jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on the user, but Wayland is not the same shit for me. The level of jank and screen tearing in X is unacceptable.

I think it’s amusing that that opinion is so common given how bad X is. Mac OS X was developed in the nineties and has a jank-free hardware-accelerated compositor. Windows vista also had one, as well as every windows version after that.

I am certain that I’m not the only end user who notices the difference between smooth animations on those other OSs and what you see on X.

Wayland may be incomplete but it’s obvious that it solves some of these issues.
Are you implying something about connection quality? Because in my experience X forwarding degrades very quickly when you lower connection quality, much faster than other options.
Laundered and counterfeit money are completely different things.
This brings to mind the occasion where an anthropologist introduced a camera to a remote tribe.

Once the tribe realized they could record and play-back their ‘coming of age’ ritual, they stopped doing it.

What is lost?
More 'Whataboutism' ?

Also can you back up your statement about not fact-checking before anyone claims otherwise ?

Unfortunately more people consume Facebook than others, so its a prime target.

Also I would point you towards another article :

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-advertising-...
I think it is open enrollment season; log on to your local Obamacare site and check.

In New York, off the top of my head, premiums are something like $250 a month for an individual plan, I think $900 for a family for a high deductible plan that probably won't pay anything next year.

When the subsidies are factored in for a family that earns $50k a year, I think you wind up paying about $70 a month.

If you are not destitute but have a fairly low income (say $35k a year for that family) you qualify for the "Essential Plan" which has a $20 a month premium and a low deductible.
No Jeff Bezos doesn't have the liquid assets to recruit and equip 100,000 mercenaries. Not even close. We've seen billionaires go to jail before btw (without raising a private army to protect them).

The comparison of his total net worth to the North Korea's yearly GDP and army size is irrelevant.

If he even tried to raise an army to resist the will of the US government, they would seize his assets so fast his head would spin.

That's not to say money doesn't buy political influence, but it's a much subtler kind of influence.
I think this article underestimates how diversified Google has become.

Dismissing YouTube as unprofitable seems laughable, big media companies are probably kicking themselves for not trying a similar concept earlier. That’s the kind of business where an eventual single digit profit margin will make you tremendously wealthy.

Google Maps is another example of an ad driver that’s not easily replaced by a competitor. Only giants like Apple and Microsoft can compete on that product.

G Suite has made major inroads in the lucrative enterprise productivity space.

Google is also slowly building a devices business, and all you have to do is take a peek at Apple to know how successful that can be.

Google has the #1 web browser with growing market share to alarming Internet Explorer levels with its search engine and tools set as the defaults. Comparisons to Microsoft’s fall from grace assume history will be repeated, but unlike IE6, nobody’s making a faster/noticeably better to the end user browser than Chrome.

As far as the search ads itself, I don’t know that the article makes a compelling case that users simply don’t use search engines or the general Internet anymore. The current trend of ad blocking is that they are getting less and less effective. I’m sure Amazon and Facebook have taken a slice of that advertising pie but it seems unrealistic to expect them to take the whole thing.

Not only that but Google’s ad platform allows website owners to place ads directly on sites, so an external link on Facebook can take a user right back into Google’s revenue space.
One of the comments on that blog leads to WinUI, which I would assume Microsoft would recommend first

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

Not sure if it's cross-platform though.
What benefits? Every fab becomes an ecological disaster over time. They should be assessed penalty rates not given discount rates to cover the future cost of cleanup.
I've had a Matias Laptop Pro for Mac for years and I've been super-happy with it. Mechanical but very quiet. So it wasn't impossible for me, but you might have other criteria that would make it so.
What you have stumbled upon is actually a curse brought on by the toolset of Big Tech being so crippled by an overreliance on centralized capital. Decisions are made by few, and the impact of those decisions is high. This means Big Tech companies have to hedge to maintain access so they will end up bending over backwards to ensure their continued access to markets, and the hyperoptimization they bring to the table makes the formation of many smaller, more difficult to control versions of the same info propagation systems economically inviable. This prevents the formation of resistance to centralized control mechanisms by greater numbers, and the inherent overhead of organizing a distributed control scheme by tinpots or violent regimes. You can only get away with so much violence before large swathes of people hopefully start having second thoughts, in theory.

Morally speaking, I do not believe tech should be doing any censoring. There are many that would disagree with my viewpoint, but it is my firm belief that it is everyone's responsibility to be eyes open to every level of atrocity we as a species are capable of. Yes, it makes the world feel a lot less safe, but paradoxically, I think it may actually decrease the overall level of friction created by artificial information propagation barriers.

