skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper is also worth reading. Here's part of the conclusion:

"Understanding the factors that make social media posts go “viral” online can help to create better social media environments. While social media platforms are not fully transparent about how their algorithmic ranking system works, Facebook announced in a post titled “Bringing People Closer Together” that it was changing its algorithm ranking system to value “deeper” forms of engagement, such as reactions and comments (68). Ironically, posts about the political out-group were particularly effective at generating comments and reactions (particularly the “angry” reaction, the most popular reaction across our studies). In other words, these algorithmic changes made under the guise of bringing people closer together may have helped prioritize posts including out-group animosity." [0]

[0]: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2024292118
The difference is, that even though Flash was proprietary in tools (The Flash IDE) and the playback engine (The Flash Player), what was open was distribution, discovery, and marketplace. You didn't pay a tax to adobe to distribute your games and you weren't limited to Adobe.com as the one place to go for Flash games. To be clear this was not because of Adobe's benevolence, but their incompetence -- believe me they tried to find ways to tax Flash, but they just couldn't figure it out until the horse was out of the barn. And this was a good thing for the ecosystem. Honestly, Adobe stubbornly refusing to open source the flash player is one of the things that cemented its demise.

Compare that to say, Roblox. If you make a Roblox game, not only will it only run within the Roblox environment, it is only able to exist on exactly one website and one app -- Roblox. Roblox owns the entire stack top to bottom. You can't take your game anywhere else.
I spent some time looking for this specifically to translate Datalog or Prolog to SQL. There’s theoretical work out there but I didn’t find anything plug and play.
I've seen news that Microsoft is adopting Rust for safe systems programming. I believe they've been investing in Rust for a while.

- https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe...

- https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

- https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/micro...
Why is it okay to be mean to anyone?
Agreeing with the sibling comment, I'd think that getting fired is the most likely outcome. But what about the occupants of the bathroom? Battering the door down is a violent and threatening act. Do you suppose they might have standing to press criminal charges? Or at least a lawsuit?

Did you know that damage over $1000 would be considered felony vandalism in many states? The door alone probably costs over $1000, not to mention damage to the frame. Looking at prison time and a permanent record here, and in some states, lifetime disenfranchisement.

So yeah. Only 45 days pay is pretty sweet. And if it was a civilian vandalizing and terrorizing a precinct, bet your ass they'd prosecute all of these charges and more to the fullest. Given that this is a violent felony, it could trigger a three strikes law if the perp already had a record.
I don't think it is? Making fun of people that do one stupid action is I think okay, but making fun of people that have a harder life than other people because of how they're born doesn't seem okay to me.
It was part of the book, Arrival of the Fittest. The author somehow quantified the scale of the space of all possible chemical reactions and it was just so huge that the chance of the citric acid cycle emerging was just infinitesimal, like 1 in 10^100 or something. Like winning the lottery 10 times in a row type of thing. Found it an intriguing idea. Would be curious to see the counter argument, though it's likely to be beyond me mathematically.
> to quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

If you'd done even a bit of homework about me, you'd see that your underlying premise is flawed.
Same. I pretty much scan it, anything interesting I open(which isn't a ton). Then, about once every few months, I get tired of seeing 20k unread emails, so delete all unread emails older than x.

Perhaps I'm not a power user, or constant marketing emails have just made me numb to it all.
The story of Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carrol is ... complicated. On the one hand there is a lot of fishy stuff going on with young girls. On the other hand, he deliberately cultivated the image of himself as a friend of children because it was, at the time, believed to be a mark of innocence and absence of worldly desires. And on the other other hand, he had many relationships with adult women, flouting convention and going on unescorted excursions with them, well into his old age.

A good treatment of this complexity is found in the biography of him, "In the Shadow of the Dreamchild" by Karoline Leach. The book posits the theory that Dodgson may have been pursuing an affair with Alice Liddel's older sister, or even her mother, which may not be convincing. But the book is well researched and has a lot to say about Charles' love life, or apparent lack of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Dreamchil...
>US somewhat following China's lead here

US is _returning_ to industrial policies which PRC civil military fusion was originally modelled off. IMO establishing complex indigenous industries require the appetite for massive risk / waste which is always preferable to the alternative of not building the capabilities in first place. PRC semi efforts has been pretty lackluster until last few years, i.e. integrated circuits only got promoted to first-level discipline with streamlined funding last year. There are worst things to waste money on in this security climate.
Most people in the US who work 4 day weeks or 9 out of 10 always go for the long weekend by doing it friday or monday but I'm with you, Wednesday has always appealed to me as the day to take off if doing 4 day weeks. It's the cumulative effect of 5 days in a row that makes me so tired.
Notes on streaming large API responses
Not that easy. “Check the liver for cancer” has lots of risks: surgery and the resulting tissue injury.

