skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hate speech is never about expressing oneself, it is about censoring the opposition through intimidation and organizing violence against them.

This is simply untrue. Both in terms of how the term "hate speech" is commonly used and the actual practice of the law. Was nazi pug guy trying to censor other people's speech?

> Today the situation is somewhat reversed, where lgbt expression is increasingly acceptable but homophobia is not. This is a victory for free speech:

This confuses me, though I suppose your meaning of "homophobia" might be different from the one I am familiar with (like many politically charged words its meaning is vague and varies).

Would saying things like "Fags will go to hell, homosexuality is wrong and unnatural and homos should be kept away from children so they don't pass on the gay." be homophobia or hate speech? What about "we should imprison gays so they repent their evil ways and stop infecting our children"?
My solution to this for past year: only use the laptop for most things. No more distractions in the pocket, feels pretty good!
This theoretically can't happen anymore, right?

You have to give apps permission to get your contacts, right?
Course correction is only possible if you know what you need to fix and how. That's exactly what I'm asking
This type of discussion comes up every once in a while and there are always a couple points that circulate in the discussion:

1. "It's not the tools, it's the artist."

2. "But tools matter."

I would love it if we could skip rehashing the obvious stuff. Yes, obviously, tools matter. However, there are a lot of loud people online (and lout people you meet in person) who spend hours hashing out the pros and cons of different tools, why tool X is awful, why tool Y is underrated, why "pros" use tool Z, tool W is overpriced and outdated, and tool Q is missing features A and B which should really be considered "standard" nowadays.

These discussions are valuable because tools matter, but people will also lose sight of the fact that tools are only one part of the picture. Novices, especially, sometimes focus on getting better tools or working on their tools instead of working on their craft. It's nice to see examples of very successful projects made with simple tools on a low budget to remind us that we can work that way too, and remind us that our low-end tools aren't really holding us back--that much.

Some examples of films shot on small budgets:

- Blair Witch Project ($60k)

- Clerks ($28k) (B&W not because the film is cheaper, but so they don't have to get lighting equipment)

- Primer ($7k)

I'm just hoping we can skip the "tools don't matter" "yes they do" back-and-forth. Nobody really believes that tools don't matter at all, people just get caught up in arguing about how much tools matter, or what the right way to communicate that is.

Same thing also happens with photography. I recently saw a photography exhibit where all of the photos were shot on an iPhone. Same thing happens with music. Some famous artist recorded an album with a Telecaster and a Supro because they were cheap and sounded decent. Some of your favorite songs were recorded out of the back of a van.
Never go in app
Take home tests are never just an hour. They're open ended traps designed to find out who is willing to put in unpaid overtime. The OP themselves admitted to expanding the scope of a take home test they were given by around 10x because they felt it would give them an edge.

This is what a ton of candidates end up doing, knowing that others are going to as well. Especially when the take home test could be sent to a massive number of people.

Spend a few hours with me and watch me code. Show you care. I'm not rejecting the idea of spending time coding for an interview.
Last I heard (years ago), iOS forced everyone to use Safari for webviews, which lots of people also complained about. Did that change? Or is the Safari webview the subject of this story?
To me, aesthetics does fit. It has two different meanings. One refers to the overall subject area of beauty, like, "This warehouse isn't pretty, but the people who made it weren't thinking of aesthetics." The other meaning refers to a particular artistic style or concept of beauty. For example, minimalism is an aesthetic, because to some people a clean look is beautiful. You might say the main page at google.com has a minimalist aesthetic.

If a programmer has a certain sense of what they feel is beautiful, they can incorporate that into their code and the way they go about creating it. So you could say Mel's sense of what makes code beautiful is deep knowledge of the computer and clever code that ties in with that.
Semantic Web lost itself in fine details of machine-readable formats, but never solved the problem of getting correctly marked up data from humans.

In the current web and apps people mostly produce information for other people, and this can work even with plain text. Documents may lack semantic markup, or may even have invalid markup, and have totally incorrect invisible metadata, and still be perfectly usable for humans reading them. This is a systemic problem, and won't get better by inventing a nicer RDF syntax.

In language translation, attempts of building rigid formal grammar-based models have failed, and throwing lots of text at a machine learning has succeeded. Semantic Web is most likely doomed in the same way. GPT-3 already seems to have more awareness of the world than anything you can scrape from any semantic database.
Oh yeah. Just get a small storage box, drill some holes in the lid to hold the plants in net cups, stick a small water fountain pump at the bottom, and build a pvc manifold with some sprayers. Hook it up for a timer that's 5 minutes on, 10 minutes off, and you're done. It's super easy.

