skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP's system seems good, but the initial system, where the guy lists everyone he knows by A, B, C and D seems like he's creating informational toxic waste, IE something that causes damage if it gets out.

Even if all it means is they get less emails, who the hell wants to find themselves categorized as acquaintance level D.
Wow, that's a wonderful gesture from the author. I haven't read it yet, but I've seen so many great reviews on HN and other social media sites.

Here's some of the past discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27997167 (6 months ago | 118 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738 (2 years ago | 74 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406081 (5 years ago | 75 comments)
I mean, I have a lot of friends who I don't live near who will periodically post pictures on Instagram or updates about their lives on FB. Scanning their feed for a few minutes if they're active on social media is a good way to make sure you're at least a little up-to-date on what's going on in their life, and will frequently give you a good hook for a conversation (i.e. how is little So-and-So?, or I saw your trip pictures, how was Wherever?). Also can help you avoid a faux pas. It's never fun to ask someone who just got divorced how their spouse is doing.
That is entirely untrue. So many student films, home movies, YouTube posts get shown before human review.

You seem to be wildly underestimating the complexity of the task and the long tail of content creation. There are 1.9 billion daily users.

You’re asking to REQUIRE a human content moderation system that reviews 100% of the continent that 1.9 billion users can create a day? Before that content can get shown? I don’t see a feasible way of creating a system like that which will serve the needs of those 1.9 billion users in a way that will seem remotely tolerable to them, that can timely share their content.
> Pretty much captures what I see on just about everywhere that isn't HN.

HN is one of the few places where I regularly upvote comments that I disagree with, because they've frame an issue in a way I hadn't considered, or add new information to the discussion. As President Obama once said, "We can disagree without disagreeable".
TAS doesn't need GPS.
Ground speed does, but for (near) transonic operation, IAS alone isn't sufficient. A Mach meter can be enough of an addition, though.
QUIC had 0-roundtrip handshakes and brought it to TLS 1.3.
Huxley did this in the 30s, or as close as tech then allowed, with pillow speakers and "hypnopaedia" - for which he can't fairly be blamed, as back then they didn't yet know sleep teaching doesn't work - and even Doctor Who used the same idea back in 2006 or so for a Cybermen story.

Don't let the coincidental similarity of form factor distract you from the point of their use in these stories, which is that it's not the earbuds per se that are frightening, but rather the idea that everyone with them is always hearing exactly the same thing. This could scarcely be less true of modern earbuds, be they made by Apple or otherwise.
Ask HN: Why are memorable melodies less common nowadays in movie soundtracks?
And then they complain that the car in front of them isn't "moving at the speed of traffic."
I sold a domain years ago. I got a random email from someone asking me to buy it. Upon some research, it looked like that person was collecting domains names under the same topic. I did some initial negotiation but wondered if others would be interested. I was lucky and found someone else that was interested but the lucky part was that I had found a person that was the first persons nemesis. They had both tried to buy the same set of domains in the past so I think I stumbled upon two fierce competitors. I wasnt able to figure out how to negotiate between them over email so I just but it on eBay and let them bid on it through that. I ended up with at least 10x more than I was originally looking for.
LA I don't really know. But SF and NYC (especially) are relatively challenging to drive in as well. I do agree that, especially pre-GPS, Boston/Cambridge/Somerville are most challenging by the almost complete lack of any sort of a grid and all the weird intersections. When I moved back to the area with a car after grad school--though not to the city itself--I think it really took me at least a couple of years before I felt comfortable navigating more or less by instinct rather than having to constantly refer to a map.
How could they tell? — and that's the point. When you see the standard disclaimers, you don't know if they were placed there as an honest expression of the writer's opinion, or if they were put there by order of their mind's "legal department".
Lol this must be a joke
The author of the article missed the point entirely. The feature allows default arguments to be set to the _result_ of a function call (that may or may not depend on other arguments).
>It does feel like the one-two punch of [Trump + pandemic] has led to people feeling more entitled to let their rage and impatience out in public.

Well the fact that you're seeing what you're seeing in a very expensive Boston suburb seems to point in the other direction. Shouldn't that be the place in the country that sees the most pro-social behavior as a result of the pandemic and has the fewest people seeing Trump as something that should be emulated?
I am currently learning Perl, and I love it so far. It seems very powerful for doing stuff with text. I get the impression people might say I am crazy for learning it in 2022 over, say, Python, but I am not sure why.
I'm not sure if this is supposed to cause outrage or not. I know for example companies like Facebook recruit in places like Holland too [1]. I'm also aware that such jobs exist for checking child pornography too. These are not nice jobs, but they do need to be done. The important part is that people in these roles receive phycological support too, which I doubt they get when working for tech companies.

