skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But how do you choose which bad reviews to ignore ?

Content-free ones like "hated it" or "didn't work" or even "DOA" (and nothing more) can generally be summarily ignored.

Other ones I don't exactly ignore but, perhaps, dismiss, are of the form "it was too complicated for me to use" or "it didn't solve my specific problem". In general, I already know ahead of time what I'm up against in terms of ease of use, problem "fit", or similar issues. However, if not, these comments can, in aggregate, be helpful in setting expectations, just not in rejecting the product.

Another dismissal-worthy category I alluded to are complaints that are generally universal to all products of that type. A trivial, historical example would be complaining about hard drive capacities being advertised in SI units not matching the power-of-2 units displayed by the OS. A more modern example would be external battery pack mAh capacity claims, where it's often the nominal (raw) capacity of the 3.6V internal cells, not the 5V USB output (which isn't 100% efficiently converted), further confounded by the fact that capacity varies widely by discharge rate.

If there's a truly high volume of content, I end up trying to scan for people who have written both lengthier reviews and mention something that sounds like my personal use case. It's time-consuming, unfortunately, and, with today's chance of getting a counterfeit anyway, not even worth it for most of those items.
This reminded me of a thought I had the other day. I was watching a documentary with a terminally ill person and they had a small set of plastic drawers on their dresser. It was ghastly. Then I realised just how much more plastic is going to end up in landfill in coming decades.

People used to have wooden furniture that got passed down for generations. Now if someone dies everything they own that's made of plastic will be dumped. None of it has any value. There must be so much plastic accumulated in the homes of living people. It's scary.
I never talked to a recruiter with any technical expertise in my whole 12 year career.
The bit I would like to know, is how the CEO of this company is making lots of money?

I mean who is seriously paying for “AI on the blockchain”? Sure if it’s possible to run some of the most computationally intensive processing we know of on the one of the slowest platform architectures available, I would certainly pay for that. Denying the laws of thermodynamics would be one hell of a breakthrough though.
I just yanked elasticsearch out of an app and replaced it with PG's full text search.

It's like shedding a 500# pack from my shoulders. Everything is so much simpler now -- dev is easier, testing is easier, deployment is easier. Infrastructure costs are down.

Elasticsearch is a pretty neat tool, but what I was using it for was heavy handed. I only chose it because it was what everyone else was using it.
I'm in the process of proposing 7 new Taiwanese characters, and 14 more Hakka characters to the Unicode IRG.

They need scanned evidence of times when the characters are used. It then takes about 5 years to actually be introduced into the standard.
I love the concept, but...

Ever since the early Internet; pre Firefox era, I have been a heavy Tab user. I am possibly on the higher end of spectrum, my Safari currently has 410 Tabs opened. It sort of expands and shrink during the weekend. In some days they could blow up to 500+ Tabs, more like a reading list.

Quite a few of them are youtube links that are acting like a mini playlist or file selection of music. So having a Video as group selection shown in this concept is a godsend. I have been wondering why Safari Multi Tab page doesn't have this. ( And Safari Tab Overview is kind of stupid, it reloads / reactive all the tab you have when you press overview, making huge memory and CPU spike as well as jack )

But over the years I have came to the conclusion, most of the consumers don't use Tab like us. That is why those mini Tabs in Chrome that shrinks to ridiculously small size don't annoy them. They don't check email on the web. Nor do they do much comparison. Their web browsing flow is very linear. While my web browsing flow is extremely jumpy. Reading on something could bring up dozens of other questions in my head.

