skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If curious, the interesting past threads appear to be:

The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924560 - Jan 2021 (294 comments)

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16348885 - Feb 2018 (31 comments)

Iain Banks audio interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749881 - June 2015 (1 comment)

A Few Questions About the Culture: An Interview with Iain Banks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587447 - Nov 2014 (86 comments)

Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849186 - June 2013 (133 comments)

A Few Notes On The Culture, by Iain M. Banks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5497905 - April 2013 (1 comment)

A Personal Statement from Iain Banks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485236 - April 2013 (346 comments)
Sorry but being outraged never solved anything. "I'm angry look at me" never attracted any kind of widespread support. MLK understood this and his speeches reflected that with messages of hope, not anger, meanwhile the other radical part of the civil rights movement tend to swept under the rug and for good reasons. There are more ways, better ways, to impose political pressure and they tend to work best in practice with incremental practical improvements as opposed to bloody wars and destructive revolutions.

And it seems that you have a very binary view of the world. Us vs them. It's our way or tyranny. "They" can't understand, but only "we" can. All doctrines that view the world along a single dimension is prone to disastrous results. As for rights, they can be and will always be negotiated. They are not born out of thin air and the question of balancing them with responsibility will never truly be entirely settled.

Finally your whole arguments relies on the Genetic Fallacy. I don't need to have had a third degree burn over 90% of my body to know it must hurt like hell. I don't ask my cardiologist if he ever had a cardiac arrest before I see him to know if he's competent. Most people will know what injustice feels like even if they didn't experience the ones based on race. This is such a juvenile argument.
Thanks, I’ve already listened to two episodes since I’ve read your comment; it is indeed very good.
I think they are losing, but I’m glad they are trying. I don’t think I would be so brave if I were in Hong Kong, for example.
> I believe this phenomenon is more like overshoot in an underdamped system than being the end result. Rapid changes always lead to overshoot.

No I don't think it's this. I think it's the advent of the internet. The internet changed everything. What you will find is that the internet is responsible for making everything look like an "overshoot."
> taking my kids would be a net positive

When our kids were very little, my Episcopalian wife said we needed to raise them in a religious tradition "so they'd have something to reject when they grow up." So we did; both were baptized (as infants) and confirmed (as teens) at her parish. Fast forward three decades: One now-grown and -married kid is on the vestry (board of directors) of the parish, while the other hasn't darkened the door of any church since he was a teenager, apart from his sister's wedding.

(Later I ended up joining as well; see https://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/05/why_i_call_myse...)
That's a really interesting one! Thanks for sharing it :)
Recent discussion of a comparison between various atomic clocks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582161
if you are stopped lawfully the law does require you to identify yourself if asked, generally.

this requirement you linked to also provide your address I'd have to look at further to tell you categorically that providing your ad is specifically in connection with this stature, but when you are asked to identify yourself providing a address is quite normal, but I am surprised that I actually don't know if you have to give your address with your name by law or if your name is always sufficient for all other cases. it is equally likely that I'm trying to clarify ambiguity that arises only from the language of the linked information of course
Bitcoin is P2P software. Every model that doesn't start there is wrong. Certainly most hype pieces start somewhere else. All critiques do. It's easy to ignore them.
console.log(“Morning, World!”)
People can make up whatever motivation they want if they feel slighted. All it takes is for the female founder to ascribe sexism to the VC when he suggests swapping CEOs, and you've got the entire media circus on your neck. And then people stop being rational actors when mob mentality kicks in.
And organizations like the NYT have adapted the format of certain stories to be tablet/computer friendly.

Honestly the lets have a digital newspaper that imitates the form of a paper newspaper is going back to how people were thinking in the late 90s (fishwrap I think? out of MIT). I honestly don't even reach for my tablet all that much because I'm already on my phone or a laptop.

I do like e-ink for flowing text reading and I have a Kindle but I don't have any interest in a different tablet that's just for newspapers absent the newer more dynamic features.
Isn't being gaslit sort of the theme of the age? I know some specific sources, but I hardly think it comes down to just one Big Enemy gaslighting us super hard.

More likely that's become the immediate go-to approach for a host of state and organizational actors, just as soon as they worked out they could direct populations through social pressure. It ain't in just one direction, so we're looking at some serious chaos out there. Only common denominator is engagement.
It will be fun! :) Are you joining some community or doing it alone?
This reminds me of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. I have to wonder how she may have received criticism of her ideas if there was a baseline of equality of ideas from men and women.

Basically, to over-simplify severely, instead of taking criticism as a way to improve, she took it as an attack, which I think was part of what made Theranos insular, overprotective. It would be a bridge too far to link it to the cheating.
Did you have any evidence to back up your theory at the time? A broken clock is right twice a day after all.

