skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe his point is that the commit shouldn't have happened at all, keeping the old style instead (or maybe applying the new style together with other changes ... Yuck. Don't do this)

It kinda serves as a hook to describe why these changes are bad. I think it's a good example for the rest of the article.
How are you going to transport materials more cheaply? I work in manufacturing and a large part of the ultimate bill is S&H. We need to pass that onto our customers. Shipping is bearable outside of the US but as soon as you enter into the US it will eat your margins and leave nothing.

As I understand it the main cost in S&H is personnel, as with most businesses. So either you need more automation or higher wages for the people who need to buy S&H services.
No, the opposite of what you stated.
I think it has to do with prices and available know-how. You can build a typical US home for 1/2 or less than a Central European home. Right now, if I were to build a 150m2 (1600sqft) home, that would cost me at least €250k. More likely 300. Zoning often requires houses to be of a certain build and look, so building cheaper than that is often not even an option. As far as I know, a US home of that size usually costs $100k? Please someone correct me if I‘m wrong.
>if we don't go there and attempt to break down the barriers with ordinary people, what hope is there for the country?

Giving teaching to oppressing elite is not breaking barriers with ordinary people. It's making those barriers between elite and ordinary people even stronger. Your only hope is to 'smuggle' good ideas and books about freedom values, democracy and even more valuable the truth about what is going on.
As long as HN doesnt focus on pics, gifs and TikTok garbage, it's probably safe from those who have a 1 millisecond attention span.
Even if it is not specific, I would believe gametes are not affected/can be easily excludes due to the blood-testis barrier.
You make a good point that it might not be the steady state of the display market, but I think it is for the majority of TVs today.

As alternatives, you can buy commercial displays that are effectively TVs (with HDMI in), however they lag in specs and lack some features. You can also buy hospitality versions of TVs as 'dumb' TVs for a similar price, but these also tend to have lower specs. You can buy large format computer monitors (55" is about the highest I've seen) but they are substantially more expensive (roughly 3x more expensive) and typically use DisplayPort instead of HDMI.

I only learned about the options because I'm looking to replace my 2013 Plasma TV that has a power supply problem.
Yes but the whitespace commit - a change that unavoidably affects almost every single line of its target - is possibly the worst example one can come up with.
On my visit to SF I saw a warning an a building that it did not satisfy earthquake safety standards of the government of California. A colleague explained that this was a common thing with old buildings in SF.
> You seem to deny there is any propaganda or indoctrination happening in U.S. education.

Heck no, everybody knows American schools have been indoctrinating kids into robber-baron capitalism, "Manifest Destiny" imperialism, trickle-down economics, Christianity and other stupid shit like that for ages.

Wait, what -- that wasn't the propaganda or indoctrination you meant?
I'm a nobody but I didnt see anything wrong with the comment. Its pointing out the illogical idea of caring for a cause only because others cared. I'm sure this is a big problem today with social media. People (generally speaking) just want to fit in, they have no real motivation to support a good cause at their own expense.
Definitely. And for me the early stages of a product are often about buying information. "Users say they want X, so let's ship X and see." Key to exploring a product space is tight feedback loops between having an idea and seeing what people really do. It's only once I have enough active users (especially active paying users) to justify the project that I have some confidence about what "long term" really means for the code base.
This seems less a tool for introverts, than for sociopaths.
Libreddit – Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
Unchecked illegal settlement makes anti-Israeli sentiment inevitable. If the obvious outcome of playing by the rules is losing all their land and livelihood anyway, people won't play by the rules.
The reasoning is objectively infantile I doubt that anyone can argue against that. I didn't say that he is infantile, I criticised the reasoning not the person. Sorry if even that is considered 'name calling'. I can edit it and word it differently if you want.
No, I have come to expect that any article like this, about microscopes or telescopes or any imaging technology, is guaranteed not to have any example of what they are talking about.
> But there's evidence that Apple are slowly undoing their great usability work in the name of elegance.

Tangent, but am I the only one who is really bothered by the update they made to the way you set a clock (eg for an alarm or appointment) a few years ago? It’s now only digits which I am supposed to scroll vertically, which is incredibly tedious; before, it was an actual analog clock I could drag around and it was awesome.

To this day I still don’t understand why they did this, it seemed to serve no purpose to get rid of the old UX.
And this is why we use things like database users that don't have delete permission, and row-level security so users can delete things that don't belong to them.

