skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what if I told you that I studied statistics at university (my UG is in economic history) and that your cognitive bias about the statistics knowledge of people you don't know isn't interesting to anyone but you.

If you read more closely (perhaps spend less time reading statistics textbooks, and more time working on your comprehension), you will also notice that I mentioned specifically that there has been no noticeable change in frequency over the time that I lived here.

You may think you are an expert on stats and cognitive biases of people you have never met...are you also an expert on the local weather conditions of central Scotland? My guy, no-one asked, next time you are thinking about doing this, stop. Write it down in your feelings journal, your views are significantly less interesting than you think.
There was a site that was making 50k USD per month, providing very basic analytics. This was in the early days of Twitter. Even if it lasted only 6 months at 50k, that is 300k , for a side project.

It all depends on timing, risk vs reward etc
You'll get your door kicked in if you call a state's secretary of state "a dick" on Twitter. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not so much about keeping the internet civil so everyone can partake in the debate.

It also seems that they're quick to act (and with surprising force) if politicians or the police are the targets of "hate speech", while it's generally ignored if it's your average citizen.
The third one is standing around with a gun claiming to be acting as law enforcement.

That’s a crystal clear threat of violence.
The system went live in 1993 so what distro would they have chosen in ~1990, when the system choice was made and is that distro still around? How many ports would they have had to make over the ensuing years.

I love Linux and use it everyday but it would have been a poor choice in 1990 and some would argue would still be a poor choice today given other industrial OS-es on the market.
Generalize the Feedback You Receive
I agree, TikTok is the only platform that has maintained my interest to some degree because of the novelty of the content (built for discovery). But Twitter, FB, etc are the same old boring news cycles (even worse, sometimes reflexive topics like the popularization of The Current Thing meme, which is just a meta-news cycle but a news cycle all the same). I visit a few particular subreddits to keep up with stuff I care about but generally just socialize with my friends privately.

Fwiw, the platforms are aware of this shift (people shifting to preferring private content), and its behind a lot of changes like Instagram’s. But social media as we knew it (big public info dumps) were likely in an “attention bubble” over the past 15 years because of their sheer novelty.
In practice, you'd be using uBlock with the other lists which would block all the trackers anyway, so it would (by not loading what would set those cookies in the first place).
> relied on jquery. So if that's the case and we must use some React, what can I do to use it in the simplest and clearest way possible?

The answer to that question has been the same as long as I've been using react. Represent most of your app logic in pure functions. This has been the React team's recommendation, pretty much since the beginning.

Once you get hit to the idea of making everything a function, it pays to learn some functional programming design patterns. This increases your vocabulary for abstracting your application logic into a function.

Once almost everything lives in functions, your react components should really only care about managing the view.
I mean, you can use a GPIO on a microcontroller as a switch if the current is small enough... this device is not directly in the path of 120V, it's just twiddling a GPIO on the motherboard... right?
If you plug the Smart TV to the Internet, the TV will dastardly display ads, sometimes over HDMI, sometimes over composite video, and mostly through the TV apps.

Keeping the Internet away from the TV and you should be entirely just fine and ad-free.
twitter is worth near nothing, this looks like more mafia extortion.
Hard to answer. However it’s also probably hard to come up with all the edge cases.
> deeply invested in vibrant in person culture.

What goal did they solve by having that culture? I've been in companies that focused on culture, and in ones that didn't give a crap as long as work got done. I did not see either direction as better or worse than the other, just different. It is also worth noting that every org has a culture, intentional or accidental. So the lack of personal events and friendship is the culture in some places.

Your statements that people need to connect and talk about work things is not a universal truth, but a preference. Being engaged with your co-workers and having friendships is not a requirement for a business to work, nor for a life to be fulfilling. So before you try to "fix" your org's culture... you might want to consider that they already have one, it just isn't the one you want.
Try quitting HN. If you are able to stop the urge to reply my message, then you are on a good path.
GNU coreutils are essential on macOS, and Apple should just include it by default. \o/
Please don't shit post on Hacker News. We all need to make an effort to maintain the quality on this site and not turn it into Reddit
Or zero mental conversions because it's trivial to write a simple script that ingests RFC-3339 and spits it out in your local time.

"2020-11-09T09:11:05Z" uniquely identifies a point in time. "10:11:05 09/11/2020" is some time 11 minutes past the hour on either September 11th or November 9th. It doesn't identify anything.

Edit: Or 41 minutes past the hour.
And before we tackled them we had the associated lynchings and raping.
If it's an old npm project without a lockfile, then yes, community convention will scupper you there. Lockfiles have fixed that.
You're absolutely right. Last company had a sizeable bonus, and while I wanted to quit years prior, 'bonus' and 'yearly 401k match' were always just around the corner.

