skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because 90% of what makes a tourism destination attractive is the branding and perception. There's thousands of miles of coastline but "Cape Cod" and "Miami beach" have brand images associated with them.

Having grown up in a tourism destination I personally think it's all shit but they serve a useful purpose of keeping the vacationers mostly concentrated. Better to have the trash in the landfill than on the streets.
Glide, man, such a great era for PC gaming if you had the right equipment.

I'll never forgive the computer store guy when I was 14 who pushed me to buy the $40 cheaper S3 Trio3D instead of the Voodoo. Instead of something useful, I ended up with a glorified paperweight that only worked well for Direct3D. Guess how many games back then bothered to use that?

I think I got Quake 1 with some shitty hacked MiniGL driver working _once_.
I'm amazed at the amount of worshipping (in the comments) of luddites when it comes to debuggers. Citing Linus, Log4J developers ("use logging instead"), Kernighan and Pike... especially the latter two had learned programming and used computers that were orders of magnitude less capable than today's computers thus being able to run orders of magnitude less complex programs thus more readily understandable by humans.

It's always the two polarities: understanding the program vs focusing on tiny details of the bigger picture. For me, the debugger is THE tool for understanding the bigger picture!

Example of a concrete problem that I solved with a debugger today: I was populating a list in the UI, yet the elements were constantly disappearing. Why were they disappearing?

It's a JavaFX where the UI elements are bound to observable lists.. So I put a change listener on the list and a breakpoint inside it. The breakpoint had been hit a couple of times and one of these times I saw a piece of my code in a remote location [1] that was clearing the list! Root cause found, problem solved.

EDIT: could I have logged the stack trace rather than using a breakpoint? Yes, but the stack trace printout is far less actionable (harder to pinpoint something interesting, can't inspect variables, etc.) than an interactive stack trace in the IDE while the program is suspended.

[1] Why remote location? The UI is the frontend that communicates with a backend. The UI is rather strongly separated from the backend bridge; the bridge also runs in separate threads. So the bridge takes care of the back-end, receives messages and interprets them and updates the elements (data model) observable from the UI.

So my impression is that people who talk down debuggers simply haven't learned how to use them effectively.
Countering “misinformation” by correct information is a far better approach than censorship.

The logical fallacy of “censorship is okay when I know it’s wrong” sets such a dangerous precedent, yet it’s downright celebrated by America’s left.

It’s quite frightening.
> The survey of economists that the article poo-poos includes the comment by one economist that a government can print to pay its own debts exactly once

Which is true.

OTOH, MMT observes that the government doesn't actually need to acquire debts to pay for a gap between spending and revenue in the first place.

> This argument falls into the same boat: sure, the banks will change how they price loans, but for the lucky guys with loans it’ll be glorious!

Sure, and that's why
runaway inflation is bad. MMT doesn't favor more-inflationary policy, it just recognizes that inflation, not the availability of revenue, is the constraint on government spending.
I realize there is a need to stratify engineers based on performance in order compensate accordingly each year during raise time, but having been in the tech ranking system for ~30 years, it turns my stomach. About 40% of the time the people promoted are really not that good, they just waited long enough or knew the right people (or were in the right division that needed to boost its clout so it promoted everyone arbitrarily). This whole "special name" business is so very misleading. You want the title of famous engineer? open source your work, let us see what you made. The masses will decide.

(And before you say "sour grapes", at my last job i rejected promotion to principal because I like my work/life balance, but eventually dropped in ranking because I refused to work 60+ hours a week in my 50's.)
I worked at Amazon for 8 years; just left last month. Although the company has ~50K engineers, teams were made up of 8-10 people and orgs generally of around 200 people. The size of the company didn’t matter. Amazon could function just fine without job levels, and IMO it would function better. The VP doesn’t need to know the individuals. They can let the org leaders to deal with those details.
Author jumps straight into how to implement this in code before giving any clues as to what the strategy or purpose is.

The idea is funny, but it would be nice if there were some arguments as to why it might be useful, and even better with an example of a model being improved by this.
I use paypal for personal purchases and business invoices. its so easy and painless. been doing so for 12 yrs.
Darpa launches Polyplexus social network, 3 tech incubators
For many people, 1 of the 2 weeks you get allotted is going to be spent with family in some capacity, which really gives most people 1 week each year to decide what to do for a vacation. 1 week to travel to europe and back is a tough sell.
What's on Your Goldmynd?
Chrome extension to tell how much of the day has passed in percentage
Create an Ionic 4 PWA with Capacitor
I don't know about all that.

The "why" is because it's a 12-figure global industry including two of the most valuable companies in the world with unlimited resources and lobbying power, combined with highly technical mechanics and a complex network of business relationships that no politicians have any real understanding of.

