skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's big event set for Oct. 9, new Pixel phones expected
Thinking about it that way gives me conflicted feelings. Much as I hate what Google has done here I also feel like any organization stupid enough to use their public domain name for their Active Directory domain name deserves every little pain they receive for it.
There are some DACs that claim crazy high SNRs of 130dB. But my experience is that anything over 100dB is really good. Anything over 110dB is nutty. That puts it at 21-22 bits.
iTerm's 2 global hotkey + half screen pane combo has been stuck on it. Not gonna leave until I can do the same with another terminal emu.
I am very aware of our current agricultural practices. The stupid things we do now have no bearing on what is possible.
that energy loss to solar and wind power is a miniscule percentage of the energy available, which is provided by the sun and most of which gets radiated away anyways. no need to worry about it for another 5 billion years or so.
Hiding file extensions in Windows is a setting, too.
I've seen plenty of defects in senior developers' code that were caught in reviews. Please the purpose of code reviews isn't just to catch defects, it's also to disseminate knowledge of that module across the team in order to reduce the "bus factor".
In my experience this ‘outrageously unprofessional‘ process is very normal. Most companies are not software companies and they are not going to pay for whatever is not adding to the bottomline. And even in software companies that ofcourse happens. It is unfortunate but the shock and awe are a bit over the top; when I talk with partners (ctos is large corps; banks, insurance, retail), they generally glaze over and mumble about their dreams of doing tests and code reviews but unfortunately it is not possible ‘at the moment’.
I'm over news.
I'm over fake news.
I'm so over this whole internet and social media experiment.

(I do checkout a few sites... hence this post.)

Wake up, it's 1984, and everybody is at the party. (left and right, liberals and conservatives..etc...)

It just looks a little different than what you read.

Thankfully, I can think for myself.
This needs to be a top-level comment.
"I originally copied the terms from MySQL, and now they are the way we call things in Redis, and since I do not believe in this battle (I’ll tell you later why), to change the documentation, deprecate the API and add a new one, change the INFO fields, just to make a subset of people that care about those things more happy, do not make sense to me."

Sounds like it's more work than you imagine.
So, if I neither like, nor dislike music, but simply don't care whether it exists or not, then that is anhedonia?
I really don't know why you consider that a bad thing. It's a little bit silly that users have to know or care about what a domain/url is. Like if a user is just trying to get to, say, CNN, can they not just type in CNN and have the browser do the rest. Why put additional barriers?

Would we really design this system today?
> this is one of those low-effort, doesn't matter changes

antirez, at least, says otherwise.

> [...] to change the documentation, deprecate the API and add a new one, change the INFO fields, [...]
> Arguably, the most sincere problems arise from mixed alphabets with Unicode domains and look-alike characters/glyphs.

No way. The most sincere problem is that hostnames do not enforce any binding to a real world identity that users can understand (nobody inspects certs) and that the most trustworthy component of a hostname is the second to the last section (right before ".com"). Humans tend to look at the front of the URL, making "www.bank.evil.com" a mind bogglingly effective phishing technique.

Homoglyphs are almost always a sign of bad behavior and can just be banned to a large degree. The fact that "foo.com" or "foo.evil.com" are not necessarily owned by company foo is much worse.
What exactly is the usability improvement from hiding part of the domain name? Maybe we should be hiding ".com" because that's trivial too? Better yet, why show "google" at all if from the page it's clear you're on Google? Might as well just fullscreen the content pane and be done with it.
it was so much fun when I discovered this same thing* at an earlier job and ops pushed back on it being a problem at all. to me it was insane to begin with to use "git pull on a cron job" as a "deployment" mechanism.

* even down to the "DB credentials + hostname/port to an Internet-exposed mysql server committed to the repo" detail
People used to retire by having a few kids who would take care of them.

I prefer shrinking our population, especially as developing countries are rapidly growing.
> If it does offend anyone at all, why not change it? If it might offend anyone at all, why not change it?

Did you read the article? He answers this question. He devotes the last four paragraphs of the article to exactly that.

Edit:
tl;dr is that
a) it's not as simple a technical fix as you might think and
b) it's not just a technical issue.
The problem with that is that anti-Semitism is one of many types of violations according to Twitter's published guidelines.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/abusive-behav...
I recommend checking out Adam Neely's channel, where he touches on some similar concepts:

https://youtu.be/6c_LeIXrzAk
https://youtu.be/9q4MWdHhgfM
https://youtu.be/V5WfgMVtueo
Because as Antirez pointed out, it is not that simple. One has to change documentation, API, code. It cascades from there.
Protein foods generallt have some fat, and veggies have carbs
Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO
I've seen clips of Alex Jones deriding Brian Stelter, zooming into his face, calling him a "devil" and a "demon" of all things. It was rather surreal. What could Alex Jones possibly getting at with that?

