skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it will be destroyed by bad faith actors and trolls

Popper's paradox of tolerance plays out every day on social media. If you take a strong free-speech no-moderation approach, your forum will sooner or later be destroyed by propagandists and trolls. If you try stronger moderation, you might keep those at bay but you also lose many of the true free thinkers so the creeps still win.

Jerks have an innate advantage on the internet, which makes conversations "across the divide" almost impossible; those are best left for RL environments where trust and physical presence can keep those impulses from manifesting. The best one can do online is choose which side of any relevant divide you're going to be on and limit participation to those who share some core beliefs. (Comparisons to women's colleges and HBCUs should come naturally at this point.) Sometimes this allows interesting (if somewhat bland) discussions. Other times it just leads to ever more tightly defined factions - e.g. genuine socialists vs. social democrats - turning on each other.

I've been actively involved in online discussions for 40 years, and I was even a moderator on a political forum through millions of posts. I wish that experience had left me with better solutions, but sadly I have to report that it hasn't. "Leave the sensitive stuff to RL" seems to be the only real answer, with "reduce use/prominence of social media" as a corollary.
they will shoot each other from half mile distance, I don't think it will be interesting show.
I was added to a team because, to quote the VP, "they're good but they need some adult supervision"

Mixing skill levels in a team is healthy.
This House Does Not Exist
Not upscale in the slightest. Very run of the mill super market in Canada.
Brute Forcing TOTP Multi-Factor Authentication Is Surprisingly Realistic
Reading. Listening to podcasts. Gardening.
The problem is the HTML Emails I annoyingly get sent by non-tech people.
One night of practice would bring it all back. It's packed in your neurons somewhere if you care to exercise it. I do that about once a year. Just pick up a book and write out several pages. It comes back rather quickly.
We really need to be putting these people in jail for these kind of lies.
I will never forgive Cal Newport nor HN for the hype around Deep Work. What an ironically vacuous book stuffed with filler anecdotes about modern day blacksmiths and card deck memorization, completely in contradiction to the very ethos of focused deep work. It should’ve been a nice long blog article but he wanted to write a NYT bestseller so I wasted time and money reading it.
But there is a difference between a subtle hint and the MegaMan/navi style "hey listen! Here are several paragraphs to read"

Play through portal with developer commentary, that's a masterpiece on how to use hints well without players even realizing.

Things like how hallways are structured, where light is shining, etc.
Oh, there will be plenty of pro se complainants with barely-intelligible filings. I would almost put money down that there will be a comical period where Texas' civil court is DDoSed by people filing pro se complaints around this law.
Since this confused me: cash buyer in relation to housing is someone paying the full amount without using a mortgage. They are probably using checks or wire transfers instead of metal briefcases filled with $100 bills.
This seems like some really good debugging effort, kudos.

But, my takeaway from this is that there’s a glibc bug which causes deadlocks in correct code, and a proposed fix (even if partial) has been available for years, and glibc still hasn’t shipped a version with the fix so it’s up to distros and users to patch the broken glibc code.

Reminds me of how a glibc update broke GNU m4 and GNU didn’t ship a fix to m4 for years, so it was up to distros and users to patch the latest release of GNU m4 to make it compile with the latest version of GNU glibc.

And then a couple of years later GNU shipped another version of glibc which broke m4.

GNU doesn’t strike me as an organisation which places a lot of value on software quality and reliability.
The graphics and animations look somewhat dated, but I assume the footage in question is about figuring out gameplay mechanics and most of the assets are dummy assets quickly put together for the prototype.
The anthropologists vs economists slap fight is at least decades old. (Barter and Economic Disintegration [1985]) So economists have had time to adjust.

Sure, Begg now knows it's a myth. But even he concedes the myth continues to do a lot of heavy lifting.

The criticism is that "mainstream economics" is wrong. Which is trivially verifiable. I found a handful of contemporary statements that barter precedes money in just a few minutes.

The point is such a minor part of Graeber's thesis. And yet it triggered pundits.

Getting fluffed up about nonissues serves to push serious consideration to the side. For all the usual reasons.

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> ...spins bizarre conspiracy theories about the Iraq invasion.

What?
Could someone who knows international trade laws explain why the US Government allows Chinese social media apps to operate in the US while China bans American social media apps? I am genuinely curious about it.
> >the likelihood that a visitor’s browser already has a font cached locally from a previous visit to any other site using the same font is relatively high.

>That likelihood is relatively low

That likelihood was never high, and obviously so, I have no idea why it gets parroted so much. And even if it was true, I could have shown up to your website with jQuery and bootstrap cached, but oops it was a different free cdn so cache miss.

