skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hard truth. I don't use TikTok right now, but this is the kind of stuff I would see:

https://twitter.com/Vomit_Dragon/status/1506109341484474370

https://twitter.com/WatsyTheOtt/status/1507646007294631941

https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1507592587426906114

https://twitter.com/tealeafraccoon/status/150735003807424512...

Some of it is actually from TikTok.
It's an interesting thought experiment to imagine if the Borg has optimized for aesthetic appearance. Which is to say, if the TNG show runners had made them pretty.

Their hybrid organic/mechanical appearance is obviously calibrated by the show designers to unsettle viewers and produce a negative reaction. See: David Cronenberg

But how would we (TNG viewers) have felt about the Borg if they looked like us... but were just better?

(Voyager sidestepped this by making a pretty Borg explicitly not-Borg. But still had some more interesting exploration of the right- or wrong-ness of Borg philosophy)
The fact that a company has the legal rights of a person is a mockery of human rights in my opinion, and Citizens United a huge mistake.

That aside, I don't think you can judge the intent of a company's actions. Let's ignore the small family business for now, but if you look at a big corp, decision making is a distributed responsibility with individuals checking off their part as it passes through their department.

There is no single person you can ask to determine intent. The intent of the many people making the decision could be contradictory, or someone like the CEO could be acting in bad faith and misleading his employees to approve a decision that benefits the CEO and no one else. We see this more frequently with crime or negative actions, where sometimes the CEO is the scapegoat but we conveniently forget the various VPs and individuals that contributed to the decision.

My point is that companies shirk responsibility by obfuscating individual responsibility, and I think that would apply the same way to judging a company's intent.

Lastly, judging implies a verdict, and you can't put a company behind bars. Yet companies are more than capable of committing atrocious crimes the likes of which rival war crimes (child labor/slavery in foreign countries, polluting waterways/airways and poisoning entire cities, running propaganda campaigns against the interest of public health, etc.) I find it ridiculous that a company can enjoy our rights but shirk our duties and accountability.
I'm 35 and I don't understand the allure even 1% - same with Instagram. I'd say the last social media that really made any sense to me was Snapchat, and that was simply because it had a singular purpose and worked well for it (but certainly wasn't something that I'd stare at for hours at a time).

Feel like a bit of an alien at this point (well, what I actually tell myself is that 25s and under are just fucking stupid).

Guess I'm a grandpa at this point.
Spreading lies is a value proposition? I disagree. I don’t think “censoring child porn” is a bad thing either, which DDG does. Just because information of some sort exists, doesn’t mean it’s inherently valuable to spread.
This is Windows/Linux only (I didn't have a Mac at the time). You can use Alire (https://alire.ada.dev) will install your toolchain as well as build an executable.
A real effect of this fiction is that the cosine distance between "asshole" and "Chinese" gets a bit closer in some future word embedding models that include this fiction as part of its corpus.

Maybe this is an example of how "bias" was introduced into machine learning models from training data.
What exactly makes the light from these distant galaxies so “weak” that we need to point the telescope there for months to see it?

Like, isn’t there a constant stream of photons? How does just waiting longer for them make them show up if they wouldn’t have otherwise? Are things blocking most of the photons? Things from within the galaxies they’re coming from, or things in between the galaxy and the telescope?

edit: Ah, I suppose the further an object is the fewer photons from it are making it to the telescope, and so we need to wait longer for enough photons to arrive to be able to distinguish it from the random background noise on our end?
Agreed most heartily. I have sampled a whole range of stimulants from the mundane to the dangerous with good results. And other drugs too. Opium is fabulous. Psychedelics are deeply educational. I only wish I was introduced earlier.
You can't search without a recognizer and you can't recognize without some kind of understanding.

As OP says, one of the skills/talents that differentiates good vs not good developers is the ability to rapidly "grok" enough of a large codebase to figure out "where to tap". ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/ )
Yes. Someone ran some ML algorithm on HN book threads once

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...

Putting aside books like the Pragmatic Programmer and Lean Startup, big authors in order were Richard Dawkins, Ayn Rand, Yuval Harari, David Foster Wallace, Malcolm Gladwell, Jonathan Haidt, Henry Hazlitt etc.

