jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Think of building construction as a jobs programs for unskilled migrant workers, and why China doesn't move up to better more modern construction methods will make a lot of sense. They have the steel, they have the money, but they wouldn't employ as many people (for low wages, but enough to live) and so the entire point would be missed (I've had this explained to me many times by business men in China).
I don't read the screed as being against synchronous communication; just against synchronous communication being the default.

> Else you end up waiting an inordinate amount of time getting simple answers to simple questions

Well, this is the problem. Expecting an immediate response kills deep focus. You should have to wait for a response, for anything that isn't an emergency. Then the question becomes, what's an appropriate amount of time to wait for a response? And how can you a) measure the number of async conversations where ping pong resulted in conversations taking much more time than expected, and b) come up with blameless / systematic responses (e.g. internal wiki maintenance) to reduce that measure over time?
What apps did you use in Apple Watch ?
He explicitly says his ancestors ended up in the mid west in his comment.
They're still one of the only two companies who do differential sync (Dropbox & Microsoft), and the first ones offering that feature. If your upload speed is tiny and you're editing a big file, it's great to upload just a few KBs instead of the entire 100MB.

I agree their nagging is annoying, but they're still (IMO) the most stable sync client out there.
The HN software detected this as a sockpuppet comment. If that's true, please don't do this here—it's not allowed.

It's particularly a bad idea when the post is about good work, like this one seems to be. Good work can speak for itself here, and trying to game HN only risks tarnishing it.
I track my usage with the tesla powerwall unofficial api and have since learned not to worry about my fridge, it's my dryer that really eats up all the power (and my furnace fan). Also realized leaving my lights on vs off doesn't change my usage at all so I'm not worried about turning them off like I used to.
> couldn’t you still measure that by checking the backend and looking for a spike in activity towards the API endpoint that the UI invokes?

You could have multiple UIs hitting the same endpoint. Also, why limit yourself with such crude metrics?

> good UX doesn’t so much rely on Google Analytics but on a UX engineer’s depth of knowledge about human psychology

UX in theory, and UX in application are two different things. You could have the best models of how users will interact with your site, but until you deploy and measure, you have no idea what will happen.
just because he has passion and conviction about a cause linked to leaving a legacy doesn't mean it follows any... cultishness.

I myself am a bit of an exobrainian but not as well organized or anywh near as far down the part as Karl is. it's a noble cause to not want to dismiss what never was capturable before; conversations between friends and family that we can harvest, replay, or add as a chatbot to have shell versions of deceased loved ones.
My point still stands. Very easy to argue for taking other people’s property.
> Yes, capitalism is a worthy ideal

The “ideals” of capitalism were shallow post-hoc rationalizations that came after people called out the problems resulting from the mode by which the elite mercantile class had replaced the feudal hereditary aristocracy as the class around whose particular interests the political and economic order were organized.

It was an improvement over feudalism, but the subsequent improvements have occurred with the general replacement of capitalism, in its original sense, with the modern mixed economy; capitalism is now a reversal of progress, not an ideal to aspire to.
Nice app.

I also like Request For Startup (https://requestforstartup.co/)
Negativity is very bad for our health and psyche, so I try to avoid negative thoughts and worry less. If you always tune in to good things and think positively, then inner peace will definitely come.
There is obviously a far superior amount of information in a loaf of bread.

What is really at work in PLs is the organization of information and in present times this information is not divisible into smaller fractions of itself in anywhere as close to an elegant platform as what the universe offers.
a lot of academic work on compilers and languages can't easily use GCC

Could you explain why not? GPL-incompatible release requirements on the code produced? Admittedly it's not a very accessible codebase either.
>For example, looking at nature, you might ask yourself why biology hasn't converged on a single lifeform yet, and whether it's not simply an issue of having all the right genes and discarding those that are not so good. But that's obviously not how it works. There are niches and different strategies for solving different problems. There is no one genome that solves everything.

And yet, nature already has "converged" sort of into humans, who are "master of all trades" sort of, and somewhat analogous to the "full-spectrum language" I'm talking about.

And as with that language and other languages, the existence of humans doesn't mean all other lifeforms will perish or dissapear.

>* There is no mathematical reason why this should be unworkable, but a solution so far eludes both programmers and evolutionary processes alike.*

Well, for evolutionary processes we have humans. And soon, if we are to believe some pundits, the "singularity".

As for languages, we have some near damn all rounders, but my observation is that it's not because it has "eluded programmers" that we don't have it, but because of business reasons (e.g. some company wants to only target segment X), oss being underfunded, narrow scope, etc.
But that isn’t what happened. Investigators have been from US, Australia, Europe. Findings have been critical of China in terms of access to data, and access to sites.

