skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's this natural starting point that politics are created equal and so it's unusual that people with more brainpower would skew more toward one politics than the other. But it's simply that neither of those are true.

Almost every right-wing position I can think of is like the knee-jerk reaction a child would have toward that given issue. "Trans SCARY and WEIRD and BAD. God REAL. Taxes BAD; GTFO and let me build a private castle around myself with my money cuz there's no point in giving back to society. Hustle harder, ignoring that it's 99% luck and a byproduct of the system. Gays ICKY. Treehugging is LAME. Guns are COOL. Isolationism on the world stage is BASED who cares about that shit over there lmao." It's no surprise that people with more education go the other way.
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You’re right, at one point nvim was a continuation, but no more. For example nvim significantly cleaned up and reorganized and rewrote vim’s C code, they added complex new features like Lua config, floating windows, better plugin support. Vim copied many features they released independently… maybe vim is the continuation here now? I think one of my favorite things about vim the continuation is that after sitting on a terrible config language for >2 decades somehow when nvim released Lua support all of the sudden vim was working on a new incompatible version of vimscript.
That's what happens when you use coconut oil
This is a super uninformed take.

"During the third quarter of 2022, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 1.98 billion" (https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...)

A site with 2 billion daily active users is relevant.
Yes please. Do the same with ai generated code.
Of course, the homepage reflecting the lingo of the leaders is incomprehensible to the would-be customers. To the rescue comes the guild of scoundrels (i.e. marketing), who know the customers don't want products, or someone else's vision - they want the promise all their worries will be taken away. They thus say, "We're transforming the global logistics", and "Our new V8 product will supercharge your business to win in this complex world". And so says the site now.

Needless to say, the only visitors not confused by this are the ones who are even more confused about what problem they themselves have, and what they need to solve it.
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> Putin will launch nukes and destroy a bunch of land and cause untold death and destruction to numerous countries not involved in the conflict?

Putin will nuke hot areas in Ukraine, decapitating Ukrainian forces. No other countries will be involved.
the rich already have lower taxes. if your talking upper middle class maybe but that would probably just shift the taxes on to the lower middle class and poor. which would lower their spending power. so you'd drive up asset prices and lower consumer spending.
Personally, I have 'hacked' a fitness band so it stops calling home, but still reminds me to get up after a set time. So far, I only had it for three months, but already has helped.
In my current project I'm unable to do step b) because running the tests on my workstation would take longer than 8 hours. So I can only run the tests on CI, where it takes about 1 hour. So i have a 1-hour feedback loop when I'm fixing broken tests.
Thanks, I was unaware of those ties. That makes sense. Culturally it's probably closer to Iran than Venezuela is, and they're probably inquiring within over there (just not reported). If I were a baddie, I sure would not put all my eggs in one basket.

The one "advantage" Maduro has is he's a strongman's strongman and a socialist caudillow.
Because the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world. This won't work if you're an isolated economy with a barely traded currency.
You found a way to make coding a second compiler useful.

But it remains manifestly unnecessary, because everything done in the "second system" (cf.) could have been done with less effort by altering the first. Achieving it demonstrated nothing more about Zig than that there were people willing to take time to do it.

Arguments from "velocity" have, in particular, always been unconvincing. People code faster in a language they like, and credit the language, but other people are equally quick in other languages.
The simplest version of the story is this: Russia has gained tremendously thanks to the unusually high price of oil. Should the price of oil fall back the average of the last 10 years, then Russia's situation will appear far more precarious.
I'm a vegan who loves fake meats. I know they're not ideal. But I still end up eating way more vegetables, beans, etc as a vegan than I do otherwise.

I don't think any fake meat is really satisfying enough for most people to eat it the way some omnivores sometimes eat animal proteins (as the main food for most meals). But I suppose it takes all kinds.
Appreciate these comments! My wife and I just started researching Montessori schools in our area (socal). Didn’t know about the AMS, will absolutely check that. And now we know we need a rubric to measure from Montessori to Monte-sort-of :)
That seems to be Max Schrems, the guy who successfully sued Facebook in the past [1], but it's odd the image has no caption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
Google requires public oauth apps to go through a registration and review process. And requesting special privileged/sensitive scopes (like access to read email) causes increased scrutiny.

I believe users are also warned about apps with sensitive access on an ongoing basis.

Certainly not foolproof but hopefully helps assuage your greatest fears.
no matter what most people tell you, your
brain will find a way to use it to dig the
hole deeper.

"I've got them fooled. I'm a fraud, they just don't know it."

"They're just being nice."

