skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing is that Python is often in the top 10 choices for almost every problem on top of being insanely easy to learn and write; it also doesn't fragment its community - its standard library is so ridiculously large there are very few fault lines to break upon.

It's rarely the best choice, or even the fifth best. But if it's OK at a dozen things, then it makes it all but impossible to ignore. The fact that it sucks to write a GUI in is fine as long as I can put some basic "go" buttons and text boxes in front of a web scraper.
> I thought "blue badge" was simply identity-verified indication.

On one level it is, but the semiotics are a bit more involved; Having a blue badge also indicates "this person is considered prominent enough by Twitter to be worth verifying", or perhaps "Being verified has value to this person".
It is a complex topic, and imo the people who have done it have high variance in their outcomes. For example some brought their industry perspective back into academic research and did well, and some just feel very ill-adjusted to academic research (I just cannot get over the fact that performance critical code gets written in often buggy Python in my area) and get homesick. I think some parts of CS academia just does not care about the software engineering (robustness, speed, etc.), and these can be tough to adjust to, so it varies by area too.

Disclaimer: never been in industry, but knows several people (PhD students, professors) who were in industry once
The "Graph" part of GraphQL is entirely optional, and IMO not worth the trouble. The best way to use GraphQL is to use it more like an RPC framework, as a replacement for calling generic HTTP endpoints that return JSON blobs. The front end libraries that support it are great and well maintained and you get the additional structure of the GraphQL type system.
I downloaded Duolingo and now every time my finger itches for reddit/instagram/YT at quiet point, I force myself to do a few exercises on Duo instead. I'm not going to master a language like this, but it feels a bit more worthwhile.
The Cosmological argument was posited by Plato (c. 427–347 BC) and Aristotle (c. 384–322 BC). It has nothing to do with "Islam"..

It is comical to claim that some "physicist" has managed to resolve a deeply _philosophical_ question such as Creatio ex nihilo.

The existence of God is a philosophical question and not a scientific one. One can't reach for a scientific method to resolve everything; if that were the case, then we might as well throw out the entire domain of philosophy all together.

I fully recognize that this is not a very popular comment on a forum like HN, however what I dislike about "Scientisim" today, is that they claim that the entire realm of human knowledge and experience can be reduce to Science alone.

I hold that this line of thinking forces you into a very narrow and reductive line of reasoning.
Also at Ars technica: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/05/the-worlds-biggest-hydr...
Anybody using his terminal?
> most people don't want to live in marginal lands that are available in mind boggling quantities

That's not "times have changed" -- people have never wanted to live on marginal lands, that's why the government paid people to move there.

> a lot of cities were built a few generations ago in the hinterlands

Few cities are built in the hinterlands for the purposes of resource extraction; cities grow where trade is, but yes there are definitely towns that have vanished because we don't as many farmers and miners.

The SF Bay Area is dominated by single family homes on large lots. Yes, SF proper has a high density, but the surrounding areas really don't, and not for lack of demand: developers who would build more housing are literally stymied at every turn, and this is not an accident, it is an intentional plan to reduce the availability of housing and keep it expensive, to avoid "traffic", "crowding", and "changing the character of the neighborhood".
https://github.com/cruise-automation/isopod

Starlark -> protos -> k8s api. Jic you wanted more confuse
I run the prepend.com domain. I don’t think there’s any way for you, or anyone without admin access to my dns server, to know when I add a CNAME record for tialaramex.prepend.com.

I guess someone could continuously request every possible entry over and over to see when I do that, but don’t think it’s likely.
I would encourage you to not think of this in an addiction framework. Instead think of this as a self medicating framework.

Why are you choosing reddit over spending time your baby? Do you fear handling the baby? Does handling the baby make you feel uncomfortable thoughts or feelings?

Is there something, like ego, that reddit gives you?

This is a good problem for self journaling, working with someone, or whatever your preferred form of self introspection is.
A Web Around the World, Part 9: A Network of Networks
Yeah, per capita - not household income.
> “On the other hand, when you are the one to implement the Graphql server, it feels like writing your own database. You have to create a query plan, handle optimizations, corner cases, etc.”

Is this still true if the structure of the data is relatively simple, but you have tens of millions of users? Say the data that is returned (per user) has 20 or 30 properties in total (for each user), and you are only ever asking for specific data about an individual user.
Any thoughts on what a big college could do to foster the conditions for forming enduring friendships, among a cohort like yours?
Billions of vaccines administered and no reports of statistically significant complications, let alone deaths as a result. Please stop spreading FUD
UnrealEd 1 was coded in Visual Basic. I was very surprised when heard about this. The core rendering part was probably done in another language though.
Well, if you bring up Haskell, let's remember that String is defined as a list of Char, and in production most people seem to use a variety of other replacement string types and everyone will tell you not to use Haskell String for any serious production use.

