jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Then it should be enough to flag those accounts, and only show ads which are explicietly ok with showing it there. This even is an advantage, because some products who already work on the border of sex-ads would surely be very happy to be shown in that context.
Can the eye tracking see saccades? Can it keep up if you rapidly refocus?
Could be helpful when writing your own plugins or simplifying/speeding up what your CD server needs to do.
I did not start a flamewar. I commented on the substance of the article.

You may not be versed in British politics. The people who came up with this proposal are self-proclaimed Marxists and they plan Marxist policies. That's factual and publicly recognised.

I hope that calling on the history of the 20th century is justification enough to back my statement that the results have overwhelmingly be appalling (which is a historical fact) for the educated readership of HN.

I feel that you are accusing me of not justifying a claim that "water is wet", and that might appear disingenuous.
I'm kinda surprised that food delivery apps and ride-hailing apps are all money-losing. Why?

It's a modernization of an already-proven business model. Chinese food and pizza was orderable by phone, and delivered for free or a small fee, 30 years ago.

So, the pizza restaurants proved that there's enough margin in a 25$ pizza to pay a minimum wage driver to drive it to your house. Delivery platforms come in and break this up: instead of the restaurant having someone on payroll to deliver orders, you just outsource that to another party (and pay them a fee, which is passed-through to the customer, and replaces money you would've paid the on-staff driver otherwise).

Why can't the food delivery companies provide delivery services for basically the same total cost as before, and subsist on extracting a small percentage of the value, which is freed up by the massive economy of scale that they can create by aggregating orders from several restaurants into a single pool?

Ditto for Uber... it's possible to operate a taxi company profitably, and has been for a hundred years. Shouldn't Uber have basically the same economics / cost per mile as a traditional taxi company, except be more efficient thanks to top-notch demand prediction that no local taxi company could ever build?
Gig work and Airbnb saved my life and kept family off street.

I got injured and disability decided to play hard ball.

Working whatever hours I could be functional and being able to stop and rest, or wait for medication side effects to ease off. These are the only thing that kept us off the street.
Anecdotally, a former CEO of a company I worked at was a former McKinsey employee. Out of all of the "talk is cheap" CEOs I've encountered, he was the cheapest and would spare no opportunity to tout how he used to be at McKinsey, as though it was some badge of honor.

Unsurprisingly, I consider him one of the least competent bosses I've ever worked for.
Satoshi seems to be the main reason that Bitcoin is Bitcoin. There's an almost religious type of "immaculate conception" quality to it.
Losing a bitcoin is like losing gold. Just that no one will be able to find it later, so with lower supply, price should rise.
> but they simply aren't going to show me how to create an ingenious idea that takes things to the next level.

Of course not. There's no substitute for straight-up creativity and deep thinking.

But once you have your ingenious idea, you still have to design it, make sure it's clear to users, that they find it and can use it effectively. Your "ingenious idea" may turn out to be largely sabotaged if a button you thought had an intuitive label is misunderstood by 90% of users, or a link you thought was highly visible is being scrolled past by nearly everyone.

Yes, analytics is all about optimizing things to a local maximum. But you might not be anywhere near your local maximum. It's astonishingly easy for the first version of your ingenious idea to only be achieving 5% or 10% of the actual local maximum potential. We shouldn't downplay the difficulty or achievement involved in getting even close to a local maxima.

And you're correct that in user interviews, if you only ask what features they want, you're drastically limiting the value you might uncover. On the other hand, you'd better not ignore the features users are frequently requesting either. A lot of users are pretty smart and know exactly what they need, at least to get to that local maxima.
I never owned a C64 so I have a question. Where do you write the Turbo Assembler code, is this code which you start typing after the C64 booted? I saw a friend to write there some basic commands like LOAD to load stuff from the casette player, is it there you just start writing assembler? Or is there some special command you have to write first, or do you need to start a texteitor or what is this "monitor" he is talking about? Do you need to install it first in some way?
I had a similar experience long before I got a real tinnitus.

I had been playing computer games countless of hours per day, not with any loud volumes at all and I started getting insane tinnitus when going to sleep. One day I stuck my head real close to the monitor and noticed a high pitch coil whine-like sound. Either the frequency range changed over time or it was always audible but I didn’t notice it in the beginning. It turned out the monitor had been blasting high pitch whine all this time and being exposed to this barely audible loud sound caused me to have this crazy temporary tinnitus.

A few days after getting replacing the monitor the issue was completely gone and I never had it again.
Valter Longo? Nutrition science is fuzzy. It isn't like physics or mathematics.
Water fasting, calorie restriction[2], keeping your protein low and having a joyful life[1] seem convincing to me (Blue Zones), but I am yet another layman here.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-8...

[2] https://nintil.com/longevity/
It also never blows up into a major story.

