skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tell you what would be really nice: a browser that lets me click & launch into reader mode directly.

Safari can be set to use reader mode by default (then you can tell it to ignore individual sites). I use it in this mode.
Someone outside Texas can also not get an abortion just the same, there is no corollary law everywhere else forcing people to get abortions.
Clicking on examples gives me 403.
Yeah the logic does not follow that highlighting prose means highlighting code is bad.

I think the main benefit to highlighting code is it’s one less task my brain has to do, freeing it up to think about the structure of the code in writing and the bigger picture.

Searching your code for that our of place ‘ is no benefit to anyone.
How does it affect taste? Cattle feed has a big effect on how meat tastes and, to a lesser extent, milk.
But humans are expensive and dont scale well even if done by exploiting poor people.

If you would raise the PoW to cost more than that the average user would simply be unable to solve the PoW it in a meaningful time on their hardware.
I’ve learned programming with Borland Delphi 6.
I have warm feelings towards TurboPascal/Delphi.

Lazarus Opensource Project seems promising.
That wasn’t a value judgement on my part. I’ve made the exact same comment as you previously.
Not noticed it but as I said we always have the option to look elsewhere for "hacker" news
Bold claims + no-evidence

A point of counter-evidence. Developers seek out syntax highlighting. Perhaps they've all been duped by the hype. Orrrrrrr they actually find it helpful.

Without more evidence, I'm going with #2.
It's not bad for a user, but somewhat kills the distributed effect in the long run.
Agreed, but structure is prose is important too. Who wants to read something that is not broken into paragraphs, has not capital letters to indicate sentences, etc.
(From the POV of a reader, not an author)

Substack has its share of warts, but is much more acceptable than Medium.
Wasn't perfect, it jitters a bit at the turn it never was able to make before. Also, what's with turning on the blinkers for some of the right-hand curves?
Doubt it, not worth the liabillity risk.
Democrats Propose 2% Tax on Stock Buybacks to Offset Their $3.5T Plan
Bush: The sense of unity seen in the US after 9/11 seems distant
If you only need a single copy you are best suited buying from Microsoft directly.

If you need multiple copies you can work with a VAR (Value Added Reseller) to get better pricing.

CDW.com is the big name in VAR's but they have enormous turnover in staff. I try to build relationships with smaller VAR's. I like these guys: https://greenbeetech.com/ it's a small company with two guys running it who have decades of VAR experience (former CDW people).

Navigating the process of compliantly licensing Microsoft as you scale up is quite a job. Having a good partner to help your organization stay compliant is very valuable.
It's worth trying to get at least some of the genie back in the bottle. The laws against CP and automatic fire arms aren't 100% effective either, but that doesn't mean we abandon the idea of trying to regulate the activity completely, does it?
> You succeed by giving users what they want, not telling them what they should want

This closing statement is missing so much context that it's misleading.

When you have more than a handful of users, their wants will eventually conflict, often directly. (Ex: Tabs on top vs Tabs on Bottom). Other times a majority of users will ask for things that provide fleeting short-term benefit but in the long-term could kill your product (ex: We need Flash support on Firefox Mobile). Telemetry and research helps you consider the needs of a silent majority, but it can alienate the vocal minority that proselytize your product. To appease both, you need to come up with a clear vision, validate it's right, and then ruthlessly steer your product toward it.

If there is a vision for Firefox, I don't know what it is. So why, as a user, should accept Firefox's many faults today when Mozilla has failed to paint a clear picture of tomorrow?
I would consider cutscene videos not playing to be more than just a small issue for story driven games.
Hijackings also weren't usually suicide missions before then either so it would have been a big leap to decide to shoot them down when you'd normally expect demands and a chance to take it out on the ground rather than just killing everyone on board.
As a recent convert to neovim the one thing I'm missing is a nice integration with databases. In PyCharm I used to be able to connect a database to my project and get SQL code completion and data exploration very easily.
Amusing how many of the "merle" pictures are of catahoulas; it makes perfect sense: those hounds come in almost every color hounds can come in.
There were other changes in Wirth's languages besides the name; they were not clean extensions. Wirth even went back and forth on support for a few basic language constructs, perhaps unsure whether to go for a 'truly minimalistic' feature set or something a bit more ergonomic.
Syntax highlighting helps reveal structure, so you can understand the whole at a glance, before then zooming in on a part to gain deep understanding. Without the revelation of structure, identifying the parts to go deep on would only be harder.
Better analogy: will they help me relocate from California if I don't want to deal with their bullshit gun laws?
Compiling isn't always fast. Besides, incorrect syntax will usually interfere with the IDE's code inspection; fix-fast, fix-early.
> (Note) there is an obvious opportunity to create a medium like experience that lets people blog using Hugo and Netlify. I open an app, connect to my account (GitHub pages, or Netlify) type my article and post.

