skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. I struggle to say this is "peak HN", since HN doesn't like social media in general, but it's definitely something that evolved out of the particular kind of software engineer "optimisation" for productivity that seemingly involves automating the entirety of human existence. I guarantee this idea has been used as a punchline in a TV show.
I'm glad you've never heard "goyim" used in a derogatory manner, whereas I have. Tone is difficult to infer from plain text. To avoid confusion, I recommend you use other groups and races' preferred labels when speaking about them in public. This is advice I follow and have found to be a good rule.

Just so you know I'm not making this up; Merriam-Webster lists "goy" as "sometimes disparaging":

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goy

Use of this word in 2017 got Huffington Post in trouble with the Anti-Defamation League, and others who felt it was over the line:

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/huffpost-bannon-headlin...
All those things suck at reddit, but to me the fundamental issue with reddit is upvoting/downvoting + a massive user base. Subreddits get too large and are dominated by lowest common denominator quips and memes to the point that the content is junk food for echo chambers. Every so often some bit of insight can rise, but by and large that's the problem and it's fundamental to reddit's DNA and no UX fixes would solve that.
I just use tiktok now for "front page of the internet" some random sub reddits still otherwise. If I'm going to be subjected to tracking and ads I might as well go with the superior option. Half of the front page is tiktok videos anyway.
I have had the exact same experience. There's lots of utility in statically typed languages. They're great if your problem space is well defined. With respect to type checking, it's like a jig in wood or metal working. You trade flexibility for correctness.

When the problem space is less well defined the type-related boiler plate adds a lot of friction. It's not impossible to overcome that friction but it slows down progress. When you're under a tight deadline development velocity is often more valuable than absolute correctness or even overall runtime efficiency.

An delivered product that works is usually more valuable than an undelivered product that's more "correct" or efficient. A development project is just a cost (for various values of cost) until it ships.
I agree. From my experience, there are fewer fake and anonymous accounts on FB than on Twitter. Also a friend of mine had their home address, phone number and real names leaked to social media without his consent. He was able to take it down from FB properties but Twitter couldn't care less.
I will never understand the thinking of people who believe in an omnipotent god that can be tricked
> As I am an employee now, as are many of my brahmin friends, are we shudras now? If I start teaching the holy books, do I become a brahmin?

Yes that is right, if you become a teacher, lawyer, guru or advisor, you become a brahmin as intended. You need to be guided by the guidelines meant for a brahmin, do not be driven by wealth or power or accumulation of land.

Birth based assignment of varna has always been debated as wrong interpretation most famously in the Mahabaratha.

Unfortunately, it is human nature to assign birth based privileges. Most famously by projecting Rahul Gandhi as the only viable opposition leader, by birth privileges.

Ironic considering Modi the son of a tea seller is demonised.
Good Good, the photos of the parking deck are scary. You see spalling from the rebar and uneven slabs. Whoever bought there, they had warning that they were living in a deathtrap, the signs were obvious.
"What can't be ignored is the level of racism groups are subjected to: it seems obvious to say that people will integrate better if they have people willing to integrate with them. I suspect this is far more often the problem."

It does not seem as obvious to me. This theory seems to have too many outliers.

At least here in Central Europe, racism/anti-semitism against visible minorities tended to be very strong. Historically, Jews were treated horribly, and in the more recent history, Vietnamese also. Growing up in the 1990s, there was a lot of shockingly casual racism against them.

Looking across the pond, Japanese-Americans were herded into concentration camps during WWII. The only worse level of racism is probably genocide.

In all these cases, the communities are now very well integrated, though the memories of really bad treatment aren't that distant.
One of my favourites I heard about from that era - https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-w...
My guess is lockdowns and school closures probably drive substantially more suicides than masks and testing. I doubt the latter two move the needle much.
Many people would object that rockets don't fly, they are hurled.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook - we power their abuses with our money. Just stop buying their trash. Support open hardware, free and open source software.
Same as sailing, does the airplane have an equivalent of the keel?
> That one is good and the other bad is a different discussion.

In my estimation, that is the current discussion.
There’s an eslint plugin to run only on staged changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643526
Yea me too.

My biggest question is where do you get user data to run the simulation? Take the simple push example - if to date you’ve only sent pushes on day 1, and you want to explore day 2,3,4,5 etc…where does that user response data come from? It seems like you need to get the data, then you can simulate various permutations of a policy. But then why not just run multi arm bandit?
My favorite about video calls is at one of my organizations I am access denied to recordings even when I participated in it. I can't attach images either.

Someone built these features. Why are you building a feature on who can attach images?? The entire mindset is completely wrong and comes from an overcontrolling enterprise mindset completely incompatible with what we expect from a chat tool.

