skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "political" content being so heavily suppressed is the community abdicating responsibility;

Presumably every single member of this community is also a member of one or more other communities, some of which have an overt intention to be "more political". Given that, no one is being denied an outlet to share their views, give input, discuss, influence, vote, etc. when it comes to political events. So what is it so particularly important that this community be "political" (I'll just hand wave around exactly what we mean by "political" for now, for the sake of discussion)?

Personally I come here (mainly) to hear about / discuss obscure programming libraries, new programming languages, startup strategies, new scientific breakthroughs, etc. I get enough of "general politics" and "world news" elsewhere... I'd really rather not see it here as well. But, that's just me.
To be frank, often when I see this glossy pamphlet cover for free speech, you open up the pamphlet and see a bunch of child porn, antisemitism and/or racism.

The issue with free speech platforms is they attract a crowd of people whose only narrative is one that can't be said in other places. It isn't a narrative of truth, it is one of hate and bigotry.

I've seen few examples where objective truth is banned. I have, however, seen a lot of Nazis get banned.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

Good luck with that. One person’s apolitical feel good story is a nefarious propaganda piece in another person’s eyes.

(Interpreting “about politics” to also encompass “political”.)
Look at modern web browser (part 1 of 4) [2018]
Even inside a mobile browser’s sandbox, JavaScript gives me way more for free today than Metrowerks CodeWarrior Learning Edition gave me for ten weeks of pocket money back in the late 90s.

I’m not a fan of Apple’s puritanism, but I really don’t think people are missing out in the way you do.
I'm not on safari (or Mac), so I can't try it. But what I usually do is collapse the comments I already read, and when I check the thread later, I can distinguish new (or previously unread) comments.
You do realize they offer top of market compensation (250k fresh grad, >500k senior SWE, etc) for what they are looking for?
Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P.
Still better than being unregulated.

I don't come here to have political discussion, I want to find out what's interesting in tech, not to engage in flame wars (except the vim/emacs kind, that I fight).
If the US wants meaningful housing reform they need to severely limit corporate real estate investment.
Well, first of all, you can see those glove holes are too small, that's not the hands of a 13-year-old who mines his own silica. Disgraceful.
User reports indicate Twitter is having problems since 11:09 AM EST
I was coming to say something like this, also if Remix ever supports RSC it will most likely (IMO) be under noticed, like you just name a route `.server.tsx` and it will be a RSC and that's it, I don't think Remix will need a breaking change for this and RSC seems more like an implementation detail Remix has rather than something super big for the framework.
Use a desktop app?
Outlook and to a slightly lesser extent Apple mail are much evolved but still familiar in design to ten or even 20 years ago.
I've been running it on my primary nvme drive for the past year and have had no issues and performance has been surprisingly good. Raid for a high-end nvme drive is a bit out of my budget.
FWIW, the methodology note at the bottom of the interactive:

> The Post analyzed Zip code-level data provided by Redfin. Redfin defined investors as buyers whose name included the keywords “LLC,” “Inc,” “Corp” or “Homes,” or whose ownership code includes the keywords “association,” “corporate trustee,” “company,” “joint venture” or “corporate trust.” (For our analysis, Redfin excluded the buyer keyword “Trusts” from its analysis to be more conservative in its findings, since some families own their homes through trusts.) Redfin included the 40 most populous metros where counties disclose sales prices. Redfin’s metro boundaries are either Metropolitan Statistical Areas or metropolitan divisions, depending on the metro.

The Post excluded Zip codes with fewer than 10 sales in 2021 from the maps, and those with fewer than 25 sales from the race and income analyses.

Race and income data is from the U.S. Census Bureau.
I remember once suggesting an incident severity calculation scheme based on assigning numerical values to managers (higher the level in the organisation then the higher the numerical value) and calculating a severity by adding up the values for the managers standing behind the unfortunate person actually working to resolve the incident. :-)

Edit: I think this was based on observation (from a safe distance) of a complete set of managers right up to the CIO standing behind the desk of someone in the helpdesk office.
Without getting into the details of each particular submission I’m curious if you think the submission standards have remained consistent throughout the years or if your curation philosophy has changed at all and if so, in what ways?

There was a change a while back that made the front page less volatile, around that time you started seeing stories merged more often, and traditional news creeping in a bit more. I think it is sort of like a lightning rod to keep the rest of the front page pure. Before that stories would show up and get flagged constantly, and the front page would change multiple times an hour.

One thing that I have noticed is that 2020 was a bit of an eternal september for hn. Many times I see people posting things that don't really seem to work with the hn style, but they have a fairly high karma count and an account that was created in or after 2020. I think maybe a bunch of people suddenly working from home felt safe to use the internet without a boss over their shoulder, and needed a bit of community they were missing from not going in the office. This influx has watered down the ability of hn to aggressively flag/downvote politics, dumb jokes, etc.

