skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah you're right about that. I was taking for granted that 1.6.x was the last before 2+.
I always find it frustrating to read materials from people like Cal Newport who somehow seem to have a wide open career path with many options and your main problem is to pick the best one. I think I am pretty good at my work but I was always already happy if I had just one decent option. Maybe (probably) I am not good enough or I am missing something else but reading a book like this doesn't help me. It simply doesn't reflect how life presents itself to me.
My strong impression is that this is a waste of time. You can keep people in their seats for 10 hours, I guess, but you're not going to consistently get 10 hours of productivity. If we want to give people an extra day off -- and I think we should! -- then we should just do it. You can't really make up the time somewhere else.
Balance and Height in VR
People should care about tracking because even though Google and Facebook may only care about serving ads, they also have to provide information in response to requests from the government. Any tracking information available to a company is de facto available to the government where the company resides, the government just has to go through the extra step of requesting it.
Robot Rights
You can use any gateway to do that :)
All of Google's own devices have an unlockable bootloader and you're free to install your own operating system (both on smartphones and chromebooks).

That being said, rooting is a security hole - the PIN lock on most rooted phones can be trivially bypassed, and an application running as root can persistently and invisibly compromise the system (and bypass safeguards on things like Android Pay).

The only non-Google Android fork which does not trivially compromise device security was Copperhead OS (now defunct) - they would ship devices with a locked bootloader and sign their updates, achieving a similar level of security (assuming a secure build system).
> My impression was more "All models are wrong, therefore all models are valid".

That's a misrepresentation. It's actually fairly interesting where that misrepresentation originated from (hint: it was propaganda from totalitarian movements).

It's a reaction to modernist assumption that "absolute truth" is possible for any question, and in particular, how often that truth _just happened_ to be personal taste of some dude (brutalism (I personally like brutalism) and modernist architecture in general are probably the most obvious examples).

For sure, there have been explorations into pretty much every field, with varying success. In science, though, that relativity is more oriented towards establishing what theories get investigated, than the actual result (for example, how many investigations of liberalism in political science completely ignored the racial aspect of it, and its rather dismal history in that respect, or various - thankfully largely defunct by now - excustions into phrenology, eugenics, and similar woo).

So, modernism isn't "all models are valid." It's "you can't just declare that your model is the bestest because you like it/it's 'simple'/it's 'elegant'/it happens to declare Helvetica to be the objectively best font."
> I have definitely no problem discerning factual statements from opinions or framing and in my book only the former constitute news.

What if the facts you are discerning have been somewhat modified, or some of the facts relevant to a specific story have been excluded from the article entirely?
Ok, but for this to be problematic, readers would need to have some other mechanism to know that w1 did actually take place before w2. So FIFO instead of total order.

Anyhow, thanks for answering my questions. Very interesting system.
As I said, I think it's time to question whether an environment such as NYC is a realistic place to live for 30 years+ - is that sustainable for our species?

I think that the availability of short-term housing in NYC in particular is a net benefit for society, even if it adds an uncomfortable dose of reality for many people who had the extreme privilege of growing up there.
There’s an optimal time to give negative feedback
They don’t identify as rednecks because most of polite society looks down on those types of people. Over the past 40 years we’ve demonized manual labor and the people who perform it as lower class and undeserving of nice things. Real success after all is an office job, just ask any high school guidance counselor.

Most people have the innate sense that something in our society is deeply unfair and they’re looking for someone to blame. Trump offers easy solutions.

What we should refuse to do is let anyone off the hook for supporting Trump. Just because you like his business policies doesn’t mean you get to look the other way when he does monstrous things like locking migrant families in detention centers.
Every time Ubuntu updates some package (that I haven't figured out) it blows away my CPU governor settings. But I guess there won't be a lot of press articles about this.
Do you ever look at HN without knowing what you're going to see?
> And personally I don't believe on private electricity generation, it should be public without shareholders for that reason.

Then there's nothing for us to argue further. Sorry to hear you don't support energy independence and efforts to be self reliant. I do not want to be beholden to someone else for my energy needs, whenever possible, most especially shareholders of a for profit corporation.

> How exactly? Every industry is like this.

Identifying a bug in a system isn't an argument for that bug to persist.
I disagree. I get that there are a lot of media employees here, but it would be better if people stopped defending such practices.

And it isn't every thread. It's usually the most egregious examples that people point out.
Oh yeah? I'm alive during those 3-10 days. And I'm there.

