skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've developed my skills by writing documentation, presentations, blog posts, in-depth articles, and Stack Overflow answers. I always start out by thinking about who my audience is and why they're reading what I wrote, and I always finish by trying to cut down the material I've written so it doesn't contain anything unnecessary.

In technical writing, clarity reigns. Clarity above all else. Lists? Use bullet points. Topics? Make headings. Do two terms seem similar? Change your wording to make the differences obvious. Is there a technical term? Use it consistently. Are you using the same word in different senses? Use two different words. Using negatives? Use positives instead, they are easier to parse.

If you are good at the details of writing, your thoughts and ideas become clearer, because clear writing exposes the flaws in your ideas.

Recommended book: Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace.

I also recommend finding a topic to blog about. You don't need to be an expert. Just keeping an active blog teaches you a lot about writing.
When my co-workers and I went out for lunch they stopped talking about stocks all the time.
If anyone is curious: git diff --cached is the same as git diff --staged. I don't know why they aliased them but I run git diff --cached very frequently and after seeing this post's reference to --staged I wondered what the difference was. Turns out there is no difference.
Non pay-walled links

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-microplastics-spider-webs.html

https://idw-online.de/en/news?print=1&id=795017
Oh, I disagree. I think this is in the vein of David Foster Wallace. There is that dry sarcasm, which you are right may or may not be funny. But behind it is this gothic horror of our strange existence. Medieval torture made mundane surrounded by the routine, punctuated with the insane.
Some of them will be desperate enough. It just won't be safe anymore.
Like counts, be it likes alone or Reddit-style with downvotes, is the wrong mechanic for community-generated content, as it incentivises posting something "for a quick like". As explained in my other reply, Slashdot has a really healthy, decade-old community without having like counts. Posts are ranked by comment count and if there is something really bad, users can report it. It's that easy and it works.
Oh that’s exciting to hear; I’ve always been a fan of some of their products but sometimes the hardware support under Linux is lacking for their more modern devices. Cool to see someone tackling it!
Xbox and IntelliMouse (Pro).
back when techbros were miners, and VCs were the guys in town selling shovels for stakes in the mine? :-D
Sure. My point was about the fact that there are downvotes and spam blocking.
We’ll definitely implement your suggestion, looks like you had a proper go at testing our site! Loved your list of domains and notes, many thanks for that!
Depends. Sometimes it's easier to tear down everything and start from scratch.
2050: moron earthling loses holographic diamond with the neural and genetic data of whole Earth.
If you're on Windows, Win+V opens a basic clipboard manager
With respect, you really shouldn't be designing your own cryptographic protocols if they are going into a product. Even the best of the best make serious mistakes. A course is not going to give you the confidence that you need. There are so many peer reviewed protocols out there that there's almost no need to make one yourself unless you're in a very specialised or niche scenario. That said, if you just want to learn about them, there are plenty of good, readable books like Real World Cryptography and Applied Cryptography (Schneier).
Unbundling OS updates from service updates is a huge benefit. No one wants to have to juggle updating the OS and migrating databases at the same time.
So completely reliable virus testing there because we now from the last 2 years that's 100% reliable. Clearly did a full genomic sequencing...
I imagine they could try it. Arrest any pregnant woman attempting to cross state lines.
More importantly to me, how did he "Futz around" for 25 minutes and do all of this in the article? I'm calling BS/extreme exaggeration.
Alternatively I think that abortion access will improve in most red states because underground organizing will take off now that legal abortion has been banned. Unlike last time it was this way there are secure digital communication options that make autonomous logistics much more possible than in the past. Many red states had already reached near zero accessibility, and now there is massive attention and resources being poured into reaching women who were already de facto living under this new legal definition prior to its formalization.
It always amuses me that when Linus presents git to “the Google audience” they objected to the complexity, those people are in fact elite, but measured against what? The TailScale people? The TS people are ex-Google in some places and early-Nix in others, either way no one to fuck with.

I’m frustrated if I take a day to work out some something that Jeff Dean mentioned to, uh, a friend, and it took me a day to work it out.

@bradfitz works on TailScale, there’s also a reason he’s a chapter in a book. @jwz is better, by so little you’d never notice, so his chapter is cooler.

What book are you in?
While I love my iPad, I love my Boox Note 2 even more. Fantastic device for what it does: reading and note taking with crazy long battery life. I charge it once every few weeks, to a month and a half with my usage patterns. Great weird expensive but fantastic device!
I'd say that ppl got used to it and it is good enough + industry standard, so it is hard to migrate to something else

Especially if you'd have to lose github, thats the real force

If gh migrated to something else, then a lot of ppl would follow
If that's your experience, you either have been extremely unlucky, or you should look back on your own behavior.

