skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took a 40% hit on news that has a high chance of being BS. That to me is worth a gamble
Since you asked "Do the expectations the site give match up with what you have experienced?" I'll say no, at least where I'm working now,the reviews do not match my experience here at all. The reviews are rather negative, written by people who quit because they didn't like it, or were fired for various reasons. So most of the people motivated to write reviews had reason to write only negative reviews. I'm super happy here and haven't written a review.
Users banding together to send crypto anonymously toward their favorite sites and creators is not "parasitic" -- you and your browser are the host, already colonized by tracking scripts for ads if you don't use a no-compromises blocker such as uBO.

Users' right to block is well supported by web standards and case law. Adding a separate, direct to creator funding option is not parasitism, it is found money for creators.

To see someone here call our opt-in (meaning that each user consents without duress) anonymous micro-contributions and (coming up fast) private ads model layered on top such a name tells me that person has confused host and parasite, or is working for one of the parasites.

It was never a given that your browser should become a blind and passive servant to surveillance super-companies either wholly or partly dependent on ads, but such companies did capture arguably 3 of the top 4 browsers.

Now is the time for users to push back, whether by Brave if you like it, a blocker such as uBO on a browser that doesn't track you by default (perhaps when "logged in"; whatever), or another method that works for you. I hope those who have not yet will give Brave a try. https://brave.com/download-dev for the chromium-extensions-ready new version.
I guess I don't see how banning cars in cities solves that problem for the elderly (particularly outside of cities).
TFA is short and to the point. A few examples, a few links to other examples. Py3's insistence on shoving Unicode into every API it possibly could maybe fit, is often inconvenient for coders and for users. This thread has 100 comments, mostly disagreeing in the same fingers-in-ears-I-can't-hear-you fashion. Whom are we struggling to convince, here?
Teenage Dolphins Get High on Puffer Fish Toxin
As someone with so called “Unicode-characters” in my name, I have encountered bugs and issues on every single American website in the history of the internets, and you will have to forgive me for preferring correctness over programmer convenience.

For me it’s literally personal.
I think sites that use a voting mechanism to rank content will always favor "power users" who are able to coordinate an effort to get content voted on.

Part of the reason for this is that regular users don't have a lot of incentive to spend time under "new" curating content, and it is difficult to for the maintainers of a site to detect and counter coordinated voting efforts.
So we want cities that can let in delivery vans - but not people with cars.

Sounds reasonable.
The premise that you'd have to sign anything to leave any job in the US is ridiculous. I certainly never do. One employer tried to get me to sign a non-compete after I gave notice and only did so because it was laughably unenforcable in Oregon for my position
In Germany, you don't need a separate legal entity for that. The legal entity is you, as a person. (Also called Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts, GbR, or Einzelkaufmann, depending on the details.)
Shutter performance is less important than time to start.

All tests shows different white balance between pixel and xs. This is highly depends on screens that are used on the phones and photos on iPhone can simply adjusted to iPhone screens.
You mean algebraic effects? Monad transformers are an effect system as well.
I wish London would follow this example, I fear however that the press would whip up an outrage. Public transport in Central London is excellent. I have not felt the need to have a car after 20+ years of living here. The situation is obviously very different in rural areas.

It would also be great to upgrade all Taxi's and buses to fully electric as well.
Googling "self destructing art" yields some interesting finds, many centered around the Dada movement.
I understand that Safari is the system default such that if I click on a link in some app that says "open this in a browser" it will always go to Safari and even if I copy the link and paste it in a preferred browser it is going to use webkit instead of that browsers real renderer...

What are you talking about with other apps? What would it mean to have Signal the default app? When I want to use Signal I open signal, there's no convenience factor. Signal shows up as an option on the share sheet and I could even delete messages.app from the share sheet if I didn't want to use it.

I guess I can theoretically grasp links that open in maps and wanting to be able to change that default. (though I don't care to, since I don't have to send my data to Google) Are there links somewhere that open in "the default messenger app"?

What are the other default apps that I'm not able to change on iOS?

Also what is this about AGPS data going to Apple? I've just seen an assertion by you, nothing else.

Summary:

1)I'll fully give you the WebKit, you care about that, I don't, but I agree it's a thing.

2) You care about Maps, I don't, and I'm not sure it is that much of an issue. I interact with maps 90+% of the time after opening the app so if I want to stop using Apple's Maps it is a minor inconvenience.

3) I don't understand your point on Signal

4)I think there are other "default apps" you are talking about that I don't know about.

