skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we haven't discovered everything there is to know about physics it is still rational to propose that control of the gravitational force is possible given some further discovery. This could lead to faster than light travel which negates the list of barriers you've given.
I will comment: when they came out the idea of patterns captivated a lot of us and it became an article of faith that all code would be designed around a particular pattern.

It's still a great idea to use patterns... but I think people have come to realise that sometimes they over complicate things and maybe they don't always fit the task at hand. If that's what you are finding then maybe don't use a pattern and just code something up.

They are a useful and powerful tool, but not a panacea.
"Make reversible decisions as soon as possible and make irreversible decisions as late as possible."

The summary sounded like a rash judgement.

Is A/B/C testing reversible, irreversable or a tool for clarity in goal making decisions? The article appeared to be 1 dimensional.

I was fortunate enough to have a website that crested into the top 800,000 websites years ago (a solo endeavor)... And backups made every decision reversible, if that was even a thing. I did have to commit to goals though and not once was anything irreversable.

The 1st world still bases decisions on the best data available.
> Censorship is bad. But battles should be fought for people who need protection against it, not for people who try to exploit tolerant societies' carve-outs for free speech.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/52416-the-trouble-with-figh...

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

― H.L. Mencken

Granting someone the power to decide who does and doesn't get to speak never ends well. It's that "power corrupts" thing.

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> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

Answering fists with words doesn't always work (it can sometimes if the people using fists are subject to public opinion that you can influence, but that's fairly limited circumstances).

But pretending that words are fists in order to manufacture an excuse to respond with fists is something else, and is a misreading of that footnote you referenced to ignore the thing it's a footnote to.
Shopify likes to brag about having 4,000 developers. Given the output of the company - that comes across to me as bloat.
"Why not make ugly people"

.. scrolls down ..

"hey that mechanic guy looks like m-"

ok HN, you guys got me this time. well played.
> people will eventually stop using proprietary social media applications

I have ~280 followers on the Instagram with reasonable engagement on my photos[1] and -maybe- 10 on the Fediverse with basically zero engagement.

People won't stop using the proprietary apps until there's a decent amount of the people they know on the alternatives (which, to be fair, is definitely burgeoning this week.)

[1] A fair few from a hashtag which, correct me if I'm wrong, don't really work the same way on the Fediverse - you can't just follow #donkeys and get an aggregation of posts with that hashtag; only the ones from a particular server.
Researching your ballot in SF is really burdensome. This election there are over 50 items on the ballot, including more than 20 local and state propositions. Every local candidate in SF a Democrat and with the local offices being officially "nonpartisan" it can be tough to figure out which candidates align with your preferences. I made VoteSF to make this process easier. The most useful feature is that it aggregates voting guides and endorsements from over 40 local organizations and politicians. Check it out and let me know where it could be improved.
The press release that went along with the study is here: https://iac.gatech.edu/electric-scooters-car-use-atlanta?utm...
The default intellij dark theme (darkula I think).

Matches nicely with zenburn on the wm.
That's Britain's most popular newspaper you're talking about: https://www.statista.com/statistics/246077/reach-of-selected...

Of course it's there to insult the reader's intelligence. The middle class version is the Daily Mail. Large parts of the British press are trash. Don't look up the Daily Sport, your head will explode (and it's probably NSFW, despite still being on some petrol station newsstands)
>In the beltway they're telling themselves that war will be a boon for the environment

Yeah, maybe in ~20 years time in the future when renewables have reached massive scale and much investment were made by the EU to get us off fossil fuels, but their wording sounded like the EU had a leaver with which they could switch from fossil fuels to renewables overnight.

Not the case at all.

It just has led to a massive increase in fossil fuels imported form other places in the world that are not Russia, while causing a shortage in poorer countries, and a resurgence of coal burning in Europe.

Not groovy, not groovy at all.
He's mentioned several times that him expecting his employees to work 10-12 hours a day is ok because he himself works 18+ hours. How does he expect to retain employees when other companies pay way more than Tesla does for way fewer work hours? Am I missing something?
100 (or any N) floats prefixed by a size is exactly what you would get from `repeated float f = 1 [packed=true];`
Neoliberalism is an economic viewpoint, not a sociological one.

I don't know a good word for the "safe", modern, liberal point-of-view. Perhaps that's why everyone calls it "woke", a word that I don't use, because it's usually meant as an insult. In the USA, "liberal" seems to be an insult too.