Hierarchical adversarial systems can only persist in environments of informational asymmetry. Once everyone is exposed to the same deck of cards, the rest, in my experience, tends to sort itself out.
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notebook isn't loading for me but this seems really cool
I believe gun ownership in Switzerland is very closely tied to compulsory military service. It's very much an outlier as statistics go - issuing every adult male a rifle isn't so much a gun culture as a military strategy.

(Czechia does has a strong civilian ownership, however)
I am still getting excellent offers there. A bit of spam, but nothing unmanageable. And I still didn't find anything remotely comparable.
What are the exercises?
Julia is now the only viable next gen ML language
No idea what Pijul is, but how does this not describe git?

Unless your complaint is that a commit is really a set of diffs/patches?
Coming onto Hacker News and having fun? He scored an own golang.
There's no arguing with cyclists. They're worse than vegans in that regard. Pushy, smug, arrogant, completely irrational, and overall extremely ableist people that expect everyone else to bend to their way of life because "well if I can do it, then having no legs is no excuse, you ecoterrorist!"

Fuck me this place is worse than reddit.
Neat. I'll try to remember that the next time I need to work with Lua.
Who else does GBAC? How widely used is it?
That one felt a bit contrived since it's highlighting an comment that has been downvoted almost to oblivion. The low contrast is a warning that the content is probably not worth your time. The low contrast is a feature, not a bug.
Yeah I do the same, for these same reasons. It's just so much faster to type [] {} and so on vs the Finnish layout.
The vast majority of programs written in those languages are still relatively simple A->B things like grep or ls was when C was new. Go is a much simpler language than C# and Java - the GC isn't really the point.

Everyone likes to think, I can't use a GC for my work - I don't like garbage collection much either, but this is basically religion: it's just a tool, and it's a tool that makes programming easy.
> EVERYONE with a marketing/technical blog should have an intro like fly.io does: a one paragraph explanation of what the service does.

And do away with the stupid and annoying teaser pictures that force me to scroll down on a 27" monitor to even see some text.
Agreed. It's not easy to accidentally wipe your entire home directory in the GUI, but it's just 9 keystrokes away on the CLI
There is no such thing as "just stop exploiting people".

The ethos of the modern society is "make as much money as you can no matter how" and the best way to make big money is exploiting people.

You can make good money without exploiting people and it is what small businesses do, but you won't be a multi billionaire corp following ethics, law, and treating people respectfully.

Unfortunately, being a multi billion business implies you will squeeze every single penny from suppliers, employees and customers and it is exactly what Amazon does.
It doesn't. It just requires openness for the concept. Same with Emacs for everything.

That's not to say you should do it. It's fine if you do, it's fine if you don't.
I've written this before, but it's not going to happen without a large amount of apps, that people actually want and can use. And that's not going to happen unless there's all the necessary tooling, especially for UI. mac/iOS and Windows have great support for building user-oriented applications. And then it still needs a centralized way to monetize the development work. And to get all that, you need a ton of paying users, not a bunch of freeloading tinkerers. It's simply not going to happen any time soon.
(googler here, but this is my opinion)

I think there's a big abstraction gap between what we use domains for and what they were supposed to be used for, in a way that we shouldn't assume any ownership only based on the domain itself.

For instance you can have a number of sites that use separate domains but are owned by the same entity (N domains for 1 party). You could also have the same base domain being used for several unrelated parties, think hosting a store on Shopify (1 domain for N parties). This is so ambiguous that even inside the browser you have two different implementations on the way you handle this attribution, one for cookies and one for Single-Origin Policy.

There's a good write up about this problem at https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems. Sometimes I wonder how the web got here with the amount of kludge that we have to carry.
> Points should be normed by impressions, and then smoothed (or given credibility intervals or something).

I agree that this might work better for determining correctness of informative comments than just plain point scores, however point scores work better than nothing at all.
You know, this is a much better way of doing it.

I feel like for a complete idiot for not spotting that up front.
This sounds like the Liquid Democracy system, which the Pirate Party of Germany uses to decide on party-internal policy questions. (Other organizations may have had it before them, but they're the first I heard it of)

The major point of dispute there is that this system cannot be simultaneously anonymous (nobody knows whether I voted for or against nuclear weapons for public schools) and independently verifiable (anyone can check that everybody's delegations have been computed correctly).
This is a good idea, akin to a Luxembourg for technology, except for one thing.

