skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the fuck were @wpietri's perfectly valid comments above[1] flagged and/or downvoted to death? It's not like they were advocating either rabid racism or even rampant-PC anti-racism[2] -- they were just stating the rather inoffensive and uncontroversial[3] opinion that not speaking out on something isn't just "neutral" but actually supporting the status quo.

@dang, please un-deadify those if you can. (Yeah, I know: Don't argue about downvotes, yadda yadda. But also: Don't abuse flagging, right? So sometimes, in order to point out the latter, you have to do the former.)

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[1]: i.e. not this one, but the grandparent and great-great-grandparent (or thereabouts).

[2]: Just to take the most inflammatory examples that came immediately to mind.

[3]: And, at least AFAICS, factually true.
Another +1 for Figma. I use a plugin called Motion (https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/889777319208467032). I've not animated diagrams, but no reason you couldn't.

Here's a gif loader I created for my web app with Figma and Motion. https://images.usercontent.bryteagent.com/queue-loader.gif
Another aspect which is often neglected in movies of today is character development. A character's backstory is either completely unknown, or is told instead of being shown, or is shown in a couple seconds, and then something happens to them that was aimed to supposedly instil some emotions in me as a viewer, but no, I don't care about this character. If they die, I guess they will be replaced by another character I don't care about. Example of this chasm between the old and the new is Moffat-era Doctor Who vs post-Moffat Doctor Who. This YouTube review shows it best: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbZkR9vOrw>

Also, romantic scenes all look the same, completely generic. They're basically copy-pasted between movies. They're so flat and devoid of any genuine feeling I end up hitting the right arrow to skip them entirely.

Usually I don't have those issues with older movies (and movies of a couple selected directors still making good movies to this day).
Wood doesn't rust.
Lots of people here are treating the transportation part of this as the part we can influence, but as someone from a society that rarely gets blackout-drunk when going out, it's perplexing to me why people can't simply drink less.
My friend bought a TRX. Not sure why, he has to drive a lot for work. He was paying over $250 a week in gas and even with mileage reimbursement from his work it didn’t make sense. I laughed when he sold it within 2 months.

He did end of selling it for much more than he bought it for.
So true.

I feared the Hollywoodization of the game industry.

But it never happened in the mindless extend of movies and music.

Indie games are still going strong.
Nope ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
Almost an adult!
YC has been instrumental in some incredible successes. It's been very cool to see people I know go through the accelerator, scale up, and eventually exit. Long may it continue.
This is cool. I'm reminded of a physics & chemistry teacher I had that would strap a webcam to his chin and project the feed onto the whiteboard; this was only just financially and technically possible for a state school at the time - I had family in the school administration and have since been told how hard he had to work to get any of that "experimental teaching equipment".

It makes me wonder if there are good ways to improve my interaction with my team - OBS to embed my face in the screen share and try and find something to do eye tracking?
Very nice and, like other commenters, I really like the responsiveness.

Small bit: on an iPhone XS Max, the slider couldn’t be set to 20°F or 85°F. Making the control box slightly wider would probably allow that, but it took nothing away from the practical usability, of course.
Or the oil industry - American Geological Union was one of the last scientific institutions to accept the reality of anthropogenic global warming.
Gnome use javascript with native UI. Apple simply use webview.
I've lived in plenty of towns without public transportation of any kind - including taxis. You might be able to call them from the next town over, but that's probably gonna cost you at least $100 if they'll do it at all

And then in places with Taxis, most were pretty horrible. For example: My car broke once. Called to see about getting a ride to work the next day (There was no bus service, and at least half the trip had no sidewalks). I was told I'd have to call back when I needed it, and the waiting time could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours after I called. Which basically means that you can't make it to any appointment in an appropriate time frame. Half the time, the taxi was a poorly running car, sometimes dirty. I was not in a place with medallions, these were just poor taxi companies.
Apple happens to be very quiet about GXF in their platform security guide, yes ;)
This just doesn't ring true to me, at all.

Is the Youtube algorithm directing people to make vaguely fascist feeling, "bring back the good old days", 'kids today', 'civilization is doomed' content aimed at young males? Or is that just a natural cycle that repeats throughout history?

The biggest film in history was "Birth of a Nation" until it was replaced by "Gone with the Wind", "Star Wars" may have been a rebellion against a vaguely Nazi empire, but it was still about hereditary rulers that are related to each other starting wars.

Overall, the trajectory seems fairly positive. The good old days were pretty crappy and that was reflected in their books, films and songs. Though I suppose if you're young enough that Mulan 1998 is a classic film from the good old days you might simply be ignorant of a lot of the crazy shit that went on.