If that's not living, then where do I live? I don't have a long-term lease or anything similar. Do I not deserve the same quality of life and opportunities as people who happened to have been born in the East Village?
How does this compare to the recently proposed workday of 6 hours, see link?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/how-the-s...
They changed the hn title at least once. It was "rise and demise". Go here [0] and click on past:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002503
> people he barely knew

Does this refer to a handful of journalists who are also public figures? If so, who is permitted to leak to well-known journalists and what is the upper limit of how much they may leak under this implied moral framework?
> Most European countries are looking for alternatives and nuclear power generation is heavily criticized there.

I'm not sure about "most". Germany is certainly phasing out nuclear. France has relied extensively on nuclear for decades, and it's a large export industry for them, so I'm not sure what the general sentiment is (a quick Google search didn't find anything conclusive). Here in the UK there does seem to be a general anti-nuclear sentiment (e.g. the (tiny minority) Green Party want to phase it out). We are building new nuclear, like Hinkley Point C, but they're unpopular mostly due to bureaucracy and financial nonsense (the vested interests and brinkmanship over the contract seems like a test run for the current farce over Brexit negotiations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_... !).
>So the question we have to ask is do we want to live in a society where this treatment is legal?

Because we live in this fantasy land of the [dead] 'American Dream', where if you work hard, absolutely bust your ass and kill yourself for 70 years, you'll get to be Jeff Bezos too. If you're complaining about your job, just get a new one, or pull your boot straps up and accept it, it's that easy. We're constantly told to suck it up and accept it. We're constantly told that these businesses are job creators and should be praised for it and when we criticize them, it's not their fault, it's the workers. We don't criticize because we can lose our job and it's extremely easy to get into homelessness now, or default on the enormous amounts of credit everyone has. The propaganda and indoctrination start from birth and is built into society. The atmosphere changed from workers having control, to businesses having full control. Businesses can't exist without workers, so workers should have control. Anyone who says workers shouldn't have control is a shareholder or business owner.

To change things will take a lot of work, and possibly a major fast economic decline. People have ignored the economic decline of the working class since the late 60's, early 70's. Mainstream media and newspapers work to suppress any workers movements and tell you how great everything is (Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent goes over how this works).
To me it sounds like Apple wants to be "seen" as building products that last as long as possible to justify the cost of the product. They want you to justify the buy it for life cost, because they want you to believe the marketing that it will last longer than competitors, even while laptop keyboards fail early, the repair process costs over $800, the screens on laptops look like someone sprayed brake cleaner all over them when they've only lived in an office environment, iPhones get "touch disease" etc etc.
>That little tangerine bubble has become a wistful symbol of defiance against a centralized web increasingly controlled by a handful of corporations, ...

Just a quibble about terminology. Those handful of corporations do not control the web; they merely dominate it. It's an important distinction. Actual control is censorship, which is an important issue these days. The fact that a lot of people are using systems associated with a few companies is in the end relatively unimportant.

RSS is quite important simply because it is used to discover individual articles from lots of different sources. People who post things with RSS feeds are not raging against the dark but instead are routinely maintaining the light.
> If health care expenditures grow at 4%, that's 0.32% wage growth from health care costs.

So if you earn $100,000 each year you get a raise of $320 due to health care? To be honest with you, that seems pretty insignificant. And it's also sort of a feedback loop - the quality of care isn't increasing - the system is only costing more because the system can charge more. All that's doing is accounting for "healthcare inflation", and if a cost of living raise is a significant raise, something is wrong.
No, but the optimum solution to survive long term starvation is to dump as much muscle mass as possible to minimize your daily calorie burn. Alongside that the body minimizes the energy spent fighting long term problems like cancer by reducing the amount of antioxidants produced etc.

Some strength is still required, so their are feedback mechanisms limiting this loss. However, on a diet you are not in pure survival mode so you probably don't want to make those same sacrifices.
One thing to consider - it could mean Amazon uses more part-time/seasonal workers than those other companies, since I believe SNAP benefits are based on annual income, rather than hourly pay.
"The media" is such a nebulous phrase. I tend to avidly follow particular journalist's work - Ed Yong in science, for instance. I think this is more reliable than ascribing wholesale to a particular publication or "the media."
I guess it's pretty obvious that the company who regularly pushes new software to your phone can also change the interpretation of settings and preferences as they like, or remove the preferences and settings altogether, or replace your wallpaper with cat photos. How has this gone uncontemplated by the HN commentariat?
Which means:

1. Google have this capability.

2. They have exercised it.

3. Whatever internal controls exist to check this don't exist, failed, or explicitly permitted this action. None of the three options, for a single locus of control to something on the order of 3-4 billion user devices or accounts (net of Android + Gmail accounts) is particularly heartening.