You do have to watch the water level. If the water level falls below the minimum pressure, the roots will quickly die.

https://twitter.com/jonathankoren/status/1292250185687416832
Don't tie the clove hitch one-handed when working with auto-breaking belay device, that caused fatalities. Use both hands to tie the full knot first, and then clip it in at once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9np7B1Zao4
Does a number exist that's greater than 2 but smaller than 1?
Sure but the big faang stocks literally print more money than every other company (idk maybe aramco or berkshire can compete, but nothing else). So something's working there.
El Salvador. CO2. These are all talking points against Bitcoin, not crypto.

You keep hitting the wrong drum. Again, get off the high horse. Come back when you understand that I am on your side in regards to Bitcoin, even though your arguments are completely misguided.
That makes it real easy, actually. No Reddit or Twitter
Not just the debt, things like SS payments are also tied to inflation.
Matrix and OpenID Connect
This looks weird and interesting and the price of the single speed version is actually not bad. The string is just simple dyneema cord with crimped ends, so you could probably even make them yourself from bulk and carry a dozen spares for basically no extra weight.

The prices on their different lines seem way out of whack though. Carbon and Aluminum cost basically the same? Aren't carbon bikes usually much more expensive than others?

Single speed is _way_ cheaper than the rest. Like unexpectedly so. Are they saying their adjustable gear mechanism accounts for $2000 of the price?

And Designer is in the middle?

I really don't understand the pricing scale here.
> I don't think the author explicitly stated they were autistic in the piece

"I have read similar experiences by other autistic people" suggests that the author considers themself to be autistic.

> You very much are dismissing someone's something.

...And that's that, I guess. Can you please clarify what I am dismissing, and how? I don't want to dismiss anyone's anything.
I think that any view cache works fine with edge caching. Worst case your first request has to traverse the CDN network to your compute once every cache invalidation.

That said, none of the static site renderers really do anything special that is required to do anything on any edge. Considering the huge amount of storage and memory required to store a node_modules tree and re-render on demand, even classic MVC would easily do the same.

What would make a somewhat larger difference might be a combination of factors; something like centralised push and distributed compute via WASM. That means any logic could be compiled and packaged as-is without needing anything else. Somewhat similar to using cloud flare workers with something like Go or Zig.

Then again, like you described with the rails example, this is mostly a solved problem. Even a full server-side view with just classic HTML 4 and CSS output can do this, at very low latencies and very wide reach. After the first hit, the difference between this and static pre-rendered pages is almost irrelevant.

The biggest 'solves' one might get would be uncached always-computed content which needs to be executed on demand, and attack surface changes. But that gives us a different class of problem since we could also decide to simply offload all of the hard work to someone else and simply pay Squarespace and the likes ;-)
Hording talent could be a leftover Chesterton's fence from when they had an illegal agreement between Google, Apple, etc. to not recruit each other's employees, but Facebook was never found to be part of that.
Or dark matter - the new germ theory of disease. Both introduce a new, hard-to-observe-with-current-technology entity which explains observations better than any other theory we've came up with. MOND doesn't explain structure formations or lower rotational speed galaxies; miasma didn't explain non-airborne illness.

It's incredibly hard to know until we've either observed DM particles or made good alternative hypothesises which also fit the data.
I only skimmed the article so maybe I missed I but at a glance it seemed the completely miss the biggest issue. People will intentionally mislabel things. If chocolate is trending people will add "chocolate" to there tags for bitcoin.

You can see this all over the net. One example is the tags on SoundCloud.

Another issue is agreeing on categories. say women vs men or male vs female. for the purpose
of id the fluidity makes sense but less so for search. to put it another way, if I search for brunettes i'd better not see any blondes. If I search for dogs I'd better not see any cats. And what to do about ambiguous stuff. What's a sandwich? A hamburger? a hotdog? a gyro? a taco?
This is the truth. Many managers are valued on how large they can grow their team. Also, if you have 10, 20, 100 direct reports .... how can they fire you?
> What about "So-and-so ought to be stabbed"

> [That is a] clear incitement to violence, and [is] clearly illegal already.

Not in the US it's not. Clear and present danger, not hypothetical horseshit. I'm shocked at how unfamiliar censorship maximalists are with the current state of speech rights. I think it's why they think that censoring anti-vanilla ice cream speech or anti-Nolan Batman films speech is such a small step.

Every single would-be censor thinks it's illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater, and don't realize that phrase was used to jail someone for anti-war speech.

What makes you think that "incitements to violence" are illegal? Is is that "incitement" is a very legal-sounding word?
Most small local ISPs are like this, a labor of love, not something who’s singular purpose is to make the owners unimaginably rich. Cruzio, in Santa Cruz, and MonkeyBrainz in San Francisco come to mind.
The questions you bring up are really the questions I am asking?

What do they think the weaknesses of the page are? Do they think rewriting the checkout will solve these problems? How much of the technical tradeoffs do they understand or care about?

