skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why story? The breakthough of SimCity was the concept of software as a toy. The user creates their own fun. In a more modern context, open things to the community by allowing them to write and share their own stories.

Anyone familiar with the history of Kerbal Space Program knows this issue. KSP's developers releases a "contracts" system that was essentially a random story teller. A few variables were randomly selected to generate a task. Of course many of the tasks ended up being ridiculous and they had to back-fill with a series of rules, but it is still rather silly. Then in a more recent update they allowed users to create "missions" and share them via steam (yawn). But this was layer atop the previous contracts scheme, resulting in a grinding mess that many/most players simply ignore. They instead play according to self-created story arcs and self-imposed rules.

SimCity did it best. Give the players the tools to play, but don't tell them how to play. Build a world full of towns and potential then let the players loose to explore and play how they want. Don't try to randomly build quests. Create the interface so that players can write and share their own storylines. I envision something more like OpenOblivion, aka Elder Scrolls with community-created quests/factions/stories.
People writing these things want a trustless, secure, easily changed, pseudo-anonymous contact.

I'm fairly sure you can do all those at once.

I think they are fighting a losing battle and we are going to see more dApps go back to central servers and just use the blockchain to hold certain ownership information. The rest of the account and logic will be in private servers.
Go tour a factory. Where there used to be 300+ people there are now 20.

Guess what automated robotic things you now see that weren't there before ?
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But we have cheap VCRs now.
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Perhaps, but a decade ago people said that HEB/Central Market were doomed because WalMart was moving into groceries, and at that time WalMart was considered the unstoppable retail behemoth. If I were placing bets on who will do better in groceries ecommerce, I would bet on the company that has its entire focus on that, especially when they have a history of beating back big competitors who come from other retail sectors.
I’d argue that opening up a new frontier for society’s restless (space) to relieve the pressure that’s been mounting from the lack of any kind of frontier is as important as anything else. If we keep ignoring that pressure it’s eventually going to have massive destabilizing effects… in fact, I think we’re seeing some of that already.
hi, I am interested in permaculture, can you please recommend the books and contact info would be great!
> All of which happens in your office

Not necessarily. Particularly when it comes to early stage work, a lot of trust building must happen face to face.

In any case, "out there" means being "out" in the awareness of the people on whose radars you want to be. (Versus twittering about in a corner unnoticed.)
or take the pay cut and stop selling out future generations for your greed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree that it was unethical - practices like these are one of the major reasons I left.

It's nearly impossible to be "ethical" in large OEM companies because of the extreme competition and complexity of the organization. Most of these large OEMs are so political that even the smallest changes would require way too much effort.
Two cyberpunk ideas:

1. Build new communities entirely (see Night City)

2. No politically viable solutions to income inequality? Do it yourself! Implement your own local basic income program for non-employee residents. Would at least help with PR. Gives a new spin on the phrase corporate welfare.
Those sound more like things that would be important to someone who joined Google because it paid well and offered "interesting" coworkers and tasks, not someone who (naively) joined Google to "make the world a better place".
MISP 2.4.95 released (aka API search improvement)
My idiot bank disables right-clicking, and I'd be all over the option to disable right-click hijacking, but yup I also use a web app that overloads right-clicks in a sane and appropriate manner.
In Privacy Victory, ICE Backs Down from Voter Data Demand
He also drank whisky. In California, those are both legal.
He is a historian, not a scientist. I don't think there is a good way to analyze the past scientifically, because you can't run experiments.
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring a Solution Architect
The MATLAB compiler is another part of the ecosystem which is worth its price when trying to deliver quickly. There’s nothing like it in the other ecosystems (maybe Mathematica?)
I think this is a bad idea. Odds are very high that this will end with an immediate rejection and maybe even blacklisting, if I were you I wouldn't risk it.

Thing is, even if the field of work is relevant (AI), most companies consider their HR process as some kind of sacred rite of passage and they tend to be very inflexible in changing their mode of operation per candidate. Not to mention that even if companies advertise otherwise, disregard for status quo || authority is not really a marketable character trait.

To answer your question on a more personal note: actually, I'd at least be a bit impressed if the end product is of high quality, and would like to learn more about the code and your reasoning behind it. Yet I believe this would be an uncommon approach in the industry.
If you really do not care about being well paid and want to change the world, Red Cross is hiring.
TIL. I'm an import here so was making some assumptions. I stand corrected!
I don't foresee any likely path by which encouraging the adoption of a particular open source publishing technology is going to do serious damage to future generations.
It’s not the CEOs job the be he genius. They should have a high level grasp on subjects and be able to relay the information back to the public/shareholders/the board etc.

