skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's real, but it's rarely ever just one or the other. There's no situationally objective criteria for whether someone has victimhood mentality or is actually a victim.

When you get into the territory of microaggressions and subconscious bias, which are real problems but aren't necessarily clearly benign or bad on a case by case basis, the lines can get very blurry depending on who the observer is. Generally you should give the benefit of the doubt, because part of the nature of the social problems we talk about come from blaming the weak for being weak.
Complexity and the future of food: AIs potential to address global food security
Language is fuzzy. Every word you say is a theory that carries with it everything you know about a word.

"Red" may bring to mind the color. It may bring to mind anger. It may bring to mind a bull and a matador.

All of those things happen in your subconscious, and they affect your understanding in uniquely-local ways.

So the transfer of information through speech from my mind to yours may sound very direct, but your interpretation of what I am saying is different than my interpretation of what I'm saying in very subtle ways.

Because of this, there's a very good chance that I am either completely wrong because I have misinterpreted things, that I am wrong because you have different context than I do, or that I have done a poor job of explaining things because context exists locally (in my head) that you don't have.

About this topic in particular, it was hyperbole to say "you are all doing it wrong". What is more accurate to say is that "my understanding of OOP is different in implementation than what I'm used to seeing, and I believe that my understanding is more correct/beneficial than those implementations"
Show HN: Zero cost abstractions in web development
This is actually somewhere Google has generally been more accepting than Apple. While Apple has been very harsh on both the app purchase and any in-app content or services being through them, Google has been more lenient, historically, on the latter.

Google has actually changed their minds on that, and will start being Apple-level strict in September of this year: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/google-announces-cra...
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Worked in an environment were anything vague in ticket/story would cause team to reject considering it.

At first I was horrified at this. “You can’t tell the boss no!”

Six months later I had to admit it was by far the most productive team I had or have ever been on.
HN isn’t wrong about everything. It was extremely bearing on Groupon in 2011. It was another thing where true believers would say that skeptics “just don’t get it”, but the HN critics had extremely cogent critiques that went without response. Google “Groupon Stock”, HN was very correct.

VERY different from the anti-Dropbox sentiment of the famous Dropbox comment.

You also have Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, all claiming Bitcoin is worthless. Some of the brightest minds in finance with impeccable and long track records.

Bitcoin has had 12 years and still has no real world use cases. By contrast the internet was instantly useful. Bitcoin has a monstrous cost in energy and money to maintain the network. The token backing BTC, Tether, is founded by con artists and was just revealed to not have had the backing they claim. BTC has been subjected to the same money money printing its advocates defy in fiat.

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Check the results for Groupon: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=7H1SYMDVJKiYwbkPvqiEg...
I feel as though early 2000s was the peak of UI, they took peak performance and made it look good enough
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots Threaten Call-Center Industry, Human Operators
For iPhones and iPads probably much less. For clothing, the margin can be 60%, for toys even more, for books 30-40%.

[These figures were approximately true some years ago in Italy]
Most of those are either supported by other Atlassian products or not important at all. Why would I care about a web ide?
No worries. The gaming industry has its own set of problems for sure, so I'm not claiming it's inherently better in any way :)

I'm glad to hear if your major challenge in the enterprise was to solve actual problems and produce real value. My journey was mostly learning one over-complicated framework after another, and finally coming to the conclusion that it was mostly for nothing. I was the local Spring expert, but at the same it's biggest critic. The "code", or more accurately the configuration, gets very consise, but you risk ending up with only a handful of people in the building who know how to debug the app properly.

I started coding Java when Sun marketed it as a very pragmatic choice, focusing on "simply writing code". The influence of IBM and the whole JEE movement (including Spring) still looks at the problem of coding from the wrong angle IMO.

Creating a good development environment is not about creating a all-in-one runtime environment or methodology, nor about simplifying the problem space for developers by letting them write plugins to large servers.

It's about establishing a fast RAD cycle and offering a buffet of good libraries, to simplify the writing of code.

Java used to be the language which allowed you to "just program", nowadays the mainstream choices are golang or node. To me it's become very clear that Java is on the wrong track here.

There are an infinite number of distractions as a coder, including Microservices, responsive design, functional purity, patterns etc.

If you managed to duck most of these and end up in a place where you were producing value effectively, you were very lucky judging by my experience :)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26470874.
> Apple’s advertising platform does not track you

This seems pretty straightforward.
More like the GIMP of audio editing.
It's NOT trustless money. Instead of trusting the US gov, you are trusting that this decentralized ledger will gain acceptance by the whole world. Which one is more of a leap of faith?
I also find the "or" wording of the law interesting.

