skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh for sure; I'd take any job listing with something cool with a huge grain of salt; hardly any proper software development employer actually uses hip technology, but they will use hip terms to try and draw in developers.

Hype-driven development is a problem, and hype-driven recruitment another one. Just be a good java developer. Maybe push for Kotlin slowly. Don't pursue Scala for the language's sake.

See also: blockchain, IoT, etc. I've seen a job advert that basically bolted those onto the not well hidden "we're just looking for decent java developers" job description.
no substance, just like Musk himself
Yup. JavaScript, Node.js, Node, npm, React, Angular, Vue, Express and a few more words mean pretty the same thing and are fishing for the same pool of developers (Yes, I know there's a difference between Angular and React.)
> Our new digital footprints are much more detailed, but I've yet to understand how they're fundamentally different from what media companies have been selling for most of the last century.

Thirty years ago a media company could say you subscribe to these two magazines, this newspaper, and you're a 35 year old male. That means you probably watch these five TV shows and you're likely to be interested in X, Y, and Z. They could also say to advertisers, if you're looking for a 35 year old male who's interested in X, Y, and Z the most effective way to market to them is probably advertising on this radio station or during this T.V. show. They tranched and profiled viewers as groups and sub-groups. Today, they don't have to profile or make generalizations about trends among groups of people. They have all of the information, for each and every one of us as individuals, at their fingertips.

Thirty years ago they sold access to "35 year old males who like football." Today they sell access to you.
Fast Accumulation on Streams
Is it because you switched frequently from one adapter to another (like wifi to ethernet)? Otherwise I don't think I ever had any problem with the network configuration.
KrakenD Open Source Api Gateway
Block telemetry.
Shakespeare ain't exactly ancient.
I can't understand why would citizens of a country not accept a national ID system like every other country, but they're fine with CCTV and this.
You guys are becoming ridiculous. How is this a flamewar? I was responding civilly to a question.

My account was rate-limited years ago because of one particular flamewar. Now I rarely participate in threads, and I get rate-limited any time I make more than a few comments on any given day.

Instead of punishing long-time community members for having conversations, you should focus on the much bigger problem that anyone who expresses a dissenting opinion here is censored. Look over my comment history. Do you really think I'm a troll? Nine times out of ten, if I am downvoted, it's because I'm saying something that counters some kind of reflexive groupthink.

About the worst you can say about this thread is that I was a little bit rude two comments ago, when I talked about ideological backflips. Yes, I am occasionally rude, just like everyone else. If you could point to even one thing I've said here that is uncivil or poorly thought out, I'd take you more seriously, but right now, you're just being capricious.
That's a plausible inference, but the effect to anyone not equipped to make such an inference is that it's ethnic profiling. A geeky inference isn't a good excuse. An ethical lapse is what it looks like. Nobody has a duty to make excuses on Slack's behalf when Slack could just explain themselves in public and to the people affected.
I've lived in rural areas most of my life and I've never heard of anywhere in America with a tradition of mid-day naps during the workweek.
The real purpose of this isn't to be accurate. The reasons are likely to make Londoners accustomed to even more surveillance and/or to give them some "legitimate" reason they can appeal to when they want to persecute someone for less glamorous reasons like ethnicity or economic status.
As far as I understand it, these were not simple right/ wrong questions, but questions about estimating a continuous measure (height, age, percentages). I have no reason to believe that questions were related or would give hints. Such a correlation would destroy the power of the experiment.

As far as I understand it, this paper is not about "Do you know what is true or false in 20 seconds" but "what is a value you confidently estimate within 20 seconds". This is a field much studied in psychology and when you look into Kahnemann and associated research I would be surprised to find any scientific evidence that time improves your estimate. I'm not saying it's impossible, I am confident that - on average - it simply does not happen.

Kahnemann showed we're full of biases and this research shows that calibrating ourselves with others is a much higher predictor of improving accuracy of estimations than time.
Well, it's better than them deploying a system that actually works. Unfortunately it's only a matter of time before one is developed.
When i try to think of what my ideal social media would look like, it always ends up sounding similar to an RSS feed, with the ability to lookup and requiring the other user's approval to get the actual content, you could use different clients, some could give you recommendations for events,etc based on your subscriptions if you so choose, or just run your own locally. life would be so simple
Only if you consider churning out code to be your work; I for one prefer to work in an office for a number of reasons. Not everyone's a robot that doesn't require social contact; not everyone has a good work-life balance allowing them to not have to be in the office to fulfill their needs.

