skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but I think of jobs like theirs as being about marginal utility - how much better off is the world if trades are executed .001 seconds faster? It seems that for a lot of jobs the answer is not at all.
Generally speaking this stiffness is the result of the tube shapes necessary to achieve similar strength and stiffness of a steel frame while weighing less.

A perfect example of this is the Cannondale CAD3. It had a massive downtube and huge (straight) seat stays as well. It was extraordinarily stiff and terribly unpleasant to ride, for most. Cannondale improved that to some degree by using S-shaped seat stays on the CAAD4 making the frame a less-efficient conductor of vibrations.

Modern aluminum bikes use hydroformed tubes with optimized shapes and shouldn't really have these problems. Unless you're talking about something with an aluminum fork. That's just a cheap bike. Aluminum forks are terrible.
Containers made a huge impact on my workflow, and I consider them just a way to ease packaging. Nothing else; all the other considerations of software must still be considered.
Yes, advertising. I started working on "Kindle Special Offers", a product I actually liked as a customer before getting the job. I knew what the team worked on and actively chose that team out of a dozen options. It's advertising, but I think is at the very least not "bad" advertising. There was even some really interesting work with automatically generating ads for books based on recommendations.

Eventually my team started to own web ads, and I was gone in 9 months (note that I was happily at Amazon for almost 5 years before that point). I hate web ads, and think it's a net negative to the browsing experience on a website that's already making Scrooge McDuck pools of money.
I think we're kind of talking past each other.

In a comment a few levels up, the user said s/he's free to speak as long as it doesn't incite violence or discriminate. Inciting violence is illegal in all western countries I'm aware of.

When questioned about it, the user gave the response I quoted from. S/he either didn't address why discriminatory speech shouldn't be free, or is equivocating it with calls to violence (in that s/he believes it leads directly to violence).

I can't speak for the user, but I have seen numerous examples of people who justify banning "discriminatory speech" (or "hate speech") as equivalently calling for violence. And these same people often have a very low bar for what qualifies as "discriminatory" (e.g. "I disagree with what this person is saying").

Nobody's questioning whether or not direct calls to violence should be illegal, but my point is that we should be very clear that other kinds of speech (even if abhorrent or reprehensible) cannot be hand-waved away as being in the same category.
That's the thing - to me at least it's not a given that the 3.5mm jack will disappear. There have been various failed attempts in the place to replace existing standards which have failed - things like Firewire and HD-DVD come to mind.
I read all three and found the first one to be the best. Thinking about it now I think I had the same feeling going into the second half of the first book, it changes tone and setting completely. I initially thought it was doing something like magic realism but explaining it by being a game. The second and third book are much more sociological explorations of humans facing a literal cosmic perspective. I found them alright but I wouldn't recommend it. His short stories are much better.
My first job out of school was for a U.S. defense contractor. I told myself for a while that we weren't directly doing any harm (our software was basically a terrible front end over a database, not eg. weapons research), but when it came down to it I don't know who all was using our software or for what purpose. Sadly, I didn't really realize that until years after I'd left.

I also worked recently for a large modern tech company. Almost from week 1 I was disgusted by how things were run internally. I think the CEO honestly believed that he was helping people, but really it was just a toxic environment and the product made people more secure online by asking them to give all control up to this company (which, as far as I know, didn't do anything bad with the data, but the opportunity was there and the CEO didn't seem to be in any hurry to put any safe guards in place to make sure it wasn't abused in the future). I never want to work anywhere again that uses the excuse "we can't help it if other companies are forming monopolies and generally doing bad things, so we should get a piece of the pie".
Going fullscreen on iOS Safari of the iPad
The whole idea of listening to music while meditating seems suspicious to me.

Did monks have like a section of non-meditating monks playing wind instruments while they were in their practice? Seems implausible.
That's what I'm hoping we can change. When I think of Engineering, I think of trades that tend to have a firm grasp on ethics and take the consequences of what they build very seriously. I know that organizations like the ACM and IEEE espouse those same virtues, and I think they are not only worthy virtues but also important. Something worth being uncomfortable - or even discarded by less ethical companies - in order to defend.

Ethics not being a desirable quality to some (many? That seems too bold to assert) businesses is ironically part of the reason why ethics is so important to hold onto as an engineer. Some businesses would be elated to find software engineers that have discarded their sense of ethics entirely, to the profit of themselves and the harm of our society.
>They both had quite intricate rules to snare and addict the people playing them (let's just say that these games are anything but a game of chance).

