skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a member of a writing group a couple of times very early in my career. My spouse was in one quite recently. I have very mixed feelings about your comment.

In my experience in the arts, specifically music, photography, and writing, good artists are good artists because they know all of the detail and nuance of their work and they continue to be dicks to themselves. A good artist is never happy no matter what they create or what the reaction is, otherwise they would stop improving. Beethoven once famously played a piano recital so poignant that many in the audience were weeping. When finished, he stood up and laughed at them for being so simple-minded and easily manipulated.

Of course, that's just a broad generalization, and there's no excuse for being a dick to others. (Unless they ask for it). I think, however, it draws in stark relief the central question in your comment: are writers' groups for encouragement or improvement? You mentioned a bit of both, but to my untrained ear that sounds like a recipe for mediocrity. Being just motivated enough to produce various works of art that most people in your social group would never criticize to your face? That's not a personal goal.

So I think we're back to the topic of this essay, editors. Editors are there to negotiate what the author wants to do with how the world at large can consume it. They're not there to create or give their own voice. They're there to assume the role of author and advise them what needs to happen for others to better consume the art they make.

I had a friend once who loved taking pictures, as I do. We were mods on a local forum and both of us loved sharing our pictures. (This was in the early blogger days) Eventually news and politics started taking over, so we both left. He went on to do his own thing. I'll never forget what a mutual friend said about him: he just wants people to praise his pictures. Nothing else really matters. He ended up making a bit of a living doing just that. He never became famous but he understood that it was the social praise he was chasing and not the art. I consider a lot of the stuff he did cartoonish but it worked for him. To your point, he became good enough for his social group to be praised and talked about, but no more.

My best editors have always been both inside my head and brutal. They knew where I was going and they weren't shy about redlining the shit out of my text to help me get there. That hurt my feelings a lot and another person might have given up. I found it transformative. ymmv
Extremely good news!
Here’s another easy test: say the government bans photos of something innocuous, like cars, but allows text to be written about them. Take a photo of a car, go to jail. You can write a book about racing, though. Free speech?

Of course not. The medium
Your example is live updating html in a browser, NOT live updating the type system. In other words, your evidence is trivial, unrelated to your main claim, and unconvincing.
By denouncingly Movlxie Marlinspike (not Merlinspike) authoritarian because he run his free software project, the author pushes the communications ecosystem toward actual authoritarian systems.
Fortunately the argument is utterly unconvincing as it is buzzword-based without logical reasoning.
So nobody uses stories but it's somehow the critical feature that keeps WhatsApp in power? Ok.
All of spacex work is on launch vehicles, so I disagree, you are just reading it wrong.
If there is harm, then without section 230 "acting reasonably" is not a legal defence - you (as the website/business/service allowing user-generated content) will be targeted by lawsuits even if you act reasonably simply because may be easier to extract monetary compensation from you than from a random teenager who actually posted the harassing content. Even if you identify that poster and ban them, that does not undo the harm and liability, so you'd be the target of expensive lawsuits. You would likely have grounds for a counterclaim to that user to compensate you for the losses, but that won't help you much, as your costs would be the total claim of the harassment + lawsuit cost, and your compensation would be limited to what you can recover before the user files bankruptcy.
Compressed air is by far the most expensive form of power. Compressed air tools are used because they are fairly cheap and small yet high performance. (And in mining because they’re inherently Ex safe)
Indeed, a regularly maintained older aircraft is a virtual Ship
of Theseus.
As a writer, I can tell you you're doing very valuable work for your friend. The vast majority of people can't tell you when something's wrong with the writing even if they want to, let alone point a finger at it.

I don't have a list, but here's something that I dealt with recently:

* Is everything sufficiently described/explained?

- Environment descriptions: Is it clear where the scene is set?

- Character motivation: Does the reader understand why they decided to do <x>?

- Are there enough clues for the conclusion / reveal / twist to make sense?

- What day is it?

Whenever a reader finds something confusing, it's usually a matter of that thing not having been described enough.

* Are the characters distinctive enough?

- Have I described each in a non-perfunctory way?

- Could I tell who's saying which line if I removed the dialogue tags?

- Is someone just a background character when they ought to be a person?

* Can a paragraph be cut down into a sentence without losing anything?