The only thing you had a high likelihood of is customers noticing your website was slow without knowing its just your poorly chosen free cdn being temporarily over capacity.
The internet has created a class of people with obsessive vanity and overly zealous expectations in others.
Same! Works great for me.

I'm using zfsnap which take care for creating and destroying the snapshots. This I keep 72h with hourly snaps..
Previous year (presumably the second consecutive La Niña event) the winter was exceptionally dry in the Alps leading to the current unprecedented snow and ice situation in that area so at least that year the snowfall was very limited.

The article states that the predictions should't be regarded as forecasts so obviously some years might not have the expected changes, but in addition the only expected effect of La Niña in Europe seems to be a drier autumn on the Iberian peninsula so I'm not sure how you arrived at your statements.
This is why I loved the Factorio blog. From 2013 until release in 2020 they would write a weekly blog about what was happening and all the interesting problems they ran into. Its really fascinating.

https://factorio.com/blog/
There must be a better tool for professional writers than Google Docs?!
It's the lower case i, m, sh, t and p that all look similar in cursive. Here in print: и, м, ш, т, п (though t and p and t have little lines above them to differentiate them, and some people are taught to put a line under sh to distinguish it. At least it's like that in Serbian.
Did you read recent news of Google testing this with YouTube and apply it to Apple?
Took me 4 minutes to solve it. A few issues:

- It's not clear that you can drag the characters.

- Tried to scroll and thought something was wrong when it wasn't working.

- Looks like you can also drag the main map image at least on Firefox which makes it slightly more confusing for those without much experience with React or programming in general.

- The rabbits looked scared or sad I thought the puzzle had something to do with that, it doesn't.
It’s a proxy for non wage earner real estate purchases. Either investments or buyers coming with all cash from equity of any sort (previous real estate holdings, securities, etc).

It’s important because it distorts local markets where wage earners who need a mortgage and are governed by a monthly payment are competing with these market participants.
People still use (al)pine at the University of Washington, where is was created! They even have stats on it going back a long time:
https://staff.washington.edu/corey/pine-stats/
Haha. Thanks for saying that internet stranger! Compared to me as well. It took me quite a bit longer to solve it too, even after i figured the rules.. so I guess kids are just good at adapting to the pretend-laws-world-problem-solving..
Not sure, still loading.
Constraints on software create human reaction constraints; I can’t react to behavior that never happens

You’re just abstracting “the rules” into “game design”
Great comments already on the moral/legal aspects so I'll address something more important, finding an opportunity.

Before writing any code, you'll likely need to do 50-200 customer development interviews to find and hone in on a new unique opportunity. So, why not start here?
Basically every time I decided for a full rewrite I ended up thinking "thank god I made that decision, the new architecture is much simpler" (and no, it didn't just seem simpler to me).
Eh, the King could always have moved his proclamations back, and pushed the funeral forward. Let's not pretend he's powerless. He's quite the opposite.
I was born at the end of the 80s and there was a funny thing called "simplified cursive" in Germany. I struggled for the rest of my life with that and already half gave up on cursive while still attending the German equivalent of high school.

Maybe that was partly caused by me prematurely being put into school (1-2 years early), but some letters still feel like a motoric and decisional exercise because I couldn't quite decide how to write e.g. lower-case "l", where the "simplified" and the non-simplified version differed.

My solution at high school was already to discard cursive completely.

At the time, this ceased to be a problem as grades progressed.
Well, I like it.

Your Contributions are highly admirable and easy to summarize as you have done, Focus, Notation, Intuition, and Completeness are major milestones on their own and I don't even experience the Interactivity on my browser.

I also agree with some of the other commenters who say the reader should already have more than just a bit of exposure to number theory beforehand, developing understanding of more introductory applications would be good and could probably be chosen to provide a particularly firm foundation for the march toward cryptography which gets quite advanced quite quickly.

Next, you might want to draft what could be considered a prerequisite text of your own for this masterpiece so the less initiated can get up to speed and get the most out of it. Also, I suppose your next two articles will be further advanced and could be easier to grasp for those who first have better understanding of what you have now.
That was actually an entertaining ride. Watching the initial doubt and skepticism slow turn into realization and fear.
It's worth noting that condition variables are a finicky interface. Speaking personally, I would typically much rather work with something like a semaphore. I also feel like I've seen a lot of misuse of condition variables out there.
I understand what you're saying. There are different ways to implement any social or economic system. Capitalism doesn't always look the same, neither does communism.

But there has to be a core definition, and as long as that core definition is met, then the method of implementation doesn't much matter. But none of the examples you posted are examples of real communism.

