skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the tyranny of being forced to pay taxes to blow up little kids in Afghanistan at $40k+ a bomb, or the tyranny of being forced under penalty of prison to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons for the Taliban?

You don't think it's a little tyrannical that the tax man can say give us the money to blow up innocent little kids or I'm going to put you in a cage and take your own kids?
I wish we could buy swag with it or something
Right on. I've seen the posts/posters in many local fora in the UK have two defining characteristics. They are judgemental, and they are nosy in equal measure. [1]

I put the recent increase in this down to people's familiarity with the technology, having grown up with it -- those people only 10/15 years older have seen life before and after the revolution, and behave differently. Specifically, when local fora started to make an appearance, they were a bit more diffident in their postings.

[1] (I don't want to start splitting hairs on which might be greater. :-))
Japan ruled Korea 1910 to 1945 with all the brutality typical of imperial Japan. I'm not Korean, but I might bear a grudge if my grandfather had been worked to death in slavery, and my grandmother raped endlessly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule
Can you send the link?
> Many people want to see wider vaccinations worldwide before anyone gets a booster, so they downplay evidence boosters are effective in order to steer people toward their preferred policies.

While giving ammo to conspiracy theorists and eroding trust in public health institutions. Worst of both worlds, same as the CDC no-mask-necessary bullshit right at the start of the pandemic.
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sounds like the folks that quit didn't have their lives ruined by his attitude and outlook, rather they had their lives improved by being allowed to move away from such toxicity.

ego is one heck of a thing. this guy sounds terribly painful to work with.

i also agree with another commenter, if tearing people down gives you pleasure, you might be wise to seek counseling.
While I think you're taking the right approach for getting the work done, maybe the comments aren't entirely worthless? In some cases, those are the best comments I've gotten when having someone review my code, even if I didn't make a change because of them. They're something for me to think about and either incorporate or not in some way in later work.

In other words, I think it's correct to not consider every comment to require a change unless it really needs it, but that doesn't mean a comment that doesn't require a change for the current work should necessarily be ignored because of that.
tldr; In 2019 guy feels guilty about flexing code reviews.

Editorial: code reviews are inherently combative; if criticism doesn't come
off petty, it comes off paternalistic which is worse, imo.
More: Is it normalized by change in life expectancy? If you were under 40 in 1989, what was the probability that your parents had died and left you the money? What is the probability in 2021?
I don't understand why this was downvoted. Are the cited articles incorrect? Is context missing? I came to this sub-thread to learn about the guy, and this comment seemed to have the most authoritative quotes and links.

But it's been downvoted to the bottom, as if something is wrong with it. Why?
This is why I now use tools like SonarQube (commercial static code analyzer) to drive most code quality reviews. SonarQube also gives justifications for all of it's recommendations, so it serves as a training tool as well.

The only I things I manually look for in reviews are overall readability, sensible naming, high level adherence to the architecture/design, and data system/database/API queries.

After 20 years of writing code and leading teams, I've found that most of the stuff developer blogs and the OOP community fret over simply doesn't matter in most cases. The high level interfaces are often more important than the low levels details, and static code analyzers do a decent job of pointing to problems. I've almost never seen bad code that didn't also have many issues in the static analyzer.

It also matters what kind of code you are writing - foundation code or something that will be used by thousands/millions of developers should have a higher bar than some internal one off. However, I've seen enough very profitable companies running on total crap code to believe that code quality is the most important thing.
>FB is what my racist parents use

It looks to me like you've got bigger fish to fry than Facebook. It's probably time to give your parents a break.
Sending death threats and yelling fire in a crowded theatre is also censored. It's pretty ridiculous to think that you can simply say anything you want regardless of how much damage it causes, without repercussions.

Covid misinformation currently kills people every day. And I have relatives who are on the clock, waiting if they are going to end up on ICU. Because some scumbags on the internet decided to bank on misinformation and tell them that the covid vaccine is dangerous.
Despite the historical enmity, it seems that the public viewpoint towards Japan is shifting in SK though:

> Political elites here are usually careful not to antagonize China, the country’s largest trading partner. But Mr. Yoon’s blunt rhetoric reflected a new phenomenon: a growing antipathy toward Beijing among South Koreans, particularly young voters whom conservative politicians are eager to win over.