The COO is the person behind the curtain and the CEO is the showman or visionary.
Really like Linear digressions.
Yes, this is the inherent issue at play nowadays. Investors are throwing silly money at startups in an attempt at global domination. What then happens is that the start-ups rely on pricing at a loss to get the majority market share and absorbing the loss through their silly money funding. End result is that simple business models end up getting destroyed because the customers are now sensitive to any price hikes above the loss making prices. The funded company now has to pursue a mish mash of money making strategies to try and break even. It remains to be seen whether this strategy will work long term.
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This is true, you can never have enough hats and they have monetised their games to provide a (steady?) stream of income.
It is also hard to measure the value of a dollar. Since it is also the unit of account.
Box.com made a huge loss in 2017 https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/pre...

Dropbox made a huge loss in 2017 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/dropbox-ipo-...
You mean like HTML/Javascript/CSS?
I believe t-mobile forced that on apple. T-mobile sells enough Apple phones that they can call Apple and say we need this feature in all phones we sell and Apple will do it. It isn't clear who would lose more if t-mobile decided not to sell the iphone but it isn't one Apple would want to risk.

I have no doubt Apple already have people wanting to do this which is another reason Apple wouldn't push back. They already had people wanting to do this, and so getting a few business people who otherwise didn't care on-board is enough to push the decision.
Things might be slightly better then, but if there's still X number of housing units, you're still only going to have Y number of people living there.

Giving people a more even chance at winning musical chairs is nice, but how about just making more chairs?
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Very diplomatic. I'd say tire fire.
That's only part of the story, India greatly benefits from population density in urban areas.
How is Postmates a tech company vs a delivery service that happens to use an app? I fully recognize that there are a lot of other companies on this list that should be excluded on that basis, which I've noted elsewhere in the comments.
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Telling Google is open-source is like telling MacDonald's is healthy because it has a slice of tomato and salad.

Android is not entirely open-source. Chrome browser is not entirely open-source. Google Web Apps are not open source. Google Search is not open source.
Google turns 20: how an internet search engine reshaped the world
The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy
Overrated and underrated cities: A subjective look at 57 cities in North America
Original article was mostly garbage from someone who is upset they can't continue making slow & bloated websites. It's amazing how little people seem to actually know about AMP, what it does, and what Google does.

But hating on Google is popular and easy so....
Having called a few of them and spoken to them on the phone about this they are mostly pissed off about the cookie-cutter emails spamming them about this but quite happy to talk about it on the phone.
Very nice writeup. A non-obvious bug, easy to follow debugging steps, interesting and simple solution. As a bonus, the color based object selection trick was new to me.
You can't see any path upon which allowing a massive advertising corporation to gain majority control of and lead in the AOLification of the web/internet could be damaging to future generations?
It's been a year and it's a relatively small UI change to at very least make the local save button the primary colored one.

I assume they have some metric for success of the experiment tracking daily uploads to FF screenshots and they're unwilling to sacrifice that.
Julia combines rapid prototyping with a well designed language and good execution speed. Matlab only has the first of those three. Julia can plot eigenvalues no problem. Almost exactly the same code works.
Hi, lifelong python developer here. Is OCaml a good fit to do REST application servers? I've took a look a year ago but couldn't find well maintained libraries and it seems that the community is not so focused in general development. Am I wrong? OCaml seems really nice, I've been dabbling with rust for a while, and it feels great working with it but I'd like to try some purer functional languages too. My needs are basically a web container, some way to interface with SQL (ORM or a query builder, with support to PostGIS), some redis, some elasticsearch, nothing too fancy.
Uber is 9 years old, "remains to be soon" makes you wonder how long it takes for investors pumping money into hypothetical winner-take-all markets to get tired and leave.
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The country where a technology was invented matters very little to the people making money from it.

However, I think 'automation' is really just a bad proxy, technology is -augmenting- workers and re-architecting supply chains. Consider how transformative the standardized shipping container is for an import/export business - regardless of what countries they operate in.
Ask all the injured factory workers what they think, maybe?
You're not wrong. I remember seeing a couple of MPs lamenting the barrage of messages they received.

