skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thoroughly enjoyed this article, it was a bit of a breath of fresh air.

Some quotes that resonated:

> There should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side.

> Good faith communication is both a complex skill and a value commitment that shapes personal identity. In other words: doing it is sufficiently difficult that getting good at it will change the kind of person that you are.

> Delicately transforming a situation of escalating bad faith requires the slow establishment of previously unrecognized shared interests, often on issues as basic as self-preservation. The goal in most cases is not agreement—that would be naive—the goal is simply to preserve the possibility of communication itself.

Also learned the term "steelmanning," which seems to be pretty much identical to the hacker news guideline:

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

This essay also does a good job of explaining the concept: https://mypeculiarblog.com/2021/11/07/what-is-steelmanning/
I see you like wireguard, so i put a wireguard connection in your wireguard connection.
jokes aside, huge fan of wireguard and mullvad
"AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
The gov.uk sites have indeed got a lot better (although "best I've come across" isn't language I'd have chosen).

UK government websites used to be AWFUL. Navigation and signposting is still awful; but UX has improved a lot in the last two years. And their approach to cross-device UX isn't bad (it's impossible to be "good" with mobile devices, IMO). But ten years ago, my sense was that government websites really didn't want people to interact with the government electronically at all. You had to use Internet Explorer; you had to authenticate, which meant getting an ID, which required physical documents, so a postal interaction.

It's much better now, but that doesn't mean it's good.
Yes. Inflation hurts anyone trying to accumulate any amount money. They're better off spending it as soon as possible. Much harder to get rich by saving money now and it's not like corporations are in a rush to give matching raises to workers.
I wonder how all of this will affect the seasonal workers who depend on the Amazon work in the fall.

The movie Nomadland is an amazing portrayal of the lifestyle and concerns of a community that is connected to Amazon workers, but afaict could find themselves losing out if the warehouses are all union.
I can’t fathom how in a year of a pandemic, worldwide economic instability and now a war that this continues to be a headline news saga.
If it's broke why fix it?
One of the more disappointing aspects of politics is how leaders popularity increases at the first hint of a military conflict.
Mullvad is fantastic. I get full bandwidth when torrenting 24/7 from my NAS, and I don't get blocked when I need to stream something unavailable in my country, and they have port forwarding support. They also have an Android TV client so I can watch on my couch.

All for €5 a month? Such a great company.
I was told growing up that migraines were different from headaches, although it looks like now migraines are sometimes called "migraine headaches". The distinction mattered because the treatment for migraines (things that caused blood vessel constriction, like caffeine) and for other types of headaches (things that caused blood vessel dilation) were opposites, so if you took the wrong medicine it could make your head hurt more. For a first time migraine sufferer, the difference might not be obvious.

That said, I'm not sure how either could be mistaken for neck muscle pain.
I think that was their point. ^
I assume you already consume a lot of English-language media? Try doing it without Spanish subtitles, or at least, only with English subtitles. Even if you don't understand everything you can pick up a lot passively and it will help you start thinking in English. Same with books, although constantly looking up words in the dictionary is pretty tedious.

For spoken language practice there's no substitute for just living in a different country for an extended period. Since you're in Europe it seems like this might be possible for you?

Your written English already seems passable. If you hadn't mentioned you were not a native speaker I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Yes I absolutely over simplified to make a quick point. But most people already either have the car with its costs and breakdown coverage or they don't. For what its worth I have made the 250 mile journey in a car on about 25 litres of petrol which is about £40 these days I think. Though sure you could alter a thousand factors to change the results.
I'm not sure what you mean by saying the oil market had already priced in the invasion. Certainly there was a huge jump in oil prices when the invasion started (https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil). I think it's at this point clear that stimulus has had something to do with inflation, but also undeniable that the Russian invasion helped raise oil prices
Agree. I also recommend placing it somewhere public to keep yourself motivated to stick with it..
The author of the study wrote about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darchivist/status/1513911272672305157?cx...

Interesting. The obvious question is: who created and controls all these bots, and why?

So far, there's no evidence of involvement by Elon or Tesla. They may have nothing to do with it.

But who else would have a strong incentive to do this sort of thing?
My threshold for what must be considered reprehensible White House activity has shifted by an alarming degree over the past 5 years.