I always thought that a better model for moderation would be to distribute the effort. There will be people in my social bubble with similar reactions to the same content and once an algorithm understands these connections, it can distribute the effort of moderation amongst these like-minded people.

Another moderation tool would be to simply allow people to trade reputation (which has some value in terms of audience reach) for correctly tagging content.

On a different note, if you outsource your censorship, you will undoubtedly end up being censored based on the political ideology of the person doing the censoring.

[1] https://jobsfactor.eu/job/49057/dutch-content-moderator/
Hacker News eats titles sometimes.
> preventing a celebrity from using their platform [insert your reason here] is not equivalent to censorship

It definitely sounds equivalent to me, no matter the rationale for doing so.
Sadly you need a 5k screen for a 27" display to get to 200+ DPI: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

The LG UltraFine 5K is the only affordable display on the market with that resolution, and it's plagued with issues.
That makes no sense, one is not a replacement for the other. Spam bots can be slow, and human users can hammer your API. You need both.
Simple and authentic feel like they're the magic formula here. Deceptively difficult to balance.

For personal, I'm trying my best to text people when they come to mind. I always appreciate when someone does that to me.

For business, I'm trying https://www.strata.cc/, which uses your email history to nudge you to reconnect with people. I'm just starting to use it but has already made some spot on recommendations in the first couple of weeks.
"Each employee in our team, no matter where they live, enjoy the same purchasing power (for the same role and level). But not the same pay."

I think that's wrong, and just a way for the company to save as much money as possible.
A fair salary should be a % of the $ value you create minus local taxes and expenses needed for your position(equipment, software, training...).

Otherwise this isn't fair, this is just the bare minimum to retain employees in my opinion.

For example personally I don't plan in staying long in my current city/country.
But if I accepted local salaries I would never be able to save enough to move comfortably.

Whereas someone with a salary calculated using your formula, but in a more expensive city, could move wherever he want easily, his savings would take him much further.

So I only accept to work remotely for companies in richer locations who are able to pay more.

Also local purchasing power usually doesn't apply to objects(electronics, cars...)
Great read! I had no idea that JLC invented the keyless works mechanism. I love mechanical watches and wear one virtually every day... I find it whimsical that I'm still one of the more punctual people that I know even though I wear an anachronistic timekeeping device that can gain or lose anywhere from two to thirty-five seconds a day (depending on the movement) :P
I think you are only kind of right. aspx is over 10 years old, you should have switched to .NET MVC already and then the difference to .NET Core is small. We rewrote some things at an earlier company and there mostly general things like auth and where to get querystring variables and similar that had changed.

If we look at WCF to REST (or gRPC) it is also mainly easy since it is some general configurations and infrastructure things that have changed but most of the business logic will work. So you have to rewrite but it might be quite easy. And doing this once every decade is not that strange. Also remember that most of the old things still work. You can stay on those tech stacks for another couple of years if you feel that is better for your organization.
You seem to misunderstand how interest works in a society that uses capital in production and in the purchase of income producing assets.

I also don't suggest price level targeting.
Unfortunately, even in HN there is a lot of auto-censorship.

I have seen several articles make it to the front page and promptly disappear, flagged to death, just because they were against woke culture or the predominant points of the left.

Most recent one I can remember is “How Harvard went woke” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29906329
I am wondering if the leadership of Facebook ever was doing this work? Maybe they should do all kind of roles within their company for at least a two days a year. So they get a feel what's going on the work floor
> We changed the laws to restrict it to only crosswalks and added in a ton of new crosswalks. Even then, it was still a problem because pedestrians don't realize when someone can see them. If the are in the shade of a tree on a bright day, they can't be seen.

Yeah, nice one. Blaming the pedestrians, not the drivers. If the drivers can't see the pedestrians at a crosswalk, they simply need to drive slower.
No, not really. You are presumably on a team together. You should discuss it and share your knowledge and figure it out, together.
If people want authoritarian laws, then let them have it.
That's because they are paid per delivery, incentivizing them to go as fast as possible with no regards to the law.

An the companies sending them will have no repercussions if the police will stop the delivery guys - making the companies care less and even encouraging this behavior.
Python probably passed that point about 10 years ago. I'm not trying to be cynical, I've thought this for a while. At this point, I just wish the best to Python's new features because the language is well past "simple" and it's been many years since that was a thing that was even possible to save.