"This good person's kind words and actions are wasted on a piece of crap like me. If I wasn't around, they could 'spend' that kindness on somebody who actually deserves it. I'm hurting the world just by being here."

"They're lying, and now I feel worse because they're lying"

"I hurt so bad inside, and it hurts so bad to wear this mask and graciously accept the praise"

"I hurt so bad inside that I wasn't able to accept the praise graciously, and now I actually feel even worse because I've been so rude to this nice person who praised me"

Yeah. It's a struggle.

Even when you logically know those things are false and it's "just the depression talking" it's very hard to break out of those thought patterns.

(Which is why practicing positivity and gratitude -- keeping a gratitude journal, etc -- is actually an effective part of treatment for me. I'm not sure if it's because of specific neuronal pathways being reinforced by specific repeated thought patterns or what but, from a practical perspective, I try to treat positivity like a muscle that I need to exercise)
USDC + L2 would be a suitable protocol for day-to-day purchases and nearly 0% fee, at least for those already in the system. But most of this tech is still basically in beta.
Do not ever forget what was promised: Russia in rubble in two weeks from sanctions and Russia out of missiles in two weeks. This was the "negotiated" social contract upon which quality of life in other parts of Europe was thrown into a dog shit trash fire. These kinds of articles are just not-so subtle cover for the once again failure of leaders here, and moving the goalposts and rewriting of history.
I spent a good part of last year picking up the abacus and meticulously tracking my progress. I can attest to "continue to visualize the abacus in their mind, improving their skills even when the physical tool is unavailable", but make no mistake, this is a domain-specific skill which has little bearing on mathematical knowledge and intuition per-se (at least not at beginner-intermediate levels).

One useful aspect which is not often discussed, but might actually complement OP's article, is that the mental abacus converts one kind of mental process (numerical perception) to another (visual scratchpad). Kind of like turning text into a QR-code as a more "efficient" 2D-storage, yet the QR-code contains no "text", and you have to convert it back.

This complementary process in the brain becomes interesting when our mental abilities decline or get replaced, and we might as well re-purpose those brain areas using some kind of transfer encoding (e.g. Morse code).

A naive first-guess could be to learn lists of logical challenges and strategies in order to clarify results given by an AI in the fastest way possible. So given a GAN, train the human on A, and leave the G and N to the computer.
It is odd how in past fraud cases (Enron, Bernie Madoff, others) the media focused on the victims and how much they lost.

But this case the focus has been on philanthropy, effective altruism, and things other than fraud. Just about zero mention of average people who lost out as a result.
I am disturbed, because it took so long to come to this realization.
Nice, I was about to suggest this one. I was an active poster there 20 years ago!
Agree. Also it sounds like really bad parenting if you give your kids virtual cash to hang out online because actually letting them spend time with friends in person is too inconvenient for the parents.

Parents aren't saving time, they are stealing it from their kids.
>The association of Stripe with simplicity and good dev experience could be more due to Stripe's marketing/PR ...

I don't think it's marketing/PR so much as a halo effect and reputation from years ago. My experience with stripe 5 years ago was/is simpler and easier than it is looking at it today. More products/services/options/requirements - it's more complicated than it was years ago.

But looking at it for a project 5 years ago, it was certainly simpler compared to authorize.net for what my project needed. Just the UI alone to go in and manage/test things was more straightforward and pleasant, even when I hit issues and roadblocks. Authorize.net looked like it hadn't changed much since 2005 or so when I'd looked at it then. May be better now - haven't looked since 2017.
Well, for reasons stated I don't believe it was a fair and representative sample then, and that 4% is closer to the upper bound than the lower. Also no idea how "no one was able to give a precise figure" – go into stripe dashboard, open most recent invoice, divide amount paid through payments processed (which are both stated right there on the invoice!)

I'm a B2B SaaS founder and paid 2.7% to stripe last month. OP, feel free to update post with new lower bound.
Probably easier to just have me generate them and hold on to all of her passwords. She can call me when she needs a password.

I charge $20/month if it’s just social media and stuff. Free if it includes online banking.

Besides, I didn’t say this approach is right for everyone. For the HN crowd it should be easy.
Using it with Linux didn't notice any image stabilization. The purpose of these sensors is in my opinion to provide AR experience
Weird suggestion but have you tried chatGPT?

I've found it useful for discussing my side projects when I can't find someone who is willing to read what I've written and engage with me.

As an example, https://i.imgur.com/afXNZaR.png here I am having an extended conversation about lore for software I am writing.

I thought I would easily tell chatGPT about a plot device from a book, but I did not realize that my understanding was limited. In failing to convey my idea to chatGPT I realized I needed to dig deeper and switched from explaining to learning.