The viewpoint I'm referring to is that of educated, urban, mainly white people, who sympathize with oppressed minorities, but are scared of any kind of revolution, because they depend on capitalism.
> I knew a few security people at Google and frankly, geohot isn't even in their class

Who, exactly, are you talking about here? And what are their track record?
The supported use case is GNOME on Wayland. Everybody else can go suck eggs.
"Through my years in a university computer science program, this way of thinking was peddled repeatedly. Learning how to manage memory in C was an endeavor to “learn how things work”, strictly for academic purposes. The idea that anyone would ever actually do manual memory management in C these days was just unthinkable—I mean, after all, it’s current year, and everyone knows that once it’s current year, an arbitrary set of ideas that I don’t like become intrinsically false."

It's impossible for me not to read this without imagining a sneering tone.

And a few paragraphs later:

"As you may be able to tell from my tone, I think this way of thinking is nonsensical."

As for your post, it's hard for me to get worked up about whatever the game programming curriculum is these days. There are more important things in the world. Good to keep things in perspective: it's school... for game programming.
I guess how I understand the “everything is political” thing is that every idea has a political angle. Maybe that is a helpful distinction. Like… the discovery of penicillin isn’t political - it’s the result of someone exploring the biological world looking for medically useful things - but the fact that we paid someone money to do that was the result of a bunch of political choices like money for hospitals and schools, a system of government and taxation to supply that money. And the consequences of it’s creation had geopolitical consequences like a change in the cost in lives of waging war, or changing some sexually transmitted infections from deadly to treatable which in turn changed our social values around sex.

The truth isn’t political. But what we choose to study, and what we do with the things we learn is political. Politics is just a second-order phenomenon. There is what is happening, and politics is how we feel about what’s happening and what we’d like the collective humanity to do about that.
I already linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting_styles which goes into far more details than I can provide, and with additional links.

Who said any of these 'generally successful methods' were simple?

Losing weight is - in principle - a matter of eating less and exercising more. If it's so simple, why are people looking for new/other strategies?

The author of this piece is also the author of a book on how to raise children. There are oodles of these sorts of books, with all sorts of different and conflicting advice.
Following the abrupt cancellation of the DVD release of season three of the show in the early 2000's, years and years of stories regarding the clearance of "music licensing rights" can't hold for two decades. If the only, true obstacle facing the authorities at Viacom (now Paramount Global) were the clearance of some Magnetic Fields, Miracle Legion, or Luscious Jackson tunes (not that those are the actual, supposed artists at stake, but just as an example), this matter would have long been resolved, and the world would have access to the trove of Pete greatness.

Honestly, you do get the feeling that the real problem here might have to do with corporate opposition to the free sense of youthful naivety in the show's portrayal of 90's life. Wouldn't it be aggravating if the real reason for the withholding was over-concern regarding little Pete's relationship with Artie, the social acceptance and empathy that would be foreign in today's world towards a character like bus driver Stu, or a bully getting a pumpkin shoved on their head?
Nike has already made $185M off of NFTs
White backgrounds create static like artifacts in my vision. Doesn't happen as much with dark. I've tried Light Themes because in theory it's better for asthegmatism, but it's definitely worse for me.

I even thought that maybe I had to make everything light themed so there is no contrast between pages /apps but it doesn't help.

This is purely a personal observation of how my eyes work.
So, if I won the bet, we would only conclude that under those specific conditions that your claim wasn't upheld? In other words, under those conditions, the glue wasn't bullshit with respect to swimming, but is under most other conditions?

You have no idea how often I change phones, but the fact that I'm well-experienced with changing batteries on family phones that I own may give you some hints as to the frequency thereof. (I use an XS Max from 2018.)
The sigil represents the type of the thing you're accessing, not the type of where it comss from.

$ means a scalar (number, string, reference)

@ means an array/list

% means a hash (also known in other languages as a map, associative array, etc)

A list item and hash keys and values are all scalars. So the array is @foo, but the items are $foo[0], etc. References get a bit ugly if you need to access a whole container whose reference is stored in another container, and also if references are used gratiutously: I've worked in code where no arrays or hashes were used, only ArrayRefs and HashRefs, ugh.
> I'm not sure where that's coming from. All I am doing is talking, and calmly asking you to explain some of the points you volunteered in this forum.

First off, I am sorry if I came onto you but the questions you were asking while fair and square was incredible naive and a bit wishy washy so I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you were a firm supporter of the traditional extremist left wing camp.

Everything about the wikimedia scandal can be viewed either by their own documents or most of the important parts is in the twitter thread posted by me and others in comments.

Most of the costs regarding the websites is probably due to the high salary costs of having developers maintain stuff. This is fine IMO but when you run a not for profit org maybe you should respect peoples money and open an office somewhere else than one of the most expensive cities in the world or simply hire remote developers and other employees.
You're purposefully misreading the situation.

