skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have a hard time categorizing it all you want, that's still what it is. People making choices and doing things that have consequences.

You just don't like it, and that's fine. I can't say I really like it either. But it doesn't mean it's your job to fix it or that you have a right to just take the things preemptively. Continuing to perpetuate colonial abuse is not going to somehow Magically Fix Everything This Time For Sure, it's just going to keep making things worse.
Yup, is usually, Whatever Insurance Co. that ask you to have degrees, to not have gaps in your resume, etc... Pretty ridiculous.
>I got rid of my smartphone

Teach me! How do you keep in touch with people on the go? This is the only thing that has stopped me from dumping my iPhone altogether. I sometimes leave home without it but I end up relying on others for coordination, etc -- which means I haven't liberated myself so much as fobbed off the responsibility to others.

I don't have social media (besides HN), so my main contact with people who aren't in my immediate vicinity is through sharing photos directly on iMessage and the odd article-inspired rant.
There’s actually another, simpler explanation: they’re doing exactly what they’re saying.

Not releasing SAT scores of admitted students might mean that their experiments with “holistic” admission results in lower average SATs. Hence their de-emphasis of test scores.
'Maybe I'm Amazed?' is a terrific song. How about it?
> we didn't need to use trade barriers to gain competitiveness

No but Britain sure needed to be allowed to use British Overseas Territories like Cayman Island to facilitate systematic tax evasion.
In my opinion, the value of a well architected micro service is to figure out how to optimize and leverage the capabilities of the underlying storage engine, while presenting a simple performant and correct API to consumers, while not requiring those consumers to understand the underlying details of the datastore.
stop listening to cnbc, start looking at the numbers. shit's gone really bad really fast and it's only starting. first signs of weakness in LQD, HYG and JNK have been there since december and it's been straight down from there. stay aware.
I really like the idea of indicating epistemic status for posts. The closest to that for code might be version numbers where anything under v1.0 should be taken with a grain of salt. This dynamic of spitballing-or-serious appears on HN sometimes when a personal project gets shared by a third party, is good enough to attract serious comments/critiques, but then the author of the project chimes in to say “I totally didn’t expect this to be shared here it’s definitely a work in progress…”
> Meanwhile both Brex and Ramp have become decacorn

That was at peak bubble. Given that most public Fintech companies crashed around 70% from ATH I assume the same holds for Brex and Ramp.
The idea that the EU imposes massive amounts of red tape when no other instition I know of has done more to reduce it in the last century is just absolutely mindboggling to me. Is it so hard to grasp that standardizing regulations among dozens of countries with the explicit goals of making it easier to trade, travel, work and live in foreign countries, inevitably leads to reduced red tape?
Google has stated officially that they do consider nofollow nowadays (but they treat the link differently, in a non-specified way) https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-n...
There was a brief time where I thought i could write regularly and make money off of having a commercialized personal site. It turned out that it wasn't for me. I pay the bills every year and I write somewhere between 0 and 5 posts a year. They're usually write-ups about projects I have completed, or interests I'm pursuing.

It's really nice to not have to worry about how popular something is or isn't on my site. And occasionally I'll have someone send me a note saying thank you for some helpful piece of information they found there.
> electing a 3rd party decision maker that the other negotiator can't communicate with

This is why every dealership salesman "has to go talk it over with his manager" at some point in the negotiation.
> Sometimes you'll sit in front of the computer, try to start some task but somehow end opening hackeer news, digg, youtube.

I have to strongly disagree.

If that kind of behavior gets out of control it sounds like typical adhd. One still wants to do stuff but unable to get oneself into actually doing it.

Depression IMO is when one starts losing motivation and ability to derive pleasure from activities that were normally pleasant.
I think it was about regions further from London becoming more prosperous, partly through development of transport links and broadband internet
I think your question is “wet pavements cause rain” level of misinterpretation of what @not2b wrote.

(I have no idea if what @not2b wrote is correct, but the causality in their comment is the exact opposite direction of what you’re asking is implied).
Sinn Féin is a political party over a century old, and in 1918 won an all-Ireland election, 73 of 105 seats, on its platform to leave the UK. That the mainstream media refers to Sinn Féin as the political wing of the IRA tells little about them but a lot about the media and other things. Sinn Féin is also tied for largest party at Leinster House in the 26 counties.

Instructive is https://bbc.co.uk . You can barely find news of this, it is way down the page. Superhero movies, Miami Grand Prix. dating apps, pilota, carbon bicycles etc. take precedence. England doesn't care, other than the loose ends remaining snagged Brexit somewhat.
Dynamic scoping.