I've watched new and inexperienced programmers trying to learn full, modern Python up close and personal. (That is, they were trying to get into real code bases that were using the many features in Python, not that we were in a teaching space incrementally introducing things.) Anyone who has done that in the last ten years knows it's not simple anymore.
It's been a while since I read 1984, but I had thought "Outer Party" was a description of social class that encompassed far more than partisan candidates for office like the ones you mentioned--you had to be in at least the Outer Party to have any job important enough to influence public opinion.
That quote jumped out at me too, but ... isn't it a mischaracterization of Bradbury? In the book, isn't book-censorship imposed by the government?

I think the distinction is important b/c in so many conversations about de-platforming, one side wants to express firm commitment to the first amendment but retain the distinction that it applies only to states.
> Some of them are harmless (flat earth)

There seems to be a non-trivial anti-semetic component to at least one version of the flat earth conspiracy. It seems there's not one coherent view that all flat-earther's follow, which is not surprising at all. But I would feel confident in saying that the part where the earth is flat is just a springboard for the more insidious conspiracies people conjure up.
Yes, and I find it absolutely ridiculous.

But I have found a couple companies that do a sort of "middle-ground" – SSO via SAML2 locked behind some "call us" enterprise BS, but Google Auth available to all.

MailGun does this, and so does Linear. Atlassian charges extra for SSO (via Atlassian Access) but it's just $30 a month or something, so seems totally reasonable even if extra.

This feels like a decent middle ground for smaller companies since it requires zero extra config.
At school, I only have one notebook. I pay attention to the teacher and whenever I don’t understand something immediately, I redo the demonstration on paper. There were a few teachers that didn’t use textbooks or slides so I had to rely on friends and photos to review things later. But the real advantage is that I usually understand the subject deeper. I did well on explanation questions, not so on memorization question. But I could always guess the answer.
Why is Joe Rogan an example of book burning when there is literal book burning happening? I’m very confused. This strikes me of a position that is advocating in bad faith by cherry picking examples and ignoring more obvious examples of claimed phenomenon.

(Similarly, why is social media being pointed to when we have literal banned book lists in schools, and literal banned teaching materials?)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/right-wing-pastor-greg-loc...
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/12/21/child-dea...

The researchers found that motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of child deaths in the United States, comprising about 20% of all deaths among children in 2016. The chief reason for the crashes was cell phone use by drivers and pedestrians, the researchers found.

Firearms were the second leading cause of deaths among children and adolescents in 2016, according to the researchers. Overall, there was a 28% relative increase in the rate of firearm deaths among U.S. children, likely driven by a 32% increase in firearm homicides and a 26% increase in firearm suicides, the researchers said. They found that the odds of a child being killed by a firearm are 36 times higher in the United States than in other high-income countries.

About 16 children per 100k die each year in the US

https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/22-child-deaths...

In the UK for comparision it's about 10 per 100k

https://stateofchildhealth.rcpch.ac.uk/evidence/mortality/ch...

I'm not convinced the US focuses on either gun violence or deaths from cars
I don't think either term is strange or misleading really, they're not suggesting what exists because of course in a "no code" application some code is actually running under the hood. They're marketing speak to describe what you need to think about when using a tool.

Serverless = I don't need to think about 99% of what I'd usually need to when running software on a server. The idea is to say "you do basically everything the same, but less the server part of things."

No code = I don't need to know how to code to use this tool, so I can get more people in my organisation using it.

I think the one that falls down is really "no code" because usually with those tools you do need the skills of understanding control structures, sequences, loops, etc. A lot of people aren't used to thinking that way and so no code products end up with a lot of the same learning curve, it's just less scary because it has a graphical UI rather than misterious words in a text editor.

I'm still not sure I'd say "no code" is misleading, at least not intentionally. It's just we've still trying to figure out how to give highly customisable tools to people with no programming experience. We're probably not there yet but I imagine someone will crack it eventually or everyone else will slowly learn the skills needed. Email probably did both, people learned more and the tools because more usable (perhaps not the best example).

People have used the term "driverless car" to describe self driving cars in the past. It's just conveying the idea that one day you could own a car without having to think about doing the driving yourself.

At the end of the day, both are just marketing phrases for "this can do <thing>, but without having to think about <thing>". For some scenarios it works well to use "no X" or "X-less" to describe "you don't need to think about X while doing what you did before".
Speed and recovery? 100%. Endurance, not so much.

