skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would totally disagree. I can think of two dozen folks I would love to catch up with (and I'm sure they would agree) but between work projects, kids, family you keep losing track of time.

The real proof of this is when I run into them on the commuter train, we sit together and have vibrant conversations. Or you run into them on the street, and next thing you know you've got an active SMS thread going...until the kids have some issue at school and now you're distracted.
>Pretty much captures what I see on just about everywhere that isn't HN

HN is extremely restrictive in what you're allowed to say without getting flagged. At the same time, discussion in the allowed spectrum are indeed of higher quality. Unless you fit in the narrow spectrum constant self-censorship is required. The design encourages this more than reddit, because unless you manually enable showdead, rejected comments are gone instead of collapsed. Then there are apparently forced conformity patterns like inverting votes of users that consistently disagree with the majority - which I have seen mentioned several times in comments, but nothing official, so no real way to confirm or deny.

"If you frequently vote against the prevailing opinion, then your votes get disabled and/or inverted. I have spoken with Dang about this multiple times to confirm. Some call it an echo chamber, others call it "consensus"."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29730125

During the peak of vaccine hype pretty much anything other than establishment's view was immediately flagged and removed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168789

I remember this one because I wrote a semi-long comment. The story was getting upvotes fast. I look a while later - flagged, gone, title edited to be less interesting. It doesn't show [flagged] now (because it's old?) but you can see the submitter complaining it was flagged.
I’m not sure it’s unreadable to an experienced coder, someone learning the language though will be confused about the difference between = and => in the function argument definition.

Also the “arrow” is clearly pointing the wrong way, it should be “<=“.
Become a developer, never mention your struggles again post hire.
Watch Mike Rother's Kata videos on YouTube. Every org is a snowflake. What works for one will not work for others. You need scientific thinking and practice to find what works for your snowflake.
Hi Guys,

Since June 2021 I have been co-developing my side project - Difree https://www.getdifree.com/ - a rich text editor to write on many things in a distraction free way.

When I asked myself a question, is my side project, the project:

where I don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but I am working on it regardless.

I answered 'partially' :-)

I mean,

1. I don't care about if it makes money or it gets a lot of attention.

2. But I would love people to find Difree and find it useful, as I do. That's it.

Does it mean, I want 'a lot of attention'? I don't know.

Right now with Difree I have been basically scratching my itch. We have been developing it, because I found I had a problem and there was no suitable solution for that.

In the past, I missed a tool, where I can write something longer and/or more meaningful, like a reply to an e-mail or a post on Reddit, in a simple manner without distractions.

Built-in editors in websites like Gmail, Reddit, or Slack leave much to be desired, eg.

1. Gmail's text editor is poorly designed. By default, I have to write an e-mail in a small window, in the bottom right corner of the website.

2. Slack's text editor is full of distractions. While writing I am usually being bombarded with incoming messages.

3. Reddit's text editor is... well, both :-)

My workaround was, I wrote the text aside in an external tool and then copy-paste it.

But I couldn't have found the right external tool, e.g.

1. Notepad sucked at formatting.

2. Evernote was slow to start and difficult to write.

3. MS Word is not free and cluttered.

4. Google Docs is overcomplicated for this purpose.

5. Google Keep is for taking short notes, not meaningful writing.

The only tool that partially worked for me was iA Writer. It looks neat, simple, and elegant. Writing is distraction-free. I used it quite often, but I missed two things. The ideal text editor for me should be handy and fast.

1. By handy, I mean I could work on many things.

2. By fast, I mean open in a second.

This was when the idea of a simple, fast, and distraction-free editor came to my mind. Using the proven framework for text editors like Quill and making it easily accessible as a browser's extension, seemed to be the fast lane.

The keynote for Difree is to build the text editor that is

1. distraction-free,

2. fast,

3. and handy

I guess, if it works for me, that's fine. I am sure, there will be people having the same problem as I had and find Difree useful.
After the backlash to Python 3's breaking changes, I doubt Python will ever do that again, unfortunately.
I really don’t get why there isn’t better automated filtering.

There can’t be that many suicide vids etc floating around the internet. Catalog that sht once and use AI similar to YouTube and copyright detection.

Sure there will remain a continued need for 2nd line humans but this really shouldn’t be this much of a mental sweatshop operation.

Vids especially.

Written text is a bit harder because anyone can easily produce unique content

Also FB being front and center on this issue seems to be a recurring theme…yet they aren’t even the big video destination
This seems logical to me? Why should Facebook arbitrate a transaction between friends?
The problem with speed bumps is they tend to make drivers speed up in between the speed bumps to make up for lost time; it's probably the least effective traffic calming measure. The most effective one would probably be shrinking the width of the road so that the lanes are narrower, which makes high speed difficult along the entire length of the road, not merely the stretches around speed bumps.
When done right, satire is indistinguishable from fundamentalism.
>The thing I have noticed is bad decision making or inattentive behavior. People pulling out when they shouldn't (possibly due to misjudged speed)....