Ultimately, I realized that I was trying to describe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector#Cat_whisker_d... which, while not directly identified in the conversation, was something I was able to surface by having had the thought-provoking talk.
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According to my biology teacher, the urge to breathe is from receptors that detect a higher concentration of carbon dioxide (in blood I suppose), not an absence of oxygen. She also said if you placed cyanide in your mouth, it would kill on contact with the tongue, before you managed to swallow it.
Don't most domestic panels actually feed into the grid (so presumably would show up on the stats as solar generation)? Unless you've got a battery system at home.
Document signing is NOT a technical problem.

It's a legal acceptance problem - and everyone KNOWS docusign and friends and understands how they're admissible. Anything else would have to compete with that and people would be suspicious of it for a long time.

The best way for something like LE for docusign to start would be via a government office of some sort.
That picture is of "Max Schrems, the lawyer who successfully sued Facebook for privacy violations against European citizens" which is another article at that site. They probably just forgot to link it and give it an appropriate caption.
Well, active consent has been seen before with cookie banners. Let's see how long it takes before every time you open Instagram you get a prompt like: "I allow not not omitting the usage of tracking"
Cool. So, how does this impact consumers that never used Facebook, but that have shadow profiles for social network inference and ad tracking?

Presumably, since Facebook has no way to contact those people, they will just shut down the no-logged-in-but-tracked half of their business in Europe?

(If you don't know what I mean by shadow profile: When you first create a Facebook account, it helpfully produces a prepopulated list of your friends, and links in a pile of consumer tracking data before the onboarding flow is done.)
They did, Chrome devs fly 128 core 64-128GB workstations, no problem for them.
No Docker for us. I baked all dependencies (DB/Redis/etc) into the main image with the GitHub runner to maximize performance. This works well for us as a relatively small product team that tightly controls all environments. Modularity and flexibility come with a cost, and it's not worth it (for us).

One alternative is to use Firecracker on the CI host and run entire VMs for jobs (still quick). However, I am not comfortable with that stack to do "set & forget" implementation with no ongoing burden.
I think you might want to narrow that down to a topic?

Here's a refreshing woodworking channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lincolnst.woodworks

There are other woodworkers and DIYers that have some really superb editing and video composing skills. The above and another woodworker held a livestream where they talked about their channels and what works/doesn't for thumbnails, titles, etc. and it was kind of enlightening to how much effort goes into making 12 minute videos (hours upon hours upon hours).

I think a software/programming channel (I don't watch any TBH) might suffer from the same problem a woodworking channel might: the basic activity is terribly boring to watch.
> - The "secret" aspect of all this can be largely ignored. Twitter is under no obligation to tell its users exactly how their Tweets are moderated.

Sure, but maybe they should have some obligation? Maybe the people "gasping in horror" at this information actually did have more expectations around transparency and impartiality than you did, and maybe they're right to have those expectations?

> I don't think Weiss understands what "shadow ban" means. It means that you post Tweets, but no one ever sees them. None of the practices she describes amount to what is usually described as a shadow ban or a hellban. Preventing a post from showing up in trends or searches is not a shadow ban. Google SafeSearch does not "shadow ban" explicit images or links.

You're splitting hairs. Laypeople take shadow banning to be various forms of suppression. This is the same as the hacker/cracker debate of 20+ years ago. Terms are defined by their usage, and once laypeople start using a term in a slightly incompatible way to how you've understood it, you've already lost.

Overall I don't quite get HN sometimes. Lots of people are saying this is no big deal, that every site will have secrete blacklists, that every site does moderation and suppresses things, and so on, so what's the problem?

Isn't it obvious that the way you do things can matter?

For instance, most techy people I've spoken to think that no-fly lists are problematic. Why were you put on a no-fly list? How can you petition for a review of your status if you think your placement was unjust? Who gets to decide who goes on that no-fly list? Is there any periodic review of such decisions to ensure there is no systemic bias or that the no-fly list isn't being abused for personal or political ends? There are many documented examples of people being targeted using the no-fly list for political reasons, for instance.

All of these questions apply to secret suppression lists at social media companies. If Twitter is to become a central place critical to democratic discussion, as Musk has stated is his intent, these questions are then just as relevant as the government deciding who can and cannot fly. The tweets Weiss posted have a number of examples of politically motivated suppression, and you shouldn't so causally dismiss that.