> Anti-Chinese sentiment has grown so much this year that China has replaced Japan — the former colonial ruler — as the country regarded most unfavorably in South Korea, according to a joint survey by the polling company Hankook Research and the Korean newsmagazine SisaIN. In the same survey, South Koreans said they favored the United States over China six to one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/asia/korea-china-el...
they are not useless. Having more points means more privileges such as voting and flagging stories
Aka "Time for the regular aid request". Either from China for being a good pe(s)t or the UN and US for promising to stop nuclear tests.

The fact that their population suffers famine nearly every goddamn year is just unbelievably sad.

How those people put up with it, I don't understand. They really managed to create a feudal country in a modern world. Could others do the same if left unchecked?
Right. The article is arguing against vaccinating people who already had covid. I'm saying the data shows there's significant benefit to vaccination even if you were already infected.
yah, i'm skeptical that a solid (rubber/plastic) tire can provide good suspension and handling performance cheaply across a wide variety of road hazards, in comparison to an air tire. that's why i think bigger tires (and thicker tubes) is probably the way to go, but perhaps advances in materials/manufacturing will make all kinds of tires incrementally better.
>"War. War is the only thing that could still work."

Yeah, let web developers decide our future.
Why apologize for greatness, the entire ethos of America is that it’s the best place for the individual. That other countries choose to impoverish and restrict rights is nothing that require apology.
> China would never get rid of such a powerful way to annoy everyone else.

I've mentioned this in another comment, but you're severely underestimating the real relationship between North Korea and China. For the government, maybe it is only a strategic relationship, but if you talk to anyone who grew up in China there is a real feeling of kinship with the people that live in NK.

For a long time there has been a lot of cultural exchange between the nations and many Chinese near the border are indistinguishable culturally from North Koreans.

An attack on North Korea, even if a justifiable retaliation, would feel like an attack on the Chinese people for a great many everyday people in China.

The closest analog to the US would be Canada. Most American's, especially in the North, feel that Canadians are very culturally similar. Many people in far Northern states have friends and family in Canada. Overall the bond is much closer than with Mexico, which has more culture, ethnic and linguistic differences.

Imagine if Canada were ruled by a despot, who then irrationally launched a nuclear strike on another country. Even if American's were to feel that that was wrong, we would also still likely strongly defend Canadian people from aggressive retaliation. And this analogy is far from perfect, the sense I've gotten in conversations with Chinese about North Korea is that they're much closer.
No such thing as Delta variant...can't identify it or test for it. Fall for anything they tell you, saps. Next they'll have you believe Covid cattle cars and Covid camps are for your protection. They will stop at nothing.

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China fought the UN in Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
> In my opinion the first priority of code review should be to prevent mistakes in the code at hand

I disagree. The first priority of code review is WHAT problem is it trying to solve and does it actually solve the problem.

If it's not even solving the problem correctly, pedantic nitpicks are inconsequential.
I don't have particularly big prints in mind. I thought if they look good enough for 24/27 inch 1080/1440 monitor, they ought to suffice for a print of similar size. Not a big expert, me
I only use C++ for libraries that are then plugged into managed runtimes.

Most of the stuff I see in the wild could be considered what I call C+, basically MFC style with plenty of C love.

While Microsoft has the excuse for older code bases, stuff like WRL and C++/WinRT also has its share of not only following what is preached regarding C++ Core Guidelines love.
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I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded.

Modern newspapers and news magazines (they still exist?) don't read at all like the ones from 50 years ago.
Where else would they shoot them to test them? They have to test them to be safe. They don't want to be an other Afganistan...
Well, Linux definitely sucks.

By a chance - is there anything better? Pretty please?..

Actually in case Fuchsia manages to replace - well, I would be happy. But would it really happen?..
> (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 year old totalitarian regimes that are thriving today)

That seems an unfair bar to set. There aren't dozens of liberal democracies with that long a history, either.

The flagship oldest democracies (Athens, Revolutionary France) didn't last any longer than that. Arguably the USA is doing the best at 250-ish years.

I don't dispute that NK's juche seems less likely to be stable in the long term than, say, Switzerland, but this seems the wrong way to go about the argument.
> Puncture-proof tires have been an intriguing concept for many years. Tire maker, Michelin, has been working on it since 2005 and after more than a decade of work, it is now closer to reality.

