skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Progress, to me, would be making the food industry less fragile (i.e. more stable).

How much so? FOr all the talk of techno-utopian ideals amongst the HN crowds, it isn't until you reach the 'I'm burned out, so I'm going farming' phase of a tech worker (I did rather early at 26) that most here will take any level of consideration in making any effort towards that end.

For most, it seems like a contrarian past time to argue the merits of conventional vs organic food becase: 'carbon is carbon.' Not realizing the underlying aspect of most of the local and organic movement is to strengthen the food supply that had been vastly consolidated by the pharmaceutical corporations in the late 70s who filled your plate with pesticide-laden franken-food shipped from all over the World and made us more food insecure (in non=processed junk) and diseased than ever in the US history.

In short, simply going to the farmers market once in a blue moon to have a story to tell here isn't living up to your rhetoric, and it seems that salary/TC alone isn't enough to compel some of the most well paid workers in the US to opt for making the food supply less fragile at all.
Sure you would probably treat it differently but isn't it being elitist and harmful to the open source community in general to outright shoot down or discourage any PR from a lesser known or unknown source if it is a good PR? I think we should encourage novices to contribute and we shouldn't be hostile to them so that they can get past the novice phase and become trusted contributors. If a bot produces valid helpful and well formed PRs, why would you discriminate against them completely when they improve your codebase?
In my experience, it is a strong reverse correlation, actually.

With few exceptions, I have almost never been paid to work on code that turned out to be something I was proud of. This is on of the reasons I dropped out of pro dev, despite it being easy money.
Roughly yes, I think of punishment as intentional infliction of suffering in order to modify behavior. If there’s no behavior modification goal then of course it’s just abuse.

I agree with you that POV matters. Telling a young kid, “You can’t have dessert tonight since you’re puking” can easily be interpreted as punishment :D

Some of the things you talk about sound like what I could call “natural consequences,” like cleaning the wall. I don’t think there’s an unambiguous bright line between punishment and consequences. I’ve spent years trying to stay on one side of it, but I don’t think I’ve done it perfectly.

Going late to a birthday party because a kid is “being obnoxious” — I think we could view that several ways. Some parents would call backtalk or opposition or argument “being obnoxious,” and I think that’s entirely wrong — I want him to challenge me, and stick up for what he wants.

If the kid makes a clumsy mistake before the birthday party, maybe he can clean it up when we get back (e.g., spilling Lego, but not milk). If the kid deliberately makes a mess before a birthday party, I might delay and ask them to clean it up first. It’s not always possible for me to understand intent, so if he claims something was an accident I’m very likely to act as if I believe him. There’s less harm in that, I believe, than in attributing malice to an accident.

FWIW I try not to reward or praise him, either; those are both inappropriate uses of power. Those have fuzzy lines, too; “you’re so smart” is praise and I avoid it. “I admire how hard you worked” is talking about my own reaction to empirical facts, so I wouldn’t call it praise.

Paying him $10 for each A on a report card is reward, and I avoid it. Watching a movie on Thursday nights if we get the house cleaned in time seems like natural consequences to me, and I wouldn’t call it a reward.

My own parents provided me many excellent counter-examples and anti-patterns, so before I had a kid I knew I wanted to do it very differently but I didn’t know exactly how. Alfie Kohn’s book, “Unconditional Parenting” informed my thinking about this significantly.
I think of it like this: They can't pay me enough to take a $200k job. By which I mean that for most $200k jobs, the money would not be enough to justify the trade off. But everyone makes their own choices on that sort of thing.
> Zoom School proved what most of us knew all along

I'm not sure how things are in the UK, but the sentiment in the US is that Zoom schooling was an unmitigated disaster.

I was bullish on remote education prior to COVID, but interacting with the output of remote learning (at work and in volunteer work) has completely changed my mind. COVID was nowhere near a perfect experiment, but what evidence we can glean overwhelming contributes to evidence to the "remote learning sucks for at least a majority of students of all ages" side of this debate.
It was growing steadily but there was no clear way for me to monetize it. From a business perspective, I didn't know what I was doing. 4chan founder Chris Poole reached out to me at one point and we had a call (I was a bit star-struck!) to talk about it and some new project he was working on (I don't remember the name). But money was really tight for me and I couldn't afford to run it anymore, so I had to shut it down.
Got one where the video didn't work properly:

[{"movie":"The Big Year","year":2011,"release_date":"2011-10-14","director":"David Frankel","character":"Kenny Bostick","movie_duration":"01:43:09","timestamp":"01:08:23","full_line":"Wow, and here I thought I was the bomb at 728.","current_wow_in_movie":3,"total_wows_in_movie":3,"poster":"https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zT...}]
> even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate

these typically are the best available, but not always quite right.

the cc provided by wgbh are usually pretty good as well, but they are mission focused on delivering good closed captioning - it's just that not everyone wants to use them (or they can't schedule? not sure)

unfortunately, once you leave those two, it's a craps shoot as to whether they make sense or truly convey the message that the audio is conveying. some of them seem to go by what I'm guessing is the original script, which can be fairly close in meaning to what they're saying, others are just a mish-mash of words that are misspelled and don't necessarily convey the meaning that the audio is trying to.

the worst is live sports, which really don't have to be: I've been to conferences that were extremely inclusive and have had real-time (remote) closed captioning - seeing how good those can be make me shake my head in wonder when I see the typical sports closed captioning. eek.