Look up parents re-watching films from their youth with their children, to realise, horrified, what passed as entertainment in their youth that is now shocking to them and stuff they don't want their kids to emulate or look up to.
Although I agree with the comments above, adding a field is also a breaking change, even with a default value. Especially prone to this is any openApi client (speaking from experience ...). Maybe filtering it out would be an actual solution without breaking anything. An API update shouldn't need to update my implementation because it's not working anymore, in that case it's a breaking change and a major version bump.
On the other hand, the Information Age might for the first time in history enable true democracy, where every political decision can instantaneously be made by the voting populous. (not that farce of a democracy where a highspeed jet is allegedly steered by the binary input of "left" or "right" every four years)
> seems better

That’s why they do it, but what they’re doing is essentially rejecting the request. If it’s a question, sure, but if it’s a feature request or worse yet a bug report then moving to discussions is bs.
I think this is a good, relevant read:

The Death of Corporate Research Labs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200764
... or teaching people to cut hair.
I think there is difference between vicarious experience vs real view. I don't think I have ever seen any news related to egregious violation by animal industries. In fact, I think news are accomplice to such violation because they are afraid of negative PR and keep advertising "happy" cows, green farms as a mean of propaganda through advertisements.

I think I can relate to this with war. If people see war with their eyes they would empathize it. But, if US media shows how they are doing some favor to humanity (like how media show how animal are important for human diet blah blah) many people are oblivious to war.

I still hold my opinion that if human see the egregious violation of animal industry in real time, or they have to kill animal themself for food, most would abstain meat for sake of emotions.
Very nice and useful!
If you’re on the Uber app while blackout drunk at 2AM, chances are pretty good that you’re not where your car is.
the english second language market is several times larger than the english market, so mega franchises like Marvel really need to keep it simple. a lesson for entrepreneurs as well.
A WAF is to buy you time to fix your application. It isn't a bulletproof situation.

For example if you discover a vulnerability in your code that is being exploited you can push a WAF rule to block the easiest ways to trigger it. Or if you use a common library like log4j you can rely on rulesets that are updated for you. Likely before your smaller team has time to react.

In that time you should be rushing to fix your application or update dependencies and deploy the new version.
Online Payment Processing
Guys im a freshman computer science student and i want to build a online payment system for my country, right now we can not purchase from sites like Amazon or any e-commerce, how do payment processing work? Do i need to partner with an existing bank in my country? If you know please tell me.
If I was driving a car for a living my price for a 9 am commute to the office would be much less than a 3 am possibly drunk passenger. It has a much higher chance of being a headache.
Consistent prices likely leads to drivers knocking off well before 2AM. Surge pricing is a means to create an increased supply of drivers, by giving them a powerful incentive: a more attractive price for their work.
Something I wonder is how to design search/list endpoints where the query can be long (a list of IDs, ex: /users?ids=123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000,123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174001,123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174002,...), so long that it can exceed the url max length (2048), after 50 UUIDs, you can quickly exceed that length, so GET is not ideal, so which method, SEARCH with a body? POST with a body?
Happy 0x11, see you at 0x111
I think we can get the best of both worlds by hiding lock files by default and always showing any actual code file diffs. Performance may be a factor for very large diffs, but this would actually be my preference to how the default behaviour would work as I agree with you and the parent post.
I disagree. Even in 2015, pretending ASCII was a workable universal format involved either pretending non-occidental languages didn't exist, or, as I darkly suspect is the case with many US-based computer scientists, forgetting their existence entirely.
Deterministic time-reversible things can still have causality. Just today I used gdb's reversible-debugging feature on a deterministic program to locate a bug. The existence of a bug implies causality in the program's execution state.
I'm guessing you're using a stereo setup then, dialogue is usually mixed into the centre channel, downmixing a 5.1 or 7.1 stream to stereo will produce those results.

even worse is if you don't downmix to stereo, and all you are hearing is front left and right, which is often just the reverb effect channels for dialogue
Have you considered anime?
How to Run Growth Experiments
Ehh, I think he's asking movies to do too much. It's not the responsibility of hollywood to teach cultural mores.

I do think blockbuster movies are (perhaps) increasingly just glorified cartoons, though, and Marvel/Disney are probably significantly to blame. Is fighting _really_ that interesting? Does the wire pull _have_ to be used in every fight? Why are big dumb CGI animals so popular? Why does every small CGI animal make the same wuk wuk wuk noise? Why does every large CGI animal snort like a buffalo?
Pagination only makes sense in the context of an ordered collection; if there is no stable sort order then you can’t paginate. So you identify the last record seen with whatever fields you are ordering by, and if the last record has been deleted, then it doesn’t matter because you are only fetching the items greater than those values according to the sort order.