I think it's possible many people don't have much experience with anti-semitism so it seems unrelated (as for me) but given Jones' track record and other clips I've seen of him, it's pretty clear he plays with anti-semitism.
Please - it's a find/replace. The API is a bit stickier, but they can of course just map the old 'slave' designation to a new call.
Some people get moral enjoyment from finding ways to feign offense... at best, it is a waste of time to indulge much of these false complaints.

It has become a way to get the effects of political terrorism while avoiding the risk and backlash of actual terrorism. The real purpose at this point isn't to actually convince or cow people into obedience. It's low-risk practice for training radicals, and any political movement seeking rapid change needs about 10% of its membership to be radicals.

Even short of violence, human politics boils down to "bigger army diplomacy."
Thank you for validating that I'm not the only person who hates Chrome's horrible clipboard behavior. When I highlight something and copy it to my clipboard I expect exactly what I've highlighted to be on my clipboard-- not some editorialized version of it.
How would I know? I don't have an emotional response to music and never have, so what would I compare it to?

You know, I also don't dream. I wonder if there is a name for never dreaming and if there is any link between not dreaming and not having an emotional response to music.
I may not agree with antirez' other political opinions, but he sure as hell is right about this one.
Thank you for saying this. I am pretty strongly socially liberal (mainly a "live and let live" type mentality), and strongly support the idea of fairness and equality for all, regardless of race, ethnic group, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

But I too think this level of extreme political correctness and people getting mobbed and harassed as a result has really gotten out of hand.

People do NOT have a right to not be offended. Somehow we've forgotten that.
user1 - https://citibank.com.sg doesn't work for me

user2 - it's fine, here is a screenshot of it working (while showing "beautified" https://www.citibank.com.sg)

how is that not confusing?
> If you care about usability this is clearly an improvement. This is part of a long-running industry trend -- Safari does this too -- to improve the usability of the Internet and technology in general.

I am genuinely interested in knowing if this is a usability improvement. Citing "Apple does it too" is not convincing to me.

It seems to me if URLs are meaningless to you, hiding part of them is meaningless to you so why do it? It seems just as plausible that it's only unusual subdomains that confuse users ("Is foobaz.example.com the same entity as example.com?!"), so hiding common ones might only make uncommon ones more confusing.
So the USD 3 000 000 000 figure is summed up on page 3 as so:

18 000 000 Devs worldwide
* 51 000 USD Global Domestic Product per dev
---------------
918 000 000 000 Global Domestic Product of all devs
* .316 Percent efficiency loss per survey
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290 088 000 000 USD loss for all devs globally

So the report suggests (I think) that while companies lament about a lack of devs, they're wasting a significant proportion of their existing devs' efforts. (Other commenters here question whether that's "too much" waste.)

I'll wager that we're seeing the result of management practices that don't properly leverage the ability of computers to bring competitive advantage to organizations. Instead, we see organizations struggle with the need to totally rethink their approach given the powerful tool that computing brings. Furthermore, my bet is that most organizations won't successfully transition, and that a new breed will take over.
They likely are doing both, raising $ for % and debt additionally. It's not either or, just that debt rounds usually don't get reported/announced. They often happen hand in hand with investment rounds.
Over the long run, sure. In the short run, temporary excursions above 1.0 provide huge amounts of free advertising and buzz.
Why even bother with URL language? It should just be 'Google Search' in the bar and you can see the URL if you want.
No, the unwise thing is to ignore context and history.

"This is antithetical to free speech as prior restraint"

No, it isn't. Free Speech doesn't mean you get to ignore context, and it doesn't mean you don't face consequences for your speech.
I agree. I can't remember the last time myself or anybody else actually typed "www." when going to a website.

However, Chrome should handle this intelligently like it does with localhosts vs. internet hosts. If you manually type in "http://" into the address bar (e.g "http://my-local-domain"), it will not search the usual DNS and will honor any locally configured domains you may have on your network.

