skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to answer this question without first defining "success". I know my personal definition of success is quite different from many peoples', so my answer to what quality is detrimental to that success may not apply to other peoples' ideas.
IDK; I think they just need to abandon their core principles of only persuing something new for 18 months max. They do have the capital. FFS.
Survey shows how people decide what to trust online
There are so many cases of people (especially professors) saying things like "whiteness is an incurable parasitic condition", "gas white people", "white people are villains", "abolish whiteness", etc mostly without consequences (I don't mean legal).

Just some examples:

* https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/psychoanalyst-calls-whiteness-...

* https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/28/barnard-professor-trig...

* https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-11/noel-ign...

* https://nypost.com/2021/10/29/rutgers-professor-calls-white-...

* See more: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=anti+white+professors&t=ffab&ia=we...

Can you imagine that being said about any other group of people? Is that equality?
That's a fair point, but it still doesn't make the title read accurately
Thanks! :D

Really like the quote and your website. I've had a good play around with your "find a random blogger from Hacker News" project.
see, the thing is, I highly value my wife over anyone else on the road. The game is rigged.
I recently learned about this "mistake". I always assumed the dotfile was some design feature by ancient "gurus" of UNIX rather than an accident.

There is something nice and immediate about adding a dot to make it invisible to certain things (ls by default, the file explorers in ubuntu by default, etc.)

A bit like file extensions themselves and the weight they carry in Windows.

It sorts of balances in favour of immediacy of the function over "right way to do things", where the right way might be some kind of meta data for the file, or for it's folder.

Funny thing about hiding, is what does it mean to hide? If you can ask your utility to show hidden things. It sort of means "things I reckon people don't wanna see, or shouldn't touch, unless they are willing to take a step to see it".

A bit like a shibboleth where if you can't figure out how to see it, you are too dangerous/dumb to edit it, or even know about it.

You could instead have security settings for that. Maybe you just don't give the user access to the files at all until they elevate from user to "poweruser". Which would be somewhere between user and superuser. Use chmod to set the permissions, instead of a dot filename format.
Mindustry is a serious bargain at $6. I just got into the game, and while it does stand on its own, it scratched the Factorio itch while I was away from my computer, as it runs on mobile (android). The maps I've seen so far are unique and interesting. I like the tower defense campaign. To me, combat in Mindustry is better than in Factorio. Would totally recommend.
Browsers default into putting files in ~/Downloads, so that one gets used. DEs default into showing anything under ~/Desktop on your screen, so people disable the desktop file browser.

~/Documents is there because Freedesktop.org somehow thought they were dealing with Windows and tried to port the solution of problems Linux does not have. The other directories aren't used on any OS and only serve to annoy people.
Using RF rather than capacitive methods to detect hits between sabre fencers.

I built the first one basically out of scraps and rtl SDRs, second one out of slightly better Chinese crap then ran out of money.

Would be a compliance nightmare to sell either iterations. If I could do it with TDR instead I don't know
For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Many of them will be accessing it using the oldest, slowest devices; things far slower than the average HN reader's last few phones. Anything that can be done make the site work better for them is worth the effort.

Terence Eden has a really good blog post about just this topic: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
...but preferably using the SQLite engine, and eschewing well-known proprietary formats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32275078
Check out the "starlink on boats" forum on fb. Working now for folks.
I tried that! Results were mixed:
https://twitter.com/pamelafox/status/1542593090472386561

It needs a better text to image model, I think. Maybe you can fork it and improve?
There is a variety of seats, some are truly uncomfortable for people.

I am not sure how it works for a 80 year old, but if I spend a long time without riding, I'll be uncomfortable too (for a couple of days after the ride too). I don't know exactly what adapts, but it stops after some time.
The Smalltalk community also had an influence on design patterns and testing frameworks that would later get picked up by C++ and Java programmers. If I recall correctly, the Gang of Four (the authors of the famous Design Patterns book) uses Smalltalk in its examples.
They are pro-LGB. If you think that means they're anti-LGBT that's on you.
Mathematically the minimum number of elements necessary for a pattern is three.
So these are devs on base salaries over 160k+, presumably considered to be somewhat senior, and their teams just let them get away without contributing their share? Not even showing up to stand ups or whatever regular team meetings there are? Something seems very off for that to be the case.
Dedicated Apple user here...I was in a Verizon store a few weeks ago and encountered one of these foldable phones. Was super impressed with the hardware. Really neat to have a device that functioned either as a palm-sized phone or could be folded out for a tablet-like experience. Lots to like! But, for users like myself it's not just about the hardware, it's also about the overall experience. If it isn't iOS and/or fits into our household tech stack, it's a non-starter.

