skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Very good point. I have a few friends who are recruiters (with no technical experience before starting) and I had to give them the 101 on programming languages and how they differ ("No, C and C++ are not the same thing. There's also C#"). I can imagine a recruiter in today's landscape probably spends a decent amount of time learning about the tech industry just to keep up.

I'm not sure I have a solution for monetizing the good relationships, though.
You bring up a good point. Without seeing their code and training metrics, how do we know that this isn’t some extremely overfitted model?
People in that position are also very unlikely to be reading posts on Hacker News, so I think it is okay to exclude them from consideration when judging the merits of the blog post.
I'm totally at odds here with this statement, repeated by others here in other words.

Look - in some industries, working 10 or 11 hours is one 'day.' As an hourly consultant I'm hedged against this, which is super common in financial environments. Maybe the experience you guys have is in less stressful, less demanding worlds.

Hourly is a hedge against exploitative clients.
> use a liquid that doesn't contain nasty chemicals that cause popcorn lung syndrome, e.g. diacetyl

The levels of diacetyl found in (certain) vape liquids are probably not a concern. Cigarette smoke contains much higher concentrations of diacetyl and popcorn lung doesn't appear to be endemic in smokers.

Indeed most of the cases in medical literature seem to involve factory workers who were exposed to high amounts of diacetyl, plus a handful of people who consumed massive amounts of microwave popcorn. Are there any observed cases of popcorn lung in smokers?
I'd buy a phone with a keyboard and a touchscreen. I remember an old nokia one i had that had a slide out keyboard. I've had the touchscreen randomly stop working a couple times on my current phone and it gets extremely frustrating fairly quickly. I know you can USB or Bluetooth ones. But something built in would be nice. Your phone suddenly becomes essentially useless when the touchscreen randomly ceases functioning while you're out somewhere and you can't do anything.
And you’re still arguing along that fault line... and that’s the point really, it’s all about original sin and “gatekeepng”.
EU cross-border payments outside Eurozone: MEPs scrap excessive fees
These problems appear largely academic to me.
Are you planning on touching on autoML? Do you think that could help?
Show HN: Using 'This Person Does Not Exist' to Generate Dummy Faces in Sketch
That’s much higher than I’d have expected. I wonder how much of it comes from games and their in app purchases, a segment that is unlikely to take much of a hit from moving other apps to the web.
Citation needed regarding Vimeo. I read the ToS and found nothing of the sort.
No, not a clear reason other than wanted to get the product out earlier. We'll work on an opt-in, that does sound the best.

Wouldn't other pieces affect this though? For example, what if the move was e6 and the next e-pawn move was e7. What if a piece was already there, Ne7 (wrongly recognized)? I thought about slowly running through it like this, but it felt like I kept running into problems which are obvious for us to recognize but I wasn't sure how to implement it computationally
There are new funding models that have popped up just in the last month or so e.g. Earnest Capital and TinySeed. I suspect for many of these companies they would be better served by those models, which vary but are essentially designed with no expectation that the company must march toward "Unicorn" status to be considered a success.
shaybazaar.com is a good alternative
Definitely, which is why I leave room for those unknowns with a some preemptive over-engineering. Worst case, those (well-known, general, popular) abstractions don't get used and the project works. Best case, they really save my butt and the project works. Worth it either way, imo!
The majority of people don't use an adblocker (otherwise the ad based ecosystem would not work) and if you ask them if they want to pay for the sites they visit instead of seeing ads then most of them choose free with ads.

One visits lots of sites while browsing and paying for each of them is simply not feasible. The solution would be some kind of universal micropayment scheme, but it's unclear how such a sytem could be adopted universally, because making the users setting up multiple micropayment providers in their browsers will not work.
I would say that understanding first principals does for example set theory and SQL.
They can, but presumably they will be clearly labeled as they are today.
Docker fixed Local Command Execution Vulnerability
From this perspective, where is the line between ML and automated p-hacking?
Demonstrating the Future of Painting from an Infinity Pool in Malibu
The business of recruiting has changed in the last two decades. In late 90's, recruiters used to know candidates in person, and know what they were doing, etc. Now recruiters work like assembly line workers or offshored workers, who have no clue beyond buzz words. If your profile matches with one of the buzz words, you get spam.
Kotlin is doing something like this with coroutine cancellation. Not quite the same because the cancelation requires cooperation but I reckon you could add a timeout and get the composability that the article talks about

