skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say interintellect.com 's salons are on this path. The quality of objections I get on HN are usually good enough to help refine an idea, which is the most you can really ask for. I've also walked back comments after controversy, and that's a useful tool, as I think the secret to getting smarter is to become excellent at having others disabuse you of your ignorance, especially at scale.

The sparring and point scoring that charaterizes a lot of spirited debate depends on a kind of collegiality that I think is an artifact of a former time. You can't engage in that with (or even near) someone whose recieved identity is founded on being a reaction to that specific collegiality, but even still I've come to think it's not even the "Them," that ended it.

Debate itself is a kind of intellectual leisure that you don't want to flash around too much because what social media did was put us all all in an arena that was previously reserved for elite level competition, where players play and commentators comment. The way people signal their membership in the players' club is by not commenting. If you're talking, you probably aren't in the game, and if you are you're probably losing. I have been writing almost as long as I've been in tech so public discourse is my idea of fun, and the choice to take on that player/commentator opportunity cost was personal, but the reason you aren't seeing great online debate is because what it comes down to is, for the people you want to hear from most, it just isn't worth it.
Is there policy enforcing a limit on residency spots? Or is that just how many people can be trained with available teaching facilities?
> Presumably if I am alone in my passion for the subject then no-one will ever comment/reply/email/express their agreement.

You don't have to wait for others to agree with you. Part of activism is making other people aware of an issue and inspiring passion about it.

> If however lots of people start to agree, to put their hands up and say they feel the same, then I can take a next step which is I'm guessing to do what you say which is to define a call to action - but what would that be, can you suggest?

The book Playbook For Progress: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer has a detailed description of how activism works. It isn't theoretical - the author founded the Bus Rider's Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_Riders_Union_(Los_Angeles)).
There are enough places where these topics can be discussed. I come to HN because it is sort of a sanctuary from the madness of other social media sites.

You seem to think that the civil discussion that occurs here would carry over to these hot button topics, but I assure you that the kind of people who enjoy dragging a discussion down into the mud and participating in “flame wars” as you said will be attracted here once they know there is a discussion about one of their favorite issues.

In short, the curation of HN is what makes it great. Relaxing it would ruin this place.
I clicked this link because I’m currently building an MVP for a software product and getting a hang of the essentials has been going relatively well thanks to my tacit knowledge around computers/software.

However, what I did not expect was for the article to go into that Atul Gawande quote on the laparoscopic appendectomy. It just so happens that the MVP I’m building is part of a training program for laparoscopic skill and the other half of my job is making the actual educational content, including the appendectomy (I’m a jack-of-all-trades - we’re a tiny company). How strangely surprising!

I spend a lot of time testing our product with users, who all happen to be in surgical training. The professor of surgery with whom we collaborate, regularly brings up the kid/bicycle/teaching experience. Laparoscopic suturing is currently seen as an art form, and it’s a such a great example, so he usually just tells people to practice. In surgery more than in any other field everything is relative, mushy and tricky. You’re juggling manual instrument skill with medical knowledge, along with people skills (in the OR). Our approach has been to focus - with our products you only learn the skill but none of the other stuff.

I’m definitely saving this one, and going be exploring all the linked sources and materials. Thanks!
You only cheat because you suck and that's the only way you enjoy the game. It takes time to get into the gaming flow, and enjoy the pastime, and cheating ruins this investment.

When I pay $100 for a game, and cheaters make me stop playing, I have been harmed with a wasted $100 plus hours of frustration. If you're too shallow and emotionally unintelligent to pick this arithmetic up, it's on you I guess.
That's like your spouse telling you "you never do things right in this house". How does that work to a constructive discussion?
- Vue w/ Quasar Framework for the frontend, mobile, etc

- Flask or Falcon for the python backend

- Postgres + Redis for DB stuff

- Stripe for payments
I completely agree with you but I think OP is poking fun at the overzealousness of some people accusing others of being anti-vax when the covid vaccines are the only ones those people oppose. Of course there are actual antivaxxers out there who believe in microchips, etc but now even people who have gotten the vaccine but oppose mandates are labelled "antivaxxers" by dictionaries these days: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

I wish we could have a rational discussion around these topics without accusations being fired back and forth in bad faith. It just drives people further into their existing positions and hardens them to criticism.
Youtube doesn't care about that. At least, content creators don't generally take that chance. There is very little recourse if Youtube decides your content violates their rules.

That was from the "mild" section, too. Looking at the more extreme bullet point for the same rating, there's

> It may also include pervasive imagery or situations that are disturbing or repulsive to the average viewer.

Which, given that the entire video is about literal buttholes and feces, probably fits to some degree.
HN will endlessly preach to you about rationality and open discussion. Time and time again they'll come down hard on Cloudflare et al doing the bare minimum against the most vile of people using their services.

