skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excavating the origins of the learning pyramid myths [pdf]
It is the year 2048. A hacker news veteran presses enter to fulfill her duty and reposts the sad story about Dan Luu and the Julia community. A greyed Stefan Karpinski tries to object but his statement disappears behind thousands of Dijkstra postings. In the distance the voice of the zealots, chanting 1-based, 1-based...
Yeah, but they're not the government's vehicles, so what do they care?
I agree. I think a more nuanced assessment would be better, but for my part, i work in consulting and am moving from Australia to the us. All i have heard from my us counterparts is that they are lucky to get two paid weeks off a year. I get 4 minimum, and generally end up taking about 6 weeks paid leave a year. No questions or issues taking it provided i request it in advance.

Do my us colleagues get paid more? Yes, about 10-30% when adjusting for col and ppp. But the inability to take time off sounds terrible.

America's working culture and general work life balance sounds like it needs a hard reset.
Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video]
I used Julia for my thesis work in 2015 and also came away with "nice, but dealbreaking bugs, two in particular." They were both fixed by 2016. Julia is moving way too fast for a years-old opinion to mean much.
> but they are all scared to not put the typical boilerplate "Bachelors degree or related experience" line at the top of the job post

Makes sense though. The only reason businesses ever started putting "bachelor degree required" on job ads is to help protect themselves in case of a hiring discrimination lawsuit. I provides a defence of "We didn't hire <person of minority> because they did not have the required degree." Courts have shown a willingness to accept this defence.

It is not there as information for job seekers, but to keep the lawyers happy.
Ask HN: How? Safe harbor yet actively moderate, curate and censor content?
I can't really wrap my head around this.

IIRC Safe Harbor was made so ISPs and websites would not be legally liable for the content posted by users. Safe harbor guards these business from criminal liability.

If these ISPs and websites have nothing to worry about legally then why is there the need to moderate, curate or censor? It's not as if these platforms would ever lose enough customers that they would fail or go bankrupt.

Can someone explain this?
I agree Java is dying, but so is .Net. Microsoft is trying it's best, but .Net Core is no where near as popular as .Net 3.5. (google trends). Embrace the Beam. :)
Also relevant, this forgotten gem:

http://www.rseventeen.com/
Maybe it's easier for them to increase manpower temporarily if it's outsourced?

i.e. there's probably going to be more need to moderate Facebook in the run up to the midterms this November, and even more so with actual elections. There's probably a lot of factors that go into determining how many people are needed to moderate and it could be easier/cheaper to hand over staffing to third party firms.

That and as you mentioned, localisation.
anecdotal disclaimer -- I think I've worked with more brilliant people with no degrees or uncompleted education. They just had more drive and do not let anything hold them back. They do not need to be told what to do. Not saying that the rest of the people that I worked with 9.8/10 that had degrees were not great. Just there was something positively different about the people I encounted without it.
I’ve had similar, surprising conversations with well educated women who believe that differences in physical strength between men and women have no biological basis. Maybe they were taught that; they didn’t have first hand experience training as an athlete in a strength related sport.

My daughter, who is very strong and is stronger than her brothers, wouldn’t even compete if she had to go up against men in her sport, powerlifting. It’s very obvious in that sport that sex related hormones make a difference.
I guess we gained some, and lost some, as the saying goes.
Here is why: AMP is much cheaper and simpler to set up, it is way more optimized for mobile usage than trimming down your website, it brings better placement in search results and it is backed by the leading search engine itself, thus ensuring your team is not wasting resources trying to guess how Google works and how to exploit it.
Show HN: Blues – A command line tool to manage Bluetooth connections on macOS
> Let me give you a different example. Let's say there's a study that shows a weak link between a vaccine and autism. If it were published, it would be amplified far out of proportion

Except if the paper had been effectively published then deleted, wouldn't it do the opposite? That won't be an incentive to duplicate or prove it wrong by other scientists, but those who'd use it to support their conspiracy theories would be even more convinced they were right all along because "Look, they censored the paper. Clearly they are trying to hide the truth. That shows we've been right all along".
What does everyone use to pull credit reports? Is there a good, affordable vendor with an API?
Betsy DeVos Just Unleashed Predatory Colleges on America
I understand the argument and I agree that digital books are the future, however, they are so inferior in discoverability that if my library ever moves all-digital I will replace it with one of my 10 local used bookstores. I need to browse books to find some I like and am not interested in letting algorithms or Internet echo chambers do so for me.