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/cancellatio...
I don’t use Chrome partially for this reason :)
There are definitely other, more humane ways to make the indigenous population join the melting pot. China should really look at how Hawaiians were integrated. aside from the initial war, there wasn’t that much bloodshed.
> I hate Mozilla pushing their own things almost as much as Google (a screenshot service? I have a keybinding for that, thank you)

The screenshot feature is quite handy, because it lets you capture only a certain element on the page which is more cumbersome using the OS' builting screen capture, because then you need to edit the captured image.
Why limiting work-in-progress works
When is it “whataboutism” and when it is “perspective?”
Yeah in California mostly it's about child support and division of property. No one gets permanent alimony.

Also in the highly contested divorces I've seen up close, no one actually 'wins'
> What if the only "positive" imagery you could relate to was not so positive.

Why can't they relate to other imagery? Maybe because they have been told since birth that the only imagery they could relate to is of someone who looks exactly like them?

And why isn't there better examples? Why rappers singing about killing cops and raping bitches get showered with money and adoration, and never get called out on the impact they make on the community by their example? Why it's not a topic of the discussion? Social impact of business is all the hot topic now, but try to find an article about social impact of gangsta rap and its glorification on the African-American community? Why people like Herman Cain - successful businessman, author, publicist and politician, or Benjamin Carson - pioneering neurosurgeon, holder of 60 honorary doctorates, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom - are not getting even one hundredths of an adoration a rapper does? Who is to blame for that? Who is calling out this and trying to change that? Who is responsible for the fact that much more kids want to be Tupac, a convicted rapist, than Carson, a neurosurgeon with Presidential Medal of Freedom?

> Find a minority politician (Ocasio-Cortez maybe?) you like and support her

Rather bad example. I already lived under socialism, I don't need another one. Especially not one with intellectual capacities so limited as AOC. If you wanted to promote your cause (though I frankly don't care too much if politician is "minority", I care for her or his views, principles and capabilities), it's better to choose some politician that is not the laughingstock of the nation. AOC is of Puerto-Rican descent (well, she's from Bronx, but her parents come from Puerto-Rico). There are by now dozens, if not hundreds, prominent politicians of similar descent. Why should I choose the worst example? If I'd rather choose Nikki Haley, who is a very successful US ambassador and I hope one day will become a successful presidential candidate.

> Tell people the truth about Christopher Columbus

Columbus was a terrible person (among hundred others terrible conquistadors), but who cares now? Do you thing a young person in poor school that dreams of one day getting to college and becoming a neurosurgeon but can't really study because his peers are unruly and they'd mess him up if they learn he's trying to get ahead and study instead of listening for gangsta rap and smoking ganja like normal people do - do you think he cares about how white people view Columbus? Do you think that is his or her primary problem that we need to solve now?
No, they become the gatekeeper for all adblock features. "low-level" is a meaningless qualifier here.

> And if new api features are being requested by adblockers, who is really innovating?

Right now, adblock developers are speaking out, in droves, requesting that they don't remove the API features Chrome already has, and Google is saying "nah."

They are wiping out the current diversity of ad-blocking techniques and saying "This is the way you can build an ad-blocker now." There is also the obvious conflict of interest that many of the ads in question are served by Google in the first place.
I spent my time learning how to mend my computer and the pile of arcane technologies that make it up. Out in the real world, as opposed to here on HN, that is the mending that does not exist. It wasn't even forgotten; it's still simply magic. I can call a repair service and have any mechanical object in my apartment functional in hours. I can call my friends and one of them, or one of their parents, will have a suggestion. But if I walk into a random room, filled with fifty random people off the street, one in four of then will be able to repair a car engine or patch a hole in a shirt, but I will be literally the only person in the room that can get someone's phone back on WiFi after the password changes. That's its own kind of mending, and one that's much more difficult, much more useful, and much more valuable, both directly to an information worker like me and to civilization.
Ruby is a female name, at least in my country.
Its hype and marketing
Parents at centre of measles outbreak didn't vaccinate children
Recursion is looping, so technically not zero, right?

