skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's difficult to buy a square desktop monitor these days too."

Actually, it's quite simple - here is a 27" 1920x1920 square monitor you can buy on amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-...

I have one and I think it's great. I actually prefer splitting a 16x10 monitor into two halves, but the perfectly square monitor is great for diagnostics/monitoring where I can split it into four equally sized quadrants and see four things at once...
Reminds me of that quote about Puritanism being the fear that someone, somewhere is having fun.
> Thats kind of the whole point.

What? How is that 'the whole point' of an RSS reader?
Exactly, the pilots had to evaluate the situation and make a decision, I don't think they had a checklist that told them what to do. They made the right decision- and executed beautifully.
It's hard to bring up without being attacked, even off of Reddit, but for long-time heavy users it's been obvious for a while that Reddit has purposefully undergone several changes to control the narrative at the behest of advertisers and the powers that be.
My response - and even how I got jobs early in my career as a developer was this:

"let me know show you some of the software I've developed on my own - I'd me happy to tell you how it works, the tech involved and the patterns used ..yada yada"

Corollary : if you apply for a job or walk into a tech interview and can't talk about these things, its a red flag for the interviewer.

PS. Now well on in my career, and having started my own software business after leaving a bigco. I'm back to a very similar thing: if I go to a meetup / conference / sales call I better have some code I'm will to show and discuss ..and highlight what I consider my talents. (fwiw : it feels great to be back in this mode)

edit: also : asking an candidate to do the kind of homework/coding is total BS. I wouldn't do it. But I would give them the line above :)
The medium is the message.
Apologies for not responding. I actually forgot I posted this. :(

Lived in Atlanta for many years. It is much more liberal than surrounding areas, true. However, Seattle is in another league when it comes to this sort of thing.

Which is not to say that we don't have a ways to go, either. In particular, we have some really hard problems to consider out here.
I did the same and no longer login or use the front page.

I found that just going to a few subreddits on topics of personal interest that I can browse through for new ideas, user stories, etc. results in a much more positive experience.

Smaller communities for specific hobbies/videogames/etc (in most cases) seem to be less polarized on the platform.
> Ultimately trust in the government and that law enforcement (in the various shapes and forms it comes in) is a force for good and prevents many bad things from happening every single day, is at the heart of the palantir philosophy.

This is disingenuous at best this is a tool for surveillance and its misuse in public life is more obvious than the advantages it might bring. People will naturally distrust a government that spies on them constantly and that has nothing to do with good or bad government.

There is an episode of black mirror on the mother who surveils her daughter constantly if the mother is good why do we feel disgusted by her attitude?

I applauded apple for publicly denying the government a backdoor in their phones.
Yeah, now. Thanks to Apple's start of the high DPI push and 4k/5k displays.

For a long time, we suffered from what I'll call "The Great Laptop Display Regression of 2008". For many years, you simply could NOT buy a non-Apple laptop with more than 1080 pixels in the vertical direction. It didn't matter how big of a screen you got, and it didn't matter how much you were willing to pay for it. No one dared even give you the option.
This is going to be an increasingly common realization, especially in Silicon Valley. Which got way too caught up in the idea that everything was making The World a Better Place.

But Zynga and Facebook are like fast food companies.

This realization started really kicking in with Free to Play mobile games a few years ago (also mostly here in the Bay Area). I worked in F2P early on, left and moved to a non-F2P company. One of the most common things we heard from interviewees is that they were looking to get out of the F2P side of the games industry.
At my current job (where i've interviewed candidates) we give out a take home assignment, but we explicitly enforce a 2 hour time limit to do it. We felt this was reasonable because combined with an onsite interview and a phone screen, the total amount of time a candidate would spend interviewing for a position is about 8 hours (a typical workday). I'm not against take home assignments per se - but 3 day assignments seems crazy. I can't imagine myself doing that as long as there are other decent jobs out there that don't require it.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I also think it should be called into question if something like that belongs on the front page. Admins have added specific rules banning right leaning subreddits from appearing, but not even the most extreme left leaning subreddits get that treatment. And if nothing else it makes for a toxic default view.
No, it's a reflection of a white male internet world.
That’s why compression of sequencing data is becoming so important. CRAM is nowhere near the theoretical limit (CRAM achieves ~2x over BAM; commercial products currently achieve up to 6x).

(COI disclaimer: I work for such a company.)
Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark and has started enforcing it. Kinda wise in hindsight that Mariadb didn't call it json?