5)What are you talking about with Apple collecting AGPS data?

added:
6)Isn't AOSP not really useable as a phone interface... that is the impression I've gotten. How else am I supposed to not "use Google apps on Android"?
Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October Update after reports of mass file deletion
The whole point of login_duress is that you say "there's nothing you want on this machine" and give them the duress credential knowing that the thing they want will be deleted. Once it's deleted, you can't break and give it to them.
Two possibilities, and by god I hope my first is right:

It's a super clever two-stage prank. At auction the picture is supposed to shred but it stops half way. Did it break? Was that the intention? Who knows! That's the mystery behind it. Now it's more than just a simple painting, it's a performance piece and worth significantly more! The half shredded portrait is hung up somewhere and weeks or months from now the shredder comes back to life for the finale of complete destruction. "Going... Going... Gone" became "Going up up and away!" Ha! Take that Banksy! Then full circle back to gone, Banksy has the last laugh. Bonus points if it does this in the middle of the night and the owner is greeted by a pile of shreds on the floor the following morning.

Second and more boring possibility: the shredder was supposed to fully destroy the picture at auction but unfortunately failed. I believe Banksy intended the piece to fully self destruct in full view of the auction house as a big "fuck you" to art hoarding and monetizing.
Heh. Sorry to disappoint you, but like all kids growing up in Southern Europe, in recent years, the proportion of my diet that was Mediterrannean was unfortunately, small. The rest was pasta, chips, steaks, burgers, pizzas, and altogether too much salt and sugar. This is typical- Greece has now the highest rate of child obesity in the EU, and our once healthy, and tasty, diets, have been largely replaced by a predominance of red meat, pasta, rice and potatoes.

Thankfully, in between eating all that crap, I was also lucky to have two grandmothers that cooked traditionaly dishes with great skill, and to escape to the countryside every summer, where the local produce was incomparably better than whatever I could by in the big city. So at the very least, I know what we have lost :/
Endianness affects order of bytes (0xbeef vs 0xefbe), not nibbles (0xfeeb).
Every format looks like a bad idea released too early when you're looking 8 years back at it. At least lossless WebP is better than PNG. Is there something better by now? Yeah, but 8 years from now when everything actually supports and uses it you'll have the same thoughts.
I have a com-sci degree from a non-reputed college from a country that's considered the 'body shop' of the software development world, so my perspective is fairly skewed. That degree cost me virtually nothing as compred to what prestigious colleges cost, took me a year less to complete and I stood first in my graduating class. I graduated at the worst point of the 08 recession. I still remember being kicked out for not being 'qualified' enough without even a chance to interview. Was it worth it? Sure, taught me to figure out whats important and whats not, identify decision makers, optimise my habits to maximize output, work with idiots and geniuses at the same time and i was now 'certified' to code and get paid for it. Would I be able to make do without it? maybe, but I'd rather take this route.
This isn't really about Python, though. There is so much crappy software out there, in all languages, that make incorrect assumptions about things like text and filenames. To this day, I'm amazed when anything works even remotely correctly when when you throw something other than ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 at it.

I lean towards "programmer problem" rather than "language problem".
Why couldn't you just have one on the screen?
It’s a great town. Especially like the amount of (complete) families being on the beach on workdays. While the rest of the world is working itself to death they’re playing with their kids on a beach.
Installed brave on Linux, the autocomplete is sluggishly slow which I guess is due to history search but makes it completely unusable. There's an open issue for that, but I wished they didn't market it with such a critical bug.
This seems like as good an excuse as any to post a link to the seminal “Reflections on Trusting Trust”:

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...

It’s an absolute classic that I’m sure 97% of HN readers are familiar with, but for the 3% that aren’t it’s a really great meditation on just how difficult it is to trust any computing system, without somehow recursively assessing the trustworthiness of everything that has ever happened before.
Network tunnels performance optimisations
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introduction-to-mon...

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introduction-to-wha...
The perfect card for the UK after March 2019. I will just BrexIT the expenses.
While correct that also means that you cant ever correctly show filenames to users either. At somepoint you need to relate it to an encoding as a user displays or enters it. "utf-8 everywhere now!"
Science Articles Addiction
Does any one have addiction to reading science articles one by one continuously or is it just me ?
Design patterns are derived from practice and experience. The linked talk described them as being harvested.

It’s easy to note reappearing patterns. It’s difficult to consider a task, identify a worthy pattern, and then “apply” it as if it were a recipe and not not a general postulate that seems to work well in a class of situations.
> Users banding together to send crypto anonymously toward their favorite sites and creators is not "parasitic"

True, but replacing ads you don't get compensated for with ads you do, is.
I have a low budget smartphone and its simply not usable. I switched to firefox focus which runs very smoothly, but it has its disadvantages too.
Video: https://twitter.com/zoelouisesmithx/status/10485771217429831...
I think you analysis is extensive but misses a few points. To analyze the economics you have to look at the entire value chain. For e-commerce fulfillment it looks likes this roughly - sending products into the warehouse, receiving, storing and pick packing the products in the warehouse, shipping the products out. Traditionally each of these items are decided on sequentially in isolation. Without any regard on how it impact the others in the value chain. This causes inefficiency in the system and bloated costs for everyone.