I've had some problems with PM before, but never about threats, and that would go very poorly with most people I know.
This seems really good for me but it requires a google or apple account which is the only reason why I wont be switching to it.
I'll also throw in a plug for opensource.com.

Article-length (i.e. ~ 1K word) pieces for a publication where editors will actually take time and care to work with you--which is by no means a given these days is definitely the path I would recommend. Note that this is different in a number of ways from technical documentation. At the same time, it's also closer than something more literary or (for the most part) something more like reporting which has its own style (and other rules).
Yes, HN skews male.

I'm a woman and extremely poor. I've been a member for nearly thirteen years.

It's possible but challenging to present a female point of view here. Reproductive issues and what I generally think of as human sexual morality are always hard to talk about anywhere.

I think for a lot of women, this is a very threatening turn of events. That's going to make it challenging to discuss it in the rational style required by HN guidelines even before accounting for the gender ratio here.

I'm quite fond of HN and have come to see a lot of the practices here as not male per se but as best practices for public discourse and I have come to believe that women tend to be raised to engage in a fashion more appropriate for private discourse.

So I think there's a somewhat steep learning curve involved for most women that gets conflated with sexism and complicates attempts by women to give voice to a female point of view here.

If you can express yourself in accordance with best practices for public discourse, you can be heard here. Trying to figure out how to do that while not spazzing about sexism ...well, it's challenging and I think most women lack sufficient reason to keep at it, so they tend not to.
> I've used one, not great, why would you spec a Go out, its a cheap coffee shop laptop

I've done most of my recent coding work on a Go, like, most of my sixel stuff!

The size is just right, so it followed me everywhere, and by spending 5 min on it here and there, I could get a lot of work done!

Also LTE is great: I don't want to waste even a minute looking for Wifi password. That's another productivity multiplier!

After that, I got a X1 nano, it's a great device but a bit too big for me, even it's just about 1 inch larger in both dimensions and about the same thickness.

More recently, I've moved to a X1 Fold, and it's even smaller than a Go when folded so it's now my favorite device! There were a few drivers problems I had to tackle, but now it's rock solid on Windows 11. Also, the OLED screen is ideal to use at night!
> This study revealed that regulatory T cells and glucocorticoid hormones are not just immunosuppressants but also have a regenerative function

So this research has a broader application, no?
It might be a significantly hard problem: for instance, artificial heart valves tend to get infected by bacteria, and if it were the case for a whole artificial heart to get infected, perhaps it could spread and cause damage to the mediastinum (or), maybe, sepsis.
Pretty sure this is illegal but we need a hn lawyer to chime in
Artificial hearts already exist. But they usually are only used while waiting for transplants, because they're not as good as the real deal.

Hearts are critical infrastructure in the body, with 100% uptime requirements and not-insignificant energy consumption.
lots of things are contagious
though

fetuses aren't citizens but they are considered people... in some states.
I remember when we were accused of fear mongering when we said a right-wing Supreme Court would overturn Roe. We were told "it's the law of the land" or "they'll respect precedent".
git reflog has saved my ass so many times. I didn't know some of these other tricks, thanks for posting!
> Prosecutors will need evidence to prosecute unlawful abortions. Recall they have the onus of proving their case beyond reasonable doubt.

It's actually worse than this, because states are getting "clever" and adding civil penalties and allowing random people to litigate.

This means if your neighbor's daughter was pregnant and isn't anymore, you just need to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that provider A gave them an abortion to recover statutory damages and attorneys' fees.

(And maybe in future versions of such legislation, no need to even involve provider A...)
Thanks for the beta feedback. I dont get much time to work on it I have two developer jobs. I have a new version working on. Aware its hard to determine the "point". You are supposed to read the free ebook and then take the test.
Oh if only the fallout stopped there.

The proliferation of these sources have torpedoed my Google effectiveness.

Not only do these sources amplify themselves, they are of near necessity targeted at simple use cases. The result? Google has ample popular material filled with my relevant keywords but void of any usefulness to anyone not just getting started. As it happens, the people with the most questions _are_ just getting started, and do find the results relevant pushing content on the margins further down the list.

Worse still, with Google's increased focus on natural language processing, their seeming approach of "what you're really asking is..." makes loose queries even more difficult. Definitionally the most common questions aren't edge cases, at least not the single one you're interested in.

After all these years, I think I need to retrain myself on how to Google (distinct keywords no longer cut it unless I have a sequence where I can look for an exact match), and recently started falling back to other search engines with some success.

Edit: grammar (believe it or not)
It dominated the world because GitHub was better than BitBucket and had more generous free levels.