My own library also has copies of e.g. sheet music... I agree that those could be digital but it's more practical to stick a giant piece of paper on my keyboard vs a tablet (would be afraid the tablet could fall, also don't own a tablet). And the library is often one of few places these days that young children see physical books in large numbers... won't it be bad for their eyes to do all that reading digitally?
Lots of newspapers paywall their online content.
You're not alone friend.
Alternatively, trying to decide to pay for an off the shelf solutions or build it yourself (medium sized company).
I didn't mean to imply that PDE's were an easy problem.

They clearly aren't, especially when it comes to proving some sort of formal property about them (which is something a mathematician would worry about, but which is rarely an engineer's first concern: they'd only worry about that type of thing when numerical integration starts producing "crazy" results).

However, there is a very intuitive way to compute an approximate solution to a system of PDE's, namely increase time in very tiny steps and solve the resulting system of equations each time, rinse and repeat.

Now, when you deal with arbitrary functions, there are so many ways to "represent" them: as various kind of series, as algebraic composition of elementary functions, as solutions to implicit equations, as solutions to PDE's, as polynomial approximations, as neural networks, etc ...

These representations are usually dense in "regular" functional spaces and you do get a lot of mileage out of them.

Whichever way you chose to represent functions in your functional space, the problem of finding an extrema over that representation is very much not obvious in the calculus of variation setting (or even that the extremum will be itself be representable, for that matter), whereas the conversion to a system of PDE gives you a clear path to victory - as long as the representation can be differentiated.
The issue outlined in the article is not defer in a loop, it's defer in an infinite loop.
Quick and simplistic answer to the titular question: Because they‘re not newspapers but petri dishes for online advertising.
A little odd that Whole Foods and Publix make the list but Wegmans is left out despite being consistently ranked as the better employer.
> ... do a lot of work yourself

What work? Install is super easy ... I use OPNsense on small, fanless, cheap 'mini PC' with 2 LAN ports, you buy from aliexpress. Full x86-64, Intel with AES-NI support, for like $200 with 4GB RAM and 40GB ssd
The opt out currently, for privacy moving forward, is to cease contribution to the digital noosphere.

I suppose if you desired you could consolidate your doxx point to Google and ISP's by running all your comments through a couple rounds of Google translate.

There is no privacy possible in the global village. Expectation of such is technically naive.
Meet the Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra
No, the point is that the API couldn't be used for this. So it automates a browser.
Horrible designs and lack of features do too.
This is really the chance for a great open source project. So many open source apps (Signal, Mastodon clients, riot.im, telegram-foss and more) have to do hacks to be able to deliver push notifications without GCM/FCM

What if there was an open source software one could setup on a server that would provide push services for all these apps and would interact with one open source client running on android.

That way one would have the energy saving benefits of only handling one server connection, but the privacy benefits of a private server for oneself/friends/people one trusts.

This is definitely not easy and would require coordination between many open source projects and also additions in Android to run on a system level (maybe in lineageos and similar), but I really think it would be worth it.
Final thought: Every user should be able to choose a “Notification Provider” for every app

At Qbix, we thought deeply about this problem. Ideally, to maintain anonymity, each notification would come from some random endpoint on the cloud. But that’s not how the Internet works these days, you have to connect periodically to SOMETHING. So you can choose your own notification providers.

The trouble is if you have many apps, then your device is constantly connected to many servers.

What we settled on for now is a background process with WebSockets, but perhaps this works better. The operating systems weren’t designed for this use case and the phones aren’t optimized for it. For example, how would you do the same on iOS?

However, what IS possible is tunneling through the native iOS VoIP notifications support and encrypting your notifications. You can even process them on the client side with some “IFTTT” type logic. To do that for Android, however, we had to implement this background process approach. But it’s a hack.
I've been using Julia seriously for the last year and I'm absolutely loving it. The language is beatiful, elegant and fast and the community has been nothing but friendly, helpful and welcoming to me.

I think its a real shame this out of date grievance article is being dredged up again giving people a myopic view of what Julia 0.4 may have been like in 2014 when its now 2018 and we have v1.0.
From your link:

>I’m closing this issue. I think current master successfully disables analytics. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Dear Past, stop tapping me on the shoulders, I don’t wanna look back
What really jumped out at me in the article is that the "free" builds from Oracle are only going to be available for 6 months, and production use of the Oracle JDK requires a paid license. So if you don't want to commit to upgrading your JVM every 6 months, it's time to look at the alternatives...
Wegmans is a pretty well-run company. Maybe there's something to it in the areas they operate.
In the time before smartphones, my credit card company offered this service. It was awesome! I used it to find directions a few times
Identity theft is at an all time high.
The World’s Smallest Titanium Multi-Tool
> Unless you have a great funding model that can replace ads

This is what we're trying to do at Snowdrift.coop (I am a volunteer). There's already a good introduction at https://wiki.snowdrift.coop, so I'm just going to link there and quote the beginning:

> Snowdrift.coop [is] a non-profit cooperative platform for funding freely-licensed works everyone can use and share without limitations.