Under current conditions, this is just politics. I was never impressed with Biden's integrity, and this does not change my estimation, but anything that might help keep out-and-out grifters out of government is looking like a win, nowadays.

The perfect is the enemy of the good, but likewise the not-great is the enemy of the disastrous. That's where we are now.
Ah, I was thinking they meant distributed by industry, not location.
I love how Apple just releases these things out of the blue. If it was Microsoft they’d be crowing about it loudly on blogs for 6 months before then underdeliver a broken pile of crap.
This data, unfortunately, is missing an important confounding variable besides male/female. In the US lifespan his highly correlated with income, and the trend is getting worse.
"The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women. Second, inequality in life expectancy increased over time. Between 2001 and 2014, life expectancy increased by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women in the top 5% of the income distribution, but increased by only 0.32 years for men and 0.04 years for women in the bottom 5% (P < .001 for the difference for both sexes)." [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/
Well, looking at the rails monocles (for matching controllers, views, etc) a common pattern is custom matchers/replacers for things like "ast.children.first.to_s.singularize.camelize", so a shorthand for defining those in both directions could be handy. Other than that, not right now.

But if there are common situations where you end up writing the same matchers/replacers, those would be prime candidates for built-in placeholders.
There's a lot more to writing a compiler/interpreter than parsing, and I would almost posit that parsing is the _least_ interesting part of writing a compiler.
> https://pronouncegif.com/#acronyms

I don't understand this argument. for every acronym they list, the first sound is the same for the acronym and the complete version, it's actually an argument for a hard G.
Ok, but look at the thousands of comments by young people taking it seriously. This is what propaganda is.
Ok, it looks like they've now retrofitted null safety, but why wasn't it designed in from the start? I can't help but feel this was always a Java-clone to avoid litigation, not any kind of innovative project.

Kotlin looks like a good Java++ language (especially for Android); and Typescript would be the most pragmatic choice for web. But again, Dart is going to have to keep up even with modern Java.

Regarding boilerplate, can Dart define a simple data class with equals and hashcode in one or two lines?
FYI: iPhone/iPad only, not MacOS. I have tried editing movies on my mobile devices in the past but the experience was never great. Even just trimming a clip in Photos is difficult with the touch interface.
Reported Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Issue
I fail to see how it's not agile? Roadmaps aren't against agile. If marketing is low priority and there's a large backlog of high priority work, marketing related work is never going to be considered when planning a sprint.

The only way around this is to have more dev capacity or to prioritize marketing work.
Hi David, I've reached out via email with some questions. Thanks in advance!
My own experience is with using QtWidgets in C++ for a multithreaded application that does some disk indexing and database management, the answer is "not that well".

I found that the primitives for threading and message passing between threads didn't work that well for me (both in terms of what they provide and in terms of performance) so I ended up "bypassing" them a bit with my own threading code (that is, still using QThread and QMutex etc. but not using the signals and slots model).

Once I've done that and moved everything off of the main thread, things worked well, so that program is still in QtWidgets with C++ and still in use, but I felt that Qt didn't do a good job of making multithreading easy for me.

That said, I still like continue to use Qt so you can consider this a sort of mild endorsement from me, I guess.
No I don't agree with you. I think my comment is a reasonable statement of the situation. Is it a 100% correct statement that is absolutely categorically true? No, but most people who are not looking to be pedantic and win an Internet argument won't go looking to nitpick the details of my statement.

What most level headed people will do is understand that my statement is about how you can not reliably compare a group of people who are predisposed to enjoy a movie to a group of people who review almost every single movie that's released, regardless of their predisposition towards it. People are welcome to argue that and honestly I'd expect nothing less, but it's a basic statistical principle that I expect every single researcher I hire to be well familiar with and if they're not, then I make the choice to not work with them.

>you’d probably have less replies arguing with you here...

There is also a selection bias among the people who comment on HN and they too are not representative of how most of the community feels towards a topic. The people who want to nitpick the specific wording of my statement are certainly entitled to do so and will likely find something to nitpick regardless of how I framed my statement, but it's not a particularly interesting discussion to follow up on.
Here's article about this phenomenon: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2MD3NMLBPCqPfnfre/cached-tho...
> Are you saying they shouldn't be holding onto customer funds at all?

No. I pointed out that you assumed Animats said something that they in fact didn't.