Oh and every time I log in Teams asks whether it can control my entire device. No.
It's not tricking, it's rules-lawyering.
For someone who has not followed Assange news for a long time, what is the general accusation of his crimes? Is it just that he published secret material that he received from other sources?
We needed a phone that is in mass production and very cheap. Nokia was a good brand and a good manufacture at the time (Around 2012).
I heard Unison[1] does this, or something like it.

Never looked at it myself, so not an endorsement. Just came up in the Lobsters discussion[2] on this last week where someone mentioned it.

[1]: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour/

[2]: https://lobste.rs/s/b9pddy/when_it_comes_git_history_less_is...
Mixed income housing is a good thing and leads to healthier communities. We need more public housing, low income housing and density in all metros. I think London does a good job here. It’s expensive to buy, but they have vibrant communities with public housing mixed in and to the benefit of everyone, you don’t step in human excrement every time you walk outside (opposed to SF).
What does halachic mean?
The "proof" part of proof of work used by Bitcoin is a small piece of information that proves that a lot of work has been done. An invalid proof can be easily checked by other nodes and ignored. In the case of Bitcoin the proof is a set of alphanumeric characters as input to the hashing algorithm (SHA256 I think) that produces a hash with certain properties (some number of leading zeros depending on the current difficulty). Other nodes can verify the proof by taking the input supplied by the miner, combining it with a predetermined nonce and computing the hash and checking that it has the properties required. Computing a single SHA256 is easy compared to figuring out which input to the hash produces a particular output.

The next mined block will be appended to the longest valid blockchain the node can see. It's in their interest to append to the one that others will believe, because they get paid the reward only on that chain and thus it only exists in their wallet if others accept it by appending further blocks to it. So generating invalid blocks just doesn't work - they get immediately rejected by other nodes and there is thus no reward.

One genuine problem is mining a valid block but adding no transactions to it, to grind transaction throughput to a halt. I think Bitcoin might have some mitigations for this but I don't actually know. If a sufficiently well funded organisation or nation tried to take down Bitcoin this might be the way to do it.
From the report:

> Provisional mortality data found an overall decrease in the age-adjusted suicide rate from quarter 3 (July–September) of 2019 to quarter 3 of 2020. The suicide rate among young persons aged 15–24 years during this same period saw no significant change (9).

So in other words: what changed was the rate of emergency department admissions, not actual suicides. I would wonder if lockdowns meant that more suicide attempts were made near family, who would then notice the attempt and take the person to the ED.
They can get hot but this should be acceptable per the design spec.

From what I can find that drive is rated at:

> -13 to 185 °F (-25 to 85 °C)

So as long as it's not cooking above 185F/85C you should be ok.
To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup, there are two kinds of social network platforms, the ones people complain about and the ones no one uses.

I bet you can go back 10 years and find Redditors bitching about the state of the site back then.
I filtered every one of those subs and even darker ones appear behind it. It's like a never ending mole hunt.
My first thought, too. He's blaming it on "climate change." I'm certainly no climate change denier, but the real immediate cause of this collapse could just be substandard engineering and maintenance.
It's a bug, dude, come on. It's pretty obvious.
One must truly reach the highest echelon of esotericism to be aware of vi AND emacs.
Android TV is a surprisingly bad system anyway. Barely apps, I can access maybe 100 games from my TV. The far majority absolute, and filled, trash games. I suddenly found myself locked out of thousands of things I used to watch because the browser, if even enable-able, sucks and so many sites/services have no interest in having an app. Owning a TV still feels like a step down for me, since I was used just streaming on my computer.

Without the kodi app I would see no reason to recommend a android smart TV over any cheap TV and a small Kodi box.
Could not agree more. If you halved the rate at which you replaced electronics (TV, laptop, phone, etc), you would probably do more good towards reducing CO2 production than buying an EV.
My solution for good reddit browsing:

* Use the Reddit Enhancement Suite browser extension, and customize to your liking.

* Set it to permanent old.reddit.com mode, so all reddit links immediately go there.

* Only browse reddit on mobile using one of several third-party apps, like Relay (my preference), Boost, or Apollo.

* Extensively tailor your subreddit selection to weed out the garbage. Most if not all of the default subreddits are terrible, but anything devoted to a niche interest is likely to be a welcoming and respectful community.

I don't have avatars, autoplay videos, or inline "promoted" threads. I see 10 levels of nested comments with 1000 comments loaded by default. Additional levels of nesting are tap to open. I have keyboard navigation on desktop and swipe navigation (from link to comments back to home page) on mobile.

Pretty much all of the complaints that folks have in here are solved problems.
A high percentage of finance in general is kind of Time Cube for money.
> No death threats…

Carbon footprint reduction is inevitable. Your choice, Mr. Congressman, is whether it will be smaller shoes or fewer feet.
I completely and utterly think it's MS abusing their monopoly position (again). Slack, Zoom, etc, all cost actual hard money.

