skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New York Times is severely fucked even without Google messing with their rankings.

They still make most of their money from dead tree newspaper subscribers who are almost all over 50 but are losing those subscribers at a massive rate. There is an internal initiative to basically double digital revenue by 2020 to make up for the losses on the paper side but, speaking as someone who worked there, it's not looking good. At all. They brag about how they just got 40k new digital subscribers in the month after Trump got elected but a lot of those are subsidized / deal subs and won't be sticking around in the long term.

It also doesn't help that the NYT continually downsizes its newsroom and editorial staff to make ill-informed forays into tech (The NYT digital r&d department was a complete joke - like they paid 5 engineers high six figure salaries to basically jerk off and put a monitor behind a mirror - oh wow so innovative).

Most of the bloat at the NYT is absolutely in the tech department but they rarely fire anyone there (I quit). They have big teams supporting legacy systems that are used by maybe a hundred people a month. They have an entire lexical / semantic team with a "sophisticated" (re: expensive, old, and clunky) tagging system that does essentially nothing for the NYT, because guess how many people use their "topic" knowledge base (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/hillary-rodham-clinton)? I'll give you a hint: more than zero, but not by much. But there's like four or five full time engineers with six figure salaries supporting it.
Well, let's see... It's 2017, so yes.
Lots of passing tests mean nothing to you?
Is that true for the paid version of Travis as well? If not, might be worth paying for it, to support a community as large as Rust's. (If the paid version is that backlogged as well, I'm surprised they don't put more resources into accelerating it; perhaps not enough of their customers care about macOS?)

Alternatively, given that Mozilla has their own extensive CI infrastructure (for Firefox), perhaps it'd make sense to migrate to that instead of Travis?
Ts'o strikes me as damn close to Torvalds in attitudes. The guy have been with the kernel for almost as long as Torvalds himself, happily developing EXT version after EXT version for it.

The problem is with more recent people, that seem to be more "american" their approach. Always looking to climb the ranks and find new domains of development to undertake rather than stick with one area and become deeply proficient.
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there are some caveats to note about the 'will-change' property that they do not mention:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/will-change
Oh god, XML config files where order matters >_< "oh but plutil can convert them to json!" Oh but it does so in-place, so I hope you copied the file before converting it, because launchd certainly can't read JSON plists...

/facepalm
> At some point though LLVM began doing a valid optimization that valgrind was unable to recognize as valid, and that made its application useless for us, or at least too difficult to maintain.

What optimization was that? Some searching didn't turn up any relevant results (other than this article).
> Twenty-four volunteers, ages 18-23, were selected for their motivation and their excellent health.

If only we were all 18-23 years old in excellent health. The amount of abuse sustained and the speed of recovery my 20 year old self could sustain compared to my 30 year old self is truly astonishing.

When you're young, your body can compensate in a myriad ways you aren't even thinking about, that obviously weren't measured in the study.

It's a good start but not really relevant to the possible scenarios.

1. Dubious sample selection (perfect health, probably above average cognitive ability as well)

2. High levels/short term exposure rather than moderate levels & long term exposure (1+ year)

3. Tests were likely too simple and did not require a high level of abstraction/cognition in the first place.

I know sample n=1, but I've experienced increased anxiety and lower energy levels at ppms as low as 2000-3000, which you can easily encounter in a poorly ventilated room.
Then you probably would have liked Internet Mail 2000 (IM2000), a half-hearted djb proposal: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html

(I say half-hearted because when djb is enthused, the first people hear of it is a complete first draft of a server and a client...)
Do you dispute the accuracy of the statements made in the article, or just that they should be put in writing?

If you believe the article to be filled with lies, you could explain why.

If you just think it's filled with truths that should not be uttered, that seems to me like a rather strange position to take. The goal is to build political will in favor of government action that puts a price on CO2 emissions. Terrifying people about things that are truly terrifying, while not guaranteed to help a whole lot, is at worst not counterproductive. And if you happen to terrify/enlighten/educate the right handful of rich people it might just have a tremendous impact.
What ? Definitely no true if you travel cross continents.
Early in my career I interviewed at a small game company. It was located in a crappy town, and when I arrived the CEO walked me around their work environment, which was mostly cubicles in hallways and multiple devs crammed in offices.

Then we sat down in his office and he handed me a programming quiz. While young, I was an accomplished dev with my name on a multiple published products. The first question was unclear, it didn't specify if I was to optimize for speed or memory or maintenance cost. So I got up, walked out, handed him the unstarted exam and left to take a job at Apple. Where I was highly rated in every performance review and extolled for my ability to work well with others.