> Our core feature is a new fundraising approach we call crowdmatching. Patrons donate together by all agreeing to match one another instead of donating unilaterally.

We also have a new 1 minute intro video[1], if you'd prefer that format. Note: the low streaming quality is a quirk of archive.org; you can get higher by downloading the webm.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/snowdrift-dot-coop-intro
Why Ghost is not Medium
I'm wondering how it works with different messaging apps. I'm using mostly Facebook Messenger, because of the network effects. A few months ago I tried to use several apps to communicate with my wife. Both Signal and Wire failed to reliably send messages in under 30 minutes or so. More often then not the message would be delivered after a few hours. That's totally unacceptable. If there are some magic settings in Android they were not properly advertised. Our phones are on quite pure 8.1 and 7 versions. So I'm back to Messenger.

Reading this it seems that there is a known solution to this problem. Does Mastodon offer something like private messages? Or is there a messaging app that doesn't use FCM, but works in a way described in article?
Direct Measurement of Space Plasma Energy Transfer in Earth's Magnetosphere
This is not an accruate representation of the Julia community.

Hopefully people go to GitHub or discourse.julialang.org or julialang slack and try out for themselves.
> no, you can't just walk up to a piece of machinery and fix it.

But as a farmer, I have to walk up and fix equipment all the time.

There are people who are better at it then me. I will definitely hire them when I am under a time crunch, but they also charge way more money than the figures I quoted earlier, so you cannot afford to take them on full-time (if they are willing to work on a farm full-time) and have them to perform other duties on the farm that do not have the same value proposition.

> would you expect an average mechanic to be able to develop software as well?

Yes, absolutely. I distinctly remember when I started developing software as a teenager and was able to start writing software after a day or two of honing my thought process, without the benefit of having a professional background like a mechanic has. It is a very accessible activity. I don't know if they could walk into a SV tech company offering $200k/year, just as a farmhand who works on machinery isn't likely to walk into higher paying heavy equipment mechanic position. There are going to be better developers out there, but like mechanical work, there is a gradient.
This reminds me of the "settled science" that proved that men and women breathed differently. You see, women's chests moved up and down to breathe, but men's chests moved in and out.

Of course, the real reason women breathed differently is that corsets were in style and that limited their breathing options.

Do teenagers really have trouble getting to bed before 11 because of their intrinsic nature? I doubt it. I never did, and many of my friends never did. I do recall that acquaintances of mine who didn't have much responsibility tended to stay up all hours and straggle into school in the morning. It was hard to feel sorry for them, though. They were pursuing a strategy of maximizing immediate pleasure instead of a strategy of deferred gratification.

Moving the school day later will make it much harder for teenagers to also have a job. Many teenagers need that employment.

Many of us learned from the parable of the grasshopper and the ant, and chose the lifestyle of the ant. Making it harder to be the ant seems counterproductive.
Not applicable globally. For example in my country a degree is an absolute must.Even those companies that dont care about degrees in US and have their subsidiary here, do a serious gatekeeping with respect to educational qualifications. You must have an undergrad degree in CS and that too from reputed schools.
This looks perfect for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
The business model is driving these poor choices.

This article addresses the business model which I believe would make room for better site experiences.

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-local-news-business-model/
There is some precedent for a new language that gradually improves safety of an existing language; TypeScript did this to JavaScript and is arguably successful.

I don’t know if Checked C will have the same success story but if devs can easily add this to their existing projects and it catches bugs, that seems like a win to me.
IIRC, if Oracle declines to protect its IP because you’re not worthy of suing yet, then they actually weaken their legal ownership of the IP.
Are there any weekend moderators these days? "Extremely rare Inverted Jenny stamp surfaces" would be a better HN title.
But it is that easy:

firefox --no-remote --profile /path/to/profile/directory
Use Google in a temporary container (Firefox plugin) and isolate Google completely if you need to use them.

Also you can use startpage.com for searches, it uses Google behind the scenes. Looks nicer too. :)
I don't understand this. Please elaborate.
I’d rather shoot the horse and get a cab.
More than that, speed is vastly overrated in a lot of cases.
No, TV is dying not because of commercials, but because other formats of access to the content are easily accessible. There's simply no point in checking if there's anything interesting on TV now, when you can just pick a movie from a streaming service or read news on the website. After all, free online services also show a lot of ads, but this doesn't prevent us, say, from watching a music video on YouTube (one of those things that made MTV irrelevant).
I think we three are in the same Google Bubble as I've just finished watching that glorious Open University video. If the algorithm wills it, I think it means we have to be best friends!