If only that wasn’t the case we’d all be using a sensible source control system now instead of one where people repeatedly say things like “if you just learn the underlying model…”
Yes, N-dimensional planar graphs (better term that 'untangled'!).
Serious question: Besides risk to ones life from natural child birth because of some health issue of the mother, why is it that woman are so desperate that they will risk dying by having a risky abortion rather than have a child?
Sure. However, if one specific platform becomes the location where everyone is writing their beginner content, then even if the writers may benefit, the platform will suffer. Or at the very least, appear low quality to someone who is beyond beginner level.
The criminalization of women for exercising personal choice over their bodies is the topic here.
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If the worldwide system of cheap, reliable container shipping network breaks down it'll probably happen (very slowly), along with a firestorm of inflation (that'll be quick).

Right now it's only fraying around the edges.
Tezos NFT Marketplace is a cutting-edge blockchain network that uses delegated Proof-of-Stake to enable speedy transactions via its ecosystem of smart contracts and decentralized applications. Its low transaction fees are a massive benefit for firms that continuously need a secondary income source.
I have used this resource, until common stuff has burned into brain "choose your own git adventure": https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
I bought a Lenovo Thinkbook 14s Yoga about 1 month ago. Great FHD 360 degree touch screen with a neat docked stylus. Comes with 8GB soldered RAM + 8GB SODIMM that can be swapped for up to 32GB. The 500GB Nvme drive comes with Win10 but having a 2nd empty M.2 slot meant it was easy to put in another drive that now has Ubuntu, Fedora and a sweet ChromeOS installation. Only problem I'm having is getting the built-in mic to work on ChromeOS.
IMO there's an awful lot of ignorance about just how dire this situation really is. I see comments saying this sort of thing is fearmongering. It is not. Let me explain why.

1. To those who think this simply returns the issue to the states so it's not a big deal, take a piece of paper and write that down with the date on it and put it in a drawer. You can take it out when the GOP controls the White House, the House and the Senate and Federally bans abortion because there's no constitutional protection for it.

2. State laws are incredibly overreaching. Kavanaugh felt it necessary to explicitly call out that states can't ban interstate travel. Why? Because states are clearly trying to do that. And the Court may well change their mind on that later too. I mean they already did after saying under oath that Roe v. Wade and Case were super-precedents and settled law;

3. With psuedo-personhood for a fetus established expect women to be charged with endangering that fetus. This rlready happens. For example: an Alabama woman charged with manslaughter after getting shot and losing her unborn baby [1];

4. Menstrual-trackng apps produce data that can be used in two ways. First, it could be subpoenaed by law enforcement to show that a woman was pregnant and may have had an abortion. Second, this data is sold to third-parties. The government already buys this data, which is currently a legal end-run around getting warrants. If you think that some state government won't do this too, you're out of your mind.

Part of why people are legitimately worried is that this Court is completely psychotic. In the last 2 weeks we've had the Court decide:

- A safe medical procedure is not consitutionally protected (and thus can be outlawed by states) because the word "abortion" isn't explicitly in the Constitution so it's supposedly a states rights issue;

- The State of New York can't deny a concealed carry permit under its previous regime of demonstrating need;

- The Border Tactical Force ("Bortac") can operate in a Constitution-free zone, including limiting Fourth Amendment protections, within 100 miles of any border, which means any coast, any border or any airport. This Constitution-free zone in fact covers two-thirds of the US population.

The very idea of an originalist interpretation of the Constitution is a modern invention from the Nixon era to justify stripped people of their rights. The court is and always has been political. And now the Court is stacked with the politics of the Evangelical Taliban.

Actually, that's not fair. Every Islamic country, including Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, has more access to abortion that half the US states now do or soon will.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48789836
Not expert, but quick Google shows it’s complex, and 100% based on author’s situation; for example, sending $1000 is not the same as $50000 and intentionally breaking up transfers to get around limits might be illegal. For example, here’s just one website trying to explain ways of sending money:

https://moneytransfers.com/send-money/russia

HackerOne would have to understand long list of possible situations of each hacker being paid that’s subject to the bans and individually deal with them while taking on the risk they somehow made a mistake.

Author might not be responsible for the situation that produced the bans, but again, solution is to leave Russia, or at least take on the responsibility of finding a non-Russian financial institution they are able to open an account with to legally get payments and then find a legal way to transfer the funds to Russia.
I for one like how git works. Some of the command names are weird, but I know more sane names are being introduced (e.g. git restore, git switch).

Yes, you need to follow a tutorial to use it effectively. Designing for beginning users is often detrementantal to advanced users, and I object to that being called "user friendly".