Not saying it’s without utility, but to the mainstream: pants on head bonkers.
I think it's much shorter now, that article is almost 8 years old. With the ubiquity of digital cinema, I suspect the average shot length is 1.x seconds.
"They aren't interested in tearing up those relations to make a separate deal with Brexiters."

Oh, they absolutely are.

They do not like the marginal to zero power they have in their relationship with the EU.

The EU plays pretty aggressively with individual states, it's 'EU First!' in the Trumpian sense to the maximum extent.

Switzerland and Norway have little power vis-a-vis the EU and therefore have to 'do what they are told'.

UK has a bit more influence and outside relations, so it's not quite in the same position.

... but 3 'key states together' are almost (not quite) a critical mass.

I don't think UK/Norway/Swiss are 'quite enough' to form a bloc - but they are 'one country short'.

Every two years, there's an election somewhere in Europe won, or almost won by a Eurosceptic party.

There is always Turkey - the 'odd man' on the border of Europe.

And, in the meantime, Ukraine, which has been told by Austria that they are 'minimum 10 years away' - but in the meantime there's ample opportunity for trade harmonization.

One more added to the group and effectively 'it's a block'.

I think there's a 50/50 chance you see a 'Trans European Trade Group' forming with those kinds of countries - basically between EU and non-EU European countries.
I use an ebook reader and a notebook. It has a browser, but the touch interface has enough friction to make it hard to get absorbed into distractions. The notebook helps me take notes and eliminate the "gotta look it up right now" feeling. Also, blocking social media and news sites with host files or at the router (router is preferable, as DoH in Firefox and Chrome bypass hostfile blocking).
More likely by truncating the list, since they felt they had to sneak one more in at zero.
I might be the wrong person to answer because I'm obsessed with books and sometimes have been told by my therapist, my wife, my son, etc. to lay off the reading.

Two things I like are: (1) reading on public transit (often physical books) and (2) reading a tablet when doing cardio at the gym.

Also I think there's the matter of finding the right books. Some books really do invite you into a world that takes a lot of effort to get into, say

https://www.lacan.com/beingandevent.html

I find this is a good analogy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1105469/

It is like going somewhere on vacation or playing a video game or experiencing virtual reality. You get out what you put in.
I suspect lots of different reasons but for me I think it is simply catharsis to engage with something that doesn't require effort or reaction unless I want to, I can just consume. This helps my brain recover from the focussed deliberate work I do during the day.

Of course, this does beg the question, if we took steps to stop doing it, would it give us more time to do useful focussed work or would we instead just watch TV, read a book, go to the part or whatever.
And what do privacy policies mean to warrants that say they must not be revealed anyway.
>Profit motive is so primitive

Is this a rebuttal to turtledove for introducing the notion of 'profit motive?' His introduction is the source of our discussion on 'profit motive.'

>(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull).

The beautiful thing about art is you can interpret it however you want. You interpret it as a "golden idol" of the profit motive. I could interpret it as an angry bull sick of the ways of capitalism; a bull that wants to inspire free health care for all.
Preparing for interviews for specifically those companies that do leetcode style interviews is a very narrow use case and one that's only useful if you actually intend to interview for such a position soonish. I'd say that books are, as a category, incomparably more broadly useful.
You might be thinking of StumbleUpon? (https://www.stumbleupon.com)
I used to spend hours on that site!
Polling you're wrong [0]

The "Not join" lead from 2020 has vanished and replaced with a "rejoin" lead, about a 5 point swing over the last 2 years.

As to the effects, you clearly haven't tried to ship anything between the UK and the mainland, even with the controls still not in place [3].

"LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest" [1]

Even Rees-Mogg agrees brexit red tape is a disaster [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_United_...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-red-ta...

[2] https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/15196917707365580...

[3] https://www.cityam.com/uk-delays-checks-brexit-checks-on-eu-...
More succinctly: Bronze age daggers were used as ordinary kitchen knives.

Except then it sounds like it comes out of the no-duh institute of obvious studies.
There is a level of passion and commitment to crossfit that other disciplines don't always have, and due to the way it's practiced it's really beneficial to have your own space for it so crosfit tends to happen at crossfit only gyms, at scheduled times amongst regular practitioners.

To keep riffing on the religious theme, there was a fair bit of controversy around crossfit when it first arrived on the scene, to the point where even other fairly similar gym disciplines were pushing it out of their gyms. That kind of criticism tends to drive you back into your group (the same way door-knocking drives evangelists back to the warm embrace of the parish), and I almost never see crossfit happening in regular gyms, just crossfit gyms. As above that's partly practicality, but I think it's also fair to say it wasn't received well at first and that likely drove people to those specialized gyms instead of practicing it at their local.