During my most recent company's negotiation, I was honest I wasn't going to do that again for that reason. Ended up negotiating from a 70/30ish split to a 90/10ish.
Sometimes equilibrium is 0.
I disabled this 'feature' a while ago when I saw it on Twitter and forgot about it. However, recently I noticed that Twitter has been able to bypass the setting and was showing me my email under the Google option in the login provider list. I couldn't find any way to disable it.

It uses an iframe scoped to Google and I'm pretty sure that Twitter can't access my Google account data unless I select the login option but still, feels really creepy.
Articles like this make me want to kiss a copy of the US constitution every night before bed.

These raids are now happening in places like the UK and Canada too, places with a history of protecting speech.

It seems unless your legal system has enshrined free speech as unassailable at the highest levels of law, you will slowly have those rights removed one step on a slippery slope at a time.
Because product managers and/or marketing people consider their salary "strictly necessary".
> I would never give hallucinogens to a depressed person, that could be enough hell to break someone’s mind permanently.

If the other option is killing them, hallucinogens start to look a lot more reasonable
Google Chrome is the most vulnerable browser in the world
If my personal observation has no value, than neither does your opinion and your comment.
The UK has always seemed to be going down the path of 1984.
Sooner or later, in many lines of programming, you are going to find yourself remoted in to a server somewhere that only has the basic tools. That’s probably not the best time to try to learn an editor.
Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and once in a while I look at Twitter while in the bathroom.
Ah yes, the all too familiar "I disagree with you" = "hate speech" routine. Sadly we're deep into the tyrannical tolerance phase now.
Survivor Library: how to survive when technology doesn't
As someone from one of those countries, I'm well aware.

I'm not saying the US, and/or proxies of the agendas of the powerful who stand to gain from exploitation and meddling, aren't involved. I would expect they are very much involved, and I would be very skeptical of any claim they aren't.

What I'm saying is simply that despite this, people in those places could conceivably be independently fed up- and their dissatisfaction with their regimes stands on its own and is valid. There is a lot of nuance and a lot of different intersecting motivations and interests at play.

I just think, in my personal opinion, that those things people fight and risk dying for (freedom from persecution, personal safety, to be able to put food on the table, to care for family, etc) aren't only happening because of outside factors and political reasons, these are human concerns. People in Iran, Saudi Arabia, anywhere else, aren't just pawns susceptible to propagands- they understand there are all sorts of players trying to gain dominance over their lives. A lot of people in the US have these broad ideas about people in entire regions, as though they're monoliths- like people in Iran/Saudi Arabia were content and would have been obedient if not for foreign involvement, which I think is simplistic and I disagree with this assumption.

People in an uprising and nations in upheaval are especially vulnerable to external groups swooping in to manipulate the situation to their interests- this much is true, and it can also be true that people would have been rising up regardless. How this plays out over time is yet to be seen but unfortunately the most likely scenario is some other despot will step in to further their personal agenda at the expense of the people, whether they align with US interests or otherwise... like anywhere else, those in power will fight to maintain and gain power and control, no matter the human cost and devastation- this is true everywhere.
And so is the new version: https://csdb.dk/release/download.php?id=264898

I couldn't find it when I searched earlier, but it's there in plain sight, among the other downloads!

I 100% expected a link to a git repo. Google was also, as usual, useless.
The UK seems to have gone off the deep end here. I hope that this kind of behavior by law enforcement is not something that the public will find acceptable, and that it will be rejected and ridiculed as it should be.
It takes some work, but you can pass in an XQuartz display to a Docker container and have it render to that.
Here's an idea to prevent such perverse incentives:

All employees are part of a pool that evenly distributes a portion of the company's profits.

The employee's incentives become tied to what the company wants most: income.

This might create other incentives like trying to hire fewer people so as to not dilute the pool, but I can't think of a better heuristic than to tie the company's success into each of the worker's success.
Who deems what a lie is? That vaccines do not stop the spread of Covid? That corona originated in a lab? Should people have been prosecuted for saying that?

Are there two genders? Should I get arrested if I say yes? Should I get arrested if I say no?

Horrible approach that Germany is taking against a fundamental right to free speech. Gestapo like
The reason the messaging changed was precisely because “it will get a few °C hotter” was not nuanced enough. While true, it neither laid out the actual problems (extremes get more extreme, weather gets less predictable, fires become more common) nor looked true to laymen (“but it’s cold out now!”).

> First it was everything will get hotter, then it was the climate will change, now it’s weather events will get more spectacular.

The problem was thinking people cared about the first two. They’re both true but only “every few years a natural disaster will wipe a town off the map” seems to get people interested.
I don’t know about the others, but Rust absolutely has tagged unions. It’s just the enum type.

edit: just checked the others. D has https://dlang.org/phobos/std_sumtype.html and C++ has std::variant. both seem a bit clunky, but usable.
"After sharing images circulating on Facebook that carried a fake statement, the perpetrators had devices confiscated and some were fined."