There might be a secondary thing going on here too... I've had multiple tablets over the years. In theory I could use one as my everyday device. In theory I could take one with me in the field daily and it would be useful. In practice though, my current iPad is sitting somewhere collecting dust because a large-screen iPhone is "good enough" for those times I might otherwise pull out the tablet in a business setting, and when I'm doing "real work" I'm on my laptop anyway.
Windows is still so overwhelmingly common that it's very possible to never have occasion to touch "another" desktop or server OS. Especially if you don't go out of your way to manage servers, and doubly so if you don't live in one of the rich economies.
I missed the part that said his family is wealthy. Can you point me to that?
There's a word for this: Kafkaesque. I reserve my smartphone for anything financial. This way I bucket sensitive info into my phone, which is what Big Tech mostly wants: A huge data point where they can exfil data, sometimes without consent. Anything I truly want private is bucketed to other domains where I don't use my real name, use a throwaway email, throwaway phone number etc.
Destroying biter camps in Factorio makes them evolve faster. Maybe that’s why you’re finding the enemies hard to keep up with?
That's ridiculous

"Google has to be accused of the “uncoolest” way of handling one or more vulnerabilities this year. His top security team “Google TAG” received the “Lamest Vendor Award”, an award that is particularly popular with fans of the Pwnie Awards. By closing eleven zero-day vulnerabilities, the Google team torpedoed an ongoing anti-terrorist operation by Western intelligence agencies (“unilaterally shutting down a counterterrorism operation”)."

So it's better to keep these eleven! zero days open?
What if they are also used by foreign agencies? Collateral damage?

The Pwnie Awards lost much of my respect.

My "lamest security award" goes to the Pwnie Awards.
What I really like is visual scripting which compiles to code, that you can then edit and use for your application.

There's a plug-in for blender called Armory which does this. It's only for game development, but I think something like that could really revolutionize software development. Let people drag and drop, and customize.
Solus Spanish keyboard layout issue
Basically, I just moved from Debian to Solus Plasma couple of days ago and since I live in Spain I find quite necessary to have the "ñ" key on my keyboard.

This is not the problem itself, but unfortunately, the Spanish keyboard layout does not have major and minor signs. Instead of them I have this useless tiny symbols ‹› which do not serve the purpose. Simultaneously the "alt + key code" trick does not seem to work in this GNU/Linux distribution.

Is there any way I can keep the Spanish layout and at the same time being able to type this keys?
If not I will probably have to consider moving to other distro.
Thanks in advance :)
Of course the ISO standard has to be paid for, whereas RFC3339, which is not quite the same, covers most of the date-time formats and can be viewed freely.
We _know_ it's 'healthier' than drinking and playing video games.
can you expand on that? The lack of self-awareness because she would prefer to be in the big vehicle? She should lower how safe she feels because ... it would make a car driver safer?
Seems like a very doable design problem. The angle of incidence of the sun varies quite a bit with the time of year, however, so if you can model accurately that's going to be a more effective use of your time.
Yesterday I saw one of Gandalf eating samples at Costco. I was laughing hysterically for a minute. AI is not supposed to have a sense of humor. That was supposed to be the last province of the human, but it is quite awhile since a human made me laugh like that.
Not sure the body's adaptation is a significant factor, but it only takes a few moments to consume a calorie dense food, and perhaps an hour of sustained exercise to burn burn it off. If I've already done my daily exercise, I'm not interested in doing any more. Seems a lot easier not to eat it in the first place.
Ten times slower than a C++ virtual function call is still pretty damn fast. Good for them.
‘Stealth mode’: how Disney overtook Netflix in streaming wars
Short answer: no, I didn't. I essentially tripled down by having a followup meeting w/just, the CTO, and chief engineer of the company FOLLOWED BY a later 1:1 with the company's President of Engineering when I'd traveled to company HQ. That last meeting created a cascade of meetings that afternoon with EVP, then VP, and finally my boss. All but my boss were awesome and seemed to genuinely want to make things better, but I ended up giving notice when I returned home.

Longer answer: I was already "done" with my boss and planning my exit. The company had previously merged QA and Dev orgs while preserving titles. Unfortunately, that meant that Principal QAE and Principal SWE both became Principal Engineer despite the fact that the promotion process was much slower for SWEs. The average Principal SWE had 15+ years of experience while the average Principal QAE had closer to 8.

My boss was promoted just before the conversion and I came in as the head of engineering for an acquired company. I had substantially more IC and Management experience than my boss, who was a shameless self-promoter and really wanted to be seen as the savior getting this acquired company into shape. When it became apparent that we were vastly more mature than her org in our processes, operational excellence, code quality, efficiency, and performance, she had nothing to do.

