skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) We tend to pay more attention to what is more difficult[0], and paying more attention is often how we become better at something.

Successful teachers and instructors don’t “chew” everything out and explain in simplest possible terms but rather facilitate an involved process throughout which the student has to make own effort in order to arrive at an understanding and in the end experience an “aha!” rush that is stronger, more memorable and inspiring.

If I am reading a piece of writing and a word takes a moment for me to understand or I’m redirected to a footnote for no obvious reason, that itself might just make me remember the idea better; if I suddenly notice a second layer of meaning, the feeling of connection with the author facilitates deeper understanding. (And if I stopped reading at that point due to insufficient motivation, perhaps that’s how the author intentionally made me self-select out.)

2) Not every idea can be directly verbalized.

One could argue that whatever can be conveyed in writing by words in their direct literal meanings is only sufficient for communicating strictly technical information. Imparting a non-trivial concept, a feeling or emotion requires lateral, indirect approaches—and that’s where author’s choice of words, idioms, rhythm, connotations, anything can play a role. (Think of background music in a film and how it influences your impression; try watching a piece of dialogue while playing an uplifting/energizing piece of music and notice how the mood changes.)

[0] In non-arbitrary ways; it’s a fine line between keeping readers on their toes and trying to be obscure for the sake of it.
Why would you want to increase the count though, right?

I appreciate that HN is a kind of a community where people post when they actually have something to say. I mean, I often write a comment and then delete it before posting it if I figure it doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

I actually feel like doing it for this comment too.
Let's not be mean to someone asking a question. It is always good to ask, even stupid ones.
Avoidance of war with Russia is pretty sensible though. Also the rhetoric about Russian misinformation was a bit much and did impart an extremely bad image of Russia in the more easily influenced populous. Some of that has reasons of course, but to me this mirrors Iraq invasion media manipulation to deflect domestic issues.

Although there were cases of political murders withing EU territory which are vastly more relevant and must result in a reaction in my opinion.
I like how the article header helpfully offers a 366 minute read time.

I'm also surprised that my name shows up. Like another poster said, small world.
> Old white man raised in the American South makes me think he's likely to have a bunch of racist attitudes.

So, he is likely racist because he was born in a certain place and time. Doesn't that notion itself seem racist?

Yes, he might have been. But it is not kind to say someone was "maybe bad" (everybody is "maybe bad" after all), without stronger grounds to stand on.
Well, it is an "outrageous" belief for a reason, but as for the communist nations, there are significant differences in both how much they tried to suppress it, and how much it worked. Poland is the main outlier I know of, the USSR switched back to cooperating with the orthodox church as part of the means to organise support against the nazi invasion.

Most of the other eastern block nations are still quite a lot less religious today. Even West vs East Germany is still clearly visible.

I think most people are by their nature mildly agnostic. A lot of christians in western Germany don't go to church, don't follow most rules, or even know about them. It is mostly inertia of tradition. That is even more true of the celebrations. It's not like they are actually christian, that's because most people didn't care about why the celebration exists. They switched to christianity, if they had to, once they still got to celebrate their traditional celebrations mostly in the same way. That's why christianity differs quite a bit from country to country or areas in general, as well.

Non of this screams true believer. A lot of celebrations today, at least here, are completely worldly, with not even a veneer of christian reasons. Easter & Christmas still exist, but predate christianity anyway. No other christian events have survived into modern time with more than a fringe crowd. Most other celebrations are without any involvement of church or Jesus/God. Day of Work/1. May, Carnival, and an endless stream of local culture festivals, none of which are christian, or even really heaven. It's just a reason to party, dance and celebrate, not to worship anything.

That's also why the actual forbidding of religion becomes unnecessary, at least here. The last few decades have seen a decrease of at least 2% per year in both major churches in Germany. At some point at least locally they loose enough traction to be relevant at all, but when is very different depending on region.
On the other side, DuckDuckGo is bad at giving me results in Polish - so I use it only with English content. :|
This only measures the number of comments; it would be interesting to know the karma difference accrued in a year. It may produce the exact same ranking, as intuitively karma is probably heavily correlated with comment frequency... but maybe not?
Why is there a Google captcha in increasingly more checkout pages? This is the _only_ place a shop makes money.
>Old white man raised in the American South makes me think he's likely to have a bunch of racist attitudes, and that those might leak into his science.

Judging people based on their place of birth and skin colour... I feel like there's a word for that...
Paying 100 euro for a test at the airport in Dublin when you depart so you can prove you didn't get COVID in the UK when you come back into Ireland 2 days later.

