skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the inverse.

Imagine trying to convince your employees you should appoint a boss, at the top of the company. Everyone will give up $3k, and this one person will make $28 milion a year.

I think losing $3k and gaining $3k are the same - but obviously the perception is different for something you 'have' vs something you might get.
Feature request: Filtering out domains that you don't want to see on the home page
WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music (2005)
Well saying something is the case for years before it's the case just makes you wrong, not a genius.
I still recognize Mister Doo Bee after 39 years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvdSGkN0aU
As much as I don't like the whole 'blame the algorithm' movement that's been going on I think it's pretty clear this is a large part of the issue for me.

I know that I've been trapped into YouTube's reccomendation trap before - good luck getting out without deleting all previous history etc. whilst I'm 'wise' enough to notice this fact and clear all YouTube history etc does this option even exist for Instagram and would kids/ those vulnerable think to do this?
See Kickstarter.
Personally I've had a good amount of both experiences, and that's convinced me that either one will suck if you let them. Only good development practices can save you.
Ya, but gitlab is a YC company. So they aren't held to the same standard.
it seems to me that while 4K may be standard in other fields (e.g. media, movies), in gaming, many prefer to trade resolution for higher FPS [1]. The middle ground (1440p) seem to be quite popular lately among 'normal' gamers, but I think that in competitive gaming many still prefer to stay on 1080p and achieve very high FPS. Competitive gamers also do a lot of other 'strange' things, for example I saw people who select a 4:3 aspect ratio and stretch it over 16:9 instead of running 16:9 natively [2]

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/steam-july-survey-re...

[2] https://medium.com/@lurppis/the-16-9-vs-4-3-aspect-ratio-arg...
Is This for Real or Is This Apple
If I purchase an apple can I not eat it. Can I not find out how many calories the thing possesses. Can I not cut it open. Is that apple not fully owned by me? Can I not squash it to make cider, or squeeze it to make juice. Do I have to ask the tree if I can bite it. If I own a car, can I not pull it to pieces without the say so of Ford. Please get real USA is being screwed here, Start to look at this sort of waffle as to what it is, Its the rich screwing the majority, If you believe that apple is doing this for you, then you believe in the tooth fairy
Please get real.
It sounds like you want to have an internet universally suitable for both your mom and your child, which is ludicrous - but I'm having a hard time understanding your point if that isn't what you're saying.
Linuxconf: How to Disappear Completely
That description is the issue I had, I do not have an iPhone.
I think the UI is kinda awkward to use. If I want to input a specific date I have to manipulate the URL? Gets really annoying with mobile. Also it would be nice to somehow see the past dates somehow visualized. Maybe how much total activity there was per day, or what types of topics were discussed. Now I am just going blind without any sense of direction what lies ahead. It's very refreshing feature and all but I will probably only use it for past day's submissions since going farther fishing for interesting submissions is too laborious.
"gives an overview of the latest urban camouflage technology and how to deploy it in order to foil facial recognition."

Bonus: Nice illustration of the "SenseTime¹" and "SenseFace¹" software in action (starting at the 03:11 mark).

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¹ This Company Is Helping Build China’s Panopticon. It Won’t Stop There: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/this-comp...
My sampling of the posts linked in the article seem to indicate otherwise. What is your evidence?
Only a small portion of SF is matches the dystopian vision you claim. Even those portions are not any worse than other urban areas. There is a reason why housing here is extremely expensive. People want to live here.
I’m confused about a few things:

1. What is slowest based on?

2. Is the comment about people working in the field meant to demonstrate something about slowness or some other point?
Those trades do not require the same level of abstract and logical reasoning, no matter what other skills they do require. It's the former that is in short supply in the general population.
Someone needs to rank/rate blocks by greenery seen from the street.

Using Google maps perhaps?

Market forces then step in.

Be the little old lady who does website that ranks. (Toss in air quality and noise perhaps these also need public shamming)
In 18 months I'm moving somewhere with not amazing job prospects due to an arrangement with my ex-wife about our kids. It's not a legal arrangement but I take promises seriously. My children are a higher priority than my career.

I could work remote for 70% of a regular salary and it will be an amazing salary for my new region. I'm sure I'll give at least 0.9 productivity remotely. I'd be silly not to hire me and I hope others see the same.
The picture is not to scale. Still huge, just not as huge as it looks.
I'm the author of 03 of those ANSi art screens displayed on 20min50.

Here are the links to the full artworks:
http://blocktronics.org/lu-glitch-ans/
http://blocktronics.org/luciano-spidertronics/
http://www.ansigarden.com/downloads/death-roses-bbs-theme/
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> All up, it costs somewhere around ~$50K/year more per employee.