Seriously though, I would be weirdly fascinated to see what else you guys subscribe to and if there are any correlations to my subscriptions. I find this channelling people into little boxes fascinating, and those curves are also very cool.
Are you implying that, when a hurricane strikes, no one drop of water can be responsible for the resulting devastation?

(When in this case, to stretch the metaphor, the droplets all had strong profit incentives related to storing and making decisions based on peoples' data, and that they were pretty demonstrably negligent at protecting their charge?)

All I'm really saying is, these breaches won't ever stop if the cost of a response remains substantially lower for these companies, than the profitability of being the (ir)responsible ones and maintaining the data in a negligent state.
Yeah, thats annoying. That doesn't mean it's not also a practical decision.
Such a long article just to state something well known: income growth has stalled for sure, and industry been contracting.

China is about to hit its Brezhnev era. That's my fear.

But for as long as Yi Da Yi Lu and state contracts rain gold, I see no personal reasons to worry
1.1 will not be breaking. The next release with breaking changes will be 2.0 and we expect it will be a while before we do that.

In terms of names, we do care a fair bit in trying to pick intuitive names that clearly communicate what a function will do.

FemtoCleaner also will auto update your code for these breaking changes, by making a pull request to your repo.
I'm not sure how it's out of context, your entire comment was "lying to customers to increase sales is bad!".
Must be a buoyant market in sims walking over the border?
Yeah, for those of us with a very finite and easily depleted amount of energy for social interaction, it’s conpletely empty by the time you get home or Saturday rolls around. Net result is, you avoid even eye contact with the person who lives 10m from you.
A wireless bootloader for the ATmega128RFA1
There is a current series by Scott Meyer that is similar, where engineers occasionally discover the world they live in is a simulation, and they can manipulate it like magic through programming.

Light but enjoyable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Meyer_(author)
For small displacements, pendulums are already approximately isochronous.
How to fail at adopting microservices
I tell the students that you really need to lie and put in some words that you remember that go with the question. Think of it as a challenge/ response, not an answer.
If your phone has Google Play Services running, Signal should use GCM/FCM; they have a websockets mode, but only for devices lacking the former.

I don't use Signal, but I don't think that delay is typical, could there be an issue with the connectivity to their servers?
4 GB RAM and a 40 GB SSD on a router??? I don't need that.

What work? Work to maintain it, test it, etc. Essentially, every time a software update is rolled out you do not know for sure if it is going to work flawless on your platform. For a random home network that might be sufficient; for a corporate network not so much.

I know about Aliexpress (and the like), but I don't find comparing Chinaware with non-Chinaware fair without taking that into account as a minus. Not that I wouldn't go that route if I would go for DIY though.

Router7 uses coreboot and a heartbeat to restart the machine if it fails.

x86-64 still uses more kWh than this MIPS machine. The ER-L has 3 ports, allowing physically separated networks. Depending on your setup you can even use both. The ER-X is less powerful and is MIPS32, though does support more hardware offloading (and WireGuard has optimalisations written in C for MIPS32).
The term for this is the Law of Jante [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
"Current master" obviously refers to Conversations, not FCM libs.
>Learning and practicing nonviolent communication

You mean you stopped beating people up?
> Has this dimorphism ever been found in something relatively simple and easily testable?

Yes. For example: adult height, birth weight, BMI, "g" (general intelligence = IQ).

"The sex difference in IQ variability, for example, appears before children begin preschool."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188690...

Greater male variability is also found in many other species:

https://psyarxiv.com/ms524

And of course TFA has a huge list of references making note of this effect in biological research since Darwin.
I assume you are familiar with the chans (4chan, etc.)?

That’s what no moderation looks like. What kind of ad supported business could you build if your content looked like that? How could you even build a mass audience?

> It's not as if these platforms would ever lose enough customers that they would fail or go bankrupt.

That seems like a dubious proposition to me.
Applications?
It’s unclear if putting the company ahead of all else is good for the company too. It’s clearly bad for the individual.
Here[1], have another: "Been a Long, Long Time"

1: https://pastebin.com/raw/d9ZXakAB
> What do you mean by non-community?

Who owns it. Sure, we all use stuff owned by large companies, we just have to pick and choose, and I avoid Oracle. As a dev community I wish we could avoid wholly owned Oracle software to make a statement about their business practices, but I understand that stance is unreasonable for many.
Venus in the First House (Natal and Transit) – Astroligion.com
The deck is already so stacked against workers - we shouldn’t be perpetuating these terms