I must add that there's also a (sometimes irrationally) strong reaction by those politicians and many others to working with anyone in adtech to even attempt to solve these problems which clearly doesn't help.
Ask HN: Start a charity-driven staffing firm?
TL;DR a recent health scare has me reevaluating what I want out of life. I reason my wife and I can run a boutique staffing agency placing primarily software developers in the NYC area drawing salaries of up to 75k each, pay our overhead and together aim to donate 100k-200k+ as a business yearly.

I’m a veteran of the NYC IT staffing market but recent years have me disillusioned with the business and just doing some consulting work and taking some down time. A recent health scare really makes me want to make some big life changes that include focusing on work that matters. I think we can reduce our family spending to the point where we could take a family pay cut but do work we find fulfilling that ultimately makes a difference in the world. In my mind the goal would be to somehow have a formula that gives 50% of every placement to charity and the rest to cover payroll and overhead until we reach our 150k total salaries at which time everything short of overhead would go to charity. If our message resonated with companies and candidates to a point where our daily focus could be service rather than sales the amount we could give away (as two normal working people) could be incredible.

Question to the HN crowd: Am I crazy, could this work?
Sure, sorry, I meant services where I wrote "servers" and it's likely the person I responded to did as well.

I don't think it changes anything about what I said - process restarts aren't something I'd care about the language for anyways, I'd have a sidecar for that.
Considering how much traffic flows through it, you really think they don't have the more power than most governments?

And while, the First Amendment doesn't provide protection from private parties, it is still possible to agree with Free Speech rights as a private company, even if you disagree with the message. The problem is when you start shutting down conversations, you become part of the problem.

The likes of Twitter and Facebook, as an example are FAR more powerful than any government or localized platform traditionally protected, and may be considered Private Spaces for Public Use, which have been defined before (ref: Occupy Movement).

Just because you are a private entity does not mean you are free to do anything you want. The government has LOTS of limitations on what businesses can or can't do. Unless you are suggesting that businesses should never have to comply with disability laws, or laws regarding other protected classes too?
I don't think this is a free speech issue. What's the difference between promoting a scientific falsehood that puts public health at grave risk and yelling "fire" in a crowded theater other than the proximity of damage done?
The evidence seems to be that if there was any legitimate/substantiated concern about vaccines not being effective or safe, those who say they are effective and safe based on the overwhelming and uncontroverted evidence saying so, would switch sides. So far, after nearly eradicating multiple fatal and horrible diseases, there is just no question that vaccines are fantastic.
I've been using the Everlance iOS app for a few months now, which tracks miles driven, revenue, expenses, and receipts. It supports having various types of work that need to be tracked separately. I also like that it stores receipts in the cloud. For me, tracking expenses is easier when it is right on my phone.
Harder to find? Wouldn't a lack of advertising money kill most of those garbage sites?
Most ad tech companies (Google, FB) likely devote well under 10% of their engineering might to work directly related to the advertising that forms their revenue stream.

Newspapers and magazines are ad-funded, too, but few would consider the work of journalists to be wasteful.
In this interview with Dr. Richard Halvorsen, he discusses vaccination based on risk, and which vaccines are needed and which aren't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMs1ue8j9CM

But if we shut down all discussion about it, even _rational_ discussions will be censored.
+1 to this, searching & browsing across instances is a major pain point. To me, joining a Mastodon instance has felt way more like joining a forum than getting on a federated social network.

I still like the instance I joined, though. Really nice people. Check out fosstodon.org if you're interested :)
The information is out there, and is being broadcast publicly. Shutting down misinformation is essential when people don't care about getting valid information.
Isn't DAF and skimmer already solved this ? The article does not goes in to details, but I reckon it's a oliophilic foam material instead of a rope or belt that we usually use, thus increase contact area ?

Edit: my bad, this article is about using nanoparticles to increase solar distillation efficiency.
It's obvious that private companies should draw their own lines. That's the entire point of private property, as long as it's not unconstitutional, they can do what they like. It's their property.

And of course they do it in their own interests, that's the duty of a fiduciary.
When you consume salt - would you describe it as consuming sodium and chlorine? Salt is inherently different from the two elements that form it. For the vast majority of us - the assertions about aluminum and mercury suffer from what appears to be a deep understanding over the nature of molecules vs. the elements that form them.
What's the issue? I'll message the author.
I heard they contain magnets which can cause your children to be hit by cars when they ride their bikes on the highway.
Or anywhere 1 hour past San Francisco. Not having a car works great when in SF but once outside you can’t really have a life without it.
On the other hand "consumers choose our products even though there are other free alternatives" does.
#1 is something I've been pondering as well. I've been developing games on Unity for quite some time but questioning if I'd be better off retooling into a tech stack that is higher demand?
The entities who own the platforms draw those lines on their own platforms. If they want to use that power to serve their own personal interest that's their right to do so.
and maybe he was wrong. whats your point?
>These posts (along with the last) are my first two in a series where I will attempt to increase the size of OpenAI's GPT-2 model while taking advantage of the training the model has already gotten. Their model is a great candidate for this experiment, as OpenAI have already demonstrated great results with what is basically a bigger version of it.

