skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost as if Brin and Page predicted how bad it was going to get when they first described Google:

“The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.”

“We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”

“Advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.”

“Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries. This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who “deserves” to be there, and who is willing to pay money to be listed.” [0]

[0] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
My point is countless hours of dev time, resources and infrastructure is wasted on what is obviously a very bad design.

Making a bad design, then overcoming the bad design with another piece of software is pure wastage of valuable resources.

It's really sad. UX design does not get the authority it deserves.
By all means, I am still very much a child at heart... but I also know I shouldn't go around telling everyone to "Suck It", like my WWF-watching childhood.
Temperatures seem more than a bit high to me-- FDA recommendations [1] are that fridge temperatures should remain below 40°F (~4.5°C) for food safety (to inhibit bacterial growth). This fridge is never making it below 5°C, and (from the real-time data linked in the post) it's peaking uncomfortably close to room temperature-- I see one spike all the way up to 16.5°C, and it doesn't look like it recovers quickly at all.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm253954...
CONSUME!!
“don’t be evil” always seemed hopelessly naive, even for college students. I’d have thought that anyone who had considered it, even briefly would understand that being “evil” isn’t really a thing. People do things for various reasons, even things which are clearly socially harmful are often given complex justifications.

To invoke Godwin at an early stage, I doubt Hitler thought he was evil.

So yea, getting rid of it could be seen as a sign of a more nuanced understanding of the world.
What sites are chrome-only?
Taken from the original quote of Nietzsche.
I’d say we’re at the end of the cost reduction curve. Capital requirements for video production have been minimal for a while. Costs are overwhelmingly people. People don’t get cheaper.
I felt that when they started the "Don't be evil" motto, it was sort of a declaration of war on big boy Microsoft, which was seen as the evil alternative.

They're now about the same size, do similar things that people once criticized Microsoft for, and Microsoft is seen in a much better light now. The motto no longer applies.
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FTA:

> (Numbers in this graph are running higher than the actual temps of food in the fridge, for reasons explained in the scuttlebutt thread.)
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Definitely not everyone. But maybe all the really big shippers. Amazon ships for substantially less money than you can get over the counter at USPS.
They moved a bunch of open source functionality out of AOSP to force all-or-nothing adoption of their services + tracking.
I don’t see an issue with that. I don’t want to pay for other people’s packages.
Much of the AI community has decided to ignore Schmidhuber and hope he goes away.

Just like computer history still forgets Konrad Zuse's 1941 Z3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
I wrote an entire essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
This is why I use DuckDuckGo
No, cost for that is constantly reducing. The problem is getting people to pay attention to what you make.
I have read the thread. I agree that high status unpaid internships will largely go to already wealthy, connected candidates. I fail to understand how paying a wage to those wealthy already connected candidates will help the BAME kids.
Yea, I'd argue the whole goal of Western government operators is to create a well-oiled propaganda machine. Everything else is a negotiation.
I think we can all agree that a positive ideological statement and goal to strive towards is a little bit different than an immature insult.
"I guess what is confusing is how subjective "the right thing" can be."

Oussama Ammar of TheFamily, a successful accelerator in Paris, agrees with you and claims that an effective motto must be one that can be disagreed with. It must in some way take a stand.

"Don't be evil" wouldn't work at Goldman Sachs, for example, where people might argue that little evils must be done in the service of the greater good, or that "the market" is the one who decides what is right or wrong. "Don't be evil" seems to imply that the ends should not be used to justify the means.

"Do the right thing" could probably be more acceptable at Goldman, because as you note it's more subjective and allows for small evils that work in the service of greater goods -- it seems to allow for the ends to justify the means.
Haha your comment made me laugh. Or rather: It evoked a sense of humor out of me! Kidding.

I haven't taken an Uber in quite some time, but I was in a taxi earlier this year. There was a small television, not unlike the one at the gas station, playing advertisements. It took every ounce of strength and fiber in my body not to jump out of the window. I know the feeling.
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You might enjoy Fred Brook's essay "No Silver Bullet", where he distinguishes between "Accidental Complexity" (basically, complexity created by software engineers when implementing a solution) and "Essential Complexity" (complexity that arises because software is written to solve some real world problem and the world is complex).
It's not the invisible hand when the USPS loses $1.50 per shipment at the benefit of Amazon while USPS -- a federal service to all Americans -- struggles to stay afloat.
To authors Max Simchowitz and Moritz Hardt:

It’s time we wield your fair weapons against your own tribe: Jews.

Jews are dramatically over-represented in positions of power, influence, wealth, and information gate-keeping (e.g. journalism, entertainment media, the Supreme Court, Congress, academia, the Federal Reserve, the top 1%).

