skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> political (“about how society ought to function”)

I feel like this is a technical definition of political, but that's not how the layman uses the word.

I tend to hear the word political used as a synonym for the current arguments within a society, especially those that professional politicians feel the need to weigh in on and/or there is a significant chance of legislation around.

So, for example, a passionate essay about a Georgism and a land value tax might be political under the technical definition, I don't think it would qualify as political under the layman definition. There's not a sufficient mass of people trying to institute a land value tax for a society wide argument to occur. I don't think the average person would describe aforementioned person as political, I'd say they'd be more likely to be written off as a kook.

Could also be a regional difference. I'm not intimately familiar with all the dialects of the english language.
> It's almost like features like card slots in smartphones are not particularly important to the mass market!

No shit most users don't care about this. If they did phones would still have sdcard slots. There is _A_ market for devices with sdcard slots however. It's not the biggest one but it's sizable for sure.
I work with a number of people from Asia, so I'd have to say absolutely not. In fact I have never once mentioned marijuana to any of my coworkers because of fear that word could spread. Once people start to view you as a pothead, its tough to shake that impression - suddenly every late arrival to work, every code submission that takes longer than expected, every mistake you make is viewed through the lens of you being a lazy piece of shit pothead.
> I also think the proposal to have Twitter allow all content that is "legal under US law" is a dangerous idea for the platform being a healthy community that most people actually want to participate in. Content moderation debates have never been so ham-fisted as they are online so I won't try here, suffice to say there's some pretty horrible, disgusting things that are "legal under US law" (and as a content moderator, I've seen them all). If Twitter allows people to do them, it will make it difficult for Twitter to maintain a healthy community, and the platform could quickly devolve into a scarychan-style sewer that only the craziest people on the internet will want to dwell in. To say nothing about whether advertisers will tolerate some of it, or even Apple's app store.

Yeah, I feel like this theory has been repeatedly tested. Anybody remember when Voat was going to overtake Reddit? Turns out people actually don't want to read a forum for people who were so noxious Reddit was embarrassed into banning them.
I wonder what a diff looks like on code like this? Is it even a good idea to use a diff on something that dense rather than just re-sending the entire code?
> that's not how LEGO works

It is how Lego originated. See discussion at [0]. Early on they had a limited palette and would use yellow for caucasians and asians and at times used black for POC and red for native americans. The time where everything was yellow is also quite limited - and there was pushback from non-cacuasians until they were forced to include skin colours in NBA sets.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-LEGO-minifigures-have-yellow-he...
There's a good history of it in Lego here [0]. You can see its a complex relationship but yellow has been used for caucasians (and asians) and has always had a difficult relationship for people of color.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-LEGO-minifigures-have-yellow-he...
Right, AI has beaten Texas Hold 'Em and people still play that online with real money.
Appreciated the article, but I felt that it ignored the role of companies' hiring cultures. The software is unambiguously bad, yes, but the general approach is dumb too.

Hearing the way peers talk about job candidates actually makes me feel ill sometimes. It's gotten so inhuman. People just revel in the power to reject anyone who doesn't meet an impossible standard of obsequious perfection.

I would love to see some experiment if it were possible, where you compare the performance of a team built from interviews against the performance of a random selection of rejected candidates. I'd bet there's a negligible difference.
We wouldn't have any words left to use if it was up to you I guess.

And what "hate-laws" are you referring to, in regards to speech, that people are "getting around"? You do know Twitter TOS is not the actual law right?
I have a recent Nokia that has all of the above. Except for maybe the "high quality" part, I'm not sure if the phone or aging headphones are to blame there. But the battery is a monster, though not replaceable. There seem to be plenty of others on the market.

I have joined the bluetooth headset world though, shokz openrun finally had a compelling feature set that I couldn't find with wired headphones.
I use the caldigit thunderbolt mini with 2 HDMI. Worked good on the intel MBP, worked good on the M1 mini, works good on my M1 Max MBP.
> I'm not a regular Twitter user but afaik that platform is pretty heavy on politics, more than that, it's pretty heavy when it comes to a certain political spectrum, the other side has been mostly de-platformed by now.

Please. Despite the howls of protest this is far from true and that would be obvious to anyone who's spent much time reading political discussion on Twitter.
Phones are bigger without the headphone jack though.

Dumb phones had headphone jacks
How much money are we even talking? If it's less than 10k (or its more than but she's still contributing to a normal retirement fund) then I wouldn't do more than lightly bring it up.

I am not long bitcoin or etherium but I definitely wouldn't call them scams at this point.