They still have confirmed that it is not a lab grown virus, and have consistently confirmed it’s from the wild.
Direct downloads would certainly help, but I understand their concerns.
Location based pay? "We looked at your '''Peer Group''' and the '''best''' we can offer you is Z" - Yeah, well you can blow it out your ass. There are N (which you know is a lot) other companies willing to hire me, and I currently make X amount (which I will not tell you). If you don't offer me Y, I will not move (which I will also not tell you how much it is).

I don't need money, but I'm not going to work for anything less than what I can pull, and I pull a lot already.

t. remote worker
How often does that happen to you? I basically just watch Youtube videos all day, and often dig up old playlists and lectures. This hasn't ever been a problem for me. In my case, if I were to do it, this would basically be me being a hoarder :)
I see this as a way to engage with one's own thought rather than to replace, improve, or guardrail debate generally, and the textual syntax to visualization path has potential to catch on where something like D3 or graphviz have limited appeal.

As a visual artist who finds that insights beyond the limits of language are often as valid and interesting as those within it, the opportunity to state a case, and then see and engage it in another visual form is an exciting use case for HCI.
DBFS is a complete joke though. A filesystem that has no timestamps? realy?
To get recognition as the coin with the highest market cap, you’d need to have it actually traded on an exchange. How many people on the open market are going to buy your coin for $1 on an exchange? There you go, your coin is worthless and has a market cap of roughly zero as determine by the open market exchange.
Yeah -- there are definitely some behemoths in there. My hope is that knowing how intense they are, that I'll be able to actually figure out a plan of attack to get them done in time.

Part of the motivation aspect is finishing the list, which means that during certain books, I'll be reading a lot.
How is that not evil?
Off-topic: Is there something like that for Android Developers?
You tend to find this kind of pricing structure in industries where consumers don't want to pay fair up-front prices. Transportation, Keurigs, video games, phone apps, to some extent wireless cell service. You're forced to provide basic access to your service at rates that don't allow you to make a real profit. So you try to make it up in extras.

Customers mumble and grouse, try to get by on the minimum level of service, but it's really their fault. You don't have to pay the exorbitant extras, when I fly, I find the lowest fare I can find and limit myself to a small bag with the bare essentials. I do my homework. I don't mind it at all because I'm getting a service I want at a lower price, that I might not have been able to afford otherwise.

Capitalism is wonderful.
Well... at that time, paper terminals were still in use in some places. The gap between legacy and modern hardware that was in operation was huge.
A Service Worker would give access to what could be important information vs no information. Given the nature of an emergency site it probably means a heightened chance of people losing internet availability.

If there is an updated version a Service Worker can check for that and pull it in if there is a connection.

Whilst imperfect to have potentially out of date information, that only happens if the person has no internet and the information has changed since they accessed it - I think it is worth the trade off of people not having any information.

For critical things, SMS probably makes more sense, but I'm not sure that is what they are trying to solve here.
The last time I read it (admittedly more than a decade ago) it had a preface where Camus literally admitted as such.
Awaiting to see anything S4TF related here,

https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/guide/android
Here's a .prettierrc config file to revert the new 2.0.0 config changes:

{
"trailingComma": "none",
"arrowParens": "avoid"
}

Know that you'll still have non-trivial diffs when switching from 1.x to 2.0 due to other changes (like "the `function` keyword should always have a space after it because consistency").

I just updated the PhotoStructure codebase, and even with that revert of those 2 defaults, almost 100 files and several thousand lines of diff resulted: https://twitter.com/mrm/status/1241792817338257409
You have the option of not using these sort of tools and styling the code yourself.
The opportunity today to do great work is seemingly better than at any other time in history (internet, number of people interested in a field, absence of war/famine) so it does feel like we are stagnant despite having many great tools and collaborative potential. Of course in reality the most important work often happens often under very difficult conditions, Hamming said that.
For those of you who haven't seen the Tabletop series [1] yet, it's a fun way to get a feel for the many shorter board games out there. Previous seasons had shows on Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and King of Tokyo mentioned in the article.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954wz47aofSl...
"Right; short term pain while the money is redistributed to somewhere it can be of more efficient use."

Right. Which isn't to say we shouldn't be considering it. The short term matters - we spend a lot of time there.

"The parent made it sound like the loss of jobs was going to collapse the economy."