For example, you talk about the Portuguese government owning many major businesses. Well, one of the core tenets of communism is the abolishment of private property in favor of communal property. Private property and business exists in Portugal, so it's not an actual communist country.
In a situation like this, a full rewrite is almost always tempting and almost always a bad idea.
Finally, a notes-taking system on HN that makes some damn sense.
Like several others have posted here you are in a great position to make some very simple changes that will have big results.

If you're looking for reading resources I found "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers to be very useful helping me build a plan. Yes it's an older book but that helped me appreciate this is not a new problem.
Well, the pictured house is so cookie-cutter modern architecture for this kind of house, that might as well exist...
Workers rights exist only because they were fought for, and will exist only as long as people are willing to fight for them.
Depending on the jurisdiction (EU), you may be asked by the tax authorities to open a company after certain transaction volume.
Gen X created pretty much all these social networks though.

Zoomers (the young people this author is likely talking about) pretty much grew up while these networks already took off.

Though the generation the social networks target will likely switch to gen alpha soon, as they're quickly approaching their puperty.
It thought most WiFi routers these days auto-adjusted their channel based on other nearby signals?
Well, sure. I'm 66, I was badly concussed a few years ago, I drink a lot, my hand is unsteady, and my eyesight is fading. Occam's Razor hacks away any diagnosis of learning disability.
When was the last time you paid with actual paper cash?

I almost exclusively use cash. The exception is for the few things that local stores do not provide and for car insurance. I will remedy some of that soon e.g. Surety Bond. Even then I can still use cash to pay a local transport vendor to drive into a bigger town a few hours away and pick things up for me.
> The fox won't willingly give up the ability to be in charge of the henhouse.

Shepherds laugh at the suggestion of loosening control of their sheep.
A "private forum" would do the trick I think.

But how do you advertise and vet?

Or maybe a better forum-management technology. A smarter software design.
I think you'd have to use a curved mirror or prism?
I’m only one week of work in. It’s fine so far: I got paid on time, benefits are okay.

The biggest problem for me were in the on-boarding around ID. I provided a driver’s licence plus SIN, which is sufficient proof of identity and eligibility to work in Canada. A regular employer would only need the SIN, and I understand a company like Deel would also need to verify identity since they hadn’t actually met me.

But, no, apparently they require proof of citizenship (for citizens anyway), which no regular employer needs. For that you need to provide a “passport or national ID”… but Canada has no national ID system, only passports, and my passport is expired (because COVID). They had to make an exception for me to accept an expired passport.

It worked out okay in the end but it was frustrating and confusing for about two weeks, during which I had paused my job search and I was worried I’d have to walk away from a good offer if they couldn’t sort it out.

So in the end I think it’ll be okay, but I’d talk to your own employees, especially new ones, and make sure they don’t get caught up in some bureaucratic snag.
HN people are also notorious bikeshedders.
Is it anything like vocal fry in English?
From the outside perspective of a younger democracy, the fact that the US political system treats this ancient legal document with the same reverence that one might pay to the biblical stone tablets, where it would be sacrilegious to even change the font, let alone bring it up to speed with almost 250 years of progress in ethics, political practice and technology, seems like it might explain some problems.
Author here - interesting to see this pop up on HN again!

Since there are a lot of questions in the comments that might be answered by prior writing/discussions, here are a couple relevant links:

0. Trianglify.io is a GUI for my GPL-licensed node library of the same name, which is available for use in OSS projects for free: https://qrohlf.com/trianglify/

1. Trianglify (the library) first became popular because of an HN post eight years ago. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578002

2. I've written a short Medium article on why Trianglify.io exists and how I arrived at the current freemium/micropayments model for monetizing it: https://medium.com/@qrohlf/i-sell-triangles-on-the-internet-...
Tell me how that argument is qualitatively different for arguing against gig workers rights? Again if you want to argue it's quantitatively different, then fine. Then it's just a discussion on how low is too low. But the arguments here tend to be of the form, if you don't like, don't take it, or take it and shut up.
> get some testing in place

What is really needed (and almost definitely doesn’t exist) is some kind of spec for the software.
Availability bias, keep in mind for kids her age cartoon animals and games like this are their full time job.
Sorry, I call BS here. Maybe you just don’t know how to use Google (which I find hard to believe for the users of this forum), but adding -tool to the search immediately shows Milwaukee’s gov website as the 2nd result after the Bucks (the NBA team). Please stop trolling.
Love the recent efforts on building new terminal clients. I'm excited to try meli out. I've been using https://aerc-mail.org/ as a daily driver for several months, but excited to try some others in this space. I found mutt a bit intimidating to configure, where aerc and meli seem more straightforward.
Someone's getting the paddle
> It used to be that tellers would compare signatures from the back of your card to the signature you just scribbled on the receipt to ensure it was really your card.