Kind of the typical middle-brow stuff you'd expect some white college educated FAANG L5 to be reading on the weekend at his house in Sunnyvale.

Steven Pinker wasn't high up on the list but someone like him would be typical. He has studied the brain and linguistics and visuo-spatial thinking and writes about that (actually I think he's wrong about adaptationism, but anyhow...) Then he writes some Hegelian type books about how human history is a series of progressive steps to our current state, the best of all possible worlds. He's in the same boat as his typical readers - he has some specific technical knowledge, and that plus the weltenschauung of a 67 year old son of a lawyer who got a doctorate at Harvard results in his books.

It's living in a bubble. It's good someone like Pinker rejects some irrational views, the problem is when he can't see his own prejudices and irrational views.
I mean that the two cases below are materially the same:

- you get shot and I withhold my care based on a ruinous payment

- I threaten to shoot you unless you give me a ruinous payment

Obviously as you said these are morally different because I am acting aggressively - but this is not a utilitarian argument. In terms of utility (and i am a preference utilitarian, so that's what matters to me - rationalists typically claim the same framework) these two scenarios are identical, and thus have the same moral weight.

The latter, you have claimed as coercive, the former (eg withholding food from a starving man), you said was not. Therefore, your definition of coercion is not rooted in utility.
I’m surprised this hasn’t been linked to yet: Brian Wilson/The Beach boys’ supposed genius was the product of an intentional marketing campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson_is_a_genius
The author quoting critical appreciation of Pet Sounds:

> Pet Sounds revolutionized the field of music production and the role of producers within the music industry [...] the use of recording studios as an instrument.

When comparing A Love Supreme favorably to Pet Sounds:

> I’d guess you’ll think it’s a great deal more complex, cohesive, impressive, and interesting in just about every way (other than the lack of prominent "studio effects") than Pet Sounds.

The author simply isn't interested studio production, which is the primary axis Pet Sounds is so highly regarded on.
> but the whole point of a SEARCH ENGINE is not censoring results

Disagree. I hate it as much as the next person when Google censor results due to DMCA request (a law i couldn't care less about which shouldn't have jurisdiction over me), but you have to admit there are things to limit. Should a search engine return child porn results? (Yes, it's an easy and egregious example, but that's the point - there are such subjects).

Furthermore, censoring low quality enemy propaganda is a public service.
A small addition from 7.3 that was long awaited, indentation preserving heredoc/nowdoc: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#lang...
Your comment broke at least these guidelines:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have indexing turned off for your project or has indexing not completed? Indexing speeds up your searches.
EMRs have been a handout of a fistful of dollars from actual doctors, to the software industry.

Its insane that anyone would think that politicians could be wise and mandate something that an entire industry rejected, and have never needed since the advent of medicine.

Result. Doctors spend time on screens instead of, seeing patients.

The emr is basically an accounting system for insurances to receive claims in a format they can process.

Anyone that tells you otherwise is making money from selling an emr to you or doesnt work in healthcare
> 50tb? MoogleBook researchers have forgotten how to count that low!

This links to a Youtube video, an explainer is at https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/
Did anyone seriously believe that DDG or its data sources did not filter content before?
I’m also fond of “When HARLIE Was One” and “The Adolescence of P-1.”
Okay, one example:

Suppose you're a gamer - You could configure search results related to gaming to be limited to games you own, games you want, the subset of platforms or genres you care about, games your friends own, and so on. It wouldn't be a priority for most search companies to make something like that, but it would certainly provide some value for certain people. Decentralized configuration would allow for communities with given interests to configure and distribute customizations for that audience, in a way that would appeal to that audience. It's not that farfetched of an idea, very realistic both from a tech and adoption POV.

