skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of the underlying problem as "the metadata delusion."

We programmers look at difficulties users have dealing with large volumes of data and think, aha! I can solve this by giving them ways to add metadata to those data, so it can be more easily browsed/filtered/faceted/whatever. (We think that because programmers have an analytical cast of mind, which we then extrapolate from -- this would be useful for me, we figure, therefore it would be useful for anyone.) So we build these elaborate systems for storing and managing metadata, and then build elaborate UIs to expose those systems to the user.

Our system goes out to the users, and as long as those users are people like us -- analytical types -- it works OK. But then it goes out beyond that to a general audience, and suddenly we discover a new problem: namely that most users don't want to add metadata and simply will not do it, even if by doing so they could realize huge productivity gains. It doesn't matter how useful the metadata would be to them, to them adding metadata is work, and worse, it's nerd work of a kind they feel fundamentally uncomfortable with and unequipped to deal with. So they just don't do it. And they won't do it, no matter how hard you try to sell them on it.

That was the problem with "circles" in G+: not that it was a bad idea to let people split up their feeds, but that having multiple feeds required them to add metadata (creating circles, naming them, adding people to them, periodically removing people from them, etc.), and people just didn't want to do that. So they didn't.

It's not impossible to build systems that categorize data to make it more comprehensible, but if you want them to work, they have to do so in some way that doesn't put the burden on the user to keep everything correctly tagged/categorized/faceted/whatever. Because they just will not do that, no matter how many carrots you dangle.
> But can anyone name a Microsoft joke off the top of your head?

The "DOS for phones" announcement was fun, partially because it was an actual app.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8324661/microsoft-ms-dos-a...
Which also doesn't hold. I'm willing to invest my money, but I'm not sticking it into penny stocks. Your reasoning ignores any sort of reasonable boundary people have wrt risk.
Which reminds me of a story from a retired Bell Labs, Murray Hill engineer who related how they would add useless circuits to microprocessors to see if these sections were duplicated or deleted by the old Soviet military engineers. They were duplicated.
Global warming was the scientific consensus a few years ago. It was thought that increased temperatures and radiation adversely affected amphibian eggs causing a failure to hatch.

I guess it could be multifactorial
I can speak to this from the other side. On two occasions I've been hired by a solo developer and small company to develop a library and a proof of concept while documenting and explaining everything I was doing so they could carry on themselves.

I found both of these an enjoyable experience and I was told by both that it was incredibly beneficial for them.

How I'd approach it: Honestly I would just check the HN freelancer thread and start emailing people, get a quote on a day's worth of whatever it is you want from them: code review, pair programming, etc. That's a relatively small investment that will probably give you an idea of whether this is worth pursuing, with them or in general.

I am personally fine with taking on anything that is >=1 day of work, some people probably won't want to do anything that isn't a much longer project.

In any case you're trying to find professionals that will respond professionally and should be able to break down how their time can benefit you. So just email some people and let them prove that they meet those criteria.
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Incognito only works with a new session; it will still eventually trigger the paywall.

See screenshot of this story made a few minutes ago: https://imgur.com/a/WcR8E9T

The toolbar shows "Incognito" and yet the article is blocked by the paywall. NYTimes always shows a paywall after 2 or 3 free articles are hit even in incognito mode.

To "reset" the free articles odometer, I have to completely exit Google Chrome and restart in incognito again. (Deleting cookies also does not work.) This is a hassle since I sometimes keep a continuous Chrome up session up for several weeks with dozens of tabs open.

(I previously played around for 5 minutes in Developer Tools to try and debug NYTimes javascript code to see what they test for besides cookies. I didn't find anything obvious and gave up. (I'm guessing it might have something to do with Local Storage but there's no obvious Chrome setting to delete that other than quitting the entire browser and restarting.))
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For this example, builder pattern is definitely overkill, but builders can be still useful for more complex cases. Even for simple structs, sometimes you don't want to expose constructor, for example to add additional checks ("smart constructors" in Haskell jargon).
Disclaimer I work for Humio. You can use the Humio Plugin and a free Humio cloud account to track anything. You just have to print it as part of you test and the find the result in Humio. It pretty much does away with the need for any other Jenkins plugin. You can find it in the jenkins plugin list.
Some of this could also be "What did LiveJournal (and therefore also its clones) get right?" Oddly LiveJournal seems to always get left out of these discussions, even though it had more features than many later sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). There's good reason to avoid LiveJournal itself these days, but the clone sites still live (e.g. Dreamwidth).
It's because the crowd here is very old. I think the average age is in the 40s or 50s. It's essentially CNN's demographic and a significant number of journalists and media people here. There really is nothing "Hacker" about hackernews. It's pretty much "news". How often do you see the irreverance, humor or anti-authoritarianism of hackers here?
That's why I said "(directly)". But yes I agree with your point.

