skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am taking serious offense to your statement that I intended to bury the lede. Do you think that I want a free ticket to their tech and I am constructing straw men to support that?

I respect creators. I am not pirating any games. The games in my Steam account set me back thousands of dollars.

If you think that I am only tying to make copying games easier, you are dead wrong. In another post I was proposing a source escrow scheme for the runtime. This doesn't square with a desire to pirate anything.

I am trying to find a reasonable stance here:

- The true stength of any major game engine offering today is the integrated toolset, not the runtime. The Unity Editor is an amazing piece of software in that regard. I am explicitly not calling for that to be opened up because (a) its job is done once you hit the export button, (b) it is very extensible through scripting and (c) it is how Unity as a company earns money.

- I only called for the runtime to be be made available for future maintainance. That in itself won't make existimg Unity games magically available on future platforms. There are multiple reasons for that. The most obvious one is that games may contain contain other native code components. They would need to be updated or replaced by someone with access to the game source code. Im the vast majority of cases, I do not expect such a task to be particularly hard or time consuming.

- Essentially, I want a world where games are no longer transient experiences. This is why I am singling out Unity because it has the potential to be either the one big enabler of that or the largest roadblock. The way the engine architecture enforces most game code to be platform independent could give games a much longer life than ever before. Yet the risk that the engine is eventually fading away without a meams to keep it updated could rob the platform of that very greatness.

- Windows is extremely complex and emulating it is hard. Wine is only a thing because it "only" needs to act as a system call translator. No hardware emulation is required. And getting that right has taken decades of work and it is still shakey. I don't see this as a viable way forward.
Yeah, I start with an SPA and adapt to the use-case. It either needs to be a SPA, or SPA -> SSR is easy (via Gatsby/Next.js). The other direction though, seeing projects grow from SSR -> interactivity/SPA is usually a horrifying display of highly-coupled code spaghettification.
This seems to be simple theft. Report it as a crime.
That's a cool idea. Just yesterday I posted a thread about finding Discord/Slack groups and it didn't even occur to me that I can start one.

However, my impression is still that these groups quickly degenerate into a mix of silence and occasional self-promotion. Any thoughts?
It is, repairing it is what's called darning.

But the reason I find it worth it to repair my raw denim jeans is that they're so much thicker than regular jeans (e.g. Levi's), which means:

- It takes a lot longer to develop holes

- Once you finish darning a hole, the darned part is the same thickness as the rest of the jean (on "thin" normal jeans it would stand out as much thicker)

- A separate issue is entire sections "wearing out", particularly crotch and knees, just a 4x4 inch area getting so thin it essentially disappears, and you can't really darn that. That doesn't really happen with raw denim because it's so thick to begin with

(I'm pretty sure you can also buy raw denim that is thin, I've seen $100 raw denim jeans like that, but for me that defeats the whole purpose.)
You can't compare them. No American accused of terrorist activity on US soil has ever been held at Guantanamo Bay.

If you hang around with terrorists in a war zone(i.e Afganistan) you can expect your rights to be violated. Surely mistakes are made in a war. That quite different than being kidnapped from your home for expressing different political views.
What's more, it's also probably because companies at YC are generally later stage now.

It's not unusual now to see companies well past launch or even product market fit prior to YC.
Haskell, Idris
No that a little bit of gardening would be a bad idea either :-)

There are tradeoffs certainly but I've come to believe that high school should have a track that covers, for lack of a better term, "adulting." Cooking, sewing, shop, personal finance, statistics, etc. And most of those can be mixed in with more academic subjects. I've done machine shop stuff at research universities and I've taken a Harvard MOOC on food science.
> In the USA you don't have to mine.

In this case, you had to. The situation is "poor people (yes, mostly African American) against the system that is built to keep them down". You make it to be "white people against black people". This proposes all the wrong solutions - instead changing the corrupt system that hinders students' advancement and keeps them from getting out of the cycle of poverty, you would promote "racial sensitivity" and "listening to the students" and "white people shouldn't try to do anything before they read all my favorite books" - with the focus, as it turns out, on enabling and protecting disruptive and non-learning students and supporting their negative attitude towards learning and advancement. not only for themselves but spilling out to their peers. Instead of working against the corrupt system that makes it impossible for a bright student to achieve success, you are working against the white people that try to help this student, because they are white, so they must be the problem. This makes - already made - the situation worse.

Yes, USA has a long history of racial issues. But the way it is approached now - especially in the education system - does not work to heal this history and make things better. It works to keep people that were left behind for historical reasons - still left behind, now for reasons of broken policy and misguided "sensitivity".
Google stopped requiring that a while back.
Ours was 14 months when we flew and one flight attendant complained about it but the rest didn't seem to care. We were doing London-Dubai.
I got a popup saying the offline app is going away with a link to "setup" the new gmail app for offline use. Unfortunately the new gmail app for offline use does not support Firefox.

