skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting Ryan. The more that people hear about the worker's struggle, the more we can come together as a cohesive class and make changes that improve conditions for all workers. It's unfortunate our modern politics tries to divide us so much through our identities to disrupt a cohesive political movement comprised of workers.

>I hear that tens of thousands had the luxury of walking out of work to protest sexual harassment policy

Yes. A lot of people on HN are very out of touch with the realities of the working class. I have to laugh at the distorted idea of equality pushed here, which is very similar to a politics aptly described in Black Politics After 2016 by Adolph Reed[1]: ... society would be just if one percent of the population controlled ninety percent of the resources so long as that one percent were itself twelve percent black, seventeen percent Hispanic, fifty percent female, and so on.

>Damn Foxconn employees, I feel you. Oh how I feel you.

I teared up reading what he said, but I also smiled at how well he described some of the same feelings that I've felt. I will never know him, but I feel close to him in that sense.

[1]: https://nonsite.org/article/black-politics-after-2016
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They might also go in the opposite direction and add runtime APIs to construct types dynamically. Various initiatives (like the Python interop for TensorFlow) are pulling Swift in that direction:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
Because people who think it's okay to use javascript are horrible?

body { visibility: visible; !important; }

in userContent.css fixes it, FWIW.
Editing your own text can be difficult because when reading it, you'll mentally fill up missing words that aren't on the text.

Use a text to speech reader like Textaloud, balabolka and you'll catch more errors.

There's a setting in Microsoft word to check for grammar, run-ons, verb agreement... and readability rating of your text.

Write first, edit later to reduce writers' block in drafts - Turn off the spell checker or simply write in notepad.
Web.dev looks incredible for educating web developers, exposing Lighthouse to devs who aren't already familiar with it, and for automating basic website testing over time.

But it will be a nightmare for support teams working at any kind of web service.

As Google doesn't provide support for this tooling and site owners invariably fixate on the scores it provides, product support teams for everything from WordPress themes to CDNs end up fielding support questions that Google should be helping with via resources pitched at the non-technical folks who inevitably use these tools (as well as, you know, help from an actual human support team).

As it stands, support teams will now be inundated with questions unrelated to their product from customers who have no interest or technical background to read the current educational sections of web.dev, and whose time would be better spent crafting landing pages, great content, or reducing the 38 social plugins they're using instead of making all the dials turn green.

I can already foresee the support requests from the web.dev scores:

“Google says my WordPress site isn't installable. Where's the option for that in your theme?”

“Your website says Cloudflare improves load time. But my first meaningful paint time went up by 1.5 seconds after setting it up! I'm going to write bad reviews about you.”

“Google says I need to theme my browser's address bar to match my branding. I added that tag they mention but don't see any change in my browser.”

It's great to build awareness of ways to make the web faster and better, but it needs to be backed with guidance that's pitched at the ability of the people who will be using these automated testing tools.

For example, why not detect the technology behind the site and — for stuff like WordPress — recommend plugins or other tech-specific resources that could help fix problems like lack of image lazy-loading? There are lots of ways education could be enhanced for non-developers.
Pages 9-11 of this pdf [1] have the full text of the article

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/transaction/aol-tw/exparte/disney...
Maybe in Utah, but in my experience, most stories of that vein are more likely to list Austin or Denver, or even completely marginal markets like Atlanta or Miami before they do Salt Lake City.
Victim-blaming dross
I started reading the thread and laughed fairly loud and disruptively when I read this:

so, it turns out that our users are using our product for...

[spins Wheel of User Behavior]

... divination.

https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1060991848280256512
Less bloody perhaps by use of less kinetic weapons directly against people, but the scary part of war is famine for the populace. Just look at Yemen, I heard 100,000 died in the past few years there, basically just because Saudi Arabia has them under siege in their proxy war with Iran. The biggest killer in Russia in WWII was famine. When the supply chain or a weak link in our technology breaks (or is broken) death tolls rise scarily fast.

also the point of war is simply about power, or to make the other nation/state/population submit to your demands, and the actions of leaders and their path towards war are not always transparent or easy to spot from a rational observers point of view. I saw this the other day (actually came across it here on HN) and really enjoyed the perspective it puts on power and what people incentives drive those that have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
That would depend on the antitrust laws in said country. And if Coke had 95% market share in the U.S., it could easily be ruled a monopoly.
So, pretty much like modern historical-fantasy books that posit WW2 with Nazi vampires or whatever?

Edit: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
This this this this this! @creep you are a poet!
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I was in the same sitch. I quit my job and I’ve never been happier. Idk how much runway you have but if it’s like a year and a half, quit your job, learn the skills you always wanted to learn and go be free.

