skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to hijack this thread. There is something very similar to the issue around repeatability of results in Psych fields and the lack of experimental evidence in theoretical particle physics which has been the focus of previous articles on HN. Both fields are dealing with large elephants in their respective fields in which some people know what the issue is, but rather than having a widespread reckoning, people keep publishing papers as if everything is okay. If anything, this demonstrates a problem that peer-reviewed science is not able to fix.

I have my own thoughts, it's due to the siloed nature of science today, given publish of perish forces us to keep our head down and keep publishing whilst ignoring the big picture problems with the hope someone with more funding in a more prestiguous position will do something. It's more problematic in Psych though, because people and their quality of life are at stake which is not a situation in theoretical physics.
It will sure be interesting to see if they go through with this, or if Apple will keep making their devices in factories with suicide prevention fences.
If this is actually true, it is easily provable: if companies have more access to capital than developers, then they should pay more to hire better developers, and you should see developer salaries rise. If this does not happen, it just means they are bullshitting: they can't get developers at the current price they are willing to pay.
Human collective knowledge is limited to couple of generations at best. He is not suggesting it, just merely stating facts.
I've had good luck with https://github.com/OpenKieler/elkjs
We rate-limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars.
So the solution is that we just all become the next Steve Jobs?
It isn't a left/right thing.

There was a case a while back where a woman poisoned her husband. The police found her thumbprint on a book on poisons in the library. I don't think they used library records, they just checked the book itself.

I also recall that there was considerable pushback from the librarians when the government demanded they hand over all borrower records.

Next time I go to the library I'll ask what the current state of this is. I hope their practice is to purge records when you return a book.
Yes please.

Or find another way of making money (that doesn't involve the electronic equivalent of spitting at peoples' faces), and treat the free part as marketing expense.
The world is awash in usable money.

The world is not awash in usable software engineers.
Back to the future!

(looking forward to the past?)
Looks like a cool alternative to nano, but if it isn't included by default on everything (like nano) I don't see why I would use this over Vim or Emacs.
The quick turnovers are likely caused by being understaffed and underpaying employees. Both of which would help with profits.
That sounds literally identical to 'If you're not doing anything wrong do you haven't anything to hide.' or 'Don't commit crime if you don't want to be raped in prison.' "Lets just throw out civil rights." is an incredibly dangerous notion.
Could save it and restore it, though that may create some other issues.
If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name- without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in europe.

I think I understand what you’re trying to say, but that is a terrible way to say it. On the face of it, no experience you have in an online game comes close to being rounded up and shot in the neck, or sent to a KZ/VZ. Not. Even. Close. It belittles the nightmare of Nazi Germany to compare the lives of people slated for extermination with the experience of having a bad time playing a game. I would strongly urge you to find a better way to express what I think you were trying to say about marginalization and discrimination in a way that doesn’t make a mockery of your own point.
Referencing modern Poland is uncalled for. At this moment this voice is becoming just another one in a dirty political quarrel. History is still being studied in Poland, no worries Mr. Aronson and Guardian.
The only thing that will happen if demand overwhelms supply is that prices skyrocket, and some Mexicans get rich. Not that the agave plant somehow gets exterminated.
That is the conclusion of the article as well:

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These aren’t so much questions of the online business of news so much as they are matters that speak to online news design—the look and feel of a newspaper’s website to the reader, or what a designer calls user interface and user experience. But the business and design of news are inextricably linked. As print ad revenue cratered, the need to squeeze revenue from digital sources grew. And that pushed news websites to their breaking point.

“Ads are just brutal for what they do to your browser and the sort of utter lack of regard they have for user experience,” says Ian Adelman, founding design director of Slate and current chief creative officer at New York Magazine.
> If what the article says is true, it's great that executives are starting to understand the opportunity cost of technical debt.

Nothing in the article implies tat "executives" (or anyone) has gained a better understanding of the cost of technical debt.

This is the main paragraph talking about technical debt:

> And yet, despite being many corporations' most precious resource, developer talents are all too often squandered. Collectively, companies today lose upward of $300 billion a year paying down "technical debt," as developers pour time into maintaining legacy systems or dealing with the ramifications of bad software.

So the article author says that despite the skyrocketing value of developers, companies generally waste this scarce resource on technical debt and related mismanagement inefficiencies.
Communism started with the idea that all people are equal. Every time it was tried a dictator quickly emerged, and suddenly people were not so equal.