I think Mariadb was there first. I think the format is very similar at the bit level, but the MySQL has nicer API with automatic returning it as text to apps rather than exposing the bits. I dislike json_extract and wish >> worked but it doesn't seem to on my percona server :(

Anyhow, you'll look back when you've got more distance from Oracle and realize that you don't need to try and convince yourself that MySQL was better quite so hard ;)
Without specific circumstances extreme moderation is in the eye of the beholder.
Is it the case that for the problems he's talking about, the popular experience is the only one that matters?
Cool. But I think the current state of the art is using minhashes (minimap2) to avoid doing expensive all vs all alignments. There is still a place for more sensitive alignments though.
A formal statistical experiment was done in /r/politics about the impact of hiding vote counts temporarily but it did not find statistical evidence that it made an impact on discourse: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mitmediala...
Shared data science infrastructure between R and Pandas
In the spirit of not being tracked by someone like Facebook, he means that he doesn't want to be identified by an email and therefore have a possible profile built on him based on what he subscribes, reads, saves, etc.
You would really prefer to see Ajit Pai’s FCC in charge standards for internet discourse?
> There are some subreddits where they are hidden for a period of time (not sure how long, but it's quite a while)

I think there's a subreddit-level setting for that, but the max is only something like a couple of days.
A thousand times this. Although I still write code, and I would be comfortable being a tech lead forever, after 20 years I decided to focus my career on management for my own job security. It was either that or specialize in some hot field, but that's not where my heart is. So as a generalist I would be perpetually competing with the ever widening cohort of "senior" devs who have the SV-standard 5-years experience that represents the capping out of their signalable value.

The picture gets worse when you look at typical interview panels at hot SV companies: median-age 26, went to Stanford/MIT, interned at AmaGooFace, base their hiring process on established "rigorous" stack ranking of candidates based on their performance on fixed algo/whiteboard questions. While I can generally do pretty well at these, variance is high and it does nothing to differentiate me from smart but inexperienced people.

I think it's ridiculous that SV treats programmers like sports players with a limited shelf life. Code bases would probably be a lot better, and workplaces more pleasant to work in if experience were more valued. However I hold no illusions about the way VCs work: they require a steady influx of impressionable young blood to exploit with visions "changing the world", so it makes sense that older jaded devs don't fit into that picture. I do think there is an arbitrage opportunity for older talent though.
I'm rethinking what I did on my last hiring position. I sent a take-home test that should take about 2-3 hours to those who sent in a decent resume. It filtered out a little over half of the applicants I responded to, as in half didn't respond. It further filtered out a small segment who didn't do very well on the test. A filter is definitely needed to weed out those who are simply casting a wide net, are looking for contract work instead of a FTE and to those whose skills simply do not match what they've purported in their resume.

I really can't call everyone who has a decent resume, its way too time consuming. If we had a recruiter then maybe it would be worth it, but not personally. Maybe a take-home quiz that takes like 20-30 minutes would be a good filter instead?
I completely agree. There are some fantastic engaging subreddits with great people. I personally don't use it as much but I highly recommend finding those cult following subs.
How Chinese gangs are laundering drug money through Vancouver real estate
That is a natural question for them to raise, even derelict if they didn't raise it. Once it was raised and investigated, I think it was conclusive that the Hudson was a very reasonable (and probably the) best choice.
My favorite part was the Vonnegut quote.

> I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious. In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume. e.g. "I've written large production programs in C." Ok, great, so then clearly this person knows C so there should be no need to dissect code or run them thru some linked list algorithm and see if they know how to use pointers correctly.

Yet, we do. Ok, then what about open source contributions (if they have them)? Well, sure, but we don't really know, for sure, if that code is their own or if they indeed truly wrote it, can we? So we can't count on it. It helps but it can't be an automatic "this person passes the technical" signaler.

So maybe the person shares actual code and walks us through it that they wrote, even if not open source? Again, we can't know for certain it is their own code and not some friend who wrote it for them 2 years ago that they claim is their own. Or was a teammate's, or what-have-you. So we can't count on that either.

Apart from getting a candidate to actually pump out some code, even trivially, we don't really have a way to de-facto verify that the person says they can do what they say they can do, short of a personal reference from someone, say, in the company already that knows and has worked with the person in the past.

I absolutely hate this practice of having to constantly "re-prove" to the next employer that someone knows how to write software. It's extremely redundant and yet we keep on doing it, with no real hope of actually making it better.
Despite the issues, I can definitely argue that using alexa has made my life more convenient. A lot of the skills are still awkward to use but I can 100% say that voice control has taken a lot of friction out of certain parts of my life.

i.e. music, news, the time, etc while getting ready in the morning or taking a shower.
Deep Neuroevolution
The default/popular subreddits are toxic. The smaller, niche subreddits are rarely toxic and usually good communities.

As for the Russiagate stuff, the front page is riddled with it because it's a very important subject in the US, Reddit's user base is primarily people from the US, and there are bombshells dropping every day.
Again: that looks for whether that sequence is in each tested string, which is a different problem.