4. The primary channel of communication is ... a Reddit account?

Someone is terrifyingly asleep at the wheel.

Competency? Trust? Goodwill? This is how you lose it.

This is how organisational decline starts. It tends to proceed slowly, at first, then all at once. Shades of Hemmingway.
I can say that, when I worked in the semiconductor industry, there was never a single article on the semiconductor industry (in a mainstream news publication) that did not have significant errors. Moreover, what we know of the economics of newsgathering suggests that in many cases the article was largely written for them an interested party, thus worse than sloppy: intentionally misleading, because basically disguised advertising.
It's not really conflicting from the perspective of employers. Basically, many companies are still acting as though it's 2009 with respect to hiring practices and expect experienced people willing to work for sub-par salaries. When they aren't able to find such people anymore, they either turn to foreign workers (via visa programs), contractors (to avoid overhead costs), or just reassign more work to existing employees in order to keep labor costs down and profits up.

The net result is what you're seeing - seemingly ridiculous hiring criteria for stagnant (or in some cases dropping) wages in the midst of a "hot" job market that's really hot because the low-wage service and contractor labor segments have soaked up so many people.
Changing your user agent is also probably a bad idea. There are other ways to detect browser, so you're pretty unique of you're using Firefox on MacOS with a Chrome for Windows user agent.
I personally feel that this is sort of a bullying tactic. These people go to school spend hours creating content. They employ journalist, editors and web admins to bring quality articles to the masses.

Its one thing to support free/opensource software and encourage it. It is another to force it on creators. If someone doesnt want to offer their articles for free or their software for free that should be respected. It shouldnt be hacked around and forcefully (obvriously not in the assult manner) taken.

Instead of pirating software or copying content how about you write your own article. Dont force your ideals on others.

Pay walls suck but the least we can do is watch some ads. I dont use ad block because youtube is worth something to me. And if this wsj is not worth the signup then I should just go without.
Good for Germany.

In the US we have "network news" and "cable news".

Network news is what the workers, families and people who just want a quick update on the world watch. This nightly news (30-60 min) focuses mostly on local horrors like murders, robberies, fires etc. with a smattering of positive local happenings. They might touch for 1-2 minutes on national/political news, and in doing so attempt to tell it in a way that doesn't piss off 50% of their audience. People that watch this news, as their primary source are blissfully unaware of how bad it really is. They think it's just "politics as usual" and don't want to be bummed out after a long day at work.

Then we have cable news, which is is a 24/7 IV drip for retirees, stay at homes, jobless Americans and the most militant supporters on both sides. If you identify with Republicans you watch Fox News if you identify with Democrats, you watch MSNBC. Both leave you feeling outraged, exhausted and convinced the other side is "lying to you".

Then, both sides retreat to social media, where their friends and family re-enforce what they already feel - further widening the divide between Americans.
Collection of React conference and meetup videos from 2018 (Q1)
Yes, and after hundreds of years of technological progress, it seems a bit silly to still force people to work the same amount of time.
No, but what is your aim?

If your aim is to make yourself feel better by putting someone down, then sure, I guess the person is responsible for the code, go nuts.

The aim of any adult should be to get a contribution without the flaws. If that's your aim, then telling someone they are stupid or whatever, at best, does nothing. At worst, they never contribute again.
Plenty of other manufacturers manage a decent replaceable battery, I don't see why Apple can't.
What I was wondering really, was whether LogDevice provides total order atomic broadcast, and as such whether it solves concensus. It appears it does (or rather, it daisychains on the concensus provided by zookeeper and uses it's own fencing mechanism, similar to what bookkeeper/Pulsar does).
Are you saying that 99% of hazardous nuclear material is consumed in its own process? What does 'fissioned' mean in this context? Also can you comment on whether this requires more or less uranium ore inputs than prior generation reactors?
Woho 8.0! I enjoy quickly writing simple web apps with Mojolicious::Lite in particular.
Lessons of HN
> If I'm correct you only gain money from advertising when the user clicks on an ad

There are also ads which pay per impression. CPM ads.
> Given that EU wages have increased much more than US wages we can conclude that unemployment has very little to do with wage increases. And since empirical evidence trumps conjectures, we throw the so called "law" of supply and demand into the garbage bin.

One could argue that the reason wages increased in the EU is because it restricts the supply of workers. For example, strong unions could explain that.

Its like you are saying a helium balloon float and conclude gravity has been disproven.
>or alternatively a ban on having children if the parents can't provide an equivalent payment.

Yours is the stuff dystopian literature is made of. You want to severely limit freedom for the greater good, a tactic which never works.
Agreed.

