skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Here, "them" only refers to a single person, but it's correct.

No, no it is not. I assure you, it is not correct.

If this is a concern, rewriting the sentence gives a solution.

"I’ve the feeling she/he (not sure) is not the only one.."

Change to "I’ve the feeling that user is not the only one..."
View the markets as a mechanism for prioritizing resources. Better resource prioritization increases prosperity, which benefits a great number of people. Traders who reliably improve pricing increase world prosperity. Traders who are unable to improve pricing tend to not last long. Traders who worsen pricing by trickery are economic parasites who run considerable risk of being punished by an exchange or regulatory agency.
And what is that data used for, if not targetted advertising?

The data is a means to an end: the ability to provide advertisers with a way to reach very specific groups of people, and a way for advertising platforms to track not just the same user, but a very detailed user profile.

Knowing what people's interests are is worth diddly-squat until you use that knowledge to push ads to them that are likely to resonate with them.
If I cannot refocus immediately after interruption - I know I'm doing something wrong.

This can be a sign that code needs to be reorganized. I've seen a number of really good coders in their 20's who are admirable for brilliant insights. However, they fall into this pattern of thinking of themselves as invincible, and they take on tasks where they are doing the "heavy lifting" of remembering tons of details all at once.

If you can lift 400 X's by hand, then you could easily lift 4000 X's with the right tool.

One of my bosses kept a stack, explicitly, and used that to keep track of his excursions into sub and side tasks.

I used to say that being a good programmer was being a professional forgetter as much as a professional memorizer. Basically, you should be constantly reorganizing your code as you go, so that there's no danger that forgetting a detail will result in an error. In a way, it's like people who work on high platforms who take precautions so that one drop or one slip won't result in injury or fatality.

In other words, work smarter, not harder.
Yeah, when the page first loaded, I thought somebody actually took "motherfuckingwebsite.com" seriously and built a raw HTML page with no margins or padding beyond the browser defaults.
>Being 'most litigious' does not imply they are patent trolls.

sure, just responding to your claim that big, 'reasonable' companies use their IP defensively or "protective[ly]."

> They could be pursuing legit defence of their IP.

that's true for most 'reasonable' companies, but not apple.

> FYI in your example - Apple in many ways has no choice but to sue.

and your logic is akin to saying patent trolls have no choice, but sue to defend their assets. And we are not talking crackberry; we are talking about a small mom-and-pop supermarket in Poland whose domain name, a.pl, doesn't even resemble anything remotely close to Apple.
He's also apparently assuming that ARM-based Chromebooks will never be a useful developer environment. I wouldn't take that bet -- a lot of the newer ones will support Linux VMs out of the box well enough to support at least a half-decent development environment (via Crostini). (You can get a Pixelbook with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD, if you're wondering about storage space. And while Crostini still has issues with in-VM driver support for things like the Chromebook's own audio and camera, that's stuff that server software wouldn't use much anyway.)

Between that and the much-rumored ARM Macs, this could turn pretty quickly...
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So we completely sidestep the difficult problem of ensuring truthful data in the first place but it's okay because we've got a really complex solution for replacing simple cryptographic signatures?
The volume of business drops when you consider the use cases and the lack of trust between folks that blockchain represents ... they're just not likely gonna do legit business if the only thing to trust is blockchain.
To me that just sounds like you don't have tasks that require deep thought.

If everything you do requires deep thought, this is possibly a sign of bad code design.
the singular they as a compromise works ok but it leads to a larger question about whether there should be separate pronouns for a single person vs. multiple people.

while gender/sex is often beside the point, number often matters. we can keep the gendered pronouns for the few cases where it's needed, and use ungendered pronouns in the general case, but that requires an unambiguous singular ungendered pronoun.
"It's a great deal of meditation, but that's the idea."

I think main point the parent explained (very well) is that a great deal of meditation is a bad idea for the untrained.
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It's pretty crap in practice. Which of those icons am I to choose for HN? Dog? Fork and knife? Apple? Sunglasses? Briefcase? Gift?

I chose 'Dollars' as the closest fit due to the association between the tech industry and greed, but really shouldn't there be at least one tech-themed icon? Of the 12, two are food themed, two or three are shopping related, etc. The icon set is redundant with poor conceptual coverage.

Okay, maybe I'm a nerd who cares about tech and Mozilla thinks most firefox users who use Multi-Account Containers will be regular joes who aren't interested in tech. I disagree, but maybe that's their theory. What icon am I to use for youtube? Everybody uses youtube. Is youtube conceptually a briefcase? Trees? Dog? Is it a dog because everybody watches dog videos on youtube? I chose sunglasses, because sunglasses are associated with eyes and eyes are associated with videos.. it's a pretty tenuous association. And which color? Red makes sense, youtube brands itself with the color red. Yet red isn't on the color list. Two shades of orange are on the list, but not red. What the fuck? So youtube is "dark orange sunglasses". Great, just great.
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So what's an inappropriate comment?

