skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personal preferences and obsessive-compulsive disorders don't make good arguments.

And yet here you are defending PHP and indeed claiming that 'A fractal of bad design' was "particularly popular with" people who haven't written any PHP. Your poor paste is also not a good argument.

It was a completely terrible language and now it's merely mediocre. And yet, it has a particular niche because among other reasons lots of cheap bulk hosts throw in PHP hosting in their default package. It's popular for the same reason all those 1980s kids learned BASIC. BASIC isn't a good programming language, but it is a programming language and there were few other choices available to them.
This line of thinking is predicated on two assumptions:

1) That the local authorities are essentially malevolent

2) That it is only the individual's (privacy/security) measures that are deterring the malevolent authority from exploiting them

For most Americans/Europeans, both of these assumptions are false and based in paranoid fantasies. Local authorities are rarely malevolent (though they may commonly be corrupt and excessively self-interested and not care about you), and it is virtually impossible for the average citizen to mount a home defense (real or cyber) against a committed state actor, or even local PD. It's like trying to secure a VM guest from access by the host machine; you're completely surrounded.

I fully support protecting yourself & your privacy against petty criminals, but unilaterally taking on your government is frankly just a waste of life.
Even the state of Utah seems to be failing at this. They recently started to snail mail vehicle registration reminders again. I signed up for email reminders on all my vehicles multiple times and I've never received an email from the state. Apparently others haven't either because the state now has a massive problem with expired plates.

My own assumption about why the system doesn't work.
Do you mean to refer to the Turkish Transits imported as passenger vehicles and converted to cargo use? The move to Mexico would bring them in alignment with tariffs to directly import cargo vehicles.

The next-generation Transit Connect, due for the 2022 model year, will be fully assembled for North America in Mexico at Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly. Like all future Ford products built in Mexico, it will comply with the 75% US/Canada/Mexico content rule of the new USMCA trade deal set to take effect in 2020.
Towards the end of high school, I started a fairly profitable startup, and went on to do that for a few more years after in lieu of college. At the time, I really struggled with my parents desire to keep me in school and my own desire to drop out and get a GED. They won out. And actually, I’m glad they did. Even though my grades were very poor and I never did homework, I really do think I came out of high school better than I would have been with only a GED.

Now, 6 years out of high school, I attend a community college part-time to work on a bachelors degree. Funny how I completely discounted higher education just a few years ago.
I know a guy that went 40,000 mi never changing the oil on a brand new Mazda 3. Eventually the engine started to fail. Amazingly Mazda replaced the engine for him, but cancelled his warranty after that.

He sold Mazda's for a living and literally had no idea the oil needed to be changed....
Baby hackers that want go working for NSO want to have a high life. Modern high life requires modern communications devices. Blocking them from modern life (for example, vaccine passports done via iPhone and Android) will quickly lower the ranks.

Blocking Israeli government officials from Google and Apple will immediately solve NSO is an Israeli company that is cozy with the government and gets government protection problem.

None of the NSO group's clients would want to pay for it via suitcases of cash. And in either event paying with suitcases of cash creates problems in the modern world for those that receive the suitcases of cash.
Though, you can see right there on the graph, that comparison relies on lacto-ovo vegetarians eating a heck of a lot of dairy.

Also:

> However, a newly converted vegetarian who replaces every 50g of beef she usually eats with 100g of kale would soon be famished.

C'mon. The only world in which the idea of someone doing that is anything but absurd and/or tragic is one of motivated hypotheticals. Replacing your primary source of protein and fat with a pile of leaves is not vegetarian eating; it's disordered eating.

They do it again right at the end, with the well-poisoning phrase, "die-hard leaf-eaters."

Allow me to suggest that, if that's what you think eating vegan is about, you won't last long on the 2/3 vegan diet, either. For goodness sake, at least throw some beans or a potato or something in so you're not spending four days a week being hangry all the time. Maybe even treat yourself to a burrito; at Chipotle the meat and dairy free ones are still something like 1000 calories apiece. And they'll put some leaves in it, if you like, free of charge. Multiple kinds of leaves.
Also what matters is what people do with the money saved not buying meat.

This study found people in wealthier nations had cost savings from not buying meat. This lead to increased purchases in other goods which in turn balanced out most of the green house gas savings from the meat reduction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...
I ran across this guy recently:

https://m.youtube.com/c/LucasVRTech/

If you have access to a vr headset I think this would be a difficult but possible project that would result in a really cool device.