A lack of women. Oh sure maybe some redditors will bring their wives and girlfriends, but they will still be outnumbered in the same proportions as Women In Tech.

Solve the women problem and you'll have your island.
I have a feeling a "student" option would overwhelm all the others.
hi, I am the author of the original library, which uses the LGPL license. My reason for using LGPL was so people would be obligated to share their modifications, so I would expect this is not compatible with MIT.
Is this applicable for foreign students. If it is, a lot of Indian wouldn't have to take big loans for doing their masters.
The other thing that this article ignores is that not everybody wants to live in an urban setting. Indeed, I suspect that to the people who live in the suburban sprawl, the money doesn't appear "lost" at all - in fact, they probably see it as money well spent for what they consider to be an improved standard of living. Personally, I live on 11 acres about 15 miles and a 17 minute drive from work. Although I could have a 5 minute, 3 mile drive if I felt like living in the 'burbs (my employer is located in the suburban part of town), to me the additional cost and time that I spend on transportation is well worth it (I don't particularly enjoy having neighbors any closer than a few hundred meters/yards, and my wife enjoys keeping a couple of horses). I suspect that those people who live in the suburbs enjoy their 3/4 acre lots with enough space to put in a swimming pool and a McMansion (say what you want about them, but McMansions are nice places to live ... although I live in a relatively modest 1500sqft/140 m^2 house). "Different strokes for different folks" really seems to apply here.
Personally I've never felt the change in bottom bracket flexing, but I always feel how different frames feel on certain bits of road. Maybe I'm just not outputting enough power, I don't know.
Do you think if everyone works remotely and companies can hire from all over the country (or the globe for that matter) you will still get a salary that you'd get in SF? I'm pretty sure this will push down the salaries, so you probably won't end up in a "quiet, zero-crime suburb, in a nice big home", but a quiet, medium-crime suburb, in a decent home maybe.
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No-one expects a fresh college grad to be a rockstar dev. The few places that do, probably have highly specialized recruitment pipelines, and look for people with the "correct" features and milestones, like monitoring people that have participated in math / informatics olympiads, that have gone to the "correct" schools, and have been mentored by important figures.

Those places are rare. But for the majority, my tip would be:

- Get comfortable with a couple of languages, learn good style, and get familiar with the toolkit.

- Learn the fundamentals of CS.

- Commit to some side projects.

- Seek out internships/work experience

- Do fairly well in school.

- Learn teamwork and soft skills.

I don't think any single/individual point above is enough to signal "awesome developer", but the sum of them will surely correlate with high potential.
He confesses that it was a black hat "proof of concept", but he's refunded the money and reported things to Patreon.

Patreon, and ANY website that has user's profiles as permalinks, should reserve ANY account name that has been deleted to prevent squatting.

I'm not sure how this works with the right to be forgotten laws though; I have a gut feeling that you can have your profile deleted and the leftover URLs and permalinks just go to 404 or other kinds of placeholders.
Data taken straight from similarweb so accuracy highly dependent on country of source, ad-block usage amongst visitors, etc etc. The ranking is probably vaguely correct but those detailed figures of time on site, facebook spend, revenue, etc are waaaayyyyy estimated.

"I estimate revenue with [traffic * global ecom conversion rate * price of best selling product]."

Wow. And you know, because this is now 'published data', you'll see the figures crop up in news articles and blog posts. DID YOU KNOW THAT FASHIONOVA MADE MORE THAN $25m REVENUE IN 2020????
Good question. When you are commuting and need to be practical, you might prefer electric. But cycling for fun on a roadbike is about being outside, enjoying the surroundings, and putting your legs to work. It can make you feel alive and just give sheer joy putting your body to work and have your legs be the engine of your bicycle.
Thanks for sharing that subreddit, I'd never heard of it before. It reminds me of reading hackernews :D
For me, it is at that stage where I would have to prove whatever is being said for myself, rather than accept any claims. Even reading the paper would not be enough - I mean that I would need to verify the claim personally. Obviously I don't have time for that, so my position is that I take all claims extremely skeptically.

The problem is that there that the rational position is that there should be no trust in science. 70% of papers cannot be replicated (see the replication crisis).