I'd guess this is significantly under-representing the additional cost compared to most cities in America (exceptions might be NYC, LA, and Seattle). I bet it's quite a bit more than that for someone from, say, Portland.
I would consider fundraising and local cost of living to be completely orthogonal. Fundraising is easier when there is a cluster of potential donors in a central geography. Other important factors are regulatory environment, taxes, potential employees, transportation, and so forth.
If you look into the history of the countries with censorship, everything started by making decisions on what content should be allowed and what not.

And it’s funny because a lot of them actually started with health related concerns.
Strange as I can assure you that this is how I recovered the account. This was on macOS Sierra which might be part of it then System Preferences -> iCloud

The first apple support person I talked to did not know how-to recover the account this way. So it does not seem to be in the scripts.
so many programming languages... i wonder if there is someone that knows them all
Can you clarify your point? Are you implying that the alternative of pre-vaccine history (which is very clearly documented) is preferable to the miniscule and heavily studied risk of negative vaccine effects? Back when many children routinely died from diseases which cause huge suffering which don't even exist in statistically significant rates in the US now?

In medicine, we understand that there are risk calculations to every treatment and preventative decision. You weigh them against each other. When public health at large is the question, you certainly do have to consider the risks that come with public health policy.

For example, diabetics with retinopathy receive injections of medication that can help stop the condition from causing blindness. There is a 1/3000 chance that the injection can cause an infection which can lead to permanent blindness in the eye that was treated. You have to weigh the risks in this case personally when you're a diabetic with retinopathy, but imagine that the decision was instead that refusing the eye injection because of the tiny, well studied risk to yourself meant you were risking blinding someone else's child. It's not a perfect analogy but I hope it may help some understand that we aren't talking about a sacrifice in the way you seem to portray it in your questions.

Also, regarding your health issues, I am truly sorry. I also have some debilitating medical issues that have affected my daily life for almost 20 years, but when having discussions about policy or philosophy around medicine I try not to use them as an appeal to emotion because that can cloud your judgement and logic.
How is moving to Mississippi "doing good"? Nobody wants to live in your homophobic racist xenophobic state with crappy infrastructure and shitty laws and shitty education.

Mississippi folk want the things that make their state a nightmare to live in. They want it like that. Religious fundie nonsense. They have sown. Let them reap.

Can't think of an engineer who wants that shit. They all move away.
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Uhm just a random thing here, but people should look at how online gaming communities work. They solved that problem nearly 15 years ago...
Ask HN: How Does YouTube Pick Up Facebook Content to Show Targeted Ads?
Just wondering if anyone is in the know? I have a pretty 'refined' YouTube feed so anything unusual I will pick up very quickly.

As it happens, I posted something on my FB news feed earlier today and a few hours later I was getting video recommendations on YouTube for that one thing.

It's not something I have looked into or researched for the last couple of months, so it's pretty obvious that there are shenanigans happening.

Anyone who has figured this out; mind sharing your thoughts?
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You're tone policing. It's not actually taboo opinions you are trying to censor; but opinions that you don't think are "right-on" due to talking in a way that you think is outgroup, that belongs to the people you despise.
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Cool. Any way to get updates on this?
In my experience, it is largely attributable to local culture. The intersection of high-quality engineering talent and ambition bordering on megalomania is quite rare, but you need it to build a strong tech-driven company. In the vast majority of places in the world, and even in much of the US, this is neither socially prevalent nor culturally accepted. You have this in the Bay Area and to a lesser extent Seattle, but not too many other places in my experience.

There are a number of cities around the world that have high-quality engineering talent in sufficient quantity, that part is easy to replicate. The complaint I consistently hear from startup founders across Europe (where I've worked) and in some parts of the US is that there is a broad and deep-seated lack of ambition or appetite to do very difficult engineering. The reasons for this are multi-faceted and complicated, so it isn't something that can be reduced to a soundbite or easily changed. The intensity of effort applied to technical problem solving that we take for granted on the west coast is very much not the default case most other places, and this is compounded by the relative lack of experience building high-performing engineering organizations.
Quantifying requires numbers, while description does not. I find your comment lacking (description), but I don't have a meaningful numeric value handy for how much so (quantification).
Lmao. This comment section is pathetic.

OP, look into: https://mooji.org
"Stay true to yourself"

All that really means is your actions and your thoughts should be congruent. In other words don't do/say something if you believe something else. Some people call this "being authentic".