Let’s give everyone institutional affirmative action at your expense! Yes, Jews who are struggling will be the ones the hardest hit. But that’s okay! What matters is “demographic parity” drawn along lines you usually pretend are too blurry to define.
It already is passed on to the customer, in your taxes.
Maybe there is a particular gut biome that produces both cavities and smarts. Recently there's been various news stories about how such microbes mediate Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and maybe other things. And it's been known for a long time that many psychotropic drugs lead to diabetes and weight gain, so metabolism and sugar seem like they are related to everything.
> "corporations are evil" narrative that has become popular with many angry people on twitter recently

I'm fairly certain that narrative, and it's popularity, precedes Twitter by at least a few years.

Here's an Atlantic article that details a bit of the history:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/evil-co...
But do they log in consistently? I log in by mistake every now and then, but I use it without being logged in 99.9% of the time.
Youtube piggy backs on Google logins, so if you're signed into gmail, you'll be a logged in user.
To me, the innapropriately precise number doesn't mean anything except that when you are working with estimates, you should not round your final answer any more than necessary.

If I estimate cost A is $1 and cost B is $2, I'm going to say that my estimated average cost is $1.50, not $2

As far as required profitability, as any non gaap accounting numbers can attest, you can make anything look profitable if you meddle with the numbers long enough.
Absence of one doesn't prove presence of the other. But I digress.
Ever tried adwords?
I think my first bug report of it not really working with other browsers was about 6 years ago, that time it was with Opera. My reports usually get verified but commented with "use Chrome instead".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177411
Total monopoly on search on the internet. Duopoly with FB on the internet advertising (85% belong to them, 15% belong to the rest of publishers, big and small). Rampant violation of privacy of billions of individuals. Destruction of journalism and small internet-based publishers who cannot compete against a monopoly that follows people everywhere.

Evil corporation all around.
The link was only to hide the referer header from JWZ because he chooses to show a very crude image to HN readers. That's all.
I imagine that one semi-psychological problem with working on this crisis would be that it would be hard to put aside the feeling that the system had crashed under load once, maybe it would do it again. Presumably NASA's famous software quality regime imbues a machine with a "feeling" that this thing is rock solid - you'd trust it not to just crash on you because it was doing two things at once. That trust would be obliterated by an incident like this.
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Thanks. We've merged this thread into that one.
You do the same thing people do to get attention for their text blog - the usual publicity approaches.
Please don't copy-paste comments. It makes it harder to merge the threads.
Unless you need to do real calculations, in which case qwerty beats the pants off RPN because you are just programming.

Calculators are a relic from a bygone era, kept in use only by regulations and a captured market.
I think it's a mistake to think of whiteboard problems as attempting to recreate a real work environment. They are a proxy for the kind of quality you are looking for that can be "measured" within the alotted time.

They can show that the person is prepared (they studied), generally knowledgable (they remember obscure stuff), or just clever (they come up with interesting approaches to the problem).

I'm not surprised you see both excessively simple (make sure they aren't ridiculously unqualified) and excessively obscure problems, since the first one essentially tests your reflexes and the second one tries to determine if you learned your job "by rote"
Exactly, and since my "Suck It" comment was not well received, you could say its akin to a child arguing they "are an adult" (ala explicitly saying "Don't Be Evil") vs. an adult just behaving like one ("Don't Be Evil" is a understood agreement). I think the issue people are having (to use my analogy) is that people have different options on how an adult (or large-scale corporation) should behave.
I've noticed they played Vivaldi at the office of the local government in Linz, Upper Austria outside of office hours. To be precise they only play "Spring" from the "Four Seasons". I actually find it quite pleasant when just walking by, but I guess the repetition alone can be an effective deterrent to loiterers.
> he ended up with something better than his former employer HP had in their products.

That's actually severely understating the accomplishment. The Disk ][ controller was implemented with like 8 chips, all of them off the shelf TTL things you could get at Radio Shack (OK, two were small ROMs). It talked directly to the drive which needed almost no electronics on it at all. And it was both faster and higher density than all the custom ASICs being sold at the time. It could read bits off the drive at full rotation speed, filling all of RAM within seconds.

For comparison, the Atari 810 drive was designed contemporaneously (though it arrived later to market). It paired a 6507 (6502 with some address lines clipped off), 4k of RAM and a WDC controller chip inside the drive, which then spoke to the main computer over a semicustom UART (or UART-like) chip on the motherboard. And with all that hardware, it managed to deliver the data at 19.2kbps.

This thing was an absolute masterpiece of the era.
>You have to wonder if they ever should have privatized them at all since they’re in a kind of limbo.