I do powerlifting/strength training and powerlifters had the same issue in mainstream gyms, and there are powerlifting specific gyms around. But that's gotten better over time with mainstream gyms having powerlifing/olympic lifting gear more often than not now.
> I don't think any Brits know what "the good parts" are

Some are finding it now when they get bounced off a flight for an (almost) expired passport, when their phone bill is high after going to an EU country, or when they can't bring their pets on vacation, etc

Or if they are a smaller company that have seen their sales share to the EU plummet
OS/370 is all we will ever need.
And here we all thought they disbanded the Microsoft Munchkins[0] 25 years ago. I guess they're back for a reunion tour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_OS/2#Analysis
I'm not sure about this - the part of nofollows being bullshit - they have an observable effect.

Links to other sites are a key signal for Google that a site is worth showing. If all links are equal - that is, without any directives like nofollow or ugc - then it's much harder for Google to do this properly due to the existance of comment sections, user posts etc.

So observing nofollow directives on links is in Google's best interest since it's a direct signal from the site that "I don't fully trust this link, so don't think my linking to it is an endorsement". It helps search engines understand what links that particular site is linking to out of endorsment, and what links are there for other reasons such as comments etc.

I've run tests where every internal link to one specific page on a site is nofollowed. The result is that every page ends up indexed except the nofollowed page.

Site owners nofollowing every external link is just a lack of knowledge stemming from a time when it was "best practice" to keep all of your "link juice" internal, which I think you're hinting at with your mention of pagerank which is an equally outdated concept.

Agreed that spammers probably do it regardless of nofollows because one or two people might click the links though.
> He's not someone who just walks into a collaborative process with wholly self-completed works of natural brilliance

'Yesterday':

“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head,” he told author Barry Miles for the biography Many Years From Now, which was published in 1998. “I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th – and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot but because I’d dreamed it I couldn’t believe I’d written it.”

https://www.biography.com/news/paul-mccartney-the-beatles-ye...
People say the same thing about those in academia. Weird
They may be going off the the market very quickly now. That’s exactly how asset inflation works. People living in their homes that are suddenly worth millions of dollars aren't going to sell their homes now necessarily. When they do get around to selling it the market might not be the same.
> 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.

I know right. It's best to just push all that to the front end where other people have to do that. Where a 2 year junior devs has to create a saga framework to speak to the 52 web services on the backend because they need a First Name along side an account number.

Then we can complain that the front end is a crazy mess and they don't know what they are doing. If I don't understand the problem, it's not my problem! Plus uncle bob and martin fowler haven't written a book about it so it must not work.

/salty
> This allowed the team to identify micro-residues of collagen and associated bone, muscle, and bundle tendon fibers, suggesting that the daggers had come into contact with multiple animal tissues and were used to process various types of animal carcasses. Uses seem to have included the slaughtering of livestock, butchering carcasses, and carving the meat from the bone.

Saved you most of an article.
It's super regressive. You should be able to maintain all the content and all formatting and styling using far less data than a PNG or JPG of that same text requires. Images of text are super wasteful and their ubiquity is a condemnation of us both as users and software engineers.
Like Mao who said (so the story goes) that it was too early to judge the effects of the French Revolution, perhaps better wait a bit before reaching a conclusion. As a terribly gross generalization perhaps it comes down to pond size. Small stroppy fish in a big pond don't get very far but in a smaller pond they feel they at least have some influence and tangible contact with government. Difficult to claim that for ordinary Europeans. Worth remembering also that the establishment (the UK Civil Service) has been firmly against Brexit from the word go and have dragged their feet significantly. This isn't just a moan from the pro-Brexit crowd; it's pretty much accepted on both sides that this is what has happened.
I had the same issue, but luckily, with your mouse you can move some of the blocks so you can adjust them to break the first line, and then everything collapses and it's kind of fun to see.
i hate yaml more than xml and that is saying something. i get looked at strange when i say this loudly, like i'm from mars or whatever. it's like being in a collective hallucination where you know you're right and everybody else is wrong and nothing makes sense anymore.

i've tried to fight this by leading by example with https://dhall-lang.org/ but apparently having a configuration compiler is too much... unless the compiler takes yaml as input, then it's fine.
There is actually a minister for "levelling up" - Michael Gove IIRR and he is making some hay with it.

The idea is that Britain is massively massively centered around London Metro Area. And the regions suffer lack of investment, brain drain, lack of jobs as a result. The idea is to "level up" the rest of the UK to London levels (seen as a big Brexit lodestone)

However, 1. no extra actual money seems to be allocated to it, 2. it's not quite clear how to do it.

30 years ago the surprisingly prescient comedy show Yes Prime Minister had a similar idea, to move the Army up North and spark new job creation.