I’m generally inclined towards the position of more testing....but there are very real tradeoffs to any of the interventions that a blood test could prompt.
Possible reason from my own anecdata: I joined a new company in a new industry in the middle of the pandemic. I definitely prefer working remotely (I'm just past 30), but as a new hire I felt some disadvantages.

Mainly: my co-workers who have been at the company longer than I weren't very helpful with onboarding me! We're a little company, so documentation of a bunch of our software is non-existent and the specialized hardware setup we have has a lot of quirks I had to slowly teach myself the last year. I'd hit lots of problems that'd take 5 seconds of their time to diagnose and fix and I'd end up stuck for over an hour while waiting for them to answer a Slack message - or they'd randomly drop offline.

So there I am, working in my bedroom in a new job wondering if I'm a needy little snowflake not digging hard enough or whether the people I work with are just unhelpful because... reasons (still haven't met them in-person since my pre-pandemic interview). After a year I think it really is the latter, but it made me grumpy my early months here.

That could be a possible source of resentment from newer, younger employees. Set us up for success!

I still prefer working from home, but I did commute to the office for a happy hour recently. It was nice to randomly get coffee with the CTO in the morning and hang out with new friends in the evening - none of the "unhelpful" people showed up! :P
> It is naive to claim you can tell which part of Linus is and which isn't contributing to the success.

Wasn't the other person doing exactly the same, just on the "pro-asshole" side of the argument?
Superchargers are better on average.

But the US Electric Canonball run record is NOT held by a Tesla. It's getting there.
According to wikipedia: Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software Group) is an American software and consultancy company (owned by New Mountain Capital, The Blackstone Group and Panasonic), providing supply chain management, manufacturing planning, retail planning, store operations and category management offerings[1] headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Other people will love this but the analog nature of gardening is what keeps me interested. This sort of ruins the meditative joy I get out of the hobby.

But if Homelab + Dirt = awesome to you, more power to you.
> until it doesn't.

That's not necessarily the case. Financials are irrelevant for stocks like Tesla, and it can continue to moon indefinitely if the market dictates it.
You hate your users and love watching them shake a fist at the hardest captchas.
Might need to do some math for the pot farms. LEDs don’t use that much electricity. Can set up a pretty big operation with 1-2kw.

But the draw will be very consistent.
Is there anything not unethical about ticket scalping? Tickets being non-essential entertainment is the only reason it's legal.
Remember when they tried to push a backdoor into the kernel last year? I am surprised with how they kept allowing them to submit patches. They acted much more boldly with the issue with the university of Minnesota.

I am not a grsec fan but here https://grsecurity.net/huawei_hksp_introduces_trivially_expl...
I've made a deal with my friend: I'll be teaching him basic Analytic Geometry to support his interest in computer graphics, and he'll be teaching me UI design.
Fans who really want to see their favorite artist/sports teams get extorted, and the money goes to scalpers instead of the artists and venues which are actually providing value. Scalpers provide no value to society.
> What language lets you ship scripts that use features of version X and also works on versions <X?

I didn't care about Python 3 features, but you can't run Python 2 code on a Python 3 interpreter either and the Python 2 interpreter was abandoned. Meanwhile you can run ancient JavaScript code on both old and modern systems, ancient C++ on both old and modern systems, ancient Java mostly on both old and modern systems, etc. .

> Docker tends to be the easy solution for all this stuff, and it's language agnostic.

I think I will rather go with statically linked binaries before I dump docker on unsuspecting users. Just the pain of getting that dependency whitelisted by their corporate IT makes my skin crawl.
I just had a vision of a dystopian(?) future where politicians unable to reach a compromise are forced to fight in the thunderdome, but they were still a bunch of old pasty white guys.
Hmm, let's try this in Google:

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams": About 73,300 results

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez eats": About 109 results

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sleeps": 1 result

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez debates": About 173 results

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposes": About 5,880 results

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discusses": About 1,150 results

Damn, you were right! Also surprised that AOC never sleeps.
I previously worked on couple of companies that flirted with the line on some of these dark patterns. As far as they go, this one is pretty benign. If I recall correctly, I was for doing this pattern. There is enough intent there (putting your whole email into the user form) that it really doesn't feel like abusing the user. That being said, me and my coworker had to fight back and refuse to build a few other dark patterns.

The real issue is the legitimate companies that take it way past dark patterns. Credit rating bureaus that scrape 100% of your data and the data of anyone you've ever been near, Facebook stalking you across the internet, etc. As far as I'm concerned, if it's okay for Facebook to do this exact dark pattern on everyone in the world, I can make a stupid directory site have a little more juice.
The share is overvalued.
Tesla is the leader in CPU, but only average in the rest of the manufacturing.
And the main selling point for the CPU, autonomous driving, has been announced for years.
In the meantime, there is only talk of the full potential for autonomous driving.
In my opinion, it will still not be ready in 5 years.
The dark pattern is saving the email without informing the user or asking for permission to do so. Normally, permission is given when the user clicks "submit," but if you save the email before they click submit, it's a dark pattern.
I like Packer + Ansible for building machine images. I haven't really tried any alternative workflows but that has been great for my needs so far!
Thank you for this information, great comment. Edit: Not sarcasm.
Can anyone explain how Tesla can be valued so high?