I'm in my mid-20s.

From the time I signed my first debit card and ID card at around 16 to my driver's license at around 18 my signature already significantly changed, not to mention that I rarely if ever have to physically sign something on paper forms and the like so it's not uncommon for there to be months or even more than a year between signatures. How am I expected to replicate my "signature" almost exactly?
I was there in ‘95 and was wondering the same thing! It felt like they brought SRL to the kiddie pool that day.
But writing is learning. Brains use sensory feedback to remember and recall. Cursive is just a method of faster writing. The physical act of forming the letters leads to better recall of what is being written. Reorganizing and rewriting does even better.

Learning to write is as important as learning to read and learning to do math. There are good ways and bad ways to learn.

It's too bad this skill is being neglected and people turn to measurably worse methods of learning.
I will hijack the question with another question. I have seen a lot of discussion about Deel and Remote.com but I am not clear how this is initiated.

Did you just advertise the position worldwide and then let Deel sort the details out with candidates abroad? Or did your employee propose to use Deel at some point in the hiring process and you agreed to it?
Freedom of association is rooted in freedom of speech. Otherwise all the Civil Rights Acts would be unconstitutional as they fundamentally impact association, but not in a way that dilutes speech which is what freedom of association covers, for better or for worse. So, social media corps lacking freedom of speech rights in their users content, they also lack freedom of association rights with regards to that content and those users. To push the metaphor too far, their users' speech and their own speech are like oil and water: they are too different to dilute each other.

Now, would an alternate universe in which freedom of association was actually a robust right on its own be a better one overall? Would I happily trade that for this social media thing? Quite possibly, quite possibly.
Talk, listen, reflect…
Talk, listen, reflect…
Talk, listen, reflect…
Keep going until someone is willing to pay.
I’ve listened to many conversations in my life.

In my experience, listening to conversations among wealthy people or high status people are far more interesting because as a group they have the ability to execute on a larger scale, and they can influence each other far more easily because of the credibility their wealth or status confers. I have been in many rooms before listening to people you would not believe, I was able to get there by simply playing the respected role of a modern day wizard: a software engineer of vast intellect with ability to generate new revenues from code.

When I have listened to poorer people or low status “hustler” types talking to each other about big things, it mostly just comes off as myopic philosophizing or bullshit and puffery. Just a bunch of wannabes talking about things too big for the britches I’m afraid. If you spend too much time around these people you’ll get sucked into their delusions and waste years perpetuating terribly misguided thoughts.

I talk to poor people when I want to learn about micro scale things: the plight of a gig worker, the struggles of a single mother, the hellish existence of a drug addict, depression, etc.

I talk to wealthy people when I want to learn about macro scale things: the logistics of vaccine transport, alternative supply chains, subliminal eugenics initiatives, bureaucratic shortcuts, laundering, etc.

And I’m not saying only listen to wealthy people wow how shallow, I’m saying go where wealthy people are and just open your mind and ears. Don’t try to stand out too much and your presence will not be a problem.
It sounds like you are so unfamiliar with the term that you should take a gander at the linked wikipedia article to give yourself an introductory understanding of the topic.
With mutt, you can tell it to pass HTML through an external program (like a text mode browser) to render to plain text. Not immediately obvious if meli supports that, but it is at least tractable.
GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs
Devil's confused advocate here - depending on the age of the candidate, that might have been intended to be a "fun fact" sort of addition?

As in, it might have also read "Japanese calligraphy". Gives the HR person to ask about their passions a bit, figure out how they roll?

(Disregard that idea if this was actually just listed as a core job skill like "Word and Excel experience")
I would argue that doing that kind of dive into foundational texts in the English literary cannon is more useful than you might expect. Things like the Canterbury Tales were often recited live by someone standing on a table, as you may remember from that lesson. The exercise of memorizing and orally reciting the couplets gives you a totally different intuitive understanding of the material. This also gives you a window through which you can better understand later works, like Shakespeare. Modern literature is also full of allusions and references to these foundational texts, so a passing familiarity gives you access to a deeper reading of newer works.

Prior to Chaucer educated people in Europe considered English unsuitable for poetry. His work is part of the story of how English came to be an important global language.

That's all to say that going deep on literary classics is valuable in a way that cursive is not.
I’m not sure when this supposed joke began, but from what I found[1] with a quick search “genderfluid” was used at least as early as 1994 and not as a joke. The same source cites an appearance in Urban Dictionary in 2007, but the entry doesn’t appear anymore and the Wayback link is currently returning 503 errors for me.

1: https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Genderfluid#Etymology