skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I structured that ambiguously. “...no investors that are not ... members” is true.

“Few...investors that are not ... members” is impossible, as you note.
I’d like some kind of avatar generation method that actually looks good. MonsterID gets there, but isn’t really appropriate for most applications.
Has this been tried? I would expect more speeding and maybe even more fatalities.
Ok. So make sure women are forced to take some time off as well.
It's not about browsers or tech, the extensions were universally available with a single click on modern browsers.
beans has some novel features (importer DSL, transaction-level valuation) and I am looking for feedback both from the Haskell and from the plain-text accounting communities. I've been using beans for my own accounts for some time now.

Let me know your thoughts!
How Doctors Use Poetry
> If you accept that advertising is necessary to some business models

I don't accept that premise (see first comment on page)
> As someone who's written Windows software since the 90s, I can't shake the feeling that Microsoft just churns out completely new development stacks every few years.

That's the theme behind one of Joel Spolsky's old essays, Fire And Motion:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

"Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP. The companies who stumble are the ones who spend too much time reading tea leaves to figure out the future direction of Microsoft."
W3W is one of the stupidest proposals I've ever seen, because it's proprietary. We want everybody on earth to need to pay licensing fees and contact a remote API to resolve address?

To call it mad would be far too kind. I may call it evil.
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Arguably, decreasing human kind's birthrate is a net positive. Even in the absence of that, being a dad, and knowing many dads, we've already made the choice to "disadvantage" ourselves -- and wish we could do it more. What stops us is the fact that we would lose our jobs which disadvantages our kids.

So I say bring on mandatory leave! The vast majority will be much happier.
Another Financial Crisis Is Coming:  What Investors Need to Know
Also, Sweden was the first European country that was connected to the U.S. Internet, or more specifically to NSFNET [1][2]. This was because the adoption of TCP/IP protocols for wide area networks came earlier in Sweden than in other parts of Europe, for various serendipitous reasons. A funny anecdote is that Switzerland could have beat Sweden to be connected first, but they were delayed because they had to renumber all their networks at CERN that were already using TCP/IP.

Initially it was just non-commercial Internet for academic institutions, but lots of students were exposed to the technology and the infrastructure early on.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet_in_Swe...

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#History
They really should. The time to do this is now.

I don't really know why this did not happen already. The only answer I can think of is lack of people with a vision in the management.

Mozilla could leverage a user base of 100 million people. But it's an enourmous challenge to build the bridge between readers and publishers. When you start with the publishers, no one will want to participate because there are no users. When you start with the users, no one will pay because there is no content. So you have to slowly create a momentum.

Another problem is that people will probably never pay as much as ads are worth - people don't see that they pay for ads when they buy new shoes for 200 $, but paying only 40$ directly feels like a loss. But the system is extremely inefficient, so middlemen siphon off most of the value (Google, Facebook). Firefox is also in the unique position of being a potential middle man. I think there are enough people who would be happy to support it with a small amount in the beginning, if it feels promising and rewarding.

So especially at the beginning users need to get something in return that motivates them. Mozilla could start with creating a welcoming interface which motivates readers to pay small amounts of money. Obviously people are reluctant to pay for something they get for free. So give them something in return directly, even if most publishers are not already on board. Badges and other rewards are possible. It's simply a question of great UI, making it default for everyone, and creating a community vibe around it.

What prevents Mozilla from giving paying users some additional features like in-browser Ad-Blocking? It's as simple as forking uBO and letting it run in the background. Then advertize monthly payments with full-fledged privacy, security and browsing improvements thanks to blocking ads. (We are talking about defaults here. So after a new install every new user is greeted with something like "Pay x$ per month and get a completely ad-free web and support your favourite creators and create a new ecosystem for journalism")

Then over time when publishers are on board Mozilla could provide the interface that makes communication between both parties possible, similar to what Patreon does.

This could for example be done as an experiment in Germany first, where Firefox has 30% market share on Desktop. Reaching 1 Million active users could send a strong signal to publishers to honor paying Firefox users.
> Quality of life was insanely better there

Just because of sun? Did you try UV?
> Never stated I was an expert in torrent or broadcasting. But barely one who has used bittorrent can counter most of your arguments.

The way you discussed this came off as incredibly arrogant, so you shouldn't hold your hands up all of a sudden and claim you're being misrepresented—I personally expected you were a bittorrent developer disgruntled over lack of adoption for non-technical reasons or similar based on the vitriol and self-assuredness.