Plus, free lunch.
California launches new repository for open-source code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18261599

61 days ago. 54 comments, including the same misunderstanding of the thesis due to responding to the misleading title.
Can you back that claim about the majority of Facebook users not producing content with data please

EDIT: Specifing the claim
Facebook automatically creates alt tags for images and describes them with text such as "three people outdoors with a tree." As someone who's blind I found it interesting for five minutes and have not visited Facebook again. I have been totally blind since birth, and I don't think any amount of textual description will make me interested in scrolling through a photo stream. I could see this being different if you lost your sight later in life.
OCR in it's current state is a bad idea as a primary way to get information when using a computer. My screen reader allows me to use OCR to find out what's on the screen. It works OK for specific situations such as an inaccessible installer with a couple controls. It falls down if I were to try and use OCR to read Java code.
The fact that I spent time working with the manual screwdriver is how I understand the iterative difference. The turnaround time for features is not even remotely close.

One of my first jobs was maintaining and extending an ASP.NET Web Forms application.

A dashboard style application has to do way more than open a dropdown. People keep the page loaded all day long - the fact that it takes 2 seconds to load the first time is irrelevant.
>I don't think the average business would willingly choose to hire H1Bs if they could employ a US national as a realistic alternative...

The end of that sentence would be "...at the same low price and leash that an immigrant subject to an extremely opaque and unpredictable government agency (USCIS) who you don't have to worry about jumping ship so you can treat them worse.
It's not looking good for me, a remote C# developer.
At my last gig, "water cooler" conversations were discouraged because SLack conversations were archived and searchable. No need to wonder what someone said last week, last month or last year. It's all there and ready to read.

It was kind of stupid to come into work when this rule is in effect.
And this server-side website takes 20 seconds to load. Imagine every interaction with a web app taking this long.

At this point the web is documents and also an application platform. Conflating the two causes trouble - sure, simple documents don't need JS, but non-trivial webapps really benefit from dynamic UIs/data vs old-school form post interactions.
im going to take this a step further and say connecting accounts means sharing _no more_ data than is required for the integration.

I don't understand why netflix gets to see all your DM's when all you want the connection to do is send a message to a person you choose. The connection doesn't need to give netflix literally any data besides maybe the fact that a message was sent. why do they need to know who it was too, and any other messages surrounding it?
An npm command that leads to dependency hell because jsland has to have a thousand packages. A complicated python codebase can be less than 20-50.
>not a piece of consumer software

What is it then?
The article suggested the parents were aware that their kids activities were illegal. Which was why I took objection.
> Furthermore, parents aren't idiots.

Plenty of adults are idiots, and many of those are parents.
I do think that the focus on private vehicles is problematic and probably isn't going to even be practical at first because of the lack of compatibile autonomous EVs.

If you actually look at the Boring Company's proposed system for Chicago you can see that it actually addresses most of the criticisms given here:

https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago/

There are multi-rider mini bus vehicles that are dedicated to the transportation system. It's effectively a subway / guided bus line (which is already a thing that exists) with autonomy and EV tech applied.

You break down the smaller number of large trains into a large number of small vehicles that can depart/arrive more frequently. The smaller pods can pull off into loading areas at stations instead of blocking the main line, and your routing can be more flexible since each car does not have to stop at the same stops and follow the same route.

In reality if such a system gets built it will mostly be an evolution on existing tramway / guided busway systems but scaled up a bit with some newer tech applied, and maybe someday the ability for private vehicles to share the same tunnel network and for the bus vehicles to extend out into the normal road network as autonomous road vehicles to get closer to rider sources and destinations.

I've noticed that Musk has a tendency to get buried in the weeds of what he considers cool and exciting and sometimes fail to deliver the point (and reality) of what they're actually working on in his presentations.
It's very obvious that the author has an extreme pro-socialist bias. How is suburban living "conservative"?
Previous discussion (8 months ago, 88 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16773398
My comment was voted to -2 before I added the remark about voting.

"I think you'd have better luck phrasing the question earnestly and thoughtfully"

My remark was honest, and it was thoughtful. It just wasn't something people agree with on HN.
You understand the difference it makes to YOU as a developer, not the user! We don't need more features, we need lightweight software that everyone can use, that was the point of the article.
> when using a screen reader, it’s almost impossible to listen to music at the same time as browsing the web!