Most news stories about Twitter, Facebook, and even the few about YouTube have been about them failing to ban X. Overmoderate and the criticism comes in bit by bit.
Don't over generalize and accuse them of fear mongering when you don't know the situation for the entire country. The grocery store by me has been consistently bare for the past two weeks, low quality pre-packaged food is pretty much all that's been available, and I've had to start making trips to multiple stores to get enough ingredients if I want to eat anything besides canned soup and deli meat. And I don't live in some podunk town, I'm right outside a major city. My wife's family in NC has said that their grocery stores have stayed mostly empty for a few weeks as well.
I find it funny that while I am actual economist, whenever I comment on my actual area of expertise, I get voted down. Random topics where I know nothing, I get upvoted. Actual expertise, voted down.
> consumers could get better services and products

Those services and products are not necessarily better, they're just better advertised. (In fact, they're likely worse.)
Yes, of course. My customers, though, don't want to pay very much, and that's another tradeoff. I think I'm pretty up front about what I'm selling and what tradeoffs I make, and for some people, this is a good tradeoff. There are other services that have made different tradeoffs, that work out better for different people with different needs.

I'm just a little surprised about my customer's preferences in this particular tradeoff.
I don't know about your customers but ours want both excellent communication and for the problem to be fixed immediately. This means having more staff during an outage.
There are always people learning new things, so there's really no excuse not to find questions that you can answer.

However, SO has the same freeloader problem that IRC and mailing lists do, which is that once people get an answer to whatever their problem is, they bug out and don't hang around. I'm not talking about paying it forward or anything pithy like that, just participating in the community that has already helped you.

I think it's ironic that people who would otherwise describe themselves as beginners are so sure of their level of knowledge such that they are confident they don't have anything to offer. I chalk this up to laziness.

My approach is always to strive to be "a better beginner" and one of the best ways I've found to do this is to patiently help other beginners with whatever I've learned so far, because beginner questions always come up.
> It seemed to me that he felt the comments should stand because they were constructive in nature.

And yet many on meta.math also felt they were distinctly unconstructive, to the point of overt rudeness -- including the most highly upvoted answer to that question. You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.

Honestly, I think the mathematicians would be a lot better off if they spent more time worrying about math and less time writing thousands (literally, thousands) of words on meaningless issues on the meta site.

"According to the onetime editor of Woodrow Wilson’s papers, however, long before any of them strode the academic-political scene, Wilson observed often that the intensity of academic squabbles he witnessed while president of Princeton University was a function of the “triviality” of the issues being considered."

http://ask.metafilter.com/80812/Academic-politics-are-viciou...
>> Could you explain how this would be faster than light? Wouldn't the particles be traveling at the speed of light?

As maxerickson says, you emit streams of entangled particles from a central location heading in opposite directions. People equidistant from that location can communicate instantaneously. Alice modulates the wave function collapse by either taking a measurement or not. Say measuring indicates a 1 and non-measurement indicates a 0. Bob over at the other end uses his ability to distinguish a collapsed wave function from a non-collapsed one to get 1's and 0's out the other end. Because the measurement induced wave function collapse is instantaneous this will be faster than light communication. Bob can tell weather Alice is measuring or not, right now.

I stand by my assertion that physicists can not tell the difference. I'll also add that the reason is that there is no difference. But by all means continue to downvote without a counterexample.
By not having kids.

Not over working at day job.
The freedom to avoid, rather than have to pretend to be respectful to, incompetent, arrogant, often obnoxious officials, like cops, TSA, zoning boards, code enforcement, etc, etc, ad nauseum?
And a massive cash cow if you're selling the products of the cheap labour that goes on in US prisons.

http://www.cio.com/article/595304/Prison_Labor_Outsourcing_s...

http://newworkerfeatures.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-prison-labo...

Paying someone who you have in complete physical bondage under $1 an hour is slave labour as far as I'm concerned, even if it is nominally voluntary. At best its unconscionably exploitative. Add to that the fact that the US govt. is legally bound to prefer prison labour over any other for the production of body armour, weapons etc. for the security agencies.

EDIT: Here's another fun stat: america has more black people in prison than in college: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2223709.stm

Although we in the UK are definitely doing pretty well at emulating uncle sam: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/uk_prisons_...
The women, when they want to be particularly biting about their men, complain that “he doesn’t even own a gun anymore.”

Oooh, that enchants my imagination. I do hope I someday get a chance to live in a world where everyone hunts, no matter how small that world is, even if only for a little while.
Ok Thnx Sorry for the inconvenience
There were criminal penalties for willful, for-profit performances of dramatic and music works in 1897 US copyright law. The 1909 act expanded this to all types of willful, for-profit infringement. I'm reasonably sure neither Microsoft nor Oracle had anything to do with this.
>I eventually hope to create a tactile-spatial programming language with it.

