skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pulitzer Prize winners are rare. The fact that two recent winners had left their jobs in journalism between the date they did their prize-winning work, and the date the prize was awarded, is telling. This flight of reporters from journalism to PR is widespread. It is caused by the decline of the print business, as well as the decline in ad revenues. Those two problems are linked but not synonymous. (Print circulation is declining as print subscribers age and younger readers stay online. Ad revenues are declining because platforms like Google and Facebook now consume the bulk of the money that once went to the media that held local monopolies or oligopolies on the distribution of information.) Most of the HN community is part of system of free content distributed by online ad platforms that is slowly killing local, regional and many national publications. Not responsible for it, but part of it. And the death of those publications harms the communities that once learned about themselves through those media. It also harms the health of the political system governing those communities, since leaders are held less accountable wherever information fails to circulate. Even more pernicious than reporters leaving journalism for PR, though, is the slow corruption of journalistic organizations into instruments of propaganda. This isn't necessarily linked to the move online, since good examples of it include Sinclair Broadcast Networks and Fox News.
GDPR doesn't actually require that you delete date about anyone, it requires that you be able to dereference a user from their data after a defined period of time when you specifically request that your data is deleted.

This can include you having to directly contact the company in a way that isn't clearly visible within the app itself.
We did a ton of cross-browser testing, but it's possible we missed something or had a regression. Checking. Thanks for letting me know!
Don't the popular web frameworks handle lazy loading things?
It depends on whether it is licensed or unlicensed spectrum. Some of the technology is in ISM bands that anyone can use.

In either case, the channels still have capacity limits. I'm not saying it's impossible, which is partly why I brought it up in the first place. I was hoping someone more knowledgeable would chime in. The main advantage wires have is you can just run more of them when you reach your capacity (or in some cases you can just change the hardware at either end of the wire to newer technology).
Same story here with Richard Serra: "Serra was invited to outline a proposal, for a fee, but said no. According to Cross, Serra told Ross, “You know what I do—you know that it’s going to be structural steel, you know it’s going to be monumental. What do I need to show you?” He added, “Hire me and I’ll go to work.” (Serra, through a representative, confirmed that he declined to participate but denied that he used these words.) Ross, recalling the encounter, described Serra’s work as poorly suited for the site, because it was “very subtle” and “not iconic.""

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/thomas-heather...

You get to a certain level, you can charge for your process, as it should be.
This is what has me excited, too (although unfortunately we're still looking at a likely 6-8 years before relevant targets will support it too...).
Is Open Source the AI Nirvana for Intel?
What would a bank need to do to get fined their annual net income?
While finding another copy might be a practical solution for most of us, it seems like a wrongheaded way of designing an archiving data format.
I agree with the author that he comes off as unlikeable...

But he probably got fired for his lack of professionalism, poor communication skills, toxic fingerpointing, and a lot of other issues he probably left out of his one sided rant.
graphviz
http://www.graphviz.org/download/

also the DOT language has been around for ages.
"When his lifelong friend Besso died. Einstein wrote a letter to Besso's family, saying that although Besso had preceded him in death it was of no consequence, '...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.' "

http://everythingforever.com/einstein.htm
Love ffmpeg!

I was trying to do something the other day and couldn’t figure it out, if anyone has any ideas.

The end goal is to provide a set of video files, with time stamps for each, splicing them into one file while removing parts I don’t want.

That is straightforward enough, as long as you’re willing to re-encode the whole file. Otherwise, it seems like ffmpeg is restricted to make cuts at key frames.

It’s rare for the key frame to be placed at the exact spot I would want to make a cut, so the section of the video around the cut would need to be re-encoded. Ideally that would be the only part hat is re-encoded - everything else would be a a straight transcode from key frame to key frame.

I believe this is called ‘smart rendering’, and the pages I could find in the past said ffmpeg isn’t really suited for it, or it’s very difficult.

Does anyone know if that has changed recently, or have found a way to do it?
Oh wow, at first I thought this was another ASCII-art to image generator like ditaa[1]. This is much more practical.

I'll give this a shot next time I might have otherwise reached for Graphviz or Lucidchart.

[1]: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
I take it Verizon (Oath) is breaking up, selling, absorbing and dissolving Yahoo properties. AOL mail isn’t long for this world, although I’m sure an email hosting company would love to buy that user-base of elders and tech luddites.
My impression is that you can do stuff with carbon that you can't do with silicon unless you dope with rare minerals. I could be wrong. Can someone elaborate who knows more about this than I do?
The criminal bailouts of 2008 also wasn't the Trump administration.
Yeah. I already had an account with Charles Schwab (based in San Francisco), and I set up a roth IRA for this year in about 5 minutes by myself, online.