There’s a lot of ignoring practice in your response. Python, C, O(n^k) algorithms, all of it is implemented with Turing Complete languages, whether it’s technically required or not. I don’t know the non-TC subset of Python you’re talking about, nor how many people are using it. Are they using it specifically to limit themselves to less powerful constructs, or for other reasons?

The web says SQL is in fact TC contrary to your claim. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-ts...

> There's almost nothing that requires conditional loops with arbitrary conditions.

The entire stack of tech you are using to type that sentence and send it over to Hacker news runs on intentionally infinite loops. The input element, the js in your browser, the event loop in your browser, your NIC and WiFi box, all the routers between you and HN, the web server responding to news.ycombinator.com. GIMP has an infinite loop waiting for user commands to launch your Animstack scripts.

My professional field is graphics, which is why I mentioned path tracing, and path tracing requires loops with arbitrary conditions, as do many statistical simulations. How would you write a non-TC memory manager? I don’t really know what you have in mind when you say almost nothing requires conditional loops, but I don’t see a lot of evidence of that being true. All video games run on while(1) loops.

You still didn’t answer my questions, so maybe this is as far as we need to go. Why does TC matter at all when you can kill a script? What is preventing TC buying your language when the programs are bug free? What is non-TC buying you when non-TC programs can take aribtrary amounts of time? Why is restricting the power of a language desirable? I havent seen a single reason yet that I buy.
The fine-tuned liberal democracy
I don’t think the content blocker API allows for the full set of features you’d find in standard regex library. This might mean that WebKit can roll their own regex library that’s better optimized for this subset?
>Secondly, have you seen the results? I was dumbfounded and fascinated. I spent hours reading the samples.

Yes, I've seen the result. They're nice but, as the article points out, not extraordinary compared to state of the art, open NLP research.

OpenAI's behaviour here smells of Gibsonesque 'anti-marketing', using the misunderstanding of AI and its capabilities in the general population as a means to stir up publicity for their organisation.

This is unethical, misrepresents progress in the field, and produces confusion in the press.
I must admit I'm slightly bewildered because it seems like there are a number of smaller smartphones out there on the market. If people generally thought their phones were too big, why wouldn't they just go and buy the smaller ones? I don't think manufacturers have been pulling these sizes out of their backsides, isn't it all based off of sales data and market research by this point?

There certainly are still cheap feature phones knocking about for more basic use cases as well. I just can't quite work out what the author is asking for. I mean okay, the author makes quite a good case for popsockets but that doesn't seem to translate into his other, less salespitchy, more "profound" sounding point about smartphones being "too big".
Very cool - I will try that one, just need an SDR.
Court doesn't take time, documenting takes time.
A couple of weeks ago I tried the official Angular tutorial on SSR and found it super difficult. If you're willing to give React a try I would choose Next.js. It's pretty much a Node.js web framework that uses React for its views and has SSR out of the box. It has client side routing, so smooth page transitions, it was also fairly use to style the app with good ol css or sass. Ping me if you have any questions.
I'm looking at https://yclist.com/ (no idea how updated or accurate it is) and seeing a lot of companies are have been around for years and not dead or acquired that I've never heard of. I'm mostly referring to cos that have raised another seed or series A for a few mil and then just sort of lingered. I do not know of every 100 cos how many successfully raise another seed or series A beyond what YC provides (I would assume many do)
Doesn't chrome circumvent host-file blocking? At least it did for me in windows before I switched to Firefox permanently.
wow, I'm going to do this. Thanks for the photo. I assumed you wrapped the rubber band around like a frame/bumper, which I wouldn't like. The naked phone is slippery, but a full case seems to drag things out of my pocket.
The nice thing about outdoor gear is that the repairs don't have to be very aesthetic. I repair my own camping gear using my grandmother's old signer sewing machine. It's maybe 100 years old, but unlike modern sewing machines, the frame is cast iron and it can push a thick needle through almost anything.

It can't do the fancy embroidery stitches, but with some chalk, a seam ripper, and some thread you can repair almost anything. I had an old jacket where the outer shell was more empty space than fabric, and I was able to disassemble the coat, trace the pieces that needed to be assembled onto new fabric, and reassemble it again.

The argument that "it isn't worth my time to repair stuff" always grates on me. It makes sense to a certain extent, but there is a lot more to life than pure economic efficiency.
Mens rea - Latin for “guilty mind” - is the intention to commit a crime, and must be present for many types of prosecutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
> Good recruiters focus on building relationships versus solving an immediate need.