I got sick of the micromanagement and moved to being an IC, which is when I had the experience. That helped because I basically got left alone, but I already knew my career prospects were zero, so I took full advantage.
Why do you think that pigs fed on food waste are more likely to be abused than pigs fed other feed?
This s*it should be illegal. Let's say Tiktok for example, it opens everything in who-knows-what-they-track webview that has even the copy to clipboard function disabled.
Where is EU when you need them??
Your second link lists Gitlab Open Source Partners, which is not the same as Gitlab Open Source Program

> While most partners are also members of the GitLab for Open Source Program, not all are (as some partners are commercial open source entities and therefore ineligible for the program).

Source: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...
I can't speak to the UK, but in the US, the term nazi gets thrown around a lot. For example, the Left calls Right nazis and Right calls the Left nazis, etc. As such, it's hard for me, and I'd imagine a lot of HN users, to consider calling someone a nazi as a violent threat.
This is what I do for my presentations (on a wacom of course). I have gotten grief over it, but I work faster and get less distracted by the eccentricacies of powerpoint and figma. My handwriting is abysmal so I will do that in a "handwriting font" to sort of look hand drawn. Even if I have to convert them later for some big wig, at least I have my "rough draft". Plus it all feels a little more human.
I just tossed this issue out along with maybe a hundred others last month :-)
Multi-user systems, where things outside $HOME are not editable, and where different users may have different configurations.
> People are just hell-bent on re-learning 200 years of banking history firsthand.

Maybe just the last 109 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act

Or just the last 79 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act

Or just the last 51 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

Or just the last 15 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta...

Or just the last 2 years
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Or just the last 1 year
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/19/democrats-s...

Or just the last 6 months
https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Or just the last week
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2022/08/11/irs-to-ad...

Maybe BTC isn't the answer, but there are some real downsides to "standard banks and payment processors."
In that case, their test suite doesn’t cover all relevant cases. Consider nums = [1,1,1,1,4]: There are 5 elements, so n=4, and all elements are within the range [1,4]; only the 1 is duplicated. This fulfills all of the listed requirements.

The actual sum is 8, and the 4th triangular number is 10, so the duplicated number according to your algorithm must be -2 (or some fraction thereof, depending on how you calculate m).
There's a lot of functionality in the multiprocessing library and it has its own problems, but I wouldn't call it a "mess" from your description. map, starmap, and imap are all useful for different applications depending on your usage and priorities. I'll agree that it can sometimes be difficult to understand the differences and which is best for your use case, but having used in different use cases I certainly appreciate the different functions available.
Both and. Same with physics.

They are theoretical approximations of the truth.

They are true because they work, the times they don't we keep adjusting it.

However they both don't explain all of reality, especially not human meaning seeking, so what I'm saying is we shouldnt be trying to solve the problem of meaning with a model for explaining a biological phenomenon.
Knowledge Structures
This seems rather reductive, honestly. What about anti-humor? That's still comedy. What about math jokes?
This book is online for free (three cheers for exotic spelling at archive.org).

http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/the-unix-programming-e...

https://archive.org/details/UnixProgrammingEnviornment
I assume that because on true multi-user systems, syncing permissions between $HOME and /usr/etc/$USER may be a complete disaster.
I've since moved on from that company (in fact, I moved shortly after that event) but it has been gratifying to see that my former boss has not been promoted in the 6 years since, but that most of her peers have been promoted multiple times.
Economic growth has been aligned with labor saving. Effiency.
So instead of carrying items by hand long distances, we get beasts of burden, eventually machines take over the job in more and more efficient ways. Self driving trucks delivering products massively increase productivity, but does not consume that much more electricity.
As best as I can tell, only the first point seems related to autism.

All of the questions listed in 2 are things that an allistic person might (should) ask. Plenty of allistic people care more about doing their work than politics. Plenty of allistic people have their knowledge underestimated in the situation presented.

Even #1 happens plenty with allistic people, but I do understand that this is more likely to occur when an allistic and autistic person are interacting.

In my personal experience, I find it is difficult for people to admit when they are wrong. I've never found it to be particularly correlated with being neurotypical or neurodivergent, however.
How the Fed Works
I actually use these extensively on my mac, believe it or not.
A bit off topic but:

> it sounds like he wasn't willing to come voluntarily to the interview room.

Is this against the law in the UK?
The article doesn't discuss "open" academic literature, which is free and open for all to read. It simply states that the volume of academic literature produced in China surpassed the US. You and I likely won't be able to access that literature for free.