So I am wondering if there is enough market for this browser? Don't get me wrong I love innovation in the browser UI space and I love the new History timeline. But I am slightly worry about its sustainability.
A pump causes the exact same problem, except a few miles downstream.
Well instead of you telling TODO app what you have to do, TODO app tells you what you have to do, and that frees you up to think about doing it. Or it just does it for you and you go to beach.
Keyboard layout matters. I used to type around 80-85 WPM on a standard keyboard with QWERTY layout. A little more than a year ago, I started getting into custom mechanical keyboards and built a split ortho Ergodox and switched to Colemak all in one go, and have had to re-learn how to type. You can see my progress here:

https://www.keyhero.com/profile/yuhe00/

As you see, I'm quite a bit faster now then I was before. Not to mention the added benefit of reduced risk of RSI. It's been an interesting experience to completely rebuild muscle-memory. For the first month or so, I was not very productive, but it was during a not-so-busy period ;) In my opinion, it's a good investment for anyone who types a lot as part of their profession.
Firefox already has a so-called "reader view", which basically strips away the distractions. It would be nice to see this implemented more thoroughly, so navigation menus are retained and become standardized/clutter-free.
AFAIK the Z80 hasn't been publicly reverse-engineered to transistor level completely, it's mostly some important pieces (those that Ken Sherriff did, mentioned in the article) but apparently that was enough...

Notable that one of its direct predecessors, the Intel 8080, was reverse-engineered to transistor level:

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/KR580VM80A-intel-i8080-verilog...
Now apply this logic to men in tech and woman in tech bell curves and see how that works out. Is it still rational?
Coming from embedded, the web is such an awful platform. No versioning. Polyfills everywhere! XML (satan's markup). Javascript... Every line of code is a rabbit trail into "can I use" BS.

Web devs didn't make it that way. They're just the ones who have to live with it.

We should be buying them lunch and thanking them for their service, not crapping on them.
He misses out fbpurity which is rather good if you use facebook (https://www.fbpurity.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluff_Busting_Purity)
Intel are in more markets than just CPUs. And any time they enter a new market, all those trademarks from that market come into play. That's what I heard from the Intel folks that described the reasoning.
As mentioned elsewhere, the feedback we got from educators was that they just wanted everything packaged in with Mu, including a working version of Python.

That's why you're seeing the behaviour you report.

However, you could also use your system Python and do: pip install --user mu-editor
X86 used to have BCD instructions but they were killed in X64.
Not to get emotionally involved with a product that could be turned off at any time. And that just because a business is more popular and better technically than it's competitors doesn't mean it doesn't have problems behind the scenes. And on a related note, if you don't have something downloaded to your own hard drive, you don't really own it.
https://i.redd.it/bka1gb843z7z.jpg
getting your salary paid in crypto currency is nuts. But fair play to you.

How do you pay bills? What cryptocurrency do you get? How do you / your employer handle currency fluctuations?
> The average word is not 5 letters.

Taking "word" to mean "whitespace-delimited", the average word length in your comment is ~4.35 characters not counting the spaces. With spaces, that would be 5.35, which is pretty close to 5.
FWIW, you can get similar "Spaces" functionality with Toby extension: https://www.gettoby.com/
Unboxing and Optimizing for the Oculus Go
Not to put too fine a point on it...

but if an individual is able to reproduce, as far as Mother Nature is concerned, that individual was fit for purpose. She really doesn't care about the rest.
Apparently the US does not have meat pies, or at least they are not ubiquitous like here in Australia.
It's a trickier one to find information on! Apparently it was made by Control Data Corp in 1979+. I'll edit this comment if I find more... I'm curious too!

Edit: It's pretty hard to find anything about it! Apparently the University of Georgia had one too, but I'm giving up now and getting back to work :)

Edit 2: Apparently it was IBM (360?) compatible: https://it.unt.edu/sites/default/files/benchmarks-01-1980.pd...
The public didn't buy most of their stuff online 10 years into the web either, but now Amazon dominates.

Blockchain needs a dominant company to stay relevant. As with Amazon, the entire company doesn't have to be tied to it, it can have onchain/offchain components.