I'm also not sure why you think you are the only one with expertise on this. I am a programmer - so what if you are? You don't need to know how to code a blockchain to make a judgement on its future value anymore than you need to be a geologist to know the future value of gold.
That's exactly what Peter Watts spends 200 pages discussing, in between first contact, cognitive malfunctions, telematter drives, resurrected vampire paleogenetics and a very healthy dose of unreliable-narration.
this the metaverse, I mean, a metaverse, and maybe a VR 3d equivalent of this is the way to go? Curated and weighted as the user wants, not how the advertisers want...

I feel like in a social environment, Just because you don't find everything you want immediately is a feature, not a bug, like getting off in a part of town you don't know and talking to a person you didn't expect. In hindsight, "11 year old explore the city me" never left - still fun 30+ years later
It’s kind of ironic because a lot of Californians moving to Portugal are also trying to escape some aspects of their country’s culture they don’t like. Except they are also escaping insanely high cost of living, increasing violent crime and now almost yearly apocalyptic fires, power outages, dwindling tap water reserves and earthquakes. And unless you live in a very expensive part of town it’s hard to survive without a car in California or most of the U.S. I would love to live in a city like Lisbon where the public transportation is good enough that you don’t really need a car.
I love Kenji, he’s so methodical when it comes to testing food.
What cost did they create? Their parents paid for their housing and food. One of them later made money doing tech support jobs at the university and after finally graduating through that got jobs in IT.

Other than being enrolled and going to 2-3 lectures in a hall with 100-200 students at the beginning of every semester they didn't use any services provided by the university.
In the spirit of TFA, if your hypothesis were true, what evidence could we find that would be consistent with it? What evidence would disprove it?
Her minivan also connects to it when she walks up, instead of having to fish wires out of her already overloaded purse.
Interesting. I think you are right. That would explain why buildings look a lot like walls of mirrors.
Why do people want thin pizza? I think its because they are used to shitty dough. The dough is 1/3rd the of magic on a good pizza and I want to enjoy it. Could you imagine people demanding thin toast? Thin bagette? It's a ludicrous idea to me.
I remember those. They all broke within a few days of use, and google sent me like 20 of them after 6 months, because they weren't very good at tracking requests.

I'll never get another phone without a headphone jack after that

I have noticed that the main reason my phone screen breaks is due to headphone wires though. It'd be great to have a magnetic equivalent to the wired headphone
Oh I think your high school pop music theory is spot on. I grew up in the emo era, can actively laugh at the music/fashion now... and still love it more than anything :)
Totally. I opened the site and thought "Ok this is cool," but didn't get much further.
If I may ask: what country do you live in?
As I mentioned in the top post that it runs over the top of docis which is what the cablecos use which is 800Mhz and below and Moca is above 1Ghz so they coexist.
Why this over clerky or stripe atlas?
> Every other modern language seems to roughly map directory to module (go/python etc) [...]. C/C++ is the outlier, effectively using file as a module.

Actually, no, Python uses files as modules.
No, it's news media's sensationalization of exceedingly rare yet awful events (for profit! More at 11). Consuming that poison turns neighbors into strangers and strangers into criminals.

How else would disconnected suburban communities be getting the same message that their kids are in danger from something as specific as trench-coated deviants or razor blade apples?

We know it started before social media but as it often does, social media has amplified the problem. I'm not sure how much blame Hollywood shares in spreading this fear.
Apple, the community has gotten better as it's gotten bigger.

But generally speaking it's hard for a community to get better as it grows. As the community grows it begins to split because there are so many needs to satisfy so an overall feeling of dissatisfaction dominates and people become unhappy with what the community has become. We see it all the time. In extreme examples members are willing to destroy the community with out knowing how to make it better. They are just upset that what they have is not what they want. In a way they unite on the idea that they are dissatisfied. It's extremely hard to satisfy everyone all the time. And as a community grows that becomes even harder.

One way to keep unity is to have a set core of believes and unite around them by making sure everyone adheres to them. So the community focuses on the believes rather than the reduction of satisfaction.
Master of Fine Arts, most particularly, MFAs in creative writing.¹ There has been some long standing discourse on the subject for at least two decade (with its peak being Chad Harbach’s MFA vs NYC.

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1. There are, of course, MFAs in other artistic disciplines from filmmaking to painting to music to drama. I believe that creative writing is the most common field for MFAs and this is likely because there is little need for any physical goods to support an MFA in creative writing and thus many universities tend to treat the degree as a cash cow.²

2. Many of the best MFA programs in creative writing offer tuition waivers and stipends, but not all do and some of those that offer tuition waivers/stipends may not give them to all students.
Something interesting that I noticed learning Portuguese many years ago is that the word for "explore" is the same as for "exploit" (explorar).

