skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two factors to this "fad":

one is that USA for being the world superpower and through their media monopoly is always in the spotlight.

The second is that USA spend too much time saying how wonderful they are (that if you look to history with a little objectivity is not so wonderful). Reaction to this is almost inevitable.

I would like to present a trivial recent example: as you know, USA retired from the climate Paris agreement and, in general, is not doing so much like other nations despite being the worst in per capita terms.

Well, it seems that the new president want to go back to the Paris agreements and is framing it like "going back to led the world" in climate change. Going back to led the world? really?

I know, I know, this a sentence for internal consumption but still, how do you think it sounds in other countries?

I didn't touch the little fact of invasions of third countries and military bases all around the world.

So, maybe there is something to this fad? Maybe take it like feedback to correct a few things?
Hollow Knight ... Spoilers

Although the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown is not as severe as Hallownest, the whole atmosphere does make me feel similar.

Also I wonder what was it like in the last few years of Pale King and his bugs who slowly losing their social functions, technology and cognition.
My current strategy is this (mind I do have knowlegde, it just needs expanding)
Whenever I play a game, I check afterwards from the point where the preparation (and my knowledge) ended what I should have played, and if it's in line with theory.

- If the move I played is in line with theory, I don't bother trying to remember it because I can find it.
- If there are more than 1 plausible move in theory and my move is one of them, don't bother because I can find it.
- If theory happens to be something I can't find on my own, then I investigate the idea behind it and automagically I remember (at least for some time)
But it brings out a lot of inventory...
Show HN: Advent of Code suvey results dashboard
Crafted my yearly survey results dashboard for Advent of Code and shared it on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/kj53l1/unoffi... - curious to hear your suggestions and feedback so I can improve it next year!
I've only read one of Jordan Peterson's books - 12 Rules of Life.

Haven't reread recently, but it was interesting at the time, and sort of helpful for keeping me motivated to get myself out of a bit of a rut. What parts of his writing did you find to be indicative of abandoning intelligent debate?
While we’re on the subject, let’s wish the dead some peace (not piece) please.
Capitalists(financial elite,landowners entrepreneurs and the politicians they buy)love immigrant workers.

The less they pay, the better for them. Don't like the misery salary? Look at the queue of people looking for the job willing to work for less.

It is middle and lower class workers who hate competition from low income workers. The miserable salary in the "rich" country is being rich in a poor country.

It is the middle and lower class those that suffer from the higher criminal rates because they are the ones who are being stolen or their houses occupied.

The rich live isolated in good places, with private security.

There are additional problems like the cultural one. Islam religion demands that their believers do not integrate ever in a non Muslim society so bringing millions of them to a non Muslim society means fragmenting it over time, like in Albania or Georgia(from Europe, not the American one).
Such systems always live in a Star Trek kind of universe, where they simply await orders from humans, yet know vastly more than them. It's probably about our sense of goal: machines help achieving a goal, but not set it. While I personally also like to have control, I'm sure there will always be a Musk or Kurzweil around to advocate machine autonomy, and they will implement it no matter what. That's why such interfaces are unrealistic.
Looks like I've upset the anti-Semites again.

Israel is fundamentally different to Europe. It is a safe harbour to combat millennia of racial oppression and violence. It must remain Jewish or our identity will be erased.

Europe has and will continue to benefit immensely from diversity and multiculturalism, and we must be actively working to break down the barriers to a positive demographic transformation. Enforcing historical birthrights is a form of explicitly racist discrimination against non-European migrants (being especially harmful to Africans) who disproportionately benefit their new nations and who are desperately needed if Europe is to thrive.
For that matter, the world has also shifted "right" from soviet russia and 'khmer rouge' cambodia. The space of political views and ideologies is not one-dimensional!
Kudos to you. Currently on mobile, so can't really test. Does this work with Onivim2?
Thanks for the tip. It works but it looks very heavy on the CPU. My fans started spinning not long after I opened the site (2014 MBP / Chrome)

What I would like is a dead-simple app equivalent to a walkie talkie. Self-hosted would be even better, in case we are using local wlan with no internet access.

I found tons of tutorials on how to create a WebRTC application, but strangely no ready-to-use solution.
"DO NOT TALK TO COPS" is very much US specific advice.

There are some countries like the UK where not talking to the cops can potentially land you in trouble too. (In England and Wales, juries are permitted to draw adverse inferences from a defendant not raising information with the police that they later rely on at trial.)