That is false. Tires like this are nothing hew; they have been around for over 100 years. They are useful in niche applications, like earth-moving machinery and whatnot.

Other than that, airless tires are rubbish and will not displace pneumatic tires.

https://www.ikkaro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ruedas-sin...

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/411944/414262.jpg
You are incorrect. Most modern cars have TPMS to tell you when a tire is losing air. There are two ways to do it. Either you use the same signals ABS uses to tell how fast each wheel is spinning and look at the tire which spins at a different speed.

The other way is to have actual pressure sensors inline with the valves that wirelessly communicate with a system in the car. This method has the upside of allowing you to see constant tire pressure values on all four tires at all times. The downside is that it is more expensive, it's something that must be managed when you get tires or wheels changed, the batteries run out, you often have to pair each wheel-sensor to the car separately so that it knows which sensor is which wheel...

This is an example system: https://www.ebay.com/itm/402816216014?epid=21038233158&_trkp...
And Schönfinkel’s combinatory logic ten years earlier (we are talking priority here, right?) was even more awkward.

There’s also the point (mentioned e.g. by Wadler in his “Propositions as types” talk) that Gödel didn’t actually realize how pervasive universal computation was and actively pushed back against Turing proclaining the equivalence. This is not to accuse him—he wasn’t particularly obstinate or unfair about it and, furthermore, came to understand the idea fairly quickly. But it’s not at all uncommon in science for the one who actually invented a thing to fail to realize what it was that they just invented, and somebody else comes years or in some unfortunate cases decades later and announces the founding of a new area of knowledge on that already-discovered site. Whom the later naming will associate with the discovery is a toss-up, but it’s generally fair and in good taste, I think, to mention both.
>""I wonder how quickly North Korea’s nuke problem would be solved, if the US quietly let China know that if NK stays nuclear, the US will support Japan and Taiwan developing nuclear weapons."

Agile approach to solving world's problems?
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I'll take that as a no, he left when and as required by law.
I'm not arguing for individual's salaries to be made public, however the minimum and maximum should be published - the minimum alone is not adequate.
"Prior to their departure, U.S. Company One repeatedly informed its employees, including the defendants, that the services they were providing constituted “defense services” under the ITAR, and that U.S. persons could not lawfully provide such services to U.A.E."

If the above was documented, I don't think "I didn't know" would have worked in court. Also even if they fought the ITAR charges, they were accused of CFAA charges
I'm unclear on the benefit of NixOS vs container optimized os (aka coreos/flatcar). These systems have read only root partitions, no package manager, minimal services. The package manager is simply docker.
I'm going to disagree that Jobs killed Flash. It's more like Adobe neglected and abused the Flash platform, and as part of that, they failed to actually get it working on mobile.

Remember, Apple actually begged Adobe to get build a version of Flash Player that wouldn't burn iPhone users' batteries. They did the same thing when the iPad came out. They knew not having Flash was a weakness. Adobe utterly failed to "get" mobile and shipped plugin builds that were about as buggy as the desktop version was.

Getting Flash to work on iPhone would have taken a huge commitment of resources on Adobe's part, similar to how Apple spent lots of time and money getting Safari/WebKit to render mobile sites correctly. It's not impossible, it's just something that you need executive-level buy in on. Google thought Jobs was bluffing and decided to allow Flash on Android; and it was so terrible that Adobe dropped it a year later.

As an example of what Adobe's real priorities were; two years after "Thoughts on Flash" Adobe decided to gate off certain Flash APIs behind a revenue sharing agreement so they could charge Unity developers to cross-compile to SWF. No, really, that happened. Adobe conjured up a whole licensing scheme and everything for it, because they wanted to make sure someone was there to pay for AS4 development. The thing about platforms is that their value is in the money that the platform owner leaves on the table. The more that you claim for yourself, either by charging more fees or neglecting maintenance, the less reason there is to use the platform.