It tests if 'x' is 'in', rather than the number of times it is seen.
Leaked Theranos video shows video game where you shoot at reporter
I wish more websites used it as a design choice instead of margins/padding. CSS actually has reasonably good support for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Columns...

(Though best supported by Firefox and Edge, with interesting bugs in Chrome and Safari I've seen.)

With one major flaw in that -ms-scroll-translation still hasn't made it out of being just an IE 10 suggestion (that Edge still supports and no one else) and into the specs and is a pain to polyfill, but a relatively key ergonomic need: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh973361(v=vs.85).a...

Windows 8 tried to encourage horizontal scrolling, multi-column design in applications and websites, so Microsoft put some good work into the ergonomics of it, and I appreciated they tried and am still somewhat sad they failed.

(I'm proud that my blog uses a multi-column layout for text at wide widths, but given it is my blog I can do weird design craziness like that that amuses/interests me and not worry about confusing potential visitors.)
It should really be named r/socialism, as the mods do not accept the validity of any other alternatives to late-stage capitalism.
Which is flat out gross misconduct for 99.9 % of all full time employees in the engineering field.
Robot Assembles Ikea Furniture
The weather in Atlanta is just more extreme, honestly. Which can matter a lot if you like hot weather. Out here in Seattle it is almost always cooler. Hardly ever actually "cold" though, in that I think Atlanta actually got more snow and I had my pipes freeze more there than I have out here.

Now, the winter is much darker. The shift in sunset and sunrise is much more pronounced. This is somewhat offset by how much bloody sun we get in the summer. Which is truly insane. Sun is up by 4:30 most mornings, and you can see outside till near 10 most evenings. (Sunset, I think, is well earlier than that, but our twilight is bright. I am likely mistaken on this understanding, though. Haven't taken a journal or kept records, etc.)
Dog-based data creates a canine machine learning system
They literally delete anything that questions straight up communist views.

Read their sidebar. I don't think that's exactly "in the eye of the beholder".
does your chain carry all historical data forever? because that will be costly. Do I, as a node, keep copies of emails that weren't sent to me or forum posts that I'm not interested?
r/politics said it didn’t make much difference, but they left it that way anyhow.
The feedback based ranking implicitly supports echo chambering, but there’s not much of a way around that.
I agree with your general stance on CTH - but this seems a little sketch. If you're already a contractor and are used to trying to keep multiple projects going, or have some idle time, then by all means. From the candidate side its nice to sign up with eyes open to the bad as well as the good.

But if you're working someplace salaried, it seems fairly dishonest to spin up a short contract. especially when most of the attention is consumed in the process of getting started (environment, implicit policies, platform, etc).

plus on your side, you don't really know how much of that person you're getting. if the work is great, thats fine, but if it seems slow or misguided, is that a fundamental reflection of ability, or because they tried to cram it in between 8pm and 11pm every night?
Wait, how did it work before adding the subs? A single board like HN, but without any specific topics?

It seems crazy. I can't imagine Reddit without subs.
Yeh but the rates for these 1099 contractors are so low to what I would expect.
Not quite what you're looking for, but this SciShow episode [1] tries to explain why so many studies seem to contradict each other. tl;dr they usually study different things, and studies on humans are very difficult to control.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIQ7YhE4cE
Ads are annoying on mobile. Sigh
That's definitely an eyebrow raising quote, but I'm pretty sure he meant it the opposite way it's being taken. He's fine with the franchise being extended, he wants those groups to have more libertarians. It's the same thing as Democrats trying to make it easier to vote, people who vote less or have a harder time voting tend to vote Democrat.
Man, why doesn't gitweb serve up the clone links as links that you can right click and copy?

You have to swipe the cursor over "https://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git" and copy; how lame.

CGIT is so much nicer. It also serves up tarballs out of tags. If you do a "git tag foo-123" and push it out, then on your CGIT interface, there will be a foo-123.tar.gz URL for download (as well as .bz2 and .zip), pulled right out of the repo.

Still, either is light years ahead of github's presentation of repos.

> What makes our git own git repo unusable?