Do you mean that figuratively or literally? I can't tell if you're working towards some super OOP magic or good support for like 3D vectors and events.

However you mean, I like the sound. Looking forward to seeing what else shakes out!

EDIT: I am now noticing your myojs stub and thinking that you mean "tactile-spatial" quite literally.
When you join the military, you take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies "foreign and domestic" (emphasis mine)

That's first. Obeying lawful orders is second.

It's debatable how this oath applies in Manning's case, but I think it's rather telling what order the things you are swearing to uphold come in.

When I was in the military my interpretation was that anything I was ordered to do that was contrary to the Constitution was an unlawful order. If I were taking the oath seriously, that would have required active dissent, not just ignoring the order.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/oathofen...
Good decision. I regret very much that I didn't make the same decision you did.

I did a 5-7 hour programming homework assignment, didn't hear back for weeks, and then it was just from a recruiter (sorry, we've decided not to continue the process).

I won't do it again, ever. It's not the wasted time that I regret so much. I do agree with you that there is a self-respect element to this.
He's a businessman, not the head of a charity. In 2007, the homeopathic industry did $3.7 billion in sales. It is probably higher now.

On the other hand, if this thing works, it surely does so by placebo, but due to the harmful effects of actual caffeine usage, placebo might actually be a major benefit to the consumer.
In our company we understand that testing up-front can be off-putting, but we rather pass up a great candidate than hiring a poor one (we do subscribe to Polsky view on candidates http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...). We allow them to test at their pace (codility.com) from home first, then we re-test them on-site (to avoid the 'someone doing my homework' effect). After that the next interview is pretty much talking on the code written code and approaches or decisions that the candidate took. So in that sense is a great piece to further discussion.

The issue is that where I work we can't subcontract as a way to 'test' for candidates. The code is so proprietary, and have so much red tape (Options Trading platform) that we don't trust anyone unless you are full-time. Also, the code is fairly complex and embedded in it's industry-speak that unless you come from the same industry subset, you will not be productive (like knowing what Black-scholes, instrument, or delta means). So the investment to getting any good developer to be able to produce is immense. We considered subcontracting for assessing a candidate, but it is fairly hard.

Also we have seen people that do extremely well on every other aspect of the interview but can't deliver when asked to write a piece of code. Good or bad it does show your ability to work under pressure (I am not sure if it's extreme in the financial industry, but stress levels here run fairly high... for a fun read http://codesnipers.com/?q=interview-the-wall-street-programm...). So when you're getting your coffee, someone comes and says 'we need to fix this' it will probably be as intimidating (or more) as having a code interview.

Lastly, maybe because we've seen it often enough, there are a ton of programmers that can't write code (yes, the fizzbuzz crew). Having the codility test filter in front of all eliminates a lot of that chaff we see, so we don't even bother with the candidates unless they get a good-enough result in codility (we do look at the code, not just if it passes/fails the unit tests, but we don't bring the candidate for an actual interview until we have a reasonable expectation that they can program). We understand we will miss Ike Ellis, and we accept that as part of the tradeoffs between time and opportunities.
You can also check out this:
https://github.com/Yardanico/nimpylib
But there's almost no features in it as I'm lazy :)
I think that the best feature in this lib is a python-like range type:
https://github.com/Yardanico/nimpylib/blob/master/src/pylib/...
We used Rust to replace font handling that was implemented in C in Prince¹ (which is mostly written in Mercury). This was then extended to include all font shaping and released as Allsorts². We integrate the Mercury code with Rust via FFI/Rust’s C interop.

¹ https://www.princexml.com/

² https://github.com/yeslogic/allsorts
Oh no, the cyber mafia warriors... Taking scientific papers and making them freely available??
> I'm also not sure i'd be willing to give up on being able to run linux natively on a laptop I buy with my own money.

May I suggest sponsoring Hector Martin on GitHub[0]? He’s working on building first-class support for the M1 architecture (including drivers) into Linux.

[0] https://github.com/marcan
We'd love to see that too! The Dasung 13.3" is actually sized just about right to be able to mod into our lid assembly. It's probably not a thing that we'll do ourselves, but it would be great to see someone try it.
Hmm, if you view biology as technology, isn't the ecosystem required for human life basically an industry in itself?

It seems that centralization is the natural outcome of decentralization. We live in the tension in between the two extremes.
Hey, nice to meet you. I believe there are crimes where a death penalty is warranted, but only humanely. AMA?
Its not the first. We have seen modular designs over and over again. Here is a very similar idea from 2016 https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

We have also seen multiple failed attempts at modular phones.

Ultimately, the problem with repair is not about making it easy enough for grandma to swap out a part. Its about making sure repair stores have the ability to source replacement parts.