To recap:

Is our checkout page not performing well?

Will a new checkout solve our problem?

Why do they think a technology change is a solution?

Do they understand the implications of such a switch?

Otherwise I won't be able to assess if react makes sense or not. It makes sense for some reasons, not for others. If I don't know why they think we should consider it, I can't provide a valuable answer. These are exactly the points you are bringing up as well: I don't know, and I need your input to clarify what we are trying to do.

I understand there is a communication problem, but I'm most definitely not refusing to accept I am wrong.

I haven't even stated anything that could be wrong. And because I have fully put the blame on myself, after this particular interaction, the fact that I am able to work perfectly fine at a very strategic level with other stakeholders in my new job shows me that it's not just about me.
"We are making a mobile phone ecosystem that lets users escape the permanent and industrial harvesting of their personal data."

I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy. It feels like there's this giant bubble that the tech world lives in, and they are the only people who care about this issue.
I feel like I wouldn't use this based on the name alone.
How do I say it? forward slash ee forward slash?
I don't understand why anyone would think it was a good idea to name it this!
It is insane. If this was a strategy it would not be some top secret thing.
As someone who was a government worker, a lot of the issues why projects go over budget is because management believes that a single developer can do the workload of 4. So the product never gets delivered and that developer leaves to work somewhere else.
It is definitely a scientific model. It posits that

(1) the observed differences in gravitational forces come from a gravitational field source, not modified equations themselves

(2) The field sources are a form of matter, thus obeying some "obvious" laws like mass conservation

(3) The new kind of matter is also attracted by gravity itself, which even allows for limited predictions of how its mass distribution behaves

And we can only say it's never been observed directly, because there is indeed enough indirect evidence pointing towards its existence.
This is amazing. Long live open-source platforms that let developers and data scientist focus on the interesting parts of their jobs and day and make them more productive.
By the end of my employment at Google I was not working very hard. Probably a few hours a day, mostly doing whatever I felt like doing. My managers consistently gave me "meets expectations" regardless of how much I achieved or how hard I worked. However, any time there was an emergency related to my function, I had everything required to jump in, fix serious problems, and then get out of the way during the cleanup then contributing my bit to the postmortem.
I could tell there were very few (fewer all the time) people who truly understand google prod, and in that sense, the company seems to be OK with paying top salaries to people who can prevent the company losing lots of money, or other critical prod issues.
For folks who dislike p-value reporting (and I'm one of them), we can focus on the effect sizes for speed of processing training in ACTIVE:

[1] 0.36 in slowing decline in functional abilities, equivalent to ~3 years of delayed decline
[2] 48% reduction in at fault auto crash risk
[3] 30% reduction in the risk of experiencing serious [0.5 s.d.] worsening of depressive symptoms
[4] 29% reduction in dementia incidence [hazard ratio]

These are all clinically meaningful effect sizes.

Regarding the dementia incidence study, it's correct that two of the cognitive training interventions did not show effects, and speed of processing training did. In my view, a straightforward interpretation is that different types of cognitive training are different (much like different small molecule pharmaceuticals are different), and consequently they have different effects on endpoints like dementia incidence.
Start with an ad hominem, continue with this:

> Without such theory, claiming DM doesn't exist is simply stupid IMO.

Expressing flaws in an idea does not require a better one in any way. The search continues.
Not true. Node and TypeScript are not nice and simple. As a rough comparison the GNU C Reference manual ticks at 366Kb whereas the TypeScript Handbook does at 663Kb.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-c-manual.html

https://www.typescriptlang.org/assets/typescript-handbook.pd...
I also noticed TikTok does this as well; at the very least they are snooping inside their in-app browser to prevent you from visiting adult sites.
Android Auto does not navigate
I thought I was going crazy: trying to start navigation by voice would answer "Let's go!" and then do nothing. It had to be my unit! Who would be so bad not to find an issue like not being able to navigate on software made to be used in a car!

Turns out: Google! There is a known issue - now ongoing for over a month - that prevents users from starting navigation using the assistant.

The workaround? Unplug the device, set the destination on the phone, plug it back in. Now, try that with wireless Android Auto.
> You have the life experience to know what will and won't affect you, and you've found an equilibrium of control and impact that apparently makes you happy.

I think some people have too much empathy to ever reach that point.

I have a few friends that literally broke out in tears when Russia began the invasion of Ukraine. They don't know a single person in Ukraine. Nothing about the war truly has an effect on their day-to-day lives. They don't even have investments that got clobbered.

Yet they shed tears over innocent civilian lives being lost.

These people have been on the verge of nervous breakdown ever since COVID hit.

Seeing people on such an extreme end makes me feel like I might be slightly sociopathic because I read the news and just think "Well that sucks" and then move on with my day, knowing it makes no difference to me and my life.
I am very curious which company this can be, can't think of any companies in Redwood City that match that description
Organic Maps has a simple user interface that makes it a more similar FOSS replacement for Magic Earth.