I don't even know what I would do if the government "confiscated" my devices. First, probably freak the fuck out. Then, try desperately to log out of every service I was logged in to? Hope they aren't interested in my nudes? Go crawling to HR and explain that our entire codebase, and probably a couple sensitive keys, are now at some police department until, who knows when? And then go buy a new $1000 phone and $3000 laptop.

"Confiscating devices" sounds like such an ordinary, routine thing, but it is so incredibly, profoundly invasive and would upend my life as much as being throw in jail for a week, only it would cost me a lot more. The bar should be ridiculously high for that kind of government intrusion.
I can't speak for golang but I do think it's worthwhile to learn some rust. You definitely don't have to be an expert in it, but there's a lot that language gets right and it has a great type system. After building a couple of very small projects in rust, I felt like the typescript I write at work started getting a lot better.
Oi, you gotta loicense for that guv'nah?

https://preview.redd.it/mmksakh888t21.jpg?auto=webp&s=f4dc90...
I agree that in your example it is not bad. Throughout that codebase it is clear though that they don't have a formatter that enforces a char-limit per line. It is when you combine those things it gets messy. Prettier uses a default of 80.

Looking at the code there is an awful lot of 'null's returned which I find hard to work with but that is a different topic.
Additional downside I experienced with .io in the past was the non existent support or urgency when it comes to technical issues.

Some of you might remember the incident with .io back in September, 2017.

Since then, ownership for .io passed hands and landed at Donuts who is also managing .org so I assume it's in a better shape now, but lesson was learned.

If it would be up to me again, I would push to use .io or any other vanity domain for marketing only.
Yes, if you want to break into specific domains (OS, Hardware, ML, Compiler, etc..).

No, if you want to become a generalist. You can become an excellent generalist without structured CS education.
There are burnmarks high up on the pillars of the train bridge but not on the lower parts. This would suggest that the explosion happened on top of the bridge.
You missed my point. I’m telling you it _doesnt_ work.

If you’re a small startup and no one knows you, sure, give everyone a demo, but it’s not scalable.

For people that want to see a demo and just wanna know price there’s the website and recorded demos.
This one hits close to home, I'm very much guilty of this. It's hard to delegate some of this stuff when your company is small. There's no budget for full time (.*)Ops when you're starting out as a software shop. Once a bit of money starts to roll in, there are other priorities to spend it on. And if you're anything like me, you enjoy the variety that this hodgepodge of responsibilities brings. Of course, this is a massive business risk in disguise.

I will try to mend my ways. But I doubt mgmt will be wanting to hire a team of 6 FTEs to manage the stuff that I've been managing on the side ...
> clearly sarcastic domains such as "hitler.rocks" and "nuke.africa"

When I visit the page I'm greeted by a banner with fake quotes, here is a selection:

> I'm 200% n*ger

> Come fuck with a n*ger. I'm a business man

There is nothing that indicates sarcasm or satire there when it comes to all those choices, given that the site advertises itself towards 4chan users. At best it's edgy and infantile, at worst it's just the usual racist shit that is "funny" only to the people repeating it very loudly over and over and over.

Weird how the only flavour of "sarcasm" and "humor" people like you and the site owner can come up with is the glorification of nazis and making fun of black people.

I wonder who it is you are trying to fool here...
> But both VMWare and Parallels for example have made ARM on ARM virtualisation releases of their existing x86 on x86 products.

Right, but the VMs themselves are not cross platform. ARM Linux won't work in Intel VMWare, and x86 Linux won't work in ARM VMWare. I am sure you knew, or course, but as you pointed out there is confusion below about VirtualBox working on Apple Silicon.
Doesn't AArch64 support the same virtualisation primitives that VirtualBox uses on AMD64?
OpenClip
I am glad you are concerned about me. You come across as a very sensitive person, suggesting (for some reason that is unclear to me, but presumably clear to a very intuitive person like yourself) that I believe there is a 300-yr old conspiracy theory to falsify weather "information"? I don't think I actually mentioned anything about the article, I mentioned no views about climate change at all, no-one asked.

All I pointed out was that the guy saying Scotland was suddenly "snow-free" had obviously not been to Scotland. Because it doesn't actually snow here very often, people just think it does. Take a deep breath. Not everything is an anti-climate change conspiracy.
Isn't THC not really bioavailable when eaten in hash form?
> Where's the harm?

The harm is in stochastic terrorism. You can make up lies that are intended to spur people who feel they have nothing to lose into action.

https://csl.mpg.de/en/projects/philosophical-and-public-secu...).

