skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create react app means no fucking around with build systems.

And there’s zero reason to use SCSS.
I know this is completely unrelated to the discussion but why is this not a blog post on their actual blog (https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/) instead of a print screen of a bunch of text?
You mean we'll no longer be able to say "this website is free" when quote tweeting some example of blue tick stupidity?
Heh. Hilarious story, thank you! Camarades.com had just about everything, from people being born to people dying and everything in between. It was a pretty honest (sometimes brutally honest) slice of life.

One of the most popular cams for years was an old person that was extremely ill and that rarely moved but he had pretty big fanclub and he thought it was quite funny that he was more famous on what eventually became his deathbed than he had ever been while he was still active. After he died his family asked to remove all the images and close the account which of course we did. Makes you wonder if all those people wishing him well over the years kept him going a bit longer. What is interesting is that if you did this today I'm pretty sure the jerks would drown out the nice people by a considerable margin, of course there were jerks back then as well, but on the whole the internet seemed to be a much nicer place to hang out than it is today.
I could see that in some extraordinarily niche scenarios but if someone has the bandwidth to be transmitting full news articles then they have the bandwidth to use a whole 7 bits per character. And they should be compressing it too, at which point you don't need to restrict less common characters.
Although I can relate, I find the reasoning in the post a bit odd. For example:

> Starting a new project? Make sure to write your project idea down because by the time you are finished setting up the vast boilerplate you have probably forgotten it.

If it's a personal project (it doesn't sound like the author is talking about work-related projects), what's stopping the author with writing just good old HTML, CSS and JavaScript?

I said I could relate because a couple of years ago I was in a similar position, but a comment on Hacker News in a thread about JavaScript fatigue says that it doesn't have to be that way (apologies, it's been too long and I was a lurker back then and don't have it bookmarked). That was a liberating moment for me and I now just do whatever it's best on a case-by-case basis.
> Hey now, I am one of those people, and I most definitely exist!

Who? How do you know?

The problem you’ve presented has nothing to do with brackets or changed words; the same problem is there even with the original words (as above), when the quote is given without attribution as in your example.
If I follow you, you're suggesting that these Asian and African societies you have in mind would be more accepting of LGBT rights if they were convinced that it was something biological and immutable.

I present the counter example of birth sex, which is quite genetic and practically immutable for most people. Do those same countries afford women and men equal freedoms and opportunities, considering the biological nature of the trait?

A model individualist society would. A model collectivist society might not. With my collectivist hat on: Whether or not something is "a choice" doesn't have any bearing on whether it is good for society. Even a biologically, incorrigibly gay person should reproduce sexually, for the good of the collective.

I can speak to this pretty confidently as somebody living in Utah and raised Mormon: The biology argument does not matter. Religious people acknowledge that some are born with predispositions, even strong ones, to commit certain sins. They consider them challenges to be overcome. They absolutely do not exempt you from the responsibilities of a member of that society.

Like it or not, sexual actions and lifestyles are a choice. Muslims and Christians know this. Fighting the biology battle might lose us ground (to the extent that any evidence at all comes up against it), and it will never gain us any.
The remarkable 2 tablet is a good (though expensive) device for writing. It feels quite a bit like paper and the different writing instruments you can select make for a lot of choice even in doodling/sketching stuff. You can also use it to take notes on a PDF you are reading etc.
So, how do B2B startups find their early adopters? Only through capital injections until they've a good enough product?
Or the Shirley McKie debacle in Scotland in 2005, where it turned out that finger print detection was more of an 'art' than a science. The ball got rolling once they started convicting police officers (so at least the analysis was double-blind?)

Or the phantom of Heilbronn, where dozens of crimes were linked to a single woman. Who turned out to be the lab technician that assembled the kits. Doubts started once they discovered the caucasian female DNA in cells of the charred remains of a black male.

I often wonder how prosecuters defend against the use of these cases to create doubt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
same same.

can't help but wonder what the goal of the redesign was...
Isn't there a better term for a Hacker who pollutes water? Fracker?
It's still a far cry from the 70's. My quick counting showed the US opening around 40 from 70-75.
The usage the author points out is odd, and one I would never use.

However, it is not brackets alone that is an issue.

The usage is strange!

Begin excerpt:

They may groan when Corky, denied the massive funding he’s asked for, tells the town council he’s going to “go home and bite [his] pillow,” the way I do now.

End excerpt.

The quote with brackets in it appears functionally equivalent to:

"go home and bite my [his] pillow."

I agree with the author here, and would add calling out the brackets alone is not enough.

There are well accepted and clear uses of brackets in quotes that are lumped in with this arguably, dubious construct.

I read the article title and thought, "Well, no. Is this some purist argument or other?"

Turns out it is not!