The problem in general is group behavior; groups are dumb and primitive. Strengthening the power of individuals is the only countermeasure.
Dev here : you are 100% right that battery life is not optimized for in most cases.

For one it is hard to measure, and many devs don't really know/care about it.

FCM is a boon in this regard. So are the restrictions that Android is adding to background processing. They are technically not that necessary ... except that you can't trust any app not to abuse it, so the new model is so much better.

Also, thanks Google for finally forcing apps to target the last version or so of this OS so they have to adopt all these new optimizations, whether they want to or not.
You should!

I have fond memories flooding back. A small group of us, bored as all get out, just doing what we could think of to do.

Was such a different time.

Anyway, yeah I was best with thumb and index finger, back of wrist right against the surface. Snap, with just a touch of lift to pull hand out of the way.

Have fun, don't forget to work the tip. LMAO

I never could do the coin that way. And some people can snap bottle caps, sending them off like little frizbees.
I would not limit it to the 20th century, controversial Supreme Court decisions were part of the lead up to the Civil War and segregationists "winning" or ending Reconstruction in the 19th century with Dred Scott and Plessy v Ferguson.
I'm used to dd'ing an image to a usb or to a file. There are different tricks using random programs with windows to do similar things. I wanted the source to be an installed system not an installation iso(also win10 has a builtin tool that does what you said)
Unless I'm mistaken, I think the point of contention here is whether centralized economic decisions can work sometimes (his point?) versus can never ever work (your point?). And by "work", I do not mean "work absolutely perfectly".
Then you sacrifice the potential for fluid dynamic layouts. Everyone is walking around with portable supercomputers. May as well use them.
https://www.netlifycms.org/ is an alternative for Hugo/Jekyll
As some stated in comments, it depends on many factors but mainly some companies mainly startups with good funding starting offering higher than market rate salaries which attract talent not just for money but also for the opportunity to make an impact and definitely fewer legacy systems comparing to well-established companies.
There was a discussion about the Stripe report itself a few days ago:
https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018
On HN, you can't post personal attacks or otherwise be uncivil. If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I use singularity containers! So that lets me define and use a "unified shell out" protocol. It's pretty sweet. If you have any questions drop a line.
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That’s what the good ones are doing. For the rest it should probably read like: ”Companies worry more about access to cheap software developers than cheap capital” (because it's already cheap right now)
Even when gr[ae]ylisting was introduced (see <http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html>), it was quickly recognized that there are some important sites out there that don't follow the RFCs, and therefore they break gr[ae]yisting. The page at <https://www.greylisting.org/whitelisting.php> links to a source at <http://projects.puremagic.com/web-svn/wsvn/greylisting/trunk... that doesn't even exist anymore.

For postfix, we now have the project at <https://github.com/stevejenkins/postwhite> to help automate the maintenance of whitelists of sites that break gr[ae]ylising.

IMO, we passed the point years ago when gr[ae]ylisting was still a useful technique. For anything within the last decade or so, I would say it probably does more harm than good.
Not really the same term as it is called isochrone map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map and the curves are more popular under "brachistochrone"

( Shameless plug - an open source implementation of it: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper#for-analysis )
You can say the same thing about public transit, parks, and the sidewalk.

Does it matter? Not one bit. Once those places are allowed to become disgusting, people with a choice in the matter stop going to them.

"You'd be surprised by how many San Franciscans think that the problem with human feces or used syringes on sidewalks is the 'lack of empathy' of those who notice them. That or their 'sense of entitlement.'"
Ask HN: Is an immutable ledger (DAG) necessary for a (e-)coin?
So, I may not necessarily understand this, but why is an immutable hash ledger that always grows necessary for an e-coin? It would seem that out of the box these coins have limited lifetime as hard drive space and computational time are finite.

Is there an alternative to simply storing the entire hash history, while still making an e-coin secure?
That's not necessarily how the reasoning has to work.

It's possible companies have access to capital based on current profitability. If they raise employment costs, their profitability changes and their capital access can change as well.

It sounds like capital markets are saying, we like this cost structure. Continue it and take more money.

Companies are responding saying we can't scale because developers at current costs are rare. They will need to increase costs to hire more.
I agree with everything you said. I decided to try solving the problem with a new type of social network, feel free to sign up for the beta: https://peapods.com
Webcola is great -- but no docs or support.
> If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name- without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in europe.

What you are describing is frustration about one’s presumed entitlement with regards to a hobby.

The world is not just and no government is perfect, learning that in a video game seems like a nice, soft way to learn an important lesson.