Not true for Windows screen readers and VoiceOver for iOS. There's a widely implemented feature called audio ducking, where the OS turns down the audio of other applications while the screen reader is speaking. So the music may be quietly in the background, but it's still there. Does Mac not have this feature?
This article makes the assumption that every decision you make as a web developer is unaffected by co-workers.

I'm all for progressive enhancement. However, if the expectation is a web _application_ that has a certain level of interactivity designed for, with a real world deadline, and a targeted demographic of "people with supercomputers in their pockets", I can guarantee you'll make some compromises.

Bringing up Springer Nature and the BBC as examples of the Web Built Right™ is short-sighted when they are web _sites_ that serve static content. Of course you should send HTML from the server that represents the entire content of the page, apply some CSS, and sprinkle in JS. And of course, there are a lot of developers out there that would reach for the latest trending JS library + framework combo to pull it off, and they'll implement it poorly.

There's very little point in bashing "npm install exciting-tech", when I can npm install gatsby-cli, and do everything the article is crying out for in a "modern" stack. Oh, also, the BBC example? They use Node, and React, and server-side render React[0]. You can bet they're npm installing exciting-tech.

However, the web is not just static sites anymore. People expect a lot more functionality, you work with people that design and promise a lot more interactivity, and there's a lot more people coding without enough experience to reach for the tech that is the most efficient solution to a problem.

I don't think a condescending article like this is beneficial for our community. Maybe we should try educating (nicely?) on how to pick the right tech for the problem[1]. Maybe we should ditch "user" for "person" (or "surfers" lol), when talking about the consumers of our output. And finally, maybe we should have more empathy of the people that work with our trade and work together towards a better internet.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/47a96d23-ae04-44...

[1] http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
This also addresses InGodsName.

My solution is an app where we log all new partners and periodically log our on-going partners, and then update when we're tested, whether positive or negative. If positive, the app alerts all partners to the 4th degree. The 4th degree, in the event your partner cheats on you and that person ends up testing positive. The app could alert you and your partner at the same time. Its not about blame or shame but getting people tested and treated so they stop infecting others. If negative, then the app won't send you alerts from partners prior to your test date.
Improv comedy classes helped me a lot. Not even necessarily with spontaneity. They helped me build confidence. "I don't know what this situation is, and that feels yucky. But I've felt that kind of yuck a lot of times before so I'm pretty sure I'll be able to navigate it."

One of my improv instructors gave me this advice about conversations that always resonated with me: just make the conversation about the other person. If you get to the end of it, ask a question about them.

"Are you traveling for the holidays?"
"See any movies lately?"
"Where'd you get that ring?"
"How are your cats doing?"

Anything, as long as it's about them. Keep them talking. A metaphor we learned was "bull and matador." You're dealing with someone who has their own full, rich inner life. They're like a bull ready to lunge forward with a new spike of conversation. Sometimes you just need to wave your cape this way or that to get them to do the work.
I couldn’t get past the first two paragraphs.. he claims Musk is a total liar (despite delivering on a lot of insane promises to date).. but is completely misrepresenting what this first tunnel is. To me the tunnel has been sold as just a way to learn about digging, and what they’ve outfitted now is simply to do something interesting with it that demonstrates what they have in mind for future projects.

I may tend to think well of Musk, but I don’t think I’m biased in saying that this is a pretty bad post. Very one sided, and not much reflection
The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud
There’s No Real System to Counter Rogue Drones
I agree with your comments except for (respectfully) the part about: "We need to just accept the new world..." I firmly think this all represents opportunity. Opportunity for technologists to develop open platforms that are NOT cumbersome to setup nor to host by the layperson, and that - at least over some time - are extremely inexpensive. Maybe i'm an optimist, but i firmly believe there will be an open platform - or multiple complimentary open platforms working in concert - which will fill all of these needs (independence of/control of online presence, privacy, networking opportunities, etc.). I don't think we should merely accept this fate. For the technologists who read hacker news, I think all of this should be a call to arms - or better said a call to service. What is that phrase I've heard, something about being the change you want to see in the world?
I would also vastly prefer a Japan-style rail solution to come to America vs. a tunneled car solution, but I feel like the author does not understand how design iteration works.

Yes, their very first prototype tunnel had paving problems. Anyone else remember what the first iPhone was like? Or the T-Mobile G1?
You are surprised by how deep-rooted America's hostility is towards Iran, so you seize the opportunity to incite hatred against Sunnis?
I don't replacing Facebook with another centralized network is a step forward at all.