A BIPOC receiving a grant is not the issue, the issue, and what might be considered "woke" is to give the grant because they are BIPOC. That's "equity".

Equity means awarding people based on immutable characteristics and makes every interaction in society a racist/sexist struggle.

Anyway, you may be in favor of it, which is fine. Just know that it's an incredibly unpopular movement that is widely rejected internationally, and also in most developed nations across the political spectrum, minus the far-left.

Even the idea to call said people "marginalized" is insulting.
There’s something about the size of the hands that goes in uncanny valley territory. That being said I’m not a big open world game player so no need to care at all about what I think, there’s no chance I’m buying this game.
Incel is a term invented by the CBC to define something that has been happening/growing for decades; this is a further attempt to villainize men. This is women using sex as a weapon and losing. Women broke the social contract and are now extremely unhappy with the consequences of their actions.

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intel...

The absolutely NOT a paradox reality of female declining happiness. Today we are at record lows for female unhappiness. Mind you, places like Canada, we are one of the happiest countries in the world. This is because men are pushing the average up. Women are disproportionally depressed and medicated. The paradox allegedly being so much great egalitarianism has occurred and women ought to be much more happy. No paradox truly exists.

This egalitarianism has been fantastic for men, and a select elite of women like olivia wilde. Otherwise it has been extremely detrimental to women. The funny thing is the 'solution' to this paradox will NEVER come from men. Why would they change anything? It is women who have to come up with the solution to this problem. It is women who 'paradoxically' are unhappy.

>Alice discovering that the entire Victory community was a simulation run by men set on reaffirming 1950's gender roles. The men in the film follow the pseudo-scientific jargon that misogynistic spokespeople fall back on to protest progress toward equality.

The article focuses heavily on fictional movies, and thus misses the forest through the trees. Authors pushing a political agenda through fiction is great. I've not watched this movie being reference. I expect it's not connected to reality at all though.

>She also drew from incels' belief that "society has now robbed them - that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place."

Jordan peterson is 1 of the few men who are trying to remedy the problem. He is obviously very pro-egalitarianism as it will be extremely difficult to find men who are against it. I expect it will be quite difficult to find men who genuinely want to 'put women back in the kitchen' as it were. You would almost exclusively need to find anonymous trolls online. Whereas I expect the 'tradwife' movement to be coming from women.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pressure-proof/20130...

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/13/20959863/women-...

The interesting thing about this Vox comic. They say things like "One culprit might be" but the wording is revealing. They clearly don't understand why women happiness is declining. But then breaks down into 'women do most of the chores' which in my mind is literally an argument against themselves.

The reality is, if men try to help, they get attacked like Jordan Peterson. Thusly women are on their own to solve this problem.
> The "unlawfulness" part is simply the supreme court judges finding a ridiculous excuse to allow him to run against a candidate they don't like.

This kind of partisan half-truth is what allows totalitarian governments to be successful.

"Lula trial in Brazil violated due process, says UN rights panel" [0][1]

He was unlawfully investigated and judged by Sérgio Moro, who then followed to become Justice Minister [2] in what's at best a clear ethical conflict.

The whole process was ridden with vices and other legal and ethical issues. Secret US involvement [3][4], coordination between judge and prosecution [5][6] and many others.

> The "unlawfulness" part is simply the supreme court judges finding a ridiculous excuse to allow him to run against a candidate they don't like.

The leaks make it fairly clear that the whole process was politically motivated to eliminate Lula from the race against Bolsonaro [7].

> Please keep in mind that dictators always say they are acting "within the law". In fact they are, because they control the law. This is what's going on here.

It is not. The current President, chief of the executive and the Armed Forces, is the one who's being supposedly hit by these decisions.

> The TV network was forbidden by the State to use specific terms like "ex-convict" and "criminal". It is not under dispute that he is both of these things.

I agree it is not under dispute. You could say "ex-convict" is not wrong but it doesn't tell the whole story. He was unlawfully convicted.

You can absolutely not call him a "criminal". That he is not, or at least it has not been proved within a fair trial that he is. I believe I have provided enough high profile references to this effect.

> The documentary wasn't even about the elections. Besides, how do you know that it was speculative?

There hasn't been a conclusive investigation on the matter. I don't see how it could be anything but speculative, and given the timing they wanted to have it released it's hard to not think it was electoral in nature.

> Whatever your political side is, left or right, I beg you, please don't side with censors.

I do not. Now that elections are over, I fully expect it to be allowed to air and if there are credible accusations they should be investigated. That said, if it does have any substance, why hasn't it been sent to the prosecutorial authorities so that they could start investigative proceures?