I think this becomes easier as tooling becomes easier as well for developers and for users.
> people are paying you to find good engineers

No, they're paying them to find engineers that will pass the interview process. It's a subtle, but important distinction since prejudices that exist among engineers will naturally develop in recruiters. It's the recruiting equivalent of teaching to the test.

And like it or not, the kind of signaling the article describes is real. When an engineer says they can write clojure, it indicates a curiosity that ability to program JavaScript does not. Almost no one is forced to learn Clojure because of some job, project or even job prospects. It means you likely cared enough to devote your own time to learning for the sake of learning. And a lot of engineers look at this kind of thing as important and screen for it in interviews.

A recruiter operating any differently would be like a machine learning algorithm that ignores its training data.
Women in tech would presumably have the same signalling as Clojure users - greater probability of being competent ? Is that the point you were making?
Your question assumes that the programming talent bell curve for men and women are different, which I wouldn’t expect to be the case.
Chocolate, bioterrorism and the birth of Brazilian funk
Sounds like a convenient cover for parallel construction more than anything, TBH.
Can you back up your claims of this track record with anything, or are you just guessing?
Funny, but presumably just selecting for recruiters with deep knowledge of pokemon, not programming languages.
I'm kind of surprised that the international standard permits a letter that isn't found in any other alphabet. For those of us who have names in languages that use non-Latin alphabets, our passports spell them out using Latin letters (usually resulting in something that rarely sounds like the original when pronounced in a sensible way).
Anonymous blockchain sounds like fertile soil for the emergence of simple, autonomous AI. Howard Bloom's cosmology centers around Replication Strategy and Iteration. The medium of blockchain provides convenient and abundant opportunity for both. Imagine a smart contract that could sort of recursively fuel itself with prediction market earnings, and clone itself programmatically. A relatively simple 'mother' script could run generate contracts that have the ability to make predictions and bet a small sum towards that prediction. Outcomes and learnings get shared back a sidechain that is used to help generate more effective offspring. Like a live evolutionary/genetic algorithm playing with real money. Then, if you give those contracts a sort of failover mechanism to spawn a new mother script if communication with the original is lost, you could have a petri dish for a form of digital life beyond simulation.

I realize I probably may have just made an ass of myself as the article suggested is happening. That said, it seems within reason to be able to implement something along those lines given enough time and resources. The article seems to suggest that blockchain has had minimal impact, and its inevitable financial crash and inability to scale to facilitate mass adoption of digital currency makes it worthy of ridicule. I posit that general immutability and autonomous financial entities will come to define our times- and that any assumption that blockchain isn't significant because it doesn't replace your debit card in 2018 misses the bigger picture entirely.
This article would be strengthened by a good set of examples.
It would be a massive piece of work, is most of the answer.

People generally don't want to pay for software, is the other part of the answer.
Dug up a more recent study from 2014 about typing speed, with the result of "median gross WPM was 36.3 with a median of 6 errors, giving a median net WPM of 30.4."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963776/

Notably this study was on physicians and not professional typists (or programmers), so that probably explains the relatively low score. Also the assessment text they present seems challenging:

“Patient is a 62 y/o female with PMH of HTN, DM, morbid obesity, asthma, renal cell carcinoma s/p right nephrectomy in 2001, CAD s/p PCI with c/o left sided chest pain since 2 days. Patient states that her chest pain is 8/10 in intensity, squeezing in quality (“like someone is sitting on my chest “), radiating to left axilla & has been worsening since 2 days. O/E, Vital signs are stable. Cardiovascular exam is WNL. EKG shows ST segment elevations in lead 2, V3-5. Echo shows EF of 45%, hypokinesis of the left ventricular wall.”

Frankly I think that even the HNers pushing normally 100+ WPM might struggle with that.
https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html

Encoding Stability

Applicable Version: Unicode 2.0+

Once a character is encoded, it will not be moved or removed.

