skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blog post is pushing 10 years old and it's about StackOverflow, but it's still extremely relevant: https://bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/

The whole thing is worth reading, but here are a few particularly choice bits:

>"There is a tremendous amount of spit and polish that goes into making a major website highly usable. A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation."

>The next time you see an application you like, think very long and hard about all the user-oriented details that went into making it a pleasure to use, before decrying how you could trivially reimplement the entire damn thing in a weekend. Nine times out of ten, when you think an application was ridiculously easy to implement, you’re completely missing the user side of the story.
OP mentioned that they just buy the data from someone else and therefore OP is not a database rights holder.
Hah, yeah seriously I was at the airport last week and literally could not find one single item in the convenience store that I could have other than plain water. Even their seltzer water had added sugar...
Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor
Speaking of unnecessarily difficult, the writing style of this article, by itself, seems to be trying to prove the author’s point.
I took a quick look at the thread on github and did not see that much toxicity. Maybe I missed most of it, but IMO (which seems to be shared by others) Docker is seriously wrong here. Saying that login wall is a change to "improve user experience ... moving forward" is wrong. Whoever is saying this knows this is not true. Calling such an obvious case of BS when we see it is not treating people with disrespect.

On "write letters/emails to Docker" instead, no thank you. If I suspect the company of some dishonesty (as I now do based on the thread at github), public shaming may be more effective and do most good. This discussion needs to be public.
Some more discussion on the topic over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4459113.0
Fake news is nothing new. We used to call it yellow journalism. It actually got us into a war.
There have been many attempts to redesign HN, but I wanted to try staying faithful to the original. E.g. here’s what this thread looks like: https://lambdanews.io/item/17810208

One unfortunate side effect of using a “modern” framework is that it was difficult to get the URL format to match HN’s exactly. Eventually I just gave up and went with /item/.

I also cloned Search HN for completeness: https://ln-search.herokuapp.com
>Technology does not solve civil problems

How does the printing press making books cheaper not help end widespread illiteracy? Why does better engineering allowing construction of sewers not drastically improve civil life?

Heck something as simple as street lights must have done a lot to make people feel safer going out of their homes at night.
I disagree with most of what she says. I know I spend too much time online, but at the same time I don't have any problems getting lost in books. Just last week I devoured Name of the Wind (600+ pages) in a matter of days, even though I ultimately didn't particularly like it.

It seems like she has trained herself to read a certain way and then blames the world around her for her own actions. Spending time online doesn't have to affect your reading behaviour, especially if you practice self awareness.
It may be grim, but in the short term that's probably the best we can do. DC should have fewer drivers and more public transit commuters: that would be a better place to live and work. They're not going to hold a lottery to let one poor dude drive in his own lane and stick some rich dude on a bus.
> For Americans, reducing income disparity, which in turn would allow more money to flow within the US.

You mean increase income disparity. More foreign software engineers would lower the median salary of a software engineer in the us, which is in the top bracket of earners. Increasing the salary of software engineers increases income disparity between those and the median.

Also, i thought the point was to make an ethical one, not a money one.

> For foreign employees, ending a program of indentured servitude that dangles the prospect of citizenship in front of them while providing substandard pay and limited mobility.

Oh why thank you. Did you ask foreign employees if they like your idea of banning them from the US for their own benefit?

> For foreign governments, bringing talent back to their countries rather than cash, enabling the development of their own businesses and growth of their own economy.

If you have a concern for the well-being of foreign governments over the interests in the US, you can advocate or better measures than punishing foreign people.
I'm guessing they don't care so much because most of their paying users are captive audience. If your work decides to use slack, it's not like you can't opt-out.

So they focus more on server-side features that ensure they'll be chosen in the first place.
If there's anything I've learned about security, it's that "personal" (i.e. not the result of collective work of a group of experts that was reviewed thoroughly, openly) implementations of cryptographic algorithms are a big no-no
They don’t want to become the “commoditized complement” to a higher order ecosystem monetized by Kubernetes, et al.
Python wriggles onward without its head
If Reason is trying to indoctrinate me and turn my liberal self into a Trumper, I can only say that it's doing a remarkably poor job thus far. ;)
Really simple. Humans weren't made to sit on their ass all day. Obesity used to happen to the nobility too. Physical labor is niche now.
Jesus. I'm a liberal Democrat and a lot of what gets written in Reason gives me hives, but I don't make up random slurs about libertarians, and you shouldn't either.
No. Businesses whose success depend on network effects are not automatically Ponzi schemes.
Growing a Shoe Brand to $460K/month
There's plenty of avenues here to make art. Simply curating the images which are generated is enough to call it art. In addition, it has a text interface which is somehow connected to the output. The artist could write a poem and show us the output, but they don't have to show us every image, just the one's that contribute in some fashion to the meaning of their words. It's not that different from using aleatory methods, found art, or collage.
So... Democratic party problem you're saying? Democratic party benefited from Russian hacking, is undermining democratic institutions, and distorting facts?

