skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You made a claim in #1 about the likelihood of people calling police when they think police won’t do anything about it. That claim sounds plausible but is it correct? Do know of studies on this?

There's a number of studies, some of them contradictory (perhaps because they're looking at different populations of people). Hagan et al[1] found that in urban African-American communities, cynicism towards police and the legal system was a major factor in whether or not someone called the police after being a victim of a crime (in a way that is actually a bit counterintuitive to me).

Anyways, I owe the authors an apology. I took another look at the paper and noticed that they (sort of) addressed the issue of under-reporting, as was mentioned in the article.

Tautologically, they point out that underreporting of the crime rate doesn't impact the accuracy of statistics showing that the number of reported crimes went down. However they do admit that this makes it harder to make a causal link.

> Maybe these things aren’t addressed because it’s obvious to them that these aren’t valid objections and it’s obvious to their target audience.

That's an interesting point, and I suppose it's hard to say without being an expert. OTOH, from talking to people I know who have left academia[2], the 'publish or perish' mentality makes it easier to put blinders on when faced with something that's inconvenient.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722210115

[2]: Admittedly this is going to be a biased sample
Ugh I make that mistake with code constantly

I fly into a panic because "U" doesn't do anything and Spacemacs binds "K" to some sort of manual lookup

Deeply stressful experience
> Fuck you all FAANG companies for your shitty and broken coding interview process. During six years of my career, I never wrote a piece of shit outside my favorite IDE and now you expect me to use notepad to solve your shitty coding problems.

Oh wait, he meant Notepad the application! That with a screenshare might not be so bad. When I interviewed with one of the A's, the interviewer tried to make me use a notepad, as in pencil and paper, and then read the code back to him over the phone. I said goodbye to him at that point.
That's not a fair analysis though. That's like saying EMTs only need morphine around 5% of the time, so they shouldn't have it in their ambulance. You don't know when you might need it, so you carry it all the time.
I'd like to -- over a long period of time, and potentially with a few false starts -- gradually collect, analyze and turn public natural language recipes from the web into a more structured format.

In parallel, I'd like to identify the ingredients in those recipes, and build a knowledge graph of nutritional, price, availability and other metadata about them. That may be coarse-grained to begin with, but eventually it'd ideally support fine-grained (regionalized) supply chain information where available.

Finally I'd like to present and provide all of that information to consumers through a simple, understandable interface that lends itself just as well to collaborative, relaxed cooking as it does to economic, time-focused cooking, based on what the user needs.

I have few of the data analysis skills, and even fewer of the organizational skills, required to make this happen - and sometimes I think I need someone to provide a bit of direction and task-management for the project.

If that sounds at all appealing - and even if all you can offer in return is a bit of feedback or sharing the link with a friend or two: the project is currently available at https://www.reciperadar.com
Oh true.

Ions are not irons.
Grinding leetcode != software engineering. That is my entire point, not sure why you're confused.
Wouldn't this also crush their egame industry or is the environment there appreciably different from what it looks like here?
I checked your country, very odd to me. Maybe try this link

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6a4RZk...
A lot of these people would much rather live in what you disparagingly call a minimum security prison than the comparative anarchy of what we call freedom. Freedom to get stabbed if I don’t give the junkie my belongings.

I don’t think well of the CCP for many reasons but please, this is a very superficial understanding of China on display. It seems more well suited to Soviet about half a century ago.
im so bummed on evernote. Ive used them forever. I just needed a note taking app in the cloud. They've evolved into a bloated piece of software thats like a crappy version of google docs. I'll checkout this Joplin app
This might interest you: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/robert-greenberg
> > Look, if you just want to retreat entirely to a "might makes right" ideology, you can go ahead and do that.

> It's not an ideology. I'm saying that it's simply the way geopolitics works.

But none of us here is a geopolitical power, so for you to argue as if you were is just fucking silly. You are, AFAIK, an ordinary human (unless bots have developed a heck of a lot while my back was turned?), so discussing as if you weren't is not just hilariously pretentious but ultimately meaningless.
I don't know the lineage past my parents, but my grandparents did play a lot of cards (I learned Canasta from my grandmother), and my grandfather was in the Navy in WWII, so it's definitely possible.
Back in 1990, 3½-inch 1.44 MB micro floppy disks were snail-mailed to me — a Smalltalk/V 286 image file, sources file and change log; for a system I'd developed a year or two before.

The "image in its current state" had been saved with an open "Walkback Window" showing an exception.

I opened the debugger, identified and fixed the problem (iirc without needing to reshape any user data with become:) and resumed the exception; saved the image and change log to the micro floppy disks, and snail-mailed them back.