Anyway, there is plenty of documentation out there for cursor-based pagination; Hacker News comments isn’t the right place to explain the implementation details.
Luke Skywalker was just born with superpowers. Sure he had to learn to use the force properly, but there was still no other person in that story capable of using the force. Luke could have replaced either Wedge or Biggs, but they were not capable of replacing him.
I think you may be underestimating the rate of progress — 100 years ago, transistors were hypothetical, now we have made more of them than there are stars in our past light cone, and they are smaller and faster than synapses to the degree to which wolves are smaller than hills and move further per day than continental drift.

IMO we will probably hit the single-atom limit in consumer devices this decade, though researchers are already suggesting multiple q-bits in a single atom so perhaps we won’t even stop when we get 1Å process chips.

The main limiting factor right now is that we don’t really understand the structure of our intelligence. If you will permit an analogy: perceptrons and convolution kernels are like bricks, while current brain scans (MRI, EEG, etc.) are like nighttime satellite photos of city lights — we’ve got a gap in the middle that would tell us we need steel reinforced concrete to make skyscrapers and why want to build them in the first place.
> as someone from a society that rarely gets blackout-drunk

What society are you in that doesn't heavily drink?
I sort of agree that it's like a race to the bottom. It's not necessarily easy to find a higher paying job though. And someone has to fill the shitty jobs, so the real solution is worker protection policy like unions, minimum wage, and international trade asymmetries.
Your citation also claims 9/11 was caused by "small yield thermonuclear explosions" and provides no citation for 'Peter Eyre, a Middle East consultant, said the US used tactical nuclear weapons at least once in Iraq and a few times in Afghanistan, in Bora Bora mountains', much less evidence.
I agree it's not very pleasant to watch and this style is often abused, but it serves a real purpose in this video. He's making broad points about movies as whole in two different timeframes and comparing between them. When he's discussing a particular movie the shots illustrate which movie (and in many cases which parts of it) he's referring to. When making broad statements about whole clases of movies the shots provide examples of the points being made.

Using shots like this is much more information-dense than verbally listing a load of titles and scene descriptions and triggers the viewer's memory much more effectively. Keeping the clips very short allows more examples to be packed in and also protects against intellectual property complaints. (The need for the latter is highly regrettable but a daily reality for youtubers.)
This can be fixed by spending some or all of the new tax revenue on income transfers.
Strictly 4 bits. For the Morello prototype architecture with full CHERI, it’s 1 bit for each 16 bytes region. (capability valid bit)
The “let’s turn luminosity to 0 to drive up the sale of screens with 5000000:1 contrast” got me as much as “let’s make the sound inaudible on stereo to drive up the sale of 7.1 sound systems.”

VLC should have a setting such as “flatten sound to 70dB all the time and luminosity to 50% the ability of the display in average”. Even pirated packs are becoming unwatchable.
You're not going to get a wholesale contract for the electricity from a swimming pool full of water moved once a day. I have no idea where you even go to get the contract, but if you remember that lobby "meeting" scene from "The Big Short" you've got the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUC1BuH_Gdo

By the time you're moving enough water to get a wholesale contract to sell your power, you're also going to need to buy enough electricity that you had to sign a wholesale contract for that and now you're just another small energy storage company, you are competing with the hollow mountain and all the startups who've bought a lot of batteries and a building on an industrial estate near a big transformer. You could doubtless make some money, this is a growing industry and enthusiasm goes some distance but you aren't going to get away with having a capped consumer supply contract and then selling that as wholesale electricity.
Greek society.
Taxis are expensive mostly because of the monopolies. You are basically arguing that it's ok they are expensive. You argue that the group of people should be allowed to monopolize as elemental activity as providing safe transportation and price it however high they like. And the rest of us should just accept it and either do without access to safe transportation or struggle even more in our lives than we do to afford it. Just so a group of monopolist can earn money off of us that they couldn't have if they didn't manage to write their little monopoly into the law.

I know driving for Uber is not really a stellar job. But some people do it because that's the best they can do at the moment. They could never afford to drive a taxi. They could never be able to pay the dues for entering the monopoly. They would have to undertake even worse job.

The problem is not that those jobs pay little and provide no security. The problem is that people who decide to take those jobs are left without help to such a degree that they take them.

Introduce basic income and look how the conditions of ride-share drivers improve when they have a choice and some bargaining power.
That hard to do if the establishment is closing, or if state law requires they close at a specified time.
Nonsense "first punches".

Russia has been censoring media within Russia for many years, and has gone increasingly harsh. The RT ban in Europe came after Russia banned several western and local critical media and
disaccredited journalists.

In addition RT and Sputnik have been spreading literal fake news for years to rail up opposition to national governments both with a pro Russia slant but often simply to attack national policy and cause rifts with minority groups or migrants (e.g. [1])

[1] https://observers.france24.com/en/20160128-fake-video-german...
What a great video!

