skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information systems are a force multiplier on gaining knowledge. They don't magically stop working if what you're interested in is not what "society" thinks you should think.
Great read. I love the Hammond sound. Joey DeFrancesco[0] is an amazing organ player, whom I instantly fell in love with while listening to him featured on Pat Martino's "Live at Yoshi's"[2] record. I think it's my favorite live album ever, or at least up there. Martino's playing is on another level.

I think Martino is still touring. His 70s jazz-fusiony records were amazing. My favorite are probably his post-break records in the late 90s. Those licks are impossible to play. And forget about improvising that way...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFIupVoVKc
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJJltEhvkc
Conservative attitudes = orderliness?
Implementing a Regular Expression Engine in JavaScript
> Also I could only find a reference for the circumference and was too lazy to derive the diameter from the circumference to avoid the ambiguity by making it clear which diameter I was referring to. (EDIT: Diameter is ~8.6km: `echo "pi=4*a(1);27/pi" | bc -l`.)

...is the LHC track a circle?
ClojureScript Re-Frame Interactive Demo
I'd take that with a big grain of salt, I spent over a decade of my 20 years living in SF looking elsewhere to move to since I couldn't afford the real estate. So I'd be counted as one of the ones that want to leave, but I never left until finally I moved down the Peninsula.
A carbon tariff is a carbon tax, but on external goods, that come from countries which don't have carbon taxes of their own.
Do you see the irony in your first sentence? Your concern about information isn't about it being useful but about it can be bad/abuseable? What you decry in "technolibertarians" you are for with censorship.

The same logic applies to both of them except information is a way more useful tool with less potential for abuse and has censorship has proven full of more bads. You complain of status quos and norms not being taken into consideration yet never think of the downsides of your "careful" approach which is actually recklessness driven by fear.

You can always attempt to validate claims that you hear that may be false. There is nothing that can be done to claims not heard and spread. And that is one hell of a camel's nose under the tent.

Abuse is all about the wielder anyway. To give up potential and put oneself in the position of much worse abusers because of "bad people might abuse it".
Google is no longer what it used to be it's doing evil
It often fails to download podcasts. Overcast I can just tap 'download' and trust that it will do its work. Not Apple Podcasts.

I got the "this episode is not currently available" message all the time whereas I never get anything similar from Overcast.

It often fails to transition from one podcast to the next in the playlist (ie, stops playing). Sometimes even when all involved episodes have been downloaded.

It fails to automatically delete old episodes.

It fails in multiple ways when it loses connectivity. E.g., it refuses to continue playing a very well-buffered episode if there's no connectivity. Mind you, I suspect that some of the connectivity issues may be a result of them never having tested it with 'slow' connections (2Mbps in my case). This obviously wouldn't absolve them in the least, however.

This is just off the top of my head. It's one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. From a company with billions in cash.
Ugh, I hate this. If a web site nags me like this, the one thing I will NOT do is whatever the popup wants.
Your likelihood of being in the 500M+ valuation bracket is so infinitesimally slim, that optimizing for that case is almost pointless.
Also insurance payouts will be lower on crashes.
Austin rent has gone through the roof, and they’ve got a strong nimby and zoning problem just like SF so it’s just going to get worse. It’s on the exact same track, just ten or so years behind.
I’ve unbookmarked them and deleted their emails.
> The rule of moderation is that your attackers keep moving up a Turing-like scale, till inevitably their arguments are indistinguishable from genuine comments made out of ignorance or lack of malice.

At this point you really should ask yourself whether to continue moderating such comments. If you're at the level of hearing "dog whistles", you're already starting to act in bad faith.

I think Scott Alexander correctly identifies the biggest problem of moderation: that while you may think that it's about fostering civilized discourse, it isn't. When you get recognizable, it becomes primarily about protecting reputation of your own brand or name.
Doesn’t everyone lead by example, even if they don’t mean to? It’s anecdotal of course, but I’ve always been affected by how my manager behaves.

That doesn’t mean you only lead by example though. Maybe I’m not reading it right, but the author seems to think that leading by example and setting clear expectations are mutually exclusive, and I don’t see why that would ever be the case.

Management is a trade though, I’ve had technical managers and I’ve had manager managers, and I typically prefer the latter because it’s really hard to be a good X while you’re also a good manager.

Tech lead positions where you make technical decisions but aren’t meant to actually manage people, motivation or finances are a little different, but I don’t see how you get out of setting a good example in those either.
How does it get transcribed if not using polymerases?
The primary issue here is not censorship, but actively recommending content to a vulnerable person, that may influence their behaviour towards a destructive or terminal outcome.

Behaviour influence for commercial purposes (via data-gathering and targeted-advertising) is one of the biggest topics that HN users are generally critical of regarding the big tech companies.