I'm from Quebec and here it's Loto-Québec that operate the lottery. They have games on their online platform too, I had some fun on there a few time, but once I read the actual rule and learned that the dice doesn't follow the real probability... that's just freaking wrong. It's a thing to hide probabilities, it's a whole other ballgame to fake them.
Not exactly a fork, but Emacs is (famous/notorious) for saving its initial environment by basically coredumping and loading the coredump on startup if the startup files haven't changed:

https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/

http://emacshorrors.com/posts/unexecute.html(quite unflattering as the link suggests, but factually accurate nonetheless)
When I think about the devices my iPhone has replaced, it is still an incredible value. My P&S camera (not my DSLR yet, but getting better), video camera, music device, book reader, hand held gaming device, navigation system, oh and my phone/communication device.

The less expensive devices can do some of those well, but I don't think all yet. Video seems to be where other devices still fall down.

But, I also agree that not everyone needs a device to do all of those things. I have friends who do not take pictures, or video, or use nav. A $200 phone is the right choice for them.
The increased pricing changed how I perceive replacing my X with a new one. I used to routinely upgrade yearly up to the SE. Now, I'll keep I plan to keep using it until it no longer functions. Similar to my laptop upgrade cycle which is every 3 years now.

I think Apple is biting themselves in the foot with the increased pricing. I think it is significantly slowing down the replacement cycle. My dad typically buys my old phone and then his phone goes to my mom. Now, he replaced the batteries since no phone is coming his way through me.

On the upside, it's better for the environment.
Should I delete my social media?
I stopped at the login / registration prompt. They don't even give a demo before signing in.
Do not measure other people problems by your scale.
I'm using atom.io plus grep plus find. Also found reading code directly from github quite comfortable.
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Too high pressure actually decreases efficiency. While you have less deformation of the rubber, it causes the bike to bounce over irregularities more. The energy from this bouncing is lost. On rougher roads, often pressures below 90 PSI are best.
Yep, the SE (and the 5S before it) have a form factor that "just right" for one handed use and that fits comfortably in a pocket.

Hopefully they'll bring back something like it.
As someone who switched from a Pixel XL to XR, I have to partially disagree. I don't have the telephoto camera nor the 4GB RAM (3GB on XR) of the XS line and the screen is not OLED. Having seen the screen quality first hand in store, I cancelled by Pixel 3 XL pre-order and got a XR, my first iPhone since 3GS. For me, the differences between XR and XS was not worth the extra 250$.
I was really looking forward to an new SE phone, that was my upgrade plan (currently on 6). Now my upgrade plan is to transition to Andriod, or I am seriously considering going back to a "dumb phone". The cost of phones is out of control (including data plan prices), honestly not sure it is really worth it for me anymore.

The only features I want in a "smart" phone, are podcasts, camera, music, GPS/directions. I don't really even need a web browser, and I don't need any social media at all. And I certainly don't need any gaming capabilities (I still don't "get" mobile gaming, if I want to play a game I will do it on my desktop, with a mouse and keyboard, and large screen).

I might go back to carrying 2 devices, a MP3 (podcast/music player) and a dumb phone. Should cut my phone bill down significantly.
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I'll buy all your gift cards for 50% of their value.
>Theresa May isn't a dictator and can't just decide what she wants to without being in agreement with the rest of her politicians.

This is true, to the extent where I wish people would stop individualizing problems that are obviously endemic to the entire system. The damage caused by individual conspiracies isolated in history is negligible to the scale of systemic issues in modern political economy. Applying some abstract thinking would help us understand that May isn't a dictator, but capital is.
Talking about the iPhones (I'm not much of a apple guy but I use an iPhone 7+) I totally agree about the new phones.

However I heard the iPhone 7 now sells for 450$ new. Given the 8s weren't a huge performance improvement, I wish tech reviewers would re-evaluate it at its current price.

I wholeheartedly recommend the iPhone 7 (or 7+), especially when you consider it's 450$ vs 1200$. As a bonus the screens are cheaper the amoled (I work in phone repair) and IMO 95% of non-hacker-news users don't benefit from the more expensive screens (either can't tell a difference or don't really care)
I've seen lots of airports etc use this pattern. I've always assumed it's because # sorts before most everything else according to the ASCII code, so their SSID will show at the top of the list.
Thanks for those recommendations, I am just coming off of a Egan, then Cixin Liu binge, have been reading a lot of German literature instead, but I've not read Permutation City yet and I've not heard of the other authors before.
Yep. It feels like the "IT National Enquirer".

* SEE WHAT INTERNET EXPLORDED DID BEHIND THE SCENES!

* 10 SECRETS FIREFOX DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

* USING A FREE VPN? WHY NOT SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND SEND YOUR DATA TO XI JINGPING?