Apparently the users picked-up their work where they'd left-off, when they sent it to me.

"Chapter 8 Debugging"

http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/SmalltalkVTutoria...
Software developers are like studio musicians. In software hiring, we evaluate them as if they're stage musicians. Now clearly a lot of stage musicians can do good work in a studio, but you're throwing a way a lot of talent by doing this. And if you're competing with FANG, this might not be a sustainable thing to do.
Exactly, and I put a cover picture explaining the situation (it is a closed account blabla), so I didn't receive any judgement from friends. Having removed friends, also means I can not go back in a smooth manner. It is a good way to cut yourself off of facebook's network effect without losing access to events, fb signin, messenger.
Thanks! This is the kind of tip I'm here for!
Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
Not to mention dumping video games into blanket "addictive gambling" is a very tenuous argument. Plenty of games that don't have lootboxes, require creative problem solving that can be played for hours on end with socialization elements mixed in too.

I'm really shocked by the somewhat puritanical take on video games at hacker news of all places.
All of this is still less crazy than quantum mechanics itself. Some people may cringe, but the proof is valid anyway (not sure what in principle might be wrong with ZFC?). I wouldn't be surprised if it revealed some hidden aspects of reality we still aren't aware of.
I'm not sure who you're quoting when you say, "Russian tanks had a significant advantage over US tanks," but I don't have any reason to think your quote is true. In case you intend that as a paraphrase of what I was saying, let me correct that misreading. I was making no claims about the relative quality of the tanks; by all reports, Soviet tanks were vastly inferior to German tanks as well.

Rather, my primary tank-related claim was that the USSR was producing enormous quantities of war materiel, as exemplified by tanks; in 01943 they outproduced Germany almost 2:1 in quantity of tanks, and even in 01944 when Germany was catching up, they still outproduced them. The quality of that materiel was merely adequate, but it still would have represented a very significant military threat to the US's position in Europe, as it had to Germany's.

My second claim was that the USSR was in a better logistical situation with respect to Europe than the US was. I don't think that's controversial, since Moscow is in Europe, and so was most Soviet farmland and much Soviet arms production.
seconded a million times. to me, nothing rivals org and its ecosystem. i’ll give org-roam a shout too, if you’re into this type of networked note-taking
I don't think it's useful or productive to go that far.

But I do think everyone would be better off if any game with a cash shop tied to randomness (loot boxes) or an in-game mechanic tied to randomness that can be exacerbated with cash shop purchases (Black Desert Online's gear improvement mechanic being a good example) be limited to those who are of gambling age.
Wow, a shoutout to Shaun Inman - I had no idea he was working at Panic these days. His blog was a big inspiration for me back when I was just starting my career as a programmer. Good ole' sIFR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replaceme...
Though what allowed cable/DSL companies to move into the ISP business was the complete decoupling of content from access. In 1991, when there was no practical WWW and you navigated a bunch of proprietary content by typing in AOL keywords, a cable company would've had to implement a full graphical browser and a large library of content to be useful. By 1998, when we had Netscape and IE and Yahoo and millions of websites, those industries were all disaggregated and we just needed the pipes.

There's a lesson in unbundling here, but it probably doesn't apply to Facebookin quite the manner the author intends.
There was that interview with Peter Norvig - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPxEcT_Adc - I believe there he said something roughly like "before programming was about composing algorithms, structures etc. - and engineers used ideas from SICP - now it's about composing 3rd-party libraries and solutions - and engineers don't read manuals, don't worry about how systems work internally etc." Pardon if I stretched the meaning too much.

I think this more modern approach has some important pitfalls which we're uncovering now and getting hurt by them.
Police in the UK do not carry firearms, at all. Regular police have a taser, there are also firearms units on call when needed. This is an outlier even for Europe, where I believe it is standard to carry a pistol.

This has some interesting consequences. The police effectively can’t position themselves in opposition to “the people of the street”. Two police officers against a rowdy pub is poor chances for the law.

As a result, the training emphasises deescalation, talking people down from stupid ideas etc. This part seems particularly effective.

Most days I still think it’s crazy the police here are effectively unarmed, but it does seem to work.
I suspect the problem is that they had no infrastructure to sell. They should have been doing co-branded offerings fulfilled by local telecoms. Once people are calling to say "I called the local telecom and ordered DSL/Cable direct, close my account", they're trying to negotiate customer retention from the back foot.

I know plenty of people held onto AOL for a long time because of specific communities-- their chat service was more accessible than IRC, and as mentioned elsewhere, tying it to a bill and an identity was a good way to keep it from getting too toxic.

