skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good collection of ancient jokes is the Philogelos (written in 4th century Greece). Here are a couple of gems:

#45. An intellectual during the night ravished his grandmother and for this got a beating from his father. He complained: “You’ve been mounting my mother for a long time, without suffering any consequences from me. And now you’re mad that you found me screwing your mother for the first time ever!”

#69. An intellectual checked in on the parents of a dead classmate. The father was wailing: “O son, you have left me a cripple!” The mother was crying: “O son, you have taken the light from my eyes!” Later, the intellectual suggested to his friends: “If he were guilty of all that, he should have been cremated while still alive.”

#73. The same intellectual said that the tomb of Scribonia was handsome and lavish, but that it had been built on an unhealthy site.

#234. A man with bad breath asked his wife: “Madame, why do you hate me?” And she said in reply: “Because you love me.”

Source: https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/45-jokes-...
Twitter will suffer the same fate as Facebook i.e. the platform is so cancerous that younger or more intelligent people leave it.

Not sure where they'll go since Reddit is just as bad these days if not worse in many ways.
All the garden-tenders are happily reading their RSS feed-readers in peace.
That is there most basic personal plan. The costs savings are substantial with Google once you evaluate business plans compared to GSuite. Dropbox just doesn't compete and they are a dying product because of it. HN doesn't like to hear it, but it is the truth.
> fish topped with Parmesan, cioppino, or a pizza quesadilla.

The question here is whether it’s recommending A) one of: fish topped with Parmesan, or cioppino, or a pizza quesadilla, or B) fish topped with one of: Parmesan, cioppino, or a pizza quesadilla.
> And those are actually the people who should be placed in top institutions

Do you really think there's this untapped group of "non-standardized" thinkers out there who belong in the to institutions but for standardized tests?

This sounds a lot like something I'd tell myself when I was 16 instead of dealing with the reality that I was just a lazy, underachieving high school student and would have made a lazy, underachieving college student.

In reality, those unconventional thinkers you're talking about find a way to achieve anyway by unconventional means.
Then you would love “The Tao Is Silent”! I believe this piece appears in the book, but either way it’s very reminiscent.
I think the difference is that the try_from implementation can’t be exhaustive because the input value space is much larger than the enum space, so nothing really requires you to add the new variant to that impl when you add the variant to the enum. This provides a non-macro solution that forces the two to stay in sync, which is pretty nice if you either don’t like macros or don’t feel comfortable building them yet. I agree with the author it’s also definitely more readable and obvious than a macro, even if the whole approach makes me feel a bit weird at first blush.
I'm liberal with the block button but this is a bridge much too far for me. I don't want to entrench myself into an agreeable little bubble.
I think this startup would have more of a chance if it was able to solve the Google/trust problem with medical advice.

From my perspective as an ignorant consumer, Googling medical things always leaves me unsatisfied. I get too much mixed advice when I poll multiple websites and my final feeling is that I've learned no new information, there was no clear information winner. Part of that is the SEO spam problem, part of it is not knowing accurate Google words for medical stuff.
I am not sold on the wiki and issue tracker. What would be a killer feature is a web UI interface to fossil commands like sublime merge for git.
It's not.

But elite schools select for (1) students who will enrich the experience for their classmates and (2) who are likely to have an outsized impact on the world as adults and bring prestige to the institution.

There are some people who are so quantitatively intelligent that a lack of social skills/intelligence doesn't matter (geniuses), but these people are so exceptional they can't be really measured by a test like the SAT. It's too easy to get a perfect score.

Instead they'll distinguish themselves by excelling at STEM competitions (eg. Math Olympiad, programming contests, the Putnam).
There is certainly truth to this, but surely there is some middle ground where I don't need to invite constant commentary about pop culture and events I don't have control over.

I could delete twitter, but that's essentially like blocking everyone on it.

I do agree though. I don't want to be in an echo chamber where only opinions I like are validated, that's bad for me even if I like it.

Maybe this is untrue, but surely there is a difference between blocking all opinions you don't like vs not wanting to see any opinions at all because it affects your mood and mental health.
As the saying goes, the yield curve has predicted nine of the last five recessions.
> In our time, it's considered one of the greatest sins. However, if you look just a bit back, it wasn't exclusive to the English-American line, as the twitter take goes, but was was commonplace across human history. Where you found people, you found slavery.

Wherever there is slavery, you will also find many people opposed to slavery (e.g. the slaves themselves). The idea of liberating slaves is not new; just look back at Spartacus's revolt, for instance, which was not the only slave revolt in Roman history. People knew it was a brutal institution - they were simply conditioned to believe it was a natural part of life, and the slaveholding classes benefited economically from the practice. Of course slavery is a widespread practice in human history. That makes it more horrific, not less. The fact that the British Empire greatly expanded and commercialized the practice reflects pretty badly on them, IMO.