It is not similar to trying to live in a country that has a policy of trying to exterminate you. One could not log out of Nazi germany or simply get a new hobby, Jewish people struggled to get food & resources for their families without getting disappeared to a death camp.
Star Wars is full of strange anachronisms like using manually targeted heavy weapons (so that they cannot hit a moving target).

Even WW2 ack-ack used radar to double their effectiveness. (The US did, the Japanese and German radar did not, which left them with a disastrous disadvantage.)
Please don't argue like this on HN. You can correct misinformation without being aggressive or personal about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Show HN: Easily train machine learning models using tile maps and ArcGIS
And this is the rare case where advertising works as it should - connects people offering something with people who actually, actively want that something.
The military made an ondemand killer out of them,how would civilians measure that change. The military doesn't make you a different person,nicer or meaner,the change they instill is simple -- your personality will obey lawful orders and work in a team.
I would not limit it to the 20th century

I didn't.
I hadn't heard of the Dweb, the term appears to have been coined by Mozilla [0].

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/
You're missing the point by thinking only of your specific use case of huge graphs.

Client side interactivity without network delay is a valid use case for these libs. Client side encrypted data also.
And Tavern: https://github.com/taverntesting/tavern
> If this is using React (it's not actually clear from the .md file, the only hint is the parent repo name), then this is very easily solved: replace the page with the modal.

> The solutions seem to be trying to solve this for a normal HTML page without changing page, which is a harder problem.

This is a very good point. In an actual spa there is no reason to overlay the modal rather than create a new route
Damore's piece was fundamentally reactionary, responding to holes present in the diversity training program and the justifications presented for the diversity programs at Google. It is not nessasary to provide a complete account of a situtaion to point out flaws in an existing account. It is not nessasary to have a complete account in order to improve the existing account.

There are some really hard questions to answer here. We do not answer hard questions by locking ourselves in a room until we figure it all out and write up a paper to present to the world. We answer hard questions by making incremental progress and sharing and collaborating with that progress so we can work with others to find the answers.

Damore's mistake was thinking that the diversity advocates were interested in a good faith discussion, or evidence based policy.
The article wonders if YouTube has a deliberate trollbait policy for its comments because it "improves engagement."

So it's possible that civil comments are not just not a priority, but actively contraindicated.
I certainly hope so.
This won't answer the question directly, but these sorts of discussions always bring to my mind the famous quote from Jeremy Bentham: "The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Why isn't this on the front page?

Seems plenty enough points tjat it should have been there still.
> Unless you're Amazon or Microsoft, you shouldn't be deploying engineers to build data centers.

i wonder if the author has heard of Google

> Including software developers directly in strategic business decisions will ensure you have the right product road map, the right team and ultimately the right technology strategy for long-term success

I would agree that including software developers is necessary -- but is it sufficient? The business and technology landscape are always changing in unpredictable ways. I question whether this can ensure "long-term success"
GPS trackers would have to be attached to your property, without permission. Drones etc. would be in a public space, a clear difference.

What you say on the last line implies that all of the US' flawed constitution should be taken word for word, and nothing else! In that case, you should be able to have nuke's; as you have "the right to bear arms". Cognitive dissonance is what seems to be the problem with your take.
> It has taken 30 years of conservation efforts by biologists and volunteers in both countries as well as tequila producers and agave growers in Mexico to rebuild a healthy [lesser long-nosed bat] population.

Apparently no longer the case[0].

I remember we did our two week gig in the reserves at Fort Huachuca 16 or so years ago and we weren't to even think about approaching the flowering agave plants under any circumstances. Under severe penalties.

[0]https://nypost.com/2018/04/17/bats-important-for-tequila-pro...
It’s meta-fun because you’re getting fun with the mean rather than the end.

To me, it’s fun to achieve a goal — programming to solve a real problem, implementing something that I can use or others can. It’s super
fun when my program works, has no bugs, it’s cute and nice.

To others, the act itself of programming is funnier than actually doing something useful, so that you can deep dive into the best way of programming without actually doing something useful if not a program complex enough to use whatever programming feature you want to have meta-fun with.
I respect people who have the ability to entertain thousands of viewers, I really do. At the same time I’m really happy that wasn’t even an option when I was young. I’m sure I would have spent even more time playing video games if esports, twitch and YouTube had been a thing in the 90ies.