It's similar to the concept of blood libel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

For example, imagine that online discourse on some fringe website that has a few hundred thousand members devolves into a theory that some house in your neighborhood is harboring a secret dungeon full of children underneath it. There is no direct threat to you per se, but a few hundred thousand people think that a house - maybe your house - has a basement full of unspeakable horrors. As the rumor spreads and grows the chances of your house being broken into by one of the believers goes up exponentially. Suddenly nobody in your neighborhood is safe anymore as random weirdos keep scoping out your houses and following you to and from the grocery to see if you're the one with the dungeon beneath your house. Eventually one of these weirdos pulls a gun on your neighbor and demands to see his basement and while there was no dungeon the firearm accidentally went off and killed your neighbor. Your neighbor's death would trace directly back to the spread of this rumor.
> ARM Linux won't work in Intel VMWare

Newsflash: program for one processor's instruction set won't work on another processor.
I commit a large part of my day to work. Whatever I do then I don't complain about I just do.

The rest of the day is mine. I do what I want and don't feel regret about whatever I decide to do.
The newest bobiverse book hints that the copies are slightly different due to the no clone paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
Using K&R, I try to practice the problems and understand them to learn C.
I use my project https://www.learntosolveit.com/ to do that.
Science has been unhooked by market forces and replaced by cargo cult [video]
A Rust "enum" is in reality a tagged union; what features are you looking for there that are lacking?
8 years of contracting work and this bad of an outlook on the community, maybe you didn’t charge enough?
Proprietary is a licensing thing, and doesn’t really have to have much to do with the form of the files comprising the software. Plenty of proprietary software gets written in Javascript, for example.
Individual molecules ov vapor may be there temporarily, but atmospheric water vapor is constantly replenished .
When the tech is open sourced, the product managers get to shine. Requiring less engineering skill to pull off something means a wider range of product people (founders, marketers, corporate product managers) get to show their skills in finding product market fit in more niches. Starting a business around Excel was not a bad idea at all. OpenAI is becoming the Fairchild of our time - keeping things closed has triggered an exodus of brains and open source activity that creates the cambrian explosion. If they keep up with their strategy, they would become the marketers of tech that is commercialized by open source instead.
now happening in places like the UK and Canada

I don't know about Canada, but I've never considered the UK to have "a history of protecting speech", or indeed a culture that particularly values free speech. They seem very keen on censorship and surveillance.
Jasper AI seems to prove the point though.

If your technological advantage is not high (enough), you have to compete on marketing and distribution.

Jasper AI is heavy on marketing and distribution.
A customer once told me… “no one grew up hoping to one day be a customer service agent.” That is the reality and I’d add no one in an engineering or product roll is excited to work on or help solve the really boring hard problems… so we are left with the reality of either a product and the processes to support it are easy enough to understand and the number of potential gotchas are low enough that the need to have human interaction at scale need not be necessary.
Yeah, no this is authoritarianism in action.

People are not burning down Children's hospitals, moreover, the kinds of 'misinformation' you're alluding to generally fall way, way within the boundaries of 'hate speech'.

Twitter is a private company they can mostly do what they want.

Some companies rise to the point of 'kind of public service' and therefore we might need basic regs (i.e. at least guaranteeing that Twitter act consistently within their own stated rules).

The bar for hate speech out to be very, very high.

Calls for direct violence have always been illegal.

'Disinformation' is absolutely another issue altogether. Lying about moon landing conspiracy theories is irrelevant, but lying about school shooting victims being 'actors' is something a bit different, as is lying about the effect of vaccines during a pandemic, as is lying / providing medical advice without any kind of appropriate designation. Free speeches probably don't like it but those things do have an effect, and proportionality matters: if you want to say something to your neighbour, fine, but if you're going to go in front of 400M people and broadcast it, and it causes serious harm due to direct minsinfo ... most us don't want that. I don't suggest we have the answer there but I bet if we think about it we can find a reasonable way for the insane idiots to be among each other and for them to not scream non-factual things.
If they were designed with empathy in mind, you'd understand why no one has opted out of the 1-on-1s even if they cause them stress. Anything that comes from HR and is labeled as option is mandatory. Anything that comes from a higher up in the company and is labeled as optional is mandatory. Just because people aren't willing to engage in the action of speaking up which they perceive could endanger their job, doesn't mean they really wanted to consent.
I wasn’t able to locate any suitable BJTs around $0.02 in single qty at DigiKey.
Predicting the minimum-energy configuration of any physical system that can be modeled with a cluster of bubbles.
Sure; here, I'll add a parenthetical "(closed)" to it. :)
I took this class while I was in grad school! Ended up dropping due to reasons but the instructor was great. I'm pretty sure the course materials are up on YT as well.
Huh? Jealous of a guy raping your wife? Wtf did I just read...