Separately, I'm aware of the reproducibility issue in modern published studies and would like to learn more. Do you have a good article to share?

Deflections aside, what are the realistic implications of America not being number one in science research output? Apparently, this is a topic that most on HN are not yet ready to contemplate.
Great paper, a classic. I assigned this as reading to my students. A worthwhile exercise is to try to refute the core idea regarding "essential" vs "accidental" complexity. You may find you end up disagreeing with him! But that is why I like this paper so much. Agree or disagree, it makes you think, and it's worth thinking about.
I wonder if \EOF was around due to punch cards? You maybe didn't want an implicit EOF in case you lost the last card.
What do you by a mock server API? Obviously reimplementing a server API that isn't yours is going to be pretty involved. If this is for testing you could stub out network calls - but I'm a bit unclear what are you trying to achieve or what the specific context is. If this is obvious to others then my apologies.
>Tell the complainant, sorry, you feel like you're a victim of crime

Being the victim of a crime is a different thing than having the feeling of being the victim of a crime.
> we can't tolerate repressive ideologies like fascism and so it falls upon the government the burden of repressing and regulating the use of symbols in the context of promoting such ideologies.

So we don't like repression, so we use repression? That doesn't make sense.

The way to counter speech that promotes ideologies you think are bad is with more speech that explains why those ideologies are bad ones. Or even just reminds people that those ideologies are bad ones. It isn't to adopt the same techniques that those bad ideologies use.

> What other institution would do this instead of the government?

The obvious other way of regulating speech that some people find offensive or indecent is people's freedom of choice in social interaction. Don't interact with people who say things you find offensive or indecent. If the offensive or indecent things are in tweets, don't follow them on Twitter.

> having no form of regulation is in my opinion not viable.

There is no such thing as "no form of regulation". People already regulate their social interactions with other people. Adding government micromanagement on top of that does not really add any value. It just adds more ways for the government to mess with people.

The idea underlying government regulation of speech seems to be that people should be protected from things that they might find offensive or indecent, because people are delicate snowflakes that can be damaged by such things and they aren't capable of just dealing with them using the normal tools of social interaction. For mature adults that idea is laughable. Part of being a mature adult is understanding that there are lots of things in the world that are not the way you would like them to be and dealing with it, and not invoking Higher Authority every time you don't like something.
If I'm putting an IP blacklist, email verification, and captcha in front of my site, it's to keep people out. Some level of false positives and false negatives is acceptable.
Servers are more efficient when fully utilized. A commercial grade server in a homelab is more likely to idle all the time, making it very energy wasteful. Servers need to be right-sized, instead of "more is better".
> Red meat boosts testosterone

Citation needed?
> anyone who is worried about it is having a severe case of premature optimization.

I think the "This is a premature optimization" mindset is what leads to slow pieces of software that I like to avoid (React, Qt, electron). But I guess it's fine, as most users don't care as much as I do.
>"Can you spare a few minutes to discuss supporting cancer research"

Sure, I've left my two young kids and a puppy in a locked and closed car and it's a very, very, very hot day and I have 3 important things to do...can you?

/FB cap doff, of course.
Nobody is sure. Leading ideas are orbital cycles, decreased solar activity, increased volcanic activity, changes in ocean currents, re- or de-forestation as a result of declines in human population, and just the fact that climate is complex and variable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#Possible_causes
>>it's important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.

It implies nothing though. Or are you saying before hitting retweet or before passing along a meme that everyone now needs to do hours of research trying to trace back the origin of a meme to determine its source and how that source relates to politics and wokeness? Does that really seem reasonable to you?
> Law regulates software industry

After the fact, where it can.

Effectively, "next generation" software has enjoyed much freedom from government intervention — in fact, they're usually the ones building it, and/or using it until it becomes too mainstream.
If I had to guess, they probably let him try whatever he wants, without that knee-jerk impulse of saying "that's crazy, no way!" or "stop what you're doing and clean your room" or "you're always in the garage. go out and play, or get a part time job". Now it's possible he's able to do this because his parents can afford to let him spend time on this, but still. It's really easy as a parent to just say "no", but much harder to put your own prejudices and assumptions aside and say "yes". My daughter is 10yo and spends hours in her room drawing, painting, and making miniatures of everything out of cardboard, paper, and whatever scraps are around. She hoards all that stuff. So many times I say, no let's throw that away or you're spending too much time on art. Her best creations are when we leave her completely alone.

I recognize my own hypocrisy, because I'm a far better developer when there are few meetings - when I'm left alone.