If you're paying attention, you'll notice that when you're not being authentic you'll get a "funny" feeling – that's conflict: your brain has encountered a situation where you did or said something that didn't match your internal representation of yourself. Your brain will try to resolve this conflict (cognitive dissonance) either by updating your internal representation or by making you act congruently. Yes, I'm oversimplifying this.

I'm not a licensed health professional, all I have are my own experiences and research into understanding them. You're welcome to reach out (email address in profile) if you want.
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Yeah, that's true. I would love to read an article about that with practical examples, i.e. showing that language composition is really a common and needed pattern (not just a theoretic concern, ... are LOP users really composing several language modules often?), and how Racket enables it.
Yeah, that's what I like about languages like Lisp and to a lesser extent Python and, conversely, why I dislike languages like Go.
The threat of disease is news when we've reduced the risk of it occurring so much that a great many people have never actually seen a case of it, so effectively 0 risk has suddenly become nonzero for anyone who does not have immunity.
I mentioned fundraising as a proxy for health of the startup sector in the Bay Area. The expectation was that with high cost of living and relentless FAANG hiring, startups will move en masse to other locations. But fundraising data suggests otherwise.
minor modifications to their existing Glock 17

I'm guessing you meant the Glock 20.
https://www.elizabethblog.com.ng/2019/02/rkelly-arrested-and...
Orange has always been my favorite colour, it just feels so pleasant looking at it.

I wish they would explain more about the biological reasons for this.
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Ever heard of elections?
Who is being drafted? It's a volunteer army and we are in basically no wars where our soldiers are at serious risk of wartime death. It's far more common for NATO troops to die helping us in our wars than vice versa.

NATO is a low cost way for us to maintain our geopolitical position as a leader and to maintain a reliable group of military allies in case we need them (yeah, we spend a ton on military, but that is not due to us defending NATO countries from Russia).
Hello Perl6 – Mohammad S Anwar
This list appears to be missing the CEOs of banks. People like Jamie Dimon who profited from the financial crisis should probably be on this list for life.
> But there's no way $150k is average for a mid-range developer.

AHAHHA this is the same as people calling BS on today’s 300k+ annual compensation packages

Its like aw you wanted a source? Congrats you missed the boat, have fun citing things in academia

So good
Ask HN: How Do You Avoid Falling into Self Pity
My condition (you can skip): Sometimes in the past I fell into self pity to myself which put me into depression and made me do terrible stuff (hurting others).

Question: how do you avoid falling into self pity?
Less high level corruption, too. Jeff Bezos probably worries about a lot of things but I highly doubt that he worries Trump will throw him in jail and seize all his assets. Now if Bezos were in Russia? Putin would do it in a heartbeat [1]. There's no way you would get away with criticizing Putin the way WaPo does with Trump.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
> It's not though, if there's no actual transfer of real power.

Blockchains are hard to modify and as such, can act as a form of checks and balances against those trying to change history. You're kind of saying powerful entity won't allow checks and balances and somehow conclude they are unnecessary. That is ... unfounded.
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+1 for Netlify.

I created my website using Hugo and was looking at different options to host. Tried Netlify. It is very easy to follow step-by-step process. Have the continuous deployment integration with git. Along with free SSL, the performance is also very good due to caching. So far happy with them on free tier.
If you're immunised and they're not, doesn't it mean you're safe and they're not? Maybe I'm missing a big part of the picture here.
I understand how k8s seduces people: sysadmins feels like "let's deliver this to developers then they'll be autonomous", developers feels like "oh cool, i'm free to run my containers". That's cool for small web shops with a lot of web services. But much less cool when you want to control/understand what's running within those containers. Then you need a lot of CI engineering with precise access control.

That said, I couldn't care less about all that container hype. Long running web services are <0.01% of our workload.

You confirm my feeling that I should now target good software engineers and teach them how to program the infrastructure. But how would you make them interested in infrastructure? My understanding is that they want to be exposed to the business, closer to where the money is, to get more exposure. And that's normal, that's what smart people do to leverage their skills.

You're right I should target my tech stack open source communities. I thought about it so many times. But I just don't know how to communicate what I want without being classified as a spammer. So I never did it. ;)
> then again the most efficient solution has to be found in the education, scholarization, in the mindful usage of these tools and in taking the responsibilities from the bases

This takes time, and is the reason why we need to treat kids differently and have legal and practical systems to protect them in their journey into mature adults.

> algorithms should be perfected but accusing them to be the cause of death of a fragile, insecure, mentally unstable adolescent is so utterly ridicule.

There is no question that exposing people to certain kind of content impacts their mental health and outlook. We also know that even a cursory look at any kind of material online can end up with you being exposed to "related content" all over the internet, so it is possible that a perfectly healthy kid could somehow stumble upon one or two such material and end up being bombard by it all over the internet.