Possibly the result of the other drivers being able to drive faster, thus giving less space to pull out?

> or looking at their phone and drifting from their lane.

This one is much easier to connect to lower traffic levels. As the complexity of the environment decreases with the drop in traffic, drivers feel safer to do things like be on their phones. Being on your phone is very similar to higher speed in that it is a higher-risk response that many drivers would rather engage in if there is no apparent downside.

I find this explanation to be consistent with the way people respond to weather by slowing down (and do so differently in different locales depending on their familiarity with that weather), or how , when I used to drive up to the SFO airport for Friday night red-eyes, it was rare to encounter cars driving less than 100mph on the pristine, nearly-empty freeway.
The post starts to with a link trashing both Facebook and Sama. If they're a corporate shill, they're shit at their job.
One of the more strikingly recognizable steps along the way is the alef programming language, also a plan9/bell labs baby.
> There are checks in place to make difficult to buy an SSL certificate for the official domain of a bank.

Who said it needed to be a real bank?

> At least Chrome tracks malicious websites.

That's not TCP/IP, the chrome equivalent would be on Trustwallet, argent, metamask etc to implement.
This is very well constructed but this is like a full time job in itself!

I also worry that such a systematic method won't result in meaningful connections and could actually result in annoying your contacts or wasting their time..?
> It's never fun to ask someone who just got divorced how their spouse is doing.

Right, same for a lost pregnancy, but that’s not a subject to post to social media. Personally I would not advertise a divorce there either.

It’s only natural to expect someone to ask about such things because they’re not up to date, and I find that okay. The fact they’re asking even if I hadn’t told them is expected and makes me feel better they even asked.

I was in such a situation where I had to think about expecting “how is xyz” questions. Friends are genuinely asking. I don’t fault them not knowing what I didn’t tell them.

Edit:

Remember before social media? No similar method other than perhaps a website or email (90s) or simple telephone calls.
An interesting take and, yes, in the west it is hard to instill in a student that it is up to them to earn their way to success by making the maximum use of the teaching resources and not to sit back and get fed what they need.

In poorer countries, this is better understood, especially since many people do not go to school so the alternative to working hard is plain to see.

Not sure how you fix it though, perhaps some out of the box ideas to reward those that work hard in a way that reinforces that hard works pays off. I don't know.
Facebook's core product has almost 3 billion monthly active users, that is not "failing" by any logical definition.
How can there be no formal approval process for surgical procedures? This drives me crazy. Surgical procedures should have a high evidence standard just like drugs. Otherwise how can a patient be confident in the science?
But if you grind out friendship rep points you can pretty easily get to B tier. A tier takes finesse and finding their favorite gift.
That’s the stuff that comes up when I google “problem of a coordination”.
"Meantime, the Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the company asked that I do an “apology tour.” I was told that the main complaint against me was that “I was not a friend of the Black community at Levi’s.” I was told to say that “I am an imperfect ally.” (I refused.) "

Jesus. That's horrendous. That's religious fundamentalism.
A whole lot of ink to be spilled complaining about the movement of the overton window. Substantive discussions of sensitive topics are, if anything, more common, widespread, and participated in than ever.

You only hear bellyaching from people who feel that the consensus on those issues has shifted away from their point of view. Note that this article spends more time bemoaning the mere deplatforming of the (at best, bimbo level) podcast the Joe Rogan Experience (which hasn't even happened!) than the outright banning of books in Texas schools.

This guy needs to pull his head out of his ass, in short. Controversial, complicated conversations are happening _everywhere and all the time_ in the modern world. I would bet solid money that the open discussion of taboo ideas is _more_ common now than at any point in history.
Because this is an article for Quillette, which is an outlet for far-right propaganda. That is all. It is not in any way an intellectually honest or rigid argument, it is pushing a rightwing agenda.
You might dislike this. But that's the game that's played in that industry

I’m confused. Why would I dislike that marketers are doing their jobs? Are they not supposed to choose their words and bandwagons carefully? Do you want your dentist pushing his controversial opinions onto you while treating your teeth? If you have a conflict of interests (professional vs personal) you resign. I don’t see a problem here.
It makes me marvel at Google's engineering since they re-built Docs from scratch using canvas.
A long term solution is micropayments.