- Organic Maps: https://organicmaps.app

OsmAnd is a heavyweight with more features, including an advanced OSM editor, trip recording, Mapillary street view, and other plugins, for those that need them.

- OsmAnd: https://osmand.net
Totally agreed with you.

I found much greater joy going to the office everyday, working, meeting with my coworkers, doing things after work like grabbing a beer in the kitchen, etc. I really missed those things. Now I'm just staring at a screen for 10 hours a day. Two extra hours because I feel like I need to prove that I'm working while I'm remote.

It sucks. I feel way less energy and less passion for the company.
> If you wanted a clue that there wasn't enough work to go around (and that your promotion incentives may not be aligned with the business), this should have been the first clue.

There is definitely enough work to go around at Google, Amazon, and Apple.

Whether promotion makes any sense, and whether people are working on the things that actually move the needle is a different question.
These days, you can expect companies to do the exact same thing even if you do pay for the service.
As a Gaelic speaker (Scot's Gaelic) I feel you on the point about Irish Gaelic in schools. It's pretty shocking how hypocritical and selfish the English government/crown has been throughout history. They can try and cover it up, but at the end of the day, they're really just stealing things and getting away with it cause they're rich, powerful, and militarily dominant compared to their targets.
> A standards-conforming link can drop QUIC's initial packet; that's not "fast-and-loose", that's QUIC requiring a PMTU that might not exist.

I meant in the context of QUIC needing a TCP fallback for this, rather than anything PMTU-related.

The reality is that UDP is so under used (especially in a low latency context that QUIC wants) that QUIC implementors are finding all sorts of wrinkles with it, both in endpoint IP stacks and network equipment. Anyone using QUIC that doesn't control the network will need to have a TCP fallback ready until QUIC is a little more mature.

We'd all love to have QUIC available as a full TCP replacement but the reality is it's going to be non-functional in some networks and for some endpoints.

> Personally, yes.

Will do. I'll add it to my todo list, will make sure I understand everything you've said here and should probably get a tweak out in a day or two.
The short version is that laypeople with a skeptical bent like to say "eh I don't believe in dark matter, those silly physicists are inventing particles that aren't there, MOND solves the problem without extra particles so MOND is probably right."

It's an easy way to be "skeptical" without really knowing anything about the relative success of the two theories. Because MOND is an underdog theory, you can feel like a skeptic questioning dogma by supporting it... even if you don't really know much about the merits.
The key here is in the vagueness of "abusive". Is using the term "pedo" in a derogatory fashion abusive? What about not using someone's preferred pronouns?
Possibly, but a good org will empower security teams to make that call and collaborate with UX on a safe compromise.
NOTE: Doesn't copy metamethods, doesn't copy subtables either.
Unless you got paid more money than your lazy peers it seems like they got a much better deal than you did. Why are you bragging about working harder and getting treated worse than your coworkers?
This does sound odd, but if it works for you... My examples are definitely all about the workplace.
I hate this kind of response so much because it downplays the gravity of what Musk tried to do. He literally tried to ruin someone's entire life because he had his ego challenged and wanted to do so with the most grave fallacious accusations you could possibly make. He never apologized or even attempted to fix his mistake. Though given you seem to have a history of defending Musk, I'm guessing you are in fact trying to defend him.
I don't know what parts of sf you're referring to but my experience of sf is it's pothole hell. Market, Misson, anything between market and van Ness, and plenty of others

to add, I lived on the east coast in the 80s and I found some fellow Californians where we co commiserated about how shitty the roads were in Baltimore and how nice they were in southern Orange County but now I drive though southern Orange County and the roads are clearly in need of repair.
I think the answer is Datalog. It is simple, simpler than SQL but powerful like Prolog. Why hasn't it caught on?
> They don't sync with my main browser states such as authenticated sessions.

And this is exactly why Apple gives them their own cookie jar. The alternative would be [more of] a security nightmare.
They are slowly catching up with Putin's Russia. He started jailing dissidents years ago on this exact pretext. His government pioneered the corresponding legalese (known as rule 282) as early as 2002. And of course initially it was applied to literal Nazis only.

It boggle my mind to think that former democracies so want to become second-rate authoritarian regimes. The country that started it all with Magna Carta 800 years ago just abandons hard-won freedoms without a major war or famine powerful enough to distract the populace.
Themes in academic literature: prejudice and social justice
I mean that kids are taking up the guitar less and less. The vast majority of guitar sales $ comes from the older generations who will eventually age out of buying guitars.
> when the last time was that Mark or Sundar actually wrote any code they pushed to prod

That would be a surpreme waste of company money, and probably they have engineers working for them who are far better developers than they are.