* MICROSOFT: YOU LOOKIN AT ME FUNNY? OH, YOU JUST WANT TO SIGN IN

(Btw, the last 2 are legit, from the website right now...)
It's a system within Facebook called Warm Storage. There have been some public presentations about it, so I'm comfortable mentioning the name, but unfortunately I can't provide many other details about architecture or scale. I'll just warn people that the public information on it is way out of date. Most of it seems to be from 2014, and what it describes is really a separate system from what we have now.
The Factorio dedicated server has an 'experimental' fork-to-save option, which is massively helpful when late-game saves take 10-15 seconds.
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Ok, yes, assuming traction isn't lost, stiffer is better -- really, smaller contact area is better, but that translates into stiffness. Then there is heat loss to tire deformation, of course.
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Yes, it can. That was a typo, I meant to say "... can do better than 32 bytes per cycle".
Maybe it's because most people still use phones with 3.5mm therefore no "roaring trade"? Plus, how would a phone case reintroduce 3.5mm without bulging out like crazy...

You can do it if you open the phone and insert enough chinesium guts, there is a youtuber that did it but it's certainly nothing covered by warranty.
I recently upgraded to my wife's hand-me-down 5S and I've been very happy with it— it's definitely a "just right" size for me, especially compared with the borderline phablet-size 6+/7+/8+.
I have an idea why not just cut down trees for human use. No pollution ?
> Wouldn't it be better to simply motivate the cat to get in the carrier with a can of tuna fish?

One does not simply motivate a cat with a can of tuna fish. I mean, have you even owned a cat? If the little bastard doesn't want to get in the cat carrier, no amount of delicious tuna will encourage it, and you're going to end up using brute force and getting mauled...
Ask HN: What is the end goal of your life?
Where do you see yourself at +40 years of age? What about 50 years of age? +60? And beyond that?
I may try that. It seems a little arbitrary.

I can post, for example: ↙️ ↩️ ⌚ ⌛ ⌨ ⏏ ⏩ ⏰ ️⏱ ⏲ ⏳ ️◾ 󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
HPC applications for sure. Optimizing the core loops of anything that runs on a supercomputing cluster pays back pretty quickly.
> Can you provide me with just one example why money laundring is supposed to be a good thing?

Money laundering isn't good; the actions which are termed 'money laundering' in the law are neutral.

> And can you explain how the average person is inconvenienced in any way, shape or form by AML / KYC regulations?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seiz...

https://www.thestreet.com/story/12793654/1/file-10000-irs-fo...

https://ij.org/michigan-man-cleared-wrongdoing-still-fightin...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-customs-a...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2018/05/15/...

And on, and on, and on. It's a real problem.
I was surprised they didn't refresh it and even discontinued it. I work at a phone repair/resell store and I come across a lot of people who prefer that size. whether it's enough to make the r/d of another SE I have no clue - admittedly most of these people are part of the "older group" and most won't want to change over to Android (mostly because change is bad) so they'll be using an iPhone no matter what
Well, GDPR is a massive win and has helped tremendously.

That many sites isn't yet compliant is expected but I actually notice that sites do improve the UX (as in, won't try to force you to consent as strongly).

Though I didn't opt to read this article because it is behind oath.
Swedish ISP forced to block Sci-Hub by Elsevier also blocks Elsevier
> I have my doubts that anyone can write that program

Simon Plouffe did it, years ago, with no help from Google.

http://plouffe.fr/Simon%20Plouffe.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe_formu...
But it's not replaced with something new, it's replaced with USB-C and bluetooth. It's just consolidated like it should be.
Apple reportedly buys AI startup with privacy-conscious approach
Here's a fork of mininet that can use docker containers as hosts - https://github.com/gmiotto/dockernet. I had done something similar to have mininet hosts as LXC containers. Unfortunately I had created my version for LXC 1.x I haven't had the time to upgrade it to LXC 2.0 yet.
I completely agree with the sentiment.

I see this as a strategy from Apple. Unfortunately for their supplier's Apple's strategy to destroy Android seems to be somewhat counterintuitive, it involves selling fewer iPhones. It involves doubling down on premium and having these older phones last far longer. By definition that will mean a bigger used market which Apple seems to be embracing especially with the recent iOS update to actually, for probably the first time, make older phones faster for a change rather than slow them down. I think they have realized that their eco-system is far more valuable and having android owners switch to older iphones which seem to be holding up almost as well as new android devices not only does not cheapen their brand but brings in droves to the eco-system which is the thing with the real value at the end of the day.

May sound far-fetched but every step they have taken lately points to this strategy, dont be surprised when they post more record profits.
When I was finishing up University I had been interning at a company (for around 2 years) that had some roots in IDW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_Data_Warehouse - interesting if you haven't ever heard of it); really just made me think of certain 'other' gov agencies and their trove of data, but I never considered how it was searched. We were all about the crawling/searching (indexing) of data from all kinds of sources (websites/emails/various dbs). One product ran a search against this dataset (using name, email, address, phone #, ssn, and other pii) and would spider out a graph with all possible connections and other associated data. Not sure regret is the right word, as it was cool, but I can only imagine how it's being used. The company has gone under more than once actually, since it was being funded by only 1-2 clients whose funding wasn't very stable.
Reminder that the reason he is doing this is to trick you into thinking massive top-heavy wealth accumulation can be sustainable or in any way "good".