You used the plural form, "parties" and I am curious about your analysis on the bipartisan nature of the root of this problem.

edit: Don't care about imaginary HN points, so downvote away. Just introspect a moment on what it says about the rational basis of your beliefs if you can't tolerate/respond to something you disagree with.
Google Fit gets all-white redesign, new activity rings [Update]
You are not doing that person any favor by banning them from the US.
Someone described Aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries to give to rich people in poor countries.

An additional difficulty Niger has is that it has the highest birthrate in the world.
Interesting. I wonder if this includes lies told in private messages?
> Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment.

Because it's aimed at gamers?

> Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.

It's a chat and VOIP system, seems to do those both very well. Not exactly complicated.
Bloke hurls sueball over Google's 'is it off yet?' location data slurping
To be fair, Facebook users can rate Facebook's trustworthiness by simply not using Facebook. Which I would recommend.

What impact on physical and mental health does it have to sit around checking different screens for InstaFaceSnap or RedditTwitTube updates?
> Finally Apple is dragging their feet

Do you know something I don't here? My impression was that Apple hopes to just ignore WebAuthn completely, since it suits Apple to have a proprietary Apple-only system that requires everybody to buy lots of Apple branded gear if they want any security. Only if WebAuthn is overwhelmingly successful would they be forced to actually do anything.

As well as the complexity, Certificate auth has a privacy problem. If I have one cert for "Nick Lamb" do I want to use that for PornHub, my Hacker News comments _and_ for my bank account ? If I need separate certificates for each service it's quickly unmanageable, on the other hand if I don't do that I'm tracked everywhere seamlessly. FIDO / U2F / WebAuthn fixes all this in a way better cert UI could not.
You can think a 5-person team can build highly performant native apps for a number of different platforms in a matter of months?
Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses
My mental health has been suffering for the past couple of years for a variety of fairly definable reasons, but I actually had my first one last night. It was triggered so I kind of knew what was going on, but I really wasn't prepared for the smack of adrenaline and the half hour cooling down period of just trying to stop shaking and lose the desire to cry.

Luckily it was not debilitating, and happened in the car five minutes from home, so I could get to a sofa and work through it; it also helped that I had somewhere to be with friends that was in no way connected to my triggers and so I could use that as a useful distraction.

I think the scariest thing for me, now, is that now I have to add panic/anxiety attacks to my understanding of my own condition, which up until now has been either some very black (but ultimately rational) periods of suffering, or just general low mood to the point where I have dismissed the idea of medication.

But this is now probably a game-changer for me.
This headline was somewhat misleading for me. I interpreted it as some kind of potentially undesirable filter on an existing feature, but it's just an additional command.

The feature is essentially "Hey Google, tell me something good" and Assistant reads out a positive news story. I asked twice and it told me a story about Parkinson's research and how Utah reduced chronic homelessness. It seems like a feature of questionable usefulness but neat nonetheless.
mithril.js includes a router and an ajax helper (that is much simpler than fetch)

If you include those in preact they may have similar size.
Or you could consider it a signal that in one of the most orderly, fastidious, and organized cultures on the planet (probably THE most), people still manage to catastrophically fuck up nuclear, and if the Japanese can't do it, realistically no one can.
"Politics is an art by which politicians get money from the rich and votes from the poor in the pretext of protecting each from the other" --Oscar
The downside to just good news:

https://qz.com/307214/heres-what-happened-when-a-news-site-o...
Ask to HN: How do you deal with changing your sleeping habits?
Few times by year i need to change radically my schedule for a long time, usually 12h change (instead of wake-up 8am i need wake-up 8pm for a whole month)

Do you have any tips?

Is it better to change it fast, even if it means sleep 2 hours the first day and be totally useless, or a more progressive approach (6days going to sleep 2h later everyday?) gives better results?

When i tried to take nap, i either be really tired and it endup a 3hour nap, or cant sleep. I feel mastering the nap skill can be key here.

Thanks
TLS developers should ditch 'pseudo constant time' crypto processing
> As applied to the Rohingya situation, it switches out the political power of whoever is currently dominant and replaces it with monetary power (proof of work).