And yet any story on, say, racism or misogyny in the tech community is immediately flagged into oblivion. The complaints about censorship also started only when it became relevant for "Proud Boys", QAnon, and similar outfits. Everyone was totally fine with it when youtube restricted Islamic State propaganda. Still, everyone will go out of their way saying that they don't agree with the toxic content, and how it's just about "principals".

Moderators have largely enforced a policy of removing content that is potentially divisive. In doing so, they employ the sort of false balance that even the NYT complains about these days. It's arguably working for HN, although, given the perceived influence the site has, it's questionable if the fate of HN is ultimately more important than taking a stand and occasionally bothering the community with stories it would rather avoid.
Policy frames business cycles, there is nothing "natural" about it.
PBBans does this.
For your scenario, i'd probably either just bite the bullet and migrate everyone over (maybe giving a permanent discount to the users only using email) OR Create a "hidden" tier not available to the public for these specific users, that way they can be grandfathered onto the old plan and not get screwed by the new pricing.

As for grace period, I usually warn people at a minimum one billing period away. If it's a product that takes a large effort to move off of i'd probably recommend a bit more time as you don't want to force people to keep paying at a price they aren't comfortable with.
Activists worldwide protest Disney+ unethical platform for Intl Day Against DRM
I agree and personally appreciate, let's say, "oddball" non-tech topics; for example, the article about Merlin earlier today, or the one about mushroom cultivation from earlier in the week.

But I put it to you that some topics -- such as US politics -- are less likely to gratify one's intellectual curiosity than to provoke reaction and negative emotion.
there's also a PERL coin, the loop is closed
As one of those immigrants—that isn’t much of a sales pitch, man. My oldest (of 3) is 9, and I’m seriously questioning why I’d want to socialize my kids into this culture. I’m 37 and of my college and law school school friends didn’t have kids until my wife and I had been parents for 6-7 years. We’re by far the youngest parents in our oldest’s class. Maybe tFor a Bangladeshi it’s been such a lonely experience. I don’t want to be like these American parents hoping I get one or two grand kids. :-/
https://archive.ph/Vicgi
1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012)
Most certainly opening the door to a diffetent kind of bugs. This mentally of tying bugs to a language demonstrates a very poor understanding of the issues themselves, and if anything a large impacting bug demonstrates wide adoption of an individual piece, most probably choosen due to its stability or ease of use.

Remember heartbleed?...
Here's an example from Minecraft, in which duplication exploits enable the emergent gameplay of 'crystal PvP'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMd2sIBlDU

And a hell of a lot more where that came from. There was one instance where players had exploited a popular no-rules server to spawn in items that dealt 32,000 damage, the administrator attempting to patch it and the players playing the cat-and-mouse game of trying to keep using them for as long as possible. The creativity is really something else. As for their music choice in that video- par for the course when dealing with the 4chan of Minecraft.
What indicates that the account is banned?
As an anecdote, all of my work on open source (and I've been working on and with open source software for the better part of 30 years) has been because I had something that needed to be done and writing, adapting, or fixing open source packages was the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way of doing that.

My employers paid me to get things done, not to write software. Writing, adapting, or fixing software is the means, not the end.
consider using smaller thumbnails for those books (the site uses 8.8MB of bandwidth just to load those book covers)
Hmm, I don't quite understand this methodology. This site lists my state, Massachusetts, as having a 3.29% individual income tax burden, but our income tax rate is a flat 5% (no brackets). I'm looking at the exemption list (https://www.mass.gov/service-details/view-massachusetts-pers...) and I can't see how it could possibly make that big of a difference.
encouraging innovation, dont be so negative
Birth rates are lowest among higher income couples. The low birth rates in the west are the product of a culture that devalues marriage and decouples it from procreation.
When was Stella 12oz? It’s been 11.2 as long as I can remember.
They do indeed have a CLA: https://cla-assistant.io/memc-rs/memc-rs
This is why often when setting guidelines around particular behavior, standards that require some judgement may be better than rules that are to be followed blindly without any discretion.

Compare the rules around speed limits, don’t drive above 70mph (no judgement, could be too slow or too quick in a given situation) vs the one often observed and followed in reality, drive at a reasonable speed, roughly what others are driving at (use your judgement about what’s safe).
The Security Manager API hasn't been an important Java security feature for many years. It was a security feature for Applets, and over the past decade it's been used by a few applications mostly for monitoring/toy sandboxing. In any event, a vanishingly small number of applications use it. Strong encapsulation is part of a long-term effort to make Java more secure, as threats are changing.