Combined with Taibbi's thread showing the government had some active involvement in moderating content, this is setting up a troubling precedent. This is a conversation that needs to take place.
Depends on how much people enjoy micro dosing. Also depends on the language and complexity of your work. If all you do is build binary trees and reinvent the wheel then yes your job is over.
I had to check the retina remark as my Sony Z5 premium came in mind with the 800+ppi but even before that in 2013 I had z Sony Z1 with 440ppi and I'm pretty sure other manufacturers had high dpi screens since 2010 eg. sharp's ISO3 . So "miles ahead" is not true plus I believe iphones had other manufacturing tricks that helped in the "retina" marketing hype, I believe touch/display elements been closer together etc. Not saying is was a fluke, but a hype it was for sure
Urban beavers are a thing in Illinois as well.

I see them sometimes in the ponds in office parks. Or in lakes in suburban parks.

I wouldn't be too shocked to learn they are living along the Chicago river.
Guido van Rossum mentions the break between python2 and python3 a bit in the recent Lex Fridman, you might be interested in this.

Many companies and many of us put in hundreds to thousands of hours moving from 2 to 3.
Twitter is not "deciding" anything for you. Platforms like Truth Social and Mastodon exist. The next Taylor Swift and journalists are free to use them.

In fact, many have! It's going to be some Mastodon instance in my case, but not saying it couldn't be Truth Social for you or other folks that think they do a better job at content moderation than Twitter does. This is more productive than holding up Twitter's (admittedly imperfect) content moderation as part of some thought-molding conspiracy.
You have to be more specific on what you want to discuss. People gather around interests and topics.
Do you have sources for those claims? I don't remember hearing either - my recollection is that there were warnings that sanctions would have some effect but take a long time to work, and the Russian economy would be supported by China and India, among others.
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/when-rustc-explodes & https://fasterthanli.me/articles/why-is-my-rust-build-so-slo...

these two articles also showcase how to use chrome for this
Fair, though even still, those are hidden away in little plastic boxes. The actual meat of a transistor isn't really visible except by analogue, eg observing an equivalent behaviour going on inside a glass vacuum tube.
The EU has a website to get started :
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/D...

basically :

- understand the levels of digital signatures
There are some security levels about signatures, on whether a timestamp is necessary, on whether the CA should be official your country, about the HW that create the signature... That allow different properties for different usages.

A 'Trust service provider' offers the highest level of certificate. It will typically be rock solid in court.

But it's ultimately still up to a judge to decide if signatures are valid when you go to courts.
If you don't get a signature from the TSP in your country, it doesn't mean it will necessarily be invalid. It's just not pre-aproved, and you will have to establish it yourself.
(Is there some law person on HN to back me up here ? Do you know of any case where this had been a point ?)

- find a company that provides you a digital certificate.
Some IDs in Europe already come with one (especially in Estonia)

If your country does not, you can browse the EU's list of trusted services to purchase one
https://esignature.ec.europa.eu/efda/tl-browser/#/screen/hom...

The price of these services can be widely different between companies. I suggest you shop around, as usual.

- Then follow the procedure of the company. They will verify your identity, so don't be surprised if you have to meet them and show some ID.
Sounds like "policy tricks."
> that fact may well be staged by Russia and we will never know

"She has pleaded guilty to drug charges...Griner has testified she has a doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis..." [0]

It seems wildly more likely she just committed the crime in question. If Russian authorities were going to set up someone, they could set up someone with actual knowledge or importance scientifically/militarily/etc. This seems like a convenient opportunity to overreact to someone that actually broke the rules and leverage it.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/europe/brittney-griner-trial-...
I wanted to come say the same thing. It feels like the only people peddling the social proof section are theme designers and website services.

Who reads that section? How often is it real vs stock images.

A somewhat exception I noticed on Spindrift (I guess I do read them sometimes..) https://drinkspindrift.com/products/lemon-sparkling-water
I like your extension of the argument towards standard libraries. I guess one way of thinking about this is that the standard library hasn't made programmers obsolete.

Charlie ends his post with an intriguing question - what is the abacus for programming? Some way of reasoning about programming that isn't a black box. Perhaps raising the abstraction level even higher?

Assignments that are like "design an app that makes it really easy to share photos" and then "reason about how you would test that app" and "what countermeasures would you create to prevent abuse" and then have the student(s) come up with specific pieces of implementation of parts of that solution that would fit the allotment of time?
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That wasn't my understanding, and Wikipedia disagrees with you:

> 4X (abbreviation of Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) is a subgenre of strategy-based computer and board games, and include both turn-based and real-time strategy titles.
Or I can continue to not pay for them to track every single microscopic interaction I ever have with any of their systems :)
You can go offline to meetups and get to know many people. and because you will probably never see them again you can discuss with them random stupid ideas:)