Though, all in all it's still mostly the same it has been in the last 10 years or so.
And how to sort comments by date order so you can easily see what's been posted new since you last read a topic.
Seriously. It's hard just finding a job as a generalist developer, or even a "full-stack web & app developer" without every interviewer asking "so...backend or front-end?"

Me: "Whatever helps bring value to the customer. I've done it all and [gives examples]"

Them: "We have a frontend role and a backend role. Which do you want?"

"Neither. Bye"
That was actually really fun. I wonder at what point it stops scaling.

My feeling is that as long as I get 4 + number of boards guesses I'll always be able to solve it but maybe I'm being overly optimistic.
That point is a good example of casual logical fallacy. Make a statement which is true or universally acceptable ("Surely you still agree that Apple should apply their rules consistently?") and then add incorrect conclusions:

> In this case that would mean either allowing Wörd on the store, or purging all apps that resemble other apps from App Store. Starting with their own Apple Music and Translate apps

Here's the equivalence of copycat status of Wörd and of Music / Translate is implied, which is very questionable indeed.

Also, "you think that Apple should be allowed to be the only gatekeeper to 60% of people’s mobile devices" hides other logical fallacies. First, it is implied by the wording that Apple somehow became the gatekeeper of 60% of devices, whereas customers chose to buy the devices where Apple is gatekeeper, and at least some of them did it because of the fact. Second, the number 60% does not correspond to market reality. Apple is the gatekeeper of all their devices, in all countries, and worldwide share is obviously lower.
We seem to have a strange anti-intellectual bias in our culture when it comes to children.

I mean I was not pushed hard as a kid to play guitar or play football/wrestling but I was pushed. It took quite a bit of time before I really fell in love with playing guitar. It is hard to fall in love with something when you suck at it. I needed to be pushed. Sports were fun at the time but we completely overstate the value of organized sports IMO.

I don't know why we see playing a musical instrument as something different than learning scientific instruments. We expect the kid to just naturally be driven in science from day one and pushing them is seen as something morally off.

It reminds me of the crazy hockey parent that pushes their kid way too hard in hockey. While some kids might end up hating hockey, a huge % just end up being really good hockey players compared to the average person. People tend to fall in love with things they are good at.

I am childfree but if I did have a kid I would be a science version of the hockey parent and let the chips fall as they may. The risk/reward is just massive for the kid.
Other than the lab leak thing, what other conspiracy theories were there that turned out to be possible after all or even true?

I'm not aware of any government forcing you to get vaccinated, I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Employers take note: Most remote workers don't want to go back to the office
I can read, so just send the presentation to me.
> Seriously, you don't have enough interruptions?

I was responding to this. That kind of notification won't interrupt me like, say, my phone vibrating or a desktop notification.
I guess its good to know how to avoid getting pulled into yet another UI refresh that I do not want. Google's new chat system doesn't appeal to me even a little bit.
For those of us not really plugged into the crypto world: what is PX-1000Cr? Why is it important? Where is it used?
No one wants to take your walled garden away from you. Freedom for me maintains freedom of choice for you also. You seem to want to limit my freedom because the only available option happens to be your preference.
But they can't get the higher percentage because there is technically another sales avenue, so it's not exclusive, even if barely a soul would make use of it.
Next.js 12.1: On-demand ISR, SWC support for styled-components, Relay, Jest
Ask HN: How Do You Quit at a Remote Company?
I started at a company after they went remote during the pandemic. They mailed me a laptop and some basic gear when I started.

I'm ready to quit and move on, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this equipment.

I figure I need to mail it back but what is the best approach to this? The laptop is a MacBook so not exactly a cheap piece of hardware and I want to make sure it doesn't "get lost" or damaged on the return trip.

What has been your process when leaving a remote job?
I would recommend that you read the angry soap box lecture before responding to it. Because you didn't say anything about the actual article, you just asserted that you think Apple is a benevolent consumer union and that you have no interest in being told otherwise.

If you had read the article you would know that this is another case of a developer being summarily dismissed with little explanation. This kind of story is rather common among iOS developers and it shouldn't happen. In this specific example they said "no copycats", without really explaining what does and does not make a game a "copycat". So the only assumption the developer could make is Apple has an internal policy of "nobody is allowed to make games in which you guess words" because they got embarrassed by a news article on Wordle clones.

Whether or not you think this particular developer is justified or not is immaterial. It could be the case that you just happen to really, really hate Wordle clones. However, there is still an issue here: Apple is very much non-communicative with, if not outright hostile to, smaller developers. I doubt you really intended to say "if you want my money you will be a large monopolistic enterprise with a dedicated App Store compliance department and the market power to embarrass Apple", but that's the implication of what you wrote.