Recovery times are shortest in children - and become very significantly longer even at ages where maintaining muscle mass isn't too much of an issue. Maximum speed peaks with strength in your mid/late 20s & declines from there. Endurance seems to carry on increasing in to the late 30s & declines very slowly, plenty of ultrarunners, Audax cyclists and triathletes in their 40s/50s.
> For some reason desktops let software do whatever and they don’t seem to have near as much an issue as mobile OSes.

I think this may be a case of rose-colored glasses. How many PCs were and are a complete mess because Windows both is a free-for-all and is (or was) the largest attack target? Sure, we know how to keep our desktop systems sane, but most people don't.
No, this is something different. This glyph may be a "B", but not in the same sense that our Latin B is a B, or even in the same sense that Hebrew bayt is a B.

Remember, most Hieroglyphs had two or three consonants, and there was no Ancient Egyptian "alphabet", that is something they made up for tattoo's and tourists. When you wrote something in Egyptian, you didn't just combine a bunch of characters that each had a single consonant sound, that was an innovation of the semites. Then later the Greeks come up with the concept of vowels.

Apart from being shaped vaguely like a house, another clue is in the name. Semitic B's have a name that means house.
That’s not Rogan’s format though.

He’s one of the few “mainstream” talk show hosts who is willing to invite otherwise censored guests and get people with differing opinions/viewpoints. I’m no Rogan fan but the hysteria is mind boggling.

I’m also shocked and saddened that this view of consensus science is being shoved down people’s throats. That is literally the antithesis of science. Appeal to authority has no business standing in the way of questioning and presenting evidence.
So it’s not specific to functions as arguments? A long-time gripe I’ve had about default parameters in Python is that they are static from function definition time instead of dynamic at call time. A consequence of that is that if you have a function like

def foo(bar, baz=[]):
baz.append(bar)
return baz

baz will be reused for the duration of the process kind of like a global variable.

If this new syntax fixes that, I see the value.
Python was most definitely not mainstream. Even R was around, but it was called S, and pricey, and didn't have today's features.
You don't. If you want to prevent credential stuffing rate limiting is perfectly fine and that was the only reason EtienneK wanted to use captchas.

Spam bots can be slow yes, but this is about credential stuffing, that can not be done slowly or else it'd take years.
I might be out of the chorus but I enjoyed working with WPF / xaml / MVVM.
“Anacharsis, accordingly, on learning what Solon was about, laughed at him for thinking that he could check the injustice and rapacity of the citizens by written laws, which were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.” - Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives [0].

[0]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:20...
I'll be honest, I didn't expect the article about the anti-intellectualization of our culture to be veiled apologetics for Joe Rogan. It's not censorship to choose not to spend every moment discussing the basest topics that have already been belabored far beyond what they deserve.

If you want to argue that the potential harm of a large group of people other than yourself is fine, I won't censor you. Stand in your truth and hear what everyone else has to say about the matter. Considering only your own unpopular opinion while ignoring all others does not a philosopher make.
It's a structural problem in conventional physics classes (I'd think similar to math) that the median grade is awful (sometimes even like a 30) but it gets graded on a curve so that's considered a C, an acceptable grade.

In a class like that students walk out with a passing grade but often a weak understanding of the subject.

I was involved in teaching the PHYS 1101-1102 sequence at Cornell

https://physics.cornell.edu/physics-health-careers

which is an auto-tutorial class where students are required to take each test multiple times until they get a grade that's high enough to indicate mastery. Some people find this course to be nervewracking, often they fail the test horribly two times, sit through debugging sessions with the tutors, come back and do pretty well on the last try and walk out with a B+ or A- grade.

The course is unique in a lot of ways because it is focused on the needs of pre-meds to take the MCAT so it is heavy on fluid mechanics and all the tests are multiple-choice similar to the MCAT. Students who have less aptitude for the subject work harder in this class than a conventional physics class but they walk out with more mastery and they do much better on the physics part of the MCAT than students who take the conventional class that Cornell offers.
I went down a rabbit hole looking at how they distributed the original sequence for Covid-19 out of Wuhan. Pretty amazing to go back to January 2020 and see the conversations unrolling out in the open.[0] Also, here's the original sequence in FASTA format.[1] It's incredible to think that you can just email these files around, they're just text meant to be parsed by Perl!

[0] https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947
What's the math?
- Start by making sure the ones committing Code to are also the ones getting called at 2 AM if there is a Production problem.

- Get metrics the reward teams with Stable and Reliable systems, and avoid metrics that just reward teams that commit the most features

- Make sure the code reviewers have skin in the game, and that what they allow to pass reviews is also theirs to fix, not the the original coder.