skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Amazon ever cracks down on fake 5-star review bots (yeah, I know), maybe those clowns can start a new service.

If you're falsely accused of being That Guy, you can just hire them to fill your twitter feed with glowing reviews of your character from "women".

Or crank up the Ashley Madison fembots to do it.
google HBR yourself
So why don't they just leave the dashes in, you know, like co-operate? I think a dash is much easier understood than an umlaut. Especially for native speakers
That may just be how it looks to people who are not involved in the decisionmaking, except as observers of what has been reported to them by actual decisionmakers.

The consensus reality agreed to between major media outlets may well be an epiphenomenon.
Another one of these videos [0] popped up on reddit [1] the other day. This time with an FPV quad. I think it's a better video, though no report on the damage.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pMO5b3c9YY

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/fpv/comments/mckrbz/a_different_vie...
Honestly, my experience is that developers are, on the whole, incredibly conservative about changing their ways. When I was still an active Java dev, I would, along with a couple of other peers, solve a lot of problems in one of our codebase with the YourKit profiler, but the use never spread - people would prefer to grind out the thing they already know and thrash around blindly to spending a day or two learning an easier way of solving a problem.
These tools are mostly useless because they take time to discover and learn to use. In the meantime you could have solved the problem. Developers who waste all their time searching for a magic tool are not productive.

They're also often not integrated into whatever environment is in use. Which means the developer has to be sure to save their files, open this other tool, which has often not been updated to new standards, wait for it to load their JAR files or whatever, and then use a ten year old interface to use the "magic".
The way I usually solve this is to have the bookmarklet itself check if the user is on the "install" page and let them know how to install the bookmarklet.

if (location == 'https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html') alert(...
I do some work with HIV prevention. Sometimes I give talks where I'm very blunt about the realities of HIV among men who have sex with men. I've watched people immediately shift from mild hostility and discomfort to wholehearted acceptance of what I am saying, when I tell them I'm gay myself.

In that circumstance, I think it is clear that my sexual orientation is the basis by which they are judging the authoritativeness I have to speak on the topic. Never mind the formal qualifications, or the logic or veracity of what I am actually saying. Like, I know we all have little unconscious checklists like that for judging whether someone is credible, but it is uncomfortable to see the effect live.
> When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and you have to prove someone wrong on the internet, step away. You are taking valuable time from your own projects and quality of life.

The insidious problem is that, by the time you have that feeling, it is too late. It takes more time to let it go than it took to have that experience. Sometimes, responding feels like the only way to get closure. Better to never put yourself in a situation where having that experience is possible...unless you choose to have it.
Caffeine is performance-enhancing, raises metabolism (temporarily), and suppresses hunger.

Unfortunately, it's readily-apparent that you can never outrun your fork, so forget about "burning calories" through cardio. The goal of fitness to lose weight ought to be weightlifting to gain as much muscle mass as possible to raise one's BMR. Passive metabolism is about the only way to do it without enrolling in BUD/S. In general, gymrattery and endless treadmill running are wasted effort.

https://youtu.be/mTABw0EyIWY
Actually the only fair scheme would be to always price purchases and refunds in the same currency. Of course that can't be bitcoin.
or the academic people are not interested in putting in the effort to maintain the tool in order to get more adoption.
You can check the news far less than once a day. If you apply a low-pass filter to current events by, say, checking once a week or even less, the broad movements and important things will remain while the shallow and ephemeral will naturally be filtered out.
In order to predict a crash of the Canadian real estate market one should understand the root cause of the bubble. However, there is no consensus on that.
Didn’t sound vague to me at all. I learned a few things from the article and I would pay a hefty premium to have that “Whyline” debugger in Phpstorm.
It was my understanding that the entire point of the protest was to publicly demonstrate their frustrations with the voting process. The hope was that such protest would give Trump the political power to do one of the following:

1. Pressure Congress to delay counting the elector's votes and perform a proper investigation (which they felt hadn't happened)

2. Pressure Congress to count the votes of the "alternate" electors sent by some of the disputed states by the losing party (who instead supported Trump). I'll stress that this was predicated on the idea that, since the election was "stolen", these were the "rightful" electors.

3. Some Q-Anon bullshit I don't care to remember too deeply, just that it was something to do with Trump doing some kind of secret investigation behind the scenes or something

All of the above (including a few I didn't list since I forget the details), were precipitated on the the idea that /someone else/ was going to be fixing this. Many left-wing people don't seem to understand this, but most modern conservatives are not activists at heart, they just roll over and let things happen. To be clear this isn't really a "right-wing" thing but a "conservative" one, they generally don't, at scale, rock the boat.