Its unclear to me whether figures quoted are prices you pay, or cost to do the procedure. Some at least appear to be the price you pay ("Shetty did it for about $10,000 and turned a profit"), which as I don't pay anything directly, suggests that they need to qualify 'cheapest'.
That's because a border wall is too specific for a policy platform. The more general concept of border security provides plenty of room for compromise.

But even a wall provides room for compromise--physical barriers in some places but not others.
No, it's only that this isn't Reddit and you have to try a bit harder to bring people over to your way of thinking.
Agree. I think 50s-60s age is ideal. Old enough to have seen some history and not be too swayed by idealism. Young enough to still be in touch with the mainstream "adult" generation and probably survive the term without any major health problems.

Reagan was beloved but probably starting to exhibit senility by the end of his 2nd term (he was 70 when first elected) if not even earlier. I'd worry about Bernie/Biden in that regard too.
Smoke doesn’t belong in your lungs.
Indeed! Just a proper broad survey half-way deep would get us a lot further that we are now. My first impression is that a lot of personal relationships, kids, etc. can still remain private. But, yes, we really need to know about areas where a candidate could be compromised. E.g., the current occupant of the President's chair shows behaviors indicating that he's subject to significant kompromat.
I am part of several of these:

https://www.meetup.com/find/tech/?allMeetups=false&radius=25...

But you can see the vast numbers of people involved, this being a massive city with tons of talented people living here.
> The proposed addition of case-insensitive file-name lookups to the ext4 filesystem...

Ugh, why? I thought the general consensus was that case-insensitive filesystems were a mistake. The article linked on that line is behind a paywall, can someone summarize the rationale for this change?

Also, this article doesn't mention how the kernel developers plan to handle differences in case folding between locales (e.g. the infamous Turkish "dotted I"). I learned recently that NTFS actually stores a full case-folding table (from the current locale of the system formatting the volume) in the filesystem metadata specifically to ensure case-folding will remain consistent even if the volume is attached to a system with a different locale which seems like the only sane way to handle this.
I think this would be excellent material for a medical statistics course. Fortunately, the raw data is available.

Do the data support the TCC's conclusions?

Are Denise Minger's critiques valid?
Thanks, that clears it up some more. It also reads like at least her husband must have noticed, but apparently since reddit etc. wasn't a thing when they were younger they never felt the urge to make posts about it all over the internet and getting everyone's attention. ;)
There are ways to have an abnormal life other than being born into money.

Let's look at Lincoln, by the time he was a presidential candidate:

- He had been married into that money for 19 years

- He had been a lawyer for 21 years - I presume this was a reasonably high paying profession like it is today (or more, the early case wikipedia mentions is 1840)

- He had served 4 terms in the Illinois House of Representatives.

- He had served a term in the US House of Representatives.
I use jd on my side projects; it's great. J in general is what I invest in for side projects; powerful tool, best user community and decent support for the types of things I need.
At my job we went from using observables for everything to literally questioning every single one that shows up in a PR. Most of the time they don't need to be there. Several spots in our app are nigh unusable/untestable messes because of the side effects that get caused from subscriptions. Eg, you make a change in one place and something else totally unrelated gets updated. Obviously the implementation was totally wrong there but I tend to believe in the idea of a "pit of success" with framework api's. With observables, it's a giant foot gun if you don't understand what you are doing and you are better off using something more stateless like a promise or just a simple javascript object reference shared via singleton service or something. If you aren't careful about managing your "source of truth" you are gonna have a bad time. Then of course theres remembering to unsubscribe from them... memory leak anyone?

While I think they are a powerful tool, I find that a lot of developers get them confused as a drop in replacement for promises and do things like nest subscriptions etc. For most standard CRUD apps, either do as the author suggests, and use an async pipe in your template, or, convert them to promises as soon as possible.