You.com is starting the building blocks of such a thing, but I don't know how far they're going to push the envelope. https://about.you.com/apps/
I have always said that if if you put 10 great programmers into a room together you would have 10 people who are absolutely convinced they are the smartest person in the world surrounded by the 9 dumbest people in the world.
At this company, a VP eng/CTO type person asked me how I would handle a situation where my teammate was underperforming. I am pretty sure that I failed this interview section and the whole interview loop because the company value of transparency meant that I should have said I would publicly humiliate the person instead of beginning by speaking to them privately.
Ukraine could invite Google Maps cars in to fully document the destruction
Like going to school. The education lingers even after you have left the classroom.
I guess the idea behind this share is to get people's thoughts. To that end, I'm totally in favor of this honestly. Only reason I won't do something like this is that it's very space intensive and won't fit in my apartment. But if I could I would. Why not? My eyes aren't getting any better with age, and even my costly "good" office chair gets uncomfortable after a couple hours.
Another thing that can be much easier while traveling if you have anxiety is dating. Like you said, there's the comfort in knowing that you'll never see any people there again if you so choose. But if there's also a language barrier, it removes any expectations of witty banter and flirtation that usually relies on familiarity with your local culture and social norms. And there's less pressure to be interesting -- just being a foreigner will often make you interesting to locals without even trying, at least a first.
Traditional American culture is rife with shame. The concept of “manly men” is based on shame. The concept that women are responsible if they attract unwanted male attention is based on shame. The concept that anyone can succeed so if you don’t it’s because you didn’t try hard enough is based on shame.

I could go on?
Do you know if there are free open source alternatives to fbs and qt?

I mean free both as beer and freedom.
> > people seem to overlook the fact that superhuman intelligence already exists as human organizations

> Culture is faster than meat.

> Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.

> And it's a lot harder to kill.

> The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.

> I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.

Culture and memes are the software side of evolution.
> since its an acronym you should always format it as MAC

That's the American convention, but it can vary elsewhere. If you look at BBC articles, you'll find that initialisms (like HIV) will be capitalized, but acronyms (like Aids) will only have an initial capital letter. Since "Mac" will be pronounced rather than saying "M-A-C", the style in a lot of the world would be to only capitalize the "M".

Wikipedia's English language style guide specifically notes that it doesn't follow the convention of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi.... There's more information in the article about acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Case

"Some publications choose to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms, reserving all-caps styling for initialisms, writing the pronounced acronyms "Nato" and "Aids" in mixed case, but the initialisms "USA" and "FBI" in all caps."
> The cynic in me thinks they achieve better throughput because they don't play nice with TCP and monopolize the link while everybody else gets backed off.

sounds like BBRv1
It is a good article, but this is an important topic. I prefer the more in depth book “The Shame Machine” by Cathy O’Neil that I bought last week (book was just published).

Human nature will be human nature, but I feel we need to recognize corporate owned automated profit systems and not fail to understand the threats they pose.
I normally work in C++, but I've also written in lots of other languages.

I wrote an article for these folks which includes some of the rationale here: https://blog.adacore.com/ada-crate-of-the-year-interactive-c...
Nearly 30 years of SQL experience here, I tell new people there's really no advanced SQL, just "exotic" SQL. (Or a joke: "There's 3 types of Advanced SQL. Really long SQL. Exotic SQL. And SQL no one should have written.")

The "advanced" part is:

1) Set Theory - really understanding set theory so you can model datasets appropriately and write efficient SQL
2) The Toolkit - knowing how the major concepts of SQL (join types, CTEs, table valued functions, windowing, aggregation, conditional logic, indexes, constraints, normalization/denormalization, etc.) contribute to #1
3) Performance Analysis - understanding how to analyze the performance characteristics of a query so you can apply #2 to #1 to achieve good results

And usually the difference I see between juniors and seniors is if you give them 2 "advanced" queries and tell them one runs fine and one doesn't, seniors very quickly know which one is bad and why it runs bad ... juniors aren't even confident the two queries will run because they contain syntax or patterns they're unfamiliar with.
For recording a single application or the full screen, you can use the Xbox game bar which is built into Windows.

I don't know about recording part of your screen, though, I haven't tried it so I don't know if it's possible with the built in functionality. I'd probably go for OBS but that's far from easy to work with.
Win+G will bring up the game bar, which includes screen recording.
> I don't know a single person who used Eclipse after 2020.

What happened in 2020? Did I miss the end of the world?