The truth is the even if there was 100% undeniable evidence that the election was blatantly stolen, conservatives would do absolutely nothing (unless you include complaining), and frankly that's kinda what happened. Looking at it another way: to many conservatives, the election really was stolen from them, and they aren't doing anything about it. A small subset of them loitering around in the capitol was the best they had.

> If I believed that the election, and American democracy with it, were literally being stolen from me right in front of my face, and this was our last chance to stop it, why on earth wouldn't I resort to violence?

You said it best yourself, why wouldn't you resort to violence? The answers is less exciting: because they are afraid and unmotivated.
By the same measure, CO2 is not a permanent state either, but it's an issue because of the imbalance in dynamic processes - The carbon stored by lumber is the amount of lumber in the world minus decaying lumber.
I find it funny because they love to talk about implicit bias and microaggressions, and all these other things that "white men" are not aware of, but then cancel them when white men do something wrong. Where is the opportunity to learn and grow?
> When somebody says something offensive to a well-adjusted person, do you know what they do? They shrug it off, because words are just that.

Doormats gets bullied. I have seen this dynamic multiple times already and was on receiving end of it multiple times.

Shrugging makes them do it again and again, then others join, and originaln person escalates. And you not just be insulted, but they wont take your ideas seriously, cause they will have you fixed as someone without respect.

You have to stand up for yourself.
I rotate pictures from a bike trip I took a few years ago
I don't really understand. How could somebody simultaneously believe we live in a meritocracy and be afraid of a woke mob attacking them for saying something they believe is correct? Surely in a meritocracy, the mob would praise their correct thinking, not attack them?

Are you sure those people weren't saying that it was best to _act like_ a meritocracy (as opposed to one actually existing today)?
I can't understand the reasoning. It's tesla directly denying options to unionised employees, this is direct pressure. It's like denying a promotion based on whether you're unionised or not. Or denying certain benefits based on whether you're unionised, or closing a unionised brach etc. This has nothing to do with the choice between different companies. Tesla shouldn't be allowed to directly influence the establishment of unions using pressure. I really can't believe that this would be possible. It's madness. A company shouldn't be able to pressure workers into not joining the unions. A lesson learned through a lot of blood and loss of life in the late 19th, early 20th century.

A company can care enough for its workers so that they don't see value in unions. But it can't force them via pressure.
The article says the medlar is "musmula" in Persian. Maybe, but if you're Iranian, you'll more likely know it as "marmala". Reading this, this sounds oddly like "marmalade", which according to Wikipedia, comes from the Portuguese. But unlike the English version of marmalade, which is made from citrus, the original Portuguese is made from quince, an Asian fruit. My guess is this was actually initially made from marmala, and quince as only a variant. What a wonderful etymological chase through the name of a fruit.
Amy Ko's Whyline is heavily based on slicing.

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Ko2009JavaWhyline...
Yes, but it was called a "decacorn" because it was valued at $10 billion dollars and its valuation dropped overnight to zero when it was outed as a fraud.

I posit that it wouldn't have gotten so crazy overvalued if it hadn't been headed by a pretty young woman. But trying to explain that is probably "off topic" and just thinking about trying to explain it makes me tired. I'd rather not.
The most useful feedback will come from customers. If you have a bug or are missing a feature they will tell you.

What is harder is dealing with architectural issues but I'm not convinced they are that easy to avoid in a team environment either.
Regarding coverage of the Capitol riots - All Sides called out the bias in coverage compared to numerous past riots at the Capitol, just two days after the incident: https://www.allsides.com/blog/capitol-hill-breach-riot-cover...

The choice of language is also important. Lots of people are using terms like “coup” or “insurrection” causally. The experts meanwhile note why this is not appropriate, with careful comparisons to historical incidents: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/why-this-wasnt-a-coup-c...

Does this matter to anyone? No. After constant amplification of a hyperbolic take on the Capitol riot, the truth seemingly doesn’t matter anymore and instead its derivative stories are the new battleground (for example “should social media increase censorship of moderates and conservatives”). In short, the damage has already been done, seemingly permanently.

We saw bias in the other direction last year, with underreporting of criminal political activity. Like you, my city has experienced a constant stream of riots from BLM activists. In 2020 we literally had daily blockades of highways, autonomous zones resulting in deaths (CHAZ), widespread destruction of businesses, and more. Seemingly all of news media, social media, and even academic research studying BLM-associated rioting inaccurately portrays what actually happened.

