skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another way of looking at things. The success or failure of a content sharing service is reflective of it's ability to give people what they want to see. If you don't like the content you're getting from a video service, you're going to go swap to another that does. In other words, growth implies content selection is working.

But of course this leads to what I think is the real problem: network effects. The reason people use YouTube is because people use YouTube. What I said above is true in a world with sufficient competition, but YouTube has no meaningful competition. They constantly hurt their content creators but the creators stay there nonetheless because YouTube has the users. And YouTube has the users because YouTube has the content creators.

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By focusing on the content curation as the issue, I think we take a monopoly as granted. But there are ways you could help enable competition such as by removing barriers to content delivery. Imagine a public content delivery network where whitelisted providers (just to avoid it being used for unlawful content) can stream from. Pair this with rules against exclusivity for free content delivery services, and some way for content creators who upload the content to the service to cleanly opt in to allow their content to be used by various services for some standard contract (%revenue, one-off fee, etc), and away we go.

Very off the cuff idea, but the idea is just to help foster more competition.
I must be missing something! to avoid the cross domain issue, how about hitting the API endpoint from back-end function for example using CURL, and simply return the json response to the browser ?
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HR alis there to protect the company. They consist of smiling faces who know they are snakes. I would not take their advice on anything.
HR professionals are often professional liars and manipulators.
Everybody knows what the root cause is: corruption. Everything in this country can be explained by that. Even people with integrity will eventually be corrupted because it's the only way to get things done. What can citizens do about that? I don't know.

I'm glad you got to visit the museum before it was destroyed.
you could be the equivalent of your indian collegue to somebody else
Hmm, I'm having difficulty finding it. I remember hearing that copyright was largely for preservation in a class, but that would have been over a decade ago. Thank you for pointing out that that portion is unsupported. Until and unless I can find a source for it, I will avoid repeating it.
The article says that the cause is not yet known, but I'm thinking it might be an electrical fault or bad wiring, which seems like a common problem for older structures in Brazil (or anywhere in the world).

A short circuit caused a massive fire at another big museum in Brazil in 2015, the Museu da Língua Portuguesa[1] in Sao Paulo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Portuguese_Langu...
If they could do it would be so cool, and another one of Arthur Clarkes ideas turned to reality after Geo Stationary satellite.
Yeah because their livelihoods and earning power should take a backseat to work, right?
Hey, guys, thanks for answers. Didn't think anyone would even notice my comment! I really like the idea of helping the community even for free. The problem here is I have no idea how to start. For me to dig deeper (and I am working with Oracle on a daily basis) the problem has to occure and be repetable, so how can I get into fixing problems if I am not even using PG? I could, probably, install it on my PC/notebook, but it won't be a production use, so I probably won't face any problems.. It's always been a puzzle for me: how do people start with open source projects.
Not really as they tend to get jealous and sabotage my work if I am paid more than them.

Someone hacked the password to the HR account and dumped the database for IS I was the highest paid programmer at $50k for a $150k average job. It made me unpopular and people did not want to work with me after that. I had more experience than the other programmers is why.
Have you ever written a flask app yourself? It provides identical protections against xss etc. that you mentioned, as well as an auth plugin and tutorials on doing auth right...
I think it's unfair to spread a negative opinion of Flask because you had to work on an app that used it badly.
> There must be some sort of digital catalog

I wouldn't count on it...
I’d like to suggest “Hacking Sales” for a fantastic up-to-date list of modern sales tools.

The book is all about the “Sales Stack” ;-) Short but sweet!
Yes, please. It would make the world a much fairer place.
This paper has a rather lofty title but it described just but one case were peer review failed. Sample of one is hardly generalizable. While the paper is virtually an “academic link bait”, there is no researcher who doesn’t thinks that review process is broken.

Typically at conferences you have a area chair who is selected due to some connection with organizer and then this area chair choses other people is his/her network to be reviewers for submissions they receive. So from top to bottom, the process is driven by social connections and very often used as paying back past favors or create a future favor. I have coined even term for this: favor economy.

One way to fix this would be to create a metric for reviewer like r-index in similar line to h-index which rewards reviewer for choosing high impact papers and somehow penalized them to pass on good papers. On a simplest level, r-index could simply be same as h-index for papers reviewed instead of authored. However I think there ought to be better measure.
The main problem with this situation is fossil fuel interests are in control.

They use tactics similar to those responsible for electing the current president of the United States. The people are not well-informed, they are drowning in misinformation and propaganda.
> But we are social animals and seeing everyone else around you indulging in pleasures while you 'take the high road' just won't work on a societal level.