The project is also currently small enough that there is plenty of room / need for contribution.
Joe Sondow – Twitter and Procedural Generation [video] (2017)
Instead of skipping, why not show them advanced material? Like bachilleratos or 1st Uni semester...
Ironically, google kina did the same thing with BERT.. The original insight came from Jeremy Howards ulmfit. The first transfer learning model for nlp. Tranformers are great an all, but everything after ulmfit has pretty much just been the result of increased model size
Everyone knows this I think. It's not that no one cares to afford a tutor, its that no a lot of people can afford a tutor or has the time to become a tutor for their own child on top of their other responsibilities. Who gets an A on every exam in college? The kids beating down the professors door the minute before office hours formally start and taking up all the time in the Q and A session with the TA, wringing every spare drop of hands on time with an educator that they can out of the 24 hour day, then they go to the library with their study groups and continue teaching eachother concepts on whiteboards. It's like competing with a runner who does 30 miles a day.
Meh, we already live in a world with one set of rules for the peasants and another for the nobility. Seems like just another area where Facebook reflects the real world.
> I kept thinking to myself "Microsoft is going to boot Firefox from Windows" before realizing that MS doesn't have that sort of power (compared to say Apple).

Actually, when it comes to Windows and macOS, Microsoft has about the same power as Apple does when it comes to limiting what software can and can't run on their operating systems.

Defender on Windows works like Gatekeeper does on macOS. Defender gets to decide what runs or doesn't run on a Windows system, using a similar approach to Gatekeeper.

Both Apple and Microsoft require developers to regularly buy certificates to sign the software they intend to distribute to macOS and Windows users, and they require developers to remain in good standing with either company. Unsigned software is treated as if it is radioactive by both operating systems, and macOS on M1 Macs goes one step further by deprecating unsigned binaries entirely.

If Apple or Microsoft want to, they can revoke a developer's certificates, and any app that was signed with them will be prevented from running by Gatekeeper or Defender. They can also choose not to renew a developer's certificates, preventing apps from running when the certificates they were signed with expire.

To 99.9% of users, apps signed with revoked or expired certificates will be portrayed as either being broken or malicious by macOS or Windows.
I don't think there has been any evidence of this. But I've seen some complaints that development of Rust is becoming somewhat less transparent and less deliberation-driven; it can be somewhat harder for community members outside of the teams proper to provide appropriate input. This is only a very slight concern so far, but it makes the risk of 'lobbying' behavior a bit higher.
The InfoWorld article [1] (linked from the first tweet of the thread) has now been updated:

> Editor’s note: A previous version of the article correctly stated that the Rustacean Principles were modeled after Amazonian tenets, but unintentionally may have implied that Amazon was somehow responsible for Rust development. Amazon employs several Rust maintainers and contributors, but it is just one of many companies with employees involved.

[1]: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3633002/the-future-of-rust...
I submit these for your consideration for greatest mashup of all time, which one though?

Marvin Gaye vs. The Pixies - Get It On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrzo8MT2VQ

Marvin Gaye vs. The Verve: Ain't That Perculiar / Bitter Sweet Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-YXgoIs8k

Classical Music Mashup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayjwRDcs44

Jefferson Airplane vs. Fatboy Slim - Somebody To Praise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtI_sUuL58
It is pretty clear we need to hunt into extinction all the large animals on this planet, to save the planet.

Advocating anything else is basically destroying the planet.
Or just don’t eat the cows it’s really not that hard
The chicken tax (the tariff in question) is also why the Subaru BRAT had those ridiculous seats in the bed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_BRAT#Jumpseats
I read somewhere that kids with IQ 140 waste about half their time in school. Kids with IQ of 170 waste all their time at school. It's no wonder that kids with IQ 145 or greater are mostly home schooled, because there's no real school that can handle them and the issues that come with those kids. Skipping high school definitely sounds like a better path, especially given the social problems with being with kids so much older than you.
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Protonmail gets banned from email lists because their users tend to behave poorly.
Oh god. Now I have a migration project on my hands.
12bees! Oh lord
It sounds like the author just went to a lousy high school. I was fortunate enough to go to a private school (my tuition was waived because my mother was a teacher there) where I took a ton of APs in small classes. Compare that to the large gen-ed courses at college where the pace was glacial and the tests were multiple choice.
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> I did not learn anything in highschool (or college)

Is this really the case or do you just not remember specific things you learned or even abstract concepts around learning itself that are hard to quantify?
well, in that case, why not make the metric reports-per-view? if you make the metric a rate then it doesn't matter whether it gets 10k views or 10m views, the question becomes "what % of viewers thought this was worth a report".

The rate can still be (and probably is) higher for high-visibility accounts of course but in the example you gave the rate of reports is the same and the problem is using a naive "10 reports = ban" metric.
I mean, peer pressure is tough as a general rule. It's no different than the peer pressure associated with wearing the wrong kinds of clothes, being interested in classically "dorky" stuff, etc.