This is exactly the focus of the startup we're launching in London this summer. I'd love to chat to people from HN about their experiences with this. Contact details on my profile.
Can you imagine if the teams that worked on the Internet decided not to make it available to the public because of the potential misuses. OpenAI is a joke.
/u/rm999 had experience with both spamming and personalized messages and had more success with the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19186331
Not for Youtube and I guess that is what Google mostly cares about.
You know what would be a fun experiment with this:

Would be to specifially watch all the planes that fly in and out of a large notable event; such as the superbowl, or davos, g-20 summit etc - and see where all thise private jets come from to get to that event...
Firefox pocket integration
When the law comes into being, everyone should start posting copyrighted poems (limericks, ideally) as comments on any website that allows it and supported this directive, i.e. every newspaper.

This should exemplify the silliness of this.
Direct link to the (fixed) bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=931588
Ask HN: Basic Networking Introduction Resources?
I don't have a CS degree. Am learning Docker and various cloud platforms. Need to understand networking, but don't have time for an in-depth dive (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824472) / in-depth networking is not a priority now.

Please recommend short introductions of basic concepts. I mainly need to understand ports and subnets past "it's how you connect to a machine / they are subsets of IP addresses." I do understand "the internet" in terms of DNS/backbones/etc, so I don't need that.
> not extraordinary compared to state of the art, open NLP research

> misrepresents progress in the field

Can you point me to some examples of unsupervised learning with similar results? Not asking for rhetorical purposes; I just genuinely was shocked by how compelling their results were, especially given this was unsupervised.

> OpenAI's behaviour here smells of Gibsonesque 'anti-marketing'

I don't disagree that the ethics are questionable, but I think it's highly speculative to suggest that they didn't release the full model purely as a marketing ploy (I'm assuming this is the main objection to their marketing "tactics"). As you say, it "smells" this way, but I fail to see how it's really so clear-cut.
CLOSE frame exists in the WS protocol for a reason. It's there so that both sides know that all the messages were delivered before the connection was closed.
Oh I forgot to mention: if you're doing this just so you could learn modern JS then rolling your own solution is all fine. Other than that I would avoid this at all costs.
I read the title as the joke: it's really for everyone, with a built-in reminder that you are mortal.
This matches my experience too. In my opinion, the way to sell the job is to explicitly mention all the advantages - the company name, the tech stack, why it is a great place to work etc. The most annoying recruiters are the ones that have "a fantastic opportunity" and want to set up a phone call to sell it. I work in Stockholm, Sweden, and I have noticed that recruiters from England often try to talk to you instead of simply listing the position(s).

Extra points for the recruiter if they write something indicating why I would be a good fit - only happens rarely.

Also, checking back later (a year or two) to see if I am open to a change, even if I wasn't before, is OK by me. Sometimes you don't want to change, no matter what the offer is.

We developers should not complain too much about recruiters though - we are extremely lucky to work in a field where there is such high demand. Most people aren't so lucky.

I also think being contacted by a recruiter puts you in a great bargaining position: You are in a much better position to negotiate salary and benefits than if you applied directly. You already have a job, so if the offer isn’t interesting enough or good enough, you can just say no.

I wrote a post similar to this a few years ago, making the above points: https://henrikwarne.com/2015/11/22/recruiting-software-devel...
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Was actually hoping the name was inspired by The Good Place.
Ruby was named after the gemstone. From the Ruby FAQ:

> "1.3 Why the name 'Ruby'?"

> "Influenced by Perl, Matz wanted to use a jewel name for his new language, so he named Ruby after a colleague's birthstone."

> "Later, he realized that Ruby comes right after Perl in several situations. In birthstones, pearl is June, ruby is July. When measuring font sizes, pearl is 5pt, ruby is 5.5pt. He thought Ruby was a good name for a programming language newer (and hopefully better) than Perl."

https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html
Voice transcription is not usable, especially Apple’s and Google’s. Yesterday I tried to enter a simple reminder: “check Rule 50 deadlines.” It always auto-corrected to “Route 50.”

About half the time when I enter a simple reminder the result is so bad I can’t figure out what was originally intended.
Or we get lots of ad hoc answers to the "Why" question. Sometimes, the nature of the question itself changes.