skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then, isn't that what the Roman Empire underwent as well? Language stayed, territory diminished, religion only gradually changed, most technologies and societal structures only gradually changed (just like in USSR or British Empire). The biggest differences were the changes in institutions and governance (although that also happened gradually).
> MS Word early versions[1] had obvious buttons for bold and italics.

For laypeople, that may be fine. MS Word was atrociously bad for high-volume typing. Had family in transcription, and they could fly with WordPerfect, doing > 100 WPM. This was a combination of having external tools ("plugins", effectively, to do word expansion with macros), WP being DOS-based (faster screen UI/etc), and, to some measure, experience.

One family member got switched to MS Word on Windows. Well.. the whole department did. They suffered through an immediate drop to about 60% of previous productivity, and it took a couple of years and severe hardware upgrades to get most of the people back to around 80% of previous productivity levels.

Why switch? MS was bundling the whole offering and tempting the company to upgrade. The management of an 'integrated stack' was seen as attractive, and the massive drop off in dept-level productivity was accepted. Management still bitched that stuff was late, and quality dropped, but... hey, network admins have a bit less work to do, and some other dept saved a few bucks.

The bundling/integration of stuff on to the OS was a big selling point, even when it led to demonstrably poorer results for some parties involved. Cool! - there's a menu with a button to do some funky text manipulation. That only takes 8 seconds instead of "having" to memorize some arcane keystrokes. When the keystrokes are memorized, though, it takes .4 seconds to accomplish the same thing.
You can make the absolute date appear for each timestamp on a GitHub page by injecting this CSS onto the page, manually or with a browser extension such as Stylus:

relative-time::before {
content: attr(title);
margin-right: 0.5em;
}

The result is that all relative times have their absolute time prepended, like this:

> Nov 20, 2017, 2:11 PM EST an hour ago
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737998
You want the Multiple Tab Handler add-on for Firefox. It's 57 ready and even works with tree style tabs.
Since O'Reilly no longer has an online storefront, is this the easiest way to get DRM free O'Reilly ebooks?
So I thought the entire point of SSR was to speed up initial page load - if you pre-render all the static parts of the page, including what happens after routing, but before any API calls, so that your webserver can cache that static HTML for that route and serve it up. What this means is that the user immediately sees much more of a rendered HTML page, rather than seeing a blank page for 2 seconds and having to wait to download and run a massive JS bundle first.
"The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but it doesn’t necessarily protect freedom of attention."

Are you suggesting that people's free will is so easily lost that we needed to have, in the First Amendment, a clause stating "freedom from external thought influences"?

"Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will"

Only if you allow it to be, just like with any other compulsive activity, if it starts affecting your life negatively, you should probably make some personal life changes.

This reads like a call for government regulation of advertising or how content is served to people because people cannot defend themselves from this media onslaught.

I believe something similar to China's regulation of the web may be what you're looking for, but I'm old enough to vote and go to war so I'm old enough to decide how often my "free will" is attacked.
Excuse the immaturity here, but man all I see in that URL is chub.
I can't sanction your response.
Curious if anyone has experience with this. If you did build a product first, are there cases when having said product can actually harm raising money?
"People are much less prone to be swayed by that sort of thing when their health, shelter, and food are not at risk."

You seem to have disproved your own thesis, then, since there aren't that many people who have their health, shelter, or food directly affected by this race for the attention economy. (Yes, I said "aren't that many" and not "zero", but it's still not that many.)

What basis do you have for believing a centralized government with the definition of all morality and power adhering within it wouldn't simply turn the full force of this engineering on its citizens? After all, isn't it just that important for us to use these tools to maintain proper consciousness? If you don't believe that, don't you think the leadership will? And don't we actually have historical (USSR, to the extent it was technologically possible) and modern regimes (China, do an internet search on "china citizen score") doing just that right now? Before walking down that trail, you ought to make very, very, very sure it leads where you think it does, because several hundred million people who have walked it before you have discovered it doesn't.
Cost Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
The question of who creates the content is mostly orthogonal to what I mean.

I'm talking about is a platform where my decision to click/watch content is based on reviews and recommendations, not loud design and attention-grabbing headlines.

In that world, the subscription model could make sense and content aggregation could make sense, but neither is required, nor does either addressing the issue on its own.
People vote on party lines a super high rate in most areas on the US, it's close to 90% except in unusual cases. Contemporarily it's the reason GOP voters have a tough time choosing between a sexual predator and a Democrat in the Alabama special Senate election, one side thinks the other side is so evil they feel this is a difficult choice.