I genuinely feel Apple may be unlearning this lesson.
(Replay employee) Yeah, later in the post (https://medium.com/replay-io/effective-determinism-54cc91f56...) we mention needing mitigations to ensure that hashtable iteration is deterministic in cases where it affects how the browser interacts with the JS engine. There are others needed as well to ensure that the browser behaves the same across a large range of websites, my favorite is handling sites that sniff information about the system's math libraries by e.g. calling Math.sin() on specific values and testing the results --- the values when replaying need to be bitwise identical with what happened while recording.
People still take outages for patching? I think the parent means service uptime.
None of the East Asian countries are friendly like US and Canada are. Different ancestries, history of invasions, colonial rules, “liberation”, etc.
>These questions are always asked in bad faith,

I'd say not. I'd genuinely like to know if a cloth bandana has any value, if grocery stores are dangerous, is the mass of people actually better off for an early and hard vaccine regime. It's partly intellectual interest and partly an attempt to guide my own behavior.

Having said that, everyone is too invested in their theories to be skeptical.
Feel free to create one :-)
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We are all products of our environment/the past. Things change when someone says "I don't like what I've become and I don't want to be this way anymore."

Those folks often get undue criticism, especially if they choose to speak up in hopes of fostering positive change in others.
You are making the assumption that an easily written set of fixed rules will outperform the more fluid and less easily quantified but nonetheless real heuristic of “anticipate what leadership needs”.

I’d be very surprised if the game like companies you describe can outperform a well led organization.
The United States has thousands of troops deployed across the Gulf to defend its allies there. It has another several thousand as a "tripwire" in South Korea.

US troops have died in combat defending Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. They've been killed by militants directly supported by Pakistani intelligence services.

How exactly is Israel "high maintenance" by those standards?
And, if not, should we stop now? Perhaps break-through is around the corner?
So, back in the day when I posted the very first 'livestream' straight to the browser I got a lot of flak from people who thought it was fake :)
Ivermectin was invented to combat parasites--worms. Not viruses. It is not an anti-viral or even anti-antirheumatic. It is the latest in a class of ignorant folk remedies emerging from who-knows-what dark place on the internet, and it will join Hydroxychloroquine as a total failure at treating COVID.

The only double standard here is that, for once, the media isn't suffering the latest idiotic conspiracies with "both sides" nonsense but is appropriately putting them in the "eating crayons" box. For once, the media is actually taking public health seriously.

As for proof, you know, propose a treatment, get approvals, run trials, analyze data. Zero people are doing that with Ivermectin. It's flat-Earther crackhead territory and I have absolutely no qualms about dismissing it out of hand. Meanwhile, vaccines have billions of data points that aren't just correlations, they are causative, and there's an entire sum of human knowledge of biology behind them, instead of some vague superstitious belief that magic potion kills one bad thing in your body, therefore it must kill other bad things. Also, people are eating tubes of topical Ivermectin. You have got to be freaking kidding me. What a shitshow.
"The prevalence of enormously centralized monopolies on the internet is not a result of its technical architecture, but rather narrow business interests and a terminal lack of regulation."

Neither business interests or regulation have anything to do with something being centralized or not.

If you would launch "Thinkbeat's blog", in the traditional sense of web publishing, it is 100% centralized. Regardless of its size or your good or bad intentions.

You would be in full control of it. You could intentionally retire the site, and all information and access is lost, forever. You could accidentally do that by forgetting to pay a bill.

Another scenario, you publish something fishy on your blog, and get banned from the blogging platform, or whichever dependency you rely on.

Further, all content on the blog is 100% owned by you, and none of it by the users. So you would also own and control comments to the blog, and arbitrarily edit or delete them.

You have 100% control on everything, and users none at all.

A decentralized version of your blog would be radically different. You can't just retire it. You can't permanent delete or overwrite prior entries. Commenters may actually own their own comments.

I know, a blog is not a good example and a poor use case, just saying that the decentralized web very much is a difference in technical architecture.
It is regrettable. As far as I know, the New Yorker is the only major publication that upholds the honor of the dieresis.
From the article: because children are unvaccinated.
Bit presumptuous to assume I have not been involved with the creation of markets, trading, etc. I have seen stuff work as well as fail up close in large arenas. [Edit: sorry, I should not snark. You are right that criticizing is easy creation is not.]

Going from academic ideas of markets and experiments to actual deep and useful markets is surprisingly difficult.

EDIT: the failure to create proper working markets for GDP-linked derivatives is good example of something that should but actually ain't. Not enough market making risk takers, limited hedges, unbalanced demand between long and short demand, index issues, ...
What if the better criteria for picking a good place to work is good leadership, and not a rule set?