So it's not that financial institutions can't be good at this, it's that the big banks fundamentally don't care about customers who aren't wealthy or institutional in nature.

But there are definitely alternatives like credit unions, online banks, and brokerage firms with banking services. Not that everyone of these is good, but you have options, especially if you live in a city, like most people on HN probably do.

Quit big banks. Join a credit union, tell your friends about it. Encourage your employer to switch banks too, if you are in a position to do so.
To the degree that anyone thinks this is about any particular event in recent history, my humble opinion is that you are missing the point.

The point, as I see it, is that it doesn't matter if people have the internet, or the microwave, or tv, or transistors, or airplanes, or automobiles, or bicycles, or steam engines, or even cotton gins.

The human experience, and our propensity to ensure our own continued survival, has always been fraught with peril. Everyone has friends and enemies, and yet we all live amongst each other.

I think the best allegory for this story is that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
How did you find the first?
Necesitamos ingenieros de software
(2010)

> The NeXT logo mightn’t be a classic [...]

Excuse me!?
FYI, they just started offering paper checks. It's in beta I believe. I received my first Simple checkbook and wrote a check just a couple weeks ago.
http://archive.is/UrC65
> at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do

Isn't that true for Yahoo in general? They kinda stumbled upon being internet giant, and have been utterly confused on what to do next ever after.
Not customers. You don't have to have done anything with the company, they collect data on anyone who has any credit history.
Car Free Morning Commute in Amsterdam [Vid]
It takes months of constant reinforcement at that age.

Even worse if it is a foreign alphabet.
> And what you are proposing for your friend, after all these years of struggle for a better tomorrow - is to make the same amount of money as he did as a welder?

He doesn't have to breathe toxic fumes that screw up his health. That's kind of a big plus.

He can likely continue programming to a far older age. That might be a big plus.

I can continue.
Lag and Blanking – SNES Features
Wow. The comments are gold. We should have a best of HN with materials like this and the one on foundationdb.
they hire a deliveroo task rabbit to run behind every uber txting constantly to the customer where they are - bonus, can use local landmarks as way finders ;-)
Or they spend the +30% and get someone who’s just as productive or 10x less productive. It’s not a magic price performance formula.
Its called a hackathon ... and who knows the honest results of a war game ... better than doing nothing , but is any one (includong you) hiding a tatic??? ... For there to be true estimates there must be clear goals, something that biz and product dont seem to care for in totality. Once we get clear goals then we can compare dev abality. My experience is that you always have to be part your own project manager and dev op.

In an ideal world the project manager would tell me to jump and i would ask how high?

We need as clear instructions as the machines we pass them onto ... without the semicolon. Otherwise we are partially doing the pm job.
Novikov Self-Consistency Principle
OMG! And I thought some of my teachers were horrible because they handed out exam results in descending order.

Although, now that I think about it, my country does the exact same thing for university admission exams, at least the public ones.
Never flew Asian airlines, but among European ones the best food I typically find on flights with Air France.
plaid asks for your online banking password.
'efficient as possible' is only measurable in terms of the task at hand. Being smart educated and hardworking does not necessarily make you better at your job if you spend most of your effort tilting at windmills.

At times it really is better for everyone to just move on from a comfortable position and stretch your wings as it where.
Web design, every day. Customer has a shit site, they know it’s shit, they want to pay someone $$$ to do a new site, and they want to change 75% of the new design because they think they know better than the designer...
Not technically possible currently (well, last I checked). A client could be configured to send a "please delete message id 29342" type post, but other clients would have to know how to understand that and to honor it. The functionality would be similar to "sender has recalled this message" in exchange.

Also, the way the protocol works is that clients discover the most recent log entry number, and then request all "missing" ones. So that delete message would be more like a "please overwrite message id 29342 with zeros or something".
Yeah, super expensive for sure. But in principle possible - I'm sure there are smarter ways to do it. I could also see some users willing to pay ~$1K or more. A big company committed to high-security, open source firmware for their routers, for example, could benefit a lot by being able to demonstrate to their customers that they use a given (ideally highly readable for auditing purposes) source code and that the updates they receive really use that source. I don't think there's a means to enable that sort of cryptographic verification currently without every interested end user rebuilding the source.
Perhaps I missed something, but this article didn’t say two Pulitzer winners went into PR. It spoke of a photographer who got a non-journalism job, a journalist who found “greener pastures,” and a third journalist who got a job for the Shoah Foundation. That last one comes closest, I guess, though doing PR for a non-profit holocaust education organization isn’t the propaganda bs I think the title meant to suggest.

