can you not do anything about it, you're too fat and happy to bother risking anything yourself.

Nothing will change until half this country is starving in the street. And even then, I doubt anything'll change.
Telling someone they will more conservative as they get older is a great in innoculation against that event occurring.
While it doesn't address the "massive emotional payload" bit, Russell's Teapot is the canonical example of an argument that's easy to make and almost impossible to categorically disprove, despite being factually inaccurate. Now imagine that but about a topic people have strong opinions on, and you get something that requires so much preamble to disprove that those who believe it aren't willing to hear the rebuttal.

Basically, you just make something up entirely. If you say that 100,000,000 Americans are killed every year in skiing accidents, that's easy to disprove. But if you post a clip of someone getting punched from an obscure 1970s sitcom that only aired in Hungary and then claim it happened at a restaurant in Denver, that's going to be a lot more difficult to disprove even if the claim is extremely dubious unless you're lucky enough to know the original context.

Some of the more common examples of this in recent times include faked tweet screenshots (mildly difficult to disprove as Twitter's search isn't very useful, and the liar can just say "oh they deleted it"), anecdotes about meeting a celebrity and them doing something unacceptable (basically impossible to disprove unless the meeting DID happen but the incident didn't and eyewitnesses can vouch - see also: the Gritty incident), and videos being used to smear a group despite none of the people involved actually being from that group (reverse video search is extremely difficult, and that relies on it being something previously published rather than recorded explicitly for misinformation campaigns).
I think you might want to review the site guidelines[1]: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html