This is what I'd really like. All these alternatives assume you want to use your editor in the terminal and git and CI publication process. I want to edit markdown text in a web browser and click a button to see how its rendered and then go back to the editor without changing contexts at all.

The editor/git/CI model feels too much like actual fucking $dayjob work. Writing is already a difficult enough process -- lets turn it into software development while we're at it! I need to worry more about dependency management of my plugins while I'm trying to write and publish something.

Medium is worse though, its very annoying.
There's a lot of genuine use cases for pointer-events: none, so it's a difficult issue to navigate.
Hah, it’s you! Thanks for doing that effort, I enjoy every day when your newsletter hits my mailbox!
But I can only agree with you, the Medium experience is really one of the worst you can have when reading a blog.
So, the author is surprised that a private business doesn't let him use their free platform to promote their competition at the same time that they trash them...

The level of delusion and entitlement of some people is simply to hard to understand for me.
I’d attribute this more to the standardization of game engines.

Once you figure you how to get most Unity games working on Linux , you cover most games. Even if you don’t want to export a native binary .

I’m very excited for Steam Deck !
Richest U.S. Colleges Would See Relief Under Democrats’ Tax Plan
Mastodon is a “competitor” to Facebook the way a grandma doing middle school tutoring in her backyard is a competitor to Harvard.
Based on the comments thus far, I'd say that it wasn't very convincing.
Case against indentation!

Alice
was
not a bit hurt,
and
she
jumped up
on to her feet
in a moment:
she
looked up,
but
it was all dark overhead;
before her was another long passage,
and
the White Rabbit
was
still in sight,
hurrying down it.

I mean, just look at it. Would you read a whole book like this? You can't see the semantics for all the obsession with syntax.

Case against multi-file projects! Would you read a book if you had to go back to a Makefile or other project artifact to figure out where the next chapter is? Come on, put the whole damn program in one file that reads from top to bottom!

Case against local variables:

but
let P = "another long passage"
it was all dark overhead;
before her was P,
and
the White Rabbit
was
still in sight,
hurrying down P

This is now totally unnatural "STEM speak". Use the good old ambigous anaphoric pronouns, or GTFO!
In case you find yourself among Columbo corners of the Internet, Mrs. Columbo is emphatically considered non-canonical.
> "During an interview presumably"

No. They had an entrance exam, and my cousin had passed it and signed on.
Yes, do it! Hugo is great because it's fast. [1]

Fast software is the best software. [2] (Comments: [3])

Speed is the killer feature. [4] (Comments: [5])

Slow software is an opportunity for competitors. [6]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/performance-matters-jekyll-v...

[2]: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517144

[4]: https://bdickason.com/posts/speed-is-the-killer-feature/

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312516

[6]: https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/index.html
Shouldn't they be trying to relocate more people to TX so they can vote for more sane representation? If a bunch of people end up moving out of the state over this then the TX GOP gets what they want.
It seems that you’re using a user-hostile agent instead of a user agent.
If you really want to know how PCI Express works I would instead recommend these:

http://xillybus.com/tutorials/pci-express-tlp-pcie-primer-tu...

http://xillybus.com/tutorials/pci-express-tlp-pcie-primer-tu...
For me, Windows 11 is the last straw. Once Microsoft moves on from 10 to 11, I'll move on to Linux full time.
Fun fact: In the first few seasons, Colombo had continuing problems with his car, which was always an excuse for being late or showing up unexpectedly. But, like his wife, the car never showed up on screen. By the later seasons, they wanted to do scenes where you see him arrive at a golf course, or whatever, and the prop department had to create a car that looked like an old clunker, and they made it out of unidentifiable pieces of various different real automobiles of different manufacturers, all so that no car company would complain that their cars were being maligned as unreliable.
> Can someone explain to me how our planet managed global warming when billions of bisons, deers, cows, sheep and other animals roamed our planet before?

A constant number of cows produce a constant amount of methane which plateaus quickly due to its very small atmospheric half-life.

