jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think there's real value in hearing, "This sucks," even if there isn't a clear chain of reasoning backing it up. I've done a bit of gamedev, and I've found feedback of the form, "This isn't fun," or "This part feels boring," to be far more valuable than detailed analyses.

Like you said, the user usually doesn't have the full context. So if a player comes to me with a detailed analysis about why a specific area of the game sucks, it's likely to be wrong. Or, even if it's not completely wrong, it's likely to miss second and third order effects that have impacts later on. So, for example, someone telling me that part of the game is not fun because a particular character or ability needs to do more damage, be easier to use, require fewer resources, etc, etc, is less valuable to me than someone telling me, "Hey this thing feels kinda useless." "This thing feels useless," is a valuable signal. The detailed analysis is basically noise because it misses the fact that addressing the problem in the most direct way might ruin the rest of the game.
Check this out - http://123d.circuits.io/
Very much in agreement. The third novel, Empty Space, was a strong return to form, though.
Regardless of how I change the map layout, traffic in/out flow or truck/car ratio I seem to get the best results when I crank accel, speed and right bias for trucks to the max and lane-change threshold and following distance to the minimum.

Which makes sense since those are basically the ideal conditions for reducing the number of obstructions low speed (merging, exiting, trucks on grade) traffic poses to higher speed traffic and reduces the effective road area of the obstruction.
Obviously this depends on your exact circumstances. You might be whole unaffected or literally everyone you know might use it. Either way, you depend on other people.

This sucks, by the way. No doubt about that. But I doubt that individuals can do anything in that regard.

Probably regulation. Or a benevolent tech company that decides to push some sort of open messenger protocol (with good enough properties) that anyone can join and where anyone can make clients for. You know, kinda like e-mail.
Hi, I am highly interested for such position. I am currently pursuing masters in computer science in University of Central Florida and looking for full time opportunities. I have four years of experience in system engineering before coming into MS.
I'm liberal, and I frequently visit forums that happen to be majority conservative (not to talk politics). The prevailing voices there are antagonistic to my beliefs, to put it mildly. They say out loud way, way worse things about me than simply implying that I am an "idiot". And yet I don't lament that their platform is politically biased and run away and call myself deplatformed. They are calling normal reactions to the things they say a persecution. It's a victim complex, and a deeply hypocritical one rooted in purest hatred for liberals.
Signal for Android is also distributed via their website.
Nothing prevents Telegram from not implementing that architecture and reading every single group message and non-secret chat. Telegram is sketchy in many ways, I wouldn't trust that easily.
Every kid I know plays Roblox. It’s probably more popular then Minecraft in the 14 and under crowd.
Bollocks. Look up Hearst, or "yellow journalism" or the Spanish-American War.

Modern social media does it faster but it's no different than the newspaper empires of yesteryear.
The problem is that at least here in EU lots of social groups are on WhatsApp. So switching away from WhatsApp is not always feasible (unless you're willing to compromise your social life and some business interactions too).

A more practical solution might be not to switch from WhatsApp entirely, but to limit the amount of data it can get from you. Some ideas:

- trimming the contact list to the minimum; move most conctacts from the builtin phone address book (Google Contacts) to another store for contacts, which is not integrated with the system

- getting a separate phone just for WhatsApp; different account, different number, different contact list

- revoke most of the app permissions, use only the most essential features (basically text)

- post new _content_ elsewhere

- FB will probably try to track / intercept links in the app; setting Duck Duck Go as the default browser might help (purge browsing data often)

I'm not sure how far iOS 14 privacy features will go. It's their time to shine. If they do prevent WhatsApp and Facebook apps from doing shady stuff, it might be a time to switch.
Ask HN: How is the avg in my HN profile calculated? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648811
Well, internet has numbed my ability to be shocked any more.
This deserves a few more upvotes. There's some ongoing research to determine the role glial cells have in that wonderful computation we call "thought." See, for example this interview: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-root-of... .
Don't click on the scribd link, click on the original.

I think it's iniquitous that people here on HN, in all good faith, provide links to PDFs, and then scribd purloins the content. The original authors may never know that another site is providing their content without their permission. The result is that although scribd claim to honor take-down requests, such requests rarely materialise, even if the content originators would prefer it not to be there.

This is one aspect of HN that genuinely makes me feel grubby.
XSS and SOP disasters. Basically, everything that was broken about the web before, but more broken-y now. This of course applies to HTML5 local storage, too.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_...

http://www.questionhub.com/StackOverflow/3899985

Aggressive opera caching and different behavior from others browsers is not what I like.
"legos" is an acceptable plural to "Lego bricks". Language evolves with common usage. Colloquially, the overwhelming majority of people refer to a brick as a "lego" and bricks as "legos".
Except that's more like 10% or 1% security.
I remember reading somewhere about the abysmal conversion rates that spammers get (it was something like 1 in 12 million or something like that).