For sure. But it's just humans running the government too, with the same short sighted and social biases as the rest of us. Expecting them to overcome our shared human nature might be wishful thinking.
Most people who had "black money" deposited their cash with albeit with a heavy penalty.

The government allowed people to deposit their cash, but taxed it something like 50-70% if it had NO accounting at all.
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Performance of fork()/exec() in typical web applications?
I've read (and have been told) that CGI is a performance bottleneck, because the CPU time saving is absorbed by: a) kernel-land fork()/exec() calls; and b) disk input/output; and also that c) developer time is more valuable than CPU time.

Regarding a) I find it something of a contradiction to be told NOT to use CGI because it will degrade performance, then to be told you shouldn't care about performance (of interpreted languages) because it's easy to "throw more hardware" at the problem. I also find the argument against a fork()/exec() approach to be contradictory, when many databases fork() a new process per connection (e.g., the PostgreSQL documentation says "The PostgreSQL server can handle multiple concurrent connections from clients. To achieve this it starts ("forks") a new process for each connection.").

Regarding b) many queries (in my use cases) are repetitions of previous queries, with minor modifications, meaning the OS/DB caching mechanisms cause fewer I/O calls to actually hit the disk.

Regarding c) I run a tool to automatically (and incrementally) build my software every time I save a source file, so the "edit-compile-test" cycle of compiled languages does not really apply - all I do is edit my code and refresh my browser.

What are other people's experience in this area? I'm hoping for some answers from "old school developers" as well as younger developers. I've been taken in by the "new shiny toys and architectures" on a number of occasions, and while I can see the benefit in designs like, e.g., the Actor Model, the longer I work in software, the more I find simplicity winning out.
Somewhat related anegdote: in France there one of the option for toll roads is a device that handles a payment for you and opens the barrier as the car approaches (it works up to 30 km/h).

A friend of mine was doing that in a new car with some pedestrian detection system that decided to detect the barrier as a human and slam the brakes to the complete stop. From what I've heard it was not exactly pleasant.
As always, the people in power decide which books should be read to be properly educated. In this case, it’s a bunch of old books written by history’s most revered white people.
> It made me unpopular and people did not want to work with me after that.

What if there was some other reason people did not want to work with you? I know plenty of people who work more than I do for the same work that I do, however it does not make me hate working with them or something.
Part of it is that interfaces that require "walking" through a space or looking around for things in a 3D space are terrible if there's no inherent justification for the movement (as there is in a game of exploration).

I don't want to have to navigate a space in order to find something. Navigating space is a limitation of physical objects; replicating it in an online environment is an error. It's like if automobiles were designed so that steering and speed were controlled with reins.
A charitable interpretation is that hurting morale and creating division can lead to a scenario where everyone involves loses their livelihoods and earning power.

To put it another way, there are potential negative consequences that should at least be considered as possible.
One way to see this could be that anyone getting hacked without disclosing it properly (intentionally or due to not having realized it) is arguably worse than those selling off personal information, so good riddance.

In the other case, just create a new address.
A corollary point: Unionize.
And don't forget to prepare your CV in advance. Just in case.
People received text messages claiming their bank accounts will be frozen if they don't connect them with Aadhaar, anecdotally this has also increased distrust in banks.
To clarify, the Arista routers are the ISP's border routers. It was the residential/business customers' SOHO routers, of various makes and models, that were not decrementing the initial TCP SYN.
That would still be very difficult. You have to know what kind of plastic you have before you can work with it, some plastics off-gas dangerous vapors when cut for example, and they would need to test for chemical contamination before it could be distributed.

Also, how many thousands of tones of souvenirs can someone sell? :P
We have records of almost 270,000 preserved animal and plant specimens, for example leaves/flowers dried and pressed or whole insects most likely pinned down into a drawer.

This is still useful data, for example knowing that a species used to be present in a particular area, but if a specimen is destroyed then in the absence of a photograph of the specimen (and sometimes that's not enough) the original assertion can no longer be verified.

https://www.gbif.org/publisher/4205110f-3f0f-40d8-bd0f-2fa71...