I have learned this from a very similar experience.
Pre-revenue startup.
I agree this is a real issue. Even if it’s just voicing support under a pseudonym (such as I’ve done here), it’s better than nothing. The younger generations are definitely more aware of the issues Palestinians are facing and more vocal about putting an end to it. That offers me some hope.
I read a tiny bit about shorthand and invented my own using some of the principles other systems were designed on during a long weekend. Great investment, lots of fun. I specifically designed notation that could be common across digital and handwritten, and that paid off big.
Last time I looked for a job I built my own "application tracking system" that is the mirror image of the "applicant tracking systems" that many businesses have. Roughly I took this out of mothballs:

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

and added some workflow capabilities so I could keep of track of "is this a good job?", "is this a duplicate listing?", etc and then also keep track of the state of the applications. At the time I was not sure if I wanted a local job or a remote job so I was putting in entries from the NY job bank, the job bank at the local uni as well as HN and Angellist.

It is on my agenda (and I ought to hurry) to bring it back up now that in-person activities are opening up. I have been getting sour from being in the house and it would be good to find interesting activities like fitness and art classes, meet babes, etc.
The practices I described above generally improve sales, not reduce them.

The notion of 'consumers can't afford' doesn't really make a lot of sense.

The marginal cost of most of these things is very small.

In places where people are super price sensitive, maybe, but most people are not that.

Most people have some marginal flexibility which means an openness to buy things that can provide them more value.
Patrick Stewart Soliloquy on B (2008) [video]
I mean, a lot depends on your level of seniority, what type of equity you negotiate, how likely it will be diluted, whether you are likely to have a $100mm/$500mm/$1B exit. A lot depends on the integrity of the CEO in the event of an acquhire (probably the most common exit) and how well the Principle engineers will be compensated (Retention Bonuses usually).

I will agree with you - it's probably batshit insane for a working stiff without a good chance of a $2mm+ payout to be working 60+ hours/week for years on end.
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Intent is the distinguishing factor, IMHO. If I'm using this because I really do wish to reach out more, I see no harm. It's like riding a bike to get somewhere, it helps you get where you want to be, just a little faster. If apps start to doing this on their own, because AI, then we've got a problem...
Are you referring to the Fastly outage that happened a few weeks ago, or is this more common than I realize?
Biodiff: Compare binary files using alignment algorithms
I feel it's a very contrived example because there's no compromise to how such a change is to be done. If there's an argument to make it's about making the decision to switch whitespace tactic at all.
That's what the blame.ignoreRevsFile [0] config option is for.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...
Painting is a bit of work but just nailing up standard wooden cladding is such a tiny part of the work it hardly even shows up on the total, including labor!

Perhaps this is partially because of the high buikding costs to begin with (It’s cold so walls are 3-400mm, a single window is $6-700 (triple glass) and so on. The BOM for my extension was $25k which is half the total. Cladding including labor is a lot less than $1k. I have never seen a vinyl clad house but I doubt I’d pick one to save that little.
Aren't many core components now taken care of by the Google Play Services library that's updated separately to avoid carriers and manufacturers from delaying critical security updates because they need to package and test these with all their bloatware crap?
You've been posting tons of flamewar and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. That's not cool here and we ban accounts that do it, so if you'd please stop doing it, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> A modified tree that drops nuts of (nearly) pure

Well, we sort of have that in the form of specifically engineering bacteria to create some drugs, notably insulin. Though I’m sure graphene require additional biological structure and that is a much harder problem them adding/removing a few genes.
Such behaviour conflicts with a core tenet of Judaism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_the_chosen_people
Thanks for the feedback. I specifically targeted the reasoning and not the person, I thought it was odd that it's still considered 'name calling'.
That has been around on the Mac since 1984 and applications were always encouraged to put plain text on the clipboard alongside formatted text, but we’re talking UI here, not technology. This kind of UI allows you to choose which of these you want because it turns out the application cannot always make the best choice.
The point is that validation is (or should/can be) a byproduct of parsing. I.e., you shouldn't "do both", rather the validation should be encompassed by the parsing, as much as it makes sense.
Are you talking about the time input like when you create a new alarm? The new one is a text field that you can drag the little digit spinners, but primarily you just type in it.

Being able to put times in with a proper numeric keypad is a big usability improvement IMO.
On the other hand what we see in Russia is reincarnation for ussr and now with more powerful tools for oppression.
Also look at China and how oppressive monster become stronger without changing it's values toward respecting freedom.

Giving power without changing values is helping the worst kind of people to be stronger. It can fireback and it does. The worst censorship practices of China are now trying ot make it's way to the West.
I have to agree here. The author confuses what immutability is about by implicitly extending to control issues which are orthogonal to immutability. The author describes the problem very well but misuses the term "state" to describe "control".