You should own your own data, and choose to share it with one or more networks. Should be able to be friends with people on BookFace, YourSpace, ICQQ, and choose what you want to share with them. Everyone browsing their feed in the app of their choice.
To summarize the findings of this research article for you:

Wisdom of the Crowd vs one person = good

Wisdom of the crowd vs tiny groups 4+ = bad
That amendment really screwed democracy in the US. Not only does it remove room for debate, but it has IMHO been a major factoring in lessoning voter interest in the state legislature. This has far reaching consequences, such as making it harder to make new amendments and checks against gerrymandering.
I do not understand, Virtual Box is free software, the versions distributed through most common Linux distributions does not contain any non-free components and the binaries on the site are released under the GPLv2. The extensions you mention are a separate download that you explicitly have to download and it is mentioned around the download that they are under a different license.

How exactly are you trapped by using GPL software?
And if you disable Javascript, all the images are really blurry. This can't be for page loading speed, as they are all small images that would be not more than a few kB.
Ten new data centers: Cloudflare expands global network to 165 cities
Pulling in those megabytes of ads didnt increase developer satisfaction either. Those are marketing decisions, not technical decisions wether to render serverside or clientside
That was the initial behavior, but I’ve changed it to ignore missing intermediate parents. Your example would be (a (b c)). See the “Handling ambiguity” section I added to the notebook. The nice property of this design is that you can use whatever indentation style you prefer (tabs, 2x spaces, 1x space, etc.) and it will do what you expect as long as you are consistent.
We all wanna see the stack we work in succeed, so we can pay them bills. I'm gonna assume yours is Django. Mine is Rails. Plenty of work for all of us, no need to fight...
Thank you for the detailed response! Is there any thoughts on ground truth segmantic segmentation camera view? Simulated lidar data would be super awesome too.
http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

For all your gif needs.
Wow... I could not finish reading the content of the article because the needless personal attacks and tone completely distracted from any information that was being provided or argument that was being made.
Because "feelings" are just after-the-fact, extremely culturally bound, rationalized labels that people are taught to put on the reactive arousal of their sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

The more dense and plastic civilization becomes, the more important the labels become - because assignment and the discussion of the assignment of these labels becomes the most important signal of ingroup/outgroup, which then means the difference between eating and not eating. For the middle-class professional/management class (the people who make a living based on perceptions of their authority), this leads to a culture of stories that can spend 100x more words saying how somebody feels, why someone feels, and what's wrong or right with that, rather than any physical acts conceivably verifiable by observation.

"Social intelligence" is what a member of the academic middle-class might label this. A different member of the academic middle-class belonging to a entirely different culture (place or time), however, would probably label any particular example the first academic pointed out as "social stupidity," due to their respecting an entirely different set of arbitrary signs mythologizing the same acts.

Before the rise of the medicalization of thought (as psychology), by average people in conversation, and by elites in their theories of scientific social control, what was important was the description of acts and the prediction of acts - but Freud did a number on the West.

Angry and sad were once descriptions about how people looked, and tentative predictions of what they were liable to do (based on past experience of that look.)

/rant
What we need is a law that forces companies to get specific permission before seeing their data to any other specific entity. Terms of use change all the time.

I'm hopeful the new generation of people growing up without privacy will learn to value it as they mature and control of their internet history is something they have to deal with.

Make laws with teeth. Look at HIPAA for example. The penalties are severe and therefore compliance is strict.
100% is always impressive, success of rail
Can’t wait to try this. I love magit and magithub, and this looks a bit more powerful than the latter.

It just boggles my mind that the best git client by far exists as a plugin to emacs.

Kind of joking, but when will someone create “Electronmacs” and just release magit as a stand-alone program for people who don’t want to launch emacs to use it?
As a user who occasionally uses rural (slow) internet, I wish more developers would just redirect to a new page for editing.

It often takes longer for the initial JS-heavy page to load than it would for me to click & load 2 simple HTML pages. It's so bad that I just skip using certain websites when I'm on the slow internet.
TIL: caticorns!
To clear it up, we could just refer to the Facebook blog post where they tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on this matter. Is there such a thing?
This is kind of my point though, especially for a company: this is kind of a pain to setup for technical users that want to get the functionality. It's basically a complete barrier for the types of users who still primarily use e-mail, phone calls and in-person meetings.
Them I'm not sure I get the point. Why are classic ASP and VBScript low brow?
The author of the article did not, so why should a comment saying differently be held to a higher standard?

Plus asking for data about a long post without referencing which part you even want data on is unconstructive.