There are already private options, USPS just isn't correctly funded and government keeps trying to gut it. The requirement to pre-fund pensions and retiree healthcare so far in the future doesn't allow them to invest money into new research and development.
How is being passionate about making the right decision being an asshole? He didn’t call his engineer any names, he criticized he decision.

At my last job a director (that eventually became my boss) got angry with me because I called the product I worked on a “piece of shit”. He said while the product was “suboptimal”, my language was offensive. I told him that what I found truly offensive was the millions of dollars a month our company was losing because of this “suboptimal” product, and that no one would let me fix it.
You say you are "asking about it" but really you demanded that people reconcile your ill-informed reasoning with the pretty well established science. That's not a controversy, it's trolling. Maybe you did it by accident, but it's trolling.
Anybody have a guess why Elizabeth Holmes got such a small punishment for running such a massive scam?
I don't think it is intuitively obvious why the brain needs to scale with the body. An elephant would seem to have roughly the same processing needs as a mouse. Maybe 25% more for the trunk or something, but not in proportion to its vastly larger size.

Regarding nerve endings, I think it can be shown that the sense of touch does not have as high resolution as you might think,* so I'm not sure more surface area requires more nerves.

*I recall reading somewhere about a simple experiment where someone touches you with one or two pins and you try to determine whether it is one or two. At a certain distance apart you can't tell if you don't look.
> We don't know the specifics of the work environment there. I mean if you were working on a trading pit on Wall Street would be offended when your boss/co-workers yell at you "f- off" or "get the f- out"?

Uh, yes? I mean, that's only one of the many reasons I wouldn't work in a trading pit on Wall Street, but unless they've just killed someone there's never a good reason to cuss out your subordinates. If it's "just part of the culture," then that culture sucks.
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How so?

Microsoft let the hardware go open-source and generic. And that was an incredible win.

Conversely, Apple and Google ruined handheld computers (which we now call smartphones) forever. So far, anyway. They're fundamentally unsecurable. It's at least nontrivial, and perhaps impossible, to prevent surveillance and tracking.
Why aren’t we allowed to criticize these lunatics before their companies fall apart?

It was obvious to many commenters on HN that these people were crooks long before the media caught up. But comments critical of them were often flagged or deleted. Musk’s house of cards receives the same preferential treatment.

How many lives does a wacky billionaire get to destroy before HN stops running interference?

How much blood does a god need to bleed before we stop worshipping them?
That is a question of your personal focus. For example, I'd expect a theorem that applied to "functions from ℝ to ℝ" to apply to f(x) = 1/x unless a specific qualifier was given.
http://archive.li/IXtF9
But you can watch videos without being logged in.

Which for me is a big benefit when I'm not using a device that I own. I don't have to worry about logging in at all.
I'm very impressed by Simon Schneegans' work on Gnome-Pie:

http://simmesimme.github.io/gnome-pie.html

And especially his delightful thesis work:

Trace-Menu:

https://vimeo.com/51073078

I really love how the little nubs preview the structure of the sub-menus, and how you can roll back to the parent menu because it reserves a slice in the sub-menu to go back, so you don't need to use another mouse button or shift key to browse the menus.

Coral-Menu:

https://vimeo.com/51072812

That looks like a nice visual representation with a way to easily browse all around the tree, into and out of the submenus without clicking! I can't tell from the video if it's based on a click or a timeout. But it looks like it supports browsing and reselection and correcting errors pretty well! (That would be something interesting to measure!)

There's another useful law related to Fitts's law that applies to situations like this, called Steering Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_law

The steering law in human–computer interaction and ergonomics is a predictive model of human movement that describes the time required to navigate, or steer, through a 2-dimensional tunnel. The tunnel can be thought of as a path or trajectory on a plane that has an associated thickness or width, where the width can vary along the tunnel. The goal of a steering task is to navigate from one end of the tunnel to the other as quickly as possible, without touching the boundaries of the tunnel. A real-world example that approximates this task is driving a car down a road that may have twists and turns, where the car must navigate the road as quickly as possible without touching the sides of the road. The steering law predicts both the instantaneous speed at which we may navigate the tunnel, and the total time required to navigate the entire tunnel.

The steering law has been independently discovered and studied three times (Rashevsky, 1959; Drury, 1971; Accot and Zhai, 1997). Its most recent discovery has been within the human–computer interaction community, which has resulted in the most general mathematical formulation of the law.