So, you'd need some 12 million blog posts that look real enough to fool a user's reader to get one conversion.

And it's not like Posterous isn't aware of the insecure nature of email. As some have suggested, they can just turn on pre-approval of submissions and this whole thing would be moot.

Put it another way: if you were to compete against them, would you create a blog-by-email service that focuses on being secure? Or ease of use? I imagine the latter has a lot more value to users. As Schneier always says, security is all about trade-offs and choosing to handle "what-if" scenarios tend to be less nice than handling "this-is-what-is-going-on-for-real" scenarios
Indeed, in that the typical usage of DK among the poorly informed is just "hey, I can accuse people of being too misinformed to realize it, without actually refuting their argument, all because I can cite a paper".
True, you just need a subset. Now how you you identify that subset without indexing the pages to find out whether each page is in the subset you need?

IIRC google used to scan different pages at very different frequencies. Quite possibly because it has assigns pages into subsets every time it indexes.
> My guess would be that they are not trained to know better and that they have to write about something, anything really, that has some chance of grabbing reader attention and isn't related to celebrity culture.

I fear that no training can be helpful if you're supposed to have 10 stories written by this afternoon, and they'd better be good at attracting readers, or else.

> The real issue, I believe, is that there is no accountability for almost anyone these days. If there is some upside in publishing or reporting on questionable science, and no downside, what is the incentive not to do it?

I agree. I think you captured the essence of the problem. There is no immediate cost to doing this (if people had an actual span of attention, most of the news sites would go banrkupt quickly), and clear benefits. There is no direct price to be paid for misleading people, and the accumulated costs are apparent only years later, in the form of growing distrust towards everything, which destroys society from inside.
You can access the stream as it's coming in using fetch - would that let you do progress? Seems like it would.
I'm having the same issue (using Firefox), but thank you so much for this.
'Eric Schmidt, Former CEO Google, $313,219. UP 28%

[... ... ...]

He also was awarded a $100 million stock package.'

summarizes why the 'salary' numbers for these people isn't really worth paying attention to, since it's a tiny part of the true picture. I'm not sure why they discuss their real compensation in the text, but still highlight the trivial 'salary' number on the other side. Actually, it's inconsistent as far as I can tell.
Similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496317
Did not Sony state they did not store any CVV2 numbers?
I don't understand the fuss. Being a part of the press pool means you get access to places that you otherwise would not be allowed in. Now I understand that press-governemntal relations have gotten unusually cozy over the last few decades; with the press becoming almost an extension of the White House media arm.

At the same time, it is understandable for the President to be hesitant to allow such close access to their person, or to moments where things are said and done in a rather different manner than publicly presented. For example, if my girlfriend ever heard me say some things about her when I'm in beer-and-xbox mode with my closest buddies, I'd probably face a shitstorm.

Every once in a while when a politician forgets to turn off their mics and says something inappropriate, there's a kerfuffle about. But they need to be able to say those things in private. This pen-and-paper-only press-pool is a middle ground, so that the press can have some access, without having videos of inappropriate remarks or moments plastering across the 24/7 news media networks.

I see nothing wrong with this. Now on the other hand, if we are talking about the unusually cozy relationship of the media in restricting their criticism of the military, or military operations for fear of jeopardizing their embedded-access, then that's another story. Or the Washington bureaus cowardice in challenging the administration in the briefing room. I wish reporters would show more courage in those situations. But those situations are necessarily outside ones. They should gladly give up access, refuse to be cozied up to, refuse to go to those god-awful Correspondents' Dinners where they are wined and dined and bought. That I would heartily support.
This link has some good advice - http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company
Windows; the Win32 API is great to develop applications. Microsoft puts an emphasis on maintaining software backwards compatibility.

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow) { ... }
Honest feedback alert: I would never use the service because I don't know what the other person might put in my food or mess with it, and I would never provide this service because the margin is too low and/or I don't want to knock on a stranger's door. That bing said there a lot of crazy things that became wildly successful so if you truly believe in it and you can actually see yourself getting the service and providing it happily then do it.
The ROI is debatable.
> Mine was more like: Owner "Shit you are leaving??? Can't you stay at least until xxx so we can deliver xxx and save our asses?"

Dude, you gotta learn to say no. I would categorize this as letting people walk over you.

I understand the desire to do a good job and help out others as much as you can but keep in mind that when you help someone the overall net outcome needs to be positive. If your helping someone results in more harm to you than help to the other person, you need to walk away.
Regarding your SSH session, have you turned off gssapiauth (assuming you aren't using it)?