I'm happy to pay a few cents to read an article. I'm absolutely NOT happy to be forced to sign up for 10 different subscriptions.
Apply for everything. Let other people say no for you. If people find out about your past be 100% straight with them, but you don't need to be the one to bring it up. Work your hardest to provide value, ask for feedback and correct where necessary. You'll be fine. There's a lot of work in cybersecurity these days.

Also, you should list the country you're in. Who knows, someone on HN could reach out with an opportunity.
Modern variometers are more sophisticated than this.

The first major modification was the total energy variometer, which takes account of the fact that you can trade speed for altitude and vice-versa. It gives a figure (expressed as an equivalent rate of climb) that corresponds to whether the sum of your potential and kinetic energy is increasing or decreasing. This is particularly useful in rough air, where, with a simple variometer, it is difficult to center on the strongest updraft.

As the performance of gliders improved, and the speed for optimal glide angle diverged from that for minimum sink rate, it became useful to know the vertical speed of the airmass, as, when flying fast, your descent rate is quite high even if the air is rising. Netto / airmass variometers compensate for the still-air rate of descent you would have at the current airspeed. Relative netto variometers show the difference between this and the minimum sink rate.

All of this can be achieved by clever plumbing, though electrical instruments can have less lag, and potentially adjust for flap setting and ballast weight. One orthogonal development that requires electricity is the audio variometer, which emits a sound of varying pitch to indicate rate of climb or descent - an important safety issue, as you can monitor this datum while looking outside of the cockpit.

Another thing that variometers are usually equipped with is the speed-to-fly ring, invented by Paul McCready of 'Gossamer Albatross' fame. It gives a useful (even though imprecise, on account of the parameters that have to be estimated) indication of the optimal speed to be flying at for the current variometer reading.

As in the case of indicated vs. true airspeed, it is important to understand what you need the information for.
Do you know @thedawgyg?

I guess blackmail & fraud are a problem but if it was related to hacking I guess you'll still find a job. It's gonna be hard, but there are companies that care about your hacking skills, not about your past.

> This leads me to believe that I should look for entry-level positions but I've been told I'm overqualified

You sound like a senior pentester if you'd ask me...
There were already a lot of features like that:

- context manager

- decorators

- inline conditions

- else keywords in loops, which nobody knows even exist.

- raise from (empty, or with params).

- yield from (espacially with send())

- comprehension lists

- advanced unpacking. This is valid: (a, (b, *c)) = [1, {*range(4)}]

- advanced slicing. This is valid: foo[2:8:2] = bar[:4]

Most of which existed in Python 2 already !

But it has never been a problem before. Why ?

Because the community doesn't abuse features, it's part of the creed. But also because half of the python coders don't even know they exist (they are just trying to solve their problem, but dev is not their job), and are productive without it, so they just don't use it.

In fact, a lot of tutorials on the internet never even mention those.

Since the walrus came out, I used it once, and never saw it on a client code base.

But when the community do use the features, they usually make things better: decorators made flask/click what it is, slicing made numpy/pandas what it is, type hints made fastapi/pydantic what they are.

Those worries are mostly that: worries. They don't reflect what happens in practice.
Same here! I've been studying the mathematical notation Wikipedia page, and being able to "pronounce" or verbalize symbols has made things much more comprehensible.

My current internal tussle is squaring the declarative nature of math with the imperative nature of programming, which I find much easier to reason with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo...
What Is a Monster?
Near my house, I have one of those horrid stoplights where there are two lanes that immediate narrow down to one lane. I've lost track of the number of times recently when drivers will not take their turn merging and turn it into a game of chicken. I've taken to just assuming the car in the other lane is going to cut me off.
I think this is the key to genetic success.

When you are able to train this much you get results. It´s not that you are genetically able to skate fast, it´s that you are genetically able to train on a level that you can get there.

I get his feeling specified in the intro where he states he does not (want) to believe his success is only a result of genetics. The effort put in to it matters a lot. It´s the the genetics that allow for such high volume and intense training
I use mine to run WeeWX (weather station). It has an RTL-SDR attracted, receiving from an Acurite 5n1 weather station. The official Acurite bridge was obsoleted/disabled a while back, so this is what I did rather than buy the "new and improved" bridge.
One person's hodl is another person's holup.
> That seems like a 99% solution, but the farmers or amateur racers who put mileage on their cars outside of public roads might be annoyed by that solution.

They still release pollutants into the atmosphere, though.
> Why is Joe Rogan an example of book burning when there is literal book burning happening?

Because right wing groups have very little cultural power at this point. They may have some political power, but that doesn't count for much when the culture is not on your side. So yes, their book burning is bad, but it's ultimately not that consequential simply because these groups don't have the near-total cultural dominance of the left. It's like being punched by a six year-old, not good, but ultimately nothing more than a minor nuisance.