This doesn't seem to be the case now with this 'www' concern, though. With slenk's example of http://www.pool.ntp.org and http://pool.ntp.org - the only way to access the second link properly is to click the link. Typing it in the address bar loads the same website as first link - so it appears Chrome is automatically adding 'www' or somehow making the request differently making the second link's page inaccessible via the address bar.
You can keep repeating your point, but if you want to convince me, you'll have to actually address my demonstration that the two are in fact not equal in practice.
I’d like to offer a comparison that may put it into a different perspective for you. Imagine saying that a 1 TB hard drive is excessive, 20 years ago. Sure, contemporaneously, but we sure did find some useful ways to put all that excessive hard drive space to use.
I can see the argument for avoiding the terminology for new products going forward. But trying to shame a project lead for not taking on the extra work (and user confusion) to change it after the fact is super gross.
> If we want to disarm Alex we need to recognize there are real problems in America outside of the coastal areas.

And inside the coastal areas as well.

Still, none of this stress and anxiety condemns a reasonable human being to become a psychotic racist caricature (or a follower of the same). Desperation just turns up the dial on a person's fundamental system of values. It exposes the prejudice; it doesn't create it.

Solving the problems listed would calm their rage to the benefit of all, but let's not kid ourselves that it would change any hearts or minds.
Ask HN: Which major cities are the easiest to move to with a new job?
I'd like to hear what your experiences moving to other cities for a new job are like. I'm in Chicago and have applied to several places and never got any emails or call backs from companies in Denver. I get call backs and interviews from companies based in Pacific Northwest (Portland and Seattle), Austin and Bay Area.

Someone else in Reddit said that Denver is rather insular and they rarely have companies flying in candidates from other cities as they are content filling in positions from people local to their area.

So looks like Denver is ruled out for a possible city to move to in the immediate future. A move to PNW is still open, though. So what have been some cities that are most easily to move to with relevant job experience? Also, especially if you don't know anyone in that city?
> If it does offend anyone at all, why not change it? If it might offend anyone at all, why not change it?

Because giving in to thought-policing bullies is always a bad idea.

Note how quickly the wannabe bully in this case went from demanding the change to calling the maintainer every vile name in the book.
I can't agree with the concept of "Platforms must allow everything that's legal." - for pretty much every platform that allows user-generated content, starting from small blogs, it is very reasonable (and pretty much a requirement if you care about the quality of service/discourse/etc) to filter content that's technically legal but annoying and thus unwanted - for example, spam, trolling, shock videos/links, excessive use of your resources, sockpuppet accounts for voting stuff up, etc.

Platforms should be able to choose to allow everything that's legal, but it's understandable if they choose not to do so, and IMHO it would be both immoral and impractical to prohibit them from establishing certain terms and conditions that forbid lots of things that would otherwise be legal. It's okay if some platform wants to facilitate only a certain kind of discussion, it's not their duty to be a soapbox for everyone and everything if they or their users don't want it. There is and should be a place for platforms that try to be such soapboxes, but I often would prefer to use a different platform instead.
no millennials expect to see a dime of social security income (whether or not this is justified is another question), nor do they have any plans to retire because the prospect of having enough money to do so is simply unrealistic for them.

i am not the only one that has put their income, expenses, and savings rate into one of those "financial independence" calculators (http://mustachecalc.com/#/calcs/time-to-fi). i found that my predicted retirement age was in my 130s if i was willing to settle for a very modest retirement with a lower standard of living than i currently have.

that's right: i'm roughly 100 years from having enough money to retire, even if i save perfectly diligently every single month from now until then, which is extremely unlikely. it doesn't even make sense to plan for because i won't live that long; the calculation doesn't include anything along the lines of medical debt which is sure to accrue in old age if not sooner. the calculator may or may not be accurate to the decade, but it's accurate to the half-century in any event. if it's inaccurate by a half century in my favor, that still puts me as retiring in my late 80s -- hardly much more to look forward to.

i am always harping on the same thing: 6.5% interest rate student loans, rising rent, rising living costs, lower income, rising healthcare costs, shrinking benefits, and no social safety net to speak of have totally devastated the economic prospects of a generation.

the first plans to be thrown out the window during economic insecurity are the ones which are farthest away timewise. most people haven't had a chance to even plan that far in the first place. by the time they have accumulated enough resources to start saving some each month, they may be forced to take care of their then-elderly parents, or, alternatively, their children -- which most people can't afford anyway. so much for building up savings.

to be clear, it isn't "work" that has failed us. it's capitalism.
There's something to beig able to review/glance at website's code before commiting to using the website...

Just saying. There are other perspectives than the website owner's one.
FWIW other large vendors like Microsoft use terms like primary/replica instead of master/slave. That one database uses the phrase in 2018 (MySQL) does it doesn't mean we shouldn't still strive to find more precise language
Because it reeks of voluntary self-censorship pressed by political correctness?