People who don't want to take coding exams fall into two rough categories.

1) They are fakers, their resume claims are BS and they are afraid of being unmasked.

2) They are very good developers, and don't like tests. Maybe because of test anxiety, maybe they find them insulting given their career accomplishments, or mostly because they know they have little to no bearing on how good a developer they are. The reasons I refused the test that day was a combination of all three.

One example, even today I can't whiteboard anything to do with binary trees, because in 30 years of professional development I've never had to do anything with them, and can no longer remember any of the binary tree algorithms from my comp-sci classes.

My recommendation to you (as someone who has hired over 40 devs in my career) is to do paired programming tests with candidates. You can get a much clearer idea of their thought process and abilities, and it's a far friendlier and respectful process.

Too many managers measure the process cost only in their own time. They think, oh, I'll give 10 candidates a test to filter out the worst ones and then I only have to spend my time interviewing the top two or three. First you are ignoring how easy it is to cheat those tests and how little they apply to actual dev work, which means your top two or two are not likely to be your best two out of the ten. But you are also ignoring the possibility that four others refused to test and two of them were likely as good or better than anyone in your test group.

I will never take a coding test again. When someone requests one, they tend to be a crap company with poor software dev practices and a huge noisy open floor plan.
> hoard it for yourself or sell it to someone, both of which keep the attack vector open and millions of users at risk.

I think this logic is inherently flawed.

If there was no monetary incentive and the only ROI was a thanks from Apple, maybe the bug in question would not have been found in the first place. Becoming aware of a bug does not suddenly put people at any more risk than they were previously in, prior to bug discovery.
I'm one of the unlucky few that were affected by this (I own .ch).

One of my site user's reported that the website is inaccessible on Friday. I went to check and observed the DNS changing. Then went to check Route 53 status page[2] in which I learn that this is not specific to my site. The behavior is exactly the same as what is described in the SWITCH report[1]. Luckily that I have HSTS on my site, so the damage is limited (users not getting redirected), and Gandi seems to fixed this quick enough (I was in the middle of commuting back home by the time of the attack.)

[1]: https://securityblog.switch.ch/2017/07/07/94-ch-li-domain-na...

[2]: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ (The blue icon for Amazon Route 53 Domain Registration)
> There is absolutely no reason why browsers have to use the native compositor for CSS.

Sure, but you're basically re-implementing big parts of the OS in the browser. Which is maybe not a bad idea, but at some point there's inception.
It is funny how everybody goes crazy when talking about taxes and politicians taking our money and when CEOs do a lot worse with the extra money they take from us in the form of profit it becomes a BBC business news.

Taxes > Profit
The willpower hypothesis is one of the larger tire fires in the disaster that is reproducibility in psychology research.

https://www.google.com/search?q=willpower+reproducibility
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The app is still compromised.

On top of that, you didn't get to reap the benefits of any of the protections you get from a proper Kernel like Ring 3 execution, NX bits on pages, guard pages on the stack, etc.
Why is it running on port 3000?
Article doesn't even talk about yeast. The whole thing sounds close to a factory to me, apparently the guy hasn't even worked with vignerons in France at all. Unlikely to happen.
Ruminant meats (beef, lamb, goat) have a higher GHG impact due to enteric fermentation producing methane.

Numerically, you can't cut a lot of your GHG impact by reducing/switching meat consumption if you are living an ordinary middle class first world lifestyle in other respects.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

Methane accounts for about 10% of warming from anthropogenic US GHG emissions. Enteric fermentation in ruminants accounts for 25% of that 10%, and agricultural manure another 10%. So you can cut maybe 25% of 10% (2.5%) from baseline-American emissions by eliminating red meat from your diet, or 35% of 10% (3.5%) by eliminating animal products altogether.

It's similar in the European Union:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

Agriculture accounts for 10% of emissions, and meat production is just a portion of that.

Personal dietary changes are at least quick and inexpensive, even if they don't lead to deep emissions reductions. I stopped eating red meat a few years ago because of a family history of heart attacks. It actually saved money on my grocery bills.
>I'm assuming it's just to push the "anti immigration" narrative?

Yes. It's a quick act that he can use as an example to his base that he's taking care of perceived immigration issues.
Thanks for asking that question. My original comment was made quickly and perhaps unintelligently. I don't mean to imply force makes something "right" where "right" is good or best society. I meant from a historical perspective success and strength often makes things culturally acceptable.