It’s scary to see how widespread and unchallenged those prevailing narratives are. I think a lot of people forget that “propaganda” doesn’t have to come just from scary foreign state actors - in practice it is much more likely to come from domestic sources, such as masses of activists blindly repeating falsehoods in unison. The journalism industry is supposed to protect against that but it’s actually part of the same machine. The only way to counter the effect is to read and listen to many different sources with different biases.
Warp drives, maybe not, but multigenerational space travel at slow speeds might actually require a certain amount of social cohesion and cooperative tendency, as well as a pioneer's ambitious personality--the rigors of the journey combined with those of establishing civilization on a planet without any humans to enslave and manipulate will add up to significant selective pressure on settlers.
By depth I meant thickness. But thickness sideways doesn't help nearly as much as thickness in the vertical direction.

A beam with a bending load like here can crack from the bending at the middle for example. The fasteners at the ends are not necessarily the limit. It's different for pure compression or tension, there the fastener area sees higher load.
Iran, China Sign Economic, Security Agreement, Challenging U.S. Pressure
If that were the case, the "pedantic quibbling" would be exactly of the same sort that takes place every day in courts of justice- and it's at the base of our judicial system, as the right to defense from accusations. Stallman is using it to defend the reputation of a deceased friend, I think it has value.

Anyway, there are many more statements by Stallman that caused outrage, and they are about morals and public policy. And he has the full right to hold and express opinions that go against that of the majority in his time and his country, without them being dismissed as the ramblings of someone suffering from a mental disorder.
Reading other people's code is perhaps the second most important skill after programming.

There's a great analogy in the essay Babble [1]. In the essay the author explains the process with which humans construct sentences. They say that we learn to babble, we perform a search in the space of all possible sounds, we weigh those possible continuations, select the most probable and filter them using some function. As we grow and through multiple interactions with others and in particular our parents, we improve our filter function. In tandem, we also need to improve our babbling function, that is, we need to improve the search space and the weighting that we give to the noises so that we chain them in interesting ways.

By analogy, we learn to code-babble by working on projects, and by reading other people's code, we learn to filter.

The author notes that it is of equal importance to train both filters in the case of speech, as deficiens in one can leave you either mute or appear as uninteresting, or incoherent. By analogy, deficiency in code babble leaves you unable to construct interesting patterns, and deficiency in code filtering leaves you with a create but otherwise garbage of hot spaghetti.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i42Dfoh4HtsCAfXxL/babble
no kidding, Wallpaper/General from 4chan : https://boards.4chan.org/wg/
I agree 100% with the article, but I will just point out that the outrage ruins everyone's lives, not just the ones conducting the outrage. This is why it's difficult to ignore, even if (like me) you eliminate/reduce social media participation.
An, mid-prandial intermission. I forgot about that.
When you read news, the first thing you should be asking is, does this actually matter?

I think if more folks did this, they'd be lots happier.
This is admittedly a low quality comment, but I really feel like saying: herewego.jpg

I haven't heard anything about "anti-Asian" sentiment till last week. Maybe it, you know, doesn't exist at the level you think it does?
Obama called out the "super woke" generation a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM

"If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get very far"...
> Yes, rich people have a lot more money. But they don't eat more food than anyone else. Their threat to not buy certain fish is worth about as much as mine.

The issue is that rich people are both buying and supplying the fish that anyone else eventually eats.

You can do a bunch of research to figure out the best and most ethically sourced fish providers, but that takes a bunch of time and effort. It's not something you can reasonably rely on consumers to do. That's because most consumers either don't care or they care more about the absolute price than the source.

This comes up all the time with child labor and sweatshops. These big corporations have a giant supply network that makes it really hard to figure out where something comes from. Yes, maybe the shirt was sewn ethically but the cotton for the shirt was not. How would you know?

It's the same problem with fish. Unless there is a capital incentive (through regulation) to force a company to ethically source goods, they'll sooner turn a blind eye than fix the problem. That's because they know it's nearly impossible for an end consumer be informed about their ethics lapses.

So, while a rich person uninvolved with fisheries has little say in how their fish are sourced, rich people are most certainly in charge of which sources are ultimately used if they have fish in their supply chains. Those are the rich people with way more power than an individual consumer.
Outrage is helpful only if one is willing and able to do something about the problems, either in one's personal life or globally. If not, it doesn't go beyond being harmful to one's own health.
Stablecoins
> I think around 1986 or 1987, universities were instructed to stop using SSNs as student ID numbers.

And around 2005 they actually mostly stopped.
It’s easy. Investment is a math game. What is the upside and downside of either action?

First choice, I remain silent. Best case, the female CEO kills it and I make some money. Worst case she flops and I lose my investment. Potentially great upside, relatively minor downside.

Second choice, I suggest a change. Best case the company does well and I make money. Worst case I’m labeled a sexist and I’m effectively ejected from the startup world. Potentially great upside, but unlimited losses.