The solution to control issues is not having your code depend on order. Logic programming, SQL, schema, type declarations, regex... Many of us use these all the time but logic/declarative programming in general is not the norm in $dayJobLang.
You belong to a tiny percentage of the population able to make that association.
I would expect windows in dark mode to I guess have a subtle lighting behind them (as people sometimes do to objects in physical space).
> Do you know of any Android TV / smart tv box which has a USB port?

Build your own with a Raspberry Pi. The new ones pack quite some heat in terms of performance.
I've also found Pydantic to be a valuable library to use.

However, it does have a strongly opinionated approach to casting that can sometimes yield non-obvious results. This behavior is documented and I would suggest new potential adopters of the library to explore this casting/coerce feature in the context of your product/app requirements.

For the most part, it's not an huge issue, but I've run into a few surprising cases. For example, sys.maxint, 0, '-7', 'inf', float('-inf') are all valid datetime formats.

- https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/models/#data-conve...
- https://gist.github.com/mpkocher/30569c53dc3552bc5ad73e09b48...
Aside from not being true in general (none of the videos I watch have product placement/sponsorships), this is completely irrelevant. We're discussing the YouTube content delivery service, not the manner in which the content is funded, in exactly the same way that "the movies you're watching already have product placement" would be completely irrelevant to the discussion on this thread about ads in the interface through which you watch the movie.

Tangential, but you reminded me of it: it's truly fascinating how incredibly brain-damaging discussion of ads seem to be. Every single thread I've ever read on the topic is full of non sequiturs, nonsensical analogues, glaring logical inconsistencies, etc. The only other topic I can think of that makes people similarly insane is airlines (cf my "why should I pay taxes" uncle complaining about airlines no longer requiring other passengers to pay for transporting his suitcases).
Relationship as a Service
The most obvious thing that motivates Palestineans to actively be violent rather than living in misery (and people can take a lot of misery) is that ongoing settlement and similar measures make it clear that the Israeli government wouldn't actually let them live in peace even if they wanted it.

Or, in other words, I believe that Hamas would have much less pull if it was just walls and not all the other stuff too.
Is this distinction even necessary to make here? For all practical database usages, I doubt you need enough precision to have to account for special and general relativity.
I don't get it - how would moving that binary break a running system? Is that binary somehow involved in something else beyond password changes?
Where specifically is balloon framing done now? Genuinely curious as I know people who have posted construction pictures all over the country and I've never seen it.
I spelled "tariff" incorrectly with "tarriff" in the config file that's parsed on every page load.

My code reviewers didn't notice and we didn't have linting or warnings on that file, so I brought down production :)
“Important to note that nothing Wikileaks has published has ever had to be retracted. They've told the truth to the public about governments“

That isn’t true for their social media:

https://micahflee.com/2019/01/lies-that-wikileaks-tells-you/
Sure. Building a reinforced shelter for tornadoes, nuclear attack, etc. may make sense. Historically, in the US Midwest that meant going into the basement. But you don't live there.
Scientists hail “Dragon Man” discovery
This feels like hair-splitting to me. Your comment obviously broke the site guidelines. If you'd please re-read them and do a more careful job of sticking to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one, for example:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I could buy equity in HN I would do it in a heartbeat.
Jillian C. York’s book “Silicon Values” has a chapter about this “electronic apartheid”. For all of the big social media companies, the content moderation for both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is handled by the Israeli office.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3772-silicon-values
The Qt apps I use are much better than the Electron apps I use.

It must be very hard to write Electron apps with more reasonable memory usage if VS Code is the sole example anyone ever has.

Sublime Text is my reference for reasonable memory usage and performance. VS Code doesn't measure up.
I was onsite at a modular manufacturer today and I can tell you a lot of what is said here is just wrong. The cost estimate is not quality adjusted. If you look at cost per square foot and don't take into account the quality of work provided then you haven't calculated anything worth knowing. Also the article doesn't price out the value of speed. Modular can take half the time to move-in as stick build.

I agree there are plenty of points for improving efficiency. For example the builder I visited was not vertically integrated at all. They bought manufacturing time on a modular line for their box plans, worked with external designers and all kinds of subs they can't guarantee for onsite work. But having seen it up close I can tell you there is far more opportunity for process improvement on a assembly line (even if each build is custom) than there is in the field.