Surely we can be just as concerned about these mechanisms when they may lead someone towards serious/terminal harm to themselves or others.
At the beginning I made some mistakes because of some very convincing photos. But then my human intelligence kicked in and I improved my recognition rate dramatically. At the end, it approached 100%. Looking at the images, one recognizes immediately why AI fails to produce real fake images: because it doesn’t understand a thing.
They probably want to reserve 20xx for RTX cards only.
I tend to agree here but I limit that to block scope as a general rule, I also only bother with really common concepts.

id identifier

i loop counter

j inner loop counter

c general purpose non loop counter

a, b, comparator methods

k, v, key value setters, array iteration

e, event, error or exception. Contextual rule but rarely collides.

Other than those I pretty much always write entire full word names. If it's abbreviated or shorthand it likely sounds funny in my head, or it leads to ambiguation. If I need to even ask / recall for a split second it's not good enough.

Programmers incorrectly place far too much weight on time to type. I write like ten lines of code on a good day. It's just not important. I want readable code that is clear and concise as possible. Every branch, block or shorthand variable raises a question I have to think about before moving on.

Clever code is why I call ten lines of code a good day. It sure as shit isn't my typing speed.
Define nicer. To me housing affordability is a massive lever that drives quality of life. You can find a place for 300k in Austin (renovated) what would cost 1.5m in SF.
IIRC after USB2 came out, there was "USB Full Speed" (12mbps) and "USB High Speed" (480mbps), then they renamed "USB 2.2 High Speed" it to USB3. USB3 is literally USB2.2 with a name change, so I feel like it fits.
Mostly my photos, with a small amount of techie stuff.

Published since 2002.

https://allthepages.org/
Poor Jews were murdered or died of hunger. Jews in Eastern Europe were mostly poor and in Germany lower middle class on average.

Almost all were killed or robbed of property. Few surviving rich Jews don't change the stats of average Jew being killed before his time.
Let’s not discount weather. As pg had said, places with bad weather can cut opportunities in half (paraphrased). Think about all the time you didn’t go out because of bad weather. Those are the times you didn’t bump across some founder or partner or VC or new job.

Also, there is huge cultural aspect that is much harder to articulate. If you are young, you can find lots of peers arriving in office on roller blades or playing video games on Friday or going for long drives in weekend. You might not find this in NYC or Seattle mature companies. People often change employers like cloths and that’s perhaps good for cultural because you continuesly encounter new ideas, opportunities and people. There is much less fear about not able to find job and that allows to take risk in working at startups at peanuts salaries. In most other places it would be hard to find folks who had more than 2-3 employers in 30 years and even more harder to find people taking pay cuts to get job at risky companies.

Yet another aspect is that either people don’t have kids or married couples both work in tech. Because of tremendous numbers of tech companies it’s easy to find tech jobs for spouses. Once you have double income in tech, housing cost is not huge deal.
That doesn’t answer the question.

Why should we draft a bunch of folks from South Dakota and Kansas (and let’s be honest here ... folks from New York or SF who write opinion pieces about this aren’t going to be the ones paying blood) to fight Russia? Why can’t these countries defend themselves?
Let me guess! You probably think the great gatsby is a classic.
They seen his example, concluded that "this is ineffective" and did not emulated.
This is how pay on whaling ships worked, so you have historical precedent

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/research-topics/overview...
They still allow use of their platform... People can upload and view the videos. They're just disavowing "partnership" through the monetization program.
I suspect we are a fairly long way from measuring that. And even when we do manage to measure that positive ripple effect, do you want to?

The reality is, numbers are used for accounting. If we start keeping an accounting of small actions such as that, what freedom will we have?

People being mean, nice, depressed, etc. they are what make is human. By accounting for the little things we’d incentivize uniform behavior and lose all diversity of any kind.

I too think on those little things a lot. I recently had a family member move away, and since then every family get together is just flat in comparison. I think in a small way, those flowers did the same to the neighborhood.

Sometimes I think it’s enough to say, we lost something when they left. Or gained something when they were here. Maybe that’s enough of a quantified “number”.
Polite racist arguments are rare these days, but I've heard them, as well as polite homophobic arguments.