There is a way to point out that some of those things should not theoretically be a problem without acting like they have no practical merit whatsoever and that anyone who believes so is an idiot. When you cite audio streaming you especially make yourself look like a Dunning-Kruger case as delivering adaptive HD video involves many complex issues that are completely non-existent or trivial for audio. It's hard enough with full control over your own PoPs, and layering on P2P only makes it more complex. Content rights / privacy aside, you could never rely on this as primary delivery for commercial content, so in effect you'd be layering a bittorrent system on top of a traditional CDN setup as a cost saving measure, but you've have to be damn sure QoS didn't degrade in the process which is also non-trivial. Just because it's theoretically possible doesn't mean it's a good idea.
That 'short window' was some period of months, I thought. It's not cool the problem happened but sounds like you didn't consider it high enough priority to get onto it.
> After all, society as a whole has decided [...] that the cost of having [children] should be born by all, even those without.

Is this not a thread about how society has NOT yet decided such a thing?
Stereotype much?
I took 12 weeks of paternity leave after my wife went back to work, and definitely recommend it if you can swing it. Partly just that spending time with a kid small enough to nap inside your hoodie is worth doing -- but honestly I'm not cut out to be a stay-at-home parent and that's not why I'm a fan of paternity leave. More that it helped so much with setting us up for parenting together.

One reason is that it's hard to understand just how much work it is if you haven't done it on your own for long stretches, and it helps for both partners to know that both partners know how hard it is and have taken a turn at it.

Another is the self-reinforcing competence thing -- if one partner always packs for going out, say, then the other partner is likely to take longer and do a worse job when they try packing, so it's easier for everyone if they don't, and you end up thinking only one person is good at parenting. To some extent it's fine to specialize, but having to do everything during the day on my own for a few months made it really clear that both of us can be good at any given thing if need be.

One thing I was surprised by (but shouldn't have been) is just how much wealth you're showing off by taking paternity leave. Telling people you're taking 12 weeks of paternity leave in America is basically telling them you have plenty of money and a job you can afford to walk away from, which pretty much crosses the line into boasting about things you shouldn't boast about. I ended up playing it down more than I expected, which kind of sucks, since it's an awesome thing that more folks should be able to do.
17 years creating a visual programming environment
> Mozilla should work on a micro-payment system that is inbuilt into the browser. Ultimately that is the only solution to a web that values user privacy and prevents the psychological toll of ads.

Brave Browser are doing this, and have integrated support for a cryptocurrency called Basic Attention Token.

https://brave.com/

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

Personally I found their browser to be a bit too buggy on iOS though, so on my iPhone I’ve stuck with Safari (Firefox for iOS is buggy too).

On my laptops and desktops I am sticking with Firefox because last I checked Brave was either unavailable or didn’t work well enough on FreeBSD.

Nonetheless I commend Brave for doing what they do :)
One counterargument against that indoor scenario would be The Valley™. Unless you consider fog.
https://osmand.net/
For replacing their web API, my cofounder and I started a company to address many of the issues with Google Maps, starting with price and privacy. We have more issues to address, but we offer the necessities now and have expansion plans. We offer map tiles, static maps, and routing. (We had a mutual client that needed maps and we found no good alternatives, so we built the one we wanted.)

Check us out at https://stadiamaps.com

For consumer maps, Apple Maps is decent, Bing isn’t awful, and openstreetmap.org can meet some needs.
Mark Zuckerber's profile page “suppose to be hacked” livestream
Analytics + Data Science.
I agree. Efforts to continue past unexpected states frequently just make the situation worse and end up causing more user pain than a deterministic restart. This kind of recovery also masks real bugs and leads to their persistence in the codebase. (Heuristic error recovery also makes debugging more difficult.) A fail-fast approach both preserves user invariants and provides an impetus to fix bugs fast.
No. It only works when you have each other within your Contacts list.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/share-your-wifi-password-wi...
Apple was always in the situation that a lot of their 3rd party developers were also „fans“, who are more willing to keep up with their transitions,

That's true, but Apple also got behemoths like Adobe and Microsoft to port over their applications to modern APIs (Cocoa and Cocoa Touch).
There are only two hard problems in computer science.

Cache invalidation, and naming things. And off by one errors.
I don't see this to be important, definitely there is a growing demand for researchers and engineers but that doesn't change the fact that there is way to much hype that's shadowing a lot of the good things with software engineering in general! I myself was very much surrounded by the hype untill I stopped looking through a key hole. There are amazing things coming up, serverless applications exploiting services like Lambda, Progressive Web Apps with the availability of frameworks like React and Vue (My personal favourite), Decentralised applications.
Didn't realize, I really like WPF too, hope that executives aren't trying to push too many efforts towards whatever they think the trends might be, I tried Xamarin for mobile but ended up switching to Android Studio and just targeting there.