Also, encapsulation isn't a breaking change. Java's strong backward compatibility commitment is with respect to the Java SE specification. No APIs are affected. It's only internal classes that have always been subject to change, and with clear warnings that they must not be accessed, that are encapsulated.
I regret my use of the word "freeload" because of all the baggage it drags with it. I think companies are perfectly legally and ethically fine paying $0 for something that explicitly comes at no cost. But it's also rare that I see a company think about how critical a piece of open source is to their business, and realize that paying in some way (if possible) can be a good way to mitigate business risk. I think most companies don't really consider that risk in the first place.
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This wiki is intended to help identify radio signals through example sounds and waterfall images. Most signals are received and recorded using a software defined radio such as the RTL-SDR, Airspy, SDRPlay, HackRF, BladeRF, Funcube Dongle, USRP or others.
super cool idea, anybody have connects at ICANN?
You won't be a sculptor if you avoid the chisel. If in rome, do as the romans do. If you want to swim, you'll get wet.

There is no design in/for the web without html+css, is there?

Edit: by removing 3rd parties from your project you remove a lot of overhead and current and future risk. But be warned: Maybe your company sells exactly that for a good margin and you ruin the business model.
Side note: the comments in this are all almost as valuable as the content itself. Remember when comments were a way people used to enhance content rather than attack or degrade it?
"The alpha in this report is free, and many have gleaned insights from past reports that helped them make money, but nothing herein is investment advice. Be an adult."

I don't know why but just the choice of words here made me nauseous.
This is a nice post from a healthy person who is comfortable with his position, and isn’t overburdened.

However, what would happen if that were not so?

What would happen if he Could not, Would not, or were Unable to work?

It would all fall apart. And that is the inherent fragility in these small critical opensource projects.
MS has the largest documentation on the internet. Look it up. It's OP's fault for being in a hurry.
Time to require trusted webcam ;)
Change the world? Literally no one knows.No one can provide a sufficient answer to the question.

But there is a necessary one. You have to start locally, you just have to try something. The part about it that's equally annoying and exciting is that you're not going to end up where you thought you would, but you will be able to look back and have done something -- and probably found some new set of problems or opportunities to tackle.

(Source: I started a STEM non-profit. That exploded into a ton of very different random and messy-but-good things that I'm a part of, but I don't do much of the STEM education part that I intended to, these days)
Boxing seems to have solved this problem with different weight classes
The not yet rewritten in Rust problem.
Caveat emptor allows me to assume the worst. Plus nobody is actually reading the EULAs every month to find the legalese clause that allows them to collect and sell even more of your data.
Mocking Authentication and Authorization in Asp.net Core Integration Tests
> It’s like getting a superpower in a video game

It’s more like rare candy in Pokémon, which isn’t as good as naturally leveling up your Pokémon.
Spring Boot apps aren't affected by this unless you switched logging frameworks. Nor any JBoss frameworks. How many people actually use Log4j2? It's probably in 4th or 5th place among Java logging frameworks, and likely still has less uptake than the original Log4j.
The social movement you want is called marxism - a highly efficient framework to use a divide a society to your benefit. In your case, it's the divide between those who have homes and those who don't.
Yet another article trying to become popular by attacking with a false dichotomy to an already popular topic.
Show HN: FileFlows – file processing Docker application
Docker application (working on Windows install now) that lets you process files using a simple flow based rule system. Similar to node-red but for files.

The reason I created this was to process videos into a standard format that all the devices in my house could playback (H265/AC3).

I tried unmaniac and tdarr but didn't really like those interfaces and they didn't do exactly what I wanted.

There's a cut-down demo available on the website. The demo doesn't connect to a backend so it doesn't include all the features.

After feedback/suggestions of features to add. Its quite powerful being so flexible, and not limited to just processing video files. It has a plugin based system and I've so far got 3 plugins. Basic (basic file processing/generic nodes), Videos (for video encoding/processing), Meta (for metadata, currently only TheMovieDb). The basic plugin also includes a "Executor" which lets you run any process against a file and use the exit code in the flow. So you could automically have it convert all you pictures to some format, or FLAC audio to MP3 or something.
I don’t even care about stupid comments or even the boring troll throwaways.

It’s the fact that well formed, polite or even just sometimes just factual statements get killed if they don’t go along the with present group circlejerking in the thread.
Depends on the context. "Big Tech" can mean working for a large, often FAANG company. But there are markedly less conspiracies cooked up about big tech than there are about big pharma.
Still not a reason to brush it off. It's still crooked.
I haven't seen excessive coupon use banned, but I actually have seen a store make that person wait until the rest of the shoppers cleared the line. Very satisfying.
gem in the sites comments section

> a labour of love becomes a chore if you can't temporarily put it down when you're running low on love. - simon.t
> no really, I encourage everyone to make and use free software (but you should FEEL BAD if you do what I encourage

100% this. I remember how open source advocates were literally pushing everyone who would listen to use and trust open source. Literally arguing by free too. Now, the people want to twist it into "and if you got convinced and use it you are asshole freeloader".