Again, I’m open to being corrected if I misread, but I don’t see anything in this article supporting a flight from journalism to PR except for the comparison of the median salaries.
I'm glad to hear that! From yet another formerly-paying Flickr user :)
Great to see they launched this! Been two years since the visual designs made it onto dribbble.

https://dribbble.com/shots/2537249-Home
nope, or at least I didn't back in my drinking days. it was just normal for people to get wasted and hook up. does that not happen anymore?
From an engineering perspective, building a remote-first team was an easy decision to make after a brief attempt to hire local talent.

Some of the unexpected benefits, in addition to the obvious upsides of better talent for the same money, an easier time finding them, and better retention:

Documentation gets really good.

Discussions frequently have a written artifact associated with them, which allows for easy reference later on. (e.g. asana thread, slack discussion)

No open office problems. The dreaded shoulder tap is not a thing.

We have to be clearer and more deliberate about the communication channels we use and the reason we use, and when and how we choose to do so. This is a good thing! We use a mix of Slack, Mumble, email, asana, Zoom, and 1:1 video calls.

Our culture is less driven by force of personality than it may otherwise be. Having a strong leader in the room can be a powerful multiplier. On the other hand, remote teams can lead to a more subtle and thoughtful type of leadership, with more of a focus on the team as a system than as a troop. This is frequently a good thing! Also, if someone important is having a bad day, there is less of a transitive effect on the team.

Our automated dev tooling got better. (Since futzing around with other people's computer has a higher barrier, code that does stuff like setting up a vagrant box on dev machines becomes more valuable. So we keep it in good repair, and if something about it doesn't work, we fix it right when the problem comes up!)

The above extends to all code: when your code may break other people's builds, and you won't be physically around to make it right, I think people put in a little extra elbow grease and, for example, write one more test than they may have otherwise.

Our systems for code review are naturally a lot more in line with some of the compliance requirements we have. All of our code goes into a PR for code review, and many of our clients need that as part of a comprehensive set of data protection and security requirements.

Our automated testing via CI got better. Would it have gotten better without being remote? Probably. But tests are a great method of communicating about code, and so we started caring more about them.

Team get-togethers become exciting due to their infrequency!

Even beyond all these rational productivity-based arguments, it just feels more natural and humanistic. Makes it easier to spend time with your kids! To travel to your dream destination and spend time working from there, as more than just a tourist! To settle down exactly where you want, with the continuity of your same team and job and project. No commute if you don't want one! Less of a second-circuit driven environment! (as defined by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_conscio...)

Hit me up if you're looking into adding remote work into your organization, especially if you're early in the process. Let me try to help convince you!
I agree with your experience, same in Bank of America. I walked in to report fraud, a teller gets on the phone and call someone on the same number as I would from the back of my card.

Bank of America is a master at minimizing cost - they are introducing vATMs - virtual assistant ATM - its a regular ATM but with two-way camera so you talk with banker that is obviously located somewhere else. Just 2 months ago someone was helping me with perfect English and she said shes in Texas. Just few days ago, same location I connect and there is a guy in turban around his head, with broken English and clock on the wall I can see pointing 3am (it was around 2pm EST). So there you have it. I bet within 2 years they will complete transition and 99% of branches will have those vATMs at the cost of 70% savings in location, wages, etc.

I am slowly shifting to smaller bank though where people know me by name, I deal with same people who help me without using phone and sometimes even computer. So far BB&T and First Republic are very good choices.

Mandatory: 37 banks become just 4

https://www.visualnews.com/2016/01/25/37-banks-became-4-bank...
And a smoker stops smoking everytime they go to sleep.. it doesn't mean they don't have cigarettes in stock.

He has all the tests he needs completed, and may well have hidden missile manufacturing sites as required.
that's why I don't do it anymore - it got a little too scary for me
> We're moving off of Yahoo Auth

So what will replace it? I've been a Flickr user for more than 10 years.
Near the Ottawa tech distinct in Kanata we have the NeXT Restaurant which has a very similar logo:

http://www.nextfood.ca/

I guess now that NeXT has been defunct for decades, being inspired by its logo isn't a big deal.
I think it may be remembered as one of the most notable artistic works of the 21st century. It’s seriously that good.
Yes, I know all that. I personally find the usual argument to very unsatisfying.
Some credit unions may keep the mortgage in-house, but afaik it's mostly private banks working with HNWIs that will do so 100%. Those mortgages are often very large or non-standard (like 100% financing interest only or a combo mortgage/heloc).
Hi Don,

Since you're here, may I voice a thing I really enjoyed about Flickr? Community and actual human communication.

Perhaps in the mobile era this isn't possible anymore since everyone is attention starved and tiny screens and keyboards aren't conducive to longform communication, but this was Flickr's strength.