They're valued twice as high as Toyota at around 1/12 the profits of Toyota. P/E is almost 600 so they'd have to overtake Toyota's profits by a significant margin to justify their valuation.

So far this looks like pure hype.

However... they are way ahead in terms of technology in a number of areas and I guess they could also make money from things like their super charger network and batteries?

So maybe they're better positioned for the future / more diversified than Toyota and therefore have greater potential?
> Many people, including myself, do/have felt guilt over doing things too much that don't make money. Where that comes from or how that works, not sure, but I have met many people who had that. And wanted their hobbies to make money in order not to feel guilty about doing them.

I don't feel a shred of guilt. I am the most introverted person ever but even one year of staying at home broke me... started buying exercise equipment and got into drones so I lost weight and lost stress while flying my little drone.

I make plenty of goddamn money.
>> What's unethical about ticket scalping?

It artificially inflates ticket prices by inserting a completely unnecessary middle-man in the purchase process. This is done by people with no intent to actually use the tickets they bought, so it's very much not the same as "oh I can't go would you like to buy my ticket?"

This is similar to a dark pattern I've seen at shopping malls where they offer a valet service, but also rope off all the close parking spaces for valet. This creates an artificial scarcity of close parking spaces which helps to drive the valet business. If they never did this there would be little desire for the valet service.
Not specific to one faction. It's a local maximum, so all sides will adopt this strategy unless the environment or rules change.

My 2¢ on why "slam" specifically:

1. It's a super short word, which matters in headlines and tweets. I think this is also why headlines will "quote" a word or two (the quotes are magic symbol to ward against libel).

2. Our monkey brains are aroused by violence and tribal warfare, even when that violence is described second-hand and is figurative.

Aggressive verbs are certainly inflammatory, and certainly increases clicks and engagement (at the cost of societal cohesion and individual contentment).

Mark my words—future headlines will be even more outrageous as we become inured to (and accepting of) the current patterns:

"AOC Jr 'eviscerates' Will Clinton over proposed lunar sale to China."
"Don Trump VI 'rapes' UN Fusion Program's budget to pay for July 4 parade."
Along with upvoting I just wanted to say thank you. Your comment was kind (given my raging), thoughtful and informative (hagiography is now in MY lexicon!)

Edit (sorry can't help myself)

I used to IM chat daily with a buddy of mine also in tech. One particularly bad day I told him I wanted to quit and "bag groceries" instead.

He replied that what he loves about tech freelancing is that when things get really bad he can always take 5 minutes, look up some porn and then go back to work. He's a funny guy and it was intended as a throw-away joke, but his statement really stuck with me. While I do envision a future outside of tech for me I'm also VERY thankful for my current work environment and lifestyle. And before you ask, I work with my wife so... no porn breaks for me!
Private schools in the Bay Area quickly adapted to the situation and stayed open, while even the wealthiest district public schools took a long time to follow. My two cents: school boards were much, much slower to adapt lessons from elsewhere in teaching students when compared with how fast healthcare adapted to managing patients. The lack of adaptability in a changing environment is the true damning weakness.
Um, children can still spread covid. Even if they have a low chance of dying ignoring that its not binary and you can have long term health effects even if you don't die they can make family members and teachers/staff sick and get them killed. Children are really good at spreading illness.
> as the site scales

Distributed technologies are the solution to this.
Consider installing Local Sheriff: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/local-sheriff... It detects these abuses and lets you know.
This yes. Though, I'm still mad that they vaccinated old people first instead of children so that they could return to school sooner. Old people are retired and can stay at home. Yes it sucks, they're lonely yada yada but ffs they already lived their lives, why should the next generation botch their edication just so the old people can travel again sooner?
Well, I was only out of it for about 2 years at this point (I ran for 2 months last year, but an unrelated injury pulled me out of it), and before that I ran for about 6 years 2-3 times a week, never less than a 5km (once I got up to doing 5km distances) and did a lot more training during that time too (which often incorporated shorter runs or sprints).

I already took care of the weight I'd gained through improved diet and 6 months of rowing five times a week (got up to 30 minutes of moderate to high intensity). So my cardio condition is great, not where I want it, but great overall. It's really my running form I have to improve, and getting my feet and knees used to the impact again. I'm now back under 180 (versus 210 this time last year) which is a much healthier weight to be running at.