No logic or reasoning.
If words matter, reading and understanding should matter even more.
It's very difficult in HN to put comment and gain points. Atleast for me. Tried couple of times. Downvoted most of times. So I just visit and read comments. Have been doing same for more than 7 years now. I am sure there are lots of readers like me.
https://chaoticlab.io/lisp/update/2018/12/30/corman-3-1-rele...
The only way to be sure is to make police conduct searches on all stopped vehicles, regardless of driver race and other perceived indicators.
You've fixated on a minor detail. The origin of the word "blacklist" is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_te...

It has never had anything to do with race.

If we can't say certain words because of linguistic coincidences, then we won't be able to speak Spanish.

In all your responses to me, you have been arguing for the sake of arguing.
They should have called it "Dwarf Shrink"!
> I think it's a hard sell to claim that the article was actually directed at a small, perhaps barely existent, group of Unix users who seem to be either afraid of the mouse (!) or proud not to use it.

Good thing then they never said the article was directed at that subset of Unixers. It was only that little provocative starting section that was.
This is true when the install script is indeed from a source you ‘trust’ but there are also sites that aggregate many apps into ‘one install script’ or I have seen StackOverflow answers list these types of install command to install a missing dependency. I personally wouldn’t be too quick to just trust those.
Leaving the fruit on the table also makes it easy to eat it.

Make it easier to do the good habits, and harder to the bad ones.

I'd recommend looking into the research that Prof. Wendy Wood at USC Marshall has been doing on habit forming behaviour in humans.
The difference is that the laptop breaking won't leave the user stranded and potentially eating dirt. I don't know what GGP means by the trails they're riding but I've looked at the homepage[1] and I wouldn't trust the bike on technical terrain. There's a very real safety issue.

GP could have been gentler, but they're right to say it's not a mountain bike, and shouldn't be ridden like one.

And that sucks. The things we buy should be fit for the advertised purpose. Mountain biking should be more accessible and there should be trails that GGP can ride on a safe budget bike without requiring that much fitness.

[1] https://viribusbikes.com/products/emb-a277-rd?variant=406754...
I'm really curious what that means and how it looks. I assume it's casually going beyond simple typedefs for types whose size might change? And what does "flow through the code" mean here? That you can't mention "int" or "uint64_t" anywhere? That you can't pass these things as arguments?

Are there any open source examples to study this style? I don't know where to look, but admittedly studying C++ codebases is not what I do for fun.

In my personal experience, it never worked putting layers of abstractions to hide physical representations. That makes the implementation code really hard to grok, and your hands are bound in the code because you're not allowed to _assume_. What worked for me instead is making sure that certain decisions that are likely to change are contained inside a module and for the rest of the code hidden behind an API or simply not accessible. Runtime assertions can be useful too, but maybe that is part of what you are describing by "template-foo". Finally, I try to stay true to my decisions and am not trying to act like I could have to replace floats by doubles at every corner. Some code that I've seen was littered with templates for that single reason, and I'm pretty sure the developers didn't have an intimate understanding how floating points works.

Interestingly, size_t is one of the things that I tend to avoid, and in my perception a majority of the programmer population agrees it was a mistake to have it be an unsigned type. A type which can represent "the size of an object" is too general for all but maybe OS APIs IMO. Usually I know that the size of my objects is bounded by a certain size, well below what fits in 32 bits.
Here's an automatic summarization in 20 sentences.

https://smmry.com/https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-hab...
> the nugget that distinguishes one from the other is whether the thing is being severed from it's origins

Seems like identity politics is doing some heavy hijacking of its own on the mainstream institutions of education, turning them on their head.
From the link:

In June 2020, when Minneapolis was rattled by the brutal custodial murder
of George Floyd and consequent Black Lives Matter protests, the Wadis
became avid supporters of the movement. They even showed their solidarity
by flaunting BLM banners from their stores as well as donating food
for free to demonstrators. In fact, Lianne herself marched in the BLM
protest rallies. However, Lianne's tweets from 2012, which she had even
deleted long back, mysteriously resurfaced around that time. The highly
offensive tweets portrayed racist sentiments against Black people and
the Jewish community. Some of her tweets were also blatantly homophobic
and body-shaming.

I dunno if it was well-deserved or not (what did the father do that merited the loss of 69 jobs?), but didn't someone famous say "The left always eats its own"?

The problem with the woke movement is that it's dominated by the extreme members[1], and the non-extreme members aren't allowed to speak up against the excesses of the movement anyway.

There is no forgiveness, there is no compromise, there is no leeway for nuance of thought. All together, that's a very dangerous movement; it's a movement where thought is forbidden, and we all saw how that turned out multiple times in history.