I do think it's racist as it grants the privilege of abandoning the Jewish religion while remaining a legally privileged class (Jew) to people with some ancestries (Jewish) but not with others.
Debian has no bugs - heard it here first!
Sweet. Now do a Toffoli gate
This is third one
Tesla FSD Beta Terrorizes Oakland
Please consider using either Zulip or Matrix from the get-go, else if you just pick Discord you will find yourself in the very same situation as with Slack before long.

I was in a little CTF server which got flagged and taken down, even though there wasn't anything too particularly nefarious going on. Maybe someone did upload something dumb which raised flags on Discord's end, though.
I really like the idea here - I was using a FreeBSD desktop 18 years ago with KDE2.

But in terms of actually being able to get things done as a desktop workstation, and software I can run natively on it, I could replicate almost exactly the same setup starting from a bare bones debian bullseye (testing) install, then adding xorg and xfce4 and customizing xfce4.

That's the setup I'm using now - I ended up adding a ton of gnome and kde related libraries so that I can run software derived from both projects. Yes it uses multiple gigabytes of disk space, but now I have a solid setup that can run just about any Linux GUI application, and Windows 10 inside virtualbox full screen on a second monitor to the side.
I said they have a lot of influence over which candidates are viable, not total control. Before becoming president, Trump was a very famous and interesting billionaire, which takes away a lot of the media's tools. The famous and interesting part makes it so people want to hear about him and will pull their eyeballs away from any media outlet that doesn't talk about him (which the media companies obviously care about because that takes away their influence), and the billionaire part gives him the ability to buy a credible campaign effort.

Certainly there are considerable numbers of people in this country that totally distrust the major media sources (for very good reason, in my opinion), but they still have considerable viewerships and therefore considerable influence over the thoughts and therefore votes of many.

Again, do you think Bezos was looking for the ad revenue? Or was he looking for political influence?
Well, this is one thing that he obviously got wrong. Computer hardware speed didn't become faster by a factor of 100 in the 12 years since Bitcoin started. Just by a factor of 2, maybe.

But solutions to that problem exist. I pay small amounts regularly with my bitcoin wallet (the Wallet of Satoshi), it costs mere cents and transactions confirm in seconds. It's far superior to anything visa has to offer, because it's fraud and counterfeit proof, privacy friendly, globally universal and cheap.
I would much prefer Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat to... vat grown meat goo. Just sounds gross, but that's just me.

/s Next thing you know, Umbrella Corp will get involved.
Not sure - but as opposed to the "open office" concept, one thing I loved about Intel was the 6' tall grey cubicles they had -- the term you might be looking for is "lab"

Isn't it great being a lab manager where few people have access to your lab....

When I was at FB, and they were building MPK west... they only built 5 offices (with bullet proof glass and escape hatches to the below) for only the C-suite...

3,000 engineers in an open office environ.

Dope building, but enforces an anti-culture that I personally don't like...

no quiet privacy at your intended made desk - and you have to spend cycles "looking for privacy"
The concept of a "channel" on WiFi bands (particularly 2.4GHz) is pretty much done. 802.11ac can use 80MHz of spectrum on the 2.4 band, which is pretty much the entire set of available channels all at once.
We don't need "millions of Hemingway's".

The parent comment was suggesting that very few people can code-- and by "code" they meant "production applications".

I am trying to say that lot's of people can code, well enough to solve their domain problems, well enough to put food on their tables, well enough to not need "real programmers" in increasing numbers of scenarios. Just because they're not doing internet scale application development or cutting edge mission critical projects doesn't mean they "can't code".

There's a long and continuous spectrum between Hemingway-like programmers to bored-out-of-their-skulls enterprise developers to lunch-time dilettantes who are running a far more of their business than they should on brittle excel pivot tables and VBA macros.
It doesn't cause the genetic change, the genetic change is random. But if you were, simply by chance, born with a bigger brain that required more calories to support, you would be at a disadvantage to everyone else, and your mutation would quickly die out unless you were in a situation where you had excess calories available, such as by eating meat.
I tried it out a while back and it felt really heavyweight for what I needed (often just trim, normalise, export)... so I’m happy with a lightweight, fast wave editor, then I do anything more involved in a DAW. Thanks for the recommendation though!
I'm not quite sure how you've come upon the conclusion that it's in any manner "unsubstantive", the comment is in fact underpinned by a well-known classical novel, which almost exactingly describes this machine and this process in a distant future. Moreover it calls upon the subject matter quite directly, as the article suggests that it may in the future be adapted to humans, which is a particularly strong narrative element in "Brave New World" and through the device a number of, what are now at least, morally objectionable means and ends. E.g. the deliberate destruction of faculties through ethanol and hormone inoculation of fetuses in vitro, which is utilized to simplify the conditioning used in the fictional caste system. It also acts to alienate children and adults, which is also used as a mechanism for conditioning by desensitizing the adults to what is described as a fairly torturous process.