In my bubble, Eclipse : IDEA is about 50:50, and luckily it doesn't matter because of Maven. I am one of those Eclipse users, and I am still waiting for someone to show me a feature that IDEA has and Eclipse doesn't. From my perspective it seems like the same thing, with different aesthetics (e.g. whether you can open multiple projects in the same window, or you need different windows) and keyboard shortcuts (which can be redefined on either side).

So I wouldn't try to convert people to Eclipse, but I also see no reason to convert to IDEA. I have a tool that works and does everything I need, and that makes me happy. Show me a functionality I am missing, and I may change my mind (some people already tried, and then it turned out that Eclipse had that, too); otherwise I am not interested in novelty for novelty's sake.

Uhm, I am not developing for Android. There, I imagine the situation may be quite different.
Microsoft created the LSP to go against JetBrains :)
Yes, it's called NOISE!
Emacs DWIM: do what *I* mean (2021)
Colleagues are entitled to details of mental health issues nor other issues someone who just killed himself had.

If there is public record, they are entitled to that and nothing more.

The death person and his/her family have their own right to privacy and it trumps curiosity of collegues.
That is interesting. I'm not against compiler enforced null checking, but it's not the killer feature that would convince me to switch to Kotlin from Java.
The problem is that self-hosting is pretty difficult. If one could just run a docker image, only setting up the absolutely needed personal info, it would become a lot more common. Not on the personal/everyday level, but for professional
(money generating) settings, it can absolutely become mainstream.

The spam problem is also simply the decentralized system not working; it has no protections against unwanted incoming messages.
Toucan – learn a new language just by browsing the internet
Qt is available as LGPL.
I think there are professionals who care about recording quality, and then there is an esoteric pop culture holding subjective opinions on sound. Both are labeled audiophiles at times.
Love it in theory, but the strain of moving your head to see the full dimensions of the screens would get old. Eyes are good at darting around a smaller screen up close, don’t know that the entire head and neck would appreciate that day in and day out.
The content creators aren’t there. Most of the good stuff is ripped directly from Tiktok.

Also their recommendations aren’t as good but that could just be a side effect of the above.
Like I said, in emergency situations different rules apply, based on the principle of the exclusionary effect I mentioned earlier.

The normal libertarian ethics don't apply in such cases. In the ordinary non-emergency market, Newtonian/libertarian ethics do apply, and those are the circumstances you are avoiding contending with by focusing on extreme outlier/edge cases.
From the comments:

> I’m curious as to how this affected your productivity

Answer:

> Productivity is through the roof. Even when noodling about on small side projects I find you so quickly end up with so much things open that you're constantly flipping between, so to have multiple terminals, text editors, reference documentation, version control, etc, immediately accessible is, honestly, life changing.
This. Python 3.6 is out of support now, 3.11 is about to be released. It's not really usable anymore.
Which linter supports these?
You’re an engineer. And engineering programs will continue to use engineering focused tools. The goals of engineering program projects are vastly different than other areas of academia. Developing the tool is the project for engineering.

Bioscience / environmental science programs will find micropython good enough for their needs. The tool itself is just the means to the end if real science. Micropython let’s you deploy in lower power applications without having to learn much beyond what you already know from Jupyter notebooks.

I really don’t know any PhD students or post-docs in microbiology/environmental sciences who have the time to learn embedded C or similar languages.
I assume that argument excludes the legal/political/cultural institutions of the non-Western world? Because in particular in East Asia shame has a very long and central role, and a fairly successful one, in maintaining group cohesion.

We're talking about mechanisms here that have proven to stabilize societies for literally thousands of years, enumerating things doesn't quite have that history yet.
Ask HN: How to Sell Domain Names?
I know, I know, buying and selling domains is so 1999, but... I do have a portfolio of about 100 very decent domain names that are valued anywhere between around 2,500 and 25,000; generic names not infringing on anyone's trademark, and yet they can be trademarked in the future. Think Time.com in 1992.

I was talking with a domain broker at a party a few months ago and he was telling me that he does "outreach", hiring an offshore call center to cold call brands whose interesting dovetails with his domains.

Is that the best was to do it?

I am thinking about starting an LLC, transferring all my domains to it, and raise capital for the selling operations, but I have to come up with the selling strategy, that is the second part of the secret sauce.

Any innovative/disruptive ideas?