Also gerrymandering for districts make it so once it's guaranteed to be a party seat, the primaries can skew towards the extreme of that party.
A bank can release a new well made app that lets people apply for mortgages easier, which gets them 10% new mortgages worth $100 billion, which can easily be tracked back to the dev team that made this amazing app.
Were you working in managerial accounting in the 1980s?

My own arms-length exposure at that time suggests that, however simplistic it might seem, the assessment in the article is correct. It might seem obvious that lowering inventory as a percentage of assets is good, but only if you look at that, rather than just seeing the top-line assets total go down.

This article seems to very accurately represent my experience.
I've continued to see press which leads me to believe that it was more of a cosmetic, public opinion change than a deep-seated shift to not being an evil company after the change in CEO. I stand by my statement.

Sexual misconduct is very far from Uber's only ethics problem.
Show HN: ViroCore – SceneKit for Android for AR/VR Applications
Why is email slow and kludgy? I don't want to relitigate old threads, but the only way I can see coming to that conclusion is that it's because it puts a person back in control of their attention. What would our workdays look like without Slack notifications?
The article is talking about the 80’s, not the 20’s. The importance of working capital management was well understood by then.
Those damn things give me problems in totally usual situations, let alone unusual ones.
My CPU spikes to untold levels with Firefox on my MbP and makes the fan run almost constantly. Hasn’t gotten any coverage here as a problem but it’s a clean install.
You mean like elevators?
Veteran podcast hosts speak relatively slowly, so that it allows for the widest range of listening speed comfort levels amongst their listeners. People can then use their podcast player to customize how fast they like to listen. This is an easy way to tell apart the experienced and inexperienced podcasts.
Wow, just imagine what this means to cloud, you get to own not one server of an org... but several orgs at the same time!
>what cohort of people does this filter exclude?

People unlikely to have the connections and social capital required to get future rounds of funding.

There are many venture capital filters that are Keynesian beauty contests like this. Venture capitalists aren't optimizing for funding financially sound businesses. They're optimizing for funding in round N companies that they believe have a good enough chance to get funded in round N+1, and so forth.
Medoo v1.5 is released
5% is generous?

It's a requirement at some universities so I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher. Then again, I don't know what % of universities requires it either.
I haven’t seen any acknowledgement yet from these threads - there’s been lots of cheerleading, but it’s not usable at all for me.
Did they? European social democratic countries (Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germnay), Britain (e.g. the NHS), Costa Rica, Mondragon Spain, etc.

Lots of workers' blood was spilled to ensure the capitalist systems we see in the US and other countries, too. All sides in the history of politics and economic systems are bloody-handed monsters.

It might, just might, be possible to learn from history and not repeat prior mistakes. I sure hope so.
This kind of attitude from your parent commenter is extremely common, it is an artifact of ideology and the working of technological rationality into the consciousness. While the parent commenter probably believes he or she lives in a post-ideological world in which rationality has been obtained and found to be forever placed somewhere between right and left, a compromise of two extremes in which domination cannot be acknowledged because as Marx put it, Bentham reins, J.S Mill makes a strange comeback in the denial of structural effects and seeing totality. The kind of ignorance or blindness to the totality of society is well captured by P.W Bridman quoted by Marcuse:

>"We evidently know what we mean by length if we can tell what the length of any and every object is, and for the physicist nothing more is required. To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed: that is, the concept of length involves as much and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined. In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations."

>Bridgman has seen the wide implications of this mode of thought for the society at large:

"To adopt the operational point of view involves much more than a mere restriction of the sense in which we understand 'concept,' but means a far-reaching change in all our habits of thought, in that we shall no longer permit ourselves to use as tools in our thinking concepts of which we cannot give an adequate account in terms of operations."
GitHub doesn't even have a “migrate issue to pull request” feature. I think the solution GitHub would recommend would be to link to a discussion in the issue comments, and to optionally lock the issue as well.
This seems like terrible advice. I'm highly against borrowing money or receiving investment money from friends / family. The risk simply isn't worth the reward.
It's been two decades since I took the origins of this course at UC Berkeley. Understanding the material from this course (and the Dragon Book in general) should change the way you think about many forms of data processing. I think this topic is absolutely foundational to a well-rounded CS education. It's important to understand a little about tool-building rather than just tool-use if you want to master your craft.

I haven't reviewed his new syllabus in depth, but even 20 years ago, Alex had reduced the focus on parsing compared to more traditional syllabi based on the Dragon Book. You were expected to do some homework and self-study to learn the basic parsing and lexing concepts. The reason for COOL was to get you into the other compiler-construction topics sooner to get some breadth of exposure to concepts like abstract syntax trees, semantic checking, type systems, intermediate languages, code-generation, and the rough idea of runtime systems and ABIs.