Standard bracket use is not in question. Not even mentioned. Normal bracket use does not change a quote at all, when done properly.

The bracket use the author is bringing to our attention DOES.

Go ahead, take a closer look at the full excerpt. Why did they do that?

About the only reason I can find for doing it appears to be a potential misunderstanding between "my pillow", as would be quoted, and the ending statement, "The way I do now."

Why?

The quotes clearly assign "my pillow" to Corky, as opposed to the writer, who post quote says, "I do now", but that is not good enough, apparently.

I would call this being too clear at others expense, as well as an insult to the reader, who is likely to wonder just why "[his]" got put in there.

Did Corky really tell the town council, "go home and bite pillow" broken English style? Of course not, so why bother with the use of a context or clarification device used to muddy both? Edit: Even worse is the case where Corky actually did speak broken English style, which is now rendered a matter of ambiguity because someone thought muddying up the language would help their prose be more clear!

Agree with author on this one.

That bracket abuse, and I am going to call it as I see it here, appears to be quite pretentious, while also adding nothing of value and considerable confusion!
I don't think this is true. People's sexual orientation can shift over time, and that might be to being asexual.
> Hotlinking in general is considered theft

This is a pretty puzzling idea to me. How could linking something be theft?

To explore this, I shall try a metaphor. Imagine you're on a big social media website (lets call it Programmer Olds) which has an oddity in that 99% of its users use adblock. You then post a link to another small (ad supported) website on your Programmer Olds page, causing a large number of people to click through and download the page using large amounts of bandwidth (for no monetary gain to the site) and possible DDOSing the site.

Have you commited theft?
We work with Dragos fairly regularly, they're solid. The main problem is that people who even consider the security or integrity of these systems are brought in years after they were specced, built, and more or less abandoned as built.

The contractor and integrators then move on to the next project and copy what they did last time. Rinse , repeat.

We've been actively pressing for realistic security and access control planning in the contract stage, but that's slow going in and of itself and still only affects new or upgraded installations -- on facilities with an expected lifetime of 10-30 years.
At the request of John McCarthy, Lisp’s creator, no single language that is a member of the Lisp family is to be intended to be the definitive dialect; that is, none is to be called just “LISP.”

The CL folks have done exactly this.

A serious way to measure the strata layers is to write exit(2) portably without using external packages.
Public and private point fingers at each other in public.
But in private they are all part of the same machine. But still if we keep shouting freedom we might convince our self we are free.
Ok so it should not be worse than pre-PipeWire at least. Too bad Linux can't just make /dev/dsp be usable by multiple applications like the *BSDs managed.
>You must be a pentester, because the commenter above you wasn't talking about pentesting at all.

This sounds like it should be a punchline to one of those funny programming jokes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850739
It's not a given that the hacker will even release the source code.

With the ransom threat rebuffed publicly, they might not be bothered to actually distribute the files, or they might choose to keep them privately for bragging rights.

And then it's entirely possible the source code might not be in a compilable state without lots of work.

But the biggest problems are the copyright issues. CDPR will be well within their rights to go after anyone publishing unofficial builds of the source code.
> In my experience, Google provides stellar support.

This is anecdotal. Here is a high-profile counter-experience to yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935

When dealing with large companies we must consider trends, not individual points. This same line of thinking is what causes climate-change-deniers to point at snow on the ground and say its all a hoax.
I had one "I need to reload the game or else it won't work"-type of bug in 100 hours of gameplay. I have seen games that have been much much worse 4 years after the release than this game in it's current state.
It would curb how easy it is to manufacture a popular post
For me, it is the desire to write non-flakey automated tests and easily pop a debugger into them.
> as long as you don't alter the original intended meaning fundamentally by doing so

Yeah but that's almost always what's happening when you see those tiny quotes; the author is pushing a narrative and using a sound it to sell it. Particularly in political news and places like Slate..
The NYT has a reckoning coming. They went all in on neoliberal culture war - and it worked, it gained them subscribers. People still treat them like a serious institution, but if they continue down this path, that's over.
> The EU negotiated badly, and AZ used that to fool them. I think AZ deserves some moral blame here as well.

Completely unacceptable and unsupportable suggestion.

The EU had absolute clarity on the differing supply chains for differing contracts with AZ. No amount of contract negotiation increase culture yields in vaccine production lines.
Ask HN: How do B2B startups exit the early adopter trap?
Explaining the trap:

1- Startups need early adopters to create a product that really solves problems

2- Companies usually are not early adopters (eg there's no Kickstarter for B2Bs) since they have to run a business and cannot use incomplete tools

3- B2B startups can find early adopters only when their product is good enough, which basically requires capital injections until then

4- Point 3 is completely against lean startup "rules": after you've received money, you could have created something that doesn't solve any problem, but you can't find early adopters due to point 2.

so..how do startups exit this trap and find early adopters?
I pick the very first company in my head, the very first open position they have, and they don't require a cover letter.

https://careers.protonmail.com/o/head-of-content/c/new

You can submit one, but it is not required.
I use mega solely to download images for my R7000 nighthawk home router because the author chooses to publish the trx files via mega. I also wondered about this risk.