If you look to Japan, Toyota is getting into modular with steel framing that is way ahead of anything in the states. I look forward to that being available here.
To be fair, I've always had overheating issues with the microSD cards I've used to the point where I've stopped bothering with them.
Hi swily, I own Echo. This is a common misconception about our software, we're an established and still growing company. There are indeed some bad eggs in the community, however we are trusted and our tool has absolutely no malicious capabilities from the server staff on the player. Every mainstream game has a powerful anti cheat performing kernel functionality just like ours. If someone is asked to download and scan with Echo, firstly since we're established and it's better than being asked to download "Swiley Tool", secondly they always have the option to say no and it's absolutely not forced.
Criticising somebody's behaviour as “characteristic of an infant” is very easy to read as a personal attack; I think it's best to edit it.
Are you sure it will stay a one-time purchase?
Given the post topic, your confidence seems ironic.
In a few years' time, you might start seeing ads in the associated app...
You don't. But you only need to test it once (manually), then commit it.

You write automated tests so that you can keep running the tests later such that the behaviour is maintained through refactor and non-breaking changes.
Good to know, thanks. I was actually going to buy a TV a couple of weeks ago, but ended up deciding to make my large monitor do double-duty instead of stuffing another screen into my "cozy" new place in Manhattan. It's good to know that I dodged a bullet: it's easy enough for me to avoid ads that when I do come across them, I find them pretty jarring.
You find this:

position = 10
firstPosition = position.value
secondPosition = position.value
firstPosition.minus(2)
secondPosition.plus(10)
position = firstPosition.times(secondPosition)
position.value

easier to reason about then this:

position = 10
times(minus(position, 2)
plus(position, 10))

?

Are you sure? I think maybe you're just conflating syntax and semantics. Syntax can be made in different ways either functional or imperative, the semantics are what matters here.

Like would this be better for you (still functional, but different syntax):

position = 10
firstPosition = position.minus(2)
secondPosition = position.plus(10)
result = firstPosition.times(secondPosition)
Can you share which university and which course?

And I see that you are learning to use Ray. How is your experience with it so far?
"One of the charges brought against them was that “their nationalistic sentiment” posed a threat to “state security.”"
> So if I developed a way to transport material between Seattle and NYC more efficiently

I think the point wasn't that we need to make this trip cheaper, but that we need to figure out a way to build houses with materials that travel less.
I also haven't looked into this space outside of a quick DDG search after reading your comment. It looks like the big hole is that Amazon rolled their own captcha a while ago and haven't kept up with what automation can do now.
Wow, really short section on gears. But there is so much to cover I can't blame it.

If you've ever dabbled in robotics, you've probably found it is an enormous step function from kits like Actobotix [1] to custom parts. It is infinitely easier to use kits or frameworks that have already taken a LOT of the guesswork out of gears, linkages, motors, compatibility, etc. Especially gears, they are an enormous pain in the ass to source online, and even when you find the right gears, you still need hubs and axles, and then you hit min volume issues, non retail sales, overseas... I even have access to a phenomenal machine shop, but what I don't have is a machinist. (There are a few that mill around (pun intended) but they are mostly introverted decent guys that don't really want to help a noob.)

[1] https://www.servocity.com/actobotics/
I wish the article had some info on the potential cause. I could only speculate.

Anecdote, I'm 40, and I notice my younger male friends actually seem to have closer male friendships than I and my same age peers would have had, specifically more open about feelings, affection, basically things you'd be less likely to find and older generation man expressing. I wonder if it's like so many other disparities we see, where there are more very close friendships, more loners, and fewer people in the middle ground.
Can you share with us the most egregious example of a war crime committed by Israel that caused you to change your view?

Please be specific about the laws, actions, and outcomes that resulted in the crime.
The problem is, that social media and the hate waves it generates, can be used to hack the elite - the decision makers. It convinces them, that more social media, more china style social media control is necessary. Fear is a strong vector. And if you can create the proof that you are needed, you control the market.
So nothing on the internet is peer to peer, since you have to go through ISP’s network of routers?
Oh, well that's different.

Funny though, the guy he's interviewing said Islam is a scam and Muslims are suckers who have fallen for it. Funny what you can get away with if you couch it right.
> A few years ago, criticism of Israel's policies started being called anti-antisemitism

I'm not sure if that's new. And while it's certainly true that you can criticize Israel without being an antisemite, it's also true that a lot of people can't seem to thread that particular needle.
> it's the first time gene therapy didn't strike me as macabre Frankensteinian experiments on vulnerable people

That's because it has barely begun to become viable IRL while science fiction writers have been using it as a convenient punching bag for decades -- without ever stopping to ask if they should.
Fairly sure that AAC has less thermal mass than regular concrete. It's more air, less concrete, and the thermal mass comes from the concrete.
Let’s add a lack of termites, no lightning strikes, and great care about open fires to the list of requirements. While I personally like the idea (and smell!) of pure wood houses, I would not want to live in one permanently. Wood is a great material for sure, but why not mix it with other materials to make things safer and more sturdy.