>Offline unavailable.

>The browser you are using is missing some features required to enable offline. To enable offline, you must use Chrome with version 61 or higher.
I should probably use this bully pulpit to let Tridactyl users know that they might be stuck on an old version of Tridactyl [1]. Check the hamburger menu in the top right for a small yellow exclamation mark, click it and decide whether to give us more permissions.

The extra permission is just so we can include a new (unbound by default) find mode that uses a Mozilla API.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
Abstractions are, almost by definition, always imperfect. A perfect abstraction sort of ceases to be an abstraction and is simply "the way things are".
Definitely - the challenge and variety were always part of the appeal. Maybe it's partly that (and not just the fact that I'm employed now) that explains why I have yet another "bad caps" project sitting within reach of me right now that's been there for 2-3 years and I haven't even touched it! Thanks to previous efforts, I have all the tools & know-how. I've done it several times. It should be a total breeze, and uneventful. But what fun is that? :) Clearly I am mentally ill.
So it isn't Benchy?
I believe you're mixing up mechanically-separated meat and lean finely-textured beef. The rationale behind restricting the former often cites BSE concerns, which isn't especially relevant to LFTB.

LFTB is made from normal, boneless beef trimmings.
Sad news. http://www.wordjazz.com https://vimeo.com/3088569

I remember accidentally finding the local NPR station on the radio in the 70's. Word Jazz and NPR Playhouse were my favorite programs. "Here we are with something imaginary in the trembling air." You can listen to the 30 minute NPR episodes on the internet archive here
https://archive.org/details/WordJazzRadio15#
> My proposal is to switch to json objects for information exchange between server and client. We'll get the benefits similar to SPA without rewriting for it

If I understand your approach correctly, I often do something similar, but with modern ASP.NET Core MVC apps. Basically, I have a tiny bit of JavaScript that 'intercepts' all form POSTs and submits them using AJAX instead. Another tiny bit of JavaScript can then process the result and do something (update a table, display a message, redirect, whatever).

I feel like this gives me the best of both worlds - the backend is very testable, and really straightforward for new developers to come up to speed on, while at the same time we remove a lot of full-page renders.

You can find an example of this technique here[0]

[0] https://github.com/jbogard/ContosoUniversityDotNetCore
In my experience I never had a single case of objection to that (correcting one-sides clauses).

Few iterations back and forth - yes, but it's clearly fair.
>Elon Musk distances himself from OpenAI, group that built fake news AI tool

This is the worst headlines in this matter. This is one of the leading media in India. A language model being touted as Fake news AI tool. This is like calling a car, A run over machine by Ford.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/elon-musk-distances-hims...
This is a fine thought by itself. As long as you don't imply that anyone doing an unimportant action is behaving incorrectly.

In other words, someone that says "I don't care much but I looked anyway" is not a hypocrite.
What does this even mean from a mechanical standpoint? What do you look for?

More importantly, where do you learn about all this low level mechanical stuff? Business books and HN comments always assume you know how to do that stuff. They don't teach it in school, at least for CS majors. (And yes, I took the "law for everyday life" class at my school. It was basically at the same theoretical level)
This particular repo was blocked well before the MS buyout. Whatever decision was made, it was GitHub not MS who made it.
not really.

From what I remember of the video :

He made some very strange "weird shaming" : "if you need to listen to ASMR to fall asleep, you are weird dude".. what if somebody needs to listen to that ? I don't entirely get the appeal, but I don't see how weird shuffled sound are so different from whale songs. And from this video logic, people who listen to that are into bestiality.

His main argument seemed to be that the main goal of this asmr channel is to sexualize a 13 yo. Which if true is obviously very shocking and needs legal action but I did not find his argument very convincing. Some weirdo leaving one comment on her instagram and one weird video are not super convincing.

Proving that there was a pattern of such comments and vids would have been appropriate (and he could have made this video without making fun of random kids)

I would have made similarly weird vids before puberty because I understood maybe 20% of the context.

The accusations are very grave, and they might even be real. I can understand if he does not want to spend months investigating this weird channel but they would warrant a better basis.
A well written rails app with good caching and some async stuff sprinkled in where necessary generally feels just as responsive as an SPA for a fraction of the dev cost.
The issue talked about here is distinct from the larger "reproducibility crisis"; the latter is a result of shoddily designed (or simply fraudulent) experimental work, whereas the issue here is the aggregate effects of the huge amount of computational work that is being done- even when that work is being done correctly and honestly.