Its pretty easy to do almost any repair if you have the tools and parts but there is no way you are finding a new IC that fried on your 5 year old laptop.
Well that's just embarrassing.
Call me when I can get system packages for all of these libraries (particularly those with shared library dependencies) in Python3.

It will happen someday, but not yet.
They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently?

Well, yes? Extraterritorial law enforcement works fine for the US, they're quite happy to shut down gambling, copyright infringement, and so on regardless of where you are in the world.

In this case, it's git. It's inherently distributed. It's fairly easy to force Chinese users onto a local equivalent and block all those suspicious outgoing https/ssh connections to github.
On the other hand this is exactly the kind of people you wish for when something like the 1918 flu pandemic will happen again.
Obligatory K reference: 2 line spreadsheet implementation.

S..t:".[`D;(;);{. y};S[]];S[.;`f]:9$D[]"
S:D:.+(`a`b`c`d;4 6#,"")

This is for K v2 which had Web+JS style built in native GUI. Later versions (K3 =~ Kona, k4/q and the upcoming k5) have dropped the GUI, so unless you have a K2 interpreter lying around, you can't test it. But rest assured it did work on a standalone 200KB interpreter that runs on a bare Win32 or Linux/Solaris + X install.

More info in http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm - look for S- near the bottom.
Mrs. Elizabeth LeBeau of Mobile Alabama. The 7-11 where she bought her game cards may also have to close now.
The name actually comes from Tom Servo from MST3K (whose name in turn probably comes from the motor)
This is terrible but it is not "hacker news".
Whistleblower procedures only work if what you are exposing is wrong according to the organization's own internal rules (written and unwritten).

What these people have been exposing isn't wrong according to the internal rules of the NSA/military/State Department/etc., therefore, there's no possibility of achieving change through internal whistleblowing.
"Which basically means it can be used as a viable replacement for WebAPI or MVC".

He does know about WebAPI.
So collateral damage is only acceptable when its the military that does it?
It would be faster to place the gradient on an overlay and move it using CSS transform. The method above causes a recalculation of the entire gradient on every move; transform would just move the already rendered texture (in hardware on modern browsers).
> Using it as leverage with your current employer will damage your relationship with them, even if you win that negotiation.

I have used a better competing offer multiple times to negotiate with my employer of 13 years. My relationship with my superiors improved each time…

I believe how you go about this negotiation will determine if it damages the relationship, not if you do it or not.
Using nukes at all is an escalation. Not something you want to roll the dice on given the scale of destruction and the window of time in which things would go very downhill.
In my experience Rackspace is good at providing customer support on top of single managed server instances. Their Cloud Sites and Cloud Files offerings (akin to ec2 and s3) feel less than stable, and their management interface encounters unrecoverable errors many times each session. In their Chicago data center they don't allow moving backup snapshots to s3-like storage, all backups are stored with the server. This alone should be a red flag to anyone who is doing any cloud hosting. It just feels like something they're trying to get into, instead of a core competency.

Amazon on the other hand has a much more diverse offering that feels at least somewhat battle tested and polished. They offer you the ability to clone a running server with single click, backups to s3, CDN, block stores, map-reduce, etc. They've also been around for a while, which isn't proof of a good product but it gives you a better feeling that they're serious about the business of cloud hosting (not just hosting).

Not that Amazon doesn't also have its issues. I've heard multiple reports of servers simply "disappearing", which is worrisome.
There are about/faq links, but they're all dead. Maybe wait until the site has been finished before posting it.
We're getting closer and closer to passing the Turing test...

This one has some pretty good responses I must say...
For simple examples, such as those from this article, I don't think you see C++'s type system at all -- except maybe the fact that it doesn't do duck typing (which you also see with Scala).
He complains about using JPEGs yet his PNGs are unreasonably large (60-120KB). I compressed one of his 80KB images into 15KB just by re-saving it.
I think we could accomplish many more firsts with less money if we used the X-Prize model. (If we did this, we wouldn't have to abandon the NASA model either!)
As an added note, we refunded the difference to all existing users.
When we published Getting Real (http://gettingreal.37signals.com) we only offered it in two flavors: $19 for a personal-use PDF, and $49 for a you-can-share-it-with-10-friends/colleagues PDF. We didn't offer a free version.

A few years later, we offered a free version in HTML online. Sales of the PDF plummeted. That was fine with us - we'd already pulled in ~$500k on the PDF. At that point we just wanted to spread the Getting Real word as far and wide as we can. The free HTML version helped do that.

But the lesson is: If it's pay only, people will buy it. If it's pay and free, you'll lose a ton of potential buyers. Id start with pay only (starting at $19) and then phase in a free version down the road once you're happy with the money you've already made.
Competence is, for the most part, distributed normally, but productivity looks something more like pareto.
Would be interesting if they were both on the Joe Rogan Podcast and had a debate.
You're right, it does in fact come with 'vi' :-).