Edit:

* Is there enough tension throughout the story? Is the main character lacking personal stakes in the plot?
A few months. Though we don't have enough understanding of mRNA to skip phase 3 yet. That dull take time. How much time is a question of tradeoffs.
If you're upset about attempts to prevent a government agent discrediting alternative sources of information, while encouraging hatred of half your fellow Citizens and distrust of the election process, divest yourself from that government agent. Extricate yourself from the web of lies and rhetoric. The right is not being censored, even a little. A government agent that embraces a radicalized far-right is being removed from non-government platforms (while still having the ability to hold press conferences and send out press releases.)

In what way are your thoughts being censored when it is Donald Trump who was removed from Twitter and Facebook?
Steal it please, what do you think about my modification?

I have MS (brain damage, makes me forgetful and erratic/eccentric) and suck at self promotion. I wouldnt know where to start.

In my editing bonanza, i cut an important step:

Case N(umerical hypothesis, doctoral work and more funding for the PhD: hypothesis getting formulated in more rigorous ways, maybe finding roots and improving on older methods, comparing with older methods, or disproving older methods)

I cant seem to edit the comment anymore, i will come back to it later today and see! For now, i posted it as a new submission and hope it finds audience
Here's a performance figure on my i5-3210m (2 core, 4 threads) when using 4 processes:

* 64x64: 14.561s

* 256x256: 226.28s, 15x compared to 64x64.
(PS: would that eventually count as "raytracers, written in provocative blog post meme"?)
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The founder of Signal did not like them:

a) Using the Signal backend infrastructure which Signal pays for

b) Using the Signal name which I'm guessing Signal has a trademark for
That is from 2013 (not saying it’s invalid advice, just that it’s not related to current flying schedules).

Children of the Magenta Line is a great presentation on automation dependence and quite funny at moments. https://youtu.be/5ESJH1NLMLs

(The GPS flight plan track is standardized to be drawn in magenta.)
One forest few seem to want to take seriously is: why do we pay so much attention to social media that all this is happening in the first place?
I must say that completing this article leaves me with a feeling not too dissimilar from that mixture of awe and disgust when I finished reading Uwa-Koi.
Just two nitpicks:

1. Marlinspike is misspelled throughout the article as "Merlinspike" &

2. This article is super mamón. That's a word here in Mexico I'm not sure how to perfectly put into English, but here are some examples from the article:

>Open Whisper Systems led by Moxie Merlinspike, who is behind Signal, is and was never behind freedom.

>People died for freedom, they are still dying and struggling around the globe. Then someone comes and stomps over every ideal which human society ever build up until this point in history and proclaims themselves the world leader! Think about it!

I think in English I might say something like 'Oh please', or 'stop wanking yourself so hard'.

The core message of 'I would prefer a decentralized messaging service and Signal is lacking in that regard' is severely diminished by the suffocatingly wanky [I want to say mamón, whoever has a better word here please offer suggestions!] tone of this article
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Let me tell you one detail: since cmake doesn't have floats, they use fixed point arithmetic. LOOK AT IT. You know you want too!

function(sqrt x res)
div_by_2(${x} guess)

foreach(counter RANGE 4)
if(${guess} EQUAL 0)
set("${res}" 0 PARENT_SCOPE)
return()
endif()

div(${x} ${guess} tmp)
add(${tmp} ${guess} tmp)
div_by_2(${tmp} guess)
endforeach()

set("${res}" "${guess}" PARENT_SCOPE)
endfunction()
deplatforming works - words of a true fascist
I agree, I'm just pointing out that not all languages have the same safety model, even if they are similar.

Converting a pointer to an integer address and never dereferencing it (e.g. to print it) does not lead to U.B., but it does leak ASLR information. Some languages consider that safe (Rust) and others do not. I think that is in an important distinction.
Actually it isn’t wrong. A 70% increase in an exponential gain leads to many multiples more cases.

You could halve the death rate in that scenario and still have 10x the number of deaths or more.

Run two exponential series: one at 1.1x, one at 1.7x. Start at 1,000 cases each. Death rate 1% for the first, 0.5% for the second. Assume doubling in a week. Check new cases and thus new deaths after eight weeks.

2143 new cases on week eight fir the second one, 21.4 deaths.

110,199 new cases on week eight for second one, resulting in 550.5 deaths.