Are you saying we should now listen to every conspiracy theory on the internet on the off chance it might be right?
But this is what this letter is all about. They are not targeting RMS but the whole Free Software Movement. A lot of companies supporting this letter make millions with proprietary software, privacy invasion, user manipulation and planned obsolescence. They aren't targeting Stallman because they want Free Software Movement to succeed. They are targeting Stallman because it can cause a fracture in the movement.
You are inventing a hypothetical straw-man. Until you can point to conversation where someone said something fact based like I gave as an example and people accept your twisting and start a twitter mob of any impact, this remains a hypothetical victimization.
It might be because you were saying it was "likely" despite any evidence? Ending up being right isn't a to anybody's credit if the original assumption was groundless.

(I'm not attacking you, I don't know what was your exact argument)
Original argument posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26609247
It's a sort of similar to the prisoner's dilemma. It's hard to keep a community cooperative when there are defectors about and our impression of how likely others are to defect on us influences how willing we are to cooperate.

That's why you see people looking for smaller, more trust-bound online communities to associate with.
One previous thread:

Formal Methods of Software Design: an online course by Eric Hehner - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464463 - Sept 2013 (8 comments)
Whites are about 70% of American, and half of those are men, so in American, yeah they are. This is an American site, and the context of these conversations are America, so there's nothing exceptional about this.
This is more common than not in traditional enterprises and businesses. It feels like a unique trait of the Silicon Valley bubble (and places testing to emulate it).
Interesting, can you give an example of a fact that is initially resisted but is then accepted when you provide additional personal experience.
Two Minute Papers channel on YouTube covers all kinds of recently published AI & simulation algorithms, like this one last week about adaptive grid sizes for fluid simulations.

https://youtu.be/4etSuEQOzDw

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3414685.3417837
Am I the only one who finds strange that now even a jetbrains IDE plug in such as Material Design UI has a monthly subscription?
Wikimedia Commons panoramas: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures...
Turning away can't be the real solution, of course can't blame anyone who chooses so.
I find the article interesting but oversimplifying.
OP suggests that we don't discuss & try to solve large-scale problems and instead focus on actionable smaller bites. But, if we no longer can discuss problems how do we progress further as a society? How do I know what others with different views think of the matter? Harari argues everyone must gather as much information as possible so they make informed decisions as in our globalized world every decision counts.
That's exactly the problem QMC methods solve. By choosing a sequence of sample points of low discrepancy, you make sure to sample the entire space as evenly as possible.
Ah yes, the life long leftist who made a throwaway account on Hacker News to parrot right wing talking points and post an image of a right wing meme.
They were trying for 10k lines of code(I think I saw Alan Kay mention online that they got to about 20k lines).
Well if that was the case where are all the horror stories? With the acceptance rates of startups at VC pitches etc., shouldn't we be expecting a lot of VCs being hounded with allegations of sexism and the media circus going amok? How is YC still in business given their acceptance rates?
I think it mostly is, we're just not always happy about which countries actually are in the "authoritarian" bucket
I'm not sure I buy this argument. The one group of people who certainly can create good alternatives that don't rely on that lock-in effect are programmers, after all. It's their livelihoods and happiness we're talking about, not to mention often their own pockets feeding the SAAS beast in the case of small businesses and freelancers, so they have a lot of incentives to do exactly that. And there are millions of them, many of whom already contribute freely to projects they find interesting anyway.
> identity theft [...] just doesn’t exist in Italy

Big lol. The country used to be famous for frauds and scams! Of course identity fraud exists, but precisely because everyone expects it, the majority of systems errs on the side of caution and requires validation from multiple sources. The result is that fraud processes become so much harder to pull off that fewer and fewer bad guys attempt it, but on the other hand every validation step becomes a bureaucratic nightmare (“did you include certificate X from office A, Y from office B, and Z from office C, as well as your ID card, health card, tax card, and recent pictures? No? Sorry, no cookie for you.”)

This is also why the country has a pretty secure and advanced way to carry out official acts electronically (PEC) - because otherwise fraud would be even more rampant.

I do agree that the “anglo” hate for ID documents (“such Napoleonic constructs, so barbaric!”) leaves the door open to scammers, but it’s not like they don’t exist in Italy too.
But the cover up is the only way Chinese government could react. This property is embedded and immutable in this type of government.
> No matter how dumb it is, in what way is it ambiguous?

That it is unclear is obvious in that the person using the stereotype couldn't identify the concrete, actionable behavior they intended to encourage when directly questioned.
Some things can't be done on the top level. E.g. anti-tracking and metering.