However, the first and perhaps only modern user interface feature I find lacking in the screenshot is font anti-aliasing. At a regular viewing distance of about three feet, I find the text much more difficult to read than the fonts rendered by Windows 10 elsewhere on my screen.

Enable a quality subpixel font rendering engine onto that tastefully minimal UI and I think you'd have something real nice.
Each dollar that you hold and don't spend represents one potential vote for what the economy should do next. If you vote wisely, your votes usually get returned to you. If you vote poorly, they usually don't come back.

Rich people are a form of representative election. Some people give their proxies to others that they think will make wise economic choices. If you choose your proxy well, you also get rewarded with more votes.

That system has led to a situation where a viable equilibrium exists wherein those with unspent money can tend to make choices that benefit mostly themselves rather than the whole economy.

Each spent dollar is a production order. Investment is planning; spending is executing. If you don't spend enough money to execute on the plan, it will fail from a lack of material support. If the plan is good, and the work gets done, everyone benefits. That's not zero-sum. You can get out more than you put in. That's the whole point of having a specialized, productive economy.

But the investment portion of the economy is zero-sum. You can't order more than 100% of the productive economy that exists at any given moment. Every day, one pie the size of the productive economy gets auctioned off in tiny pieces. You can order the productive economy to grow its own capacity a bit, to make bigger pies tomorrow and into the future, but after it does, you will still have to re-vote to use it. Once the investment economy started gambling with itself on which of the candidate economic plans had the best prospects, it turned itself into a realm where someone else has to lose in order for anyone else to win. People stopped voting on bigger pies, and started voting strategically, to get more votes in the future. "Don't make more pie; make more votes!" They forgot that making and eating the daily pie was the important part of the voting process.

As for philanthropy, that might be an attempt to create a standing vote for "let's plan to spend some economic resources on being good to one another, regardless of anything else we might vote on".
You can see this in action on HN when people constantly use big publications like The Verge and NYT when complaining about ads or suggesting that everyone needs to find a new business model.

Meanwhile my forum now costs more money than it brings in. It's been giving teens a place to write collaborative fiction for over 10 years now.

Seems a bit sad that we'll eventually just be left with the sites big enough to live without ads. We're in the middle of a great centralization which you'd think most of HN would be wary of.

Instead I see the opposite, people basically welcoming it with a bloodlust in their eyes. What they don't realize is that their favorite examples of ad-dependent websites cast around HN like The Verge will be the last to die.
It is built on an ioloop and has a special emphasis on making websockets and other streaming communications easy.
I don't know how big the adoption is in the US for nokia "dumb phones", but in Europe they sell really good.

The first thing you do when you take them out of the box is to put the battery in.

Even if the person at the store does this for you, just by watching you can easly do it yourself.

And since iphones are a huge role model, if they implement it others will follow along.
Let's rehash that old argument in the comments shall we?
Looking at just the Earth-Sun interaction, Earth is moving in a gravitational field that is unchanging. It's not that Earth is being pulled towards where the sun was eight minutes ago, but rather that it continues to move in free-fall in a region of space-time that is curved in a time-invariant manner.

If the sun were to vanish completely, then an observer above the elliptic of the solar system would see Earth transition from an apparently curved orbit to a straight-line path approximately 8 minutes after the sun's vanishing.
I look forward to esr writing the absolute worst take on all of this.
> Do you have more stuff to read about it?

Yes! Check out the deck and video from Edison Research's "The Podcast Consumer 2018" at http://www.edisonresearch.com/podcast-consumer-2018/.
For once, this is about tracking down illegal operations that would otherwise destroy this planet's most precious resource.

Please, take a look at this http://globalfishingwatch.org/ to get a grasp about what's at stake.
> I don't really see the problem here. You tweak settings and collect data so you can pick better defaults in the future. Why wouldn't you do this?

The problem, is that they didn't seem to ask for consent or have been upfront that they had implemented this kind of remote control capability. The user's phone is the user's phone, not Google's; so the user needs to have ultimate control (and Google needs to respect that).
Were there any surprising features/ux/workflow aha-moments you encountered in the screenwriting space?
something not having caselaw doesn't make it illegal. it just means it's untested.

In this case I believe @jahewson is correct. They just can't legally _punish_ you for violations until you enter the EU. You've still broken the law in the EU by not handling the data of a EU citizen as legally required by anyone who does business with them.

I understand where you're coming from, and that very much _was_ the way things used to work. The new law changes that. It governs interactions with EU citizens regardless of where they are.
Well, they did use it to stop slavery...