My family held out until 2006 or so because of one such community. We were willing to put up with 56k slowness until I got a webdev position and needed the ability to do work-from-home with a reasonable turnaround.

There was a definite point though where you could tell they had decided to give up on investment. The client was ever buggier and weirder, they stopped offering Usenet, and their internal forum system got retooled in a way that nobody really liked. I suspect at the end, the chat service was probably their last moat for their userbase.
Cron expressions are used everywhere.
Yeah, mismanagement of these large projects is more of an issue than a lack of budget.
This is a good one. Joel Spolsky's writing has been a huge influence on me over the past 20 years. For anyone who liked this article but may not be familiar with his other writings: I encourage you to look at his "reading lists" (posted on https://www.joelonsoftware.com/) for some more gems.
Radio engineering doesn't mesh well with a "move fast and break things" world view. Often the things you're breaking mean other people are losing out.

The world of HF is very different from higher bands because of propagation and low band width (especially for hams). With a well tuned antenna even a relatively modest transmitter can DX hundreds or thousands of miles.

* The low band width on HF with a high noise floor makes high symbol rates pointless throughout the band. You'd need so much FEC there'd be little benefit from the higher rates. A symbol rate that might work fine for contacts a hundred miles apart will just be noise for contacts five hundred miles away. Because of DXing on HF it's entirely possible to have your transmissions picked up across the hemisphere.

* Likewise symbol rate negotiation is problematic because of propagation. Transmissions aren't point to point links even if you're addressing a particular station. Like the point above symbol rates that work for two stations will not necessarily work for all stations that will receive the signal. That's just more noise for them and an inability to use that part of the band.

* The band width for hams on HF is too small for spread spectrum comms to be useful. Yet again transmissions that work in some conditions won't necessarily work everywhere the transmission reaches.

* Quick, what's the difference between an encrypted signal with a long duty cycle and noise? NOTHING. Every aspect of ham radio comes back down to being good stewards of a scarce resource and sharing it.

If you blast your headphones you're not going to affect me living next door. You can listen to whatever you want at any volume. If you blow out your ear drums that's your business. If you instead blast your big-ass stereo speakers now you're affecting me next door. You've got a right to blast out your eardrums, not mine.

Radio, like the air between our houses, is a shared medium. There's bands where if you want to blast signals or play around with different modes, I'll never detect it even living next door. There's also bands, like HF, where you can affect my use of the band even on opposite sides of the state. You don't have more of a right to hams bands than I do. If you want to blast high powered wide bandwidth transmissions, petition the FCC to buy a license to some spectrum (good luck).

The issue isn't graybeard hams being afraid of new fangled technology. While those do exist the much bigger issue is the whole of the HF band (and all uses of it) could fit in a single WiFi channel with room to spare. Of that tiny space hams have privileges on a tiny subsection. To even use that tiny subsection requires advanced licensing and a fair investment in equipment. Any individual user wants to put that time/money investment to use but so does every other user. It's hard to share a sliver of bandwidth if there's a couple assholes essentially blasting out noise all across that sliver of spectrum.
No judgement, I mentioned I didn't spot a link to preemptively excuse myself in case it was redundant
I would guess GP was trying to explain what they enjoy about these photographs in the context of their putative classification as art, not offering a definition of art itself. This would be in contrast with the comment they replied to, which implied that this photographer and his work are "famous" only thanks to an indulgent, masturbatory sort of appreciation among critics, other artists, and their general ilk.
Hey - you can't attack another user like this and you can't call names like this in HN comments.
Please review the rules and stick to them, regardless of how you strongly feel about education. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I normally don't make moderation comments when people are criticizing YC startups (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Thoughtful critique is fine, but what you posted here was egregious and the kind of thing we ban accounts for. No more of this, please, regardless of the topic.
>(And what the hell is wrong with someone that gets angry at a road crew?)

They're not angry at the road crew. They're angry at the state police, DOT bureaucrat or whoever that decided to block off way more road than they see being strictly necessary, inconveniencing them, and they're taking it out on the road crew.
For you, perhaps. I don't think there is an objective truth of "this is art, this is not art." I shared my experience of the pictures with you. Art is the experience of Art imo.
> Gameboy-lookalike devices

Most of these are too hard to deal with. Also developing for these devices is a huge pain the ass.

Im excited for this device because its taken game dev as a first citizen. This toy looks to be more about game dev than it is about game play. While play is important part of the eco system that market is soo saturated from AAA billion dollar companies all the way to obscure Gameboy-lookalike devices.