See https://coderwall.com/p/fukoew/speed-up-ssh-logon-by-disabli... for some details.
Yes, unfortunately. I feel like that's marginally better than updating millions of pieces of hardware for ipv6 support :/
>It's a big nuisance that the Tube is closed overnight, though.

The Night Tube has been operational since mid-2014 and it has only gathered pace.

https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-do...
The URL is right there, above the search result title. Just the / has been replaced by a > and it's been made a more human readable. To the average person it's even more prominent now.

I'm looking forward to this change. It will incentivise websites to make their URL paths more human readable because now their

example.com > cgi > html > static > actually_human_readble_part.html

noise is seen by everyone not just weirdos that look at the URL bar like me.
wow thats the worst mac desktop app i've seen for a while.
I like how "a year" and "months" is mentioned as if either one is a particularly long time. Many people go their entire lives without ever managing to find a compatible partner.
I remember I used Pipes to create a new single RSS feed containing dozens of separate, rarely updated RSS feeds. For some reason I preferred seeing that one feed subscribed in my — wait for it — Google Reader, than a long list of feeds that rarely got updated.
Well. I managed to survive even after Pipes disappeared.
You're referring to the BTC fork, which has artificially limited itself to 3-7 transactions per second.

I suggest you look into the BCH fork, which has 3,000 tps, and can scale much further as needed.
The best way to quit is to have never started.
B.B.C. used Anti terror Laws to catch license fee dodgers

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northe...
First of all, I'm not calling it poor, the grandparent did.

I'm saying it's nothing special to call it poor.

We say 10x harsher things everyday in HN for frameworks, languages, etc. Heck, check any thread about Apple products. Don't real people work on those?

Plus, ever read art criticism, or restaurant criticism, or political critiques even in the most respected newspapers? "Poor" is the least harsh of the terms they use. And those are also real people they level those things at...
This article is actually a bit of an advert for when not to do batch processing. Processing 30 X 80B events every day when the same result can be achieved by maintaining state on about 30B users (more than enough for acceptable global coverage) and stream the data through to update that state. If all you were doing is the attribution part you would be looking a near an order of magnitude saving on their current costs and deliver results in real time.

The ML side may well benefit from batch but I bet splitting out the attribution component would allow them to be more flexible and cost efficient in their approach there.
No, they just achieve runaway success on mass scale.

From Google's perspective the flypaper is just bigger; its contents are no less needle-moving.
I think the GDPR makes it illegal to not allow exporting save games. Resolving that conflict would be Google's problem.
It was a difficult process, but I am very happy that Node finally has support for unflagged native ESM. It landed today in Node 13.2. Thank you for everyone who worked on this.

The `modules` team still continues to work to improve ESM support, especially for packages wanting to provide both formats ("CommonJS" and "ESM") during the transition.

I recommend following the discussions on the nodejs/module repo [0] for anyone interested.

[0]: https://github.com/nodejs/modules
The lack of custom styles is really problematic for a very common use case, documentation. I'd rather use Markdown for the purely tech stuff, but I thought I'd use Docs for collaborating with non or less technical people. That just doesn't work, too tedious.
Maybe he should be.

A lot of problems with driving come with people treating it as adversarial situation, instead of cooperative one.
Football games need more advertising... sigh.
The DeLorean isn't exactly famed for body repairability and this is just that, a DeLorean grotesquely inflated to light tank scale.
Well, I think Larry Page stated anecdotally before Google became big that they were actually building an AI (http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligen...)
// must be overloaded
template<template<typename> class M,typename T,typename F>
auto operator>>=(const M<T>& m, F f)->decltype(f(std::declval<const T>()));

Could someone please point out to me why exactly this is useful and why I would want to code like this? Does it help me solve specific types of problems?
A side project of mine for your viewing pleasure!

Secret sauce - it uses https://certificate.transparency.dev/ to crawl your domain and automatically add new hosts for monitoring.
No support for Swipe or Dip but this is pretty awesome. I still need swipe/dip so I'm stuck with my BTLE device for that stuff but this is pretty awesome for contactless.
I don't want to reduce my data trail, as I don't believe there are meaningful risks associated with creating one.
I like to think of that moment as Digg's swan-song.
So do you need an app for every single thing you want to do on a Mac? I saw an app for maximising windows, now an app to display file paths...
> Many people try to compare Rust to Go, but this is flawed. Go is an ancient board game that emphasizes strategy. Rust is more appropriately compared to Chess, a board game focused on low-level tactics. Clojure, with its high-level purview, is a better analogy to the enduring game of stones.

Just for this is worth reading...

Nice intro anyway, but nothing to enlightenment...