Taken together with an operating systems course, these are really two different examples of systems engineering concepts. You should be able to take away not just some vertical silo of knowledge only applicable to "building a compiler" or "writing an OS". You should be able to fuse these concepts into a richer understanding of how to decompose and engineer complex systems given a range of specialized and more general-purpose requirements.

Another facet of this can be found in courses focused more on database construction and storage, but this starts to veer out of the introductory space. Unfortunately, most introductory database courses focus too much on using a database and writing applications instead of on understanding how they work and what the engineering tradeoffs actually are.
"Flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing. (Not quite what you were asking, but it's in the spirit of the question, I think).

"Literally" is often used for emphasis, even when something is figuratively but not literally true.

"Enjoin" means both to proscribe and to prescribe.

"Sanction" is similar; it's either a penalty for breaking a rule, or official approval of something.

"Dust" (as a verb) means both to clean dust off of something or to spread dust onto it.

"Fast" means fixed in one place or moving quickly.

"Oversight" means watching over something carefully, but also a mistake caused by a missed detail.

"Cleave" means both to cling/adhere and to split/sever.

"Hold up" can mean support or hinder.

This list can keep going. It's just the point that I got tired of finding more listicles to pull the best bits out of.
Mental chess is a bit tough of a challenge. Why not try mental four in a row? Still a bit of memory work required, but not to the extent that chess or blindfolded go require.

I wrote an app to let you play, starting with playing with one colour, before moving on to invisible.

https://simonduff.net/invisilink to play in your browser, and a link to the Android app. Appreciate any feedback :)
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>For laypeople, that may be fine. MS Word was atrociously bad for high-volume typing.

Totally agree. That's one of the reasons why law firms and their typists hung on to Wordperfect-DOS for a decade even after MS Word was mainstream. Very long legal documents that would choke MS Word worked fine in WordPerfect DOS.
My solution was to switch to a capped data plan... unlimited talk/text (which I've never found to be a problem) and 1GB of 4G data.

Having a cap forces me to be mindful about how I interact through my phone. If I use too much Reddit, for example, I run out of data and fallback to 3G - acceptable for social/professional obligations but way too slow for wasting time. Lately I've been considering switching to 3G entirely.
When I first saw the headline, I thought it had something to do with secrets management, for, like, ssh keys... Why would they need an entire region for that?
In 1998, they substituted grants for
loans for students from families earning less than
$46,500.

In 2001 they replaced all loans with grants :-(

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jepsen/nytimesJan2801.pdf
As AI get smarter and places like Google collect more data about you, they will eventually know all the right buttons to press to get you to look and not look away.
I do agree with most of that (as one can deduce from my comment up there), but I have to notice that the general trend is about simplifying things, making procedures more repeatable, and documenting those procedures.

We are much better at preventing knowledge loss than we were even a generation ago. We are still pretty much horrible at it, but we did improve a lot.
Agreed, and I think you could coin that as the Risk Corollary to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Because a bureaucracy's control is eventually driven by political considerations rather than results, a bureaucracy's risk management policy will eventually be driven by politics rather than results, and as such, policy will attempt to reduce the appearance of risk rather than reduce risk itself.
I subscribe to some news sites (WaPo, The Guardian, NYT, The Economist) — they each have a much better hook than WSJ which just dumps you into this weird limbo. I wonder how successful this approach is versus the “5 free articles a month” approach others use or the “polite request” approach of The Gaurdian. Does anyone know?
Do Chinese and African philosophers take into account Western thought? And if they don't, is that still ok, or are they racist as well?
Do you mean 60 minutes or are you watching the games at 1.5x?
Subject 'density' isn't something that can be just ramped up and down at will. Not everything can be conveyed at the same level of 'density' as those 1/2 page computer science papers you are referencing.

You can think of it like compression in computer science; not every file is equally compressable.
Correct, except that initial app load time for un-cookied users with cold browser caches is a critical metric, since it largely determines whether they'll keep using your app. Fortunately, those are the scenarios where server-side caching can have a decent benefit, since you're essentially rendering the same view to all such users.
> lengthier pieces on long-term issues

I wish there was something opposite, daily and weekly summaries where every "article" is just a title and one paragraph. Almost all lengthy articles have poor information per character ratio.
I've worked at a large mmo company where engineers were randomly assigned pager/ops duty for some weeks. It's a good form of dog fooding,but needs to be done in a way that respects people's existing roles and obligations.. i.e. needs to be scheduled and agreed upon.
Here's how I (try to) keep the Internet-based distractions to a minimum:

* Uninstall twitter, facebook and other social apps from your phone; only use the computer (or other device that's not constantly in your pocket).