It would take massive scale action to do this - tax incentives, infrastructure, etc.

It's worth noting that we have to spend vast vast sums to become climate neutral (revamp most housing infrastructure to be heat efficient, get rid gas boilers, replace the car fleet, move to vegetarian diets). So we could just spend that money in a different part of the country.

And it's also worth pointing out that only Germany has this kind of levelled society - mostly because for 50 years Berlin was a no go area so Hamburg and other cities got an industry each (Frankfurt got finance etc).

Paris, Rome, Madrid all have similar "Black Hole" status
"I don't buy this analogy. Bankruptcy isn't the only market discipline. If a firm is underperforming, then it will be bought up and sold for parts. This happens all the time, and low interest rates only make it easier."

The cheap financing allows these firms to disguise the fact that they are underperforming.

So whatever form of "market discipline" might occur, these firms are shielded from it because they can just keep rolling over their debt obligations while continuing to pretend they are competitive in the marketplace.
It’s a good idea inasmuch as the ideas you encounter have thought behind them more often than people think. In a local environment with thoughtless decisions, sure, don’t apply that heuristic. I think in general most people under-invest in understanding why the “fence” is there, and so I disagree that it’s a bad heuristic.

I also disagree with the specific claim that software bloat is due to repeated application of Chesterton’s fence; I think bloat is caused by a lack of thought about what is needed and laziness around pruning dead code, rather than thinking about justifications for past decisions and then deferring to them.
How do you "bring in the IntelliJ IDE themes" in a Swing application? The default theme [1] is distinctly lacking in beauty – not because it's not modern, or because it doesn't have animations, or because it's not native, but because of things like (for example):

1. the inconsistent padding around the focus rectangle (which even touches the outer border on one side!) on that toolbar button to the left in the screenshot,

2. that whoever redesigned the Metal theme some years ago decided to make the selected tab visually connect to the content by using the same background color (good idea, by itself) but apparently didn't notice that every application wraps the content in a widget that draws its own background, resulting in what you see on the screenshot: the tab color continuing for a few pixels into the content and then awkwardly bumping up against the content's background without a border.

Also, IntelliJ IDEA has to implement its own menu bar because Swing's built-in one can't do submenus properly.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Gui-widg...
Exactly this. The EU may be the greatest red tape destroyer ever created.

The single market has led to many many landfills not being filled due to the paper that trade before the single market would have generated.
> Technological innovation caused increases in food production, which caused higher population growth — until the additional mouths to feed canceled out the productivity gains, bringing living standards back to subsistence levels.

Is this accurate? My understanding was that the cap on human population levels had more to do with survival rate of childhood for which nutrition is only one of many factors. Didn't we see a larger increase in population due to advances in medicine eliminating many childhood diseases? I'd say that this reasoning is rather tenuous, if food production were the only limit on population growth then we should have seen booms in population level with each agricultural advance rather than the slow, linear increase up until the industrial revolution.

> the value of human capital reached the point that parents chose to have fewer children and invest more in their upbringing

This also seems to run counter to evidence from currently industrializing societies where reduction in infant mortality and increases in education are the big drivers of dropping fertility rates. It isn't that they see more value in their children, it's that they aren't dropping like flies so you don't need to have 8 kids just to make sure 2 make it to adulthood and can help support you as you get older.

> Because a subset of a group is likely to be less diverse than the whole group, populations became more homogeneous the farther they traveled

This is just lack of genetic diversity and I don't see what it has to do with the following sentence

> diversity can inhibit economic growth by decreasing social cohesion, but it can also increase growth by promoting specialization and innovation

because that kind of diversity has more to do with appearance, language, culture, religion, etc. than it does with genetics, physical appearance being the only one of that mix that is determined by genetics.

> In Galor’s account, Europe escaped the poverty trap in the 19th century because of increased investment in education and the decline of the gender wage gap.

This is the first I've heard of it.
Funny enough I have the opposite opinion regarding twitter:
If I use it in timeline mode I have the urge to read through all of it until where I stopped last time as the OP described (same with my Feedly RSS feed)
In algorithm mode its more like a "don't care, its garbled anyway, just a sea of stuff".
That being said I am still mostly using timeline mode.
> I am not 100% sure but does not Norway and Switzerland adhere de facto to the single market rules?

Surely it's de jure? As both are single market members. Norway through the EEA, and Switzerland through a series of bilateral agreements.
> Learning Python has been really hard so far. Here's a thread of me breaking down my process of learning it from 100% scratch so far (day 2)

Another person who took those 'learn Python in 24 hours' titles literally!
Speaking of effective communication, I don't think your tone effectively persuades skeptical listeners. You are on a forum of Internet randos, having a polite discussion.