A pop culture reference I like to make is the protagonist in Wolf of Wall Street who defrauded many innocent and vulnerable people, is seen as a hero.

Relating back to OP and his American comment, we can reopen Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of torture yet every time our president sets foot in a foreign country he receives a celebration: partly due to the might of the American military and economy.

Relating back to tech and software in general: How do we feel about Microsoft, Bill Gates, after what they did in the 90s? How do we feel about the way Steve Jobs treated his employees and bought his higher placement on the organ transplant list?

"Might makes culturally acceptable" it seems.
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We are already paying Travis.

> Given that Mozilla has their own extensive CI infrastructure

While Mozilla does sponsor a lot of Rust stuff, it's fundamentally a community project, and so many of us (including myself) would prefer to not to move closer to something that's Mozilla-specific.
We use maputnik now because we want the style to be MapBox GL and not CartoCSS: https://github.com/maputnik/editor. We use the MapBox client libs, but host the vector tiles and styles ourselves. Raster tiles seem so 2010 :)

MapBox hired the maintainer of maputnik though, so the future is unclear.
I was assuming administrative control of course. How, as the administrator, do you define such user jobs? It's not a permissions issue, its a launchd job configuration issue.
Were using? I quite enjoy CMake and find it fast and easy to use. What am I missing out on?
"As absurd now as walking around on the moon was in the 1st Century."

Yes true(wonder why we don't shuttle down to the moon since we landed half a century ago and still never went back???), it is going to be absurd till we have an AI which is as capable(or even half as capable) as much as a human and we can debug that AI or maybe that AI debug's itself reflexively. Till then, I would say its absurd anytime to think that an AI could take control of a human and guide the human in its actions. Till then, I will keep my brain intact and keep away from any AI implants or any kind of implant altogether).
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You probably mean "at will".
Small point of contention. Netherlands have lower GDP per capita than USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...

Generally small and/or resource rich countries tend to have a high GDP per capita, so comparisons usually aren't very fair.
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How is this different than building a single page app with say, react router + redux?
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> I'd try to stay focused on no more than 5 games since guild requirements and features should vary greatly between them.

Agreed. Right now, I'm focusing on a few communities to make sure it works really well for them before expanding the feature set to all games.

What's interesting though is that all of the site's features - even the ones that look game-specific - cut horizontally across many games. For instance, we recently added an Overwatch team comp builder. It turns out that every game that has the notion of "balanced teams" can adapt that in the future, even if they're not even the same genre. The same engine used to generate Overwatch teams can be used to generate League of Legends, DotA, and Heroes of the Storm teams. This is something I'm really excited about in the future.
For a great summary, see: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
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I think this is a really cool idea, but I feel like it could be described in a better way.

'Machine learning-based app configuration' is very techie and vague and could mean a LOT of different things in a number of realms. What about something more specific and benefit-focused, like: 'AI that automatically improves your site's design'? To me something like that communicates what the product is more clearly, assuming I understand it correctly of course.
I didn't read it as you bashing Amazon. I read as Amazon is "stealing" all the talent by offering better wages, etc...
tl;dr their new mail standard is a web app.

"Why use HTTPS/JSON? The short answer is it’s good enough, widely understood and it’s by far the easiest thing for developers to adopt. There’s support in basically all OSes and programming languages. It’s easy to read and debug."

Why not INI files, then, or a CSV, delivered over DNS? "Wide support and rapid adoption" is great if you're trying to make money, but not necessarily a great technical design framework.

The reason webapps work with HTTP/JSON is they had to. They were built on top of old standards which had to be backwards compatible, and they had to work around holes in the existing technology. So they took existing tech and extended it, and made it simple enough for everyone to adopt it warts and all, rather than improve it. We've been slowly patching its gross inefficiencies ever since.

An IMAP replacement does not have to work over a web platform, so it does not need this kind of unnecessary coupling of disparate, complicated standards to make it more clunky. But they're doing it anyway. So, why build a complicated new protocol on top of difficult, completely unrelated standards?

This new standard only exists as a vehicle for their own services and products, because they need other people to adopt it for it to make sense as a product they can make money on vs their competitors. They could have just worked with the industry on the next generation of IMAP, but that wouldn't be adopted "as quickly" to lock an industry into the model they are already developing.
> All else being equal (i.e., in steady state, low-innovation, markets with healthy competition), the purchase price of something is just labor + energy costs of mining/recycling the raw materials, and manufacturing, with a small profit margin tacked on top.