I have no opinion on what Bill.com should or should not be doing.
Same here, although I just redefine winning to learning something new, seeing a different perspective or refining my own position. It's all about exchanging information.
Could you please read the whole article, maybe also some general literature about Neptune and Earth from some other allknowing x-ogists, and then reread what you just postulated here? Please?
I think OP does bring up an important subject. The 00's set the stage for the 10's. The events they mentioned caused a huge lack of trust in our institutions - government, private, and media. The average American was a loser in the wars and in the economic crisis of 2008. The patriot act and related 9/11 fallout also set Americans up to accept authoritarianism in the name of security. We could not have been more ripe for the disruptive forces of the past decade.
Because the prime minister was telling everyone to make huge sacrifices whilst he was doing the opposite.

People don’t like hypocrites.
I suspect many (most?) conversations in biographies and non-fiction books are not necessarily quoted verbatim. In most cases, the author may at best have had access to diaries or other notes from the time that recorded a summary of what was said, or they may have interviewed people who, years later, summarised what they recall -- more or less accurately -- being discussed.

The author may then present this in the form of quoted speech in order to make it more vivid and compelling for today's reader, but it rarely corresponds to a precise transcript of the original conversation.
Does Typescript even compile or is it transpile?
My favorite books at this age were encyclopedias, because their content is the easiest to attach to a young person's reality map. Although stupid stories for children I consumed as well, not least because the СЭС encyclopedia [1] weighed maybe 10% of my weight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Encyclopedic_Dictionary
Getting a job at helpdesk for an ISP was definitely my ticket out of poverty, but I'm in Spain though.

Im not wealthy, but I almost ended homeless, with no education. I was probably on track to jail. Quite different situation.

I've seen many people I knew fail though.

The most difficult thing when you have no money and nobody cares at you is making the right decisions and having the right information.

Ive used all sorts of state aid and counseling, and it was terrible beyond belief. Not only the absurd hoops you have to make for basically anything, with processes more costly than the handed ait itself, but the terrible advice they give, maybe because many of this people gives zero fucks.

It didn't help to have a penis and be straight.

So in the end, after all the safety net stuff it was this ISP who saved my life. I got stable income, and an understanding of how a semi competetent big org works, and how the lives of normal people look like.
you think it's boring* y'all oldies speak for yourself, the future is now, hell my friend is a vertual reality designer making 6 figures. Kids who grew up with modern tech are really only just starting to hit the market
This is pro-Putin because you believe his outrageous perfunctory justification for the invasion.
That's fine, since my point wasn't that the idea is wrong, but that "he was 100% the opposite of that in practice".
A wild speculation: perhaps Moon is the huge asteroid that hit and liquefied the planet that was there before Earth, so some of its material sticked to that asteroid and formed Moon, while the rest formed Earth. In this case, the two sides of Moon show the direction of the impact.
Generally no, because the sealing formations are not carbonates.
But $300 could be more than those guys make in month in peace time, literally.
In most of Russia’s regions median (!) salary is closer to 350 US dollars, and that’s before war. Minimum wage is around 100 dollars (not sure if there are many people on min. wage, but still..)

There were reports from Belarus that one guy sent some 440 kilos of “presents” to his family in Russia.
Will Elon Musk Buy More Twitter?
The ease with which you can pay anonymously makes me feel that its more likely a genuine privacy provider rather than a CIA run honeypot like Crypto AG.
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Sounds like Stoicism. Read the "Enchiridion"
http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

A lot of ancient knowledge got recorded in the past, but they used papyrus or stone tablets. They didn't quite manage to get it published electronically. So every few years we modern people wonder if Google or Hacker News can tell us how to be happy and sane.
"There is also evidence that men at all ages are less likely to seek medical care and less likely to comply with medical instructions than are women."