I won't bother repeating them here, but the point is that those arguments are rarely made in good faith. Usually it's someone making a hateful argument cleverly to make it more palatable.
Supplementing such images with suicide hotline numbers is much more effective than filtering them. If anything, censoring suicide-related content even further marginalizes suicidal behaviour and isolates those vulnerable and in need of help.
You're conflating "financially successful" with "untraumatized". I'm not convinced that the first necessarily implies the second.
Interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder if there was any 00's era startup that tried to create a taxi hailing service prior to the app store developing? My gut says the iphone/app alongside location data was critical for widescale adoption.
Great. Now where do I sign up to receive my reparations from those bloody English who starved my people to death by exporting all of their food then had the nerve to call it a famine? Or how about from the US government for enslaving my uncles and sending them to their deaths in Vietnam?
I think they are too inexperienced or shortsighted to see the long term implications of opting in to proprietary software and depending on it. They will later suffer for it, until they learn. And some never learn.
Right, like I figured. So it is a matter of probabilities. If one lives in a country where a super majority is vaccinated, particularly if that same person does not travel, the likelihood of him both contracting such a disease, interacting with a person not vaccinated against that disease, and then that person contracting the disease is vanishingly small. That is not remotely comparable to blowing through red lights, such as you suggested in your example. So my follow up question, is then, why the vitriol? The comments here are incredibly aggressive, particularly considering the usual behavior of the community. It seems to me the average commenter here is more likely to get in a head-on collision due to daydreaming about the rust borrow checker while driving home than the scenario presented earlier is to happen.
Public doesn't mean they don't own the company.
Why Must We Have GFW (Great Fire Wall) in China?
How to (Re)Build My Infrastructure Team?
That’s certainly a possibility, and it’s quite possible that the current algorithm either has more gravity or is not as favorable to Show HN posts. Either change would explain why this particular post would be treated as if it hadn’t been on the front page at all on the day after posting.

If this is the case, it should be clarified that this feature uses the current algorithm, which may not reflect how things ranked on a given day.
Sorry, I needed more than 2000 characters to give my question the right context.
I blame the misunderstandings on the non-standard syntax:
> Yes but Gogs is self-hosted whereas Gitlab offers hosting solutions.

Replying that, to someone who literally said they switched from GitLab to Gogs for self-hosted repositories, also made me parse it as implying one word:
> Yes, but Gogs is self-hosted, whereas GitLab offers [only] hosting solutions.

but the author probably meant something like:
> Yes, but Gogs is [exclusively] self-hosted, whereas GitLab [also] offers hosting solutions [so switching is not always an option].
Companies more likely to treat workers better during a talent shortage. Executives shocked to unearth a little-known ability called "learning", allowing untrained employees to gain skills persists well into adulthood. More breaking news soon.
But I see your point, yes. Paperclip optimizer doesn't care if all people are killed as long as more paperclips are produced.
Yes shortsighted, but also uninformed. In an informed sense of the the word group "free software" there are ethical standards connected to it and those are about not "pawning data" as well.
I remember getting annoyed needing a windows driver that was part of an open source package. That needed autotools to build. I got annoyed trying to make it compile under mysys/MinGW. So I built a gcc cross compiler under linux. Compiled the damn driver and it just worked(tm).
I'm not sure I agree that the public sector doesn't do what you call evil things. Like right now in Denmark there are the whole watching every move everyone make via logging phones even though the EU says it is illegal. There's also the thing with forcing children to answer questionnaires that will likely be in the system for... ever basically.

Lots of public sector sites also use Facebook and have Google analytics on their site, so they partake in what Facebook does. Maybe not evil but not good either.
Obviously the things that shouldn't matter are the things that you would normally have all set up in your current location that you need to replicate when you move to a new one. Especially if you happen to move internationally.

So - things that shouldn't matter that you would have to do if you moved

Get New office.

Deal with people that need to staff new office because some of your people won't move. Hiring. If you don't do that then you get an office through some co-working solution and have to deal with whatever requirements there are there.

If international - visas etc.

If opening local bay area office but keeping your other offices setting up culture to be able to work together between two or more locations.

If opening bay area office but closing local dealing with people's issues about moving. For example I would never move to the U.S from Denmark, so I had a job opportunity from a startup that was making the move right at the time and I said no. If I had been hired 6 months before I would have of course refused to move, and they would have had to deal with that.
Yes indeed, thank you!

Even here on HN so many people do not know what they are talking about when they say "free software".
You will be much more productive on any Chromebook with a Linux distro than on a iPad.
Are you sure you don't mean that USB 1.2 was changed to USB 2.0? I don't recall any naming confusion between USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) and 3.x (5 Gbit/s and up).
In fact, I was wondering why someone would want to change the 'More' link at the bottom of the page. Took me a moment to realize there is another one in the header now.
There isn’t a neighborhood in the entirde Austin metro where you can walk to all your daily needs. The summer heat is brutal and the winters are surprisingly chilly given how hot the summer is. You don’t have anything like the natural beauty of California at your doorstep.

For me though the walkability is the biggest thing. There’s not a single neighborhood in Austin that can compare to the quality of life in my “middle of the road” SF neighborhood. Miles of beautiful archictecture all around. My kids can and do walk everywhere.

It’s just a completely different experience, being in an actual pre-car city, and unfortunately there’s nothing like it in Texas.
- Hey Siri, don't think about a pink elephant.