I know, I know, not everyone is alike, but at age 35 I’m really happy that my job involves serious adult challenges, and that my success in life isn’t depending on thousands of teenagers pushing a like button.
Read "Software engineering" by Ian Sommerville. Any edition (maybe from 6 onwards, though they are slighty different.. pick latest u can get).
Maybe skim/skip the (technical) parts u think u know, and read the rest. Most will not make sense initialy.. does not matter, keep reading. u need to get all that "uploaded" in brain in order to be able to grasp it one day.

It took me 10 years to be able to skip all the technicals. And another 10+ years to understand why u may ever need the rest..

for judgment etc... Maybe pick some big-enough open-source project in a domain u know well and follow it - how and when they do change what. Dont worry, it does take years to really form your own judgment.

btw u will need some philosophy/methodology/human-side too.. there's not many of it in the above book.

For more, see the recommended readings on www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/

have fun
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Agreed. Interesting thought: Would you or anyone else here also agree that it is generally easier to write mathematical notation than to read it?

In my experience its much easier to write almost anything, whether it be code, poetry, english, etc. As opposed to reading it. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

Edit: Maybe i shouldnt say much easier. One could argue its much easier to read a novel than it is to write one, and i'd agree :)
A blog post is not a Show HN. Please read the rules for those:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
That's interesting! What would make it benefit in your opinion?
At current prices it’s entirely possible that some software businesses are not viable. Saying that out loud (or even admitting it to yourself) is not a great look.

Further, the software industry is such that failures are more common to successes when it comes to software projects. I suspect if that ratio got better or predictability did, we’d see wages rise even more (at least for those predictably successful devs). As it stands you can throw all of the money at the software hiring problem and still be making a terrible gamble on whether you’ll get software out of it.
Am I the only one that finds those, apparently popular with with nu-coins, pointless "featured" videos annoying?

Nevertheless, I checked the white paper and, as someone could expect nowadays, it looks like yet another attempt to ride the coin wagon though maybe a better one than others.

A data-oriented approach to hosting news and the relationships creation though seem interesting and the concepts can probably be used on the web sans coins. The user-based adding/checking/verifying process can be said is used on ./, HN and similar sites, where people will comment out any issues on the posted the article. Duplication probably exists so older articles of interest can be posted again.
If you really know c++, then you know it is not easy to write safe code. It is easier than it used to be, for sure, but not yet easy.
Curious how articles like these almost never give the most obvious advice to businesses, which is: pay developers more.

Instead, this article for instance advises employers to "increase developer productivity" and "outsource":

> If developers are your company's most constraining resource, the key question is how to increase their productivity.

"Increasing productivity" typically puts pressure on developers. This is quite surprising: developers are seen as a scarce valuable resource, and in a free market that means they should be rewarded for their rare and hard-won skillset. Instead, the universal advice is to pressure them to be more productive, outsource them, etc.
I wouldn't blame the library for Seattle's more general problems (income disparity / regressive tax setup, high cost of living, homelessness, drug use).

The porn use is a bit disgusting, and segues into some freedom of use topics - FWIW in Austin they sorta solve this by having separate 'unfiltered' computers with recessed screens. In seattle they seem to solve things by having separate computer areas between adults and kid areas.

As for library bathroom issues, Seattle libraries have been doing things to make them less inviting to wrong folks by making the sinks shallow, removing paper hand towel racks, etc. It's arguably a hard balance.

Anyway, if you get past these issues the Seattle libraries are pretty impressive compared to many other towns. The Seattle downtown library top floors are great for getting work done, and many other branches have quiet areas. The online access of e-books/audiobooks is also fairly vast.
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[1] - better sources on-line are usually first-hand reports and the opinions of the "protagonists" of a new story.

[2] - well, a lot of people don't want to spend time vetting their sources, but this should prompt them to assign very low confidence to the things they read; of course, they frequently don't, which is why they need to be reminded that when they repeat what they read, they're most likely repeating bullshit.
Sure, it would take better engineers to build better cruft. It would take fewer engineers to not build it in the first place.
Cooperating websites can subvert first-party isolation by redirecting the top level page through multiple first-party domains (with an ID in the URL). And Google does exactly that when you login. How to properly prevent it is still an open question:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319839
See also the "Disadvantages" section at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting>, and read section 4 of RFC6647 at <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6647#section-4>. Note that his RFC was written in 2012.
This is not the case. The large amounts of liquidity available means that startups are easier to fund at a given price, but does not automatically have a big impact on that equilibrium price, which is driven by venture economics. Thus just raising more / paying more is not an automatically good answer if the venture loss / return rates haven’t changed, which they haven’t.