I'm stuck in the middle where I can still hear and interpret most words, so have a lot of incongruence when I am relying on both the cc and the audio when they don't match.
commercial code is developed under time to market pressure, cost minimization pressure, and organizational pressures, which typically include a dramatic lack of accountability and perverse incentives. And, the most essential elements of a business (without which you don’t have one) is sales and finance, not code quality. so yes
Rent rises, your mortgage doesn't. I have locked in $3500/month current cost to have a home, which is about what rent would be (once you account for gains from investing the down payment to offset the rent).

Since 1980, in the US, rents have increased 9% per year. In 20 years, the rent will be 2-4x, whereas my mortgage will remain the same (modulo a lowered interest deduction).

Even if it's about as financially efficient (which I doubt), it's a very powerful feeling to have locked down a fixed cost of housing for as long as I want to live in California.
An interesting feature would be to allow people to "disagree but show" for comments they disagreed with but considered at least thoughtful/civil/in good faith, and then combine that with user stats:

When other comment on my posts:

- % rejected
- % disagreed but shown
- % accepted

When I comment:

- % rejected
- % disagreed but shown
- % accepted

This would incentivize openness and good faith conversation, and make abusers on either front (trolling or over-policing) instantly visible.
Yes; "milk" with no qualifier is what comes out of the dangly bits of cows. If you order "eggs" at a restaurant, expect something that's been inside a chicken.
I don't get it. As if echo chambers weren't already bad enough.
Autohokey and Rust seem to be very popular for cheating (auto mouse clicking, things like that)
Honestly, a lot of the free internet ones are better.
>from people who know a little bit about the subject

I think you just summed up a large portion of the internet.
Missed opportunity to call it a WOWPI - Wow Owen Wilson Programming Interface
Sulfuric acid is one of the most well understood stratospheric nanoparticles because we have millions of years of geological data to correlate with the climate history. If you're worried about unintended consequences and models being insufficient for prediction, you want to be as conservative as possible with your nanoparticle choices. Terraforming is not something to treat lightly.
Closed captions on blu-rays and DVDs are stored as bitmap images, so it wouldn't be possible to search those, although I'm sure the scripts are somewhere on the internet.
Qualcomm charges you a device price tax for each modem you install in a device. So Apple is understandably uninterested in paying Qualcomm that much. When Apple moves to its own modems, expect to see them appear in Macbooks.
If they bring back Weihan Zhang I will become an official Elon fanboy.
I don't know about crap, but it every line of code is a liability, not an asset.
What Is a DPU – Data Processing Unit (2020)
I’m not even convinced it costs more to do things space-flight style. It just costs more up-front. Buggy software just hides the cost and amortizes it over more time.
Ukraine’s Digital Battle with Russia Isn’t Going as Expected
What is the granularity of “code” though.
The downvotes on this comment (at least at the moment) are astounding.
Yes it's middle of nowhere. Hence being cheap. Electricity? Tesla Solar. Plumbing? How many millions, i mean peanuts, you think to build a entire water and waste system operating? How much money for roads? Somewhere between $42 and how much the water system costs.

Also the idea in the design is people are going to move to X company's HQ in tesla. Oh did I reveal something?
I really don't see how "two critical articles about a particular programming language on consecutive days are flamebait and detrimental to the site" can be squared with the handling of US political and COVID articles over the last two-three years. Programming content should be the bread and butter of the site, and popular language critique is par for the course on any hacker-themed board. And tomorrow we'll have moved on to something else, unlike the other topics I mentioned.
"Past me" is firmly in the camp of other people. (Not just in code, obviously, but in pretty much all other choices as well.)

Present me and future me, however, are certainly not other people.
https://ocw.mit.edu/
If anything, believing in God/higher being is wacky. :p (And reminder that the U.S. is the most religious highly developed Western nation by far.)
There’s an important distinction between program correctness and program pleasantness. A program can be incorrect but still quite pleasant. Video games have many exemplars. Roughly speaking correctness means satisfying some specification and pleasantness means pleasing the program’s users (or owners, which usually means commercial success).

Given that context, what do you mean by crap?
> From windows 8 the calculator has a bloated feeling

Also it spies on you: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/e9a974d1dd4333f...
> Tech oligarchs who were all “Disrupt!” are now all “Wait not me! I’m a rent seeker now!”