It works flawlessly each time btw.

https://xvtx.ru/xwrt btw if you want to try. I say this because a lot of these services are notoriously used for IPR breaching content: this is a legal, GPL respecting wrt variant. You can download a file and check its integrity.

Kim Dotcom lost one of his last legal defences against extradition i believe, and is on a ticking clock.
The usual numbers for deaths per 10TWh for different sources of electrical power look something like this

Nuclear — 0.2 to 1.2 deaths per 10 TWh
Natural gas — 0.3-1.6 deaths per 10 TWh
Hydroelectric — 1.0-1.6 deaths per 10 TWh
Coal — 2.8 to 32.7 deaths per 10 TWh

But for hydro, the largest dam failure in history is always excluded from the statistics. If we were to include it, the number for hydro would become 30—50 timer larger.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dam-safety-statistics-risk-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
They source their panels directly from the E-Ink Company, like everyone else. Dasung also has two granted (and one pending) Chinese patents for their e-ink driver board tech, which actually works pretty amazingly well.
Is it still the case that these two pieces of code have different behaviour?

match status:
case 404:
return "Not found"

not_found = 404
match status:
case not_found:
return "Not found"

IIRC in an earlier proposal, the former would check for equality (`status == 404`) and the latter would perform an assignment (`not_found = status`).
Chatting with the folks internally I'll make sure that our documentation and support are clearer here. This should have been sorted out the moment you contacted support (or even before with clearer documentation). Sorry you had so much trouble.
> What is Macron going to do when he gets loads of this vaccine in Q3? "Never mind that stuff about it not working, please go get vaccinated?". It's Trump level (remember that guy) irresponsibility.

Macron should be piloried for his antivaxxer comments. France has a serious issue with people refusing the vaccine as it is. Not helped by their deliberately complex steps to give it out.
so I took out a few Google Ads on companies in the same space

This is considered an aggressive move. My guess is their CEO thinks he is responding in kind
To me, the etiquette part of quoting being the exception and not the rule was elementary school stuff. Maybe it's a culture difference?
Nah, it has much more to do with long-standing tensions between the black (Black?) and Asian communities.
Heh, a popular consumer electronics product a room mate worked on shipped an update that used example.com as a connectivity test. Apparently they were on pace to rack up $20k/month in server costs. At least their user agent made it obvious who to contact.
Yes same here, no problems whatsoever. One instance of a guy dropping through a floor so I had to reload and lose 5 minutes. Awesome game :) The console owners weren't as thrilled though.
Because HN is a single place, as opposed to subreddits, it's a weird mix of software developers, founders, investors, etc.

You could basically compare HN to a single subreddit.
If taking out Google ads on other companies in the space means what I assume it means, the bad review sorta lives in the same business ethics space of what can be gotten away with. And now you know. Good luck.
It's even easier to go with good old JavaScript now than back in 2007 because of all the tooling. We have profilers right in the browsers now. How cool is that!
Done correctly is keeping the quote very close to the original and changing your text to make that work, instead of the other way around. Much better is:

tomc1985 objects: "I am one of these people, and I most definitely exist!"
Do you even have access to your Google One support if your Google account is banned?
Why is it weird? Genuinely interested because, as a non-native speaker, I would have said exactly like that.
Reproducible builds are not as widespread as you'd imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds
> Often the execution does not work as expected due to undefined conditions or states within the "mathematical language", or misunderstanding of the scope or memory allocation or release, etc.

nah, 90%+ of bugs are already present in the "paper" specification in my experience, without any programming language involved (and I'm mostly writing in C++ which is prone to the issues you mention).
I was never asked for cover letter.
Theoretically, but not in the real actual world we live in. Few countries are on 100% renewables/nuclear.
Honestly SCSS is what I middleware-in first even in toy-sandbox projects. Writing CSS without humane //-commenting syntax and hierarchical definitions is so annoying.

install install install

Everyone is okay with installs (yarn helps with caching downloads, which npm failed to do). The hard part is configure configure configure and then deal with the fact that every few months your config gets deprecated, keys renamed, docs not in sync, and most SO answers talk about one of the older, unspecified versions.
Y'all realize that this is precisely why some people just want to bring spacer GIFs back, right :-D?
TwitterFans?
I'm hella suspicious, depending on the source, of quotes that have been mangled, shortened, or otherwise stripped of the context provided by the quotees own words.