* Even on your computer, log out of twitter, facebook and others. Only log in when you want to look into something (eg. check the social events, send a message), and use private/incognito mode for this; use 2FA - besides being good security practice, it's an extra hurdle so you won't default to "quickly check" the sites when your mental energy is low.

* When you do use tw/fb/..., unfollow/block/opt out of all the meme/cute/funny stuff (at least n my fb feed, there's basically 10 sites that'd constantly crop up - blocking posts by all of these greatly increased Signal/Noise ratio on FB);

* Have a reading list ready. I use iBooks on my iPhone to load up interesting articles, but you can use whichever method you prefer. The goal is to have something interesting/worthwhile to read available for the moments when you do want to look at your phone and/or kill some time (eg when in a long queue or waiting for a train). This something shouldn't require special focus or mental energy/capacity.

* Develop heuristics to ignore content that you know is junk but that tends to drag you in. I suspect this is slightly different for anyone, mine is: anything cute, funny, outrageous, sad or is a list of things. I am aware this potentially cuts out some genuinely worthwhile stuff and I'm okay with it. Considering my attention & time is finite and the Internet is (for all purposes) not, I'd rather have false positives than false negatives.

* I also have a high bar for what's newsworthy for me: anything that personally affects me (meaning I have to change my intentions or react in some way), and stuff that'll still be considered newsworthy in a month. Anything else gets ignored, no matter the medium. Again I'm okay with false positives. Also, since my friends are colleagues typically don't have the same approach, if I miss anything important (or really interesting), I'll probably hear it on the grapevine.

Couldn't be happier.
Yep - I'd forgotten about law firms. I was a delivery driver for a couple law firms in the early 90s. I was seeing most stuff at university done on MS Word at that point, but every law firm was still on Word Perfect. The industry around vertical markets for WP was pretty strong for a long time it seemed.
We've made models using a cell phone camera
Nehru, the Patron Saint of Soviet Sexual Liberation?
They don't value all users equally, ones in North America are generally worth considerably more. From a quick search, I can't find any more recent info, but in Jan 2016 a user from USA/Canada was worth $13.54/quarter [1], so that would be about $54/year.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...
OK from single core $10 VPS you will be able to serve
1,080,000 unique initial loads per hour
and depending on your pattern of traffic say 15,000,000 in a day could you remind me what the issue is again?
Wow, they just rendered Basecamp obsolete.
If you're a restaurant chain and you have your own IT, presumably it's for a reason. You're providing your own POS systems, you're providing a website for customers to order from. A new release can improve efficiencies in a restaurant, or wreck them. A new release can mean the difference between me being able to order from Papa Johns (literally 1 mile from my apartment) or not (because of my zip code, they think I'm in an area they don't service).

For banks, it's the same thing. It can be external: my bank added a feature that let me enter and see projected expenditures and incomes so I can see my future balance, it's an effective aid to my budgeting. It can be internal: Like a POS system, making it easier or harder for tellers or lenging agents or others to do their job. Giving them more accurate and up to date information with reports generated daily or down to the minute, instead of the historic weekly or monthly batch reporting.

Car manufacturers have control systems developed by IT, same results as above on a new release.
As would the majority of US devs. I just don't think there is a big difference.
complains about tech distracting us...
has a popover ad that greys out and covers the text of the story...
I'm not sure I'd choose the word synergy. Every time they move something from contrib into the main package, it seems to create a lot of redundancy. Now we have tf.keras.utils.to_categorical and tf.feature_column.categorical_column_with_vocabulary_list.
Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent
Most people in this world don't have any friends and family that have $12.5k to their name, let alone ready to invest in an unproven start up.
Very nice. It needs two 360 videos.
I follow a similar protocol & find it very helpful. The missing link for me was the events function of Facebook, which I find endlessly useful. Luckily FB now has a standalone app specifically for this, Facebook Local. Its no-nonsense, no ads, just relevant events. Plus, the feed it gives you actually ends!
I'm not sure whether that helps or hurts his point about the complexity of the "collapse". The Mycenaeans had a large scale trade empire across large parts of the Mediterranean, from Italy up through the Black Sea. The "collapse" involved other "civilizations", including the Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, all of which were relatively tightly bound by trade and diplomacy.

The only commonality, as I understand it, is that between 1400 and 900 BCE, all of that trade and most of the "higher" civilization in those areas disappeared, to eventually be replaced by something different.
This is a fantastic market distortion. They've established a quality floor for food without regulatory overhead.
The title is clickbait. The real message is to avoid raising money if you are in a desperate spot. The deals may not be favorable and you need to be able to say no, and you can't say no if you feel desperation.