It's always been an empty platitude from the SV disillusional masses: when the business model is 'grow at all costs, even if you lose money' in order to cash out on an over-inflated IPO, it was clear that it was never to disrupt anything. It was t:o build something seemingly novel, raise funds to fight a war of attrition, moat, weaken the opposition and take majority market-share and then cash out.

Plan B is selling out to some megacorp/tech oligarch in order to rinse and repeat as a 'serial entrepreneur' until you eventually get to a position in which you get on a board and you can ossify something like Twitter, too!
I appreciate your service.
I regularly get recipes from real people who really make original (as far as recipes can be original) or adapted recipes. No, it's not plagiarism all the way down.
> Joe Schmoe might be anti-surveillance state but even more pro-gun, so if his options are anti-surveillance and anti-gun or pro both, he picks the pro-gun one even though his views don't entirely align.

The fact of the matter is that the duopoly of US politics are both pro-surveillance aside from a select few. It simply doesn't matter because there's nothing you can do about it.
> This article was, yes, a little aggressive in tone

A little?

"[...] but I remember fondly the time an audience member asked the Go team "why did you choose to ignore any research about type systems since the 1970s"?"

"Unless you're out for confirmation bias, that whole article is a very compelling argument against using Go for that specific problem."

"[...] and tooling that would make C developers jealous, if they bothered looking outside their bubble."

"[...] and most importantly, you adopted a language that happened by accident."

"Evidently, the Go team didn't want to design a language.
[...]
"And so they didn't. They didn't design a language. It sorta just "happened"."

"And breaking down an argument to its smallest pieces, rebutting them one by one, is a self-defense tactic used by those who cannot afford to adjust their position in the slightest. "

"We've reached the fifth stage of grief: acceptance."

"Because it has been decided that abstractions are for academics and fools [...]"

> [...] but presented very honest and accurate information about a language that the author clearly has experience in.

It's biased flamebait, just like the original article.

> It seems like a lot of the people complaining in the comments didn't actually read the article. The author even explains how those who have bought in to Go may not want to hear what they're saying and it's right. No one wants to hear that their baby is ugly but sometimes it's the truth.

>

> To those who do use Go: someone can call your baby ugly and you can still love it.

Sure, I'd love to read such a well-considered article. Please link any you know of below.

Here's an exemplary article that managed to criticize Go without evoking a flamewar ([1]): https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/-/blob/master/GoNotes.ado...

I pose that if you present valid arguments in a reasonable, intellectually-curious way, people will respond positively. But if you set out on a holy war instead, well...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29494136
> (either the owner falsely claims the piano was played or is improperly spying on the piano or tenant)

Grabbing the wheel and jerking hard left...

If the owner installs camera/microphones to check the piano status, that would be very creepy and leaning into the spying realm. If the owner installed sensors on the keys/hammers/strings/etc to detect movement, then I think I'd be okay with that. Those sensors would not know that you like to do naked yoga or pick your nose for 20 solid minutes every morning while still "protecting" the owner's wishes. Now, I'm trying to really think of if that's also invasive or if I'm accepting it for the sake of the derailed argument.
The most perplexing thing about Netflix is that even though they have a reputation for hiring the best, I can’t think of a single way that the experience is better than Disney, HBO or Apple TV.

And this is after 25 years of investing in technology.
Glad you enjoy it! It does incorporate the subtractive RYB color model to produce more life-like results. However, it is more of a color blending!
Wonder what the Turo terms of use say over such things....
An approach where comments have to be seconded by someone else has been tried before. It doesn't work unless either 1) the community is small, or 2) you have some means of verifying the identity, or at least that it's a unique person, of the seconder.

It's the usual spam problem. If people can generate identities cheaply, "who" based blocking will not work.
Before the whole project was killed, Node-ChakraCore had a time travel debugger that worked pretty well. I don't know how easy it would be to port the methods it used to a chrome extension (my guess is somewhere between difficult and impossible), but browser vendors could implement this natively.
Can't say I've noticed the gender of any user here?
Well, I would like it if I could participate in a forum where "women are genetically predisposed to be less ambitious than men" is not a constant theme of debate.

Having that debate drives away women. I don't know if that's the kind of "right-leaning opinion" you're talking about, but if it is, I would rather that we were divided into two silos: one silo where people talk about how women are not ambitious, and one silo with women.
I wonder how often you have made comments that others would consider "low grade harassment" and exclusionary without realizing it, and thus would have those comments removed by someone, somewhere, if they had their way. It's a lot more frequent than you might realize.

One thing i fail to understand about this viewpoint is why the relationship between the removal of replies and comments and "low-grade harassment and de facto exclusion" isn't more prominent. Someone might say something one doesn't like, but the one has very little real power over the someone just with a reply.