I'm guessing, like everything else YouTube, that comments will silently get flagged as inappropriate, and there won't actually be any rhyme, reason, or written policy guiding what is inappropriate.
Sitting in Netscape’s sysadmin offices at midnight Dec 31, 1999, watching them monitor for Y2K issues. My friend was on duty that night, and we’d offered to keep him company. Most of their servers had times that were skewed and/or in different time zones, so the actual transition was smeared over many hours. But by my watch, the real local midnight was celebrated by somebody popping their head over the top of their cubicle and shouting “Fishcam okay!”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam

I know there were probably more dramatic places to spend that moment, but I’m glad I hung around for that.
I'll tell you why. Employers want to pay you the minimal amount as possible.. And when you have people with lots of exp, they dont want to pay you any more. So jobs are not getting filled because the employers/recruiters is being cheap. Costs of EVERYTHING else have gone up, but our wages. I.E I'm currently being underpaid for having almost 20 years in IT.
Whatever they feel like it being. Including images.

For some reason, this keeps getting flipped to "on" for me, and I have to keep turning it off, to get images to load correctly in both my RSS reader and via a convenience user script.
They're created using https://www.draw.io/
Agreed, the threat I am concerned about is development and preparation of deployment in secret of these systems by a country in secret. If outlawed and other countries obey the laws, and a bad actor develops in secret and waits for the tech to become sufficiently advanced, they could launch a __very__ effective blitzkrieg.

Unlike chemical/nuclear warfare, no factories, material transportation, etc. out of the ordinary observable by other countries. Sensors needed for the systems would be entirely justified for other reasons and software to change behavior can be loaded invisibly.

There would be no way to police it.
There’s a bunch of conjecture there, it doesn’t say what these arguments against it are. It doesn’t allow someone to argue for it and test to see if they remain persuaded when the idea is also defended. And in saying “most people don’t know what Medicare for All means” I don’t see anything testing that by asking what people think it means.

I suspect most people think “medicare for all” means exactly what it says. Everyone gets Medicare, that thing that you currently only get when you’re over 65.
Intel is already anticipating Apple moving to ARM for “desktop”. Chromebooks already run a mix.

He’ll be right until he is wrong.
If I say "you owe me $1000", and my Brazilian client says "no I don't", the current system offers a very speedy and cost-free resolution to that. We just have to do nothing, and the dispute will be resolved by default in favor of the client.

I can imagine a blockchain-like thing that would be able to shift the default action, so that I get $1000 or maybe each of us gets $500. I can't imagine a blockchain-like thing that could, without an oracle both of us trust, actually reach into the real world and arbitrate the dispute. (If there is an oracle both of us trust, there's no need for a blockchain; the $1000 can just go directly into escrow with that oracle before I start working.)
Being able to reliably refocus after interruptions is an enviable skill.

I've learned some of that (especially when I was an intern divided 50/50 between development and interrupt-driven sys-admin :), but for me, interrupt cost seems to vary widely with the demands of the task and the nature interruption.

Web/GUI front-end work is usually very interruptible for me, for example. Usually, most of the time, I have in mind "I want to get to roughly this, and I just need to spend time getting or making the tools get there", and it's often easy to see where I left off. Coding seems usually mostly proceeding along a series of small tasks ("those controls are done, and next is that control"), or iterative refinement ("these two elements could be combined", or "this part of the layout is poor when rotated"), which are often very visible, and easy to get into.

However, if, for example, I'm in the middle of designing an algorithm, and trying to cover every case in a good form, and trying see opportunities, and I've mentally "paged in" a lot of domain-specific information and scenarios and such... an interruption at that moment with something that requires a very different domain to be paged in, and substantial thought... could really ruin the roll I was on with the algorithm. Even if I have a tentative skeleton with quick comments sprinkled through it, for the current thinking and known questions/opportunities. I'm simply not smart enough that I can't sometimes lose something with a big interruption at the wrong moment.

There's also the theory and meme of "flow" [1], but I don't understand it well enough to say whether it covers the impressions above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
What vertline3 said. This would appear to be island gigantism. An island is small and not well connected to the rest of the world, so the organisms that do happen to be there often adapt into different niches than their mainland origin species, since whatever would normally fill that niche isn't around.
Code published for inspection needs a specialized license where it disallows any sublicensing or redistribution to close patent exhaustion. Albeit the interesting part is that it could be contrived as a business relationship still in some cases, causing patent exhaustion for the specific bodies allowed to inspect it. That would be for the court to decide though.