Well, there's nothing to say the money is redistributed to labor, and it's hard to run a consumer economy when only a few people have any money to pay for anything. That said, I don't really get that vibe from the parent comment in the first place...
Funny how we went from the 17th/18th century model of self employed craftsmen, to the 19th/20th century model of working for a large manufacturer, and now the trend appears to be back towards self employment.

Of course, as jacquesm noted in his comment, a lot of this is probably due to people being unable to find other, desirable work.
Living in the Chicago area for most of my adult life, but visiting Houston frequently, I find myself longing for the long access roads / frontage roads that are prevalent around the Houston loop. It's a nice buffer between long-haul highways and shorter-haul-but-not-quite-local roads.
And... wouldn't publicly asking all restaurants to close before 1AM reveal the nature of their intel to those they're trying to counteract?
Don't expect the people from India to contact you. They are just too dumb to do this.

People who makes such decision have no knowledge of internet and what are good and bad sites.

PS - I am an Indian
Moose collissions are similarly common in rural areas in Sweden. Here's a spectacular day-time example caught on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY8YBF8dHQo#t=14
Car dealerships are often 100% locally owned/operated.
Wouldn't that make treaties useless if you can just back out of them (unless of course that is a party violates its tenents). I am pretty sure that a treaty supercedes any other laws or judicial decisions unless one of the parties breaks the agreed upon treaty.
On the other hand, you have a product that has been identical for the past 25 years or so, that just about every high schooler in america has at one point or another temporarily.

The used market must be absolutely massive, larger than any other piece of consumer electronics. No wonder TI can't budge from their pricing. These things also do not break. I've left mine out in a blizzard. You throw them at a wall and you will find your ti84 sitting happily embedded in a crater in the drywall.
you got me at Warren Buffett
> Also, IP addresses are considered PII under GDPR.

Not true. They’re only PII if they can be used to connect something to a person. It’s a minor distinction, but it is one nonetheless.
the concepts are simple but doing it at scale is hard. there are some good insights on scaling here:

* scaling to more engineers/products: IGQL is an interesting way to compose ML pipelines with straightforward syntax

* scaling to more ranking candidates: an active user with a large follow graph who loads the explore tab likely has millions of eligible candidates - how do you load those fast? the idea of using a "distilled" model as a first, light ranking before using a full model as the final predictor is a good intuitive idea that I haven't seen described before.

* scaling KNN is hard: FB has done interesting work to make approximate nearest neighbor search fast, and opensourced it (the FAISS library which is referred to in the post). the improvements here are certainly non-trivial.

* scaling to more users: creating useful general purpose user embeddings is hard!

* scaling to more objectives: instagram has many business objectives, e.g. likes, follows, minimizing hides, so there is a need to have multiple models making many predictions. There is also a need to weight them intelligently, which is where the Bayesian optimization libraries come in.

in some sense, nothing is truly AI, but this is useful work which you can learn a lot from.
I love this so much. Cheers to them.
Some television programs are: https://www.utopiatv.nl/live
The UI felt very clunky at first, but it's improved a lot since then (I've been using it since launch). Already a huge improvement over the original console host.
What a number of comments in this thread miss is that in certain business environments you cannot use software that calls home, regardless of the reasons for the call.

Before someone says "it's open source, you can modify it", please understand that very few users of FOSS have the time and necessary knowledge to audit every single piece of code they install on their machines for compliance with company security and privacy requirements.

It is my personal belief that the correct stance in these cases is one that places privacy and security at the top of the stack. In other words, nothing calls home unless the user enables it. You are not entitled to initiate any such communications without user approval just because you wrote software people decide to use. That's intrusive and entitled. It's wrong. Disclose it and obtain their permission, and then it's OK.

Atom is cool, I like it.
A VC firm has general partners (GPs) who own the firm and manage the money and funds. It may also (and usually does) have limited partners (LPs) who invest money in one or more funds but don't play any management role.
George Carlin was a nonpareil, and I have a friend who's like you and him in this way. But I feel like you, and he, and my friend, are enough in the minority that I'm still going to stick with "loss" in cases where I don't know someone well enough to have a sense of what they might really prefer.

About the offer of help I don't know what to say except that it's not empty when I make it. I guess if it would be, don't say it? And I should go back and edit "and mean it" into my earlier comment. That seems like something that should be able to go without saying, but so does "don't insist on yourself at someone else's funeral", and that needed saying so I guess I can't be surprised this does too.

