skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be obvious. Writing well-structured, decoupled, modular code can make you lose track of performance concerns. And since no one likes to write things more than once, so there's only "one shot" at writing the application, people tend to err on the side of "well-structured", because hey, who's gonna fore you for following best practices?
The First Conversation was back in 2006 when he was interviewed by Jim Gray

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142065
That sounds like the same answer to me. As an adult you should have "responsible" sex in real life. So, sex in media with a young and irresponsible audience will lead to irresponsible sex and all the repercussions. Hence, the common idea, don't show kids sex.

Violence in media will not (or at least no one has been able to find a connection)
I love these sorts of discussions. You learn things you’ve never heard of before. I can easily see how it works and how it’d be useful sometimes, but I’ve never come across it before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_radix is good related reading (including the concept of measuring time in this way; now that is something that we sometimes do in software, more or less).
I agree with your action. Letting more curious and fresh comments get buried under the more predictable and repetitive ones would be a disservice to the site visitors.
Sorry, but I'm not clear on what downvotes have to do with this. Are you responding to what I said about downweighting? That just means that we lower the subthread's position on the page.
(Both links point at the same book)

By the way. If I'm a young adult and think that I might have a mild case of ADHD, do you think it's worth it to try get diagnosed?
There are quite a few scientific or technical aspects of the HBO show which are completely fantastical and typical Hollywood tropes. Like that the core might blow up like a megaton bomb, or render all of Ukraine uninhabitable.

Edit: oh and that’s without mentioning all the factual errors in the story itself. Like the three volunteers who went into the plant to open the drains didn’t die, but are alive today, cancer free and collecting their pensions. So are most of the people who watched the plant burn the first night on the bridge.
> By this argument, it’s fine to arbitrarily deny people access to payment services and banking, since anyone can still mail them precious metals or send them cryptocurrency.

If anyone could open a bank and provide banking services, this would be true, but the ability to grant a customer access to banking is heavily regulated.

No such corresponding thing exists when it comes to "selling stuff on a website".

You'd have done better by pointing out the time Visa and Mastercard both started denying donations to a publisher (simply on request of the state) long before any criminal charges against that publisher were filed or made public.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...

(Note that the website of said publisher is still up and still publishing.)

Again, however, the issue is that not anyone can just start a bank on a whim. Websites and publishing are not similarly restricted.

> If only the last threshold counts as censorship, then we need a word for when people want to read what you wrote, but every major company decides to block that transaction. I think “censorship” is fine for that, but if you have a better term I’m all ears.

That is indeed censorship. The article is claiming "banned", though, which is inaccurate. I am extremely critical of private organizations engaging in censorship, and think we should engage in activism regarding it, because we actually can.

Once something is actually banned though, activism for it is explicit promotion of illegal activity, which is often itself illegal. It's like calling every protest or riot "terrorism": it begins to mean nothing.
600 employees is nothing. That’s a skeleton crew already. Yeah they’d probably still keep them on payroll to work on developing and maintaining safety standards.

That aside you’re not operating with facts just speculation. You’ve not quantified what you think the fully realized cost is today or what it would go down to in the future.
Are you volunteering? People can be quick to offer other humans as sacrifices for some greater good
Thanks for the article, I like many parts of it.

On the other note, yet slightly related. I still wonder so much why men are still expected to build muscles to look good - at least in the developed Western world. How come females are expected to be skinny, which is slightly changing now with the body-positive movements, but men are still not considered to be attractive when they are skinny. Developed Asian economies see skinny guys are handsome.

Why is it not here yet? Will we completely skip this step and jump to a male body positive look immediately?

For me it does not make sense why skinny guys are not considered attractive, because being skinny (and sufficiently) sporty has significant benefits while the ripped bodies we are being sold in social media and movies require huge effort which can be very harmful to the body.
Optimal auctions, and mechanism design in general (ie screening problems) is a very useful application of game theory.

But caution: game theory is not about winning games, but finding equilibria. You might be more interested in behavioral game theory (how people learn the games, k-level thinking etc) if you want to get a leg up.
I have never understood why nudity and consensual sex - basically harmless activities - are deeply frowned on by the ratings groups, yet stabbing someone in the throat and having their blood gush out everywhere is fine and dandy.

Everyone knows that men have dicks. Why is seeing one such a big deal? Or a butt for that matter: everybody has one! It's no wonder our society is screwed up when it comes to our bodies. We learn shame for them at a very early age.

Most movies and shows have become so violent that I don't even look for new stuff anymore. If I want to waste some time at the TV I just go watch a Star Trek rerun rather than spending 45 minutes trying to find something to watch, then finding out it's gory and turning it off.
If you love reading HN, then you love the HN that includes us downweighting generic subthreads, because we've been doing that for years.