(I work at GBIF, so I know this data exists, but otherwise I know nothing more than the article covers. I do not know what proportion of the total biodiversity collection 270,000 is, whether they were stored in this building, or whether there are images of them. As one example, they estimate 550,000 plant specimens, but share data of 42,000. That might well mean it isn't electronic, or it might mean it exists in a database but isn't yet shared as open data.)
There was a post recently about a computer that could fit inside of a usb port, little arm chip. It was meant as an open yubikey substitute, but you could easily hide one of those inside of a mass-produced cell phone charger, and suddenly you have something doing arbitrary computation. It didn't have a wireless chip, but on the other hand it was $30, if you made it using off-the-shelf consumer parts. I'm sure an industrial complex would be able to shave the size down and potentially add a wireless chip. Scary stuff.
Thanks for posting the link, this is a neat idea!
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I just had to delete "Candy Crush Soda Saga". Was it there before I did that ridiculous registry hack to prevent it? Or did they add a new one at some point... Who knows. Its clear they don't actually want people disabling the installation of them.
Does this remind anyone of sharecropping?
No it's other way around. Physics sets the foundation for what's possible within evolution. Physics is the foundation for all other sciences.
> and free hosting from GitLab/GitHub pages, there's little excuse not to self-publish

Seems like satire has settled in for the duration.
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Don't have time to investigate if that band of your friends is cool or not? Do a quick search to get a quick glance of the band
I just can't watch it, too depressing. Especially with the USA actively steering the opposite direction, I have little hope.
Not sure if you are in the tech industry or something close to it. But I've rarely seen someone getting the salery that they deserve.

Mostly it's based on seniority and experience. Even if you do the exact same tasks and maybe sometimes even faster maybe sometimes slower. The salery will not reflect that at all.
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> but doesn't really come to terms with why we as individuals don't spontaneously leap into unified mass action

Because human beings don't do that. Period. Coordinating people is a hard problem. Probably the hardest problem of humanity, solving which would solve everything else in time - from war and crime to sickness and death (imagine all our best and brightest focused on R&D instead of chasing grants, citations and lucrative jobs).

Coordination problems are a superset of the tragedy of the commons, the prisoner's dilemma, and other such game-theoretic concepts. They happen when there's a huge gain for everyone that, to be realized, requires everyone to make a small personal sacrifice or take some risk, but the system is set up so that people do not make those sacrifices, do not take those risks. In the tragedy of commons, the first person to defect wins big, so you're the loser for even starting to voluntarily limit your share. In prisoner's dilemma, if you cooperate but the other party doesn't, you lose big.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ is a great discussion of those problems.
I am unsure I understand your last remark.
This seems more a result of the rise of a new medium than the rise of inequality, i.e. sex-for-money and pleasant-partner-to-keep-around-for-money have been around for millennia.
It’s just great to see pg talking and his little bites of wisdom always had been worth the time. Two specific things that popped out:

- He mentions that people who have worked in some companies for 20 years could not be good founders because good founders wouldn’t be able to stand these companies for 20 years.

- pg has often said founders must be nice people but then the host says he doesn’t think young Steve Jobs would get funded today at YC because YC specifically filters out such founders.
I’ve been thinking about getting a signal-proof box for the purpose of keeping my phone and my car keys, which are apparently now susceptible to car thieves with remote amplifiers. I’d be curious to know what material at what thickness would serve this purpose.
The difference is, if you hit someone with a wrench until they give you the password to some data, they're going not going to continue giving you data. Whereas, if you covertly get access to someone's computer, they're going to keep using it and keep feeding you data.
I sometimes (although not very often) do tell people unilaterally. Usually, it's a good way to tell a coward. If the other person is a coward, they won't share theirs. That's a good thing to know about a person. Although I often regret knowing that they are a coward, mostly they are good people.

I like to joke that my company is ashamed about what it pays me, therefore I shouldn't talk about it. And I am a nice guy, and don't want the company to feel the shame without a good reason.
Scenario A: I make more money than them, they (despite their best intentions) slightly resent me.

Scenario B: They make more money than me, I (despite my best intentions) slightly resent them.

Beyond that, I’m not really in an industry where you can easily/beneficially jump ship to another firm, so I wouldn’t even have any recourse if people are making more than me without good justification (superior performance, etc). I’d have to exit the industry.
It is not just governments, its people too.

How many couples will have more than one child?
How many people eat meat or fish every day?
How many people drive their car to the corner store less than a mile away?
How many people buy huge SUVs and trucks as a status symbol when a smaller car is all they need?

Governments won't solve this issue. We the consumers have to solve it, the problem is that nobody gives a fuck.

I have tried to reduce my carbon footprint to the minimum and guess what? It won't matter because by the time I have saved a few kilos of Co2 there's a douchebag with a hummer driving down the street sucking gasoline like there is no tomorrow!

And to top it off everybody thinks that the world's economy can continue to grow without any limits. I believe that as a species we are simply delusional.
Its probably easiest to do this as a departing gift to colleagues you are leaving behind.
Why do this? Why not choose a minimum version that has the features your build system depends on and just leave the first line at the top?