To consider all of these value chains at once requires your to evaluate literally millions of data points (no exaggeration here) for every SKU inventory placement decisions; evaluate different states of the world and choose the is likely to represent the future. Majority of efficiency comes from this and that is what is reflected in the cost savings merchants get from using Deliverr.

Second - the state of the world is changing and we hope to be leading that change - 1 day shipping and same day shipping are not far away. That requires more distributed infrastructure and radically different placement strategies to keep overall costs in the systems down.
The DOD has been paying it through the Trusted Foundry Program. Probably not enough use of that, though. ;)

https://www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html
I liked the food service one I used years ago. 9 buttons, numbered 1-9, and they ran the oven for 10x seconds at a pop. Add one button/latch to open, and it was a simple as it could be.

Toss something in, hit 1 button, ding, open door.
Back when I was a teenager I used to do this sport called Cowboy Competition Shooting. Think normal competition shooting, but everyone's dressed as some character from a western movie or trying to realistically portray some figure from the 19th century American West.

A lot of the people in the crowd would make their own ammunition. Myself included. I never saw anyone go as far as to make their own lead bullets, but we all generally recycled spent cartridges and reloaded them with powder and lead to make them whole again.

There really wasn't anything particularly ideological about it though, no concern that one day big government would take our guns or anything like that. It was a simple necessity of the hobby. A single day of shooting would often have you spend 100+ rounds of ammunition and replacing your loses was expensive. On top of that most of these events took place on some rancher's land, and it wouldn't be particularly kind to leave all these brass casings all over his property. Better to recycle them than throw them away or leave them to slowly pile up.

On an unrelated note, nice perk about the sport and the fact that this all took place on a ranch is that lunch often came from where it was served.
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: iirc HN has a mechanism that downranks articles that acquire a lot of comments relative to votes. Not sure if that has anything to do with your experience, but it explains why "controversial" posts (i.e. things like startup politics) tend to get buried.
Wow, that is a bad idea, why is it that way?
Jeff Koons Art ist actually pretty good, I can’t say the same of Banksky. The value of Art is sometimes inversely related to how popular it is, because it then can be no longer used to signal that you „get“ it.
Filenames are text if you ever want to let a user interact with them by name.
Pee tube through the airframe, I assume because I've flown in a Cessna 182 so equipped.

Pooping, pack it out in your MRE bags.
I think it's a set-up.

The portion of the artwork with the head at top seems disjointed from the rest of the shredded portion (the original picture has normal human proportions).

So, it seems at least, that there may be two works of art.

One which remains unshredded and one which was already shredded (and was released by some mech). Whatever powered the light, likely powered the release mechanism for the shredded and unshredded works of art.

If so, still remains an impressive stunt.
> Banksy could have offered the owner the frame prior to the auction, without the owner being aware of what it did.

That's very unlikely as it would take special care to mount the print in such a way that I would fall downward.

Typically framed works are held in place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730294

See this comment and the surrounding chain.

Assuming I'm a creator, the ussue is that brave is monetizing my content and I get nothing unless I opt in to brave, instead of the system that I already have set up to monetize myself.

Ad blockers don't make money by replacing the ads. Brave does. That's why it's more similar to an isp hijacking ads than ad blocking, it's just happening in the browser instead of in the network.
What gives people the right to own “stuff” in the first place? We live in society. If people aren’t happy with the rules, they can go live in a cave and burn their millions for warmth.
An obvious set up performance. See the artwork - a baloon hijacked by the wind from a girl. Lifes of rich people must be really boring.
Looks like you just made it without any faked or many upvotes.
That was a paper reflecting on Paul Kargers compiler-compiler subversion he did in the 1970's evaluation of MULTICS.

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

The seminal paper on subversion in the lifecycle was from another high-assurace, security researcher named Philip Myers in 1980:

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-pap...

The recommendations were carefully specifying what things do, implementing them in a structured way to inspect for backdoors, using safe languages to block regular vulnerabilities, using covert-channel analysis to find leaks, verifying things down to object code or transistors, letting people build from crypto-signed source, and using couriers for the hardware from trusted facilities onshore ("trusted trucks").

People ignored most of that. Even Thompson as he was obsessed with unsafe language vs Wirth whose work let you choose per module. It's coming back to bite everyone.
Love seeing a good Prolog story surface. I was blown away by how productive it was to use back in university along with XPCE for UI. Became the first language I expertised in and it has paid off in terms of opening up a lot of other avenues like being able to easily learn Erlang and Elixir.