Also here's some interesting stuff about incompatibility with Wayland, and rewriting Gnome-Pie as an extension to the Gnome shell:

http://simmesimme.github.io/news/2017/07/09/gnome-pie-071
Democracy in general is fragile. It requires an educated electorate, a governing system that respects that electorate, and checks and balances that ensures a power balance regardless of participant resource allocation.
> Sometimes you need to be an asshole to get your point across.

That's certainly what all the assholes claim.
Meet also works in recent versions of Firefox.
It's happened before. Andrew Carnegie gave away most of his fortune which was in its time as substantial as Gates' wealth.

Also, Bill Gates' mom was into public service in big way, so there's some family history. [0] This sort of thing used to be fairly common in the American upper class.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

Edit: punctuation
This isn't a huge percentage of the time for me, but I often use a device that isn't logged into anything because it's using the android builtin browser, someone elses computer, etc. Not having to care about logging in is a benefit.
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but the blogosphere ain’t what it once was.
About the "faster and faster" remark, turbines will only get to about double their nominal speed without load (called runaway).
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For those that like to mess around with the J programming language, here is what I believe is correct code to generate this parallax compression pattern.

pack =: 3 : '+./ (r,y+1) $ (npc*y+1) {. (npc*y) }. p' "0
pc =: 3 : 0
r =: npc =: y
c =: +/ 1+i.y
p =: 1 p: (1+i.c*npc)
pack i.r
)

Image of output for numbers-per-cell = 75 here: https://twitter.com/seanstickle/status/997675789264015361
From someone else with a three letter IG handle, I'm so sorry to hear about that. I'm perpetually paranoid about losing it.
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Sizeable and minority are two totally different markers of scale. 25% of something is a sizeable chunk, but still the minority...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954852
The Javascript code at Observable has been updated to render it correctly for both even and odd values of n now.

This addresses the issues that were pointed out below for the most part.

In short, actually there are some curious patterns in this, and they are not simply equivalent to OEIS A054521 (as we, and others, initially thought they were).

For even values of n, they can be rendered by the GCD sequence, without the primality testing. But for odd values the pattern is different and GCD doesn't describe it.

The Mathematica code on Github lets you experiment with this.

There are some nice versions, and experiments in different ways of coloring or arranging the graph in the Telegram group as well.

Telegram group
https://t.me/joinchat/G8AnchIna2q8yn1lGHirkA

Javascript code
https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u...

Mathematica code:
https://github.com/shaunxcode/a-pattern-in-the-primes
It appears to be very popular in Latin America. So the pronunciation of iZettle by a Spanish speaker most likely sounds like "e-settle".

Which makes a bit more sense and Def sounds better.

It's a Dutch company, so not sure how it sounds when pronounced in the Netherlands
That's how bulk shipping works. If you are a bulk mailer like, a cc company for example, then you would presort your mail to 5/9/11 digit and you get presorted discount from USPS even for first class mail.

So a postage stamp that costs you .50, costs a big mailer, may be, .40 depending on the sorting level and amount of mail.
Also there are versions in Perl and other languages in the Telegram group.
I don't think you understand just how much memory that is for a basic python script.
Does Google’s Duplex violate two-party consent laws?
Great post about how to attack solving a problem using DP. But this is not a good interview question.

It's a toy problem, not something you'll ever need to solve in real life. Maybe if you squint hard enough it's close to pathfinding algorithms, but be serious. I hate questions that aren't remotely relatable to something the candidate might experience. I get that interviews are short so you need tiny problems, but making them somewhat relevant will make comprehending the problem that much easier and give plenty of time for working on a solution.

There's also not much depth to it. Either they can get a naive solution, get the DP solution, or just can't solve it. Maybe I'm just not creative enough but the only follow up I can think of is the typical 'how to test' and this isn't even a good question for that. For me as an interviewer, it is better to start with an easy problem, and then later on additional complexity. For example dealing with concurrency, how to generalize the solution for other cases, etc. These follow ups don't even usually need full code written out so you can get much deeper since it's faster. Whereas if you start from a hard/tricky problem and have to keep explaining it and hinting at how to solve it, both candidate and interviewer feel bad and you haven't learned much.

Not that this is a particularly hard problem, it will fit within an interview slot if they are on top of things. But it's similar enough to questions I hate asking/getting (e.g. min of maxes of sliding windows) that I would definitely never ask it.
Dude! That's awesome, I was under the impression it was a ways away. Is this on nightly or going to be making it into one of the upcoming stable releases?
For designers

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https://www.webdesignernews.com/
Yes, I'm pretty sure standard refrigerators have far less insulation than they could have. Probably mostly for weight and cost reasons.

A good quality camping coldbox (e.g. made of fibreglass or thick polyethylene plastic) can keep ice solid for days even in an Australian summer.