If you are arrested, exercise your right to counsel. This is guaranteed in both the US, the UK and most of Europe (under the European Convention of Human Rights), as well as lots of countries elsewhere.

Yes, it might mean you have to wait an hour or so for the lawyer to get there. Yes, the police will try to convince you that only guilty people need lawyers (not true) or that it'll make things worse for you (also not true).

The counterpoint to this is: if the cops are following procedures correctly and have legitimately collected evidence, they have nothing to fear from you exercising your right to free and independent legal advice.
> that still works just fine

Yeah, but that's now what I wrote.

There's a long, long, infuriating way between "works just fine" and "irredeemably broken". Trust me, I know.
Reminds me of PowerShell. There's extensive, detailed and super-useful documentation for pretty much all the commandlets available... but it's not installed by default. Get-Help ... will happily tell you that you need to download help if you want to see any details beyond command signature. Who in their right mind though this is a good idea? Such documentation should be shipped with the default install.

I have it on the top of my mind because it bit me twice in recent month. I had to do some PS work on some VMs that didn't have Internet access (beyond RDP). Sure, I can Alt+Tab to a browser on my machine, but at this point, why even have Get-Help? Contrast that with Emacs experience, where everything is documented, and documentation is easily accessible, off-line, and by default.
I think it just gets stuck on old songs you played. My kids played "The Bacon Song" a few times on my spotify, you can imagine what my recommendations are like now. I wish Spotify had a way to remove "bad songs" from whatever algorithm is used.
Why Use Python for Web Development?
In many countries work visas only last for a limited number of years, if you don't get married, you need to leave or you will be deported.
Private in the sense that the QCard data isn't send over the network and it's all client side.
Against Victimhood
We’re Never Going to Mine the Asteroid Belt
>>Buterin is willingly committing fraud and you should be ashamed of yourself for defending it.

You should be ashamed of yourself for willfully spreading disinformation.

It's a perfectly reasonable argument, and only someone acting in bad faith would characterize it in such a baseless and inflammatory way, as "willingly committing fraud".

The tweet:

>>That includes the presale. Those coins were assigned in an open process anyone could participate in, like mining. It's arguably more accurate to say those coins were mined, the mining algorithm was just sending BTC to 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2

The expanation found in the tweet stands.

>>Check your math because 12 million out of 72 million isn't 11%...

I'm assuming he's referring to the amount allocated to the Ethereum Foundation and founders as a share of the total amount issued at the time he posted the tweet.

But the primary point is, he's making a case that an amount allocated for an open presale is not a premine.

>>nor does that include the additional funds 'purchased' in their share offerings

The BTC spent went to a non-profit foundation, so not accessible to the founders for personal reimbursement, absent complex fraud.

Your conspiracy theories notwithstanding, the founders were on equal footing with every one else in the crowdsale.
I disagree. Well its true global communication can homoginize culture (i think broadcast tv especially has this affect) it's never been easier than now to form your own community.

Look at the free software movement. By mainstream standards its very radical. Do you think it would have ever been able to take hold without the instant global communication of usenet and other computer networks?

Heck people are constantly talking about how social media is full of echo chambers where people are divided into groups that all have the same opinion and never get challenged.
I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic. Otherwise, you have my sympathies for having to deal with that in 2020/2021.
I liked his modern witch stories, clearly adapted from the 40ies "I Married a Witch" with Veronica Lake. Very sexy and charming political fantasy, with the witch being Russian. The most successful TV series ever, "Bewitched" followed.
Is that Wordpress website? If so, is it self-hosted?
Literal Nazis of the NSDAP, whose exclusion from the Overton window the article laments as a tyrannical suppression of diversity, are, I think, fairly described as “racist sexist antisemites”.
Someone at gizmondo don't like Telegram,the Durov original message says the oposite:

> 5. All parts of Telegram devoted to messaging will remain ad-free. We think that displaying ads in private 1-to-1 chats or group chats is a bad idea. Communication between people should be free of advertising of any sort.

Original Source: https://t.me/durov/142
Maybe some scientists get frustrated if they don't understand the trick. There are so many things that children don't understand that tricks have less effects.
> I'm comparing website vs website when I'm talking about web performance.

web implies "everything built with web technologies", whether it runs locally or not
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Although I suspect it is true that we live in a deeply oppressive time that neither produces or tolerates ideas different from the liberal consensus, I find this argument and the frequency with which it is made to be part of this insufferable intellectual monoculture.

Did you learn anything new after reading this article? Where have you read the same argument? Is it even true that a 100 years ago there was more diversity of ideas? How would you even measure such a thing?