Testing a hypothesis against a pre-existing dataset is a valid thing to do, and it is also almost trivially simple (and completely free) for someone with a reasonable computational background. There are researchers who spend a decent portion of their careers performing these analyses. This is all well and good- we want people to spend time analyzing the highly complex data that modern science produces- but we run into problems with statistics.

Suppose an analyst can test a hundred hypotheses per month (this is probably a low estimate.) Each analysis (simplifying slightly!) ends with a significance test, returning a p-value indicating the likelihood that the hypothesis is false. If p < 0.01, the researcher writes up the analysis and sends it off to a journal for publication, since the odds that this result was spurious are literally hundred-to-one. But you see the problem; even if we assume that this researcher tests no valid hypotheses at all over the course of a year, we would expect them to send out one paper per month- and each of these papers would be entirely valid, with no methodological flaws for reviewers to complain about.

In reality, of course, researchers sometimes test true hypotheses, and the rate of true to false computational-analysis papers would depend on the ratio of "true hypotheses that analysis successfully catches" to "false hypothesis that squeak by under the p-value threshold" (i.e., the True Positive rate vs the False Positive rate.) It's hard to guess that this ratio would be, but if AAAS is calling things a "crisis," it's clearly lower than we would like.

But there's a further problem, since the obvious solution- lower the p-value threshold for publication- would lower both the False Positive rate and the True Positive rate. The p-value that gets assigned to the results of an analysis of a true hypothesis are limited by the statistical power (essentially, size and quality) of the dataset being looked at; lower the p-value threshold too much, and analysts simply won't be able to make a sufficiently convincing case for any given true hypothesis. It's not a given that there is a p-value threshold for which the True Positive/False Positive ratio is much better than it is now.

"More data!" is the other commonly proposed solution, since we can safely lower the p-value threshold if we have the data to back up true hypotheses. But even if we can up the experimental throughput so much that we can produce True Positives at p < 0.0001, that simply means that computational researchers can explore more complicated hypotheses, until they're testing thousands or millions of hypotheses per month- and then we have the same problem. In a race between "bench work" and "human creativity plus computer science," I know which I'd bet on.
For the WSJ, add the word "full" before wsj in the domain name. You end up on the WSJ site and they use this for an additional viral factor, so Facebook users can see and share the full article.

I'm not sure if you have to have a Facebook account - I think you don't.
LFTB doesn't carry a higher risk of BSE or other prion diseases than normal ground beef. You're likely referring to concerns often levied at mechanically-separated meats, which is orthogonal to the product discussed here. LFTB is made from normal, boneless beef trimmings.
Happened to me too, after I published my book criticizing Russia:
https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/one-life-in-russia...
Hi Nikita,
Thanks for writing in. Your repositories were set to require a login to view following
multiple reports from users concerned about their contents. This was done as an
alternative to hiding or disabling the content entirely.
Thanks,
GitHub Support
Russians support freedom of speech that much.
I included the relevant part of the quote:

>including Tweets.
“Basically it's like they're not even trying to filter much anymore.”

I believe their acceptance rate this batch was still <<2%. That’s still a pretty fine filter IMHO.
The EU's new copyright laws threaten to destroy the internet
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>Why take care of your body if your life is crap?

So that your life is less crappy? You've gotta start somewhere, or not at all.

I think your basic point is correct, but misses the whole positive feedback loop part of the equation. You need momentum, which is difficult to get when you're going uphill in first gear, but the only alternatives to trying are accepting a crappy life or ending it, and those don't seem very appealing compared to living a non-crappy life.
Seriously. There are 20-somethings now who got into development making Minecraft mods at the same age I was tinkering with autoexec.bat and QBasic.
Last time I followed the official .NET tutorial I was also shocked when I had to download +1.5gb of dependencies. It was more than 4 years ago though and the landscape might be a lot better now but I don't think they managed to keep the whole thing under the 60mb mark. The tooling is just simple and clean when you've been working with it for a long time.
I have seen the results and I don't get why people think this is any more dangerous than journalists who selectively report to fit a predetermined agenda or make shit up on the spot. Which, today, is a lot of them.
"This study, as well as other research on the connection between diet beverages and vascular disease, is observational and cannot show cause and effect."

And there we have it. The entire article written around what is actually not a study at all.

In my opinion, it seems to be the case that people who consume diet soda do so because they are trying to be healthier, but don't want to do the real healthy thing of giving up soda altogether.

That lack of discipline would surface in other aspects of their life and contribute to a unhealthy lifestyle as a whole.
This imports a key into my keychain, maybe I don't want to import this key? It also doesn't tell me if the message was signed with the key I specified, I have to do that myself, maybe by looking closely at the output? Awful, 3/10.
> learn to say no

Good luck keeping that client after the end of your contract.
Sanctions...who's asking for them? No one. China would take everyone's econ down. USA placed sanctions on Iran, BUT, Saudis agreed to produce more oil for example.