Not that I disagree that a bigger intro would be a bad thing - you are right to point out that there is little reasoning given.
what bothers me is every wannabe communist telling me how THEY can do it correctly and will be able to maintain control. you are dangerously incorrect
>Countering “misinformation” by correct information is a far better approach than censorship.

The recent increase of people who believe the Earth is flat seems to be direct evidence against your claim. Scientific and information literacy is not a widespread skill.
This is gimmick I keep hearing "Private companies", that is your slippery slope.

The government doesn't _need_ to censoring anything if they get the companies to it for them.

That is fascism.
Nice gaslighting.
With intel/AMD you have an assurance that your chip does contain a backdoor. I know this is probably difficult to do, but if we have access to published architecture specs/layouts, it might be easier to audit the chip design, even if doing so requires an x-ray microscope.
Given that it is not an independent entity, it is no different than a tumor other than its division properties. You can take the argument either way. Please leave your idealogical biases at home.
You definitely can't claim "most languages" today with the commonality of emoji and emoji-based sub-languages/communication forms/media. Surrogate characters are no longer rare in UTF-16 in average usage on the internet and that's impacting everything.

Even if you are restricting "most languages" to mean "most programming languages", there's an increasing rise of emoji in comments alone for languages that support UTF-8 and some languages are picking up increasing emoji usage in places like identifier names.

Platforms that treat UTF-16 like UCS-2 and allow raw char indexing rather than codepoint-oriented traversal are wrong in 2019. (It's been wrong since the very definition of UTF-16, such as RFC 2781 in 2000.) UTF-16 is a disappointing hack because it allowed UCS-2 platforms the luxury of pretending that the UCS-2 era never ended. UTF-8 at least leaves you very aware that the UCS-2 emperor has no clothes.
If he/she been able to get a job doing dev work, and that's the career he/she wants, what more is he/she going to learn that he/she could not learn him/herself later if they wanted (online or books). As a hiring manager I'd usually check out where the person has worked before if they have already started working. If it's the first job, yes the education matters because there's nothing else to go on. If it can be managed they may as well complete it, especially if there's any chance they want to do a degree.
I use Adaway on Android; it's hosts file based and reasonably effective. It isn't in the Play store and requires root, so it's not exactly aimed at a mainstream audience.
Who uses classic sites? It's more like a v1 to v2 forced upgrade than a shutdown.
A lot of people here are suggesting Go for its single binary with no dependencies, but if you're starting a small green field project in Java you should have no issue making sure it's jlinkable and even compiling it to a single statically linked binary with Graal.

This way you can re-use your Java expertise and still get a statically linked single binary with quick startup.
I agree that such people exist. Avoid them if possible. (I'm pretty sure I don't need to tell you that!) If not, then (in my best moments) I try to disengage quickly, making it clear that I think that they are wrong, but I'm not going to continue to argue with someone who just wants to argue.

This has the virtue of not giving them the victory that they wanted. Even if they take the last word, it's usually pretty clear to an unbiased reader what was going on. I'm (at least sometimes) content to leave it there, and to let the reader judge.
> something they say ends up magically being true

Lots of things that people say in opposition to vaccines is true, or at least has some basis in fact. Polio vaccines decades ago were contaminated with sv40, which does have the potential to cause tumors. (So there is "vaccines cause cancer!") There is also probably a real link between Guillain-Barre and vaccines, but there is also a link between any infection and Guillain-Barre, do with a vaccine you essne tidally keep the risk of that very rare syndrome and lose the risk of infection.

Vaccines are not risk-free, they just have such incredibly high value that the incredibly low risk is completely worth it.

> if we ban them, what are we banning them for?

"We" are not banning them. GoFundMe is.

Call it whatever you like. "Subverting public health," maybe.
Don't Hash Secrets (2008)
Unprecedented privacy risk with popular health apps
Your alternative suggestion then? All services are required to carry all content, regardless of their owner’s views?
Keep in mind that automation is not just for manual labor. In many cases, it's easier to automate a white collar job these days with software than it is to automate a blue collar job requiring flexible physical tasks with robotics. To me, the big automation job killers are going to be autonomous vehicles, but then a slew of basic white collar jobs that people have just been doing for decades because that's the way they always did them.
> one of the next major secular trends in tech

Secular trends? What the heck does that mean?
Thanks for making me think more on the topic -- I especially loved the recursion which forced me to reflect on a whole new and weird level.
as media luminary Matt Levine has often pointed out, the blockchain doesn't solve a technological problem in cases like this, it solves a social and organizational problem.

at a big bank, managing the process of modernizing or replacing legacy databases is a very low-status job. on the other hand, pioneering a new initiative with distributed ledger technology is much higher status.
Owning a horse, not a home.