The fact that it hasn't also hints at purely electoral motives.

[0] https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1117192

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...

[2] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/brazil-anti-graft-judge-accepts-bo...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-de...

[4] https://progressive.international/wire/2021-02-12-lava-jato-...

[5] https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-ca...

[6] https://theintercept.com/series/mensagens-lava-jato/

[7] https://theintercept.com/2019/06/16/vaza-jato-corrupcao-serg...
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenran...

I wanted a color scheme where colors _meant_ something, rather than just be pretty - where you can just squint at your code and be able to visualize a heatmap of the key control flows. Among other things Chandrian uses Warm Colors for action keywords, Cold colors for Function names, variable values etc, and muted colors for punctuation / parenthesis etc. which just get in your way of reading code.

Disclaimer: I made it
What we really need is for selfhosting to be as easy and secure as installing an app on your phone.

Somewhat related: there should be a way to have a Mastodon ID based on a domain you control, regardless of what instance it's hosted on.
Thank you for the response.

Yes I intend to learn and integrate design patterns and OO programming in general so that I can gain some confidence, and maybe later I can finally understand why my software development professor teachers hated this so much and teached us Haskell and Clojure instead :-)
"recent years"?

This guy has always been like this, going all the way back to ios hacking days or even wii hacking days.
IMO yes. Software is a lot more reliable than it was 25 years ago. This boils down to:

1. Unit/regression testing, CI

2. Code reviews and code review tools that are good.

3. Much more use of garbage collected languages.

4. Crash reporting/analytics combined with online updates.

Desktop software back in the early/mid nineties was incredibly unreliable. When I was at school and they were teaching Win3.1 and MS Office we were told to save our work every few minutes and that "it crashed" would not be accepted as an excuse to not hand work in on time, because things crashed so often you were just expected to anticipate that and (manually) save files like mad.

Programming anything was a constant exercise in hitting segfaults (access violations to Windows devs), and crashes in binary blobs where you didn't have access to any of the code. It was expected that if you used an API wrong you'd just corrupt memory or get garbage pixels. Nothing did any logging, there were no exceptions, at best you might get a vague error code. A large chunk of debugging work back then would involve guessing what might be going wrong, or just randomly trying things until you were no longer hitting the bugs. There was no StackOverflow of course but even if there had been, you got so little useful information when something went wrong that you couldn't even ask useful questions most of the time. And bugs were considered more or less an immutable fact of life. There was often no good way to report bugs to the OS or tool vendors, and even if you did, the bad code would be out there for years so you'd need to work around it anyway.

These days it's really rare for software to just crash. I don't even remember the last time a mobile app crashed on me for example. Web apps don't crash really, although arguably that's because if anything goes wrong they just keep blindly ploughing forward regardless and if the result is nonsensical, no matter. Software is just drastically more robust and if crashes do get shipped the devs find out and they get fixed fast.
You had to read the documentation thoroughly and hack around to master a language/product/library. You couldn't get the gist from a YouTube tutorial and then search StackOverflow or Usenet for your specific problem. We barely had O'Reilly books. If you were doing C on PC/Mac (after installing from 10 floppies) and you messed up a pointer, your machine froze.
Let’s talk about my future Model X 2017 with free supercharging. The chassis is disaster from beginning to the end. The car has air suspension, it’s nice. But! You go with low setting, tires don’t last 10k miles. You go with high settings, axles are suddenly broken. After 60000 miles all parts under the car must be replaced. Not funny and not cheap either. Last car I heard of such nonsense was 25 years old Renault Laguna 1. Mercedes or BMW do not need chassis rebuild every 100k km.

Btw EQS has greater range.
(2017)

or is there something new on here?
He organized and inpired a team and delivered a product, the product is still in development and their fate is still to be seen.

Nothing wrong with accepting you're a very early stage CTO type of person and to accept the situation isn't the right one for you.
> I knew a few security people at Google and frankly, geohot isn't even in their class.

This is an exceptional claim, who might these people be and what initiatives do they lead?
This was what passed for an "AAA" game in 1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_I:_The_First_Age_of_Dar...

it was coded up in about a year by two people who threw in just about every idea they got.
Funny you brought this up. I was literally scouring the site to see if it was backed by VCs somehow. These days that wouldn't even surprise me.
You're correct. I think that behavior is just the flip side of what I described above (instead of entitlement in favor of comfort, entitlement in favor of abusive behavior being shrugged off as "genius at work").

Both behaviors are ignorant and exist in an altered state of reality that's long-term destructive.