This policy ensures that implementers can always depend on each version of the Unicode Standard being a superset of the previous version. The Unicode Standard may deprecate the character (that is, formally discourage its use), but it will not reallocate, remove, or reassign the character.
The most obvious explanation is that for an unit of power (not energy, mind) one has to spend a unit of flow (which is unit of volume per unit of time) falling over a unit of height (which the dam is for).

Now if you pump that unit of flow back up, total downstream loses that same unit of flow.

Second order effect is that when you pump water back up into the reservoir, it is evaporating at an increased rate.

Determining the evoparation increase is not trivial, since the reservoir surface area increases much faster than linear compared to its level at the dam. If they didn't, the dam would've been that much higher, because evaporative losses of the future reservoir are a major factor in the design of the dam.
Are there characters that really can't be drawn individually? Surely there's something better than a black box for pretty much any character.
> Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips. On most systems, turbo mode was with the button pushed in, but since the button could often be wired either way, on some systems it was the opposite.

Now I have no idea if the PC I grew up with was running much slower than it could have been.
> For instance, mice born to fathers that experience stress can inherit the behavioral consequences of traumatic memories. Additionally, mouse dads with less-than-desirable diets can pass a wonky metabolism onto their kids.

This is likely being studied already, but I wonder what this means in regards to depression.
If you work on the intersection of the fields, blog about the intersection. You’ll get less but more qualified leads.

If you work on the union, I’d personally blog just about the fields that gets you more money, and then try to upsell the other services.

Blogging about more than one seems the best way to waste as much time as you can to get a single lead.

InterimCMO.co is an example of company that I know and is pretty successful in getting leads from blog posts (and now articles).
Seems like an interesting assumption. I’m mot convinced there is a difference, but neither am I confident that there isn’t one.
I was rather amused when I read about this years ago. As a child I always asked myself "why should I not press this button?!"
I used to type at about 45 WPM.

Then I switched to Dvorak, the Kinesis Advantage keyboard, and learned to touch type.

I now average 90 WPM on Typeracer and peak at around 115 WPM.
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I've been unemployed for the last 3 years (was a software engineer before that). Am pretty close to broke now and over the past couple of weeks have come to believe that I have a very serious medical condition that needs immediate treatment, what should I do? This may or may not be an ER thing, but I just don't know what to do -- I don't have the $ for an ER or doctor visit. I live in California and have been on HN for like 6-7 years, but just created this profile to hide my identity.
It's really not that complicated. Technical people recognize technical ability. Throwing together a CRUD site in some framework is really not that complicated and can be achieved without really understanding what's going on. When you started learning Clojure you got a little more respect because you were broadening you're horizons. It's not some conspiracy systems programmers have against web-only devs: The web dev learning curve really is not that steep.
Show HN: Mobile web app layout from scratch
As a sysadmin at the bottom of the signaling hierarchy, I find this hilarious. Am I managing a complex integration and operations task? Nah, clearly I'm just someone who clicks through installers in windows.
I was blown away by two very similar things. The first was microfilm in my local library. The second was putting the needle on a record and hearing the music without the amplifier being on. In both cases it's just so obvious how it works yet absolutely amazing that it works so well.
I do agree with you on a lot of your points, the current state (and "value") of cryptocurrencies is extremely over inflated, but I don't think we can use the dotcom bubble as any sort of guide to when the blockchain bubble will burst. They are fundamentally very different things.

I feel like most cryptocurrencies will die a slow death over the coming months with the ones that actually provide value decreasing in price but not dying, with the herd will be culled down to ~20 or so. Blockchain is a useful concept, and tokens of value are a key concept in adoption.