[1] Probably a very vocal minority, but with large impact when it comes to effects on people.
> Could it be that some researcher gave this variant to mice so that it will be easy to test

Yes, that is technically possible. Mice and humans also come into contact fairly often, so natural transmission from humans to mice (and back) wouldn't be that rare an event.

> and spread it later to human to counter more agressive variant

I think you might be giving too much credit to virologists - I don't think anybody could know from observing a virus in mice if it was going to be more or less aggressive in humans.

> and help that way bring up natural immunity?

Natural immunity doesn't seem to be very useful against covid. Or, at least, not more useful than the vaccines we already have. Stories of people getting covid twice, even three times, are getting more and more common. This doesn't seem to be a "get it once and you're set for life" virus.
Im not sure if its to deploy a blog or a satellite.
One of the problems here is the effective monoculture.

If there were multiple search engines in use with different ranking algorithms and different search strategies, then "SEO" would be difficult to impossible to achieve because optimising would one search engine would likely be a pessimisation for the others.

We don't just need one competitor, we need many. And they can't just be copycats, they need to do their own thing, and that might well make the cost:benefit of SEO unviable.
SOLID and a dozen of DPs and you get there pretty fast.
Then you rewrite by another team with their interpretation of SOLID and another dozen of "better suited" DPs and you get there again.
On 3rd iteration you just buy something as a service that covers 80% of your needs and consider the rest 20% non-essential business. And life is finally good.
assuming dang is a person and not some advanced AI.
They could, but why would they?

Perhaps you mean: a new incumbent could
I moved to Buttondown too, and implemented a newsletter *for a static site!*.

Documentation can be found here:
https://roneo.org/en/a-newsletter-with-hugo-buttondown-and-n...
#1194 here, same situation. I feel slightly less irrelevant now. ;)
I’ve been using scale since the alpha versions are am pretty happy with it tbh. Not a fan of what they are doing with the ui to create apps, but the underlying k3s is pretty much bog standard and you can just ignore the ui and do whatever you want using a terminal.

For example to install anything from the chart repo you linked:

> export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml

> helm repo add k8s-at-home https://k8s-at-home.com/charts/

> helm search repo k8s-at-home

> helm install k8s-at-home/aria2 --generate-name
Whats your technique?
well his post was sarcasm.
It is happening all over the world. In the UK the government have recently criminalised many forms of peaceful protest.
As in "Master of science"?
A successful Web3 (if we want to use the term) project should be unfundable to capitalists. That's what makes this so hard. Teach people how to not be wage slaves, then people won't throw away all their power to the already-wealthy.
I have to wonder just what is the justification for Google to not let users decide what sites they never want to see results from? I'm sure it can't be storage or compute limitations. This one feature alone would make so many people (me included) happier to use the engine.
The problem is that no one is bothering to give you an alternative because they can't make money out of it.

Let's say I want to do a '10 best bikes for under $1,000' article. How am I going to do that well without actually going out and buying 10 bikes and being prepared to make hardly anything in return?
Behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden receives similar criticism for having the temerity to suggest that genes play some statistically significant role in individual behavior. I don't understand why it has to be all or nothing. Surely the reasonable position is that both genes and environment have an intertwining role to play, and we can measure some of that across various psychological studies combined with genetic profiles, on a statistical basis. Paige was on Julia Galef's Rationally Speaking podcast, and her work sounds completely reasonable and hardly controversial.

Unless one is ideologically committed to an all or nothing view on genes.
In Hong Kong it's simpler: 3-week hotel quarantine when you enter and no guarantee that if you leave your airline will be allowed back in.

I havent moved for the last 2 years and my daughter has grown her first years by seeing her grandparents on Skype. Im not risking what a friend lived through, stuck 6 months in Europe unable to come back.

New people entering these days do so without their family and with the clear understanding they re stuck here for a while. 0-case policy is not even working so well, since the last week we had an "explosive" cluster of 5 cases (so far) because a now fired freight airline employee went out sick everywhere ...

The only potential exit will be China, maybe, if they dont get scared by our recent uptick, if you like to install their gps-based tracking system. And you better not be foreign-looking and sick while in China, you're never coming back :D

The best story was when they still allowed exceptions for diplomatic staff and families and the kids of a Saudi official decided they were too good for self isolation and created a mini cluster isolating entire buildings for re-test. Or the Dubai IT guy who's now in jail after he forced the city to retest 800k philipinos helpers because he lied and contaminated some going to a party (and slowed down tracking since he lied to protect his friends from quarantine) before leaving his 1-week long (+short quarantine at the time, he's the reason we have 3 weeks now) vacation...