Allowing redistribution or sublicense right pretty clearly invokes software patent exhaustion.
Your ability to develop an amazing ML model is limited by your organization's ability to collect and clean data. However, the great news is that most problems do not need an incredible model. Small uplifts in performance could still result in substantial outcomes.

In industry, you also need to balance the amount of time and effort it takes to build your model against the incremental benefit.
It still leaves the possibility that the trusted third party operating that database (or Amazon) could modify the data. Blockchain would allow the same thing where that actor is malicious.

Though the real world problems we're solving rarely lack a trusted third party. And even when they do, a public log a la certificate transparency logs seems to solve the issue about as well in my eyes.
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Well, the eastern district of texas gets their just desserts for making it so easy for patent trolls to file there... GG.
Second question - would you consider alternate tracks, like UX design?
A test case: ())(
Employment is at will, but contracts can include penalties.
What's the definition of an incompatible fork then?
No penalties, we actually think this clause is probably not necessary. We work with trainees for so long during the program that ideally they would find it natural to work for us (or for our staffing clients).
I'm the worst for this. I firmly believe that given a totally novel problem in any domain that neither of us are familiar with. I will always solve it before you.

I also believe that whatever domain you're currently in I can outperform you in 5 years MAX.

It's crazy the bullshit we believe that 'feels' right day by day
Until May 2017, having a physical presence was not a requirement for being sued there. Now because of the Supreme Court ruling referenced in the article, it is. Expect to see more businesses leaving the Eastern District of Texas, and possibly avoiding incorporation in Texas as well since that would also expose you.
Function types don't need signatures in Java?
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Uh, Dev A should take the time to understand Dev B's argument before writing it off as esoteric excuses.
I've used this for quite some time, and can verify it works on some level. Generally after running it my google now suggested cards on Android are all out of right field and totally irrelevant to anything i'm actually interested in.
>I think the problem is the balancing act between "live now" and "save for living later."

In my mind, this is key. My parents barely saved for retirement, mostly because they didn't make much money. The net effect of that is that I've maxed my 401k since day one of my professional life.

In contrast, my father also died at 46 (I'm 42, going on 43), so all of the life experiences he'd deferred to a more financially prudent time never happened.

I work hard to try to find the balance so that I'm not left without an emergency fund or a paid-for retirement, but I also don't fret over every penny and "waste" money from time to time. My motto is to plan for tomorrow, but minimize any regrets that could arise if tomorrow never comes.
Maybe it's time for some daring innovators to disrupt this rickety archaic model?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...

By putting your artwork on the "BitCoin Blockchain",
Verisart will hand wavy magic increase the trust in
art dealers and reduce fraud.

That's a pretty neat idea. A distributed public ledger of
who I have sold my art to. And, if they sell it, they have
a cryptographically signed certificate proving its
provenance. The seller can sign the certificate with their
private key to say they've sold it to the new owner of a
specific public key. Nifty!

Except… and I hate to bring the art industry into
disrepute… what if I sell a fake and keep the original in
my Underground Vault?

There's no way to permanently attach a digital certificate
to a physical work of art.

Incidentally, this is the problem with all the startups
claiming the blockchain will revolutionise the integrity
of global logistics markets. Sure, you can slap a QR code
on a crate - but nothing stops an unscrupulous middle-man
from replacing or adulterating the contents of the crate.

Let's get back to Verisart's other issue. Proving that I
am the creator or owner of a piece of artwork.

Long story short, I convinced them that I painted the Mona
Lisa.
Java should work in everything and iOS only needs to support their own hardware.

I don't think ARM can rule with Java ( that already supports it) and Swift/c ( limited hardware)
> What's the takeaway?

"Unfortunately this tool doesn't exist for blb++, but we should still improve our coding style for this application. Is there another way to improve our correctness testing? If we allocate some time to improving unit testing, maybe we can do this refactor once we have X% coverage in these critical parts of the codebase."

I.e., acknowledge that both goals are valid, and look for alternate solutions to make incremental progress towards both. Finding middle ground is unlikely to be satisfying from either viewpoint. In this example, Dev A isn't getting a quick win from fixing the coding style right away, and Dev B needs to allocate some time to improving testing. But especially when working on big teams and projects, this kind of piece-wise progress is where I've seen most things get done.