What are they good for? Streams of data. Web Sockets, iframe post messages, event handlers for instance. Anything that is actually real time and makes changes without deliberate action.
All submitted resumes will be put on hold for five days and then deleted. :-)
Both I and my wife are second generation immigrants. I have no issues with immigrants at all, and I've worked my entire career besides H-1Bs and other PRs. If you had asked me five years ago, I'd have expressed a (somewhat naive) wish that we just drop national borders altogether, for the purposes of immigration. (I'm a bit more sanguine these days.)

I wasn't aware that Google was still growing that fast. That makes the reduction in the proportion of non-diverse employees a little more credible. On the other hand, it makes the sibling poster's thought (headcount reduction) a little less credible.

Obviously, they didn't hire me, and in the end, I have no idea why. They probably barely know why themselves.
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We're a community of builders, makers, and entrepreneurs. If we aren't here to fix the issues we see in the world, what are we doing? All I'm saying is if OP truly feels the way they do, they should try to be the change they wish to see in the world. Especially since what w3w is doing isn't technically complicated.
Isn’t “the labor unionizes” just a special case of “the supply drops” since labor unions enforce their power by controlling the supply of labor? (Eg strikes)
Now that sounds like a very useful system. It's hierarchical. With arbitrary precision. With ~short, easy to remember (and easy to key/speak on radio) codes. Nice.
And do you references to published study results to back up your assertion?
Both are capitalists who will do nothing to meaningfully grant democratic rights to the working population of the US or the world.
The question is, what problem did Google+ solve?
It’s kind of crazy how much the subsidy for electric cars is in Norway. Just as an example:

Norway: Tesla model 3 dual motor: 442,300 NOK = $51,200
Norway: Base Volvo v60: 548,800 NOK = $63,500

USA: Tesla model 3 dual motor: $48,500 (before savings)
USA: Base Volvo v60: $38,900

Just kind of goes to show how much of a different decision buying a Tesla is in Norway.
I love tech startups: Longitude and lattitude have worked fine for centuries (well, ever since clocks became reliable enough, that is!). So let's... disrupt it? ...with something less intuitive? ...and proprietary? Typical VC mentality! Shut these jokers down.
If that's true (that it alternates between the sensors each flight) then it's extremely obvious that a business decision was made to only use one sensor at a time.
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If you're hiring someone who would have access to valuable information that could be sold, who would have information before the market, or who could potentially be paid to sabotage the company, it's important to ensure the candidate has good credit so they're less likely to do those things, since they at least wouldn't feel a financial pressure to do so and would only do it out of greed.
Does anybody know if this is related to the fungus killing Fire Salamanders in Europe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_salamander#Confirmed_host...
>but he doesn't seem to have a lot of depth of policy...

???

Are you saying that you believe people will be out there voting based on who has the best policies?

Serious question.

As a matter of full disclosure, I, personally, don't believe that's how elections work. I think people vote for the guy or gal they like who also has the ideas they feel most comfortable with. Not the guy or gal they like the best. (Although, at times, a candidate that they like better.) And not the guy or gal with the best ideas overall.

People are more than flexible in this regard. If a candidate out there has terrible ideas, but people like him or her better than the other candidates, that candidate will get the votes. Not because people think he or she's best for the job, but more because they want to keep the other candidates away from power. They don't even need to like the candidate, necessarily. They just need to DISlike the OTHER candidates.

In short, I believe there are lots or reasons people vote. (Or not.) But I don't believe that policy analysis is one of them.
Aren't the circles really aimed at the spammer mentality? (e.g. I am broadcasting)
Can you elaborate on the first issue?
Fukushima contaminants found as far north as Alaska's Bering Strait
He just repeated memes from 8-chan and Anders Breivik, he suckered all of us who read it all the way through.
Weird that they go after the ad platform instead of the advertisers. Pretty sure magazines also publish stats about their members enabling advertisers to specifically target a certain demographic. Actually the NYTimes does this as well: https://nytmediakit.com/index.php?p=sunday-magazine
My impression was that both organizations were offering reasonable salaries for the market but I wasn't directly involved in the compensation talks.
Wasn't LJ just a blogging platform?