"Preparrrre for Q#........" (jk on that....for now)
FYI, I have huge problems with your products at work. We use a variety of your products and competing products, on a project-by-project basis. I always advocate for your competitors.

One reason is that you made the business decision to attempt customer lock-in. You supported wikimedia-style text markup in your wiki (in addition to the GUI) so that people could migrate to your stuff, and then you took out that feature so that people would have trouble leaving. I'm sure that makes sense to an MBA, but I have been discouraging use of your products all throughout a large company.

The other reason is that yes, all your stuff is slow as fuck. OMG it is slow. The Java grows to consume gigabytes for no damn reason, and it munches CPU time, and generally it sucks pretty hard.

Golang might be right for you. I think it's the fastest choice available for development teams that can't handle stuff like pointers. On the other hand, I think you would still manage to sort-of-leak memory by hanging on to references that you really don't need.

I think you could fix the slowness problem by requiring all development and testing to be done on computers that are slower than the ones your customers use. Get an old Pentium II with 256 MiB of RAM... which is still overkill for the task at hand. Remember, back in the day we ran stuff like your products on computers with 8 MiB or less and a 486 or less. You can live with a Pentium II and 256 MiB of RAM, and the resulting performance of your software will delight your customers.
Not if there were an ironclad law that cars have to be manufacturered to be physically incapable of exceeding that speed.
The other major thing (and I would argue more important than the others) is Sweden's wealth and social safety net.

Wealth is one of the most important factors for someone to found a startup. You aren't going out and starting a company if you have to work 80 plus hours a week to live.

Just look at the clueless opinions of so many tech founders about how "you shouldn't pay yourself a salary at first after you take investment money". Oh really? So we should just buy groceries and pay rent from the trust fund mommy and daddy gave us?
I suppose designing it that way still prevents you from doing anything wrong, but you need quite a lot of knowledge of the system to understand what it's doing.

I'll get there one day, but it's hard to go back to having no idea what my compiler is trying to do.
You can't virus-scan an e-mail that doesn't pass through your server. How would you inspect javascript that doesn't pass through your server?

Or do you have to just get a bit of paper from the ad network saying they won't make any mistakes, then take their word for it without any way of auditing their claim?
Thanks. Good point about the DNA 'black box'.
In theory, yes, but in practice taxes tend to favor married couples and people with children. So even if in the theoretical case you are right practically speaking we all share the cost of having children.
Not sure about the second, but the lane guidance icon does change to show a diagram of which exit to take, and you should also see the 2.5D map with a blue line showing the route on the actual map.
>And then you mix migration driven by climate change
Do you seriously believe the migration is driven by climate change, not by the difference in life quality driven by political/cultural differences?
Not quite.

The Australian Ballot works pretty good. Private voting, public counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot

Like all systems, requires funding and attention, of course.

Comparatively...

There is no electronically mediated equivalent of the one-way hash of dropping your ballot into the box suitable for elections in the USA.

Because our ballots are complicated and our units of administration (precincts) are small. Meaning any end-to-end auditable system for hashing ballots won't generate the necessary hash collisions to hide one's ballot within the herd of ballots.
The Federal Reserve is extremely good at restraining booms and preventing busts to stabilize the business cycle.
This is still my primary reason to use GMaps - I wish they would prioritize Public Transport in Apple Maps - SBB even provides an API they could easily use to get any schedule they need as far as i know.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
Not only his initials, but also his password!
the most boring weather is reflected in the most boring software
>> > What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?

First, what's the purpose of books ?

There's entertainment of course. But let's focus on books that teach. Their purpose is to let you access some knowledge, in a deep way.

On the other hand, computer systems are starting to fill that role, and the level of depth they can achieve is growing - on a good day, with the right query, Google may give you access to Amazing content, content that may help you connect different concepts - based on your past searches - just like your brain does.

Another option is if it was easy for a book author to package her knowledge in a smart chatbot or maybe an expert system, and we will have hundreds of such advisors advising us, or just interactively chatting with us,correcting our mistakes, that would be an interesting replacement to the book.
GDI, Win32, and XAML are the only ones that come to mind for me, am I missing some? 3 frameworks in 3 decades seems reasonable considering they all still work. The same can't be said for MacOS

If you're referring to Silverlight, that was never a serious desktop UI framework. It was initially targeted as a Flash /Java killer but pivoted to cross platform desktop apps when it became clear that it would never be adopted on Mobile and that Apple/Google were actively trying to kill Flash on the desktop.