On the other hand, if you're an elected representative you better listen to your constituents. They are there to represent the people, not to decide in their place. Or, at least, that's the idea.
This is commonly used for compositing and debugging in animation, where it's called an object ID pass. It also tends to look pretty fun.
Taking probiotics with fiber was a complete game changer for me, and greatly the benefited my health, both digestive and other reasons.
They're paralleling the days of AOL in a lot of ways.
Didi significantly reduced subsidies after Uber left the market - in Shenzhen at least this means prices aren't any better than taxis. It's usually faster to get a taxi in most places and times of the day than waiting the 3-5 minutes for your Didi to arrive. Back when it was a lot cheaper to Didi, people would wait a couple minutes to save 50%, but if the price is the same, they take what's faster.

On top of this there's additional competition from the huge numbers of people using bike sharing like Mobike or Ofo - which not only taking a bike much cheaper, but it's often faster because you avoid traffic jams.

Amazing how much the market has changed in such a short time.
She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel. Now she's won a $3 M prize
Chrome prompts me for my system password before letting me view passwords
Not to mention, earthquakes. All that tech in SF in Seattle, located at tectonic hotspots.
I understand quite a bit about AMP, what it does, and what Google does, and I find these articles right on point.

We should fight this and keep the web independent.
Security for the normal user is a nice benefit of having an App Store.
If a sufficiently large mass of people can be convinced of something that's where everyone is going. So the result is that if a small group of people want to get somewhere all they have to do is convince a larger group. Sounds difficult but with today's tech and money concentration it's not hard to convince someone that "more CO2 is better".[0]

Regular people can't draw their own conclusions based on self study and own research. Scientifically literate is not enough when you rely on someone else's data and conclusions. So the only way is to present some evidence (plausible stuff) and the conclusion in a loud enough and convincing fashion. What you end up with is a great number of people who are genuinely convinced that global warming is a farce. They have scientists on their side so who are they to argue?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/scientist-who-thinks...
So is Hyperbole R Us.
No, that's the life expectancy gap between different counties. There are plenty of poor people in the nicely blue LA County.
When is F# getting native compilation? MS has been promising it for years now. Last I heard, they still had zero progress toward handling tail calls.
He's talking altruism, you are talking about personal gain. From the start these are distinct categories.

Sure, sometimes they overlap, but Google is past that point lately.
This article, and the one it references about AMP, all throw the word 'force' around a lot. No one is 'forcing' you to do anything with your website, wanting to be top of Google SERP is optional.
Interesting indeed. The article's assumption is that an individual's current microbiome is the optimal state and that preventing it from returning to that state is "potentially harmful". I think this is where I take issue. The last ten years of data shows that the Western diet has completely reconfigured our gut bacteria and that most people's stomachs are probably out of whack to some degree. Preventing it from returning to that state is probably a good thing.

That being said, I do find it interesting that probiotics use is more or a less an unquantifiable shot in the dark. What's the right amount to take of each kind of bacteria? Do some people need more of a certain kind, less of another? I feel like we treat it like a panacea when it obviously is not.
Does MTurk API allow to identify, rank and exclude workers? By identifying I mean get some common key for all given worker submissions etc.
Heh, I made a similar thing (mostly unreleased/undocumented at [0], original idea at [1]) that would take your Go code, build a binary wrapper for it using the target OS arch, SSH to the target, SCP the file over, run the binary, connect stdout/stderr/stdin with the remote, allow the remotely running binary to request files from the home binary, and delete itself once complete. One thing I found is SCP/SFTP is a really slow transfer protocol and an alternative should be made available as an option (but leave SSH as the default).

I believe that we are getting to a point where config management might as well be in a programming language instead of a bunch of ad-hoc scripts in templates that defer to dynamic language scripts and become a mess.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/systrument
1 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/1
Who do I tell my brand new, bright idea about IDN attack prevention?

It goes like this:

Display characters that are out of range of your selected language's character set in a different colour than the characters of your language.

That way, when you go to раураӏ.com that last character shows up in red.

Homework: select two languages (e.g. Chinese and English), and use three colours. Make the colour scheme colour-blind-friendly.

(it just came to me, I haven't thought it through; I'd rather read different coloured characters than punycode)
They are.

However there is a sliding scale here, and a lot of people will willingly take somewhat lower pay in order to work for places they consider reasonably ethical and transformative.

Pay is not everything, but neither is it nothing.

(My partner works for the Red Cross in the UK, they are a great organisation)
The Mystery of Amazon HQ2 Has Finalists Seeing Clues Everywhere
I live in the UK and enjoy my free health service every time I use it, but thanks for the concern.
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The Original Task Runner
I would be neither impressed nor offended, I would be irritated.