Considering the level of alignment in general trends to the thematic aspects of the book, and considering the possible applications of this technology and its further development; even if it is mothballed for experimentation in human subjects now, still presents the hypothetical and moral hazards that Huxley proposed. These are all certainly points for discussion, and I'm sure others could corroborate even more interesting interpretations of possible and probable outcomes both positive and negative from "Brave New World" alongside other novels, literature of a more scientific nature, as well as philosophy. But since you assert it's "unsubstantive", I yield to your discretion.
not forget www.bridg.app
does productivity compose ? because reports of WFH improving productivity by 22% would make a nice bump on top.
That's actually par for the course for a lot of Java content, and that's ok.

I'm not the youngest developer, and I like to see content on my steady bread-winner so I upvote it. Java is in a mature phase, so there are not a lot of surprises, and things to discuss. Even the shiny new things that make the platform unique like Loom have been years in the making.

Just Java being Java, where 'boring' is what you actually want from it.
1) Jamie Dimon had been COO for four years, and CEO for over two years, if he wasn’t responsible for the banks capital position, who was?

2) if JP Morgan Chase wasn’t as exposed to the MBS meltdown as other banks, how is that not to his credit?

3) The $6B in trading losses in 2012 didn’t stop JPMorgan from posting a record profit of $21B for the year.

Anyone looks bad if you attribute all their accomplishments to luck but doggedly hold them responsible for every mistake.

I did confuse Dimon with Kovacevich, but Jamie also didn’t need the TARP funding.

In the end a 12%+ annualized return and total return 50% higher than the S&P500 over 15 years is nothing to sneeze at.
> It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts

If you filter for positive shoutouts only, the result becomes strongly biased by definition :).
Most of the advice on how to make a chart readable for the colourblind also helps keep it intelligible when converted to greyscale. Unless colour is vital to communicating something with a chart, I always check to make sure it's still understandable in greyscale. Old habit from the days of B&W laser printers and copy machines, but it hasn't done me wrong yet.
If you have a 3d printer, some motors and some cheap microcontroller boards you can make a lot of stuff.
Here's a video where an ex-lawyer goes through a NYT article on election fraud and absolutely tears apart the misleading language they use to build the case that there was "no" election fraud:

https://youtu.be/TmgMu5sefzA

The beauty of this style of reporting is that the writer's skill with words allows them to plant specific ideas into reader's minds, but if anyone was to call them out on the carpet, they can completely truthfully say that nothing in the article is untrue, or explicitly asserts conclusions that any typical reader would naturally draw.

The NYT is arguably one of the best news outlets going, so I'm not sure how one could hope that this situation will ever improve.
I'd think piers would be to busy contending with water to care much about how anyone looks.
I'm glad you used an adjective because the majority of children I teach would beat most cryptocurrency eschatologists in one fell swoop at a maturity contest.
Many may agree with the author, but the fact is that many people do get offended about words. In the last few days there has been a significant firestorm about South African academic Adam Habib, who was recently appointed as head of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the a University of London because he stated on a Zoom call with some students that if someone used the word n**r that would be a breach of policy. His sin was uttering the word, rather than saying “the n word”, which as a South African person with Indian ancestry, he is apparently not entitled to do. He tried to explain that words need to be understood in context, but was ripped apart by a woke Twitter mob (he has also made enemies in South African politics who gleefully amplified the outrage). After initially standing firm, he seems to have issued a grovelling apology.

If an outrage mob on social media is going to go after you, and they can be placated by changing a few words, it seems eminently rational to change the words.
Why are you drawing the line at the US? Worldwide, Apple's share is something like 20-25%. And at the level of a single city, it is very common for a single landlord to own over 60%, if not 100%, of mall space in a city.

But anyway - there are something like 1,000 to 2,000 indoor shopping malls in the US, depending on how you count, and there are companies that own hundreds of malls, and they're consolidating. Would it become a problem if one landlord ended up owning 60% of mall retail? Why?

And how are you concluding that Apple faces no competitor pressure? Apple's 30% cut is exactly equal to Google's 30% cut. Is this a massive coincidence, or is this the market doing exactly what you'd expect a market to do and equalizing prices between competitors for similar products? Why hasn't Apple raised their take to even 35%, if it really is their discretion alone?

(Microsoft, as it happens, also takes a 30% cut of Xbox-related sales on their store. They take a 5-15% cut of other apps. https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-store-revenue-share... This is pretty much exactly with what you'd expect if 30% is what the market will bear for reasonably successful products, and if Microsoft is obligated to compete on price for non-Xbox-related store purchases.)
If BTC does catch up, the current inequality of the world will look like an anthill in comparison to the inequality that BTC will create. I can't imagine the world letting that happen..
Weirdly, my Firefox displays it in the page as the Unicode box (E0B0), but if I right click and "Inspect Element", it shows the arrow character as it should be, as part of the span tag's content text.
What about AzPainter[0] UI?