There's also an element of communication outside of school. Nowadays (and this is based off of what the kids I work with tell me, so YMMV) it seems that a lot of what students do after school is related to screens. Students talk to each other through Roblox, play Minecraft instead of board games, etc.

It's hard to come up with an analogy because the "in" toy/subject from grade school varies widely by age. At least in my age range, an analogous type of pressure would be Pokemon cards. Talking about Pokemon and playing with the cards dominated most conversations, so not having them made it a lot harder to interact with your peers.

This may be a US thing though, as I'm not super aware of how grade school social standing works in other countries.
Ask HN: What did Medium do wrong?
I keep reading about Medium going the wrong way, lots of writers leaving the platform, etc.

I am curious what HN's perspective on this is.

What did they do wrong?

What used to make them so great?
A complete meat diet?
How’d you get the opportunity to start an IT department from scratch? Small growing company?
This is concerning to say the least.
I don't know, how would I?
Do humans count as large animals in this?
I don't think your parent comment was hating on NPM / Node specifically, but rather was pointing out that the biggest determiner of whether programmers on a particular platform depend willy-nilly on whatever libraries they can find just to make coding small features more convenient is whether the language ecosystem they're in makes that easy to do.

For that reason, your point about Go only further reinforces their point, since Go was (I think) the first language to make importing another project from the web completely trivial, just one line of code.

On the one hand, I think it's bad for a language ecosystem to repeatedly get in the way of doing something that it many cases it does make sense to do, but on the other hand if you think (most) programmers are going to immediately take us to modern programming dependency hell without that, you can start to see it as a kind of silver lining.
> Or perhaps plants are just as sentient as humans

The burden of proof is on you. Humans are animals. We have evolution linking us together at a more-recent junction than we do when compared to plants. Humans and animals have brains; brains is the seat of sentience.

Finally; even if you are right that plants are sentient, are you then claiming that there is no difference in the amount of sentience between humans, bees, and plants? If so, should we be indifferent whether I kill you or burn a dandelion?
Not sure about the best, but this seems to be the field depending on what your needs are...

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Boomtrain
Campaign Monitor
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Amazon SES
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Emma
Experian Cheetahmail
Exact Target
Hubspot
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OneSignal
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Sailthru
SeconStreet
Sendgrid
SparkPost
HTML is for web pages. Email should be plain text.
I've seen some pretty tortured answers to the five why's to avoid having to ask the really uncomfortable questions about a team/org/etc.
Figure out how to accurately transmit and reproduce jitter sensitive data over BLE as the transport, while keeping latency bounded. (ok, now I'm blatantly just rehashing problems I've solved before. But it was kinda hard!)

The reason I suggested BLE and USB was because, for both of those transports, I really felt myself "level up" as an engineer after reading the whole >1000 page spec, and use that knowledge to implement my own device.

Knowing how things like that work "behind the scenes" feels gratifying. Tho it may impact your normal life, sometimes seeing how the sausage is made turns you into a vegetarian. ;)
The Perfect Note-Taking Program Does Not Exist
I did that, wasn’t painful. On the other hand, Mailchimp expired unused credits I had to send emails. I know it’s the way of the world, but digital credits shouldn’t expire.
I dropped out of high school in the late nineties, and went straight to work at a dot com. My life (best I can tell) was never impacted negatively, and I far surpassed my friends in most measures (certainly financially) as a result. My only regret is having not dropped out sooner.
Do we? To me the choice is simple: either we abolish copyright, or all computers will eventually be turned into consumer appliances and we'll need programming licenses to write code.

It's an easy choice for me. As it should be for anyone who browses Hacker News. In a copyright world we won't be able to hack anymore.

So let the creators sort their business out. They'll find a way or go bankrupt. We must not keep inching ever closer to the dystopia where the government and monopolist corporations own our computers.
Well he's one guy, against the industry behemoth. Give him some credit, rather than big brother. Even if he errs. I'd not buy any rebuttal by the thousand-pound gorilla at face value
Which bit do you think's relevant? To protect the middlemen because they've 'done the work of proving a market'? I don't think 'proving a market' is work that should be protected by the state. Undercutting is efficiency and pro-consumer. Dealers provide no value anywhere - why do we want them?
What percentage of people have a 145 IQ? That sounds really high.
Any company that is mainly paid for by advertising, especially if they seem to have big data/ML chops.
IIRC from the last time I read it, the article only provides evidence for Intuit not wanting taxpayers (including themselves) to fund a competitor to their product, which is very reasonable.