But if they have the power to delete what they say, it's much easier to reach the level of harassment and exclusion. There isn't a much stronger tool for harassment and exclusion than moderation tools used improperly.
It’s a big ball of mud in a tar pit.
Alpha Specification of .par3
Organized religion constrains and directs group dynamics. That's not a defense or indictment of religion; it's just a fact.

Getting rid of organized religion does not get rid of the fundamental aspects of human cognition that give rise to certain types of group dynamics.

Since the 1800s, non-theists have warned that getting rid of religion is not an unmitigated good. "God is dead" was a warning.
I wonder if Netflix should leverage same day delivery and start doing more physical copies again.

Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos.
It’s a nice coincidence.
Bronze, iron, nuclear, spice
Today, it’s a toy. In ten years, it will be writing far more sophisticated code and replacing cheap coding shops. I don’t think senior engineering roles are at risk, but if you’re making low dollars writing bullshit code, your job is at risk.
Really interesting concept.

I think the previews on the thumbnails shouldn't be the beginning of the message. My reason is that it oftentimes contains longwinded introductions and I believe there could be more compelling text. Maybe that's just my impression, but I think one workaround is to use some "AI logic" to automatically summarize the thread. Just Duck Duck Go to "text summarization apis" and see.
The goal here seems to be twofold. On the one hand, to put the onus on the one receiving messages from the troll or heckler to either stay silent and not give them a voice, or respond and allow the world to see the negative comment. On the other hand, with respect to the troll responding to a comment, many trolls don't care if they're seen as such.

And trolls aside, it seems that boring messages are less likely to receive a reply than ones that are more inflammatory or generally compelling. Is that true?
Just out of curiosity:

Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?
Ah yes, that outline/tree code editor was one of the worst ideas I ever had.

I'd gotten hooked on some of Dave Winer's stuff - ThinkTank and GrandView - and thought everything should be an outliner.

Be grateful that you and the world were spared at least some of this: at first I thought that even expressions should be done in outline form. We punted on that and left them in text form.

After 2-3 years I left Gupta to work for Cooper Software on Ruby (no relation to the programming language). This was originally going to be a user-programmable shell for Windows 3.0, but Microsoft decided to go a more conventional route with Program Manager and File Manager, and turned Ruby into the "Visual" part of Visual Basic.

So you can blame me for the worst parts of both SQLWindows and Visual Basic!
Very useful posts, thank you. If we're voting, i put my hand up for an RSS feed, if possible.
https://www.level12.io/blog/advice-to-aspiring-developers/

Includes advice on getting started but also comes from the perspective of getting a development job, not just getting into coding.
So...a desperate attempt to invent God from whole cloth?
If this catches on, web developers may start employing memory obscurification techniques like game developers

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/riots-approach-anti-ch...
I was interested but not particularly moved by that example.
No.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/

https://github.com/redis/redis

I am sure there are lots of others.
I found the YNAB videos and classes to be absolutely invaluable. Although actually I can attach an exact dollar value to them, lol. Wish I learnt that at or before 18 instead.
Even this thread has people saying that all that matters is getting something to market, which I think is indicative of one of the major problems of modern software development.
You are arguing that only non-leftist spew hate, false information, and vitriol? (which is what the accounts were suspended for).

I think this is pretty unsubstantiated.
The code itself matters little. It's a fools errand to attempt to write "good code" while glossing over, or outright ignoring, information hiding and dependency management.

Structure, testability, documentation and automation of the system give you a fighting chance.
I’ve actually seen the opposite ime. Anecdotal, but I’ve told my wife at least 3-4 times about how shocked I’ve been that conservative talking points have been received well on this platform. The wuhan lab leak theory, commentary on undue censorship, predatory DIB/HR practices, moving out of costal areas to seek more sane people groups, and so on. I’m often surprised that there are centrists and right leaning people on this platform considering that the current media narrative would insist that we are all some degree of leftist.
30% is just federal. State can add between 0%-10% on top of that. So depending on where you live it may be very close to Germany. Then there's medical insurance, which is usually paid out of a portion of your paycheck. It's optional, but it would be a poor risk/reward tradeoff for even for a young healthy person to not at least have a high deductable plan, which will be another 3-4% of $200k.
In the case of the solution being not reached, the game shares your closest guess result instead:

Colorfle 4 X/6
⬜⬜⬜
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My closest guess had an color accuracy of 95%!

[The green and yellow box emojis do not seem to be supported in the text comment here]
I reorganized some things on my website some time ago and set up 301 redirects. I looked at where the links were coming from.

The site with links to my site now consists of a placeholder page with a link to the Internet Archive. As much as I like stable URLs, I think that I would like to encourage people to just keep as much online as possible, and if you keep your content online, that’s commendable. It’s worthy of praise just staying online.