Well then, maybe it should have been private licensed software of that is what you want. Which I'd actually fine by me.
If you, as a hypothetical FOSS leader, end up losing a major donor, you've failed as a leader.
> The term whataboutism was invented to deflect international charges on killing and lynching of Blacks or genocide of Native Americans when say the Soviet Union was attacked for human rights violations at the UN.

And those criticisms were themselves made to deflect charges of human rights abuses committed by the Soviet Union. The term whataboutism just draws attention to that attempt at deflection.
A Youtube channel could be made out of this idea: skill extraction*. For every field...

Akin a podcast/interview. Where the whole purpose is for the interviewee to share his tacit knowledge.

Experts go and are asked questions about specific situations. Said questions are made in such a way to tease out the tacit knowledge. (using the critical decision method)

... The more I think about it the more I want it to exist. Anyone knows of something similar? Or is interested to create it? or just interested to have it exist?

* https://commoncog.com/blog/putting-mental-models-to-practice...
I mean, hard no on both claims. A memory cache (even memcached, which might not be state of the art) stomps all over the performance claims of SSDB. Memcached can do ~250kqps on one core, roughly depending of exactly what kind of cores are in question, and can typically turn around a request in < 50µs. SSDB is only "just as fast" if the rest of your stack is so insensitive to performance that you can't measure an order of magnitude difference in service latency.
I especially recommend the criticism part.
Modern CPUs go to lower power states super quickly and draw almost nothing. The thing is, if the server is running many VMs, there's no way it's going to a low power state, eveb if some are doing nothing (others will be). You also have 10 jet engines blowing air at the front, which probably is more than the CPU uses when both are idle.
Obviously, Java is used for much more critical applications than Python, Ruby, or Lua, but I don't know enough about their security strategy. Just as Java's performance is constantly being improved, so does its security.
Another alternative is to build a stable plug-in API rather than handling such requests in the core product. That way users with particular needs can code their own plug-ins rather than forking the entire code base. Now obviously open source maintainers have no obligation to do that, but purely from an engineering perspective it's an approach worth considering.
> Ty Tashiro writes about how "awkward" people need things to be spelled out and made explicit. With that, we can function as well as anyone. Without that we suffer when we get advice like "be yourself", "read Dale Carnegie", etc.

As an awkward person myself this certainly rings a bell. But for me it's more about getting permission. Growing up in an abusive household, everything that I did was like walking in an open minefield. You're running and doing things intuitively and everything seems normal until you're hit with an explosion of verbal and sometimes physical abuse.
Then why do people talk about the "HN hug of death"?
Even technical discussions suffer from this. Too many threads on cryptocurrency/web3/whatever or Rust/C devolve into cheerleaders for whatever side derailing threads with things that aren’t even relevant to the article.
I don't know anyone who finds getting vaccinated to be pleasurable, unlike driving.
I wouldn't be surprised if this ended with a smirky one-liner presented in a popular CSS framework, making a full circle from (early HTML):

<H1><FONT COLOR=red>...</FONT></H1>

to (Tailwind CSS)

<h1 class="text-red-500">...</h1>

I totally acknowledge the accomplishments that the Web standards and their implementations have made since the early days.

On the other hand, while I am no Tailwind proponent, for many applications "worse is good" and Tailwind is a bridge to the straightforward beginnings of the web design.
No Agenda Show 1407: “Gob of Goo” with Adam Curry and John C Dvorak
ClassicTreeview: The WPF Treeview that should have been
It's not a private organization, it's a charity. In exchange for not paying taxes, they've given up the right to spend the money as they see fit.
> I wish we could have a rational discussion around these topics without accusations being fired back and forth in bad faith. It just drives people further into their existing positions and hardens them to criticism.

Well, trying to "poke fun" like this, with Poe's law being what it is, does nothing to bring the temperature down.

Our choices are:

* "Poking fun" is intended and this is likely to provoke people who label others as antivax without adding anything to the discussion.

* or this is sincere.

Neither is a great look.
Here you go chief: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replacerator/gaajh...
The problem is hundreds of years old, Tolstoy wrote about it, he was an advocate for Georgism, and there’s also the board game monopoly. Has anyone succeeded anywhere at any time at making housing affordable for the plebs?
> Temporaries may or may not be heap-allocated; the C++ spec doesn't specify.

Presumably the same is true of C.
Sorry, I thought the catchy humor at the end would put it in different terms, but I agree it was unnecessary, and wish I hadn't done that.

At the same time, I think, if the joke at the end didn't raise it to the level of flamewar, directing "haughty" and "middlebrow" at another poster would progress more in that direction.
I was being pedantic. But also truthful, in that I do not have a tv and the only radio is in my car.