The best I can tell you is to stop thinking the old ideas if you want room for new ideas.
Bees procreate and die immediately. (The males do.) They're social. The bees you see never procreate at all.
There's a lot to be said about France and other European powers treatment of their colonial troops, but North Africa certainly wasn't the main provider of soldiers.

From Wikipedia: "At the end of the war on November 11, 1918, the French had called up 8,817,000 men, including 900,000 colonial troops.".
Note that this includes all colonies as well as "French troops" stationed in the colonies (apparently half that number).

Another Wikipedia article cites around 270'000 people from Northern Africa among them 180'000 soldiers.
Mean while I love to dance, but absolutely lack to necessary coordination and motor skills to engage in more structured dancing like ballroom, tango, salsa, ballet, etc.

This isn’t through lack of trying, but rather through the act of trying and suffering excessively before ultimately giving up and just moving to the music in my own way.
That's a good point - it's probably a countervailing force that people who's ideas would have been "rounded off" in past generations because they could not find anyone to agree with can now find community online.

Probably it's possible for both of these things to be true.
A timer for home coffee roasters
So a country made of and built by immigrants doesn't want immigrants anymore. I think that culture has a name: hypocrisy
How Do Teams Automate Security in 2020?
Qubes is fantastic but as a PSA the hypervisor's kernel doesn't support newer GPUs such as AMD rx5000 (AFAIK rx580 is the newest supported one). Learned this the hard way. Qubes 4.1 will bring the support, once it's complete https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/milestone/20
KTRU is legend even in Europe. The strongest radio station that times, then destroyed by Rice and politics, now online only. The most uncompromosing programming, in the most corrupt state. Still no mp3's, only Vinyl. Legendary DJ's. I'm sure you don't know 95% of what they play. They hate all the major labels. They have a huge blacklist.
Deep Learning for Christmasifying Images
I can't believe i'm saying this, but... this is probably a good use case for a blockchain with limited committers. Intermediary businesses can form to handle getting the three (or whatever) committers necessary, competition between committers keeps their fees low, competition between intermediary companies keep their fees low, distributed ledger keeps everyone honest about ownership. Do I get my VC check now?
Any recommendations for GUI program development with Nim?
> Like the other guy said, that was not a war.

“Was”? It isn't over.

But, sure, if we arbitrarily exclude some international armed conflicts between military forces of one country and those of another from “war”, then, ok, you can rescue the claim that Trump hasn't started any “wars”, but at the cost of weakening the case for excluding other Presidents from that same description.
It's simpler than that in some cases, only 2 years of residency are needed if you're going to uni there.
It is an example of intellectual diversity even though nazis are monsters but I think the overarching point of the article is that despite the fact that monsters exist intellectual diversity is good.
Nim is a huge language, but it is very well designed, and unlike e.g. C++, you can use and discover its feature gradually - including when using 3rd party libraries. It has lispy macros (except reader macros - you start with a parsed-to-ast text), closures, effect tracking, C/C++ level performance &interop and a lot more - but somehow, somewhat by language design and somewhat by community standards, you don't need to fully understand these things (and hardly to be aware of them) when writing your own Nim code or when using 3rd party libraries.

(Whereas in C++, you can pick your own subset for your own code, but as soon as you pull in a 3rd party library, you HAVE to understand the preprocessor, templates, often template metaprogramming, lambda capture rules if that library is built for them, etc).
It's not five years to citizenship. After five years you get to apply. Then it takes about 4 years of administrative hell (with some traps that can get you back to square one) to get there.

No one who is at all familiar with the French immigration system would tell you that it's "lax". It's generally a nightmare to navigate and it feels like it's designed to deter all but the most determined immigrants.

Source: personal experience with friends and my so.
Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes
Tragedy of the commons.

If you do this, your programmers will leave your company. And your competitors will offer them better computers.

You'd need all software companies to sync and do this, or at least a large majority.
Here is my suggestion, as a definite casual.

The only video editor I've used is iMovie on the Mac, and I found it very confusing to use at first. I've been using Macs since 1986, and I'm accustomed to the "open a file, do something to the file, and then save the file" paradigm, which has worked for documents, spreadsheets, graphics, audio, etc. using many different types of software. It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand that, with iMovie, you are working instead with "projects," which are (if my understanding is correct) a kind of container with links to various video, graphic, and audio files, and that, at the end of the editing process, you need to convert each "project" into a new file in order to share or archive it.