I don't think we've seen any truly useful applications of the technology, but I also feel like its too early to write it off completely. It would only take one great application of blockchain for it to become an important part of our daily lives, but I think the focus at the moment is in the wrong areas.
I pressed mine and everything went slow-motion, so I guess you could have tested it xD
Amazon’s book monopsony is valuable, but it also comes at significant reputational cost

Does it really? Except maybe from defunct book publishers and ebook publishers that get on the wrong side of KDP's inscrutable approval process. Even DOJ sided with them in 2012.
The main innovation is that blockchain is decentralized and yet still verifiable. A public SQL database is in nature centralized. Even if you were to try and shard it out to everybody in the network you have the difficult time of cross verifying such data heavy records.
The Noah's Ark Problem [pdf] (related to endangered species act)
If the plumber can explain to me in coherent reasoning why the problem is likely with 'ABC', I'm not going to challenge it. Especially if they don't handwave about statistics they almost assuredly don't have and I have no domain experience in plumbing. That analogy doesn't work.

I stand by my point: using words like "statistically" and "correlation" perpetuate biases which may not have a rational basis. In this entire thread no one has explained why Clojure programmers are more likely to be "good" than JavaScript programmers (nor has "good" been defined!). I could just as plausibly state that someone tried to learn Clojure because they perceive it to be a buzzword, just as JavaScript programmers are often accused of playing buzzword bingo with web development frameworks.

Empirically speaking, we haven't ended up anywhere. No matter how sure you are of this phenomenon, unless you try to make its observation more robust, it will continue to be a microcosm of the tech hiring industry. Heuristics often belie subtle biases that do not actually have a foundation in truth.
For me this is another lesson about biases and ambiguity.

1 - Learn to recognize biases.

2 - Scrutinize your thoughts to limit the influence of your biases.

3 - Work on processes to limit unconscious biases.

4 - Since you cannot eliminate biases, use biases to your advantage.
The medallions are only for street hails. Uber does not accept street hails, they just made another way of hiring a car convenient enough to replace a significant portion of street hails. The medallion owners invested in something that became less valuable because of technology (cellphones becoming ubiquitous). They have no one to blame except for themselves.
I'd like that too. And perhaps the browser should know about the concept of "user-reviews" (where the reviews are customized per-user, i.e. computed based on the groups you are in, and who you trust, etc.) Thinking about it more, that's what the web needs most: reviews that we can actually trust.
Even worse, what actually happens with prejudice is that if I think that Androids are shitty phones, when I see a broken Android, I add it to my collection of “Shitty Android” data points.

But when my iPhone breaks, I take it into Apple for service and add it to my collection of “Apple gives great service” data points.

Saying that prejudice is just applied statistics completely mischaracterizes prejudice.
Japan's second-hand boom is not caused by a sudden spiritual uplift to not be mottainai, but by 20-30 years of economic stagnation and a growing underclass of poorly paid temp workers who can't afford anything else.
WTF – A Personal Information Dashboard for Your Terminal
I just want all the investors to disappear so we can get to work.
He named Linda before he had several fingers blown off too. I believe his crusade against the 90-something percent of climate scientists that believe in anthropogenic climate change is after he lost the fingers. I’m very sad he lost them, no one should have to deal with that. He was kind of an asshole before -and- after. And fwiw I’m using a broad definition of asshole, one that explicitly includes both people who name languages after porn stars because they were offended by Ada and people who deny established science outside of their field which has the not-inconsequential likelihood of causing mass extinctions.
PR, public relations. Not selling anything but promoting the image of Amazon.

Netflix aren't the incumbent in TV so claiming they aren't really damaging Netflix seems to be intentionally missing the point. Amazon are having a similar, but slightly lesser effect, to Netflix by dint of their somewhat smaller streaming market share. Not to forget they bought out Lovefilm, imdb, and probably a bunch of others I forgot.
Even with a very fast rate of halving the population every generation, to effectively consolidate wealth then each generation has to not even spend most of the money they inherit. You need pretty huge amounts before that starts to happen, so the consolidation effect would be limited to a very small porion of the population. Are the set-for-life rich's birthrates even following the same trend?
Is your salary in cryptocurrency, or is it really in USD/Euros/whatever, converted to cryptocurrency at the current exchange rate on payday?