That being said, we got XAML from Silverlight and it's not terribly difficult to covert ti a XAML or even UWP app from a Silverlight codebase.
First it will be like knowing how to drive a stick-shift. Then it'll be like owning a sports car. Then it'll be like owning a horse or a boat.
Mapbox if you are looking to integrate something into your website / app
Jews were forced into banking, because they were forbidden to do agriculture or cattle back in Europe. Banking was considered dirty, so Christians didn't want to do it. Jews did what they were allowed - banking, philosophy, medicine, science - and they became masters of the craft.
> It would have been a more interesting article had it also went into the downsides of this approach _for men_.

Fixed it for you.
I'm in favour of a set amount of parental leave that can be shared between spouses in whatever ratio they choose. I don't understand how depriving families of choices is going to be a good thing.

Example: You and your husband would like to breastfeed your baby for the first 6 months but you are unable to express? Too bad, your husband has to take paternity leave and you will have to go back to work.

From my experience, there is a connection between mother and child from birth that is nurtured and strengthened through breastfeeding. I would vehemently oppose the state enforcing any interruption in my child's wellbeing as we see fit as parents.
I'm a childless woman. This is by choice. I might consider adoption, but I have absolutely no desire to be pregnant nor give birth. I'm 40, by the way, and have known I didn't want children for at least 25 years.

I'm happy to give parents time off. I'm happy parents get more sick days where I'm at to take care of their young children. I'm happy my taxes, in part, go to this.

We actually need children. And parents have more responsibilities than I do. I want children to be educated and well cared for. The most selfish reason is that I want competent folks to take care of me when I'm old: The other is that I want humanity to be better when I leave the earth.

There are costs and benefits to everything. Besides, I had/have the choice of becoming a mother and getting those benefits - though there is a lot to lose as well. And it isn't me.
University students as a demographic have traditionally been capable of rising to enact social change motivated by principle or altruism.

I think the answer here is to remember that individual privacy as a social norm is healthy for your community, regardless of whether you personally expect to need it.
It's usually React that people complain about.

If you like jQuery, you should like vue. Cause, you can use vue just by adding a script tag in your web page.

You don't need command line, web pack or any other tool to use most of vue.
Eh, sometimes you need a little enforcement to escape the Nash equilibrium. Not sure this is the best example though.
This is why one has to read papers in context. You can't just read a paper: you have to then go off and read some reviews that cover the surrounding science. Then read some other papers on the topic of interest. Pay attention to dates on papers, as opinions change with time. Note the disagreements.

Reading the scientific literature is reading the moment to moment output of a noisy search algorithm. Any given publication is near meaningless on its own.

This business of reading the context for a specific item of research isn't that hard. If as a layperson you feel up to having an opinion on a specific paper, then you are certainly equipped to do more reading in the field.

Start with review papers, which tend to be a gentler uphill slope, and then fit other papers into what you see there. Take note of the disagreements between reviews, the different emphasis placed on different aspects of the topic. In most scientific fields review papers are usually pretty good at explicitly covering the unknowns and debates of interest. The subtexts and unwritten stuff, such as funding-driven conflicts of research strategy, take longer to figure out. But one has to start somewhere.

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/05/how-to-read-the-...

"The scientific community doesn't produce an output of nice, neat tablets of truth, pronouncements come down from the mountain. It produces theories that are then backed by varying weights of evidence: a theory with a lot of support stands until deposed by new results. But it's not that neat in practice either. The array of theories presently in the making is a vastly complex and shifting edifice of debate, contradictory research results, and opinion. You might compare the output of the scientific community in this sense with the output of a financial market: a staggeringly varied torrent of data that is confusing and overwhelming to the layperson, but which - when considered in aggregate - more clearly shows the way to someone who has learned to read the ticker tape."
In case of smaller sites page load time would increase, because they still had to contact an ad network to retrieve the ads and assemble the page with ads on server side.

It would only improve load time for big sites which have their own ad serving and a server farm on the backend to quickly retrieve ads without having to connect to an external ad network.
What do you need? Random examples:

Mapy.cz https://en.mapy.cz/

Bing Maps https://www.bing.com/maps

Wikimedia maps https://maps.wikimedia.org

TomTom mydrive https://mydrive.tomtom.com