I'm being deliberate about adding distance slowly to minimize the risk of injury (from running). Recovering from an injury at 26 wasn't too bad, at 36 it took a lot longer, and now I'm about to hit 40 so I'm being more deliberate than I would've a decade ago. I'm doing 2x3km runs with a 5-8km run once a week. I plan to add 1-2 total extra kilometers a week and only if the runs have gone decently (don't need to be great, but need to be complete). I have no intention of pushing the short runs past 5km or the long run past 10km. Then I hope to find a soccer league and team I like to get my extra running in on weekends.

When I said I'm running 5ks, it's just the one a week. But I can actually finish it, which was a pleasant surprise (I thought it'd take longer to reach that point).
But it will run on a modern system if you compiled it against the CentOS version. I have a VM running to do just that. Trying to run Python 2 code on a modern runtime on the other hand will have the Python community feed your remains to the pigs.
Many Common Lisp implementations allow you to dump the program state to an image, which can then be loaded later.
On a mass scale like this it makes it impossible for real people who actually care and could have an experience of their lives get a ticket.

If it’s Joe Martini on the corner trying to sell his extra ticket to Phantom of the Opera, it’s really no big deal imo
I'm not sure what the issue is:

1. `go get` will work as expected when run from a directory with a go.mod (or have I misunderstood?)

2. Given the above, the argument about people who include `go get` in their GitHub READMEs makes little sense. Those who blindly copy `go get` from a README will quickly learn to run `go mod init` to set up their projects.

3. There is a deprecation warning, giving everyone plenty of time to adjust to these minimal changes.

Where's the big deal?

I'm reminded of this popular XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Why not? It’s still dumping. Saying that someone is only dumping if they lose, makes it too narrow.

Dumping lowere the price, the bigger the dump the lower the price. Selling slowly can be called gradually unloading.
Even more appropriate:
Over the course of the last year Panasonic has divested from TSLA and used the gains to expand car battery operations.

The currently headline makes it sound like it just click sell on $3.6B shares, the article makes clear that they have been selling over the year and this is just the final report that they are fully divested.
The final years of John McAfee's controversial life
You seem to give a pretty good reason why it's a dark pattern, and a pretty flimsy one for why it's not. I think it's not as ambiguous as you say.
As a recent owner of a model 3, I've been blown away by the charging infrastructure advantage.

The non-Tesla chargers near me in Colorado are just plain garbage. Sometimes, they work great, but other days I go back and the terminal won't function. And currently, these chargers are all the owners of non-Tesla EVs have.

I'm actually surprised there isn't a legal push by Congress to force Tesla to open up their charging infrastructure to others.
> Look at Java, the king of BC, even they've started deprecating packages in the JDK for removal.

There is a reason plenty of organizations are still on Java 8, which is the last major release before they started doing that...
Yep, it feels like a corollary to bike-shedding, the business logic case, but I think you've described it better than me!
I think this shows that going viral works the other way, too. Virality plus the adage that "any publicity is good publicity" can make this kind of a stunt backfire when there's an election at stake.
Biology on Khan Academy. We're making plant-based cheese and are experimenting with enzymes to make better and new varieties of cheese. We already have one Ricotta-style cheese (fresh cheeses you often make with acids, so that works well with soy protein, too).

Our hypothesis is that there must be enzymes that works similarly with plant proteins as chymosin (part of rennet used in cheese making) works with casein.

So, I need to catch up on my bio basics to be able to better understand what's going on :-)
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
I don’t really use ProtonMail calendar, but I like the email and VPN functionality. I run the ProtonBridge on my laptop just in case I need to search my email. I can’t search my ProtonMail on my phone ( except subject lines), and that is OK. I use Apple’s calendar.

Apple has hinted at privacy enhanced email with personal domain names. I am not sure what will happen there. I will stay a paying ProtonMail customer but I really hope iCloud+ gets more secure services.

I keep medical records and tax notes in encrypted Apple Pages documents. I think the encryption is good enough for me.
When everyone runs the risk of dying in traffic accidents in quick succession, every individual traffic accident becomes more problematic
"Panasonic realized exceptional gains on Tesla investment, continues successful partnership."

Edit: Money made is money made. Lots of wealthy folks who exited investments before they were done running.
I mean, just 3-4 years back I'd agree with you. Nowadays at least here in UK you're getting 100-150kW chargers being built literally everywhere. I'd have no problem owning and driving cross-country in a non-Tesla EV nowadays. That equation will only be getting worse and worse for Tesla - they are adding more Superchargers but nowhere near the rate of non-Superchargers. Yes, Superchargers are better technically(especially if you have the latest Model 3 and can tap into the 250kW charge), but it's no longer the argument to buy a Tesla - charging a normal EV is less and less of a problem, even on long journeys, even without having access to the Supercharger network.