I know; WTF? From grandparent's comment I got the impression that Postgresql must be using CVS, or just tarballs in a FTP directory or something (and that someone kindly made a git repo and put it into GH).
If you want managed Redis, there’s nothing better than RedisLabs
Some people just get more randomly selected than others, a lot more.
How JavaScript Works: Under the hood of animations, easing, and bezier curves
Perhaps this was a real scam initially, then he decided to pretend it wasn't, after-the-fact, to save his skin? It seems to me that leaving a shadow of a doubt as to his trustworthiness was a big, big mistake. Couldn't he have just presented the hypothetical to the community openly if that were his true goal?
Really good presentation about Akka
I've been using telescope.surf on and off since it first launched. I really love it and it renders rather well on Firefox for Android.
Most DL researchers don't care about CUDA, they use higher level frameworks (Tensorflow, Pytorch, Caffe, etc). The frameworks can be extended to support other backends (e.g. OpenCL). If someone builds their own hardware, provides integrated support for that hardware in Tensorflow, and demonstrates speed advantages, people will use it.
>Reddit is the only popular website where rational discourse can actually happen, thanks to the infinitely threaded conversations and complete markdown.

Except comments people don't like can be downvoted to oblivion, causing no one to see them (unless they purposely sort by controversial).
TPC-C's intent is to make a tradeoff between two competing goals: benchmarking total data stored and processing transactions on the stored data. It's one point in the spectrum of possibilities, but one that has withstood scrutiny for many decades. I agree that it would be nice to store 100s of terabytes in a cluster, but one then also has to run transactions over that stored data.

But for perspective, TPC-C over a 100TB dataset would be 1 million warehouses, and 12 million tpmC. Only one TPC-C benchmark EVER has hit this scale, Oracle, in 2010, and had a hardware cost of 30 million dollars.

We'd like to get to that scale one day, and benchmark it, just as we have today. But it's not where the industry is at right now. CockroachDB keeps up with TPC-C 10,000: this means 800GB, replicated 3 ways across a 30 node cluster. Aurora RDS doesn't keep up with the transaction rate at a mere 800GB of data (the 10,000 warehouses number). They claim to store up to 64TB of data, but what's the point of storing all that data if you can barely run any transactions on it?
A new poll puts Beto O’Rourke just 3 points behind Ted Cruz in Texas

This was in the sports section
I still can't get over the fact that their official mobile app stops rendering comments past a certain level of nesting. There's no indication that anything is missing, no "continue this thread" link, nothing... the comments just aren't there. I don't understand how one of the world's largest social media platforms could have a mobile app that silently hides content from the user. Just blows my mind.
Which is why we started by widening that to 1920x1200 (16:10). Which I think many of us were perfectly happy with. You didn't lose any vertical pixels, but gained horizontal pixels.

Then all PC laptop manufacturers seemingly conspired to deny us the option to purchase anything, at any price point, with >1080 vertical pixels. (Thankfully Apple didn't follow this trend at the time.)

Of course now with all the 4k/5k/high-DPI stuff we might finally be moving past that, but I haven't gone PC laptop shopping in a long time.
They're suffering the same problem as Facebook & YouTube. They're leaderless, being driven by and reacting to the mob of users, instead of the producing a planned product that understands people.

The problem with social media is that they don't have people telling the public that their ideas are crap, so everyone thinks they're awesome.

Editors get to make sure people understand that, no, they are not awesome.

Social media, like any advertising-driven media, needs editors to tune their site. They're trying to have it all - the profit of big advertising with the automation of tech, but advertisers only want something specific, and automation isn't going to get what advertisers want. No major advertiser wants their beautiful fashion brand ad nexts to a post of child mutilation on Reddit. And editors get to tell people that their content is garbage or great.

And editing means people are going to be unhappy. You are officially taking a certain viewpoint, and are literally filtering out incompatible expression. The people that get edited out, they'll get mad, but they'll have to deal with it, like the millions of other people that get edited out by various editors around the world and deal with it appropriately.

To fix it, Reddit & other social media needs Editors-in-Chief. Just tell the users: "This is the boss. Keep that person happy. Want to be pissy about it? Go somewhere else."

YouTube is now trying that with their kids channels.

In the long-run, things work out better with editors.
>> I’m not giving my email address to an RSS reader. Thats kind of the whole point.

> What? How is that 'the whole point' of an RSS reader?

To be able to subscribe to information sources without having to give away any personal data, start getting spammed, etc. Seems especially relevant in light of all the recent (if belated) privacy concerns surrounding social media.
Id possibly go for that but id want £500+ per day
Sorry you are getting down-voted. In fact, Intel and AMD have thousands of undocumented instructions that folks have only started [1] to enumerate. Even then, some of the instructions may not be visible through this method of enumeration. FB would have the option to add their own instructions. I would be curious to see how transparent they might be around the production and documentation of these chips.

[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
Are there data on this or you just made that up?
Someone who has spent 10 years, doing good work in a large company likely never built a single piece of software that they can show on their own.

They may have built software on their own, but it would all be internal, proprietary stuff that they can't demo, and you have no way of verifying.
Yes. That was a long time ago. The total volume of reddit at that time was probably smaller than even a moderately larger subreddit today.