But here is the important thing, the specifics of how or why these platforms are exposing kids to such content is irrelevant, or implementation details in the programmer speak, algorithm or not.

What matter is a simple fact that these platforms are exposing kids to dangerous content and we should do something about it.
I find it a pretty amazing feat that the author has created a programming language (Racket), then used it to create another language called Pollen[1] for book publishing, then went ahead and used Pollen to publish three books. Oh and the fonts are designed by him too[2].

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

[2] https://mbtype.com/
Over the last 20 years alone the measles vaccine has saved over 20 million lives, and that's just a single vaccine. And herd immunity is a critical part of the success.
Could you explain how art is used to inflict depravity?
>Just like with cars: is there any sense to the way BMW models are named?

Not sure what you mean, BMW seems like the complete opposite of what we are discussing, the way they are named is extremely functional. It used to be simpler because they had less models but it's survived the changes fairly well.

For the majority of cars the first number (1 through 8) is the segment, from lowest to highest. The next two used to be directly the engine size but because smaller engines are getting more powerful they've disconnected that and it just means the performance level. They then have prefixes for different types of car (M for performance, X for SUV, Z for convertible), and suffixes for details of the drive train (e for hybrid, i for gasoline, d for diesel). There are a few more nuances but the bulk of the naming is this.

Their range isn't just sorted well in terms of naming, the interiors and features are highly consistent between cars as well so the naming allows you to get in a car and know pretty much exactly what to expect. If Nvidia was doing the same we'd know everything about this card's positioning in the market just from the name (does it have raytracing, what peformance level, what market segment, etc).
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Read the post, it covers this.
So glad that the top comment on this thread is people disagreeing with this post! Leading by example is fundamental to success in any capacity.

We cannot expect people we are attempting to lead/coach to do a task if we do not demonstrate that we know how to do it. It's like having a personal trainer who is a couch potato, it simply makes no sense!

I really hope that other "tech leads" are not following this example! Put in the hours you expect others to work. Document your work the way expect others to. Write tested, maintainable & performant code as you wish others to. This is all leading by example!
If you’re using Safari, hitting the reading mode button in the address bar disables it and also gets rid of anything not related to the content which is nice. Works on a lot of sites too.
معرفی انواع روشنایی های تابلو چلنیوم در تابلوسازی پاسارگاد
Why do we need algorithms, AI, etc.? Seems like over-engineering. Either don't put your kids online, or, if you do, the sites need to send the parents a report of all their activity -- if parents don't take responsibility to review or control what their children get up to, no AI can do it for them.
Interesting!! Very first day of HN has 10 posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-18
"The rest of the country" also includes places with extreme weather (mostly snow and ice) and unpaved rural and forest service roads. In 3-5 years I see self driving cars being able to handle maybe 10-20 percent of the roads most of the time, and probably having huge blackout sections of the country for months of the year.
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From programming to my experience sensory-depriving myself in a floating tank and musings about creativity, this is my blog:

https://diessi.ca

I like it simple, static-generated, and minimal.
One reason could be that FB has __never__ publicly (afaik) positioned itself as an "advertising network." It's also gone on record (afaik) to say it's __not__ akin to traditional (print) publishers. It has said time and again it is a social network, and it's going to save the world.

Mind you, I'm not completely naive. I don't trust MZ & SS, but your expectation that every know and understand the inner workings of all the large aadvertising networks feels a bit excessive.
Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Max replies, "Why don't you ask the Priest?"

So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, " Father, may I smoke while I pray?"

The Priest replies, "No, my son, you may not! That's utter disrespect to our religion."

Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.

Max says, "I'm not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try."

And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I pray while I smoke ?"

To which the Priest eagerly replies, "By all means, my son. By all means. You can always pray whenever you want to."
What is an ACL?
Paywall. How are commenters reading the full article?
Quantum Computing: Dream or Nightmare? (1996) [pdf]
how close are we to a thunder_app on fdroid to increase your social footprint, etc?
Google were saying they would be here by 2020. I expect the general public to be rightfully annoyed by many of these poor predictions.
I think there is good and important reasons for unfettered social media and internet in general, but no one should knowingly serve graphic content to kids, specially when they're actively targeting them.
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China’s surveillance state has created at least four billionaires
Part of what makes art art is artificial constrain.

Some tools are capable of aiding us in generating (near) perfect visual replication, that doesn't mean we have to use them to their full potential.

Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi did some pieces in Excel https://mymodernmet.com/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-pa...