This kind of solution might be pointed out by either Dev A or B, or they might need to bring in a fresh pair of eyes if they're both already frustrated. :)
well if I had bitcoin and my government decided to declare our money or the current dollar in fashion worthless my bitcoin could still retain its value despite what the dollar is doing. To say the only use is something illegal is short sited in my opinion.
Thank you for your admission. I too am naturally arrogant. People think I'm being weird if I'm not arrogant. I get weird people saying they don't believe me when I'm being humble. Probably because arrogant is who I am as a person. I feel people like me more when I'm being my arrogant self. Oddly, when I was my least arrogant and most humble I exhibited most of the traits in this article.

I was quite sour over the fact that I felt like during the interview process I was lied to about the position and what it would entail. Naturally, I was a bit salty about it and the fact that people were doing things that I would get criticized for. It ultimately hurt my confidence in myself. This made me exhibit most if not all of these traits during my stay at this company. I was trying to make lemons into lemonade. Ultimately I was able help us get on the right path and I was happy with my contributions to the team even if it did ruffle feathers and those people hated me afterwards. I took their criticism and I still try to use it to be a better person to work with.
The list of sites I sign into in the first place is very short. Most of the time websites remembering me is used to implement anti-features.
>No, no it is not. I assure you, it is not correct.

Your assurances don't mean much compared to usage going back to at least 1382: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Java should work in everything and iOS only needs to support their own hardware.

I don't think ARM can rule with Java ( that already supports it) and Swift/c ( limited hardware).
When a city is dominated by one industry, particularly finance, that can spell ruin for its inhabitants. Good for the wealthy and the people in the industry, mediocre for many others. Tech might smooth things out a bit, but there is no reason we need to give anything to a behemoth for coming here. Many are already make NYC home.

Although not the only one, NYC has some of the best universities, many top-tier companies, pools of talented people, and the best cultural amenities. There was no reason to kowtow to a behemoth to come here. NYC is big and innovative, and it will stay big and innovative for the foreseeable future. Tech was here before and will it be here after, without being dominated by a single company.
Push this to it's logical conclusion: Put the robots in an arena and decide policy based on who wins. No one has to get hurt and we don't even have to blow up real buildings and stuff.

Play war games to game war.
This is a very good explanation, but it might be missing one note for lay persons.

Summary judgement is cheap (well, relative to litigation, that is), fast and occurs early in the development of the lawsuit before the most expensive steps take place.

It is a direct competitor to just paying the trolls their settlement amount to stop bothering you.
I think you misunderstood my point — The reason I distinguished between blockchain-the-data-structure and blockchain-the-trustless-consensus-protocol is precisely because the word used to mean specifically the former but got coopted to refer to the latter. The blockchain data structure has been around for decades, and a Merkle tree is precisely the tree analogue to a blockchain's linked list.

Trustlessness is a property of Nakamoto consensus, not of the blockchain data structure, but the combination of the two (or something that bears passing resemblance to that combination) is what usually gets called a "blockchain". Unfortunately this usage of the word is borderline useless because people keep loosening the requirements of the system so as to allow their harebrained setups to count as a "blockchain".
I mean, they're both useful for different purposes.

When you're dealing with 4 possible values, each of which will result in wildly different code (e.g. evaluating the value of a options variable, or handling error codes that mean very different things), then switch is clearly the way to go.

When you're dealing with 20 or 200 different values, all of which map to a few similar variations, then defining an object or array lookup is clearly preferable.

"Preferring" objects over switch statements is like saying you prefer bitmaps over vector drawings -- it's nonsensical. Different tools are better for different jobs.
From the post:

> I can pretty much guarantee that as long as everybody does cross-development, the platform won't be all that stable.

He's saying that until ARM platform arrives on desktop, it's unlikely to be successful in the server market. He's not making any assumptions about whether or not PCs are going to turn to ARM.
Yep, UX is one of the fields we think work well with this model although we aren't doing it right now, I think we will in the future.
That's why I included the second part of my comment. It automates it so you don't have to think about it.
Developing a SaaS platform and have been speaking with potential customers from various segments. Spent time to understand what potential customers are looking for, networked with other entrepreneurs and folks within the same domain and am looking to secure our first sale. Sales has mostly been about high touch conversations given my product is complex.
While this is a nice hack the usual protections of having patents belong to an non- practicing entity would still work, i.e. this sadly won't work against patent trolls, only against honest companies.
pancreatitis?

> Although this incidence rate differs between countries, it is clear
that the risk of developing pancreatitis increases with increasing
doses of alcohol and the average of alcohol consumption vary since 80
to 150 g/d for 10-15 years.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574589/pdf/WJG... (Alcohol consumption on pancreatic diseases | 2013)
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