"Additional methane emission categories such as rice cultivation (RIC), ruminant animal (ANI), North American shale gas extraction (SHA), and tropical wetlands (TRO) have been investigated as potential causes of the resuming methane growth starting from 2007. In agreement with recent studies, we find that a methane increase of 15.4 Tg yr−1 in 2007 and subsequent years, of which __50 % are from RIC (7.68 Tg yr−1), 46 % from SHA (7.15 Tg yr−1), and 4 % from TRO (0.58 Tg yr−1)__, can optimally explain the trend up to 2013." - ["Model simulations of atmospheric methane (1997–2016) and their evaluation using NOAA and AGAGE surface and IAGOS-CARIBIC aircraft observations" (2020)](https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/5787/2020/)

"On November 17, 2003 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the concentration of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere was leveling off and it appears to have remained at this 1999 level (Figure 1). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 acknowledged that methane concentrations have plateaued, with emissions being equivalent to removals. These changes in methane atmospheric dynamics have raised questions about the relative importance of ruminant livestock in global methane accounting and the value of pursuing means of further suppressing methane production from ruminants. At this time there is no relationship between increasing ruminant numbers and changes in atmospheric methane concentrations changes, a break from previously assumed role of ruminants in greenhouse gases (Figure 1)." - ["Belching Ruminants, a minor player in atmospheric methane" (2008)](http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/news/2008-atmospheric-methane...)
That seems like a fairly dumb idea. The point of a CIA shell company is to hide the link to the government, isn't it?
"Also after he publicly confessed, not to mention his previous crimes. Their refusal had nothing to do with 'evidence'. "

Source?

Bin Laden initially declined responsibility, saying his hosts the taliban, would not allow such a operation.

(surely not out of being nice, but because of wanting to keep the power)

And later (after he confessed) the US was on full war with the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden not with them anymore.
For tech & engineering specifically, sometimes used to get above the govt salary caps. But standard industrial complex profit maker makes sense too lol
Apple warns that vibrations by motorcycles might impact iPhone cameras
Agreed. I like that it feels like days off.
I just started watching the historical footage from CNN; it's interesting to hear the commentary in between when the first and second planes hit the tower.

"Was the plane having any difficulty flying?" "Yes, it seemed to be rocking back and forth"
"Was this a navigational error?"

An announcement in the South Tower immediately after the crash instructed people to stay in their offices.

Even after the second tower was hit, the immediate reaction was that it was a second explosion in the North Tower caused by the fuselage of the plane.

4 minutes after the second plane hit, when it was clear that two planes were involved: "was it possible a navigational error directed two planes into the World Trade Center?"

It's incredible to think just how much our attitude and perspectives changed after realizing what exactly had happened.
whatever you can do to match parens and brackets, the better, I say. Especially in Lisp.

stupid whoever downvoted you.
AFAIK thunderbolt has an overhead that it adds to plain old PCIe, making it slower in practice. I kind of wish it was just plain PCIe, you could directly connect cheap-ish pcie adapters to it then.
I think this was exactly the point, you can't say one event was large due to the aftershock if the second event isn't even over (and therefore has its history yet to be written).
You don't need to control the checkout process to know who bought what from you.
Consider your self lucky
What liability? A few million dollar fine? Look at what Microsoft did to numerous competitors over decades: Borland, Mozilla, etc. FB squelching Mastodon is minor league.
it's already two days at the very minimum in Texas: you need to get an ultrasound, mandatory counseling, then must wait 24 hours before the procedure.
If a salesforce employee opts to stay in Texas, I wonder if that will be taken as an expression of support for the law and negatively impact their career.

Edit: I didn't expect this comment to be controversial, and I'm not sure why it is. Are the downvotes from people who think it obviously won't/shouldn't, or from people who think it obviously will/should?
Given the number of articles from Facebook saying how they won’t censor speech (doing a basic Google search here) that all seems like false advertising.

Note: I don’t use Facebook so perhaps I’m missing something.
And yet you need more sane voters to vote in a better governor and state reps. It seems like the opposite approach would be strategically better: get more educated people to move into the state and you'll have more educated voters which would lead to positive change.
In Mexico till recently abortions were illegal, was sales force deciding not to do business there? Did it make motions to oppose it?

If they didn’t boycott or make a fuss in Mexico what makes Texas different or France where you’re okay till 12 weeks.

Will they boycott countries where abortions are more cumbersome than California?

The French have a decent policy for the most part perhaps we could enact something similar.
Yes, I'm talking monthly.

The residential prices in my area are MUCH higher. A 1000sqft apartment goes for around $1200/mo.
There are a number of extremely poorly moderated Mastodon instances with a large amount of hateful and hurtful content. I’d imagine they’re automatically blocking a lot of these sites.

Source: I used and helped maintain one of the “don’t federate with these instances” list.
This polling is not done by the CPU, this is a common misconception. In a typical modern system the only polling that happens with USB is done by the USB host controller and only when there is actual data the host controller generates interrupts for the CPU to process it. Obviously, when you configure the mouse at higher frequency you will get more interrupts and hence higher CPU usage but that has nothing to do with the polling.
How We Proved the Eth2 Deposit Contract Is Free of Runtime Errors
Just imagine what a whole generation of kids will grow up to be like as a result of the social changes that have played out directly due to the pandemic. Definitely a large inflection point. Maybe the changes will be subtler but I would be shocked if we didn’t have noticeable, analyzable changes to the course of history based off that alone.
I'm still trying to understand why anyone remotely technical is using it at all

Setting up a blog isn't exactly rocket science
I could imagine that the wording regarding corporate control could have erroneously triggered a filter because that phrase appears for example in anti-wax and conspiracy theory posts.