But game dev, and particularly game dev for a device is still a difficult and underserved (I hope for the success of this company) market.
My 6yo son really, really wanted to play Breath of the Wild. He loves Zelda, my wife loves Zelda, my best friend's girlfriend is over the moon with Zelda, etc. I always played Link in Mario Kart, to the point where, when he was 2 or 3, he was in Best Buy with my wife and saw a Breath of the Wild Switch case and said "is daddy!"

Of course, after a few requests a year and a bit ago, my wife had to give him an ultimatum: "I'm not going to come over here every time there's words. If you want to play this game, you have to read it yourself."

Apparently, it worked; he's about to go into Grade 2 but already has incredibly strong reading skills, including about a grade 2.5 reading level in French (we're English-speakers but he's in French immersion).

I didn't like how much Switch he was playing last year when the pandemic started and schools closed, but he wouldn't have learned to read nearly as fast if it weren't for Breath of the Wild. He seems to be well ahead of his classmates, and he's only getting stronger (and more independent as a result) as time goes by.

We're pretty particular about what games he plays, but the ones he's interested in typically have a substantial amount of reading involved (compared to, say, Doom when I was a teenager).

I'm excited that he'll be able to (if not willing to) play my old favorites; Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana, to name a few. I guess we'll see if he's interested.
We've come full circle. WillDaSilva remarks about their confusion based on the title after having read the article.
I believe one of the problems is that we don't know what the goalposts are. People experience music differently, ranging from barely tolerating it, to pursuing it as an academic study, to making massive sacrifices in order to be immersed in it. The conscious lifestyle choice of many full time musicians is bewildering to many techies. This suggests we don't know the "customer" or the "market" at all, or at the very least, that they are fragmented.
I remember hearing with the rise of regional airlines starting in the 90s the number of flight cycles (takeoffs/landings) went way up for some types of planes...and I assume for the "average flight." An increase in the number of short trips would make lowing the per-mile rating more impressive.
What if it is not melatonin itself, but the fact that it helps to get more sleep which generally boosts the immune system and has anti-inflamatory effects.

Sleep length/quality should have been taken into account.

Have scientists rediscovered the importance of sleep?
Yes, this is a good point: the Nazis got much of their public support from being opposed to socialism, and so the European resistance was largely run by Communists. People in the US mostly don't know this and tend to respond by shooting the messenger, which I guess is why your comment is downvoted like a dirty spammer.
Back in the good old days of mp3s I decided I wanted my library to be as 'accurate' as possible with its metadata. I spent a lot of time manually editing metadata.

Tchaikovsky was stored as 'Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский'. As you might expect, this turned out to be a bad idea on many levels:

* No searching

* Always ends up on the top/bottom of alphabetically sorted lists

* Took much longer to work out which artist it was because I'm not fluent in Cyrillic

* The Microsoft Zune's fonts did not support most non-ASCII characters (this was a big one!)

That being said, I was young and it looked cool, so I kept it :)
The Xinhua article on it (which I think is fairly authoritative) is clearer that it applies only to online games: http://www.news.cn/english/2021-08/30/c_1310157673.htm

Specifically,

> Online game providers can only offer one-hour services to minors from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as on official holidays, according to the document made public on Monday.

> [...]

> The official said that parents and minors can decide on by themselves how long the children will play other games that are conducive to minors' growth, except online games.
In a lot of western countries that are not the US, software isn't copyrightable as-is, only as a description of its functionality or something like that (not a lawyer, might have been the patent vs. copyright thing).

This difference means that a lot of what a litigation-centric society would assume about software (perhaps not copyright, but patents) doesn't apply elsewhere.

That said, the goals of the legal systems tend to converge: it was about protecting ideas so the people investing in it stand a chance to see a return. I wouldn't be surprised if there simply is a different system with a different name but with the same goal (yet being incompatible with a global blanket software copyright claim). I have only studied the subject for a small group of western european countries (France not included) and most of them not being based on common law makes quite the difference.
I’m neither naive nor misleading. By any measure, airline travel - particularly in the US - is remarkably safe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/colgan-air-crash-10-years-ag...
This article on numerical ranking of sports teams explains the use of eigenvectors

[1] https://www.marksmath.org/visualization/eigenbrackets/
How do I turn off the “Try the new Safari” notification?
The business of photography is more marketing than craft these days. Even professional photography is a commodity.

There are some people that stretch the art of photography, but they are more digital artists than photographers. They take a lot of the creativity into the post-processing and Photoshop stage. Most professional photography these days is just right-place-right-time and tweaking in Lightroom.