Also because airtime is a scarce resource it's not as simple as "just give me a lower layer and I'll run VOIP". The requirements (and performance and reliability) of voice calls is higher than skype over an IP network on mobile.

E.g. there's a reason SCTP is actually used here. Phone networks are in some ways rightly very different from pure packet Internet. Sometimes just for historical reasons from the olden times, but often also justifiably so.

I could go on and on, but tl;dr: it's not that simple, but you're also not wrong.
I agree with you 100%. This is the take of people who have little on the line, and don't face issues everyday, falsely lumping all matters of outrage together. They're now upset, outraged even, that their status quo is challenged, and write about how we need to chill out and slowly work towards change. Well, yes slow change works if they've got little to lose from it.

I'm honestly flummoxed by all the people in the comments here talking out against this supposed "outrage culture" without breaking down the nuance of what people are outraged about.

Are we talking about outrage over sexual and racial harassment? Is that not worth being outraged about?

Or are we talking about Hasbro making gender neutral Potato heads, and the end of sales of some racist Dr Seuss books?

Articles like this help people lump everything in together, and feel better about themselves for being above it all. It's a supremely privileged position.
Sometimes an outsiders perspective asks the right question. The parent simply asked why candor and sexism appear to be conflated.

Curious conversation is good

BTW, the roots of the US is from a cultural melting pot.
This very much mirrors my own experience as a child (violin, piano), the later on saxophone was a lot of fun and now piano again, but this time without guidance just enjoying myself figuring it all out and using my software skills to help me.
GNU is an operating system that respects users' freedom
Possibly M1 hardware optimisation for x86 emulation?
CNN doesn't even report the news anymore. All they have are personalities that tell you what your opinion of the news should be.

BTW, I regularly read both the WSJ and the NYT. Reading both gives one a good idea about how agenda driven the media is.
Research shows hCaptcha is useless
Yeah, I'm still a bit confused about how this works in practice. I remember when XRPL first started the vast majority of nodes were run by Ripple themselves, which obviously kinda defeats the purpose of a decentralized cryptocurrency.

With regard to throughput, yes XRPL is higher than Bitcoin network, though a similar number of txns to Ethereum, which A. has smart contracts B. hasn't yet integrated their Layer 1 scaling solutions (sharding, PoS) which apparently should increase throughput by many multiples.
I think my lesson here is that Java is a terrible language for software longevity.
I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the EU where the full (EUR) price has to be refunded within 14 days of delivery. Whenever I bought things with BTC, only fiat refund was possible for legal reasons. Anyways Tesla so far is respecting EU law and I expect it to do that with Bitcoin as well when they start accepting Bitcoin there.
For real. Cut down on my reddit usage last year - mostly lurking anway.

Might also have something to do with discovering hn around the same time :)
What do people think of git subtrees?

https://codewinsarguments.co/2016/05/01/git-submodules-vs-gi...

Or the non-standard git-subrepo?

https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo
Agreed on both points, the export is definitely a hackish way of using Framer.

I'll be glad to share the project over DM, feel free to shoot me an email :)

Also, Plasmic looks really interesting, I'm looking forward to try it out.
This is about the name, I see.
> Strings. In C, comparing two strings involves a function call, a loop and a potential cache miss. Copying a string just moves a pointer, which is much cheaper. The additional copying costs little for strings.

A better approach would be to store the string's hashcode somewhere and only perform the element-wise comparison in case they match. For most strings they are unlikely to match.

> Not sure what you mean by this. The "nature size" is the size without tombstones. Clearly backshift is the better one.

You can count the fraction of the table consumed by tombstones and grow it a little earlier if that fraction is significant.

> Yes, backshift only supports linear probing so far as I know. Most high-performance hash table libraries use linear probing these days. A few use quadratic probing. I rarely see double hashing.

Yes, but you are trading amazing performance in the average case against awful performance in the degenerate case. Poor hash functions or adversarial input could cause congestion in parts of the hash table.
Collabora Office: The enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice
SaaS CI is valuable because it's not seen as something a programmer could easily make by themselves, unlike the vast majority of SaaS offerings, a lot of which are more marketing than code (not that that's a bad thing, but don't ask the average programmer how highly they value marketing).
What a maddeningly lukewarm and privileged take. Your anger is being nurtured and harvested financial gain? Politicians are stoking outrage and fear to distract you from graft and corruption? You should disengage from it all and just, like, chill out, man? How bold.