>The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.

And... what's wrong with that? Apps take time and money to develop[0]. These kinds of no-comment rejections are Apple basically throwing your work in the garbage. It's not "hey you need to change this in order to get approved", it's just a flat "no".

[0] More generally, I'm getting the same vibes from that last comment that I do from really angry pirates trying to justify piracy on the grounds that "publishers only care about money".
Hey Kent, could you please disclose that you work for Remix as well?
Would you consider, for example, Musk moving to Texas, or that same state's power grid failing to be political stories?

Both these ostensibly tech-related stories have strong political undercurrents.
In my experience, most businesses with these kind of over-documentation practices are conscious of the value loss. The executives just believe, rightly or wrongly, that the issues being averted would themselves destroy the company if they happened.
It must be effective at stopping something, right? Otherwise why is Facebook revenue suffering?
I assume the commenter’s choice of which smartphone to buy is related to these preferences. If the commenter wanted a smartphone that supports sidelining, they could switch to the other smartphone platform (the one that is vastly more popular than Apple’s).
That takes years of building up until that happens.
But that wasn't the idea. (Come on!)

Yours might be the starting point for the "case" for our bigoted detective, but these leads invariably run cold but inadvertently reveal a piece of information or suspect that had not yet come to light (solved — maybe even simply by the process of elimination for our sad detective).
How does it benefit the Swedish consumer to ban a game that uses their native language because it's a clone of a game in English?
> are we to assume you enjoy seeing tons of 1-to-1 Wordle clones in the app store

The article is about rejecting a clone game app, the author is just complaining that this rule is enforced without 100% consistency. If I had to guess Apple hit some sort of clone limit on this concept and started cracking down on new submissions. So author missed the bus.

> and not caring about quality in the slightest

Dunno where this claim comes from, but the author literally spent 1 day on their app lol.
Not an alternative if you want the Apple ecosystem.
Aren't comments closed after a couple weeks anyway?
Be extremely careful with your server's security. I would never want to be responsible for someone else's exchange access keys. It's a honeypot if there ever was one. (Even with limited access rights)
Focus on the "local Open Source client" even though that will probably be much harder to monetize. Anyway, building trading bots is a lot of fun and there are plenty of strategies that can make a decent return.
Related-unrelated. Does anyone know of an english 6-letter Wordle clone?
You know what would be an awesome user setting?

-Under no circumstances do I want your update unless it's to circumvent a genuine security threat or addresses a genuine pain point that real users complain about on HN, Reddit or, if it exists, your user forums
I really hate the demonization of the phrase "conspiracy theory". Why is it so crazy to entertain the idea that the rich and powerful who control major institutions may be working together?
Thank you for your sharing! So detailed! You have pointed a must-consider problem. We are also thinking about how to keep simple but useful meanwhile; and also about what our advantages are. Seems the landing page is a big issue. I will mark it.
I mean they lost that argument.

They were outvoted or simply not listened to, you mean.

Otherwise, the argument becomes circular: "Clearly there was no significant possibility that the Japanese Cabinet would have agreed to surrender had not the first two bombs been dropped. As evidenced by the fact that the bombs were dropped, and they did, after all, surrender."
First we need to realize that rising home "value" just means rising prices. Our policy is to essentially make housing more expensive since pre-existing home owners benefit.
Homestead tax abatements are common. Owner-occupant's primary residence gets a big RE tax break, second homes and investment properties pay full freight. That works pretty well.
I ditched (all of) Google 2 weeks ago after 15+ years of having an account. I don't miss it. One of the last major annoyances before I escaped was the ever-decreasing amount of screen-real-estate that seemed to be available to actually use: this new eye-candy version seems to confirm that continuing trend, so I'm happy to be out of it.
Fantastic thread.

The history is also interesting. It's not that "macOS cheats", but that it sincerely inherited the status quo of many years, then tried to go further by adding F_FULLFSYNC. However, Linux since got better, leaving macOS stuck in the past and everybody surprised. It's a big problem.

Here's Dominic Giampaolo from Apple discussing this back in 2005, before Linux fixed fsync() to flush past the disk cache: https://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2005/Feb/msg0008...

And here's TigerBeetle's Twitter thread with more of the history and how projects like LevelDB, SQLite and various language std libs were also affected: https://twitter.com/TigerBeetleDB/status/1422854779009654785
Investors Seek More Information About Companies’ Struggles to Hire, Retain Staff
> So Inspector Clouseau, Barney Fife

Stupid, I agree, but not nearly as politically incorrect as our "hero".

The humor is more of the cringe-variety (if you like that sort of thing) when our detective makes the big reveal only to walk right into it.