It's not like you can use features from the newer version anyway, if you seriously want to support the older version. And if the same line of code has two different meanings in two versions, you want the old meaning (as you would get without target_version(<new version>)) because presumably you wrote your CMakeLists assuming that behaviour.

Edit: If I had read TFA before I posted I would've seen that's where the quoted code comes from. As the first thing that it teaches you to put in your CMakeLists.txt that is a pretty unfortunate failure IMO. If an old version of CMake has a behaviour you don't want (such as "wrong linking behavior on macOS" quoted in the linked article) then bite the bullet and use a newer minimum version of CMake. You could do this on only the cases it would cause a problem (e.g. just on MacOS, or just when a cache variable is set) but do so unconditionally of the version, so if someone tries to use an old version of CMake in that configuration they'll get a hard error. That's what you want!
You could always try using Emscripten [0] to generate Javascript from the existing C library and see how that turns out. However, I feel like it could introduce a lot of potential issues.

[0] http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/
I do not agree at all with this article. Most people are jealous haters and it is perfectly normal to have a lower salary if you don't have the guts to ask for more.
Unless you're happy to have your sons and daughters kill people fleeing their uninhabitable countries, military solutions won't help.
The generated C code is also highly readable so there is a transparency in how each Oberon construct is implemented.
I like sharing my salary just to be open about what I make and give people something to (possibly) work for. The reasons in the NYT article don’t really apply to my gig directly as it is a government job with a rigid tiered payscale based on years in practice, but many of my peers just do not get how much they can make in pretty cool government legal jobs. I do not make a ton - just a smidge over that magical six-figure mark, but I have too many friends who are much smarter than I earning far, far less. That saddens me a little bit, and government legal work has an odd reputation for having poor compensation, which is just not the case.

On the other side of the coin: when I was a law clerk I accidentally was given a pay-stub for another clerk. Said clerk was notoriously incompetant, but somehow making almost double what many other clerks were making. I said something to our senior administrator, and he did not even know why she was making so much. Likely, when she was hired a judge asked for her to start at her salary and she started there. Her contract was running out and she ended up not being re-hired. I felt like a jerk, and that was not my intention, but had I not known her salary nothing would have happened. Or if I could have kept my mouth shut, but that is difficult when I see such pay disparities.

edit: grammar
"someone needs to find a way to make money from keeping climate change in check"

What about a price on carbon? We should put the most powerful tool created by our civilisation - our free market industrial economy - to work on our biggest challenge / opportunity. Governments need to represent their citizens to the market on this, not the other way around.
You mean uninhabitable?

Yeah, my biggest worry about climate change isn't that we're going to cook the planet. It's that we're going to burn it way before that, as migration pressures start causing wars.
Can you say more about why you think voluntary compliance won't work? AFAIK, all of the companies you've mentioned have had, and continue to have, a mutually beneficial relationship w/ what most people consider to be the U.S. gov't. In what scenario(s) do you envision them (and countless others) jeopardizing that? Thanks.
Very elementary article and author should change title to “Introduction to Levantine’s distance”. Approximate string matching is very wide field and there are many much more efficient ways than Levantine’s distance.
The Arista units are 7504N which are running 4.20 or later, and I believe they use the Arad or Petra chpiset.
Your colleague would be very grateful to you. If you don't know the value of grateful people, you're not much of a capitalist.
> My perspective is apparently an unusual one

It's not unusual, it's just very high-effort and it makes no sense to ignore stars when N is large. In other words, when time is limited, low-resolution information becomes very valuable.

> As far as stars go, I've only ever looked at them as the number of people who decided to "like" something, but that's never a factor in my consideration

You might think this, but I am skeptical. For example, if you had to review hundreds of projects and you only had time to run your fair, thoughtful analysis on 10 of them, you would effectively be forced to look at stars to sort the list before processing it, as it's the next-best metric for judging a project.

This is the same reason why job and college applications go through shallow sorting methods before they are reviewed by humans. You might initially think that GPA, years of experience, and other numerical metrics are shallow and do not tell you anything about somebody, but they are very useful when you have tens of thousands of applicants and you need to filter the list down to hundreds.

My point is that sometimes you need to lower the resolution of your analysis because you don't have a lot of time. In practice, most people (and even computers) don't have time to look at everything, so they use any useful information they can find (whether it's conscious or not). I like to think that the number of points on an HN post doesn't affect my probability of reading the article, but if I took the data and did the analysis, I'd probably find that isn't the case and that I am biased towards spending my limited time on posts with more points.