Microsoft released Teams for effectively for free, paid for by existing (extortionate) subscriptions (that are never in the public domain). Now, despite the product being almost _universally_ hated by its users, it's number one.

Urgh.
Upstream ad blocking may help, but will the screen space still be taken up?
Meeting an insect while flying at speed and altitude isn't going to look like an insect, it's just going to look like a blur zooming past suddenly.
Not to mention that suicide has been trending up, so even if there wasn’t COVID, not all of those lives would be saved.
Hack for the character limit is to share as code. Unfortunately that adds 3 clicks to the process.
Microtron Under the Vítkov Hill
A helicopter doesn't rely on the forward thrust of the chassis, it relies on the forward thrust of the helicopter blades in rotation. Those blades are wings.
Thanks. This is very helpful. This information is not provided on the documentation.
Most policing is in minority neighborhoods, but not necessarily most crime.

For example, white drivers carrying drugs is higher, but Black folks are more likely to get stopped and searched for drugs.

So it's not that Black folks commit more of these crimes, they are just monitored more closely than their white counterparts regardless of outcome or reality.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/may/bl...
As someone who grew up Haredi enough that my first cell phone was a so called "kosher phone" but not haredi enough that I would take that pashkevil seriously... who comes up with this stuff? Like... cell phones cause cancer? I thought everyone knew that was women's elbows?? I guess both can cause cancer, but only one can be "enemy #1"
You might find Unison[0] interesting. Or the more recent developments (or intents) of Clojure spec[1] and the talk Speculation[2].

[0] https://www.unisonweb.org/

[1] https://github.com/clojure/spec-alpha2

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
> It isn't cynical to be extremely skeptical of any company's ability to keep your data private and safe

By dictionary definition, cynicism is an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others.

Skepticism is defined as the doubt as to the truth of something.

Extreme doubt as to the integrity of a company’s data privacy practices is the dictionary definition of cynicism.
Cores that don't count = floating-point coprocessor cores? :-)

But seriously, though,

> I think fail-silent CEEs is weaker than the adversary Byzantine failure model.

Of course they're weaker than byzantine failures. There's time locality, and the failure in themselves are not particularly hard to detect if some other core checks the results (although that obviously doesn't happen after every single computation).
fyi, I think that's a knife, not an arrow/spear head. The original all purpose tool
> It’s the unregistered users and those who aren’t logged in who have to suffer the nags and pop-ups and limitations.

The problem with this strategy is that it's easy to add so many nags that many more users will bounce away from the site than will install the app, or otherwise engage at all. Given what we know about user behavior on the Internet, Reddit is almost certainly on the downward slope of this weird Laffer curve, well beyond the point of "optimally effective" nagging. Add even more, and you become just another Experts-Exchange that no one cares about all that much.
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“Died of lockdown” - choice word “of” and not “during”, completely ignoring the myriad confounding variables going on during this one year period (eg social media changes).

Regarding the lockdown comment, again I’ll write that things don’t exist in a vacuum- optimizing policy over a demographic with 23 deaths, at the expense of demographics with hundreds of thousands of deaths, is probably not a trade many politicians/public health officials/etc think is good.

But who knows, maybe guy-in-the-chat knows better. Should probably brush up on his basic stats first, though!.
I agree. I'm often baffled by some developers who seem to think dynamic typing is a minefield that inevitably goes wrong all the time. I note these are almost always Javascript programmers, though. In practice, experience developers in dynamic languages like Python, Lisp etc. rarely make such errors. The number of bugs we deal with that would have been caught early by static typing are vanishingly small.

The best argument I've heard for doing type annotation is for documentation purposes to help future devs. But I don't completely buy this either. I touch new codebases all the time and I rarely spend much time thinking about what types will be passed. I can only assume it comes with experience.

Type annotation actually ends up taking a hell of a long time to do and is of questionable benefit if some of the codebase is not annotated. People spend sometimes hours just trying to get the type checker to say OK for code that actually works just fine!
Outlook is switching to WebView2-based UI like this soon. As for Excel, here's its PM saying "When you look at the overall allocation of resources on the team, a huge percentage is working on web app improvements" https://twitter.com/jones206/status/1388162347059978243?s=20
What an absurdly weak piece.

Their primary argument is that Apple is lying about its environmental goals because the employees at Apple Park drive to work, and because 3rd party repairs of Apple devices are difficult.

Both of these are definitely areas that they could improve, but the thesis is absurd, and frankly intellectually dishonest.

Then they go on to say Apple is ‘profiting from disaster’, because people who worked from at home during the pandemic bought more computers.