I already knew a little of Rust and the article didn't add much... Well written thought...
It works for me, same setup. =P
Hi HN! I'm a high school developer who just went through the college admissions process. Along with my Common Application, I submitted this website to Stanford to show them a little bit of what I've done with technology over my high school career. The site was built over three months last summer with Webpack and React.

It's among one of the best websites I've built to date, and even though they were unfortunately unable to offer me a place in their class of 2022, I thought you guys would be interested. I hope you like it, and please feel free to leave any comments or questions -- I'm always trying to learn new things and improve!

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I can’t imagine telling everyone I know that I’m changing my number every couple years, and I’m not even calling/messaging a lot of people nowadays. I have a family member who did something similar(not on purpose) and I still have 3 of her numbers and still get confused which is the working one.
>And the last thing I want to add is, you won’t have fun doing any of the above stuff. It’s never going to be fun and it never is fun for anyone. The only joy you’ll get is at the very end when you succeed.

You still haven't understood the perspective of people with ADHD. They know all of this intellectually (and depending on age) they have tried more systems, mental models, techniques, strategies, tricks and hacks than you can ever imagine.

This is not something that you can "tough your way" through, or all of this being harsh on myself would have amounted to something.

Your example, with reading just one word a day and the compound effect of repeating that behaviour regularly, hinges on some "axiom" that one will just stick to a habit. With ADHD you just "forget" to read that one word, no matter how many post-its you stick on the monitor or mirror. At best you cycle back to the "word" every few weeks without making progress, like treading water.
And then it was more or less banned in this country because of a fraudulent study and NOONE BOTHERED ASKING ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT AS A RESULT.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23403754

Meanwhile, you have stuff like this going on in the wider world:

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-phnom-penh-coronavirus-...

March 2021, Cambodia has its actual first death from the virus.

Why?

They didn't listen to all the establishment people when they said "The OTC drug you've been taking your whole life to keep from being a brain-damaged malaria case is too dangerous to be used to treat Covid 19, Orange Man Bad pulled that out of his ass and also told people to drink bleach!"

Notice that noone in the Establishment is having to answer any questions as to why they banned HCQ based on a fraudulent study. Or why someone went and had a fraudulent study created in the first place. Or was able to get it into The Lancet.

It would be nice if someone asked Fauci these questions at a White House press conference.

PPS: Worldofmeters Laos Coronavirus statistics:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/laos/
What damages have you incurred?
Bose also makes great Bluetooth headphones, but only the high-end ones. Cheaper Bluetooth headphones (of any brand) are awful.
For reinstalling macOS it is that easy. You can create your own USB install media either using Apple's tool or a third party one.

Or the more common and easier method is to do an "eraseinstall" which does the same thing but without the need to make the USB media. It does some APFS volume stuff automatically to copy the installer, wipe all other volumes, install, then remove the installer volume.

The need for a second Mac is something most Mac users never encounter as it means something has gone seriously wrong or they are a power user doing something "not normal".

I'm not defending Apple's decision here, I see pros and cons for it. Just saying that for almost all users reinstalling macOS doesn't require a second Mac. I have been a Mac user (and developer so not a "normal" user fwtw) for almost two decades now and never once needed a second Mac for any restore tasks.
I'll probably get downvoted for this, but it looks like the UI for these Mac apps is wildly inconsistent and each app has a very idiosyncratic idea of how it should look, which many times doesn't seem to take usability into account.

I don't think it looks prettier, but to me most modern GTK apps on Ubuntu seem much more consistent and strict as far as respecting the platform UI guidelines.
Which brings up an interesting point, would engineering methods other than the waterfall method have even worked for this? It certainly sounds like Babbage struggled with this.
Yep, we really need to get on fixing all of the terms related to the various computing disciplines.

Companies only confound this further when they want "computer science" degrees, when they really want software engineers. And most software engineering programs I've been exposed to are a joke. Maybe I just need to get out more...

I also have no real ideas or thoughts on how "we" need to "fix" this somehow. Just frustration.
> "Is your computer connected directly to the modem?"
> Yes, sure, whatever. Of course it's actually not
> because I know my router isn't the problem.

Be careful with this one. I know I said to lie, but lie only if you're certain, because you've tested yourself already. These places have central ticketing systems, and if the history of your calls indicates that you're telling us you've done things and you haven't, you'll have a hell of a time getting escalated unless you do everything asked of you.

Fun fact: I had plenty of calls where the router was obviously not the problem. But I had plenty where the router may have been an issue, and if you refuse so many times to remove it, we were allowed to "disconnect the call due to unproductivity" -- hang up after a short statement. Just take the extra few minutes to plug a machine straight in and check.
Lighten up - it's Christmas :)