On Star Wars in particular, in the original trilogy, it's about coming from nothing, and overcoming your challenges. Luke fails, he makes numerous mistakes throughout the series.

Ray never makes any mistakes, in fact in Episode 9 she clearly kills Chewbacca, but 30 seconds later they backtrack that decision.

The new Star Wars movies are absolutely god awful, except for Episode 8. I liked it for a fairly unique reason. Back when I lived in LA I basically went out with this girl who knew she was a model and I wasted a ton of time and money on her.

When I moved to Chicago, I met a dorky awkward girl, who became my first real girlfriend. This is priceless dating advice, go for that dorky awkward girl that actually likes you.

Of course this really pissed a lot of people off, so they basically got rid of that story arc for the last movie. Looking at the entire series, I really think someone at Disney got uncomfortable with interracial dating, and thus Finn ends up making no sense as his two previous love arcs need to be eliminated by the last movie. This is understandable because even in America I've met people who are very uncomfortable with it, and Disney needs to distribute these movies to a global audience.

That might actually be the root of the problem, you have to make a movie that goes out of its way to keep everybody comfortable. In various countries showing LGBT plotlines are a big no-no, so you have reports coming out of Disney that they've cut these at the last moment from various movies.

The moment you have to make a movie that's okay for every single person, you end up creating these devoid visual spectacles. As in, most action movies are just a bunch of explosions and music. You can replace all the dialogue with gibberish and still get the idea of what happened.

I was trying to watch Free Guy and had to turn it off 10 minutes in. Stop with the freaking music for a second and let people speak.

However, other countries are still making real movies. I think a big part of the Korean wave is you don't have as much pandering to every single possible audience in K-pop dramas. Even then, I've had friends post that the subtitles are often toned down. Edit: Language Reactor is a great Chrome plugin which offers alternative subtitles as well as context. It's a great tool for language learning as well

I can't imagine ever going to a movie theater again, congratulations Disney You've ruined cinema.

Maybe I'll put one of these mediocre movies on in the background while I do other things, but they're not worthy of my undivided attention.
> It ensures that they're protected against a trivial and fairly outdated set of threats

Isn’t a WAF getting access to pre-public intelligence and updating their rules accordingly? I was under the impression that major vendors like Cloudflare and Google were able to block zero-days before the public announcements.
I would go with POST with a body in that case, where I interpret is as a "new search item" and use GET to scan through results, if there are many results available. I don't think I've needed something like this more than once or twice though. From users perspective, asking information on specific 50 items at once is not something commonly done.
>it would have to follow from certain first-principles, and could reason his way back to the highest level of abstraction, with immense ease.

The thinking of geniuses seem to be mastery of simplification, rather than the contrary.

The best intelligence test might be

1. Solve programming problems with the shortest code possible.

2. Where is Waldo.
1. The tech platforms finally reneged on their promise to be free speech havens and took an explicitly pro-vaccine stance, suppressing accurate information and promoting disinformation in the process.
2. The anti-this-particular-vaxxers for the most part have won. Vaccine and mask mandates have been dropped just about everywhere.
3. COVID's over, baby. You guys talk about Ukraine now.
> Game theory, faithful to its name, treats every human context as a game—a self-contained situation in which your sly rival must lose for you to win, and in which the nature of these losses and wins can be always summed up in precise numbers.

That’s a complete mischaracterization. Game theory literally has zero to say about the human condition. It is a mathematical theory.

It reads to me as if the reviewer had a ‘hook’ for the review and was going to use it, whether he could find support for it or not.
Being stuck in a 3rd world country (with some sanctions at the time) I had trouble finding compilers, but I found a version of Turbo Pascal 6 on a BBS disc my brother had bought.

It was pretty much how I learned to program, but I can't say I miss the days when the program would crash, then you insert a blank line randomly in the source code and it would work again.
and palestinian is considered an ethnicity in israel. as opposed to "people coming from the country Palestine". so it's an openly racist law
...oh, sheesh. Should have realized. Seemed totally believable.
Maybe that person is also tired with such egregious violation of animal right? Pigs are smart animal, and I think they deserve good life and the best way to help them is not eat them.

Nobody chooses the genes they are born with. Its a discrimination at its best. We stopped slavery probably 50 years ago. At past, I bet there were people like "Nope! I am not going to do menial job. Its my personal agent, so do whatever you want....".
There was a new RFC published a few months ago to address this use case. It defines a new HTTP method QUERY, which is defined to be safe & idempotent like GET and explicitly allows a request body like POST. See https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-bod...
Or they could use negative interest rates to reduce the supply of money as the richest members in society no longer have guaranteed automatic accumulation of their wealth.