It would be interesting to do some experiments here: post the same text to see if it gets removed again, and then repost it and remove sentences to see which one triggered the filter.
Syntax highlighting was originally done with typography, not color. Just look at, say, Smalltalk code from the 70s, where italics and bold were used to distinguish syntactic elements. This was also common in academic papers of the late 70s and early 80s as laser printers became more common.

This error helps make the author’s point:

> Maybe it was introduced in order to flatten the learning curve.

The steeper the curve, the easier to learn, so I suppose by flattening it you are deliberately making learning the piano more difficult.
Hmm, that's disappointing.
> no one seems to mind that they don't feel comfortable putting their names on the stuff the advocate for and report on.

This is a really weird interpretation of "it's editorial policy". The journalists aren't declaring anything about their confidence in what they're reporting. It's not their choice.

So why are they working at the Economist? Because (1) it's hard to get a journalism job, and (2) the Economist is a prestigious place to work.

I wouldn't read too much into it.
> - use the voting system to accommodate it to your quality standards

The downvoting seems increasingly bizarre. I have a post on this page downvoted; I said the post above was reasonable.

The reasonable post was correcting me; it brought up a point I had missed.
Abimael Guzmán: Peru's Shining Path guerrilla leader dies at 86
Sexual promiscuity does not clog up hospitals. Speeding motorists do not clog up hospitals. Obese people do not clog up hospitals. Covid patients disproportionately clog up ICUs. Surely you see that difference?

If our health safety net (hospitals) were not being affected, then yes, covid promiscuity would be treated identically to any of the above. There's principles here that you don't want to acknowledge.
Great Interview here which touches on that too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w9t5
Ugh. I made the mistake of trying to join the art mastadon. Now I can't do anything until my invite gets processed.
Good point: no-syntax highlighting is just syntax highlighting in one color, with no computation time spent to perform it. What the situation really is is that there are a variety of ways syntax highlighting can be done--not just the colors, but how fine-grained you want to be. Blanket statements like "syntax highlighting is bad" just don't make sense.
That’s basically the only thing I like coloured: strings and comments. Any more and it becomes distracting visual noise.

I’d never lecture someone on whether they have syntax highlighting like the blog post does. It’s dumb to argue personal preference as if it’s fact.
I'm no fan at all of Facebook. Don't have it, never have. Think it should be destroyed utterly. You can find me on Mastodon.[0]

That said: the company sees 2--3 billion MAU,[1] and sees on the order of 5 billion pieces of content submitted per day.

The best I understand, their measure of exposure is not items but "prevelance, that is, the number of total presentations* of a particular content.[2] Long-standing empirical media evidence suggests that this follows a power curve, where the number of impressions is inverse to the number of items. So, say, 1 might see 1 million impressions, 10: 100k, 100: 10k, 1,000: 1k, etc.

This means that a service can budget and staff for either the minimum prevalence threshold before manual review, or the total number of items granted more than some maximum unreviewed threshold. Machine-assisted filtering can help. In either case, though, mistakes will happen, and at 5 billion items/day, the number of misclassifications even at very high accuracy is large:

- 1%: 50m/dy

- 0.1%: 5m/dy

- 0.01%: 500k/dy

- 0.001%: 50k/dy

... which necessitates secondary review and additional costs, as well as, of course, malicious appeals by bad-faith actors. If the filtering system is fed by user reports (flags and the like), then malicious or simply disagreement-based flags may well trigger moderation. (Crowdsourcing has its own profound limits.)

Another element is that, especially with AI-based filtering systems, what results is determination without explanation. We know that a specific item was rejected, but not why. And in all likelihood, FB and its engineers cannot determine the specific reason either.

(I've encountered this situation more often from Google, again, as I don't use FB, but the underlying mechanics of AI-based decision systems are the same between such systems.)

The upshot though is:

- Moderation is necessary.

- It's ultimately capricious and error-prone. There are initiatives and proposals for greater transparency and appeals.

- Cause-determination is ... usually ... poorly founded.

________________________________

Notes:

0. https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius Also Diaspora (see below).

1. Monthly active users. https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

2. See Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity for both content and prevalence references: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/guyro/status/1337493574246535168?... I've written more on the topic here: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/f3617c90793101396840002590d8e...