20x worse. And unfortunately the new strain doesn’t seem to be less deadly, so it would be 40x worse if death rate the same.
Or how about: an LLVM backend for CMake.
There is a variety of anticipated risks linked to the reduced activity during the pandemic and its effects on air travel as a whole.
However, this kind of oversight might not be equally managed everywhere in the world

https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/review_of...
Here are the things I used to do when I was bored, before the internet existed, as far as I can recall:

- Phone a friend and chat

- Phone a friend and go for coffee, a walk, a drive, or just hang out at theirs or mine

- Phone a couple friends (one at a time) and arrange to (depending on time of day and schedule) go clubbing together, pubbing, to an event, etc

- Go alone for a walk (usually along the ocean), or into town, or to one of my 'third places' to hopefully run into friends

- Watch TV. This left one with a sad, unsatisfying feeling if a session went on too long: the TV studios geared their writing to the LCD. This is absolutely why MTV was so hugely popular before the net.

- Go shopping, or window-shopping (famously, to some people, 'the mall' was a 'third place'). Ideally, some non-chain store (eg: a specialty book store with foreign/obscure books and magazines)

- Play/practise a musical instrument

- Skateboard (something I have not done for aeons now)

- Rent, or rewatch, a VHS tape/DVD of a movie

- Read a book, a magazine, or a newspaper

- Start some mini-project (anything from laundry, to creative writing, to tending to a business card collection, to making a tee shirt)

- Write letters to friends who had moved away (long distance phone calls were expensive)

- Relax with a cup of tea, smoke cigarettes and listen to music. Often while doing this I would re-read my favorite books; easy to browse ones, like art books, old photos etc.

- Oh, and program my computer! Just... making programs without a whole lot of collaborative features, obviously.
> I upvoted your comment, because I think this is the crux of the issue. I am not entirely convinced if it was a terrorist attack

Folks turned up the protest armed and carrying zip-tie cuffs. Improvised explosive devices were planted in multiple locations. There can be no argument that there wasn’t a segment of protestors that turned up to commit acts of terror.
I doubt even big technical publishers have much if anything in the way of technical editors on staff. For one thing, the same person is probably not going to be able to technical edit a book on Linux internals and Javascript. More typical is they'll reach out to people in their Rolodex and offer them a few hundred dollars to do a technical edit on a book in their area of expertise.

ADDED: Of course, larger vendors do have documentation departments and there are people in those departments who manage technical writers, review docs, etc. But that may or may not be what's of interest.
Apparently the citizens employees' are worried that some of their employers got access to work documents that would let them know what their employees have been up to while on the clock.
Don't get confused by the terms. They are both 100% deadly. Both come in semi-automatic configuration as well.
The only difference is that hunting rifles typically have low capacity magazines whereas assault rifles have high capacity magazines.

EDIT: In case you are talking about types of ammunition, it's true that anti-human ammunition is more deadly. But I am not sure it makes that much of a difference because hunting ammunition is already deadly enough.
How does that make a suicidal pilot “extremely unlikely”? That’s exactly what I’d expect a plane directed downwards to look like.
Enough with these manipulation controversies. Been hearing this for 3+ years
They mostly didn't even provide "evidence" as it could bring their lawyer license in danger.

( If you act in bad faith in court, you can lose your license. I should look up the detail again)
Oil and gas is a capital destroying market by its very nature. Always a bad investment in the long run.
Wow, the implementation doesn't even look that horrible! Fascinating, crazy project.
I did not know about the Wire incident.

It is a shame that the main decision maker and owner of Signal is such an untrustworthy person - authoritarian, abuser of copyright and trademarks, working together with Facebook and helping Google keep their control by sabotaging fdroid.
"This doesn't do what I thought it did" should have a strong connection to needing to rely on reading documentation made from comments. In some sense that form of literate programming is about limiting the scope of each individual misunderstanding without eliminating any of the misunderstandings.
Designing a URL Shortener in Deno
An example of similar results in other social animals are worker/soldier ants/bees/termites. They don't reproduce, but by contributing to the survival of their hive of relatives, they still end up spreading their genes.
"This approach is not only a threat to free software it is a recurring threat to human kind!"
wut?

From 'Decentralized systems are hard to build' to 'Democracies suck because...'.

The mental gymnastics in this post.

Sounds more like someone has beef with Moxie.
In theory it could, the same principles and judgements are in play - it's just that the relative prices of keeping an old car vs. replacement are different to that of an airliner so the decision tends to be more towards replacing old cars. The equation is of course different for valuable collector's cars.
If you read the "spoony bard" lore you'll find the same criticisms leveled at the official human translation.
I suspect this is because Haskell is proudly a "research"/bleeding-edge language. It's distinctly _not_ a Java or a .Net and that's ok, as it's not trying to fulfill the same role.