I'm not very vocal about git usually because I'm not an expert I have no big complaints, and I'm not that interested in arguing about it. I think there's a lot of us that are perfectly happy with git; we just make less noise.
I have a page called “Library” in my blog where I collect articles I find interesting. https://leite.dev/pages/library/
lol, well done!
UTHealth Houston study: Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer
I see it being even more grim. This ruling opens the door for any miscarriage past a state-specific threshold to be treated as a potential crime, meaning that they'll get to dig through all of the above. Then, any other crimes that may be discovered in the process will be prosecuted.

Make no mistake, this is a power grab by egotistical religious nuts. They're not going to stop here.
There's also the argument that abortion puts the child at risk.
What I think it really comes down to, is whether copilot-like tech becomes a 2x (or even 10x) productivity multiplier.

If it becomes that powerful, we'll ignore these and other concerns. Just imagine Chinese or Russian devs moving 2x or 10x faster because they have no regard for our privileged concerns. Don't even have to go that far, a competitor is using GPT-17 and you're not - good luck!

And if it stagnates and never goes far beyond the current capabilities, then sure, it might become fashionable to try and hunt for copyright infringements caused by Copilot.
I am not from US so I have a question, can a state make abortion illegal and punish the women even if it was performed in a different state or country? Or is this a case where federal police/institutions need to be involved? If the answer is yes what you would need to do to renounce your state citizenship?
Or, the content that is popular right now (i.e. highly ranked in search results and heavily linked to) is dominated by material aimed at novices, because the readership is dominated by novices.

The issue is that the ranking stops working well for the minority of people who are in the advanced category.
Here's something interesting - try finding any other person who has been convicted for the use of illegal drugs.
Isn't this what a `git reset --hard` does?
https://archive.org/details/EconomistBooksTheEconomistStyleG...
"...as I see it, some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today's decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter. For example, may a State bar a resident of that State from traveling to another State to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel." Slip Op. at 133 (Kavanaugh, J., Concurring).

It's just a concurrence, but it seems to indicate that at least one conservative justice feels that states cannot criminalize that. For now.
Some are suggesting more reading, and others are suggesting more writing. I propose that it is best to do both, and maintain active feedback loops between the two.
Prosecutors have already prosecuted women for having abortions by crawling through searches and text messages. Someone who missed a period mysteriously doesn’t indicate an abortion. Someone who googles abortion clinics, then their location data is at the clinic, then they texted close family or friends for support about their decision to have an abortion, etc.
That requires two party consent in many states.
States are trying. Move to another state and don’t go back.
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I had the same "How to..." problem in the title, and actually collated a list of case study problems[1]. I have around 30+, some with a lot of technical detail aiming towards a solid solution.

1. https://notes.thundergolfer.com/system-design/case-studies
It makes sentence boundaries more distinct, but a period and a single space already makes them sufficiently distinct, provided you aren’t using a monospaced font. The argument against double-spacing is not that fails to achieve its goal, but that it is unnecessary.
His heart was failing for some reason(s). I don't see how transplant would ever make those go away, at best it would only buy him some time allowing those reasons to be removed. In some lucky cases, those do get removed automatically but I would expect in most of the cases, they would be left intact and will eventually cause heart to fail again soon. This does not even consider the immune system reactions, taking those into consideration, the chance would be very little.
The content is in the free ebook on Apple Books and Google. Its a top ten "design system" book on Apple Books.
punished by life imprisonment, wow I thought we past those times here

This step back and this presumed overvalueing of life what is a mere cell cluster vs being totally fine what is done to fully feeling empathic living beings every day is what boggles and saddens me a lot in our modern society (no not forbidding you to eat meat, just let them life a natural, or at least under some viewpoint a certain kind if happy and non-tortured life).
The article says that she was tried and convicted of first degree manslaughter for miscarrying because of a theory - not supported by the medical examiner who testified at the trial - that habitual use of methamphetamine (not an abortifacient) may have influenced the miscarriage.
> Apparently, he hates being edited (most writers don't like it).

I've grown to love it. It was a long road. Once you start disciplined
writing an editor becomes like a personal trainer who helps you be
your best. Until I learned to write with more steel and less fire, ego
ruled my writing. The familiar sins are;

- loving the sound of your own (inner) voice

- showing off what you know rather than considering what the reader
might care to hear (and muddying waters so as to appear deep)

- pretentious talk (circumlocutory linguistic gymnastics)

A good editor gets to know your weaknesses and corrects them gently.
Like all other unrealized urban planning schemes, it fails to take into account (A) the basic uncontrollability of people, and (B) the rapidity of organic social change.