My assertion is that using a blockchain, as opposed to existing proven technologies, adds nothing of value.

You keep restating the opposite claim, but you have yet to explain how a blockchain adds any value over not using one.
Can you GDPR request this?
Capitalism is ruthless.
>Blockchain-overuse snark is not the solution to every blockchain proposal....

Yes, it is. At least until someone comes up with an actual use for it that isn’t a scam or something that could have been done much easier with existing technology.
[video]Getting Started with DataTables: Simple Integration
> What I'd like to know is whether I'm some weird outlier or whether many other readers are going through this same process.

Been there, done that. I blame several things:

(a) the Internet, of course.

(b) I am much pickier about what I read. In the past I would have simply said "the language is poor, but the story is good" etc. Now, such things really bother me and I don't want to continue.

(c) I somehow lost my ability to read without subvocalization (actually, I know why, but it's really hard to get it back). Extremely annoying!
By that definition there is never a shortage of any labor of any kind.
...and so does every other big tech company that needs to deal with spam. (Ie, any social media half worth their salt.)
> Taken a marginalized nation

Which one would that be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/space/why-does-u-s-use-russian-...

crimea and russia making us look stupid in syria happened long before the election, btw.

etc.

Just because the beloved 'news' which you bemoan losing 'legitimacy' used editorial bias to marginalize a nation in its coverage does not make it actually marginal..
But the difficulty is that the traditional centralized provider of identity is the state, and they are the arbiter of identity because they have power. Being the state in power is why they decide anyone's identity. Declaring your own identity does not change the power dynamic.
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs? (Europe Edition)
This question was asked last week and basically asked, which tech cities in the US are hidden gems and often overlooked. Atlanta and a number of other cities were posted and at least how the commenters described them, they sounded like very liveable places.

Which got me thinking, are there overlooked tech cities with good pay, affordable living etc. in Europe?

tldr: Cheap, good tech cities to live in Europe?
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
If Trump, Brexit and Duterte are what the people want, perhaps we live in societies that are incapable of self-governance. I'm no fan of centrist neoliberal politics, but regimes and decisions which destabilize economies, marginalize minorities and villainize immigrants are clearly not a better alternative.
This is really bizarre that MS(Bing) can still claim that they don't use Google results with such an investigation and fake results showing identically in both places, having originated on the Google side.
Come on Bing, just own up!
Archaeologists explore East Africa’s ancient monumental cemeteries
Discord is great. Pitched to gamers, but could easily function in a work setting.
So they..

* Inserted results into the search index for odd queries like "hiybbprqag"

* Searched Bing for those queries

* Saw the result from google

Wouldn't it have been easier and just as definitive to just

* Search Bing for hiybbprqag

* Show that google received a search query for the same thing
I didn't say it's not a marketing strategy, but it's really not shady. Again, you've already seen the best content. The rest is an optional, barely-mentioned extra.
BBC News: Water ice 'detected on Moon's surface'
Worst Job Description ever
Could we change the title to "Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users"? The zero to one bit is irrelevant and obvious to programmers.
(two comments in this thread:)

> What always fascinated me is how those images look almost exactly like the hallucinations you get on some psychedelics... The AI must be pretty close if they can already match the output of a confused human brain.

> Traditionally, with computer generated stuff, you could clearly see the math in the algorithms (the sine waves and fractals and whatnot). With AI generated stuff it looks... natural... It's a computer no longer letting you see how he thinks.

The paper "Deep Image Prior" by Dmitry Ulyanov et al. gives compelling evidence that the structure of convolutional neural networks already encodes strong knowledge about the appearance of natural images, independent of any specific parameters (learned weights). Independence from parameters means it's independent from what task the network was trained to accomplish, and of the training algorithm.

This helps explain (IMO) why a neural network with "wrong" weights (meaning, the training process did not fully meet the goal of the project) still produces images that like plausible activations of the human visual cortex, rather than harsh mathematical patterns. The convolutional network structure is biased towards natural-looking images.

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10925
third-party blog post: http://mlexplained.com/2018/01/18/paper-dissected-deep-image...
I dont think google makes good editorial decisions.
Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix
Kind of sad it only recognizes English.

Which makes me wonder how useful it would be to use different languages for teaching ML about the world?

Maybe an understanding across different languages might help it differentiate between objects with more accuracy? Tho, I'm probably making this sound far more simple than it actually would be.
I understood most of the arguments in favor of keeping Backpage up and running, but I didn't understand anyone who wanted to keep the founders out of jail. (Assuming the indictments had any truth in them.)
You should be able to.
We went from Hipchat to Teams and now Slack.