With the amount of money China has and the size of their "enemy" limitless is the right word. Let's not forget that China has built 50 MILLION apartments just to do something.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+emp...
All they have to do is blacklist them: behave like a Muslim and your doors are essentially closed...no jobs, credit etc etc.
The problem is that it doesn’t matter if someone is told something isn’t true, their beliefs aren’t changed.
I'm not sure why the title of the posting was changed. The title of the article is "Technical Recruiting is Broken".
> "you can always go back to court if your earnings is severely limited"

That's nontrivial. Court takes a lot of time.
You'd need to see if there's a rise in acquhire, that your expensive capital intensive long term biotech project got acquired by a big company is usually not a failure for anyone. Not the investors, founder, or even the project itself.
> the image didn't celebrate or honour her as a person. It was an image protraying an unrealistic "beautiful thing". People didn't even know her real name, or what she's achieved as a real person.

Because it's a test image not a novel.
Not really. I get way more horrible, poorly targeted recruiter spam from crappy SV startups than I do large companies. In fact, the large companies usually actually read my profile.

Edit: It does depend on the "class" of large company though. I get truly shit-tier spam from C-list companies like GE, Boeing, or Panasonic ("Hey, interested in relocating to Missouri for a $18.27 hourly Java contract!?") Tier A companies like FB, Google, etc. always send great recruiting messages that suggest they read my profile and did at least some due diligence matching it to an appropriate position.
What other method exists for pricing in negative externalities? Honest question.
I'm not a recruiter, but I spend a lot of my time building up teams so I figure that makes me a de facto recruiter.

I've personally gone both extremes:

1. Spamming linkedin, message boards, etc.

2. Seeking out specific candidates, emailing them, offering to grab coffee or do a call.

I've had more success hiring with #2, in which regard I agree with the article. But it comes with a perverse side-effect: I am ignoring 95% of potential candidates, likely a similar group everyone else is ignoring. I am mostly contacting people with years of experience at good companies with a decent web presence. Because if I didn't, I wouldn't have time to do my other job duties. When I (or our internal technical recruiters) spam out a job we are giving more people a chance at the job, and are introducing fewer personal biases.

I'm not saying either approach is right or wrong, I just think there's room for both. Maybe the ultimate solution is a single centralized marketplace for jobs, but it doesn't seem like there's been a clear winner in this space.
What isn't a cultural artifact, outside of nature?
"Near-field photonic cooling through control of the chemical potential of photons" (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0918-8
It was proposed to introduce structured concurrency to Go, but it's not easy, not least because of the context and how it would play along. The issue was closed with "we need a larger discussion" comment.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29011

If you are interested in that you may want to participate.
why isn't the fee deducted from the selling price before money are wired from etsy to seller?
Tell that to the mid level exec who's got 200 seats to fill to hit his bonus pot, after which he's outta there. Leaving the company to deal with the 190 terrible coders he hired, naturally.
People eat okra, escargot (snails), and natto. All of those have slime.

The name "pink slime" isn't from ABC. It's from an FDA employee who got to examine the stuff.
Another list similar to this is -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications
Maybe Not – Rich Hickey [video]
I've often imagined how different Newtonian physics would be if we had gone the ML route from the beginning.
Show HN: Track billable hours from the command line
> Good recruiters focus on building relationships versus solving an immediate need.

The problem is they get paid only when immediate needs are met. A placement is hard to do, but results in 25% of an annual salary when done. This results in two kinds of strategy:

1) Spammers. I get this all the time on both sides (as a hiring manager and as a potential hire). The worst is when I get forwarded someone's actual CV out of the blue. It's happened a couple of times recently: a guy who works at Google or Amazon at a high level has his CV sent to me by a recruiter who's never spoken to me. In both cases I found the person on LinkedIn and told them, much to their surprise. Of course there was never a conversation on the other side either. Normally it's not as egregious as this, but it's still not a way to do business.

2) Relationship people. These guys will actually take the time to meet with me and talk about what kind of stuff I do. Both as a hiring manager and a potential hire, there's no sense that they are bucketing me in either, we can potentially do either business. There's no sense of urgency either, just two people discussing the market. I've made business contacts through recruiters this way, nothing expected in return, no hard sell. I've told them we're not even using recruiters, and they still check in for a coffee now and again. I do try to throw something their way, esp when it comes to giving them candidates.

The big problem for the good guys is they somehow have to get paid while maintaining all these low probability relationships. Not only that, they actually need to speak intelligently about every technology and business in the market. They need to know what kind of thing c++ is, how it's different from JS, and what kind of function it might be useful for. This is no easy task.

You can easily see how someone needing to feed themselves could get desperate and go for some version of spamming.