There isn't always a good reason to use it for many situations nowadays but it the way you deal with graphs and trees and such is fantastic. Though fun fact Allegrograph has a Prolog rules interface
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It was recently discussed in the news that Russian trolls may have exacerbated drama over The Last Jedi. Which is to say, there seems to be significant interest by those groups in sowing discord and distrust among Americans, not just interfering with the election itself.

I don't hold any given concern against the Russian people, or people who have Russian roots who live here. But pretending the Russian government isn't actively interfering with our media would be intellectually dishonest.
I addressed this in my original comment.
>the last 70 years or so has been ruining that thousands of years of work.

Unfortunately this has happened to a lot more than just tomatoes or even plants themselves.
Hi again. This was addressed in my other comment.

>You shouldn't decode them except if you need to for display (and in that case, you should be prepared to handle filenames which cannot be decoded as text).
Because it's much easier to collect a baseball card than to play professional baseball. It should have been about understanding the collective experience of programmers, not about showing dominance through having a collection.

The collector mentality seems to have gripped algorithms. You shouldn't read algorithms to be able to regurgitate them. If you can apply an algorithm, that's good. But if you can learn from the techniques used to construct and analyze them, that is the underlying knowledge.

Collecting baseball cards is a fine hobby. The point of the analogy isn't that collecting things or facts is bad. What's bad is the mistake of thinking that collecting by itself gives you the skills of a practitioner.

Feynman's knowing anecdote:

https://blogs.ubc.ca/edutara/feynmans-knowing-anecdote/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11336
Brave has introduced BAT (Basic Attention Token), a token for a decentralized ad exchange. Give their interesting white paper [0] a read.

[0] https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePape...
See the Semantic Hashing paper by G. Hinton...

Semantic Hashing
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rsalakhu/papers/sdarticle.pdf

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:_jJNEcvrLfQJ:sc...
OSS Review Toolkit
I am not sure if I am in the 1% or if you are wrong in a foundational sense of “you have the latitude if you'll use it.”

Like, in the past week I had to add a feature to a front end that is heavily based on jQuery and its ecosystem, so lots of variables that are module-local but otherwise global, and every modification to that globalish state needs to update all of it consistently. I introduced maybe 80 lines of code and comments to define a Model as an immutable value with a list of subscribers to notify when that value changes, a Set method to change the value and update the subscribers, methods to subscribe and unsubscribe easily, and another function which multiplexes a bunch of models into one model of the tuples of values.

The result plays nice with that jQuery globalish code but it's terser and more organized, “define the state, define how updates must covary in one place.” But I can also see that it is not quite structured enough: it lacks functional dependencies which would structure the state more, “you select a ClientCompany in this drop-down and that wants to update the ProductList because each ClientCompany owns its own ProductList,” not because there happens to be a subscriber which has that responsibility. Also means that there is a sort of eventual consistency in the UI which was always there but now I may have an approach to remove it.

So I think that I have a good deal of latitude to try new high-level structures for my code, but it's possible that I just happen to be in a lucky place where I have that freedom.
I highly doubt it. I don't think Banksey is worried about a print being damaged.
Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley
I suppose I meant "presented as science fiction". I formerly worked as a hardware design engineer so I'm pretty familiar with what's actually science fiction ;)
Some companies offer a severance on condition of signing such a non-disparagement agreement.
> building casinos for children

At least it'd be good practice for building casinos for non-children. Slot machine development uses a lot of the same skills (and often the same stack; IGT uses C# and Unity3D for their slot machines if their jobs postings are anything to go by).
I submitted this 1.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13913015
I did not tell anyone and it made the front page for a little while.

I think that, in general, stuff on the front page is pretty good. But as you say, they certainly are exceptions sometimes.
I don’t know Brave well enough: what ads does Brave insert?
Cunning as a Serpent, Innocent as a Dove: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
There’s a false impression there, though, because the people you see around on the streets are by definition those that are capable of getting around. Even fit young people sometimes break bones or injure ligaments in a way which makes getting around difficult. If you damage your ACL and need to get into work, how can it be done?

You need a system which has at least a rational level of support for people who are elderly, infirm, or otherwise physically disabled.
We don't replace ads on publisher sites without that publisher as partner; they get 70% of the gross revenue, user gets 15%.

No point repeating something you heard a while ago from the NAA when they wrote a "Cease and Desist" letter to us that did not contain those words (because we weren't doing anything to cease or desist). All our opt-in models require consent.

User-private ads go in user-owned channels (notifications and tabs), not in publisher inventory, if the user opts in. User gets 70%.