'Manipulation' and 'moderation' and 'curation' and so on refer to the same thing, just with different emotional valences. We're not trying to be manipulative per se, but it takes human attention to prevent the system from falling into its failure modes.

It would be wonderful (especially for us!) if community action plus software were all that was neeeded for an optimal solution, but sadly they're just not. There needs to be a third component: humans who pay attention to the site as a whole and jiggle it so it doesn't degenerate. That's what we mean by moderation.

When that third, human component is working well, it fades into the background and creates an impression that the system is regulating itself. That's a sort of paradise mode. But then when moderation shows up intrusively (as in my comment above), some readers feel like we're interfering with the system that exists. Actually we're already part of the system that exists, and if we weren't doing what we do, the whole system would be very different.
Absolutely never heard that. For me, being professional only ever meant that you are qualified to do something because you conform to the professionalism rules in a given community. e.g. a music band can be super professional by how they behave and not make a single paid gig.
The reason why “50%” sex work shouldn’t be legal is because job descriptions change over time so it could easily be the case that every attractive women with a male boss suddenly has to have sex with them or be fired for not completing their job description. Sure, a lot of women can quit, but exploitation already happens now when it is illegal so if the law was on the exploiters side things would only get worse.
In my opinion that (as a mainstream social narrative) is a false dilemma. The real division is between casual relationships and long relationships. The message I got as a young person is that casual sex should be celebrated and endorsed. That is a lie. Casual sex erodes long, meaningful relationships. It makes it that much harder to commit. Long relationships are how functional families are built. Functional families provide a bedrock to the society at large.
Ruby is very simple. Only false and nil is falsy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y

This has English subtitles.

At a glance, they seem quite good, which is, in a way, hilarious. English speakers, when you see

"Without gravitsappa the pepelats can only fly like this"

it is a good translation, and you are getting the authentic Kin-Dza-Dza experience.

----

On second look, though,

"Guys, how do you roll out the pepelats without the gravitsappa? Not good."

should really be

"Guys, how do you take the pepelats out of the garage without a gravitsappa? Not good."
It's sad how often that statement applies to the most interesting tech.

In this particular case, the tech is quite incredible, and I'd really like to believe there is a non combat/surveillance use for it that I'm just missing. Can anyone else think of one?
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I participated in a similar study (same data collection method, results not yet published) and I think I was in one of the 10% of conversations where both participants didn’t want it to end. My only regret is that I didn’t get the other participants number!
But I think it's mostly motionists or above with fairly good skills that goes outside no matter the weather. A beginner in danger of falling would probably be more of a "happy camper" type and choose days with nicer conditions. Or if falling is a strong possibility I guess I'd recommend the mask variant instead.
And what about when HN disappears the post talking about how Amazon disappeared the book you wrote? This thread is no longer accessible from the first (or second, or third, or...) page.
Here, watch this.

Bootleggers (1961)

18 minutes of pure silliness, zero conversation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ehagcrBg
I’m American and the public pools I’ve been to are mostly not like this. They have individuals “cubicles” that you go into and then you can take close off and shower.
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Google takes not invented here to an extreme cross-team level. Their internal promotion/reward structure must be utterly broken that this exact scenario seems to keep playing out time and time again. I'm honestly surprised shareholders haven't started asking questions about the serious mismanagement of capital allocation.
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If you saw any form of marketing that was laden with the issues of this post, you would expect it to be signed by a Nigerian prince needing you to send him a bit of an advance.

That might sound rude, but if you're going to say that sort of thing is your skill, then at least make that clear in the execution of your own self promotion.

Now, that might feel like approaching troll level statement. But it's simply true. Would you want this person doing your startup's marketing, based on what they've posted here?
"It looks like this service does require password for sign-up and login right now unless you use google auth?"

We have implemented magic link in our new product, also as a way to trying out the tech and understanding user feedback. Appreciate your comments and a lot of great feedback from the discussion on this post in general.
Ah, thanks. I think the case of map and filter is simple in that the returned type doesn't vary ever, you always get back a lazy sequence. And if you want vectors back you can use mapv/filterv. But I see how people coming from other languages might expect the default to be maintaining the sequence type.

But more generally lazy sequences (and their prominent/default usage in builtins) seem to make code execution less predictable without delivering big benefits. One of the less successful features in Clojure IMO.
if pragprog or nostarch press pdfs look good on it, I'm game to get one
“Unsatisfied, Cruz asked human resources to look deeper into the incident”

It sounds like someone made a rude comment. Cruz reported it. HR seems to have confirmed it happened / it was rude.