This is just a hit piece. Why isn’t jacobin auto-flagged like breitbart? I can’t tell them apart.
My last job used Teams after I had years of experience with Slack and I’m right there with you. I actually enjoy being on Slack and feel like it adds something to the workplace culture (although yes, as many have pointed out before on HN, not everything Slack/real-time team software adds is good). Custom emojis in particular, such a simple thing and yet they really build a channel’s culture. Slack feels fun. Contrast that with Teams, which just feels soulless and corporate and… “angular” is the word that comes to mind. Obviously they are both run for profit, by corporations, for work, but the feel is indescribably different to me. Super grateful my current job uses Slack.
There's no reason to not do that; in fact its easier than ever to invite and plan things.
Ban social media
I think that ubiquitous global communication is the "Great Filter" that prevents intelligent civilizations from colonizing the universe. Before any intelligent species can hope to tackle a problem like that, they invent something like the internet. And once they've invented an internet, they become addicted to low latency communication and will never stray far from it, at least not in significant numbers. Even one year of latency becomes utterly intolerable once an intelligent species has been using an internet for a few generations.
Sure, I left not only WoW but all MMOs because yes, apparently my expectations weren't aligned with the ideas of the creators.

Much happier on the Switch these days.
What? More peer to peer activity and make it a marketplace? Then you add in crypto for good measure…

They added chat, and everyone hated it. People aren’t on there to build up yet another social network. What would this marketplace even sell? Is it like a less localized Craigslist?
old. now has a new EU cookie banner which, to accept or configure cookies, takes you to the new version. I blocked the banner in my adblocker.

If they're turning off the old reddit anytime soon I'll probably just leave.
I started using a bullet journal some years back and quickly dropped all the rules and artistic spreads for regular notebooks and most recently a pre-printed planner from Japan.

Just went to the Bullet Journal site, wow, there's an app now? There is so much going on there. It's too much. I'm also team fountain pen.
It works consistently across all MS products I use including Teams and Office365.
I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
Turing 50 Pounds
Ah yes but, with the threat of being shocked and causing an accident, you will be less likely to text while driving, because you don't want to do things that might get you into an accident oh hold on a second..

"I wanted to stop smoking, so I got an implant that, when I inhale cigarette smoke, releases carcinogens into my lungs."
C++ is not a compiler. C++ is a language with a specification from which people derive compilers and standard libraries and runtimes.

C++ the language very much does tell you what to expect at runtime, though perhaps not everything you could ever want. I mean, it's not Haskell or Idris with their much richer type systems.
It was a bunch of years ago, but my first cell phone was a "kosher phone". A feature phone with no camera, no sms, no internet. It had the word "מאושר" (approved) engraved on it.

AMA
No, emphatically, no, our doctors and our health care institutions did not act to minimize deaths! See for example the distribution of vaccines which did not go to demographics in proportion to their risk. It is totally unimaginable to me that men would ever be prioritized over women even when they are 60% of the fatalities in the US with similar stats for long term hospitalization. I haven’t done the math, but that surely cost us thousands or possibly tens of thousands of lives. Instead, we get endless reports in the media about how the pandemic has been hard on women! I accept that it has been hard on women, but you know, it’s at been fatal to 50% more men! Could you imagine the reporting and response if the situation were reversed? It’s a similar story for distribution to other sub populations as well, and the same basic story over and over - health care in the us is subject to politics and the politics of the health care providers themselves, typically to the detriment of all of us.
Seems like this list is still a WIP. At least I hope so, I don't see why my i7-3770 shouldn't be supported.
If only 8th gen+ are supported, looks like there's going to be a lot of e-waste.
> At a previous company, there was an “infamous” commit in our main repository. The commit was about 10 years old, and it replaced every tab with 4 spaces.

If have commits like this, add the ids to a file `ignorerevs`, and then tell git about it:

git config --local blame.ignoreRevsFile ignorerevs

Then at least `git blame` will still give useful results. (This is a relatively new git feature, added a year or two ago.)
It would be cool if you could mark whitespace only changes at least with an option to smart-skip them with `git blame` or something
> But then with native you have to pay the cross platform price. Which is higher do you think?

You could for example use Qt. It is cross-platform and if you write your application well, the amount of platform-specific code will be quite small.

>With Electron you get cross platform more or less for free and ostensibly you can make it faster later.

It's not for-free. The effort/work for the developer is reduced, while the amount of work for the users' PC is increased. Sure, a lot will think, that this is a great deal, but at in my opinion, you should do it the other way round.

How often have you seen electron apps going faster? I never did. With a native toolkit, you have performance from the beginning for the same quality.
5 years later they are unsupported, Amazon gets hacked, and all your bread gets deleted.
Not sure why you are downvoted. This is a genuinely interesting idea and seems like the basis for next gen change management.
if you accidentally press enter, are you ok with the browser sending that information wherever it does?