So your 100 euros wasted, Im not crying for them :p
In fact, sending too many patches to the mailing list is frowned upon:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/11/336
Right because homebrew, a package manager that could potentially insert arbitrary code into your packages is somehow far more secure when installed by clicking a download button and running a GUI wrapping basically the same script?
I think it's mainly your last reason. After the founders have cashed out, there's nobody left to care about user experience, because by then, most things are run by MBAs as dictated by shareholders.

And shareholders don't care who suffers. They care purely about profits.

The solution is to introduce laws to reign in "profits at the expense of others". When chemical companies were polluting the ground (superfund sites), we introduced laws to stop them for the good of society. In my opinion, Facebook is the new superfund site, it's just that this time, it is digital and psychological poison, not chemical. So we should just deny them the most user-hostile (e.g. most profitable) behavior through laws.
I notice now that you point it out, but most of my searches are straight forward so I never paid much attention.
Somehow I enjoy HN the most as threads such as this develop and lots of people express their struggles, doubts and their vulnerabilities. This is brave, and appreciated.

I just want to add this to thread : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency

I am surprised it hasn't come up yet.
If anyone is wondering why they go from focusing on heaping praise on the design of the controllers to...uh...the side rails and heat pipe of the Switch(?), it's probably because joycon controllers fail shockingly fast, and Nintendo has done nothing to improve their design despite raking in truckloads of cash.

This, however, is tripe:

> For more than 30 years, Nintendo has stayed true to its holistic philosophy that making great experiences is about more than any given component or specification. This integrated approach to design, engineering, and manufacturing has helped them remain dominant in a space where rivals have come and gone time and again.

More like: Nintendo has stayed true to endless recycling of its IP which keeps game development cheap, while underspec'ing their hardware, figuring that game developers will slave away figuring out how to still make games run and users will grumble but put up with abysmal performance and graphics quality.

People might be shocked to know that the switch's giant screen is 720p, 30hz. Even in 2017, that was pretty terrible. They're desperately milking the Switch for whatever they can wring out of it, too - the recent OLED update shows the desperation. They went with a new display technology that adds little to nothing...because the SoC is so anemic, it can't possibly handle higher resolutions or framerates.

Describing them as "dominant" is a joke, too. Nintendo hasn't had market dominance since the NES; their console sales numbers are quite in line with Sony and Microsoft.
What Is the EMC Effect
In what way was the group "Marxist"? Are you trying to say they hired the entirety of a workers co-op?
The article where they endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in their history was pretty atrocious too - just based on out and out lying about what the US coronavirus response involved and how it compared to the rest of the world. It turns out that when you mix science and politics, all you're left with is politics that calls itself science and accuses its political opponents of attacking science.
By that logic, we'll have to give up most words in English. This is entitled to the extreme. You have been arguing with me for the sake of arguing.
How did you feel about his opinion on Rucho v. Common Cause [1]? (Briefly I believe it summarized to "partisan gerrymandering is constitutional, but racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional".)

Did that preserve the integrity of the court in your eyes? When the court itself admits the very concept of partisan gerrymandering is "incompatible with democratic principles", does this really preserve "equal justice under the law", which they claim [2] is their ultimate responsibility?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucho_v._Common_Cause

[2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/about.aspx
some countries had an exception to testing for short trips (when only essential travel was allowed)
It really depends on the topic as well. In the vast majority of cases people are reluctant to dish out any karma and your comment stays at one point. But that changes for some topics. I guess if you want to get more upvotes, articles about new Apple releases and similar stuff is most rewarding.
Meta: why is there a "(2022)" in the title? I thought years were included when an article is old, and that the default is to post news. Confusing.
He writes:

As to maintenance overhead: it was surprisingly low overhead to keep dependencies at a minimum across upstream kernel releases - there were typically just around ~5 dependency additions that need to be addressed. This makes me hopeful that an optimal 'fast' state of header dependencies can be maintained going forward - once the initial set of fixes are in of course.

It seems like this could regress quickly just by a developer adding a "bad" dependency to some core header which happened to #include a lot of code by accident. Don't we need tools to ensure this doesn't regress? Like something which warns "this git commit increases the amount of compiled code by 20%".
Bart: “This is the hottest summer of my life…”

Homer: “The hottest summer of your life so far”
I said "master", when it's not in opposition to "slave", should not be deemed offensive. Your example helps make my point.

To clarify my view on master/slave terminology, I do understand how an overt analogy to slavery could be offensive. But the word "master" doesn't usually imply that there's a slave.