Also, where to draw the line? Should we rename Brainfuck? Is white-space PC?
Banks don't like to lend money to company with no tangible assets.
The average price of a new car in 1975 was $4,960.

http://www.autonews.com/article/19960626/ANA/606260830/1975-...
I think re-ordering like that would actually benefit technical users more, but it's probably too late to make such a change. I don't think we'd need that change for browsers to put the parts they consider most relevant in bold. That logic is simple enough right now.
Why do you care?

If you're on the right, then I'd say look at the Presidency, look at the Congress, look at the Supreme Court, look at most of state and local governments and stop crying.

If you aren't on the right, why do you care how they feel? Do they spend time worrying about the suppressed people they victimize? Or do they mock them and deride them?
>Comparing facial features, particularly eyes, to those of a rat is a well-known anti-Semitic smear.

>Commenting on Trump's horrible spray tan is not the same kind of thing.

Definitely not the same thing, but still potentially in violation of Twitter's rules against harassment.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/abusive-behav...
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So citibank and NTP will need to change their domain structure. That's okay: those are confusing structures.

This is a tradeoff -- continuing to support already-confusing differences is not worth the loss of the ease-of-use gain referenced in the grandparent.
I'm curious what you think about the cake shop denying service to a gay couple? Is that ok since they are free to create their own non-bigoted cake shop?
I’ve been so poor my calculated net per month was minus $1000 for about 16 years while supporting a family. I worked and saved my way out of it and know that the inability to save for the vast majority of people is just bullshit. Its an inability to sacrifice and “suffer” in a consumerist society. They won’t make their own coffee or cook their own food or give up cable or Netflix or their cell phone or fix their own plumbing or grow their own food, spend their free time learning and studying, etc ad naseum. I’ll be the first to argue the root of the problem is the rampant abuse of workers rights and wages by our capitalist overlords but the reality is that, baring some medical catostrophy in the USA, it can be done with hard work and sacrifice. Most aren’t willing to do it and though I agree they shouldn’t have to, reality states otherwise.
> just as we don't get offended by `parent.kill(child)`

I think this is an excellent analogy. The Linux OOM killer even has a log message about sacrificing children:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282155/what-is-the-...

And that, AFAIK, isn't part of the Linux kernel API/ABI, so it could be changed more easily than Redis' SLAVEOF command could. But it's clear from context what it's referring to.
What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like
Because being offended is cheap and it being real is unverifiable. Thus there is a cost asymmetry which makes it trivially exploitable.

> It's not like we're redefining the color blue to appease red-ists.

I am deeply offended that your source control denigrates people from non-conventional families[0]. Please purge this insult from the internet on my behalf.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology_1
If it was a new product I was writing, I would use different terminology.

But bending over backwards and rewriting and re-documenting a huge part of your extremely popular application because a subset of a subset of people find it offensive is... strange.

Also loved the reply: "You call me a fascist, you know, those people who attacked and killed people over here less than 100 years ago. Maybe YOU should watch your language." OWNED! HA!
Yes. Multimodal emotion recognition is one such area.

There are indepdenent pipelines for each mode, and derived features are then fused and used for final prediction.

You may also want to check out casacded models.
> Some people get moral enjoyment from finding ways to feign offense

Why not assume good faith? Surely you can make an argument against changing technical terms without assuming the person bringing up the changes is just trolling.
It's easy to not drink when you are thirsty, causing discomfort, weakness, and headaches.
> a company with a very spartan website

What does the word "spartan" mean in this context? "Serious?" "Utilitarian?" I do not know this usage of the word.

Edit (from Webster):

> 2 b often not capitalized: marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort. "A spartan room"
I wonder if hydrogen is practical to transport in large quantities. My guess is no.

Your idea of methane, if it could be done efficiently, seems more likely.
Because at what point do you stop and who dictates what offends people and what does not. It is all opinion based and is a never ending catastrophe of ever changing definitions and verbiage.

This is just more distractions from what really matters, writing coding and completing the task at hand.

Like you said, "one of those low-effort, doesn't-matter changes", so why change it?
What's your rationale for this? The removal of the superfluous www subdomain makes sense. It puts to actual unique site information immediately after the padlock.

Most sites either redirect to it away from www when you visit them anyways.

People have always said to host your site at www and redirect to it, something I have never understood nor heard a convincing argument for.

I have my servers configured to redirect visitors away from www.
Yup, classic.

"...no time/resources to do it right in the first place, but plenty of time/resources to fix it when the customers complain..."

I always thought it better to find the bugs in-house before shipping, but so many others don't see it...
"Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes,
not need, just feed the war cannibal animal. I
walk the corner to the rubble that used be a library
line up to the mind cemetery now.
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'.
They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em
while arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells."