skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget bias error. The linked-to site gets contributions from around the world. There's 45 million mothers in the US, so source population of about 100 million mothers. If 0.1% of families have no other male presence that's 100K families. If 0.01% of these mothers don't notice [1], that's still 10 families.

And it's the unusual which make it to sites like these. ("When dog bites man, it's not news. But when man bites dog, now that is news!")

[1] Or it could be the mother didn't know how to bring it up, or thought she was being supportive of her son's choices.
Ah, awesome. I did not see this mentioned in the contributing.md file (it may have been there, I just didn't notice it).
and we all know how clear copyright infringement is
> Writing this has really hammered home the point that humans are mainly a temporary container for their genes. In 150 years, all 7,100,000,000 people alive today will be dead, but all of our genes will be doing just fine, living in other people.

I really like that takeaway.
Seems we're at an impasse.
Cash seems a lot better for crime, except for international use. "There should be no international cash equivalent" - would you agree with this?
If you want to sell your product/look for investors you need analytics. The easiest way is to just slap Google snippet in there. If you decide not to do it you're off to self hosted analytics solutions which are just not comparable to google. Building small sites, blogs, informational sites is pretty easy without 3rd party scripts but when you're going into mid size ecommerce (by mid size I mean company that have decent advertisement and sales research budget) it's getting way harder to stay away from 3rd party analytic and marketing tools.
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Seems odd for PM to be vulnerable by the log4j CVE considering (from what I understand) they're mostly Go house. Maybe in the Android app, but otherwise I'd be surprised.

Unrelated: I've been getting quite frustrated with some of the functionality and limitations of PM especially for the price I pay (I have 2 catch-all domains, 1 user for each, which requires 2 times pro accounts), so recently I've been trying to migrate away to mailbox.org. Mailbox allows for automatic PGP encryption when the emails come in which is great. However, there is no way to move all my PM emails onto my mailbox.org account while keeping the encryption (not via the original key set up in Protonmail, nor via new key set up in mailbox.org). Has anyone ever run into such a scenario, and what can be done in this scenario?
I was once going to give a talk on learning a specific programming language and framework at an event. My sample app was a "calorie counter / dieting app".

I was told at the last minute I needed to redo my example because it violates the code of conduct about discriminating against "people of size" and may be upsetting to people with "eating disorders"

I didn't even respond. I just stopped responding to their requests and didn't show up.

Codes of Conduct are used as blunt instruments now, and aren't useful.
Shame that they don't have the resources to restore the original computers.

Maybe I'm weird, but the details of the computers and however they were producing the graphics with mid-70s technology is actually more interesting to me than the simulator itself.

Are they using computer graphics by that point? Or are they stuck with computer-controlled cameras over over physical models?

Edit: Found some high-level documentation of the whole computer systems[1]. Based on the description of the visual system on page 117, it looks like has specialised hardware for lit, flat-shaded polygonal graphics.

[1] https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980NASCP2150..113O
What are some examples of low negative voted thoughts that you think should be brought more front and center?
Can you drop the link to it? I'm not sure if you mean the bootcamp.
> I'd guess we here on HN are the people best equipped to prevent the worst.

I agree that individuals should be conscious of which companies they support through their labor and/or spending habits.

But I also think that HN overestimates the ability for single engineers to upend the goals of an entire organization. In the real world, if a company wants to automate anything and they’re paying well, there will be a line of engineers out the door applying to get it done.

> So the next time you help someone automate their customer support

I think this strikes at a false dichotomy that occurs frequently in these conversations: There’s an idea that if we simply removed the automated solutions then companies would be forced to replace them with the idealized solutions that we want. In practice, companies know very well that automated customer support and similar solutions aren’t comparable to having a well-paid, highly-trained person pick up the phone. But they weren’t going to pay for the expensive solution anyway.

And the real driving factor isn’t just the companies, it’s the customers. If given the choice between two identical products where the only difference is automated versus human customer support (and associated higher price for human customer support), the majority of customers will choose the cheaper option every time. There are a few people who will proudly pay more for the better CS, but they are a tiny minority. Overall, customers want the cheaper option even if it comes with tradeoffs, and they will vote with their wallets.
Regulators reacted to Fukushima before the event everywhere except for Japan.

That is, the early 1970s model of a serious nuclear accident was that the pressure vessel burst. Three Mile Island complicated matters by being neither serious nor generic. By 1990 it was clear the serious generic accident was a ‘station blackout’ — with no power at the station you can’t circulate water to keep the core.

In the U.S. the NRC keeps spare generators ready to load on helicopters and transport to nuclear plants in an emergency. Had Fukushima had some spare generators staged away from the floods or simply more strongly fortified fuel tanks, ‘Fukushima’ would be an obscure word in most of the world. $1 million or so of investment in the right place would have spared a lot of trouble.
Earth's Black Box
I don't think GP's comment was about the use of incadescent bulbs, I think it was about soldering them onto the board.
It's not a judgment on the goodness or badness of the person in any case. Musk does manage to get his name on the news a lot and is (was?) the richest person, I guess that counts for something for Time. I think his reputation is going to collapse spectacularly in the near future, right now his bizarre behavior is all papered over (for some people) because Tesla is doing well in the stock market.
I guess the "paradox" or counterintuitive part comes in situations when the price elasticities are such that a 10% efficiency gain (or price cut) would result in >10% increase in demand and hence in final spending.

Another part may be that non-economists (and even lots of students who succesfully passed econ 101) don't think about shifting demand or supply curves. In my experience, most people who remember the textbook supply-demand curves only think about moving along the curves (which makes the classic diagrams pretty crappy pedagogical devices IMO).
It's not a lot of money in San Francisco, where you're fighting with every tech company employee for housing
Please have someone on your team take a good hard look at the current proposal-pipeline-operator: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

It started as a Function Composition proposal (using the pipe operator |>) but after a change of leadership it has turned into something much different. We might need another perspective on the current trajectory of this proposal, as in its current form it seems to many in the community it might take JS in the wrong direction.

Thanks!
I worked for Savvis who initially bought an Intel datacenter in the 90s to get started. Company lore was that Intel couldn't make a profit in the colo space because they over engineered everything. Savvis cut DC staff and cut other services until the data center was profitable.
The author mentions music as an exception because it has a long pedagogical history which enables deliberate practice.
That's besides the point I was making, which is that there's runtimes/languages which lean towards "internet required for development" or even "internet required for building" while there are also languages/runtimes which are self-contained and independent.

That being said, WinForms is also "just" a Win32 wrapper, I don't see a compelling reason why a similar wrapper wouldn't be possible in pretty much any language. .NET 4.6 is a fine choice too, especially because you're not forced to ship runtime and standard library, as Windows already has both.
I first heard that in the 1990s. And the TV show "The Wire" (c2004?) made frequent use of the phrase "the game" to describe the process of street-dealing drugs, and the money, and the police, etc. As in "it's all in the game" - ie: all's fair in love and war.
Bradbury covered the spectrum of from literal book burning to idea burning through his characters. In my opinion it's through Faber he hit the nail on the head. It's not just books, but the quality and "texture" of the information, having time to reflect and contemplate it (leisure), and having the ability and willingness to act upon it.
Always thought that referred to their breasts
Off topic, but there is something intensely irritating about replies that start with “No.” It’s fine to disagree and argue whatever point you want, but when you open with “No.” it seems like you’re saying “You are objectively wrong; I will now enlighten you with the correct viewpoint.”
Maybe sue for damages but the problem is the difference in size between any of those commpanies and any of us.
If you look at the commenter's other messages, you seem very much to be making their point for them. The thing that they are advocating for is what you seem to be trying to, through snark, give them an education on.

No one makes coach tickets available for free and then asks people to pay after the fact. Certainly no one would do that and then complain that the system is broken because nobody is paying. People, on the whole, do not behave in a way that's compatible with that kind of thing, and the expected outcome there matches the outcome that we see today with (un)-sustainable open source.
As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.
Mid 60's technology, actually.
Right. clang-tidy lets you specify rules you’d like it to enforce in the code you pass through it. It’s not a part of the compilation process, but uses the same underlying driver (if you’re building with clang)
Yes, it seems to be called a bootcamp, not a course. That's what I'm looking at - https://bootcamp.pe.gatech.edu/digitalmarketing/curriculum/
You can have great productivity in C++, but it's also a very complex language.

When I code in C, I make many mistakes, but they are all stupid mistakes.

When I code in C++, I sometimes have no clue how to move forward and have to spend hours reading up on the current state of templating or lambdas in the standard library.

The tradeoff is, that you can have larger and more complex program before hitting the brick wall of too many interconnections and fiddly things to change everywhere.

In C it's much more hard work to even reach large and complex because you have to write so much "by hand". And when you do reach high complexity, it's very very much up to enforced patterns and cohesive architecture how hard it is to wrangle.

The good thing about C being hard, is that it makes you think harder about what you can get away with NOT doing.

But if you know you have a bunch of code to write, for me it feels faster to do it in C++ than C.

The languages are very different.
In vibration sensitive applications that makes perfect sense.
Quite apart from not being possible forbidding non-auto declarations also sounds like a terrible idea. I am not really that fond of the auto keyword. In some cases it is necessary and/or helpful but it is also very helpful to be able to tell what the type of a variable is at a glance. I think the auto keyword should be used sparingly.
What flawed assumption do you think I'm making?

Wealth represents owed labor, because ordinary people have an obligation to pay rent, and otherwise buy resources from the previous generation of humans, who allocated nature before they were born; so they have an obligation to work for owners; and wealth takes the form of ownership of a share of the work done by them.
Yeah that's fair enough. I care more about the end of my consciousness and my own dust turning to dust yet again than the heat death of the universe, something that's so far away, and asymptotically won't ever happen. Is it really the end if nothing can "experience" it?
I don't speak French, but I'm a native Spanish speaker and I have two observations:

First, it's true that Romance languages use gender in this manner. I was just pointing out that the specific example chosen didn't show this. The example has nothing to do with the gender of the speaker, but with the gender of the object under discussion; it's similar to you saying "she" or "her" when referring to a woman; it enables me to make no assumptions about your own gender.

Second:

> Anything the speaker would say about themselves would have to be gendered accordingly.

In Spanish there are careful ways to avoid making assertions about yourself in a gendered manner. They are a bit more roundabout, but can be done. My point is not that this is the most natural way of speaking, just pointing out that it's technically not true that you must always make gendered assertions about yourself.

Example:

Instead of saying "I'm very tired", "estoy muy cansado" (gendered male language) I can say "tiredness overcomes me", "el cansancio me invade", hiding my gender. Yes, it's a bit artificial but not so uncommon I have never read it. So in Spanish you can make assertions about yourself without betraying your gender. Don't know about French or other Romance languages, but it wouldn't surprise me to know you can employ similar tricks. It's probably harder in Spanish than in English to hold a conversation longer than a couple of sentences while hiding your gender; it will start sounding very unnatural, I grant you this.
I got the same feeling reading this article that I got from reading _Design Patterns_: that the author(s) present some useful techniques to deal with the shortcomings of Java, but that most of their recommendations seem like kludgy fixes to problems that are absent or at least much less severe in better-designed languages.

I also note that, while the author does make some useful points about how to program more defensively, especially in the face of unexpected modifications to super/sub classes written by other programmers, one is inevitably beholden to at least a certain extent on the trustworthiness of code that one depends upon. (Even languages like LambdaMoo that start from the assumption that a program consists of code written by multiple mutually-untrusting programmers cannot entirely protect each against malicious subterfuge by the others.) I therefore question the value of the kind of 'hardening' the author recommends, especially when it might have unfortunate consequences on extensibility and testability.
It wouldn't really have the reliability to be a ride.

Theme park rides are designed from scratch for high-uptime usage. Like real aircraft, something like this probably required several hours of maintenance for every hour of "flight-time" back in the day.
Is it? The idea of RSS was to escape complicated, centralizing, proprietary platforms like twitter. In order to read the post in this discussion's twitter link I'd have to execute their code on my machine. There's no way to access twitter via text.

I certainly hope that most RSS users are shying away from such a terrible platform.
If you took any Indo-European language and created a new language completely contradicting it with respect to any aspect of the language, you'd get something pretty close to Turkish :-) I am really surprised you think Turkish is similar to any Indo-European language. Btw, the Altaic language family is also disputed. The most accepted theory is that Turkic languages are an isolated language family by themselves.
Exactly. I use Microsoft's email service. For $69/year I can point several domains (I think the limit is 99) to my inbox. If I get sick of Microsoft, or they block me, it's my domain and I can move it to another provider.
> […] and having video of your boring everyday interactions with them is better than having only your memories of them.

How comes? To me, the most valuable things from the past are the memories. Not photos, video and stuff.
The violent threats are helpful in identifying those who need to be incarcerated because of either unchecked impulsiveness or emotional instability, similar to everyone at the capitol riot event. Definitely tragic it’s come to this, but better to find out and protect the populace from these people versus allowing them to roam free and possibly cause random harm to citizens who were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Also somewhat humorous these are the same folks vehemently against universal healthcare (“socialism”) until the consequences of their own poor choices catch up to them.
Yup - from another .plan file:

We hadn’t really used them for much of anything in the past year, so it
was just easier to turn them off than to continue to administer them.
Most of the intel systems had already been converted to NT or 95, and
Onethumb gets all of our old black NeXT hardware, but we have four nice
HP 712/80 workstations that can’t be used for much of anything.
If someone can put these systems to good use (a dallas area unix hacker),
you can have them for free. As soon as they are spoken for, I will update
my .plan, so check immediately before sending me email.

You have to come by our office (in Mesquite) and do a fresh OS install
here before you can take one. There may still be junk on the HD, and I
can’t spend the time to clean them myself. You can run either NEXTSTEP
3.3 or HP/UX. These are NOT intel machines, so you can’t run dos or windows.
I have NS CD’s here, but I can’t find the original HP/UX CDs. Bring
your own if that’s what you want.

I’m a bit nostalgic about the NeXT systems – the story in the Id Anthology
is absolutely true: I walked through a mile of snow to the bank to pay for
our first workstation. For several years, I considered it the best development
environment around. It still has advantages today, but you can’t do
any accelerated 3D work on it.
I would caution against forming judgement on an entire population based on the loudest minority within them. In my experience there seem to be many more reasonable, restrained, and quiet folk out there. Now if the signal to noise ratio in the comments here is trending towards more noise for you, then by all means the comments are less useful and may not be worth the time at some point. But don't confuse the loud cynical voices as being representative for all of us.
https://archive.md/UOGlc
Baby it's cold inside, especially for women in offices
The shuttle experiences severe vibration during launch. You don't want your indicator lights shaking loose during launch, so therefore they should be soldered.
Own your own domain, but have the email serviced by Microsoft, Google, etc.
Like Kaiserschmarn!
Deborah Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand" discusses this idea. I found it pretty interesting.

Roughly, its thesis is that men typically interact with others in a competitive way, as if interactions are about status in a hierarchy; whereas typically women would prefer to interact in a cooperative way, where interactions are about belonging/intimacy. -- The different perspectives lend themselves to framing the same sets of actions in different ways.

-- The preface makes an interesting point: to the extent that differences in cultural attitudes leads to misunderstanding/conflict, it's worth trying to understand what those cultural differences are.
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I think this is Mullvad's stance too.
Your jaded view of HN may or may not be accurate but I think the general HN audience has already built in their expectation that the advancement of computer graphics will continually get better through incremental improvement not to dissimilar from chip development.

Is this impressive? Yes & kudos to the people who built this. Is it life changing in any meaningful measure? Not really...it isn't a scientific breakthrough or complete paradigm shift of understanding that will the lens which you view your existence? Probably not. And expectations of this already happening were built into how I see the steady march of technology development.

This is an incremental instead of step-function change in expectations and was already a pre-ordained outcome. You can argue that my expectations are to high and maybe this came earlier than expected but this isn't some shock to my system.

I suspect that I am not the only one who feels this way.

And if you are part of the team and just feel like people don't appreciate you work - that isn't the case. It is very impressive but it isn't a eureka moment of excitement (at least to me).

If I misunderstand the significance - please guide me to what I am missing here.
> It's a shame they went with a static display rather then add a "ride" aspect.

This simulator is over 50 years old; anyone actively using it, especially unsupervised, would cause damage.

I mean I'm all for someone building a newer and more resilient simulator, or reproducing it in VR, but at this point this is a genuine museum piece and the focus should be on conservation, not entertainment.
> WebGL/WebAssembly

You know, it's kind of unfortunate, because the actual tech is nice and has lots of potential. I mean, WebGL is great for online games (even if many will suggest that it's not quite as easy to work with as Flash was) and other interactive content, like visualizations etc.

Whereas WASM has the potential to make high performance code in the browser a reality, especially for the aforementioned physics simulations, or curious usecases of tech such as having access to Python or .NET in the browser environment, which remain sandboxed at the same time. The ability to do this feels really interesting, as do Web Workers being a thing (even though maybe JS should have had proper threading support and support for joining threads from day one instead).

It's just that the way these technologies are used can end up a bit misdirected or sometimes outright malicious, something that we'd possibly get in other forms without this (just look at how evil ad industry sometimes is and how unethical many of the ads have historically been).
Of course they would. It’s not all that difficult to integrate, but it opens the door for selling imaginary things to people that don’t require any inventory or even physical product creation.

NFTs are a dream come true for marketers who want to sell things without actually having to create, warehouse, inventory, and ship things. You can also double-dip on selling other things because the NFT community has normalized the idea that you can own an NFT of something while someone else actually owning the underlying thing.

The wildest part is that there’s a small but rabid community of crypto fans who eat this right up and will gladly give dollars in exchange for blockchain receipts of things they don’t actually own. So of course companies are going to gold rush into this trend to capitalize while they can.
Thanks for illustrating the problem: a largely unknown & uninvolved person paints half the population in a viciously negative light, decries normal discourse of diverse views as “unregulated”, and by implication seeks to censor those holding views not shared by the self-appointed “fact checker”.