I’ve convinced three people (two personal friends, one person here from hacker news comments). My friends have thanked me for telling them the truth, the hn person quit too recently to be able to tell but I’m sure he’ll be fine.
Ask HN: What most controversial opinion do you hold?
Currently reading Thiel’s book “Zero to One”, and he mentions this is a favourite interview question of his. Which got me thinking, what is your most controversial opinion you’d be willing to put out there?
Youtubes infrastructure costs are massive - well into the $1B+ per year category.

Netflix might serve more gigabytes to users, but netflix's content library is tiny in comparison, so edge caches have a near 100% hit rate keeping infrastructure costs a fraction of youtube's costs.
I think he's using the word liberal in the classic sense, not in the more narrowly defined terms of US political discourse where it means progressive. And the term neoliberal relates to economic liberalism, not classical liberalism.
The paper “Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization” was where this was first pointed out, I think.

They shuffled the labels on their datasets, so there can’t possibly be anything to learn, yet got zero training loss, meaning the network must be severely overfitting. Yet the same network trained with the actual labels shows quite good generalization. So the usual intuition about overfitting and the bias-variance tradeoff doesn’t seem to apply.
Docker with Watchtower has made a lot of this easier...

I am often surprised about how often docker images are updated and auto-spun up in my home environment.
> I expect some incredibly stupid reason.

China needing to get rid of a couple million excess men is the thing that scares me most.

I could see China throwing a couple million men into a meat grinder with India. That could easily do enough damage to India to provoke a nuclear response.
> The classic example is: Coca-Cola has a 95% market share of the cola market in some countries. Does it mean it has a monopoly? No.

Effectively, yes. Why is the market so disfunctional that a single company has effectively swallowed all competition?

> If it had 100% of the cola market, would it have a monopoly? No.

Err, yes.

> Because the cola market doesn't exist in isolation. Colas compete with all other sodas, with water, juices, etc. for a share of wallet and a share of stomach.

And AT&T wasn't a monopoly, since you could just walk to the person you want to talk to. Oh, wait..
Let's be real though. With brain imaging, we will eventually be able to accurately detect lies. This is one of many ethically charged issues where dismissing it as unreliable/pseudoscience will only work for so long before one that actually works is built.
hi, I'm Sonica, CTO and cofounder of Bubblin here.

Yes, the transition is shaky when the curl is near the horizontal axis. We'll fix or remove it on our next iteration of Bookiza.JS [1]

[1] https://bookiza.io
sure, but how is this related to a global system where you login and get your IDE from? With a Lispm you already have your IDE locally running.
It's possible to make very healthy pizza but the big chains make it pumped full of oil, sugar and meat.
But why is it always necessarily "awkward and clunky"? As always on network connection becomes more and more ubiquitous, internet connected experiences become better and better. Just look at (well-designed) experiences today like streaming video.

I'm excited about things like WASM that will allow browser-based experiences to close the gap more and more with native apps. The web infrastructure is extremely powerful and has a fairly low barrier to entry so lots of people throw crappy experiences up, granted, but it's generally a good thing to have the resources so accessible.
Thanks but no thanks! I am not really looking for job (I am actually quite far away from you and I also posted in this as I am also hiring). I am only curious on these types of challenges.

First two steps are good. The third one might be very easy but I found it very ambiguous. I suppose if you really need to find a job you will spend lots of time.
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Nobody owed small bookstores a living. If Amazon can give people more choice at the same or better prices, why should the small bookstores survive? They're less efficient and therefore wasting resources.

(Yes, I know, small bookstores provide a whole different experience than shopping on Amazon. The thing is, nobody cares. Or at least too few people care to make the small bookstores into viable businesses.)

How did Amazon "out-money" small bookstores in a way that wasn't simply "more efficiently providing a competing service"?
I don't get <1000 views videos recommended to me on the youtube homepage, but definitely get videos with as little as 80 views recommeded to me by the "related videos" feed.
Thee articles are getting ridiculous. I recall the complaints about 3rd party repairs to the fingerprint reader on iPhone. I never understood the spin that Apple is blocking repairs on the device. The fingerprint reader is used to unlock sensitive information and make payments. Locking that prevents all kinds of Backdoor hacks around fingerprint security.
Sadly, the Chinese government has less incentive to let the poor survive. It’s a cold, heartless form of population control. There are government officials who have come to the conclusion that delaying or not providing drugs for things like cancer will eventually help keep the country stable financially. In a country the size of China, they simply can’t afford to let everyone live to 85.
There is a part of some humans that drives them to do wild, adventurous things that can't be rationalised. Personally I find it quite a romantic notion, ignoring the sensible, boring options and doing something just because it is hard and exciting (and yes, stupid as well).
And if people were truly honest about their 'controversial opinions' they'd get kicked from this site.