Not that Portugal unique in its exploitative history, but this might speak to the mentality that the Portuguese "explorers" had when they went out into the world making their "great accomplishments".
I am using MOCA 2.5 go get my 2Gbps over my coax, MOCA 3 does 10Gbps.
This is called discrimination. But it's on to do it bevause the group being targeted are affluent whites.
Agree. This seems very odd. They should be all hands on deck through the buyout and then see what new ownership wants to do.
I think you’re right that if you’ve already decided what the outcome will be then it’s not worth your time but also think it severely undermines the value of your opinion for others.
Ask HN: What do you do if you get crickets during launch day?
Hey fellow HNers,

We launched our product to public beta after 8 months of hard work, got lucky on product hunt, Reddit, LinkedIn, and we thought this will resonate well with the HN community, but obviously we screwed up the Show HN post… (our team was enthusiastic and probably violated the don’t let employees upvote or comment on your own Show HN other than reply to questions).

I’m leaving out the details as I don’t want this to be a self promotion in disguise.

But what is the right thing to do? Is it legitimate ti try in a few days? Saw other successful launches that had a few attempts (changed URL and content, not sure if it violates the rules…)

Thanks!
I think they tread the line in reverse here: I don't think LA Times would put out news that call for immigrants to "go home" but it's fair game when they call them expats.
(Incidentally, I, in fact, have an MFA in creative writing from the now-defunct low-residency program at the University of Tampa. Ask me anything.)
"You can exit the Tokay REPL with Ctrl+C."

Other repls often use ctrl-d for end of Input Stream instead. Ctrl-c is rather expected to Interrupt the programme execution, not the repl.
I break both with similar frequency
I live in Sweden and this experience is alien to me. I often see other fathers playing with their kids at the playgrounds. When I'm with my kids I've only ever been met by smiles and comments about how adorable kids are.

A large reason for this is that it's very common for fathers to be on parental leave. For each child born, if you are two parents, you get 480 days of paid parental leave to distribute among yourselves. You get half each, can transfer days between one another, but 90 each of these cannot be transferred.
We have never done that.

It is also extraordinarily expensive to do that.
Something like this: https://www.nciclean.com/disposable-bunny-suits.html

(For reference, I searched "bunny suit ppe" to find an example.)
I'm glad it's not your experience. It wasn't meant to be a blanket claim about the quality of peoples' lives in the suburbs; it was a general sociological claim about how suburban construction (and car-driven socialization) in the US fosters alienation (and how that alienation turns into latent hostility to strangers).
to make it waferproof, you just fill it with some grease
I've made this "mistake" more times than I'd be willing to admit.
It would have been harder (impossible) to fake it than to make it.

http://theconversation.com/moon-landings-footage-would-have-...
I remember being a little shocked to discover that I had better battery life on my phone with Bluetooth than I did with a wired connection.
How does the Kernel32 lock-down stuff work?

I can think of several things you could do to Kernel32 to try to lock it down:

* Patch out all the entry points of Kernel32 you don't want to be used. Then patch out their corresponding entry points out of NTDLL. Then remove the code that invokes the system calls inside of NTDLL. Yes, you can just simply overwrite user mode code willy-nilly as long as you have write access to the process memory.

(Regular programs use the entry points. Someone trying to do something fancy might skip the entry points. If your hackers are using things like ROP chains and gadgets, chances are they don't care about entry points.)

* Create some kind of NT security context so that nothing interesting works anymore. I don't know how this works, but many NT functions want a security context passed in.

* When you are executing code, and you have no idea where Kernel32 is, you can read the module list out of the TEB, and that finds you Kernel32 and NTDLL. Maybe something that could thwart that, but not break code.

In the end though, what could stop the process from attempting to SYSENTER from somewhere besides NTDLL?
Is it still common in the UK/EU to only grant "holiday pay" (i.e. you get paid a fraction of your normal salary) during PTO? In the U.S. it has always been standard practice to get paid your full salary on PTO and national holidays. Even if that is so, I still think I prefer the European system.
AirPods definitely have significant latency on iPhones. (I'd estimate at least 100ms.) Perfectly fine for movies or podcasts, detrimental for calls, and awful for anything gaming related.

They don't seem worse on the Pixel 4a, but they definitely don't seem better.
Search in email hasn’t worked well in years… all ways finds marketing shit somehow
I find it fascinating and hilarious that DALL-E produces basketball-looking planets! (Or planet-looking basketballs?)
I'll have to try Ubuntu 22.04.

The flags I have tried already, but even with those turned on things are spotty. The DE looks great, but it starts to fall apart with third party apps. Some work fine, others kinda (or blurry if it's XWayland), others yet totally broken.

It'll be a good day when Linux HiDPI support is as solid as it is under macOS or even Windows.
It's relatively easy to tell which are AI made due to the weird artifacts they have that human drawings would not have.