Hipchat was solid. App was great to use and did not consume many resources. Integration with other tools was ok. Of course things like Atlassian were nice. Webhooks, API worked for me. Even writing simple notifications worked.

We then switched to teams because we already use Office 365 and the guy in charge likes MS. Enough said. Teams and Office 365 has weird UI experiences and it feels sluggish. Did not like it t all.

At the moment we use Slack. You can switch from workplace to workplace. Slack is viral. You need to have it. All the integrations. UI is more polished than Teams but overall I am not a fan. It feels sluggish like Teams at times.
The same person who would address the nation with instructions in case of nuclear war...
Any good links to share?
"Frontend developer and devops" for a junior role... Goodluck
MakeItSew – convert your child's drawings into soft toys
> Does it matter?

it does if selective coverage reinforces a specific foreign policy at the expense of another one without making the actual differences between these policies explicit.
I find it very unsettling that search engines seem to be filtering information based on its knowledge of the user. I understand the article describes a different feature that does basically some kind of mood analysis that does not require the knowledge of the user and, at least currently, must be explicitly invoked by the user.

I have noticed that at some point search engines like Google or Youtube started only showing me results that match my political views. It was actually quite difficult to find any opposing view points.

Now, I think this leads to radicalization as people are further "strengthened" in their opinions seeing that "the Internet agrees" with them.
The underlying weakness of the Miller-Rabin test has been known for a long time, and yet "just do N rounds of Miller-Rabin" keeps being perpetuated as the folklore solution to probabilistic primality testing. The BPSW test is basically superior in every way: there are no known counterexamples (and there's currently no feasible strategy to construct counterexamples, if any exist), it's as fast as a single Miller-Rabin test for discarding composites, and if I'm not mistaken, it's about as fast as N = 3 Miller-Rabin tests for primes. In other words, doing N = 50 Miller-Rabin rounds instead of just doing a single BPSW test really makes no sense. I'm happy that the authors advocate the BPSW test as a replacement. BPSW is the default pseudoprime test used in Mathematica, Maple and Pari/GP so it's definitely battle-tested too. Perhaps this work will finally prompt widespread change.
What are Elliott's benchmarks?
It's easy to blame the internet, but for me the biggest reason why my deep reading capacities suffered was college. If every semester you have to grind thousands of pages, the art of skimming and superficial reading is necessary survival tool. Writing papers with short deadlines quickly leads to fishing for quotes and references in source material. After few hard years of college it's difficult to get back to old reading habits, even if it's just fiction in leisure time.
And you need to source your claims. Nobody has reason to believe a word of what you write.

Presumably, it is based on claims by Russian and Syrian authorities. These are not impartial sources, and they delayed access of international inspectors to the site.

OPCW has confirmed use of chemical weapons by Syrian government during the civil war at several separate occasions.
Certainly, the libertarians share some goals with the GOP, while being staunchly against Democratic economic policies and regulations. But they also take strong stances against the police state and military industrial complex. I believe Reason is as mainstream as libertarian publications go.
I'm not sure the US can compete with this.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_toll
Meh. The logic still applies: on a bad network, the first request can hang for half a minute when a retry would get lucky and go through immediately.

Don't handcuff your users for no benefit, just because you can't write a well-behaved backend.
> Instead, there are 51 different state policies.

That would be truly remarkable, given that there are only 50 states (the District of Columbia is not a state). I don't know if each U.S. federal polity is governed by different title rules, but it wouldn't surprise me, since areas such as American Samoa, Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C. have radically different histories: American Samoa was ceded by her native rulers; Puerto Rico was conquered from Spain & the District of Columbia was ceded by Maryland, ultimately from land granted by a royal English charter.

I think it's important to note because the United States are more complex than commonly understood.
Microsoft: We Busted Russian Fancy Bear Disinfo Websites
Nah, it's a very libertarian leaning publication, definitely not friendly to Trump or the like. Falls out of the mainstream right vs left. Libertarians tend to promote freedom above all other values - even as a more left-leaning person I think it's good to consider a libertarian perspective on many issues actually, unless there's seriously good arguments and evidence to the contrary, freedom is a very important thing to value.

They actually do quite well on the Media Bias Chart for a largely opinion based publication, similar to Vox or Slate, so if you're interested in a libertarian perspective on something, they're probably a good source to consider.
They are both correct: I = dq/dt is true only for scalar flux - a fixed, flat, surface with constant charge applied perpendicularly at every point across it. A popular simplification/special case of the general equation from vector calculus.