There is also the issue of funding - you get what you pay for. There are really only 3 funding sources of science - government, military and corporations. (To me, these are actually just one source 3 facets of the same beast, but not everyone agrees with me that we live in a fascist state.) But those funding interests don't make for 'free' science.

No one will research good diet - confusion reigns on the best diet for people. They will research expensive drugs and treatments. No one researches how climate change isn't happening, only that it is. Etc. The upshot is, that with enough funding you can fairly quickly have reams of papers and documents in support of whatever case you want to promote. The broader scientific 'truth' is left at the wayside.
It is a relatively new language but I bet will have more maturity within 5 years and will be very popular by then
Darn chemtrails changing cardinals (sarcasm)
Same, must have been 2005 or something when I switched from IE. Never used anything else. I'd like to say there are lofty reasons for that, but it's mostly that I just didn't like and never switched to Chrome when it came out. Do avoid Google in general these days though.
I LOVE the picture in picture feature. It's nice for multitasking - I can pull up a video and put it on top of any other full-screen app or webpage.
I thought Facebook's original argument was that they only provided links to news, but this deal makes me think that Facebook are hosting some content as well?
I also saw some research suggesting that engineers are more likely to have Autistic kids. The increased social mobility of women has undoubtedly lead to more "power couples" (in the modern sense), I wonder if perhaps there is some effect that people with slight Autism risk factors are more likely to mate with each other these days?

Totally spit-balling, but I guess the larger point is there are a lot of possible explanations for what OP describes (if it's even true, diagnosis may just be more likely in those families)
> Are they denying settled science, or just being pragmatic (masks probably help, so even if it's not proven, doesn't hurt to wear them)?

Medical professionals wore them prior to this pandemic because they receive training on how to use them properly and they are well stocked where needed. Single use, only touch the strings, etc. They also know they are constantly in the presence of disease and risk transmitting it to those they are trying to help. In non-pandemic times there is a higher chance for an asymptomatic doctor or nurse to infect an at-risk patient than there is for an asymptomatic member of the general public to infect an at-risk person.

> I think the emphasis on wearing masks is simply because that isn't the norm in the West. Washing hands is the norm (or rather, should be, we've all been hearing it since childhood...).

I agree. The part that should be normal worldwide is that sick people should wear a mask to prevent transmission of any virus, pandemic or no pandemic. Hong Kong and Taiwan learned this during SARS and maintained the habit as part of their culture. They also wear them to filter air pollution. So, those two factors made it easy for them to accept masks for all in 2020. I don't think mask wearing for sick people was regular practice anywhere outside of medical professionals before 2002. And AFAIK it has not yet caught on everywhere even amidst this pandemic.
They said the same thing about the printing press.
It's a minimum standard, though. Of course the goal is reproducibility from a broader point of view, but that's not an excuse to do research in a one-off way where nobody is able to show how to get those numbers again, after a year or so from publication.

The coding standards are often abysmally, unexpectedly terrible. Often not even the help of the original authors is enough to be able to produce the same figures from a paper because things and settings and commands get forgotten. Some part of the analysis was done in one language, another part in Excel. Some of the code has now disappeared. Some of the libraries are no longer working. Some people left and their academic storage space was wiped and therefore the intermediate steps and results or notes are deleted. You wouldn't believe it.

Once a paper is published researchers are not really incentivized to document things or maintain the materials. They got the publication, they put it on their CV. On to the next project! No time to waste on work that's already completed. New work leads to new publications, messing around with the old code for the sake of a potential later person interested in it is a waste from the point of view of a researcher, career wise. Also most papers are never attempted to be reproduced ever.
Ok downvoters:

If Trump isn’t an authoritarian, tell me what he is.

Because he obviously doesn’t believe in our system of democratic elections.
I feel like the internet, and the digital activities that happen on it, are this generation’s railroads, power, and telecommunications in the 18th and 19th century. They started as wild free-for-alls and evolved into regulated and stable markets with consumer protections, standardization, right to access, etc., usually after corrupt and unethical monopolies got out of hand and showed the importance of the service as a basic utility needed for a functioning country, and the need to protect it.
What about iMessage though?
> What's more, several cell phone operators' plans include unlimited WhatsApp, but only a few GB of other data... meaning when your data limits are reached you can still use WhatsApp for the rest of the month, but not i.e. Signal or Telegram. That makes is rather hard to convince people to switch.

isn't this illegal? Portugal had such a problem, but i don't think anything happened since this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905843
It's a very slow velocity, though. It's best used for things like snails.