There are made-up outrages, blown out of proportion outrages, and real, genuine outrages. There are productive things you can do about them and there are worthless things you can do about them. These are all mired together, and there will never be clear, objective boundaries between them all. It's hard, but you have to deal with it if your goal is to try improve things. There are real, systemic issues, issues perpetuated, often knowingly, by people with power. Those aren't going to get fixed by being nicer to your social circle and ignoring everything else. To take an old example, the Civil Rights movement only succeeded because people became rightfully outraged by segregation and racial oppression. If your answer to that is "Sure, but that was then. We don't have any big, systemic problems like that anymore," you'll probably find agreement with most white Americans in 1953.

This guy's choice of examples is telling. Calling people "a Nazi, a sexist, or a bigot" is what we should worry about. Not the society-wide protection of serial sexual abusers, not the rise of white nationalism, not the wildfire of state bills trying to legitimize transphobia. Those things don't matter to me, so what's the point?

Obviously, spending all your time getting mad on Twitter is neither productive nor good for you. It's okay to not be a 100% all-the-time zealous advocate for good causes. And even if you are, you still need to take care of yourself. But the solution is not to just blow off everything that doesn't affect you.
I caveated decades with "at least", not because I think that things were going swimmingly in the 1800s or earlier but more around when women attained more freedom in society to associate with who they wish by their choice than in the authoritarian sense of the older patriarchal societies. I'm referring to the choice aspect of ones own actions, not just the historical context.

I do not subscribe to the belief that patriarchy is biological because there is numerous empirical examples of historical matriarchal societies in places such as South America, Asia, Native American Hopi tribe, Celtic society, Germany and Estonia including in the recorded history of my own non-American society.
GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel (former ZEIT) and the non-official winner: surge.sh, the absolute simplest way to publish a static website.
Yes they did. And they actively targeted people who stood up for Asian lives or "All Lives Matter"
But this is not the way LI systems work. They have a "front door".

At least for police powers. For intelligence agencies, sure.
Which is why I grew disappointed with FOSS and decided I was happier working for the enterprise overlords, where such tools are common.

It is incredible how so many devs don't want to pay for tooling, yet expect people to pay them.

Here is an idea, what about being paid in the exact amount that one is willing to pay for their tooling.
Yeah, the angle is strange. AFAIK people never stopped using medlar, at least in France. I remember my grandmother making pies, cakes, and jam with it when I was a kid. It might not be a very popular fruit (it’s difficult to sell it when it’s edible, and you’d have to convince people to eat what the’ drake for rotten fruit), but “forgotten” is a bit much.
Agreed - calling it a battery is definitely a massive conflation with calling it an “energy sink”.

While you could call it (generously) a form of embedded energy, it fundamentally can not turned back into a form of energy directly, making the comparison very silly.

As others have mentioned, Aluminum can actually be turned into a battery to get the energy back. Bitcoin only if you traded it for energy....(still not a battery)
"Similar to how kids used to roam around the neighborhood but now it's deemed too risky because the media makes it seem like there are murderers lurking around every corner."

They're called cars. Houses are packed tighter and there's more cars per household than when I was growing up (maybe due to everyone being double income now). Streets are also narrower and most have street parking, creating visibility issues. Go check out a development than went up 40-50 years ago compared to one that went up in the last 5 years. The difference is pretty stark and pretty hostile to kids running around doing kid stuff.

I don't think media's focus on bad guys has nearly the impact that the enormous increase in cars has had.
>It was my understanding that the entire point of the protest was to publicly demonstrate their frustrations with the voting process.

No, it was explicitly to change the outcome of the election, by changing the way the election was certified. This is why Trump was demanding that Pence attempt to change the election outcome as he was presiding over the certification process. This is why the crowd was chanting "hang Mike pence" when he refused to do so.

This is why Trump told his supporters that they had to be strong, to give the Republicans the "courage" to do "what they had to do".

See, you bought the lie, so to you, stealing the election on the basis of a lie seems legitimate. Stopping counting mail in ballots on election night, once Trump had a lead in tallied ballots based on the on-person voting (a lead he had orchestrated by telling his supporters to vote in person), also probably seems reasonable to you.

The problem with "alternative facts" (such as the idea that republican officials and Republican poll watchers in 5 different states all conspired to steal the election from Trump) is that when you believe them, all sorts of horrible behavior seems justified, and in fact you believe that your side "isn't going far enough!"
One explanation here is certainly the media being sensationalist for sensation's sake.
An alternative is that some in media might think the crackdown on sexism is bad. Hence they focus on the bad effects. Whether this is explicit propaganda or honest reporting on what they consider the more important issue almost seems like a semantic question.

I suspect both elements play a role. How big a role I have little idea.