I also don't want the government to get in the business of writing tax software.
If you can't figure out how to benefit from high school then sure, it's a big waste of time. It is also a unique setting in American life. In no other setting is such a broad range of activities, athletics, and arts available to a person. You aren't very likely to find opportunities to participate in competitive sports and athletics, amateur bands and orchestras after high school. I, personally, just ignored the academic parts of it after I'd piled up enough AP tests and whatnot for admission to selective colleges. Hell, in my senior year I barely had any real classes at all. I filled up my schedule with three different music subjects, newspaper/yearbook/photography, sports, and pointless electives like drafting, which was, by the way, a lot of fun. High school is also, how to put this politely, a rather unique atmosphere of sexual experimentation. Skipping that and attending a college where everyone is much older than you is not going to replace that.

College, on the other hand, was an abject waste of four years.
What percentage of students go to lousy high schools...
Parent just suggested a realistic and actionable solution and you replied a snarky totally unrealistic counter offer.
One person's boring is another's career culmination. Breaking system security often consists of dead end after dead end, and even if you get a lucky break, you may hit another dead end after that. Finding an exploit often isn't enough these days, they need to be chained together to actually get somewhere interesting. Personally, it's very unrewarding (aka boring, imho) work most of the time because you don't find anything a lot of the time. (The high off of finding something is something else tho, lemme tell you.) If you're interested in the sort of work involved, http://microcorruption.com is a good CTF to start out on.
All aspects that you mention...I find value in it all...It'd be a shame to be forced to choose only one medium.

I posed the question with a low-level of specificity on purpose...I want as many opinions and ideas as possible in regards to the parameters which I chose intently...

Also I whole-heartedly disagree with an assertion that learning a topic must be top-down or bottom-up. My experience shows me I learn best when trying to apply concepts I may not fully understand, as the aspects where my knowledge is lacking are quickly highlighted.
FWIW... here's a thread on the topic from /. today.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/12/181257/ask-slashdot...
This little sorry excuse for a retarded ass weasel went out his way to subvert American law and continue funding gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, then tried to cover it up by lying to the public and lying to congress.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...

The reality is that he should be in prison, meanwhile the fake news industry ignores all this and trots him out here to threaten people’s livelihoods unless they fall lockstep in line with his proposed solution. “Take the vaccine or you and your family deserve to starve”. Ridiculous and disturbing doesn’t begin to cut it, this is pure, unadulterated evil in its most common form — the banal ass covering of career bureaucrats wielding the awesome levers of state power like this is some sort of game.

They are trying to turn this grand experiment in individual liberty into a two tier caste system where only those who obey the central government’s dictates about what they inject into their own bloodstream are allowed to work, go to school, go into restaurants, etc.

If you think any of this is ever going to end if we let them move forward with this, I invite you to revisit 9/11, the military industrial complex, and the surveillance state. You’re still taking your shoes off at the airport even as we pulled out of Afghanistan 20 years later with nothing to show for it but trillions of American taxpayer dollars funneled to defense contractors and hundreds of thousands of innocents slaughtered, including thousands of American service members.

They need a new endless “war on X” to continue the plunder that coincides with the ever tightening control of the most intimate aspects of our lives. Americans need to get smart, quick, before they turn this entire planet into a totalitarian hell.
If you have a plan and motivation, go for it. Assuming you need to make money, you can either be self employed, in a partnership, or employed by someone else. The first requires you be a good business person, which is not a common innate trait but can be learned to some extent. The second is often a great option if you have equally motivated partners with complementary strengths. The third usually requires some sort of signalling to get employers to hire you. Having a degree is part of that signalling. This is, of course, completely ignoring that some professions require a degree, like being a doctor, which is rewarding work. As a teenager, you often have no idea what you will find meaningful and rewarding later in life, making this type of decision quite risky.
Indian food is delicious because everything is rich in dairy. I honestly have never had a pad thai without meat. French fries are a compliment to something, I can rarely eat them by themselves.
It goes both ways too, where homeschooling has been used to hide abuse or cult indoctrination.
"Real time" does not mean fast. It just means with guaranteed (or at least predictable) performance.
Getting the law changed would be hard. Sounds like a win for Tesla and the Native band.
“(1) the pandemic affected both groups in the same way, so that taking the difference between the two groups cancels out the pandemic effect“

i think this is a significantly flawed assumption. in my experience, the people that had been working from home previously are much better equipped to deal with the pandemic (e.g. likely have a home office set up vs. working from makeshift workspace like a kitchen table).
Adult work & social life has practically nothing in common with high school. Neither does college. The only times any of that looks even a little like high school is when something's gone very wrong.

From about 6th or 7th grade through graduation, school is a weird environment all its own.
I actually saw this as well, quite an interesting project.
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But is it really? We're omnivores. Our bodies are designed to eat meat.

I went hardcore keto and only eat meat + cheese and I've lost a ton of weight and lowered my BP etc. That is way healthier than what I was before so I'm not sure the argument cutting down on meat is healthy.