What is there to look into deeper? What did Cruz want and expect to happen? What am I missing?
This is really sad. I have given up on Google over the last years. Them taking away Inbox hurt most, but I am still most furious for them disabling the link between Photos and Drive (you can no longer easily get your Google Photos to sync to a desktop). What remains? Gmail and a bit of search, where DDG is encroaching.
On this one I actually have put my money where my mouth is: I built an open-source tracker webapp specifically to note and display when HN does that.

https://orangesite.sneak.cloud

Source: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite
A Dwarf Fortress-like game (and engine) in Rust: https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed

Ambitious to be sure, but after a year and a half I'm still consistently working on it, and still enjoying it!
Yeah, I actually prefer a minimal sex scene (conveying the idea that it happened) to the explicit and lengthy stuff in your average HBO mini-series. Even less tolerant of sexual violence and torture. When I think of how many fake rapes I’ve witnessed/mentally onboarded via cinema/tv it makes me throw up a bit.
A quick WP check seems to confirm my definition:

> A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.

We could skip the "earn their living" part, but then we would all end up being professionals. :)
For me it's a sensation of not getting enough air. Like I feel the need to take a really deep breath, but after doing so it was as if I did not and still have the urge.
> middle-class societies with stable populations and functioning governments that are able to control environmental pollution

I'm not entirely sure if this is sarcastic trolling or an actual belief of a sane individual but this, this is a load of garbage.

So what, if Malaria gets solved the whole continent will suddenly have functioning governments and economies? Do you know how big the continent is? It's history?

I hope you were trolling.
In Australia a laser that emits more than one milliwatt is a prohibited weapon. Your three 333 mW lasers are still vastly over this legal limit.

(And Australia’s laws here were decided based on safety standards, the figures of which uuidgen points out.)
It's refreshing to see a take on this conflict that runs counter to the conventional take of a cataclysmic contest over an amphibious invasion of Taiwan and a frankly more realistic scenario of the PRC salami slicing it's way towards increased control of the island while trying to minimize the collateral damage an actual war would bring. The idea of imposing an inspection of all shipping into Taiwan to block military shipments while allowing civilian shipping hints of the Cuban missile crisis.

Still, the US could easily run "inspections" of its own on Chinese oil tankers in the Indian ocean. That's why I'm convinced that the ultimate confrontation between China and the US over Taiwan won't happen anywhere near Taiwan at all. Rather, China will delay until they can fight the US Navy in the Indian ocean.
China cannot itself sustain a blockade of Taiwan if the US intervenes.

It will be blockaded itself, as the US can within 48hrs blockade all commercial traffic in and out of china. China doesn't have much oil by itself, and it needs imports to properly feed its population.

It will end up like those scenarios, where the sieging forces, get sieged and cut off itself. Its navy is a near-shore force, and just can't project force outside the China sea. They can completely control the part of China sea near about 200-400km near its shore, but it will be unable to go any further than that.

It might end up like a Japan, 1941 scenario. They might be able to score some early surprise wins, but on the long term they are doomed to lose the war.

Ps. While china is experiencing a boom like the 50s and 60s in the USA (lots of infrastructure being built), China's demographic is aging, and we might see a scenario that the current boom will just slow down, and itself end up in a situation like Japan in the 90s, or USA itself in the 70s. It will reach a peak in the next 10 years (economically) and start leveling off to more normal rates of growth.
Maybe I chose the wrong word. Writing good summaries is hard!

What they describe in the paper (they call it a "treatment") is more like a training for newlyweds.

Maybe I should have phrased it like this:

Couples who decline to take part in free relationship training have higher divorce rates.

Or, more positively:

Couples who participate in free relationship training have lower divorce rates.

(But that implies causality, so it is again somewhat misleading)
Exactly.

The war is already lost.

And for every year that China outgrows the US it just becomes more obvious.
Seriously? Selective sampling and click bait.

Two recent programs come to mind and I'm sure this list is not exhaustive. "The boys" and "Orville". Both chock full of "heroes" who in-between being heroes are preoccupied with banging each other, getting drunk, eating or failing themselves. The last episode of "The Boys" ends with Homelander jerking off while perched on a ledge over the city and raging at the unfairness of life. It's certainly a comment on the blandness of the Marvel universe and Orville is a superior and cutting rip off of Star Trek which has become bland and inoffensive in it's latest incarnations. Orville cuts pretty close to the limit for whatever rating it has. The two "gay" aliens and the holodeck porn episode come to mind. It was done fairly well. Stressed out officer on a star ship gets a holodeck porn addiction and is no longer able to relate to or face his life partners demands for attention. It's not heroic and not glorious but relatively human. Orville's officers like to fuck. They order booze from the matter synthesizers and they get depressed and do stupid things. Of course it is still "star trek" and there are always happy endings and everybody learns a lesson at the end. It doesn't drift too far from the genre.