[0] https://git.io/azpainter
Why Covid passports are taking so long
Actually they don't. Apple makes a consumer product and exercises control between developers and users. On the other hand, Google has power over the rest of the smartphone ecosystem via Android (practically speaking) and the installation of Google Play store. It's important that Apple move first as the "leader" and Google, representing the rest of the ecosystem "follow"
>Having an Eclipse release sit on HN for 3 hours with zero comments seems like the most accurate depiction of the market's current feelings towards Eclipse...

This is a really strange observation.

Do a search here on HN for the Visual Studio Code editor and you'll find a number of posts with 0 comments. I use that editor as an example as it seems to be among what's popular at the moment.

I don't think you can derive much from the number of comments a post has after 3 hours. Some of the more popular posts on HN exist after the link had been submitted a number of times prior.
Social proof is to give credibility, reviews are to make decisions. This is for social proof. Also, by definition social proof is positive or else it wouldn't be valuable.

It's an easier way to source all of those testimonials that people have on their website and really cool because it shows that people "like me" value the product. If they do their job right, you could have a testimonial that is more valueable than anything you could have sourced yourself because you are surfacing that diamond in the rough. Especially if you a big brand with thousands, or millions, of people tweeting at you.

Cool prooduct, nice work guys.
Do you have any thoughts on the cause of "the absence of other civil rights leaders"?
"MS Paint for sound"
When I was training people in sales, this is the first thing I would talk about.
Show HN: Flat Habits – Org mode habits on iOS
IntelliJ is probably the better comparison. It's not free, but for $100/year or whatever it is, it's worth it to not have to use Eclipse.
User describes how Uber Eats added –$2K of unintended charges to their account
Gromov was my father's thesis advisor. From what I know, he seems an extremely intelligent and insightful person. Sadly I've never had a chance to meet him.
Meta-stablecoins: How Gyroscope is Different
If anyone's wondering why you would use a "no JS" approach when you're already using React, it's that this still works for NoScript users (assuming you either use a SSG like Next.js or use SSR).
> you are trusting that this decentralized ledger will gain acceptance by the whole world.

Bitcoin itself is inherently trustless, that's the whole point of it. You can trust that there will never be more than 21M Bitcoins, you can trust that there will never be a double-spend, you can trust that it will run 24/7, etc.

Whether it will gain worldwide acceptance is another matter (btw, adoption is increasing at very fast pace now), as long as there's a subset of the world that accepts it, that's good enough for me.
> This means Bitcoin's value is based on completely ephemeral feelings

How is this different from any other asset? Value always disappears when people stop believing in it. People invest in company stock because they believe the company is valuable and will grow over time. Nobody wants to hold coins that lose value constantly. Governments have to literally force people to use their currencies by force of law.
Because you will die if you don't spend it on some food. There is more to life than to grow your wealth.
You may be astonished to learn that men are stopped and frisked 10x more than women.

https://www.met.police.uk/sd/stats-and-data/met/stop-and-sea...
Hi all. constexpr.js is feature complete at this point. i.e. It can be used to build any kind of website. The last feature added is generator pages:

https://fctorial.github.io/posts/constexprjs_generator_pages...

Let me know if there are any features that you think are missing.
This is Hacker news and the top comment complains about that the cited article uses some not-too-strange command line tweaks?

That's sad.
Well, if you build it yourself at least you’ll think it’s secure!
You seem to imply that every tech worker is pro-tax breaks (they are not).

In fact, it's perfectly possible to disagree with your company's policy on taxes, and agree with their policy on inclusivity! In fact, these tech workers have almost no control over the taxes their company pays or doesn't pay!

I think many people here would agree with me: I'd be happy if tax laws were changes to make big companies pay more! I would never expect anyone to quit their jobs because they disagreed with how their company filed their tax return. That's just a kind of insane way to think about the world. A worker only has one bargaining chip: they can quit. That's an unreasonable ask.
Dope - how does [any car, not just tesla] know when the light is red/green - and whats the behavior to respond to a yellow light.

Given a yellow light - whats the cut-off dist for when it knows to stop or keep going?
The first chapter of Diamond's Guns, Germs, & Steel takes a crack at this.
>And how many suicides in Japan are work-related?

Probably no hard statistics on this but here's something from Japan Times on karôshi:

>Over the past decade, more than 300 people each year have been awarded compensation under work-related accident insurance after suffering either heart attacks or strokes. In 2013 alone, 133 of such people died. A growing number of workers also win damages for work-induced mental problems, with the figure hitting 436 last year, including 63 who either committed or attempted suicide.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/11/15/editorials/g...