David Brent (The Office) is more like our detective.
1. I've never seen a 'absolutely untrue covid vax denialism' that doesn't get downvoted to death here.

2. Just because others make bad comments, it doesn't mean you should, too.

3. Your type of bad comment is the one there's a rule against, while there's no explicit rule about being wrong.
You always need to be willing and ready to walk away.

Best case they call you back with an increased offer.
Comments like these are needlessly cynical. Corporations care about money else they would not have a reason to exist and apple is no exception.

What apple sell is something that is accessible to the majority and usable by most. Their sales are testament to this as is the fact that several ios apps are generally higher quality than their android equivalents. This is a natural consequence of the average ios user spending more on apps. There are no two ways around that.

As a counter to you headphone jack argument, i could equally make the case that many phone users care about their phones working, not much else. Apple's products are quite durable and many here will attest to using laptops from 2015-2016 and phones equally as old.

The short story is that apple provide products and services that people value. Period.
Meta-analysis reveals “decline effect” from ocean acidification on fish behavior
> Could you elaborate on that? It sounds... useful

Not much. It was a moderately severe strain of the intercostals on the left side of my ribcage. It’s a really unpleasant injury because it hurts badly whenever you perform an action that involves the ribs.

As for the transference itself, it was a complete accident. The other person was attempting to provide some relief via manual therapy. This being a very light touch intervention, not the kind of activity that could easily cause a strain. And it worked surprisingly well. The other person then had the same debilitating injury I'd had for about a week, which was about my projected remaining recovery time. It’s very much not something I’d do intentionally. I follow what you mean by useful, but someone who did such a thing regularly would belong in a horror novel and not out among decent people.

It’s practically a defining characteristic of these phenomena that we don’t know how they happen or how to consistently produce them, which makes systematic rigorous investigation difficult if not entirely impossible.

I still try to view the world rationally though. It's a powerful tool for pragmatically grasping most phenomena. I'm just cognizent that it's an incomplete paradigm. Also, for what it's worth, these paranormal phenomena, or whatever you want to call them, are relatively rare.
[citation needed]. Every source I've seen says the same: nobody cares, VPNs are "illegal" same way weed is illegal in UK.
I downvoted you because you complained about your downvotes.
These are all symptoms of testosterone deficiency.
Ask HN: Null Object Pattern
Do people still recommend this pattern? I’m using a dynamic language without type checking, and null can certainly cause problems, but I’ve always found the overhead of maintaining a Null Object not worth the effort.
I dunno, I kinda dislike Macs. At least Windows has the decency of not even pretending to be Unix-like. Other than the fact that it has a bash-like shell, and some token support for Posix APIs, the Mac is just as proprietary and opaque (I'd argue even more so) as Windows. At least Linux allows to poke around its innards and explore with nothing but a terminal.
> What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.

Do you support arbitrary and nonsensical reviews? Do you support everything described in the article? Do you support Apple saying that there is one set of standards for all developers even when this is clearly false?

You say you spend very little time discussing this point, yet you come and post 150 words about how you love the app store and how great it is (which I get) but you don't address a single claim made in the article. Rather you refer to it as an "angry soap box" and insinuate that the author might be acting in bad faith because of a failed business.

The author is upset because Apple failed to properly enforce the rules, and this egregious error cost the author the ability to ship an iOS app. Please respond to this rather than just say, "I love Apple".
This game is pretty cool but it doesn't play well on desktops because you have to scroll to see all four words. In my opinion it would be better to have all four side by side instead of trying to fit a mobile design for desktop websites.
>If the money poured into fusion for the past N decades had gone into solar and storage, good cheap solar panels would have come out decades earlier, and we would have already built out our clean power system.

Panels have been viable for decades already. Storage is an entirely different problem.

>But the fossil companies did not want that.

Then they would really hate Fusion which would probably put every energy company on the planet out of business.

>There will never be a commercially competitive Tokamak fusion power plant.

Seems a bold claim.
I think it's quite different now, the gap between HN and lobste.rs content is growing wider and wider, lobste.rs to me represents more closely what "old" HN was like
In the future it would be good to know that your current TC is not relevant, what is is your number to move. You can give that to the company (or a bit above if you think they will come in below it)

If they come back with a match of your current, there is no harm in saying "What I meant was, I'm looking for x% above that." You need to be clear. Might be a blow to your ego, but ego needs to be left out of negotiations for your own sake.
On my machines (desktop and smartphone), this implementation is noticeably faster than the real thing; or at least that's how I perceive it.

I never worked with, or even tried, React and such libraries but a bit surprised. The code in this version here must be much more complexe, and the server much smaller, yet (feels as if) it is faster.

Am I the only one experiencing this and surprised by it?