- Okie, I won't be thinking about a pink elephant.
That's at least unnecessarily splitting hairs and possibly missing the point, considering that some compilers allow you to turn undefined behaviour into implementation-defined behaviour using an option. -fwrapv comes to mind.
Opera Touch Comes with Cookie Dialog Blocker and 23 Other Improvements
Datalog for Trees in Clojure
So that I don't only spread negativity I'd like to noten that I find this submission's title very fittingly chosen.
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't not do that.
Ah, that's probably what I was thinking of. Thanks for the correction!
Scott isn't blaming them for shutting down comments either, in fact Scott is also shutting down comments. Scott is blaming them for not being truthful about the reason they shut down comments.
Maybe they were getting attacked, and blocked a particular user agent.

I’ve had to do that before.
Technical comment: the table in the article is not scrollable nor zoomable on my Galaxy s6, I can see only the leftmost digit of the CEO salary. Quite a bummer in 2019.
Homeowners Net More Selling to Zillow Than with a Realtor
> Opera Touch blocks annoying cookie dialogs and lets you focus on browsing

Oh man. It looks like we've come full circle on well intentioned but poorly implemented EU regulations.
Summary:. Never consider data in a process to be confidential if you have evil code in the same process (even if it is in a virtual machine or interpreted).

It doesn't actually seem too big a limitation. Apart from JavaScript, EBPF, postscript, etc. there aren't that many places that potentially evil code is run alongside confidential data.

All those now have to be split out into separate worker processes to be secure. The worker processes can have partially shared address spaces through memory mapping, letting the programmer decide what will be shared with the untrusted code.
Economics IS a soft science, that’s the point people are trying to get across.

I would also suggest you look up what you call ”the scientific method”, it’s a misconception that there is one abstract scientific method to apply to all fields of research. The process of science necesserally differ between formal, natural and social science.

I personally like to summarize economics as ”the art of pretending that sociology (social science) is physics (natural science), by abusing math (formal science).”
as a general rule if I feel it is difficult to find the right mix of abilities in one individual I want to hire 2 or 3 people and make them work together, that is of course also expensive but might be necessary.
Is it not possible for us to regulate the behavior of foreign-flagged ships as a condition for allowing them to dock at US ports? This would seem to have better implications than banning them entirely.
Deconstructing the Magic Behind React Hooks
Agreed, at the last 5 software companies I've worked at, the only people without Macs were the sales people.
Consider the context: parent is talking about how easy the problem is to solve in an interview.

Coding interviews serve to check _how_ a candidate goes about solving a problem - if they submit without checking the solution meets the spec, or choose to solve a different problem without mentioning it up front, then this tells me plenty about their working style.
Nice! Thanks for the extra details, very useful.
It's not just a foreign flagged vessel but a foreign made vessel.
Obviously, when looking at comparative cancer rates within a single country, comparisons of mutational load within that country is more useful than comparing mutational load between countries. If you know of a study that aggregates power line cancer data from multiple countries, without normalizing it against the base rate for that country, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Definitely not every card under the sun. I have 1060 and it can't run WoW (game from 2004) at 60 fps 1080p unless I'm lowering some settings.
You could simply wipe memory on shutdown if it was a concern.
I try to skip Verge and Medium for the reason that most follow the format of: Salacious clickbait headline, loosely related word salad that ends abruptly. Sometimes it feels like they pay a person off Fiver for content, then just edit the headline.
Fiver is also often why self-pub books get a bad rap too, you'd be surprised how many 'authors' just pay someone in a poorer country, usually the Philippines, to come up with the bulk of something just-enough resembling content. I know this because then they sell this as a business model to aspiring make-it-self-pub-author, you can make more money on a book on how to make money churning out sub-par content with very little work and even less original content.
This is why piracy can be a net benefit to society, to separate the wheat from chaff, so-much-chaff, instead of rewarding hucksters.
Why would the assumption be that most people would want to move away from their homes because their current employer wants to save money?

Sure, many tech employees probably moved to the Bay Area primarily to find employment, but even if they don’t enjoy other aspects of the area, a place you live in for a while will become your home, and abandoning your home is not an easy or obvious decision to make.
Eisenhower’s New Deal?
McNamara Fallacy
*Facebook is a walled garden
of course there is not. and there was no HN when the internet started. Scalability is not the issue, verifiable secure immutable records are where no admin from a third world participating country can alter records as an example. If you forget the bias for a bit you may start to love the possibilities.
When will religious anti-science channels get demonetised? Creationism is just as bad as anti-vax, except way more people believe in it.
But then the meaning of “want to leave” seems unclear. Of course everyone by definition wants to leave if there is somewhere else to go that is strictly better according to their personal preferences.