If I had read or viewed a How-to-Use-iMovie tutorial at the start, of course, I would not have been so confused. But I'm used to just diving in with new applications and trying things out, seeking help only at a later stage. That didn't work with iMovie, which was frustrating for me.

I realize now that, because of the size of video files and the time required to process them, the manipulate-the-file-directly workflow probably wouldn't be feasible. But if you think that Windows users inexperienced with video editing would have the same file-based mindset that I had, you might want to see if you can make your interface seem as though the user is opening, editing, and saving their video files directly. If that's not possible, then at least give users the option to view a getting-started tutorial the first time they launch the application.
SQLeo[0] is a Java desktop client. You can use it to build SQL statements visually or paste in a SQL statement and get a diagram. Its been around for a long time, don't be fooled by the dated look of the screenshot.

[0]https://sqleo.sourceforge.io/
> What parts of his writing did you find to be indicative of abandoning intelligent debate?

It’s a set of truisms glossed up with some long words?
If there only was a list of chipsets with open source drivers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wire...
agreed. they don't even have fists. it's more like a human involuntarily batting a fly out of its field of view
It does. At least some time ago on desktop version every album had a copyright (record label) listed on the bottom. Clicking it would search you all of the stuff released under that label.
Sending Signal messages with crontab in Docker
When it comes to buying things I find my satisfaction is much higher when I spend money to remove an irritant rather than get something completely new.

Our home has a long run from the water heater to basically anywhere it is used (This is in the USA where storage heaters are typical). When it died I had its location moved and got a model with a circulating system that loops around to the downstairs locations (kitchen/bathroom). Now what took 20-30 seconds to get warm water is 2-3 seconds. I spent a lot (for me) and it was worth it.

I replaced the 2 DIN radio in my car with an android head unit. Driving became much better with my personal audio selection rather than over the air radio (What's that?). A few years later I upgraded the unit and reduced the start time from 20-ish seconds to 2 seconds. Both changes removed irritants and noticeably improved my quality of life.

Previously I would wonder if getting a new car, or bigger TV, or going to Hawaii would improve my life. Now I am more inclined to seek out irritants and try to find ways of applying money or effort to reduce them. I'll still make the occasional new/splurge purchase, most recently Ring video cameras - they're fun, but that comes second and I'm happier for it.
Putting a VCARD inside a QRCode is a perfectly fine way to transfer contact information too!

This is just an alternative.

After trying this technique of multiple QR scanning apps, I found a lot that didn't include this feature. However, every app I tried can launch the browser given an encoded URL.

This solution allows the reader to inspect the data (visiting the url, email etc) before downloading the VCARD and polluting their contacts.

There's no reason you can't self host this and add a URL shortener. I reason I choose not to embed such a feature is I wanted this to be 100% client side so I can develop this into a PWA.

Hope I was able to clear up some confusion.
Infer Brings Facebook's Infer Static Analyzer to C# and .NET
Is there no defragmentation tool? I do have lots of free space.
Design To Quality Code within 30 minutes
> Shared-memory concurrency is pretty much always buggy, IME, even if your team thinks they're experts.

Writing bug-free shared memory concurrency programs with Go is trivial. Your opinion is based on outdated information.
Historically America has been very pro-immigration. Very recently that appears to have changed (that's the view from the outside at least).
> The free market libertarian position is very pro immigration

On the condition that the welfare state is minimal, though.
While I think it’s very important to have less stuff, there’s a big difference between “doesn’t cost money” and stealing.
Remote proctoring software in a hetrogeneous device environment is impossible with current technology. As the EFF says, it’s snake oil. I don’t know what to do about traditionally invigilated certification exams like the bar, but I do know that it’s deeply foolish and unethical to use this stuff when you have an alternative (like universities and schools do by setting open-book coursework etc). With something like the bar, I think the only solution would be to provisionally certify these people to work for a year or two under supervision, based on the results of their degrees and make them take the exam later under controlled conditions.
I have read that a concern with bodily purity is a sign of low openness, and of authoritarian tendencies. Likewise with a tendency to find things "grotesque". It is all connected to a tendency to police the boundary between the self and the other.
> A case of people changing their behavior even though cities aren’t more dangerous isn’t really a counterexample

It wasn't presented as a counterexample, it was presented as grounds for doubting the mechanism for the effect you describe.

Increased danger -> increased perceived danger -> behavior which attempts to mitigate danger is a nice theory, but it relies on deltas in perceived danger corresponding to deltas in actual danger.

If deltas in perceived danger that manifestly do drive behavior are driven by processes that are independent of actual danger, your argument no longer makes sense.