> If (and mind you I mean if), the OP here is correct that the British empire had a sizable impact on ending slavery, then they deserve that credit regardless.

I think it is debatable that they had a sizable impact on the end of slavery itself. They definitely did have a big impact in the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which, keep in mind, they helped create and massively expand for over a century (at least) prior. Can you really give someone credit for ending a horrific practice they promoted/expanded on such a large, intentional scale? This seems like less than the bare minimum to me.

Slavery continued to thrive for many decades in the U.S. and Brazil, among other places. Britain had no qualms in trading with the Confederacy, for instance, a nation explicitly founded on slavery. Nor did it have problems with the tremendous death rates and horrible working conditions of "freed" blacks in their Caribbean colonies.
It's not that every Linux app is as good as it's non-Linux equivalent, it's that using either Linux/not-Linux for long enough makes you good at doing what Linux/not-Linux is good at. It's more like if you grew up driving tractors, and op grew up on a fishing boat. Tractors aren't less work - they are different work.
dealers do this (basically) as a scam.

- the cost of these units is very cheap in bulk maybe ~$100

- their shoddy mechanics cut into power and CAN bus cables to sloppily and cheaply install them. They're usually zip tied up under the steering column. They tie into CAN so they can also immobilize the car.

- they install them right when the cars come in for their own theft protection and inventory control

- then they try to add anywhere from $500-$3000 onto the car with "theft protection" and 100% recovery warranty add-ons. It sounds like you are getting something built into on-star, but it's not. It's great - they get you to pay them for their own anti-theft and inventory purposes, and can often make several hundred dollars on top of it!

- if you avoid the bait and don't pay, then they just deactivate the unit, but they don't take the time to remove it or fix the damage they did to your wiring.

- nearly every dealer in CA does this. it's not at all just for repos, so especially upscale dealers too.

- which is terrible because 10 years later when you're contorted upside-down under the dash troubleshooting a intermittent CAN-bus problem on your expensive car, and you find one of these things is the problem, you get pretty angry about it.
"TOO META"

https://xkcd.com/1447/
Once every five minutes feels quite low in this situation. I don't really block, just mute for the most part. But I can go in and mute a dozen accounts in a minute in the comments on someone big's tweets. If you are someone with a high engagement rate, and actually want to curate the comments, you could easily end up blocking a hundred in a couple minutes.
> Had they remembered to connect the ground reference for the Bus Pirate, they would've had a much easier time reading the data back

I think the EFF needs to hire some hardware people in the future to handle future teardowns. :-)
Yet another CLONE_NEWUSER and fly away to victory privilege escalation. Really seems like enabling that was premature.
Most developers and engineers though do not understand those topics.
There is a difference between having breadth and a basic comprehension and being a security expert or a reliability and deployment expert.

From personal experience, either the company is trying to be cheap and not hiring an SRE/devops until it is too late or misunderstands what they bring to the table. You need multiple disciplines working together to offer good, reliable and secure deployment of a complex app.

This is true for a lot of disciplines: nobody understands everything in cryptography or graphics or networking. But most people have enough understanding to model how the other pieces connect. You have to treat a lot of pieces as black boxes.

I think what is the important point I agree with the presentation is that things do not end with feature design and implementation is finished. Part of the feature is the feature to be made available. Feature availability is part of the product.

But there is considerable cost with "you build you run it." That means you are chained to it and you can not move ahead: if you keep responding to incidents how are you different from the case of a CEO that does not delegate and tries to code, raise money and do customer support and administrative tasks. You find yourself never moving forward. Delegation and collaboration are important.
It's a cesspool for sure. Depending on your interest in Twitter, the crack down on BS from Russia and related areas has made some of it more tolerable.
I found myself doing this regardless of the game, but really wanting to enjoy the game without doing it.

Been playing MMOs since 2003 and in top raiding guilds/corps/etc since 2005, where this was highly rewarding.

Going without a computer (motherboard died) and having to quit MMOs for a while for economical reasons made me enjoy some single player games and heloed me fix this somewhat.
Having been personally on the receiving end of the incompetence of both California FTB and the US IRS, I can assure you that there is no scheme to commit fraud. It is plain, unadulterated incompetence. Coupled with extremely complicated tax code, underfunding and poor technology, they can’t help but make mistakes. In fact they are so stupid that once I filed an amendment and they processed it wrong and ended up owing more money than I expected. This was filed by a tax attorney on my behalf. The attorney was surprised at this deviation and advised me it would be cheaper to pay them off instead of dealing with their BS. It made no financial sense to fight their mistake. US tax code is horrible.