Easy choice. I stay silent.
There are (at least) three fruit known as the pawpaw:

1. Asimina (North American pawpaw)

2. Vasconcellea pubescens (Mountain pawpaw, South America)

3. Carica papaya (Papaya, Africa and Asia)
An old programmer is a programmer in his 70s I suppose. As a person being halfway there I don't feel old. However I understand that for a person younger it might feel that way.

Anyways programming, design and everything around it is so broad, you never run out of problems to fix. Each new technology introduces new problems. So there is always something to do.

If it comes to an excitement on my stage of professional career I am excited to see my team providing great solutions and client is happy about it. Also having enought experience to have impact on a project success , not only as a code author, is pretty exciting.

For me being a programmer in my 30ties is like being a programmer in my 20ties, except now I often know what I am doing :)
The real kicker is that the most respected publications are also guilty of this. The New York Times is currently being sued for defamation by Project Veritas. The NYT argued, on the public record, that they should be able to state opinions as fact outside of the Op-Ed section[0]. I read this as the NYT arguing that they have a license to lie with impunity on the front page.

If we live in a post-truth era, it's not because of the internet or the shitty click-bait 'news' sources that proliferate. It's because these institutions, like the NYT and WaPo, in which we used to be able to expect an objective accounting of the facts, have devolved into the personal Pravdas of a few well-educated idiots who thought that they could steer the country in a better direction, but only managed to drive us into a ditch.

[0](see p. 5/16)https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/maEy58HDFCR7qdtFOb...
I'm not sure what you want readers to take away from this, but it sounds to me like you could use some help learning to communicate. Regardless of whether it contains the words "white man" or not, you should probably be able to explain any sentence you utter to another person. If you can't, I respectfully suggest that specific utterance would be better off unspoken.

In this case a simple followup of "you deserve more credit and I want you to feel able to advocate for yourself" would have cleared up the confusion and avoided a lot of trouble, and you wouldn't have had to invent a story-telling system in order to filter out people who believe in accountability.
I don't understand why this was dead. I'm not in the crypto world, but it seemed like a reasonable blog post to me, so I vouched for it.
Imaginary (Sociology)
The company didn't protect noob users from themselves?
I was including France in the group in that statement
The coolest moment is when some other civilization starts attacking the Culture and keeps winning. They think it's because they're weak.

Actually they're just considering how to end the conflict without completely eradicating the other guys. Finally they decide to ramp up production of warships and completely annihilate their opposition.
Sounds to me like you're deliberately missing the point to as to protect your own outrage. "Of course what they are outraged about is bullshit, but what I'm outraged about is 100% valid and reasonable." The article isn't saying there aren't things to be legitimately outraged about. The article is saying 1) being outraged doesn't fix anything, and 2) of course you feel strongly about what you're outraged about, but objectively there's a high chance you're overreacting to your own detriment and the detriment of those around you.

More to your view though, the history of politics is negotiating the rights of people, look at how the UN Declaration on Human Rights was negotiated.

Finally, this gatekeeping idea that basically says that anyone that disagrees with you cannot possibly understand, that is complete horseshit. Words like "privileged" and "marginalized groups" give away this completely wrong mentality. We all really can grasp it. We just disagree. We might have very good reasons to disagree, you just refuse to try to understand them. If you did maybe you'd find a way to show us how they're wrong.
There are hundreds new laws and actual policy changes. And I covered both sides by previous sentence. Neither side goal was for other side to love them. Getting policies and laws is the ultimate goal.
No I really think society can only improve, albeit slowly, by problem-solving. Firstly one has to identify a problem and take ownership of it. But outrage is about blaming other people and refusing to take ownership.
Thank you for admitting this.
Yeah, I've eaten these. Never knew they were "rare".
Two temporary dams across the canal, above and below the ship; basically creating a temporary lock in the canal. Sandbags and tarpaulin, or two huge balloons you fill with water so they squeeze themselves stuck against the sides. (In both cases, with suitable temporary support structures on the outer sides. For a base, use a big empty ship or three on each end, run them up against the dam and scuttle them, then refloat when all is done?) Then fill the lock you just built with water pumped in from the canal, and the ship should float. When it's upright in the middle of the canal, dismantle the lock again. It doesn't have to be all that super tight or anything; as long as your pumps can outrun the leakage, just keep running them for the duration.

The GP is only the second such suggestion I see here. The first was on the second sub-page of comments (close to a comment about lifting the ship with a hydrogen balloon, for a search term; combining them is where I got the water balloon idea in stead of sandbags). Mine would have been the third.

Quite honestly and seriously seems far from unfeasible. And perhaps, depending on how fast you can get enough sandbags (or just the bags; sand should be available nearby?), tarpaulins, and pumps there, faster than most other suggestions.