You'd find a group where your photos were relevant and start conversations with strangers halfway around the world. The ability for groups to self-moderate is key because it kept groups on topic. I just poked around some communities I used to frequent like Hardcore Street Photography [0] and Guess Where SF [1], and they're surprisingly still habited.

Instead of trying to be another Instagram, I hope the future of Flickr will play to its strengths.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/

[1] https://www.flickr.com/groups/guesswheresf
> This isn't an explanation

Yes, I know. It wasn't meant to be an explanation, it was meant to be a very specific and narrow response to a very specific comment. The full explanation is in the article I linked to above, which is too long to reproduce in an HN comment.
Well, yeah, it does. The reason you need to bring QM into it is because you can't explain the arrow of time classically.
And the part where HN folks start complaining about it's super obvious and everyone who uses any internet service should clearly know that all of their data is going to be used for any and all nefarious purposes we could imagine, you moron.
Show HN: Remote Jobs Club
It says maybe you should pay for your journalism if you give a shit.
Are you an attorney?
Gee, I bet self driving cars sure would solve this problem. Hey, let's talk about that!
They also have to pay back the people they snookered all their money plus interest. That's been stated in the articles that I've ready about the matter.
You're wrong, in addition to the fine paid to the Feds, they also have to pay back the people they lied to along with interest.
Was a time long, thoughtful, informed comments on this site garnered plaudits rather than gripes. Considering this is one of the only informed, reality-based comment in the entire thread, I think it’s best to engage with and appreciate it, rather than making easy jokes.
> Macros going wrong with complicated builds, implicits galore all over the place, just the usual complaints.

I'm not sure I totally understand this. What do you mean by "macros going wrong"? It doesn't seem like there are that many implicits used. The mostly to add methods to strings to make expressing things more concise. Do you think implicits shouldn't be used at all?

> The thing that makes sbt difficult in practice for me is twofold. I don't want to deliver hackedy shit to a client that I then have to defend if their quality control comes back complaining about it. Being able to use regular scala in sbt definitions is convenient but at the cost of making things expressable that should wisely be done another way.

> Which brings me to the second point which is getting a sbt definition from a client and then they don't want to change it, or they don't have quality control so it's just awful, or its so bad that someone has to rewrite it for the solution. The latter being the easiest to deal with, but that also costs time.

This seems contradictory. It seems like in the first paragraph is at odds with the second. In the first paragraph, it sounds like you are saying that you want to be able to write messy builds and not have anyone complain. In the second paragraph, it sounds like you are saying you don't want deal with other people's messy builds. Am I understanding correctly? If so, do you want messy builds or not? How is this related to the build tool? What build tool prevents people from writing messy builds? Are you thinking of something like maven that is very rigid?

> For those looking, what things do you feel have most improved the sbt experience?

Some things that may (since I don't know when you last looked) have improved:

* SBT 0.13 greatly improved the .sbt build file syntax (no more line breaks between settings, multi project in one file)

* SBT 0.13 also cleaned up the symbol soup. Now to define tasks/settings you only need to know 3 symbols that are fairly self explanatory ':=', '+=', and '++='. If you want to depend on another task/setting output you just have do `taskName.value` in your task/setting definition.

* A new artifact resolver has been written[1] that fixes all of the issues with ivy. It can be used today and is currently in the process of being integrated in the default SBT install.

* SBT 1 introduced a build server concept with language server protocol support that is starting to improve IDE/editor integration

* This isn't strictly SBT but IntelliJ now natively understands .sbt files so you can autocompletion and code navigation.

[1] https://github.com/coursier/coursier
When I'm on a plane and Gogo is moving about dialup speeds, while blocking protocols that would make dialup usable.
It's also worth considering that the American government has massively subsidized the airline industry. Trillions of dollars in defense spending for aircraft has propped up Boeing and its predecessors during hard times. That spending massively advanced civilian aircraft. Training pilots is another massive cost, which is mitigated by former American military pilots.
It's like putting a cover on a book that is related to the matter in the book, to keep you reading because you may start getting bored, so they pull out a sound byte. Pretty obvious.
You should also check out http://plantuml.com/
An online editor/renderer is available at http://planttext.com/
Or they can get two competent testers. :)
Apple actually still maintains the NeXT trademarks[0].

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...
Jesus christ, that fucking name, though.

"smugmug"

Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?
lol I read that as "AVI support" and thought you were being sarcastic :)
I know this is an old thread, but wanted to note that this is similar to saying that federal courts are not courts because they can be overruled by the supreme court. The existence of more powerful forms of government does not negate the existence of less powerful forms.
The news business can no longer afford nonessential investments in institutional pride and professionalism, like copy editing.