It takes hours or days of clock time to find candidates to bother phone screening, let alone bring in for a face-to-face. Someone comes in that I'm not expecting to talk to... you'll meet the door with some velocity.

(And anybody that wants you to come in for a face-to-face before a phone screen... they deserve whatever they get, because that's dumb unless they're across the street and bring you lunch.)

If you can't figure out what to put on a resume how will you solve an actual problem?!
Anytime the "average user" or numbers like "99.9% of users" are mentioned, red lights should go off. These kinds of claims are condescending, often untrue, and rarely based on facts.
Proof of stake has never been shown to work and the largest projects attempting to move towards it, ie. Ethereum, are finding PoS's issues insurmountable. There is still no proof of concept for PoS (Casper), something that is becoming increasingly apparent to the ETH/BTC market these days...
> Writing a kernel in C means using SIMD intrinsics, where function names and types differ for every vector size, and then different numbers/sets of calls for each kernel (you'd want several sizes per architecture)

This is not true for any recent, competent compiler. I can write a template function in C++ code with a regular loop over arrays and it gets vectorized withSIMD instructions automatically according to architecture. Sure, it’s not JIT but it still never requires intrinsics
> You must own a lot of Tesla shares

I do, but I also entrust my wife and kids in a Model S. I specifically bought the Model S (a used 75D) for them due to its safety record. That's worth far more to me than any Tesla shares. With that said, my wife is aware under what conditions it is safe to engage Autopilot, and is also aware that she is still the responsible party if an accident happens when it's engaged. She doesn't use her phone, she doesn't not pay attention, she is babysitting the vehicle while at speed and still has final authority.

> to make such a ridiculous statement.

You think the statement is ridiculous. 40,000 people a year die in the US driving due to human decisions. Several friends I attended high school with were killed in car accidents. Loved ones have been killed in car accidents. I don't think my statement is ridiculous in that context. These sorts of efforts are necessary to move the needle on transportation safety. Perfectly happy with my TSLA shares going to zero in the process, as long as progress is made.
I have not had the described slowness on Android and Windows (I think I tried it on Linux too) so I'm not sure what the parent commentator is speaking of.

Edit:

Relevant:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-mls-protocol-00
Good.

It seems like science needs more experiments and fewer naysayers. No one really knows if this will work, but it's relatively cheap ($23M--a rounding error on the scale most governments work at.)

I get tired of the folks who bash experimental solutions like this (a couple of whom are quoted in this article.) Yes, there is a possibility this will harm marine life. But, unquestionably, the plastic that is already in our oceans is already harming marine life. So we need to try.

This experiment will, if nothing else, provide additional data about what plastic is out there and what methods we can use to clean it up.

I hope the scientific community encourages and funds more of these experiments.
I've followed this story off and on since the book was originally published (and read the poem a number of times), but I learned quite a bit of new information from this article. I'd recommend reading it even if you think you're already familiar with the story!
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Not sure about firefox, but localhost definitely autofills localhost for me in chrome.
Crikey. Looking at the various tests done by people on that thread highlights some pretty amateur string logic by whoever implemented it.
Yes, Google owns a significant portion of search but I don't think it qualifies as a monopoly.

* They have no exclusive rights to "search". Bing, DDG, Yahoo, and more all compete in the same space.

* They do not have a geographic right to any areas.

* They are not prevent me from using another search engine

I choose to use Google because it gives me the results I expect. Nobody is forcing me to use Google over other search engines. If anything, Google has raised the quality for all search engines by consistently producing the best product available.
I'm pretty sure I get a substantial fraction of that sort of benefit from Debian's apt repository.
> If the developer does not setup www.domain.com and the user goes there chrome will not “fix” anything

Yup, that's on the developers. Hopefully this fix will make it so that it will be easier to setup DNS with just one domain instead of 2. Props to Chrome.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike what Google is currently doing by trying to hide www and pushing amp. None of which are connected with making slow or bloated sites.

If Google really disliked slow and bloated sites they could apply a search penalty for page load and weight. Promoting amp is promoting Google not solving the problem of heavy sites.
The first theory that some designers think URL's are bad for users seems more plausible. Most people don't think of themselves as the villains in a movie. What kind of conversations do you think Googlers have?

We've seen this before with Gmail hiding email addresses. You can still show them with one click. These redesigns are annoying but world didn't come to an end.