It's a problem in academia as well, there's a new journal launching to help combat that problem https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46146766
You can't avoid bullshit. Bullshit permeates everywhere, and even where you can't get oxygen to breathe. The real problem is that you are getting sucked into it. Just learn some detachment from the bullshit, wherever possible. In circumstances you can't avoid bullshit--where your bread/salary is at stake, just do your job to NOT harm your bread/salary/promotion/etc.
the developer takes the hit

I think it's a difference in philosophy.

Again, I can't speak about SFO, because my experience in this space is mostly Chicago.

Your assertion seems to be that the developers "take the hit" as if the development/building is an island unto itself. The city's view is that the development/building is part of a community and should contribute to the community and integrate with it.

That's why in Chicago it is very common for a new building to fix up the neighborhood it's in, as part of the privilege of locating in Chicago.

400 North Lake Shore, for example, is required to build out DuSable Park. Most other buildings have to replace all the traffic signals and crosswalks for three or four or five blocks around.

In addition, if the developer wants extra height, that can be purchased in exchange for contributions to the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund, or a fund to preserve historic buildings.

Again, it's a difference in philosophy. "Us vs them," versus becoming a contributing part of the neighborhood community.
Crowdfunding is already giving out in the range of $10-20M for some video games, which is enough to fund an excellent movie, and that's despite competing with the other model. If it was the only way to get new movies, I'm pretty sure people would contribute much more (though probably not nearly enough to fund at current levels).
UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation
Re: "I’m not even sure how one would begin to approximate a highly algorithmic process (e.g., a hash function) using a neural network"

You build the circuit corresponding to the function and map it to an NN. Can this be discovered easily via GD? Absolutely no clue (though this paper says "yes"), but is it possible to approximate it? Yes, you can nail it exactly in a polynomial number of layers (if the algorithm takes poly-space, which is a necessary condition for it to run in poly-time).
> Strange that Apple would be shipping such an ancient grep.

I don't think it is that strange. Command line tools such as grep don't appear to be a development priority for Apple. Their focus appears to be on features visible to the average user, who uses the GUI instead of the command line.

Command line tools are mainly used by developers and power users, and the existing tools are generally good enough for most purposes, and people who want something better can always install the GNU versions using Homebrew/MacPorts/etc. There isn't much market demand for improvements in this area, so it makes sense Apple wouldn't invest in it.
FWIW in the cases where my DDG results are insufficient (which is happening a lot less often than it used to), I try to just go up and insert a "!g" before the same query.

I don't know if DDG is looking at their "!g" requests or not, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.
Well, their vision is shared by industrial partners indeed. I presume we are seeing this from different perspectives (mine: industrial ability within some limitations; yours: full theoretical validation) and maybe we need to agree which is which for “exciting areas of research” and “fashionable”?
Social media isn't your problem. It's you.

You're cynical because your unrealistic expectations are not being met. Adjust your expectations, focus your energies elsewhere and you will be of a more positive outlook.
> As soon as people realize they can blackmail me for my daughter's health, what wouldn't I pay?

Because you don't need everyone vaccinated, you need most. Most already do it for their own interest. Bear in mind that this is what the state usually does by giving out free vaccines: they are effectively paying people that wouldnt pay for them. But some feel strongly against it.

> I propose we as a society set a fair price, instead.

There is no fair, certainly not in economics. There is only consented prices. You can propose whatever you want, but in the end you need to persuade those that have different ideas than you, or force them to do it. Forcefully vaccinating people is against the practice and principles of medicine, and against common decency, if not morality.
You're not alone. In another 20 years, you'll get to laugh tragically as a new generation of naive young techs invent yet another layer of abstraction on top of the browsers and gush about how this time it will finally be a universal platform. And your old 2TB of ram, 50 core cpu laptop might even still be able to run a text editor with only a few seconds of latency.

And it goes without saying that, for your own safety, none of these platforms will run code that hasn't been delivered by a trusted and approved corporate appstore.

The future of computing is very grim.
DuckDuckGo should start an email service.
Vanity is a benefit; it's hardly the only benefit.

We'll spend maybe $100,000 on phone bills in our lives, I wonder would I be happier with a bunch of Instagram alerts, or having crossed the Antarctic alone; what would create fonder memories?

Experiences that have been had by others don't impact you. I can look at a picture of Earth from NASA all I want, it'll never hit my core in the way it would if I went up there.

What if you crossed it alone and didn't tell anyone you'd done it, and vanity wasn't the same sort? Living alone in the woods is one thing, living alone in the woods and posting it all to social media is a little different.

Can you really imagine no benefit to a man doing something to challenge himself? This is no Everest tourist expedition with 1000 other climbers and an enormous support staff of locals, this is daring?