For example, the first image has a basketball where the lines don't line up correctly, a visual artifact that lets you immediately know it was an AI. Human artists would have made all the lines line up correctly.
I feel users don't have to be nefarious to have negative effect on the network. Example, you and your 4 friends in middle school are hanging out and having fun. One of your friends mom shows up and sit next to you guys. Suddenly you can't talk about 80% of the stuff you'd in absence of her, even though the mom isn't spamming or trolling. But yes as network grows it attracts marketers and spammers. But also kind of audiences matter too. A large network of only consisting hardware enthusiast is really useful. But a large network of general population would affect what posts make it to front page, how they get reported, and how slowly they get answered as they will drown against cat photos, political rage, and personal success stories. Even people with all specialized skills and relevant interest won't get to see those niche posts.

On reddit there is concept of subreddits. But regardless you are more likely to be distracted with other subreddits then interact with niche you are an expert in. why more coding questions are asked on stackoverflow than r/webdev
Weather isn’t just temperature.

Bogotá has perfect temperature but is cloudier than Seattle.
> “.... one may protest against evil; it can be exposed and prevented by the use of force, against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears.”

You can kill or imprison the stupid at least as easily as you can the evil. Evil will manipulate protests better than stupid will.

Romantic but not very convincing. Yet definitely struggle against both of them.
You know, as a (former) native Californian, if I were to use that argument against the people who migrated to California I’d probably be skewed alive.
> Remember, you are only being allowed to see one side of this conflict by your states own information-control apparatus. To assume you know the truth in such conditions is fallacious.

does hn look like state media to you? people on here have a tendency to choose their own sources of information. I tried some RT to see the russian side of things but it is an eerily written tabloid devoid of facts and information but full of storytelling and opinion pushing. The commenters are not bringing anything to the table either. If you have a better source, feel free to share.
That being said, considering what the kreml has published it is pretty obvious they wanted to take kyiv
The only reason they did that is to sell more AirPods. And it worked. They’re making billions by selling high margin wireless earphones.
I've got plenty of hours in MSFS in VR, most of it in GA aircraft in the Bay Area where I live. When I went on my discovery flight I felt immediately comfortable in the DA40 and with it's g1000. I knew where everything was in the cockpit. I mostly knew how to start it and the checklist was familiar. I could easily find my house and in general was familiar with landmarks.

My aviation skills were also interesting. I had no problem with coordinated turns and holding a heading. However I almost busted the bravo because my altitude kept creeping and I was so used to using the electric trim tab on my joystick. However in the real plane there are two and you need to hold both. Plus, I should have just used the wheel which I don't have on my HOTAS. My second flight in a 172 was much better in that regard.

The sim doesn't prepare you for the physical sensations. Not just the movement, but the massively improved FOV, contrast, resolution, and frame rate. It was pure sensory overload. I did all the approaches and it just felt comfortable.

My HOTAS is both a blessing and a curse. It's great for VR, but my muscle memory was all messed up. And the input sensitivity and weight is very different IRL. And despite knowing I'd likely be fixated by the instruments, and should be looking outside, I did it anyway.

Hope this was helpful. Can't recommend simming enough. It's what made me want to do a discovery flight in the first place. It was magical.
Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is
Show HN: Algotrading in Python Using Genetic Algorithms and LSTM Networks
-Implementation of several trading indicators

-Implementation of genetic algorithm and LSTM-based recurrent neural network (RNN) to find optimal weighting of these indicators for a single-stock portfolio

-Implementation of multiple-stock genetic algorithm to find optimal weighting of these indicators for a multiple-stock portfolio

-Stock screener based on genetic algorithm implementation

Setup:
python3 -m pip install pyalgotrade, keras, yfinance

Usage:
python3 pat_papertrade.py [stock] [period=1y] [interval=1d] # single-stock genetic algorithm

python3 rnn_algotrade.py [stock] [period=1y] [interval=1d] # single-stock LSTM RNN algorithm

python3 screener.py [period] [interval] # genetic algorithm stock screener

python3 multiple_series.py [stocks...] [period=1y] [interval=1d] # multiple-stock genetic algorithm

python3 yfinance_csv.py (*) [stock(s...)] [period=1y] [interval=1d] # wrapper for yfinance library

-Can also specify custom strategies in strategies.py and add them to single_strat.py to backtest them
Prior to the pandemic it was mostly AirPods Pro, but now that I spend most of my time at home it's a pair of AirPods Max. In the past I've also used a pair of Sony WH-1000MX3 which were pretty comfortable.
I mean, it's more like 1000 dollars once I lose or break 100 of them, or the dongle breaks my phones charging port because I sat on the phone with the headphones connected.

I can live with a phone that doesn't play music, but I can't with one that doesn't charge
Use the compute to solve your own allocation problems using mathematical optimization.
Thick pizza seems to me like bread with toppings, it can be tasty, but it is not true Italian pizza.