Also,

> violates the principle of least surprise

I suppose yes if you don't read the docs which point out that it's not tail-recursive, and a few lines below a tail-recursive alternative `rev_map` is given.
I think this is great and a lot of fun. The only improvement I could suggest is that it only seems to clear the bottom line. If I have an incomplete bottom line, but the row above it settles and fills up, it never clears and the rows just keep stacking higher.
I noticed that you scare-quote "engagement", rightly so imo. Delivering value to the user is the end, engaging them to enable them to extract value is the means. "when means becomes an end" is a good description of the toxic dynamic of that occurs when engagement metrics are optimized at the expense of value delivered which plagues our industry today.

Maybe expanding the term to allude to this dynamic would justify dropping the scare quotes; 'valued engagement', 'value delivered engagement' or something.
Platforms such as Facebook are great aggregators of generic information, but are not very customisable when you want to discuss specific topics i.e. when people want to talk about cars, Twitter or Instagram are limited to comments when in fact you might want to have more features to generate interaction. They also don’t want to discuss it in the same place as their uncle.

I believe this is the point we are now: a lot of people have now discovered the positives of discussing with people alike and are searching for places where they have more of their kind. This is why Reddit, Twitch or Discord are growing strongly, unlike Facebook.

While more and more people are still joining the platforms, the future will bring other smaller places for niches. Social Media is not saturated, it’s fragmented.
If interested: “This year, three Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Princeton — declined to release admissions data on the day acceptance letters were sent out, a trend Stanford started in 2018. Cornell first stopped publicizing its data in 2020.” [0]

[0]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/5/4/selective-univer...
How to get company-wide support for security initiatives
Link to the actual article: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
Are there entire feeds that you've deemed too wasteful? I get that you can slash much of what you look at on Twitter and still get what you want.

But what about things like Instagram, TikTok, etc. - did you delete those apps altogether or also aggressively trim (if you use them)?
Lessons learned from running MPC at scale
In the SF Bay Area there is a lot of vacant land set aside as parks and open space. Should we develop that land for housing?
And crashing early is often the best solution in that case.
because their IT group "would just slow us down"
I always try to apply this for an MVP (Yes, terrible word).
For anything other than a disease prevention and tracking agency (debatiable if the CDC follows into that.. insert Dr Glockenflocken video about that for reference) I agree with you. Enforcement agencies like the FBI shouldn't be getting that info to work with.

With dieases similar to covid, measles, etc .. it's an invaluable tool to be able to determine how, and where infection occured. This allowed for some fantastic studies and finds in Korea. (I.e. https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415 would not have been possible without the phone data)
Are you big in the crypto world? Cause one miner buying 250 cards matters a lot more then 10 gamers buying 1 each.

Also miners are typically buying the best card per a price point, which tends to be higher end or datacenter cards. Your average gamer is usually buying a medium tier.

The price point is also completely indifferent.
Also, the point of EA is not just numbers. Numbers are a tool to help make you the most ethical, rational judgement, to help the most. If you could provide a convincing rational, ethically coherent argument that (if we have a binary choice) we should choose 1 guide dog over curing 2000 people of blindness, we should accept it.

When speaking of large evils, and large impacts, I don't see how you could build an argument without numbers to support any decision, that wouldn't be obtuse, incoherent, unfounded. The only problem with numbers is oversimplification: when you use some metric (it could even be lives saved) without taking into account more complex factors like quality of life. Of course, when you can cheaply cure a person of blindness, save a man's life or address extreme poverty (hunger, lack of education, sanitary and material conditions), that seems to overwhelm fine considerations or quality of life... addressing extreme poverty is the first step in providing a rich and good life (and we should be always mindful of such goals).
I don't think it is hard, nor do I think basic Rust has a steep learning curve. I understand someone with pre-knowledge from 20 years of grinding C++ having maybe hard time learning it since the compiler would just error when you try to do some common C++ things.

But as a beginner, I picked it up as my second language in 2020 after like 1 month of JS. Wasn't particularly hard to learn it as a new programmer.

For me, Erlang / Elixir is probably the lang I'll never be able to learn. Brain just goes off when I read the code / docs.
The folks building the internet are very, very good at exploiting our weak points to keep us scrolling.

I've recently gotten way more aggressive about managing my screen time because I realized I had become incapable of just sitting in silence and peacefully focusing on a single task — even while working I was constantly using my phone to open Reddit or Twitter or Discord, for reasons that I couldn't explain. My brain needed constant dopamine hits to function and spending more than a few minutes on any particular task was extremely difficult.