However the article takes a selective slice of current cinematic culture and tries to pretend there are no other options out there whilst at the same time looking back at 80's and 90's cinema as if it was the age of body positive cinema.
I had a similar experience; after only three years into my career I was very disillusioned with the career choice I had made, because although I loved programming, everything else about the job was not matching up to expectations (although we did have cubicles).

So I made the decision to leave industry and get a PhD so I could become an academic and teach. By the time I finished that, I had seen enough of what academia was like and became very disillusioned with the prospect of continuing on that path, because although I loved research and teaching, everything else about the job did not match up to expectations (although we did have private offices). So I went back into industry.

I've had a range of different software jobs, some good and some not so much. Fortunately I've ended up now in a job that is super interesting and that I love.

However - and this is the important point I want to make - I only got this opportunity because of the work I had done during grad school (and released publicly). What I learnt is that is that in order to get the really interesting jobs, I had to choose my own projects, outside of paid employment, and spend tons of time and effort on them to build up the experience necessary to find a full time job working on them. That's something I continue to do today, with a view to making myself eligible for other interesting jobs in the future.
“Amazon gladly carries Mein Kampf”

Is there an equivalent to Godwin’s Law for the literary world?
Milton Friedman advocated for universal basic income
For perspective, 17,000 people work for NASA.
Too large a company. Their cross-team is like other's cross-company.
Athens Research budgets $10k in bounties for 20 issues over the next 3 weeks
Ask HN: What is the ratio between no-code tools and the apps created with them?
I guess, but if the web front end goes down all you own is some digits. Cool.
I agree with all of that and I still think expecting an unusual low after an unusual high is indicative of the gambler's fallacy.
The alternative is for the US to pick a fight in an asymetric manner.

Sow discontent in the periphery of China (HK, Xinjiang, Tibet). Tech war.
Modern male action heroes take a lot of steroids. It’s not a trend anyone should encourage, where the price of entry to be a lead on one of those movies is to risk sacrificing your health in such a dramatic way
China will absolutely get blockaded itself, as they can't project power, meanwhile get the rest of the world against them.

They don't have much oil, and their economy will be crippled to a standstill.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/China_Oi...
Is there a hall of fame to put him in not sponsored by Boing?
Ask HN: For those building 'microstartups' – how do you manage payments?
I'm a SWE and have been interested in building something on the side, but don't have any ideas that I think are particularly brilliant at the moment. I've seen a recent trend of people building what they call 'microstartups' which seem to essentially be very small, very specific products that they've able to ship quickly.

My question is – how are you guys handling payment processing for those kinds of businesses? Presumably you're not incorporating a new business each time?

I've incorporated a Delaware S corp once before and had to be very explicit with the purpose of my business when I was filing for incorporation, and also when I was opening a bank account, and also when I was registering with a payment processor (Stripe). Thus it seems like it would be difficult to incorporate a new S corp and use it as an umbrella for a bunch of unrelated side projects, unless I'm missing something?

Bit a of newbie to all of this, so any insight is very appreciated!
Cash, gold bars, bearer bonds, prepaid gift cards and other negotiable instruments.
I've noticed that some people I communicate with over chat have developed habit of actively scuttling my attempts to end chat conversations by dropping ever increasing clickbait headline / tweet style messages. It pulls me back in for a couple messages, or another 20 minutes of chatting, but it's burning me out on these chat apps.
Is it the exploitation or is it the idea of it being a normalised part of workplace culture?

I'm in favour of fully legalised prostitution, but I don't want to be personally exposed to it in any capacity. I want the workplace to be about work. I don't want my money wasted arresting people for having sex.
Fuck all that mass-media social programming propaganda. Murder and violence are "okay," while sex and sexuality are "bad."

I'll walk around naked, look at women, and hookup whenever I damn well please. Sex is awesome, bodies are beautiful, and no shame is necessary for either.

Films that cannot be made in modern America:

- Laura, les ombres de l'été (1979)

- Lolita (either)

- Pretty Baby (1978)

- Caligula (1979)

- Rocky Horror Picture Show

- Monty Python and The Holy Grail

- Nymphomaniac I or II

Partially, there is great sanitization of Western films to be accepted by foreign censors.