In another situation the FTB received my payment and failed to apply the payment to a tax year. They didn’t send a refund but promptly sent a threatening letter. Upon pointing it out they reversed the interest penalties and charges.
Iterating over an enum requires a macro (strum::EnumIter is a popular one), which you’d need in order to ensure the test code automatically covers all cases without needing updates. This does only work when your variants are non-data variants or data variants whose type implements Default, but it does allow you to force yourself to stay in sync.

Edit: you might could also do some shenanigans using integers, `as` conversions, and #[repr(u8)], but it seems like it would get nasty and potentially unsafe
I'm not a Twitter user but it's bizarre that it doesn't have even the most rudimentary form of proactive user control. Why is there no settings page where I can punch in a bunch of words or phrases to blacklist?
Block nasty people. Blocking other people prevents you from exposure to other ideas than your own. The only person that loses is you.

Probably feels good and comfy in nicely resonant echo chamber though.

I block nasty people regardless of which echo chamber they belong to.
> But then twitter had to remind me what the trending hashtags were

I use Adblock Plus to block Twitter's trending topics and it is a huge improvement; the topics are just annoying things that get engagement. Another thing that makes Twitter tolerable is to mute words with abandon, e.g. everything from "supreme court" to "wordle". Finally, I block anyone who tweets something stupid.
The principle of free speech is important because it allows those who have an open mind to take in any and all ideas. So if you choose to have a closed-mind, you're in principle going against the ideals of free speech and what it allows people to benefit from.
Well, IMO the biggest problem with poverty is precarity; the fear of losing what little you do have and ending up homeless. UBI at a level that just afforded stability and the bare necessities would be a huge boon to society.
I do like that idea. Less false positives on the real people, and more likely to find those bot armies.
lowering ground levels is pretty bad

* a lot of these areas also flood, so you either now have more flooding or now you have to shore up levees and other flood protections at great expense

* land subsidence due to groundwater draw is not necessarily evenly spread. most buildings and infrastructure are not supposed to unevenly shift large distances.
Blanket sweeping blocks is exactly the opposite of a middle ground.
> made no mention of what actually resolved my diabetes, a low carb diet. I hope that becomes the first resort

Doctors know that if they compared "taking Metformin" to "eating a low-carb diet," the low-carb diet would win hands down. But that's not the comparison that's relevant for them, because it's not a choice they get to make. They have to choose between "advising someone to take Metformin" and "advising someone to eat a low-carb diet." The results of the latter are negligible on average.
Haha yeah while we're at it let's ban all the lead solder in the satellites too! RoHS in SPACE! TIN WHISKERS ARE FAKE

It would be interesting if there was that kind of research but I think honestly with a noted rise in atmospheric mercury concentrations [1] we might err on the side of caution.

I'm half convinced we are going to mess space up in worse ways than mercury fuel but hey who listens to reason in these regards, they're blowing these things up just as a huge military dick swinging contest up there.

[1] https://www.dovepress.com/in-depth-review-of-atmospheric-mer...
You can't grow enough food for everyone, house everyone's friends, and keep them alive without money. You could maybe do one of those without money, but at the expense of the other two. The money is a critical part of keeping track of how much of each thing you can do without running out of resources. There are too many resources in the world to keep track of them all in your head.
Would be slightly funnier if you add English double entendre: “But my father came here frequently.”
I have no idea. And the weird thing in MN is that a lot of kids go to U of MN. There are probably 5 topish districts in Twin Cities. The one my son is in sends dozens of kids to U of MN. His high school pushes AP, IB, and another special program aimed at business education. They also don't frown on PSEO (FT college while in high school). That's like 4 programs you take to get ahead on college credits. They're all weighted and all aimed at kids wanting to go to college. Lots of districts do this and weight the grades to make it fair for the kids trying the hard stuff. The "poorer" district I grew up in even has IB and they weighted grades 35 years ago. Very common here.

How many kids are getting a 4.0 GPA? Lots. How many valedictorians are there in a class? 1 or 50? I think 50. Maybe it's grade inflation.

So maybe if you are in a good school with lots of programs make sure you just phone it in for 4 years if you want to make sure you get in.
There are - muted words is a function in settings.
Virtual PC on Mac got at least one major release after Microsoft bought Connectix, but that was right around the same time as Apple's transition to Intel. MS apparently didn't consider it worthwhile to port VPC to run natively on Intel OSX (which would've been a pretty big change in direction for the product-- moving it to native virtualization like on Windows rather than the dynamic recompilation approach that the Mac version used).
> I couldn't help but call them out.

Rule #1 of any algorithmic feed is that you get more of what you interact with.

If you're the type of person who can't resist engaging with things that make you angry, algorithmic feed websites are not for you.

For people who have no problem scrolling past dumb comments and pressing the like button on things they actually want to see (a lot of people refuse to "like" on principle, to their own detriment) then Twitter is actually not a bad place.