It occurs to me also that maybe I should explicitly note that the opportunity to say something like this to the bereaved isn't to be sought out.

edit: From 2:06 in the video -

> You know what you tell a guy like that who wants to help? "Well fine, why don't you come over this weekend, you can paint the garage! Bring your plunger, the upstairs toilet overflowed and there's shit all over the floor up there. You drive a tractor? Good! That'll come in handy; the north forty needs a lot of attention. Bring your chainsaw and your pickaxe, we're going to put your ass to work." He wants to help? Fuck him, call his bluff.

Yeah, I mean, if you're not going to help, don't offer to help. Why do that anyway? If it feels good to think of yourself as the kind of person who offers to help someone who's grieving, doesn't it feel bad to have to think of yourself as the kind of shitheel who goes back on that offer when it counts?
What Ray Dalio's writing?
The map reminds me of this infamous plot [1]. Look at how many more points there are in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts than surrounding states. Naively we would conclude that these states have way more PFAS contamination. But maybe they are just considerably better about testing for and reporting it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:...
The problem is a 300 mile range isn’t a true 300 miles. There’s losses for temperature, running the heater, battery reserve, etc.

I see 300 possibly being sufficient but I’d want the advertised range to be 400 to make sure I reliably get that.
But does everyone at Igalia do exactly equal work?
Should be interesting to see what the payout would be... artificially manipulating your stock price is supposed to illegal... 20M personal + 20M corporate penalty doesnt change bad behavior
Experienced a feeling of awe, thinking through the ramifications of this. Thanks for sharing zamfi!
- https://www.dropbox.com/backup

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I think it's interesting as this year many college alumni and students are looking into other options beyond google drives backup & sync after their license changes.

Can anyone compare pricing with other services?
" I don't know if this is a good thing."

It is. The whole internet shall be like this. Available only for members. Or as Bruce Lee put it in his movies "This park is forbidden for Chinese or dogs".
But they shall not stop talking about democracy and freedom.
As an () president put it: It feels good doing it.
I've ordered from such a place in Munich. The novelty factor made it entertaining to watch and at some point I could identify my order being prepared. Not sure how many people you could deceive before you start to get called out, if the feed was of a different kitchen
I don't know what the issues have been, but last couple of times I've sent large files with Dropbox I've ended up using GDrive/OneDrive, respectively, to send the files again because the recipient couldn't get the files for some reason. Might just be familiarity.

I've never personally had a problem with any of these, they all seem much of a muchness (ie about the same from a UX perspective)?
None of the "research" and use cases linked need blockchains or are made better by blockchains. These are quite transparent cash grabs while hype is strong.
Like the author says, Google isn't a startup any more. Android is a huge ecosystem, and releasing something with these many problems, is not really up to standard. "Google started it", if you will, when they offered me this update OTA. Now my experience is severely downgraded.[1]

I've been intending to do my own bugs&annoyances writeup - my overall experience with 5.0 and 5.0.1 has been bad enough that I'm dumping L for cyanogenmod 4.4. I tried to do it yesterday, in fact, but adb backup with the -shared option seems to hang forever with 5.0.1 :/

[1] I kinda see that I may be coming off as a whiny, change-resistant douche here, but I don't think that is the case: I was actually very excited about the 5.0 release - both for the material design update (i felt it looked great on paper) and for the new runtime. I was prepared for UI/X changes, obviously. I was prepared to forgive bugs as well, but not at this level. ("How excited?" - "Manually-checking-for-updates-several-times-a-day-for-weeks excited. Plenty")
This is a nice little app recently developed that can help you out with those 'installers'.

http://unchecky.com/
Thank you for the great suggestion. Blacklist is a good idea. And we can even build a new BBC homepage which 'optimized' for reader.
great work, very clean
(1) You objected to the term "anti-immigration". If that phrase could be changed to something else that roughly means "oppose immigration" what phrase would you have used?

(2) If a phrase that you suggest is used, would this allow you to focus on the substance of the argument?
I was just looking at Connect a few days ago and had one issue - the fact that the customer account needed to bear the fees. Very happy to see the option for the platform account to bear the fees. Much simpler for the customer to understand!
Also, hardware bought that had Windows XP on it would be ancient today. We're talking Pentium 4s here.

Mac hardware from 2009 is still very capable for what most people use it for: office suite, email and web browser.

(I could argue a optimized Windows XP computer from that era could still do well with today's software, but if someone is still using Windows XP on 10 year old hardware, it's probably running subpar)
> Last month, I posted two links a day apart. The content of the articles was exactly the same. Granted, the titles and links were a bit different, but it’s nonetheless fascinating to see the 8X difference between the two.

People don't like to read the same news twice?