I used it in early 2000 and was blown away by what MySpace offered compared to LJ.
I scrolled through my long dead plus profile before I nuked it a few weeks ago. The main thing I noticed is that I posted a broad spectrum of things there from all the hobbies and interests in my life. When I moved to twitter my profile became almost two dimensional - mostly about two topics of interest and nothing in between. Lots of quips and no longform posts. Although I do like being able to curate my feed and my own posts down to a very limited set of topics, I also miss the way I could discover new things on Plus and, long before that, Stumbleupon. It was easier to break out of my echo chamber. I don't have a modern day tool to fill that role (would love to hear some options if anyone has suggestions)
Consumer spending in apps to reach $156B across iOS and Google Play by 2023
You don’t have to buy a new iPhone to replace the battery, so presumably you’re imagining upgrading the processors, camera, sensors or some other aspect of the iPhone. Those components are so tightly integrated and custom fitted in each iteration of the device that it is technically impossible to “upgrade” them independently.
I'm not sure about American law, but most of our laws have a term mentioning "... in Good Faith."
These two words are pretty spectacularly effective in disarming you from all sorts of trickery.
At a prior job last decade involving FCBGA packaging design for the company's ASIC, and I witnessed exactly this to debug ESD problems, etc. That is, prototype dice failing test would be ground down until a black spot was found. Very expensive design cycles, so lots of incentive to extensively model such issues before fab.
again misleading title. she won 250k but gained 10k during the year.
Not a marketing person, but there also has to be value in the lowest possible bar to begin participating, and then a higher one later to increase engagement with public price menus. "Call now for sales pitch" is not that: it means secret deals and whatever they can haggle out of you.

Look, even this dinosaur got it right: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/api-manage...
Purdue’s Sackler Family Accused of Fraud in Transfers of Opioid Profits
Bad article. Would appreciate more details into the unlocked capabilities
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Argh, this messes with my scrolling :(
How was he classmates with Zuckerberg? He’s 4ish years older than Zuck.
And, more substantively:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221256711...
If the packing list mentions Amazon, you probably bought from an eBay dropshipper. They scan Amazon listings and repost all the listings +X% (where X=eBay fees+profit loading) to eBay. When you order from eBay, they just go ahead and order from Amazon on your behalf.

If you look up the product you bought on Amazon.com, you'll probably the find the price to be lower than you paid.
That's very interesting information, but I could have done without your snide allegations of laziness towards everyone not in your fortunate position - being both educated and confident enough to research and negotiate pricing, and having a relatively non-urgent problem. The last time I was in the ER I woke up there with no clue as to how I had arrived.
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Nothing prevents racial minorities purchasing a magazine, unlike FB ads.
I fail to understand how is the disagree indicator useful, considering the MCAS system will use the same AoA input regardless of disagreement. Is it useful for some other function?
I don't trust version numbers since dBASEII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase

> Hal Pawluk, who handled marketing for the nascent company, decided to change the name to the more business-like "dBase". Pawluk devised the use of lower case "d" and all-caps "BASE" to create a distinctive name. Pawluk suggested calling the new product version two ("II") to suggest it was less buggy than an initial release. dBASE II was the result and became a standard CP/M application along with WordStar and SuperCalc.[15]
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Don't take this as a tacit defense of whichever son it was by any means, but: There are plenty of situations where the interaction between the government <-> constituents is very much like a business <-> customer relationship, and it's not totally insane to think that it could be a better/friendlier/more efficient one.

Example: Interactions with TSA, IRS, DMVs (state government obviously but a government nonetheless), etc.

I get what you're saying, but I think you also have to understand what Andrew Yang is implying (not particularly interested in looking up the quote from whichever son).
I'm not so sure that saying the concept of a credit score is racist is quite the same as saying credit scores perpetuate and reflect racial injustice/inequalities.

Moreover, the article you cited isn't simply making moral claims, but specific examples. In addition, there is a well documented history of racial discrimination within the financial sector (see the Fair Housing Act).
In the article it's stated that there's a similar fungus killing salamanders as an example of science learning from the frog illness and applying quarantine/scientific resolution methods earlier for reduced mortality.
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I remember finding the underlying reasoning fairly compelling for non-technical, or more Windows familiar, users - but my memory might be hazy...
Yes, that would be the consequence of allowing frivolous lawsuits to be brought against companies simply because you don't like the product.