But if you're easily triggered and you gravitate toward the things that make you angry, it's best to just stay away.
soft links do not seem to work on MacOS
Nice article, but ...

>Apparently, most shipping routes tend to hug the coast and make cargo or maintenance stops anyway, and so this won’t really be a big change from current practice.

This is not true.
He thinks the answers which actually were, were, and the ones which actually were not, were not

The idea that no humans were involved in altering either the model or the API, shortly after the model received bad publicity, and the alterations were specifically to the questions asked, in the way they were asked, and did not apply to the same question asked a different way, seems pretty unlikely
> I don’t think SNAP/WIC recipients should have any less right to privacy around their grocery purchases than you or I do.

That is great if you want to protect the privacy of the businesses, but businesses disclosing the total they make from these programs has nothing to do with privacy of individuals.

If Amazon and Whole Foods had to disclose they made $1B each from SNAP last year, there is clearly no privacy concerns linked to individuals involved. There is absolutely no information of the individuals involved.

Not even the industry has attempted to make privacy arguments, which again are publicly available if you wanted to learn about it and are limited to concerns of being “stigmatized” if the public learns how much the businesses make from these programs and fear that disclosures would hurt negotiations with landlords.
I’m happy to engage in discussion with people whose opinions differ from my own. I’m also happy to carve out portions of my time and interaction where I’m not doing that. It’s totally possible and healthy to not always invite the full firehose of possible human discourse into my brain.

And there’s always the part where Twitter is actively a horrible place for any kind of constructive conversation due to the character limit and the overwhelming desire of most participants to generate the most clicks/outrage possible.
For plain-text internet, I'm skeptical RTT matters all that much.
IIS dying and Nginx replacing it might be due to Microsoft encouraging the use of Nginx with .NET (the artist formerly known as .NET core) ASP servers.

.NET already has a server embedded in it (Kestrel) but Microsoft documentation points to Nginx as the solution once you've moved out of development and into the wild, when deploying on linux.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy...

I'd also assume the heavy use of CloudFlare makes gathering statistics extremely difficult.
Twitter does in fact have that. Settings -> Privacy and Safety -> Mute and Block -> Muted words
I love that game... something about solving puzzles just makes it feel like flow. I always crank up the complexity on it, and can do it for hours.

The other game I can lose time in is Universal Paperclips[1], I looped through it 100 times before quitting.

1 - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Never ever deal with the IRS or any government agency on the phone. Always send a certified mail explaining your situation and documentation. They genuinely respond better. The phone operators have frustrated people yelling at them all day long and consider their outdated systems the source of truth. If the computer says you owe them, it must be true.
Does this make all suggested algorithmic content Japanese?!
I think dynamic reconfiguration leads to less runnable software - make everything as immutable as possible and it’s easy to reason about.
the inequalities could be caused by racial discrimination (bring born in a black household, you're more likely to have issues than a white household, statistically). Inequalities could also be caused by other factors, unrelated to racism.

The tests measure certain cognitive capabilities. Genes have an effect, nutrient intake has an effect, nurture has an effect. Trying to fix racism via test scores (or disregarding it) isn't going to help fix racism.
> So when people come up with labels like 'schizopost' or 'word salad'

"word salad" is not a label made up by dumb people, it's generally a alternate term for schizophasia. It's also a very old term. Whether dumb people repurposed it or not is another question. Speaking from personal experience, word salad is generally not controllable and not a pleasant thing that you would "want" to use to express yourself, you generally want to stop and regain control of yourself but simply can't or have already given up hope of regaining control over your speech patterns. It's generally not very pleasant and despair inducing, and you get very lost and fall into a, well, kafka-esque nightmare (/me looks at my name).

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia...

> Disorganized thinking (speech). Disorganized thinking is inferred from disorganized speech. Effective communication can be impaired, and answers to questions may be partially or completely unrelated. Rarely, speech may include putting together meaningless words that can't be understood, sometimes known as word salad.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950318/

> In very severe cases, positive thought disorder manifests as unintelligible speech in which neither the individual words nor the sentences being strung together seem to correspond to any discernable overall meaning – ‘word salad’ or schizophasia, e.g. “Oh, it [life in a hospital] was superb, you know, the trains broke, and the pond fell in the front doorway” (McKenna & Oh 2005), or “They’re destroying too many cattle and oil just to make soap. If we need soap when you can jump into a pool of water, and then when you go to buy your gasoline, my folks always thought they should, get pop but the best thing to get, is motor oil, and, money. May may as well go there and, trade in some, pop caps and, uh, tires, and tractors to grup, car garages, so they can pull cars away from wrecks, is what I believe in. So I didn’t go there to get no more pop when my folks said it. I just went there to get a ice-cream cone, and some pop, in cans, or we can go over there to get a cigarette” (Andreasen 1986).