Why should we ever try anything that anyone has ever done before? Should we then just stay home?

Even if it provides nothing to these men, at the barest minimum they have inspired some long thought in others; after all, we're all sitting here thinking about it. I've been thinking about it, and talking to friends about being alone in the wilderness, for the better part of the day now.
They can.

It's just some shady semi-government-worker-semi-business-man who controls the important channel for extracting money, and usually they do not want poor people to live.

See for example:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/China-s-Changshen...

Some companies produces fake vaccines and regulated the vaccine market to not allow imported vaccines.
Can you link to one of these videos filmed from a VHS recording playing on a TV which has several million views?
This isn't (much of) a dig at the author, but yeah: I can't even read "The Javascript Handbook" heading on a 1920x1200 monitor.
Most often people assume these opinions have to be political, but they really don't.

Well, maybe within the scope of the question as defined by OP since it explicitly begs for controversy. But should you expand it to the broader What is an idea you hold that runs contrary to the common wisdom of field X? Then suddenly it becomes a lot more interesting and fruitful,

It's not that heterodox political opinions are intrinsically less interesting but few people know how to discuss them constructively, much less online. That breeds low quality discussions where everyone is at each other's throats. Broadening the question has at least the merit of being less polarizing without giving up on critical thinking, or bravery. Ultimately, the goal is the pursuit of the truth - something that breaks mimeticism (or kickstarts it).
I doubt the GFW uses BGP to route traffic to it.

It needs to filter traffic to any address, and wouldn't have specific google ranges configured.
What I meant was that I would expect the Pro to have a much smaller form-factor tax than a Mac Mini. Your $2k price point is probably not directly comparable to the price ranges you'd see from a larger case.
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I don't see what you're seeing. Nearly all the comments and submissions I see are discussing technical matters, or policy. There's some portions that are a bit whiny, argumentative, or ungrateful, but I don't see anything implying mental illness. Can you point out what I'm missing? I'm really interested.
It seems much more likely to me that a crafty foreign power would convince the "real" Americans to fight against the "phony" Americans, whomever they may be. I believe part of the Soviet strategy was to have Americans take arms against their own government. I feel that part of the modern Russian strategy is to get Americans to be willing take arms against their neighbors. Perhaps there are other players as well who haven't made as much of a splash as the Russians in our polity.
On the other hand, photo albums were quite often tedious props for narcissism.

(I have some relatives who force people to sit while they narrate slideshows of holiday snaps on a laptop; new technology, same old pathology.)
What's wrong with opt-in locking? Current security is a joke. Physical access and you're owned.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest such information is not going to easily found.
I saw some mangas do it, copy and paste "선풍기 살인" in Google image search. They are often referenced as the most perfect assassination in the Korean web to make fun of the ignorance of the authors.
But you couldn't walk to any person to talk. Not in any way remotely similar to how you can drink water instead of Coke.
Thanks I was hung up on why "it's fair for Charlie because he got to choose before Bob" part, but this explains it nicely.
Why not just go with a docker image, no manual installation of individual dependencies necessary.
So the first person (P1) gets everything up to their second card. Are you saying that the second person (P2) gets everything from P1's second card up until P2's second card? How is that not a small unfair amount of candy?

I think after the first round, you need to remove all of P1's cards, and all of the 'second cards' from the remaining players too?
War of worldviews.

If your worldview is grounded in the apocalyptic - eg. incoming ecological disaster - you will get people who are willing to wage war if they are persuaded it is preventable and certain nations are impeding it. That's just one example; militant theocracy would be another worldview driven towards war, as well.

In general, it's mindshare that I could see driving more war, a push to add more people under the overall worldview of a nation or coalition, similar to what we saw under the Soviet Union.
OP might prefer to give them money directly rather than seeing ads.
You can easily substitute juice/off-brand colas for coke. You can also easily substitute FaceTime/Skype/Hangouts for phone calls (provided you’re not using mobile data)...
Sure: you can define convexity for a function that is equivalent to the 2nd derivative definition in the case that the function is twice-differentiable, using only the definition of the convexity of a set.

Define the epigraph of a function to be the set given by {(x, t) | f(x) ≤ t}. Then, we say f is a convex function iff the epigraph is a convex set.

This is equivalent (exercise for the reader!) to the usual definition that a function f is convex iff f((1-t)x + ty) ≤ (1-t)f(x) + tf(y), for all 0 ≤ t ≤ 1, with x, y in the domain of f.

Note that neither of these two definitions require differentiability (or twice-differentiability), but the definitions are equivalent in this case.[0]

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[0] For proofs of all of these statements see B&V's Convex Optimization.
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