I've had a lot of success recently by leaving my phone in another room and replacing as much of my non-work screen time as possible with slow, screen-less activity — writing in a notebook, reading real books, walking through the neighborhood (with my phone left at home), gardening, cooking. Basic stuff, but all things that had gradually disappeared from my life as my smart phone and laptop took over every part of my brain.

The first few weeks of this were pretty tough, I was constantly looking to where my phone normally would have been and I had to relearn how to just focus on one thing at a time. Now that I'm in the groove my brain feels dramatically more clear and calm and the urge to grab my phone every 30 seconds has mostly faded away. I'm getting more comfortable feeling "bored" again. As a bonus, I've regained my ability to read novels — I've read more fiction this year than I did in the last 10 years combined.
I just looked through quickly, but it appeared that the segment with the most companies in the list is insurance... I guess Warren Buffet is still right...
But an interpretation is just that - an interpretation, which does not have any effect on the equations (or does it?), so if it's a new math that is needed for QM and GR to start looking like two ends of the same elephant, then that's what it'll take.
I don't want to speak for silicon2401, but at least for me, cold turkey worked fine. But we need to be clear about what needs to be quit. It's any and all news. Consumption of information is important for various reasons, if for nothing else then to satisfy basic intellectual curiosity. But you need to be judicious about where it is coming from and how often you spend your time consuming it, along with the extent to which that consumption is interactive.

So no 24 hour cable news channels. No algorithmic content feeds. No consuming news through Facebook or Google. I've never been on Twitter, but I imagine it isn't much better and you should quit it if you currently have an account there. Don't just try to stay away or use an app to block it based on time of day. Delete your account and put the site on your home firewall if you have.

Then proceed to consume from healthier. The most obvious is books. Read as many and as often as you can. After that, I still think YouTube channels or something similar on an equivalent platform can still be useful, but you have to be careful. Turn off auto-play. Turn off watch and search history. Don't use the algorithmic suggestion feeds. Block them via custom uBlock rules if necessary. Just ignore them if you can. Subscribe to your trusted channels and let them make word of mouth recommendations for other channels. That is a perfectly adequate level of discoverability. For me, I stick to DIY home improvement, PC and homelab building, car detailing, weight lifting, and some animal information channels. That's it. No current events or culture war topics. Nobody that yells or gets emotional in their videos. After that, blogs.

There is where Hacker News is still useful. You can discover quality blogs. They'll be repeatedly linked to here, rise to the top, and not be causing long arguments and flame wars. Facebook honestly used to be useful for the same purpose. But there is always a balance between discovering useful sources of new information and time spent getting sucked into long arguments and rabbit-holing yourself with outrage bait. At some point, Facebook became not enough of the former and too much of the latter. Hacker News hasn't reached that point yet, at least for me. When it does, I will leave Hacker News as well. Meanwhile, since I bookmarked the highest-quality blogs that consistently show up here, I'll just start going straight to the source.

A few key reasons I don't think Hacker News is that bad yet include the comparatively small user base, somewhat of an industry focus, active and consistent moderation that is fair and well-explained, and no personalization. Everyone sees the same list of links. The list is still algorithmically sorted, but since the algorithm is largely just upvote count and recency and isn't personalized, I don't find it that bad. At least not yet.
Per the article, she is an antiquities dealer who specializes in looking for treasures at thrift stores. So generally speaking she is absolutely looking for a payout. We don't know what terms she negotiated this time, per the article those terms are confidential, but we do know that whatever she negotiated was not a simple return. The article says this much of it: "The exact terms of the deal are confidential, but the head will stay in Texas — on display — for about a year."

But supposing she was looking for a payout in this instance, is it fair to characterize looking for a payout as "trying to do a bad thing"? I don't think so, no. She may well have been within her legal rights to seek a payout. It seems safe to presume she had at least some legal right to the bust, since the deal she came to with the German museum was not simply return it immediately.

The article claims "Young had a problem: She was in possession of a looted piece of ancient art. She couldn't keep it. She couldn't sell it." But the article doesn't directly quote her saying this. It's conceivable she felt she was morally or ethically obliged to return it. Or maybe she incorrectly believed she was legally obliged to return it, and learned differently only after hiring the lawyer.
> You're always told that if you don't buy a Big Mac and put the $2.99 in the bank instead, you'll have ten dollars in 30 years. But in 30 years a Big Mac is going to cost $12, so you just played yourself.

There's more to it than that. You also get to pay taxes on your $7 of capital gains.
IIUC those tools would usually prompt you for a username and password as part of the installation procedure, so your installation would be secure right off the bat.
Sometimes. Some of them are absolutely awful, but the market is hot enough that they make up for it with volume rather than repeat business.
A major driver of inflation is Baby Boomers retiring. If we want to contain inflation, we should immediately increase the full retirement age to 70 and partial to 65.