On the other hand the types of folks calling for Joe Rogan's head dominate practically every cultural power center in American life: the educational system, the media, Hollywood, Big Tech, Corporate America, etc. So we they start trying to censor things, it's a big deal because they actually have the power to do some real damage, in a way that some hillbilly preacher could only dream of.

Perhaps one of the most irritating traits of the American left is that they've never come to terms with the fact that they are the establishment. When you erroneously view yourself as a scrappy underdog instead of the vanguard of the establishment, you tend to get a little reckless in how you use your power.
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The idea of orcs that you find in the Silmarillion, which is that orcs are elves corrupted by Melkor, is perfectly reconcilable with Catholicism. In Christianity it's well defined what happens to any creature corrupted by evil in the final judgement.

That explanation does not work in Tolkien's universe though. Can orcs be redeemed? Do they still have a soul? What happens to it when they die? Do they go to the halls of Mandos? Can they be reincarnated like elves?

Tolkien was never satisfied with any explanation because he could not fit them inside his world's theology, which is inspired by Christianity but does not match it one to one.
Without better/actual enforcement, the alternative is to simply ban cars. Of course, the true choice will be to do nothing and let innocent people die (hey-o covid!).
Here is the crux of the problem, in my mind: Does Facebook have more of a prerogative to help people in Africa or to maximize profits/value for shareholders (primary among them, Zuckerberg)? And the answer is complicated.

In an actual free-market system, Facebook would want to reduce costs because it wants to reduce prices to stay ahead of competition. But Facebook doesn't have much competition, or monetary prices. And so Facebook doesn't act like a competitive company, it acts like a monopoly maximizing its exploitation of a resource it controls.

If Facebook were acting competitively, it would be reducing its price (fewer ads) when it reduces costs. But it actually does the opposite.

Which takes me back to the original question: When Facebook is in this market-power position, is it really it's prerogative just to make as much money as possible?
Surely only your bank can reverse a transaction, why would Facebook be expected to do this?
I can second that the level of aggression on the roads in the Boston area seems to have jumped substantially over the last 18 months or so. I also very rarely see enforcement happening, my partner and I have long noted that the likelihood you’ll get pulled over in Boston even for overtly bad behavior is next to zero.
Right, but this article argues that SSE is simple and easy to debug on the wire - so is http1. Http2 is easy to set up, so are websockets, yet debugging the multiplexed http2 stream is is not that simple anymore.

The SSE connection limit is a nasty surprise once you run into it, it should have been mentioned.
Radiolab had a similar post sometime back. That was about philippines - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-...
https://archive.is/GjMsG
Generally...he'll have to lower the price on the remaining 3 shares to sell them it looks like as there was only demand for 7 items @ $10. Or he can simply wait until someone values them at $10. Conversely, if someone is willing to buy more than is available, people will probably make more available, just at a higher price.
All good arguments, not just practical. I know how to host my own email, it's just not worth the hassle when you consider spam, whitelists, blacklists, and what have you. I know how to setup my own blog on my own web server on my own vps with my own commenting system. But again, I blog maybe twice per month, so not worth the hassle. If such things are not practical for me then they are well out of reach for average internet users that doesn't even know what a server is.
The biggest irony is that Fahrenheit 451 is almost as big a sneer at modern media as it's a paen to books. As he's discovering books, Montag concludes that it's the rubbish that's broadcast on the giant TVs that's depressing his wife, and ends up torching the TV instead...

I'm not sure Joe Rogan's podcast would escape Bradbury's flamethrower.
I can imagine a Politician saying that the private business of a "private" company is nothing to do with them but what have Politicians done when their consituents were jailed for fraud? Did they assume it was true because they didn't know how many other people with no previous convictions were also jailed?

I guess it is hard since it happened over such a long time, it is easy to assume that the levels look legit, a few 10s of people per year or whatever. Sounds really scary though.
When you place a buy or sell order, you can specify "all or nothing" if that is what you want.
you're an asshole
I'm kind of stunned by any defense of:

"As a teacher I hand out problems people can work on but will not provide the solutions."

That is completely BS and my degree is in Math and I labored through the same during my undergraduate degree. It is unacceptable in my opinion in any field and I hope that other fields like engineering and medicine don't take this elitist approach.

Ever try or even see a "Leet-Code" style question that stated the problem without providing example results? Ever try to help someone with a problem on Stack Overflow who can state their problem but will not provide example data? How do you ever know you got the correct result? You don't. Perhaps worse, you are confident in a "solution" that includes an "off by 1" bug.
There existed VCSs in 1972.
I don't think that's the spirit in which the article was introduced. It's an educational piece. Of course, it's about the ideal scenario.