If you need any evidence that this is anything but a PR sham, read this:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/amazon-seattle-repea...
Original title "Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier" was slightly modified to fit the title length requirement.
Of course. But if you recall when you first learned about information security, it would likely involve cookies. Probably the general population is going through that kind of adolescent awakening that we did when we were 10 or so, they just took longer because they sit on the shortbus in comparison.
People who want the cult of the new but can't afford the XS.
I don't know if you live I the US, but if you just start walking around with five dollar bills and start handing them out, you really don't know what kind of reaction you're going to get. I tried giving my AT&T guy $20 for waiting for me, he wouldn't take it. Perhaps I could have insisted.

Americans can be deeply sensitive to people thinking they're poor and in need of assistance. And five bucks is practically nothing. Most people might well just take it to Starbucks anyway.
Apple also makes money from ecosystem software services where I assume profit margins are even richer. So there is incentive to increase the user base.
Yeah, taxing other people is a simple answer to just about everything.
For instance, go to the bottom of page 8 and see this:

> Thus to deny the Orthogonality thesis is to assert that there is a goal system G, such that, among other things:

> 1. There cannot exist any efficient real-world algorithm with goal G.

> 2. If a being with arbitrarily high resources, intelligence, time and goal G, were to try design an efficient real-world algorithm with the same goal, it must fail.

> ...4. If a high-resource human society were highly motivated to achieve the goal G, then it could not do so (here the human society itself is seen as
the algorithm).

> ...6. There cannot exist any pattern of reinforcement learning that would train a highly efficient real-world intelligence to follow the goal G.

> All of these seem extraordinarily strong claims to make!

The OP doesn't consider any of these.
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I'm not the parent poster, but I suspect here 'optional tracking' is taken to imply that they should not serve a 'Sorry we have no content to serve you, because you have not opted-in to our tracking' page, but should instead serve the content minus the tracking when one doesn't opt-in.
You have problem installing popular apps with this option. Also flushing your phone on every major upgrade - no thank you.
speaking from experience there must be something more to it (and most any experienced rider will agree):

i often think my tires are flat(!) on my Ti bike even though they are higher pressure than the tires on my Al bike, because it feels that smooth
Funny. After keeping them in files and emails and docs for years I finally decided to systematize it by writing a CLI that I plan to open source one day. If you want, send me an email and we can talk about it further.
Similarly a bunch of tech bigwigs have admitted to having strict limits for their children being on the Internet.
Same as it ever was:
1. Raise two children
2. Plant a tree
3. Build a house

Children are now teenagers, everything else is done. Almost ready to leave.
There is this thing called wireless headphones. You should try it someday - it's pretty convenient.
I don't like code that generates stuff at compile time precisely for this reason - I would much rather use some template language to pre-generate the source (I've even seen php used) and then compile it quickly. Of course that then needs support from the build system to correctly invoke the generator when the templates change and you run the risk of some developer changing the generated source instead of the template and wreaking havoc. I would very much like to have my cake and eat it - powerful code generation facilities in the language itself, but with a compiler that's as smart as the build system and can cache these for reuse when recompiling the same file. That would also allow easy integration with IDEs. For now, I've decided that the better balance is generating code using an external generator, checking everything in source control and requiring responsible people to do code review. YMMV of course, depending on what you're compiling and who you're working with.
That. I realize more and more the value of working on something one can be proud of.
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Anyone who has done a "reaction based sport" at a moderate to high level can feel this I think. Whether it's driving quickly, or skiing a mogul line at pace, you seem not only to exist in the moment, but in two moments. One seconds ahead of where you are now and one coordinating your current actions.
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Did the reputation system work? Or more to the point - how easy was it to abuse and in which directions did it break? I gotta think if it worked as well as designed it would have been replicated more widely by now
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There's a whole set specifically about class-based OO, which is pretty hard for “anybody” to solve in a non-class-based or non-OO language; any solution involves developing a class-based OO extension to the language, which is kind of big deal.

That could probably be addressed in part by focussing on types or data structures rather than classes per se.

Similarly, there are problems which mandate threading rather than either concurrency or parallelism, whichever is intended; there are languages in which threads as such are not directly supported, but with one or more structures for concurrency/parallelism that could solve the problem (and languages where threads are supported but directly using them may not be the idiomatic approach depending on the actual concurrency/parallelism requirements.)

So, for a language-neutral set of tasks, it focuses in some places too much on specific languages solutions rather than the problem to be solved.