Especially on the 0-1 year old group. Toxic masculinity starts in utero.
It gets pulled once per host, but with autoscaling hosts come and go pretty frequently. It's a really nice property to be able to scale quickly with load, and small images tend to help with this in a variety of ways (pulling but also instantiating the container). Most sites won't need to scale like this; however, because one or two hosts is almost always sufficient for all traffic the site will ever receive.
No worries, my skillset is kind of a mishmash. I'm a former software engineer cum tax attorney that straddles the line between tax/law and tech. Paying gigs not as important as interesting projects and (as you say) congenial colleagues.
No 3rd party apps for the watch of any kind, it has no ecosystem. I had one, and yes the battery time was good, but everything else about it was sub-par.
Having them scraped, or auto memorized and dug out of cache with a tricksy autofill form, or peeked out of RAM, or I dunno... in general being treated as something other than the highly sensitive personal information they are. Financial businesses acting according to the rules of PCI DSS are not allowed to store credit card numbers or CVVs in the clear anywhere. But browsers shrug and treat them like any old text.

Graphically I was thinking of the opposite of hiding the number, but rather making it clear to see by automatic digit grouping and stuff.
> you trust the teacher who chose the book

Districts usually select the books, based on publisher relationships. This is different in colleges, where your professor may be the author.

Your teacher did not vet or select the book.

> You yourself have neither the competence nor time and energy to do this for 99% of the subjects int he world.

You can and should spot check texts, and peek into their authors. No, you can't fact check every single claim but you can check 1/20, and you should check anything that seems magical or surprising.

As late as the 1970s, there were expert published books that suggested drinking and smoking during pregnancy were ok. We have had research since the 1930s that made it pretty clear it was dangerous.

> You have to trust experts.

You should verify, check and question your experts. If your doctor says surprising things to you, get a second opinion. If your science teacher tells you an invisible sky man made the Earth in 7 days, maybe check a few other science books.

At the end of the day the burden is on you. Nobody else. If you take bad advice, only you and your loved ones suffer.

You should also always know the "why". If you "trust" the world is round, you should understand how to check that (this is a great activity for kids). You should be able to explain why the sky is blue.
We don't have to guess if someone like Labron would make as much as he makes now without a union because MJ got paid about as much. That said, you're right that the median NBA salary is much higher now. The question is whether that came at the expense of players like Labron or at the expense of the teams.
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the kind that call the police when they see kids playing unsupervised in the park.
The solution I use is to take notes.

I don't think the conversation on the social media is based around data. Most data points that people have are inaccurate (if not false), taken out of context, or used with an incorrect mental model. Once someone states something on social media, it has usually been taken on a viewpoint: at that point data is generally viewed with a confirmation bias type approach.

I am wondering if there is a way to teach everyone to separate facts from values. The facts are the most important part that should be maintained separately (you can do this with notes). Then we need to recognize that different individuals will apply different values and focus on transmitting facts in discussions and let everyone apply their own value system.
It’s a catchy political catch phrase man. It’s literally a multi-thousand year old tradition.
What I meant is that you can't say with absolute confidence that supplementing for vitamins cured his migraine without accounting for the placebo effect in that experiment.
Favorited this comment for when my brain remembers "people argue online because of how our memory works", but not exactly how I arrived to that conclusion.
Then I'll take three sets of skirts and dresses (total $30), made of cotton and available in size 16(!) (not a plus size, just, in the regular size lineup!). I'll take a grocery shopping trip, which not only will cost me less than $10 but all of the food will be local and in-season. And I'll take a month of rent in Montreal ($60) to round it out.

If you prefer, I could have blown it all on a single college course, but that seems to belie the idea of a basket. :P

The declining prices are primarily in durable consumer goods, fuel energy, and consumer electronics. Food, healthcare, education, and rent (the things you need to live) have far outpaced "inflation" -- and this is more relevant to the average person because you don't buy a TV every year, but surely you buy bread every week.
This thread seems to be full of people that use a VPN, I personally don’t as I find DoH + HTTPS to be enough.

Why do so many of you use VPNs?
After trying ~10 different Android apps (all of them pretty bad), I've been very pleased with CapCut (from Tiktok).
I still call HTTP-APIs simply REST APIs, just because most people just get what I mean. Same with gif, as in gift. It works better for communication.
You do remember we have a climate crisis on our hands right now too, right? We need to be bringing more nuclear and renewable capacity online, not doubling down on fossil fuels.
Off-the-Record Messaging (2016)
Moderators: I don't think this should be flagged.

Also I will keep saying "hard G" until I drop dead!!

That said, I'm actually curious about this one:

> For the Lip-Readers and Hearing Impaired

Is there any basis to this particular claim? Are there other words in English that are best avoided for the sake of lip readers?