(I misread it in the same way at first, because who expects to see "horse" there?)
>Yet people still find use in horses in rural parts of the country.

that's why the title says "as rare as owning horses"

Many people will own cars, but not nearly as many as now.
It's just more nuanced than the phrase acknowledges.

I have a strong opinion that Go allows developers and teams to be much more productive than Java. But i'm not going to to complain if someone above me in an organization makes the call for Java. Does that make the opinion weakly held? I don't think so. If I was calling the shots there's no way i'd pick Java over Go.
Is this really censorship, though? They aren't removing information, GoFundMe isn't a blogging site, they are simply refusing to do business with people they disagree with. That's more or less a boycott. Is boycotting something or someone censorship?
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People aren't generally fond of sharing their intimate encounters with a sex toy...Some types might even need cameras...How are you going to develop and improve the product if you can't collect the training data?

However, specific people producing online media very much are. Many of these media people are effectively social media influencers, so marketing to them, specifically, might be a viable strategy providing access to a larger market. This is a population for whom making silicone impressions of their intimate body parts is just business as usual for producing merch. Products incorporating deep learning data based on their "performances" wouldn't be so big a step.
Does believing earth is flat makes the earth flat or vice versa? If it is truth, It'll prevail. Who is this new authority on worldwide truths that gets to decide what the masses consume.
This article is ridiculous. Sure for urbanite hipsters who just grab a Bird scooter, but for the rest of us in the non-trendy parts of the country or who live in the suburbs, a car is absolutely essential for living a modern life. More rent-seeking to get those perpetually rent-happy Millenials I guess?

Who wants to wait for a rideshare when:

1. We're all snowed in but mom-to-be needs medicine/insulin?

1. Its time to go give birth...baby's here early!

1. You have 3 children and equivalent amounts of diaper bags/soccer outfits/bookbags and the schedule between school getting out and soccer practice starting is quite close

1. You get a call, grandpa's taken a turn for the worse, get here bc he's gonna die in <1 hr

These examples are not perfect, they are just what I could get off the top of my head, but c'mon, until we have People-Mover style monorails and/or Hyperloops everywhere, you will need a vehicle of your own control IE ownership.

To assert you can get full control over something you don't own is something I would disagree with.
malnutrition during early childhood causes low height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunted_growth
Like AI, which is whatever's left that current ML can't do well, robotics seems to be whatever current automation can't do well.

If you showed a modern dish washer to Karel Kapek I bet he would have called it a robot.
I'll stop being anti-vax when the corporations that manufacture vaccines can be held for legal liability. You do know they lobbied congress in the 1980's for legal immunity right? Would you actually drive a car who's parent company had legal immunity against any manufacturing defects? Probably not... Either way, the insert that comes with every vaccine bottle is a great resource. If you're too lazy to dig up the inserts on the FDA or CDC website there is a nice website that correlates many of them here: https://vaccine.guide/ Its a huge money making machine that cannot be sued for medical malpractice. That should raise anyone's flag. To say vaccines are 100% safe means you are either ill-informed or you don't have kids and therefore don't care.

I highly doubt gofundme had a personal conviction over this issue. This is a company that is being influenced by an outside source. That should be concerning.
There's nothing in there that explains how we'll get away from car ownership. In order for car ownership to be a thing of the past, we'll need a cheaper option. But what?

Wait 10 min for an uber to arrive everytime i need to go to work? Not happening in this country, that's for sure.

Flying cars will probably never arrive, the regulations won't allow it. Maybe Autonomous cars could do it, but they are another 20 to 40 years into the future: maybe then.
Consultancies take staff-aug projects (and also sometimes turn them down). It's part of the dealflow.

The easiest way to signal that you don't want a staff-aug gig is to say "no" when you're offered a staff-aug gig. Advanced: counterpropose with a project proposal.

People overthink this stuff, I think.

The one important thing to know is that it's important to be "available"; even if you're not going to pick up the staff-aug gigs, it's probably best to entertain them (and, even more advanced: refer them out to other people), because you can only say "no" 1-2 times before people will stop asking you for anything.

I don't believe "expert consulting", as apart from "freelancing" or "contracting", is a real thing in our industry.
I think this is really commendable. When you put your money where your mouth is you really show that you're serious about your values.
All the best to the forty future winners of this grant!
> Those same waves are still added together when it plays from your speakers.

Not if the bitrate used to encode the digital audio is low and drops any of the higher frequencies from the lot.