That would be if markets were efficient :).

As it is, the costs of goods are still dominated by middle men - people who have nothing to do with neither manufacturing nor selling the thing to the end customer. Prices today aren't good signals, because they're pretty arbitrary - shaped by supply/demand in long term, yes, but in short term directed by various business tricks (like market segmentation, brand value, contracts, etc.).

Your Tesla example actually shows it pretty well - in order to quantify its environment impact, you need to know at least that a) Tesla is electric, b) where your energy comes from.

Price would be a good proxy for a lot of things, if it wasn't so messed up by various parties trying to profit at each level of the supply chain.
Notability and GoodNotes are both very good. GoodNotes fits my brain a little better, so that's what I've been using. Both are around $10.
No and no. Dietary cholesterol is almost entirely unrelated to blood cholesterol and salt intake only matters for those relative few who are sensitive.

Depending on what kind of pizza you eat, the cholesterol may also not be very high.
It was certainly a major problem, if you bought a new car but the dealer gave you one with 50k miles on it would you shrug it off if the gas mileage was still the same? At a basic level it's fraud.

There are practical concerns as well, these machines are usually pretty poor quality and the immense heat + poor cooling typically means the chips will burn out one-by-one over time. The PSUs are especially poor and will burn out and need replacing as well. Getting a used ASIC means these will be problems sooner.
Indicate RoHS compliance, at least :)
I'm curious - I haven't met many people who were unable to obtain any type of student loan. Was that the case for you?
We just used ai.google instead of google.ai as the canonical domain name for Google's AI initiative for precisely this reason. (We run .google and you can see the source code at https://nomulus.foo )
What's the feedback from candidates who don't do the challenges?

If you already interviewed them twice, why in gods name do you need an easy to cheat programming challenge? Why not do paired programming instead?
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You are saying that you do not agree with security experts helping Apple secure iOS? Or am I misunderstanding? (Pretty surprised to hear this).
I already addressed that in the last paragraph of my comment. Yes, if a whole lot of people did it together, it would matter a lot. And if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.

It takes a completely different approach to get a lot of people to take action than it does to take action myself. If I want other people to change their lives, I need to convince them to do it, or force them to do it, or come up with great new technology that allows them to do it while making their lives better, or something like that. If I want to change my own life, I need to buy different stuff, use different stuff, eat different stuff, etc. The two are essentially unrelated.

You're right, I don't care enough to change my behavior. That's because the effort/reward ratio is completely busted. The reward is indistinguishable from zero, so I'd need to care an essentially infinite amount.
thanks, that was a really interesting article. Unfortunately it focused mainly on what "willpower" is dubious and not so much on what it is instead that helps one resist a craving. Only at the end the author wrote that the drinking lawyer had to much stress (underlying problem). But that isnt really a good general answer/explanation. I once read the book "the power of habit" and maybe that is the answer (its habits we need to control) but I am not sure.
The difference is I can shun a company making unfair profit and choose a competitor (in most cases at least) but I can't not pay taxes for any reason (even civil disobedience is hard to prove). In general, any company/institution where I voluntarily part with money will, and has to, have lower regulations (not zero) than an institution where I don't have a choice.
Aw. I thought the article was about how someone was going to synthesize better wine in bulk, like the "Wine 2.0" startup in Dogpatch.[1] They do well in blind tastings.

Synthetic meat is hard. But wine is just a liquid mixture.

[1] https://www.avawinery.com/
So instead of hacking 1 email/account they would just hack 2 or 3? I don't think that is adding any real security as those accounts would still just be protected by regular passwords. It makes it a tad bit harder for a hacker but not prohibitively so, because if they got the credentials to your first account then the others are probably not too much harder.

The real power of 2FA is having the code generated by you, the human, via your hardware device or software physically controlled by you and not another automated machine.
At the time of purchase there is not much the consumer can know about how long devices will last. The 50% more expensive option may last 50% longer, twice as long or half as long as the cheaper model.
Manufacturers might signal a bit with extended warranties, but there is no need to be a correlation to longevity. They might just decide to take the occasional hit and write it off on their margins.
It can often be a hassle to make use of a warranty, and when they are manufacturer specific it can be hard to get help from consumers protection agencies also.
i really love it! stuff like this and ngrok are great ideas.