It's classic narrative fabrication to paraphrase bs and use tiny mangled quotes to sell it.
Nuclear has its own decommissioning and long term disposal problem.
I grew up in Italy but I live now in Spain.
If there's something I understood from living in Italy is that food in Italy is not only food, but also a container of bias and emotional investments.
Regarding food, people really take sides and hardly consider alternatives.

On the other side, probably this is the reason why it's quite hard to find mediocre food in Italy.
Do the numbers even add up? a whole extra child just to help out doesn't seem very efficient to me.

And it's only depressing if we define a person's worth by the number of children they have, so let's not do that :)
We generate our tutorial videos from screenplay files
Spacer components are great.

They’re very obvious when reading code why they’re there. You don’t have to think about whether margin or padding makes more sense, and which element it should belong on. No one is reading your perfectly crafted semantic HTML anyway. Screen readers don’t care about an empty span.

And apparently they really bother the “get off my lawn” types on Hacker News.

My preferred API is allowing one of 3 props: “size”, “width”, or “height” (because including both “size” and “axis” is pretty verbose)
> disrespect igor by dismissing his arguments due to his tone, which handily allows you to ignore his content, such as it is

I didn't dismiss his argument; I said that he was correct right after he posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073488

"That's not the point" can be interpreted as respectful, but it also can be interpreted as argumentative. I chose to assume good intentions, but I offered a different phrasing that would have a higher chance of not being misinterpreted: i.e. using "yes and" instead of "no but": https://www.theheretic.org/2017/yes-and-vs-no-but/
aside from all the other issues not to do it if you really wanted to do this you could just have a while loop that output &#160; the number of times as your input number - so Spacer len={15} becomes 15 times &#160;

That's also a not very great idea though. It's almost like all these ways of doing it have tradeoffs or something.
Sure it is. The grammar is clear. One can know the quote exactly.

Frankly, implying otherwise diminishes the language.

Edit: All of which is why the article was written. People changing quotes, wrapping it in brackets so it flows better, in their view.

That's a mess!

Others here, myself included, correctly maintain appropriate bracket use does not change a quote, which is true until this garbage.
I wrote a little shell script to park things that I'm thinking about which are not related to my current task into a file I review weekly.

As someone who has been working on this for myself for a while, I think the right route starts with personal solutions, then well-documented published personal solutions.
Depending on the ingredients used to form the concrete used when building a dam, it can happen that the concrete inflates and puts enormous pressure on the damn.

In that case, they let the water out of the dam and use a diamond chain saw to cut it from the top till the bottom, in the middle of the dam. The concrete will then use this space to fill in and reduce it's pressure, so that the dam can be filled again.

Here is a german video showing this procedure for a dam in Switzerland.

https://www.20min.ch/story/10-tonnen-beton-werden-aus-mauer-...
which subreddits do HNers find the most useful ? I know there is many subreddit gems but it's not easy to discover them.

I love browsing those where I find excellent advices:

https://www.reddit.com/r/awardtravel/
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ (I think more human than HN for advices / feedbacks )
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/ ( found great non-mainstream books to read )
Simply because there is no info on that topic on news page, at least not now.
https://old.reddit.com/r/random/
If the code is released then CDPR could obtain it as well. So why pay the ransom?

The threat in a hostage situation is not “give me money or I release a hostage.”
The cost of that bracket abuse is people, having a reasonable command of the language, wondering whether the person quoted actually spoke in a broken English fashion.

The higher order cost is worse!

Breaking well accepted grammar, so that it is now unclear what was actually said both in the future and for readers consuming past works, just so it flows better?
I would say that Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with *many* areas of usefulness. Most of Reddit is pretty great.

One example, /r/formula1 is the huge engaged community that every sport wishes it had. Live race threads are as close to watching the race with a bunch of friends in the room as it gets.

Same goes for most interests: the biggest community about it is probably on Reddit, and most likely the majority of the content on its sub is pretty high quality.

I do agree it can be a chore to find these communities. Especially when their name is only tangentially related to their thing (small example, the subreddit of the 90's show "Friends" is /r/howyoudoin). Reddit definitely needs to have some way to "tag" subreddits, and search on those tags.

Finally, indeed the default Reddit experience is a sort of clickbait dopamine machine of /r/pics, /r/funny, /r/me_irl etc. One the one hand this sucks, on the other hand, it keeps the casual low effort lurker out of your high quality subreddits.
Yes, my ideal being to stop or at least reduce wars between nation states.

I know it's a hard one to buy into, but if you did, what would you suggest?
Promote buying more "wholesome" awards to cancer related posts I guess.

Are they selling an ad free experience yet?

I'm sure they'll shut down the APIs allowing third party clients (like Apollo) soon, like Twitter did.