Secondly, we can immediately ban the purchase of Crytpocurrencies, to drive down the price and hence attractiveness of mining and electricity rates.

Government action needs to be at the supply side.
Zotero has had Unpaywall integration since 2018:

https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpa...

(Disclosure: Zotero dev)
You really don't know how government and police work. Its sad how many posters on HN have some unrealistic belief in a benevolent government.

It probably speaks to how few posters here have had any real world experience dealing with governments beyond the daily procedural stuff like ID's and tax payments.
Geology, geography, climatology, meteorology, ecology, geophysics, paleontology, oceanography, etc.
The only place I've gotten the regularity feeling of a third place was a really specific gym I used to both work and train at. Everyone knew who I was even if I didn't train with them, because I also worked there, so when I trained there it was my third place as well and I was always having great conversations.

I haven't had anything like it since, and I've been relatively proactive too. I have hobbies, go to meets, and go to the same coffee shops and restaurants so often that they know my order, but there is always this barrier between everyone, like no-one needs eachother because they have their phones. I ride the same bike park twice a week and go to the gym every couple of days, but I moved on to a 24/7 gym and everyone is buried in their phones, and I don't see the same people twice at the bike park. Me and the cleaner always have a great yarn though, I appreciate that.
By "not possible" you mean that it's not a feature that exists in Mastodon today. In that sense you are right.
Really nice that they adapt the proxmox model for support, it's worked excellent for us in our labs. It would have been nice to have emergency tickets as an option though, even if it costs hundreds per ticket. Because small businesses often can't afford the 1.2K commitment per machine, when they already pay for clusters of dedicated servers. Even a small cluster of 5 machines is 6K, a lot of dough for a small company..
I don’t think so. I think it signals a secret level of expectations and information asymmetry as the average sat score is still available to admissions people.

It will be interesting if this leads to higher or lower mean and median scores. I expect that scores will go up as the assumption by applicants is that only super high scores will result in admission.

Part of their “holistic” process includes SAT so the score does matter. I consider “holistic” BS marketing speak as of course everything in the admin packet is used and there’s never been a situation in my lifetime that a specific score meant automatic admission.
This is much more pernicious. LSAT score is fairly well correlated with bar passage. Perspective students should know up front whether or not they are likely to waste 3 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars
Yes, I also like https://typora.io/
The "risk of fragility" is bankruptcy, or death if we're talking about a biological organism.

For example, the financial entity that makes tons of money speculating in a worthless asset, then goes belly up when its worthlessness is exposed (I won't name the asset(s) to avoid a flame war).

You can't "price that in." You just avoid it.
WordPress is huge, it represents a big chunk of the web. I've read from a quarter to a third, or even more. It's a good target. Of course we are going to hear about security vulnerabilities more for WordPress than for any other CMS.

There is nothing specific to WordPress about the issue this post relates IIUC apart from the fact it is a privileged target.

And there's no news when everything is fine, which is most of the time.
No, my job at work for the past few years has been working with and explaining projects to non technical stakeholders.

I often go over presentations with my wife first. If she can understand it, I take that as a good indication that my audience will also. If she has a lot of questions, they will also.
Sometimes logic isn't enough. YOU caused a huge amount of anger among the community by being condescending, and insisting "I learned this from alacritty, not the person I was condescending towards" isn't going to make anyone less angry. I'm just telling it like it is here. Humility is, unfortunately, what you need, and you can't fake humility.
This looks neat! I just watched Alan Kay's recent talk at GOTO Conference "Is Software Engineering Still an Oxymoron" and this tool reminds me a bit of the CAD -> SIM -> FAB part of his talk:

https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E?t=2034
You say that but history has lots of examples of people taken in by such egalitarian societies and doing an about-face, and when the European societies took in people, they more often sought to return.

In any case, what I'm talking about is democratic and does not forego property rights, in fact it could give you stronger property rights. But you didn't read the grandparent.
I'm sure they're accepting Pull Requests.
I'm curious, do you feel the motives for your voracious information digest are positive or negative? By that I mean, do you feel you're making up for something by wanting to learn as much as you can about different subjects? perhaps some kind of insecurity? Or is it just good old curiosity about the world and trying to be less ignorant each passing day?
>> engagement tracking _is_ kind of critical to developing/understanding your product

I disagree, engagement tracking is just a lazy stand-in for actual user studies and interviews.
Why California needs more water than ever to end its drought
... what else there is to do? The days are 14 hours long (assuming healthy 10 hours of sleep), but I have energy for maybe 4-8 hours of activity on average. Rest of the time needs to be filled with some form of "time wasting".
It’s an addiction. The internet works like loot boxes — the randomness with which you find something that gives you a quick dopamine kick keeps you scrolling/refreshing and keeps you coming back.