Things in Haskell have names from theoretical computer science, because people are using it to express and experiment with those ideas - they don't need or want to spend undue time describing a monad or a functor for the 15-millionth time, they want to use them in some new cutting-edge way.

I once saw (on this website) Haskell described as "the primordial soup of programming language features". Wild and weird ideas get tried-out in Haskell, and then 5-10 years later someone takes the lessons learned from the evolution of some feature in Haskell and brings it to mainstream programming in some elegant, distilled form. And I think that's super cool.
The immune system presumably has a limited capacity of circulating antibodies. By introducing new antibodies, do we reduce the amount of previous antibodies, and does this reduce their immune response? Is there a concept or metric of "antibody dilution"?
My only thoughts are: put your money where your mouth is and help build a better solution that does follow your ideals. You can apparently even use the Signal source code to start as long as you don't use their servers and don't use their name.

Build things up rather than tearing others down for doing things differently.
>"once you exclude USA, Middle East and Russia"

Despite all the talk the US actually does import oil from Russia: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
> It is both more impressive and more useful if one is able to create abstractions in mechanical sympathy with idiomatic uses of existing languages.

... so, EDSLs?
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(elicit, not illicit)
I didn't know either until just now. It took me about 10 minutes to figure it out.

It refers to the anti-DDOS/anti-bot Cloudflare puzzle where you have to identify objects in images to access the website.
I learned type inference in Caml Light, Haskell was still Miranda back then, and I bet any language designer of all major languages has similar backgrounds in regards to ML type inference.

Even type classe ideas can be found in CLU, ML, Objective-C, before the paper that gave origin to their adoption in Haskell.
2020 did have fewer accidents than 2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...), with a major accident early January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines...

And most accidents happened before June, which was still relatively early on in the pandemic.
Even without federalization Signal the platform is decidedly unfree. It is hard-tied to either Android or IOS (the desktop version requires the app on a smartphone with one of those two OSes) and requires the user's mobile phone number as identifier.

These issues should be fairly trivial to solve from a technical standpoint (decidedly not something Open Whisper Systems can't handle), but these restrictions still remain.
Is it? The definition I see in the GHC docs seems to be broader than that: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gui...

Regardless, I agree the function under discussion though, "head", is not "unsafe" in either sense. That's why I said "as an aside".
I will take a stab at it.

> Functors are basically an Object with a internal state changing method in typical OOP terms.

If I was writing a functional language, in an oop language, I could implement functors at least partially with an Object with an internal state changing method. I could not model/implement an Object with an internal state changing method in a fp language via a functor.

The main issue with the author's statement is that it makes a claim of approximate equivalence and does not back it up with additional evidence or examples.
Too bad it is not 1920's when the Turks we were busy with other things(1.5 million Armenians slaughtered) and let the Germans move the entire ancient Greek acropolis of Pergamon to Berlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar

If they could erase the entire ancient Greek history and make it their own, they would. Unfortuanatly, when you go to those sites, you still can read ancient greek inscribed on monuments, despite the fact that they want you to believe otherwise.

This is a true story: When the Greeks were fighting for their freedom from the Turks in 1800's, the Turks were using the Parthenon in Athens as their "fortress". But they ran out of ammunition and started removing the metalic wedges used to hold the Parthenon together so they could make bullets. Seeing that, the Greeks send them ammunition so they would not destroy it completely. Not to mention of course that years before, the Turks let British remove parts of Parthenon and relocate them to England.

2500 year old Aphrodite is used as a magnet for the money-loaded tourists and not about saving the ancient greek culture. Don't break a finger downvoting me.
Unless the user decides to leave Windows Media Player playing in the background in a loop to circumvent the lock.
In general sharing vaccine information with your enemy is considered a good thing by generals. No good army wants to get involved in biological warfare at this time as it is too risky as to turning against you.

The above does leave room for bad armies. Some tiny insignificant nation might do this. China isn't insignificant, and not stupid. Even in an all out war they would still share virus and vaccine information with their enemies as there is nothing to lose and goodwill to gain.
You obviously didn’t bother reading the article
The US economy lost 140k jobs in December. All of them were held by women
First, your opinion on how things should work is separate from the discussion I was taking part in. "Editorializing" isn't relevant to the protection section 230 provides.

On your point, I'm not entirely sure what you want. Do you think Facebook should be sble face libel charges for how they present somebody else's post? Or do you want their ranking algorithm should be transparent. Should Google search results be considered the sane way?